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The dollar inched up on Thursday after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting revived expectations for a possible US rate hike this year while the Aussie dollar skidded on...
All the nine people, who are now taking treatment at the burn unit of the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) after suffering burns in Old Dhaka’s Chalkbazar, are in...
Sony Corp said on Thursday it will assign 40 per cent of its new engineer hires in Japan over the next two years to the chip business which includes imaging...
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in China on Thursday, on the third leg of his Asia tour that started in Pakistan, according to Arab News. At the airport,...
Citibank, N.A., Bangladesh and non-governmental organization (NGO) partner Underprivileged Children’s Educational Program (UCEP) organized a Certificate Awarding Ceremony recently for the underprivileged young women graduated under the “Citi UCEP...
The Ministry of Labour will give Tk 100,000 in compensation each to the families of the workers killed in the fire at Old Dhaka’s Chawkbazar, while the workers injured in...
Businesses around the world have already reaped the benefits of blockchain applications built on Oracle Blockchain Platform. Companies using Oracle’s business-ready blockchain have been able to move from experimentation to production...
Social Islami Bank Limited (SIBL) distributed agricultural finance among 92 soybean cultivators of Subornochor of Noakhali at 4.0 per cent interest rate. A discussion with local soybean cultivators was held...
The work on removing chemical warehouses from the old part of Dhaka city should start right now, Inspector General of Police Javed Patwary has said. Police will also have a...
Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited has distributed medicines among the Rohingya people. Managing Director & CEO of Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited M. Shahidul Islam handed over the medicines to Md. Abul...
President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have expressed profound shock at the loss of lives of many people in a fire in Chawkbazar area of Old Dhaka....
In 2010 there were numerous calls for chemical warehouses to be removed from Old Dhaka because of their role in the fire that tore through Old Dhaka’s Nimtali. But little...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed profound shock at the loss of lives of many people in a fire in Chawkbazar area of Old Dhaka. The prime minister asked all...
The nation is paying rich tributes to the martyrs of the 1952 historic Language Movement with the clock striking 00.01am on Thursday, marking 'Amar Ekushey', the Language Martyrs’ Day and...
The delay in implementing several policy actions in the second tranche under the third capital market development programme (CDMP3) has irked the Asian Development Bank (ADB), people familiar with the...
The central bank has assured the country's apex trade body of constituting a tripartite working group to look into banking issues for facilitating trade and investment. The assurance came at...
At least 81 people were killed and around 41 others injured in a devastating fire that broke out at a chemical warehouse and raged through four other adjacent buildings in...
Graduation is one of the most awaited moments in a student's life. While dreams come true, it often takes a bumpy ride to make those dreams come alive. Once students...
All workplaces are political to some extent mainly because employees bring their personal emotions, needs, ambitions, and insecurities into their professional lives. If we are to narrow down where a...
The discovery of electricity in the 19th century kick-started the second industrial revolution, and similarly, it is widely believed today that artificial intelligence (AI) is going to be the cornerstone...
Mahbubul Alam, President of Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) on Wednesday said Chattogram can become hub of IT sector in future. "The modernisation and use of IT in...
RANGPUR, Feb 20: Onion plants at different areas in Rangpur agriculture region are growing well, signaling a good yield of the crop this season. Sources said the prospect of the...
BOGURA, Feb 20: Commercial duck rearing is gaining ground in village areas of the district as a good number of poor farmers have attained self-reliance from the venture. The district...
NATORE, Feb 20: Beekeepers in Chalan Beel area of Pabna, Natore and Sirajganj districts have made a profit over Tk 280 million this season. More than 810 beekeepers of the...
Bangladesh has been on a long language journey since the 1952 movement in the Pakistani regime. The language movement earned for Bangla a unique place in the linguistic history of...
Is the world becoming increasingly prosperous? It would be hard to answer "yes" right now, at least so far as the leading high-income economies are concerned. Yet the longstanding bellwether...
The country's investment promotion agency -- the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) -- has sought rationalisation of the tax provisions on amortisation to attract more investors from both home and...
A man was stabbed to death by a youth at Kamrangirchar in the city on Wednesday morning over the alleged illicit relationship with his mother. The deceased was identified as...
The Election Commission has set Mar 31 as the voting day for the fourth phase of the Upazila polls. Voting will be held in 122 Upazilas in that phase, Election...
It is well known a fact today that all businesses face competition. With increased use of the internet to buy goods and services and to find places to go, a...
Bottled water consumption has gained popularity in the country over the past decade or so. This is because most people from all walks of life seem to consider these as...
Three complaints were lodged with a Thakurgaon court on Wednesday over the firing by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) that killed three people at Bahrampur in Haripur upazila. Lawyer Md Manik...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged all to protect and practice own language and culture for ensuring a healthy environment for the future generation. "It's our duty to protect, exercise...
Support for credible democratic elections in Nigeria, Senegal, and Côte d'Ivoire is essential. If these countries descend into political crisis, the security, humanitarian, and economic The decision to postpone Nigeria's...
Revered as it has been, our 1952 Language Movement will perennially be remembered for the emotions we attach to our identity, not to mention all the sacrifices made on that...
Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain on Wednesday underscored the need for allowing journalists to be at the courtroom for transparency of the judiciary. He came up with the remark after...
A court in Pabna sentenced five people to life imprisonment on Wednesday for murdering a man in 2009. Judge Rustam Ali of Additional District and Sessions Judge's Court also fined...
At least eight people suffered burn injuries as a fire broke out in a bus in the city's Dhanmondi-27 area on Wednesday afternoon. Mizanur Rahman, duty officer of fire service...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday urged Austrian businesspeople and investors to invest in Bangladesh taking advantage of the country's demographic dividend and attractive packages that are on...
Four members of a syndicate involved in scamming people with fake question papers of various examinations were arrested by police's Detective Branch in Dhaka on Wednesday. The men, arrested in...
At least 13 people were injured as a Chattogram- bound train hit a picnic bus carrying students and guardians of a madrasha on a level crossing near the Eco -Park...
Three pro-EU lawmakers from Britain’s governing Conservatives quit over the government’s “disastrous handling of Brexit” on Wednesday, in a blow to Prime Minister Theresa May’s attempts to unite her party...
21 eminent citizens on Wedenesday received Ekushey Padak-2019 for their contributions in their respective fields. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina handed over the second highest civilian award to the awardees or...
The death toll from an attack last week by gunmen in northwestern Nigeria has doubled to more than 130, the Kaduna state governor said on Tuesday, adding it appeared to...
Finance Minister AHM Mostafa Kamal has said the investigation into the reserve heist from the Bangladesh Bank is going on and progress on the matter from time to time is...
The United States should respect China's right to develop and become prosperous, the Chinese government's top diplomat told a visiting US delegation, reiterating that the country's doors to the outside...
Dhaka ranked fifth on Wednesday in the AirVisual Index of the world's cities with the worst air quality. In the real-time air quality ranking, Dhaka scored 164 on Wednesday and...
Mobile phone group Vodafone has conducted a successful trial connecting next-generation 5G smartphones to its network for the first time as it prepares to launch 5G in some European cities...
BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan on Wednesday said Jamaat-e-Islami should apologise to the nation for its anti-liberation war role in 1971. Talking to reporters after placing a wreath...
The nation is set to observer the ‘Shaheed Dibash’ (Language Martyrs Day) and the International Mother Language Day on February 21 through extensive programmes. People from all walks of life...
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