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The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC) in partnership with Visa recently launched HSBC Visa Debit Card in Bangladesh for its customers. Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, MP, Speaker of...
The extended plant of GPH Ispat is going into production with electric ark furnace quantum method (EAFQM) by June this year which will turn it into a reputed brand. This...
A confidential Commerce Department report due to be sent to Donald Trump on Sunday is widely expected to clear the way for the US president to threaten tariffs on imported...
Five people have died after a bus rammed a parked truck in Cumilla’s Chauddagram. The accident occurred on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Jagannath Dighi Union’s Gangra area around 5:30am on...
British Prime Minister Theresa May is to hold Brexit talks with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker next week, her office said on Saturday, following this week's symbolic defeat in parliament...
Pressure is mounting on the government of Bangladesh for continuation of the Accord as forceful closure of its Dhaka office will benefit no parties -- brands, government, garment makers and...
Eight people have died after a fire broke out at a slum in Chattogram’s Chaktai. The blaze began early on Saturday morning in the slum near the Bhera Market area...
Bangladesh in all likelihood would face challenges in relation to its export trade, once it shakes off its least developed country (LDC) status. The existing incentive regime will no more...
The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) has recently suggested updating of the fiscal depreciation, as mentioned in the third schedule of the income tax ordinance. During a meeting with the...
FIFA says that football clubs around the world, many of them small ones in Latin America and Africa, are missing out on so-called transfer compensation of around $300 million (233...
The news of extinction of nearly half of all insects from the face of the earth in a few decades is set to cause distress to a number of nations....
The government is drafting a master plan to protect the country's rivers. According to reports, efforts are underway to protect four rivers initially. These are the Buriganga, Balu and Sitalakhya...
The ongoing drive on the part of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) against illegal structures built on both banks of the river Buriganga appears to be a determined...
Dhaka, one of the most densely populated megacities in the world, has become the second least livable city according to the Global Livability Index 2018 report prepared by the Economic...
SYLHET, Feb 16: Punitive actions has been taken against at least 52 Project Implementation Committees (PICs) officials in Sunamganj district for negligence, violation of rules and flawed works on the...
NAOGAON, Feb 16: The Atrai upazila of Naogaon district has already achieved fame as the 'best maize cultivation area' in the district. Farmers under eight unions under Atrai upazila of...
MAGURA, Feb 16: Magura growers achieved a bumper production of cucumber in the district this season. At the same time cucumber is being sold in the district at a high...
JOYPURHAT, Feb 16: Betel leaf cultivation is increasing day-by-day in the northern districts since its cultivation boosts profit compare to other crops. With the effort of farmers two types of...
The Deputy Managing Director of International Monetary Fund, David Lipton while attending the American Economic Association meeting in Atlanta in early January this year told the Financial Times that the...
Bangladesh Bank (BB), belatedly though, has moved to a right direction by filing lawsuit with US Federal court against RCBC (Regal Commercial Banking Corporation) for recovering its USD 81 million...
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) won NASA's 2018 International Space Apps Challenge. NASA on Saturday announced names of six teams who came out on top in six separate...
The inexorable worldwide march towards far-right nationalism coupled with a slowing economy and recession is reducing the power of foreign direct investment (FDI) much to the dismay of countries such...
At least four people died in separate road accidents in Gazipur, Sylhet and Chattogram districts on Saturday. In Gazipur, a police constable was killed after being hit by a covered...
Forty-nine members of parliament in the women reserved seats in the 11th parliament have unofficially been elected uncontested. Of them, the 43 are from the ruling Awami League, four from...
The United States and Canada have challenged India’s market price supports for chickpeas, pigeon peas, black matpe, mung beans and lentils, the US Trade Representative said on Friday. The United...
Bayern Munich twice came from behind to beat Augsburg and close the gap on Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dortmund to two points. Leon Goretzka turned into his own net to give...
The port city Chattogram received more allocation for development works than Dhaka, Housingand Public Works Minister SM Rezaul Karim said on Saturday. "The prime minister is giving Chattogram priority because...
Different areas of Dhaka city, including Mirpur, Mohammadpur, Kalabagan, Shyamoli, Agargaon and some adjacent areas like Dhamrai, Ashulia, Aminbazar, Savar and Manikganj have been experiencing disruption in gas supply since...
US-backed fighters in Syria are poised to capture Islamic State’s last, tiny enclave on the Euphrates, the battle commander said on Saturday, bringing its self-declared caliphate to the brink of...
Day-to-day operations at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital have partly resumed after the Thursday’s devastating fire. Out of 16 wards of the public hospital, 15 are now fully functional....
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 44 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs during the ongoing anti-narcotics drives in the capital in last 24 hours till 6:00 Saturday. Detective...
US Vice President Mike Pence has urged the European Union to recognise Venezuelan congress leader Juan Guaido as the president of the South American country. Pence made the remarks in...
As children face ‘serious protection risks’, including psychosocial distress, neglect, abuse, separation from caregivers, sexual violence, child marriage and labour, child protection system will remain a priority at Rohingya camps...
A former Roman Catholic cardinal has been defrocked after historic sexual abuse allegations. Theodore McCarrick is the most senior Catholic figure to be dismissed from the priesthood in modern times,...
US Market Access Center (USMAC), a mentoring organisation, will support young entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. Bangladesh High-Tech Park Authority and USMAC signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in San Francisco, California,...
The Hajj Agencies Association Of Bangladesh (Haab) has announced private hajj package-2019, fixing Tk 3,45,800 as minimum cost for each pilgrim. HAAB Secretary General M Shahadat Hossain made the announcement...
Planning Minister MA Mannan on Saturday said the government is always ready and alert to face the security concerns over digital transaction and mobile banking. “We’re trying to face such...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says he is waiting to see if Abdur Razzaq’s resignation from Jamaat-e-Islami is part of some party strategy before taking any further steps on...
India has selected Bangladesh’s leading cultural group Chhayanaut for its state-sponsored prestigious “Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony”. According to an official statement, Indian President Ram Nath Kovind will hand over...
A researcher in Edinburgh is leading efforts to develop gene-edited farm animals for poor farmers in Africa. Prof Appolinaire Djikeng is developing cows, pigs and chickens that are resistant to...
Syeda Zakia Nur, sister of late Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam, on Saturday took oath as a member of the 11th parliament from Kishoreganj-1 constituency. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin...
Police recovered the bullet-riddled body of a garment worker from Savar’s Ashulia in the early hours of Saturday. The dead man was Russel Khan, 27, son of Fazlu Khan and...
Collaboration among the stakeholders, including regulators, financial institutions, telecom operators and customers is the key to ensuring digital financial inclusion in the country, speakers said at a programme on Saturday....
The inaugural ceremony of the 4th SANEM Annual Economists’ Conference 2019 took place in Dhaka city on Saturday. The session was chaired by Chairman of SANEM Dr Bazlul Haque Khondker. ...
Mamun-Ur-Rashid, Managing Director & CEO of Standard Bank Limited inaugurated a five-day long training on “Advanced Course on Banking (Level-1)” for Senior Executive Officers organized by the Training Institute of...
NRB Bank Limited, a leading 4th generation bank of the country opened the 41st branch at Debidwar, Cumilla recently. Md. Mehmood Husain, Managing Director & CEO of NRB Bank Limited...
With the slogan Technology for Prosperity, a three-day BASIS SoftExpo 2019 begins on March 19 at International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB). The event will be a congregation of ICT companies,...
Chittagong WASA has finally undertaken its most profitable water supply project targeting thriving industrial zones, existing industrial plants and proposed economic zones in the south of the Karnaphuli River outside...
French researchers got inspiration from desert ants and developed a first-of-its-kind walking robot that can move without GPS. The study published on Wednesday in the journal Science Robotics reported the...
Turkey will not turn back from its deal to buy S-400 missile systems from Russia, President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying on Saturday, a day after an informal deadline...
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