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UNICEF has appealed for $3.9 billion in emergency assistance for 41 million children affected by conflict or disaster across the world. Millions of children living in countries affected by conflict...
The United Arab Emirates has filed a complaint against Qatar at the World Trade Organization saying Doha has imposed a ban on Emirati products. The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and...
Traffic division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in their simultaneous drives on the city streets on Monday filed 6,510 cases against different modes of vehicles for traffic rule violation....
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Tuesday asked for China’s understanding over Malaysia’s plan to cancel a $20-billion rail project that spearheads China’s infrastructure push in the Southeast Asian nation, saying...
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested five members of an international drug smuggling gang from Dhaka city's Kaula area on Monday. The arrestees were Fatema Imam Tania, 26, Afsana Mini,...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved nine projects involving an estimated cost of Tk 164.33 billion. Among the nine projects, it approved a Tk 86.90...
Twelve people including an entire family of five were killed and three others were injured in a horrific road accident near Ujjain when an overloaded van collided with a car...
Customs, Excise and VAT Commissionerate has sued 25 trade organisations for evading VAT in this year’s Dhaka International Trade Fair. A team of the Commissionerate led by Dr Moinul Khan,...
Apple Inc said on Monday it will issue a software patch later this week for a bug that lets iPhone users hear audio from users who have not yet accepted...
More than 300 poor and distressed eye patients received free treatment at a daylong free eye camp held on Monday at Amashu Kukrul Progoti High School ground in Rangpur city....
A Rangpur court on Tuesday convicted Snigdha Sarkar Dipa and sentenced her to death in the sensational murder case of her husband special public prosecutor Advocate Rathish Chandra Bhowmik in...
The South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA), an apex body of SAARC, has awarded BRAC Bank Limited with the SAFA Best Presented Annual Report Awards for Corporate Governance Disclosures,...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive recovered 18 gold bars (worth Tk 8.8 million) from Kakdanga bordering area in Sadar upazila of Satkhira in the early hours...
Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) on Monday lodged cases against seven business entities in Dhaka city on charge of weight and measurement manipulation. The cases were filed under the...
Bangladesh will remain a priority market for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in 2019 despite infrastructure stakeholders’ concerns about inflationary pressures and their projected depreciation of the taka. According...
Car registrations in Dhaka city witnessed a significant decline in 2018 compared to those of 2017. A total of 16,319 cars were registered in 2018 while it was 19,573 in...
Denmark’s foreign minister called on Tuesday for European Union-wide sanctions on Russia over a standoff with Ukraine in the Azov Sea. Anders Samuelsen will meet Ukraine’s foreign minister, Pavlo Klimkin,...
The Japanese box office in 2018 was down just under 3 per cent to $2.04 billion (￥223 billion), but still registered the third-highest annual total of all time, with admissions...
Cameroonian authorities arrested opposition leader Maurice Kamto on Monday, his lawyer said, after weekend protests that security forces dispersed with live bullets, wounding six people. Kamto has been mobilising dissent...
Bangladesh has gone down by six steps in the corruption perception index (CPI) 2018, reflecting the country's poor performance in preventing corruption. It scored 26 out of 100, standing at...
Intel will invest 40 billion shekels ($10.9 billion) on a new chip-making factory in Israel, the Israeli finance minister said on Monday, the latest multi-billion dollar investment in the country...
At least six people were killed and another injured in separate road accidents in Dhaka and Chattogram from Monday night to Tuesday morning. In Dhaka, four people—three brick kilns workers...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested a suspected drug trader along with 5,640 yaba tablets (worth Tk 2.82m) from Puratan Bus Stand area of Teknaf upazila...
Asian shares fell on Tuesday after the US Justice Department unsealed criminal charges against China’s Huawei, its subsidiaries and a top executive ahead of trade talks. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index...
LankaBangla Finance Limited (LBFL) has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sanmar Properties Limited (SPL). Under the agreement, customers of Sanmar Properties will get special rate and service...
Southeast Asian stocks fell on Tuesday after the United States charged China's Huawei with bank fraud and for conspiring to steal trade secrets, denting hopes of a trade deal days...
Dhaka bourse displayed volatility in the early of Tuesday’s session amid price correction witnessed by some major sectors. The market opened positively and soon later the DSE broad index DSEX...
Five people have been arrested in Bangladesh over their suspected involvement in the biggest drug haul in Sri Lanka's history. The suspects were detained in separate raids on Monday, said...
Facebook’s photo-sharing social network Instagram said on Monday the service is fully functional now after an issue that caused an outage for some users was resolved. However, Instagram did not...
At least two people were killed and two others went missing after a truck plunged into in a roadside ditch in Ashulia, Savar in the early hours of Tuesday. The...
Malaysia on Tuesday unveiled an ambitious five-year plan to clamp down on corruption in government, months after a multi-billion-dollar graft scandal brought down the previous administration. The plan, launched by...
A high-powered Saudi Arabian business delegation will visit Bangladesh in early next month to explore possible investments here, officials said on Monday. Some 20 renowned Saudi Arabian business groups from...
The country's core inflation rose by more than 1.0 percentage point last year, posing a challenge for the next monetary policy of the central bank, officials said. The core inflation...
China expressed serious concern on Tuesday after the United States announced criminal charges against Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and its chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, for allegedly conspiring to violate...
A senior official of Bangladesh Bank (BB) has called upon the bankers to strengthen capital adequacy of banks by improving quality of bank portfolio and risk management standard through credit...
A man suspected of raping a madrasa student in Chattogram has been shot dead in an alleged shootout with police. Another man was arrested after the incident at Mariner’s Road...
IFAD Autos has acquired 49 per cent holding of Gulf Oil (BD) at a cost of above Tk 119.07 million. In a disclosure, the company said all formalities regarding the...
The Trump administration on Monday imposed sweeping sanctions on Venezuelan state-owned oil firm PDVSA, aimed at severely curbing the OPEC member’s crude exports to the United States and at pressuring...
Standard Bank will raise a capital worth Tk 5.0 billion to strengthen its capital base as part of Tier-II Regulatory Capital requirement. The fund will be collected issuing coupon bearing...
Dhaka bourse declined marginally on Monday following the price correction witnessed by financial sectors. On the day, investors exerted selling pressure on general and life insurance sectors which recently displayed...
The Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh (CAAB) agrees with the findings of the Nepal investigators in the US-Bangla Airlines plane crash, but believes the probe report has not shed light on...
A Chhatra League activist and his friend were killed as a truck rammed a motorcycle on which they were riding near Chandanaish upazila headquarters in Chattogram on Monday night. The...
The United States on Monday announced criminal charges against China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, escalating a fight with the world’s biggest telecommunications equipment maker and coming days before trade talks...
The government is now planning to award the country's offshore seismic survey work to Russian company Gazprom under government to government (G2G) initiative. The government's change of mind has come...
At least 4,899 garment workers have been fired from their jobs in the aftermath of recent labour unrest over their wage disparity, according to the latest data of the Industrial...
At least US$ 5.90 billion flew out from Bangladesh illicitly in 2015 through misinvoicing in international trade with the advanced economies. The amount is closer to around two months' merchandise...
The curious silence over inaction in pursuing the Bangladesh Bank reserve heist has thankfully been broken with Finance Minister A H M Kamal announcing that local and foreign lawyers have...
After afflicting the greater Chattogram region, the menace of hill-cutting has lately spread to the greater Sylhet -- especially Moulvibazar district. Many other areas in the country are fast becoming...
On the back of successful attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 and completion of the first phase of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on June 30, 2018,...
TANGAIL, Jan 28: Sweetmeat cham cham and curd of Tangail is famous in the country and aboard. Every day more than one thousand kilo of curd and sweetmeats are being...
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