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The General Economics Division of the Ministry of Planning (GED) prepared a document titled, 'SDG Bangladesh Progress Report 2018'. The exercise was due because "our governments have the primary responsibility...
Among the many difficulties the country is poised to face in the post-LDC period, particularly in the trade arena, is the termination of benefits meant for the LDCs. While the...
Boeing's 747 jumbo jet, an aircraft that democratized global air travel in the 1970s but fell behind modern twin-engine passenger jets, has bounced back from near death to mark its...
Three army personnel were killed and nine others injured in a road accident in Subarnachar upazila in Noakhali on Friday afternoon. The deceased were identified as sepoys Mamun, Foyez and...
In summer 2010, I met a handsome young man at a social event in the suburb of Washington DC. He was accompanied by his wife and a beautiful daughter. He...
Has British Prime Minister Theresa May outmanoeuvred all her opponents? By defeating Parliament's effort to rule out a disorderly "no-deal" rupture between the European Union (EU) and its second-largest...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) is reported to have prepared a set of recommendations to be submitted to the Ministry of Finance (MoF) wherein they have put forward some suggestions to...
The UN Sustainable Development Goal number 16 aims to 'Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions...
Captain Rohit Sharma dashed a half-century from 28 balls and Rishabh Pant made an unbeaten 40 as India beat New Zealand by seven wickets in the second Twenty20 to level...
The greatest crisis of the modern time is the lack of human relations based on sincerity and integrity of soul. Human bond of this order as against indiscriminately and often...
Dhaka was a quite city at that time and there was a lot of greenery in many parts of the city. There were some dedicated men in the city who...
The week before Christmas, the holiday smiles and laughs on the faces of investors were wiped off clean and replaced with an expression of financial perdition. All across the world,...
India could lose a vital US trade concession, under which it enjoys zero tariffs on $5.6 billion of exports to the United States, amid a widening dispute over its trade...
Two assistant sub-inspectors (ASIs) of police -- one from Gazipur and other from Tangail -- have been arrested reportedly for kidnapping three friends from Gazipur and demanding Tk 3.0 million...
Bangladesh has urged India to take steps for sharing the water of all common rivers and resolving the long-pending Teesta water-sharing deal. Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen raised the...
The number of prisoners in the country saw a sharp decline in the last 21 days. As on January 18, the number of inmates was 92, 845 which declined to...
Bangladesh and India signed four MoUs on Friday to further strengthen the existing "multifaceted cooperation" between the two countries. The MoUs were signed at the fifth meeting of the Bangladesh-India...
Microbus registration in the country witnessed a significant decline in 2018 compared to that recorded in 2017. A total of 4,137 microbuses were registered in 2018, while it was 5,575...
The body recovered from the wreckage of a crashed plane is that of Cardiff City player Emiliano Sala, Dorset Police have said, according to BBC. Sala, 28, was travelling to...
A fire has engulfed a dormitory at the youth team training centre of one of Brazil's biggest football clubs, killing 10 people and injuring three on Friday. The fire broke...
San Francisco police have posted a $100,000 reward for a serial killer known as the ‘Doodler’ as they renew their search for a suspect believed responsible for killing five gay...
A woman and her mother-in-law were killed in a collision between a motorcycle and human hauler at Devgram in Gopalganj’s Kotalipara upazila on Friday morning. The dead were identified as...
A youth was found dead inside a septic tank at a local madrasha in Ashashuni upazila of Satkhira on Thursday midnight. The dead was identified as Jahangir Hossain, 24, son...
Apple Inc on Thursday rolled out software updates to iPhones to fix a privacy issue in its FaceTime video calling service, and said it would contribute toward the education of...
The residents of Bricksburg return to the big screen this week in “The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part”, this time finding themselves in an apocalyptic world after the invasion...
Real Betis captain Joaquin scored a remarkable goal straight from a corner in his side’s Copa del Rey semi-final first leg at home to Valencia on Thursday, but the visitors...
Rangs Properties Limited has launched a new campaign called ‘Poytrishe Pochashi’ in the Real Estate and Housing Association of Bangladesh (REHAB) fair. According to the campaign, the real estate company...
The immigration authorities in Maldives have arrested 80 Bangladeshis in a crackdown on undocumented expatriate workers. In a Twitter post, Maldives Immigration said the operation to detect the undocumented expatriates...
The global surface temperature in 2018 was the fourth warmest in the modern record, showed annual analyses released on Wednesday. Global temperatures in 2018 rank behind those of 2016, 2017,...
BNP leaders thought Khaleda Zia would be out on bail after she was sentenced to prison for graft involving the Zia Orphanage Trust. It never happened. Instead they saw another...
China’s public-private partnership (PPP) projects drove13.2 trillion yuan (about 2 trillion US dollars) investment by the end of 2018, an official data showed. According to the China Public Private Partnerships...
Around 100 expatriates, 68 of whom are Bangladeshis, have been detained in a police operation during the Chinese New Year holiday in Kuala Lumpur. Many expatriates were detained earlier in...
Australia’s Qantas Airways said it formally cancelled a longstanding order for eight Airbus SE A380 superjumbo jets. Thursday's decision, which will remove the order placed in 2006 from the Airbus...
At least 13 shops were gutted in a fire which broke out at College Bazar Road in Mirsarai upazila of Chattogram early Friday. Jashimuddin, Assistant director of Chattogram Fire Service...
Tata Motors dragged Indian shares to lower on Friday as the automaker posted its worst quarterly loss and trimmed profit margin guidance for its British luxury car unit for the...
Asian shares slipped on Friday after US President Donald Trump said he doesn’t plan to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping before a tariffs truce ends in March. Japan’s Nikkei 225...
A strike by 1300 pilots has forced China Airlines to cancel 18 international flights and stranding thousands of passengers, the official Central News Agency reported early on Friday. They went...
The government will introduce electronic account maintenance devices across the country to augment its revenue earnings, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said on Thursday. "Every shop having electricity connection will...
A three-day international conference began at Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) In Rajshahi on Thursday. RUET’s Faculty of Civil Engineering is hosting the conference titled “Planning, Architecture and...
The country's first and the largest private dockyard with a capacity of 0.1 million DWT (deadweight tonnage) got licence for shipbuilding and repairing from Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) on...
A move has been made to introduce an electronic toll collection system at four major bridges on the national highway aiming at faster transportation. Meghna Gumti, Bhairab, Lalon Shah and...
A United Nations-led inquiry into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said on Thursday that evidence pointed to a brutal crime “planned and perpetrated” by Saudi officials. Khashoggi’s killing...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said on Thursday the multi-layer taxation on dividend income would be simplified to help boost investments in the capital market. The minister's assurance came after...
A man was killed when a truck plunged into a roadside ditch on Dhanut-Sherpur road at Boalkandi in Bogura’s Sherpur upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as truck helper...
A team of Dhaka (West) VAT Commissionerate on Thursday fined 25 companies at the Dhaka International Trade Fair - 2019 on allegation of Value Added Tax (VAT) evasion. The team...
A Saudi national was found dead at his friend's house at Douhakhala village in Gouripur upazila of Mymensingh district on Friday. The deceased was identified as Abu Naser, 55, a...
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid for crisis-stricken Venezuela arrived in the Colombian border city of Cucuta on Thursday as diplomatically-isolated President Nicolas Maduro appeared set to block its entry amid an...
Around 20,000 Rohingya people in the Ukhia and Teknaf camps have been infected in an outbreak of chicken pox, a quite common disease of childhood in Bangladesh. "All of a...
Broiler chicken became pricier in the city's kitchen markets last week due to its growing demand, according to traders. Prices of some vegetables also went up while loose soybean oil...
British Prime Minister Theresa May came away from a day in an increasingly impatient Brussels on Thursday with a pledge of renewed talks that held out some hope for a...
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