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The board of directors of MetLife, Inc. announced that Michel A. Khalaf, President, U.S. Business and EMEA, will become MetLife’s President and Chief Executive Officer on May 1, 2019. Khalaf...
Bank of China (BOC) has offered a loan of $300 million (232.68 million pounds) to Sri Lanka which can be raised to $1 billion, a source in Colombo with direct...
A man and his son died after being electrocuted in Noakhali’s Kabirhat upazila on Monday. Salah Uddin, 45, and his son Shourov, 12, died after coming in contact with a...
The 79th Meeting of the Executive Committee of Modhumoti Bank Limited was held on Monday. The meeting was presided over by EC Chairman, Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh MP. Among...
China plans to launch 100 new large-scale recycling ‘bases’ by the end of next year, part of a campaign to make better use of its resources after extending a ban...
Managing Director of Lub-rref (Bangladesh) Ltd. Mohamed Yousuf opened the pavilion of BNO Lubricants recently at 24th Dhaka International Trade Fair, 2019. MD Salauddin Yousuf, Director, Md Rezaul Islam- NSM...
The ruling Awami League has started selling its nomination forms for the parliamentary seats reserved for women. The sales of nomination forms began around 10:00am on Tuesday at the Awami...
Most Southeast Asian stock markets recovered on Tuesday with Singapore leading the gains, as China hinted at supportive monetary policies to strengthen its economy. China will strengthen monitoring of its...
Real estate company Sheltech is organising a fair at Sheltech Bithika in Dhaka’s Mirpur from January 17 to January 19, putting the country’s first, fully completed and ready condominium’s flats...
A college student reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan at his residence at Rajpara in Rajshahi city on Monday. The victim was identified as Ishtiaque Omi,...
Welcoming the revised wage structure, workers of all the readymade garment factories in the area have started working at their respective workplaces since Tuesday morning. There was no report of...
A motorcyclist was crushed to death under a bus at Chhoto Khochabari area in Sadar upazila of Thakurgaon on Monday night. The biker was identified as Danesh Barman, 38, son...
Hundreds of Honduran migrants began the long trek north on Monday, part of new US-bound caravan that hopes to succeed even as a previous wave of Central Americans were unable...
An activist of a breakaway faction of Parbatya Chattogram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS Reformist or MN Larma) was shot dead allegedly by the members of rival political party United People's...
Nearly 80 per cent of junior doctors across New Zealand walked off the job at public hospitals on Tuesday after a breakdown in union talks with the government over working...
Asian shares rebounded from slight early losses on Tuesday after senior economic officials said Beijing will cut taxes and keep monetary policy flexible to help weather China’s slowdown. Japan’s Nikkei...
Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) will formally launch its restaurant gradation programme in the city on January 20 aiming to help customers identify eateries' hygiene level, a high official said....
Volkswagen said on Monday it was investing $800 million to build a new electric vehicle at its plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and scheduled a briefing with Ford Motor for Tuesday...
The ACI Agribusiness is developing a digital platform called 'Rupali', an android application, under a project to help farmers and other stakeholders get advice and information about aquaculture at their...
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has restructured two price indices and added 15 companies to the benchmark index, DSEX, a move that will help gauge the market more accurately. The...
Ivanka Trump will help manage the Trump administration’s selection of a US candidate for the position of World Bank Group president, a White House official said on Monday. The official,...
The central bank has sought an allocation of Tk 8.0 billion for its 'Entrepreneurship Support Fund' (ESF) in the upcoming fiscal year (FY) 2019-20 for financing agro-based projects. Besides, it...
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) has signed a contract with an US manufacturer to procure 40 broad-gauge diesel-electric locomotives at a cost of US$ 235 million (Tk 11.23 billion). The authority...
Auto executives gathered in Detroit on Monday called on the Trump administration and Congress to resolve trade disputes, and end the government shutdown, saying political uncertainty is costing the industry....
The central bank has injected more than US$1.20 billion so far this fiscal year into the market to help keep the country's foreign exchange (forex) regime stable, officials said. As...
China remains silent about extending duty-free and quota-free (DFQF) access of Bangladeshi products to its market, though Dhaka agreed to sign a 'letter of exchange' nine months ago. Despite repeated...
The Power Division has sought lowering of the external resources allocation for project execution by almost a quarter after failing to utilise it fully, officials said on Monday. The officials...
Of late, child labour is increasingly becoming a matter of concern for global observers. Last year, while observing World Day against Child Labour in June, the Food and Agriculture Organisation...
To call the recent changes in the style of cropping and the achievements made in the country's agricultural yields in the last couple of decades amazing is no overstatement. Anyone...
There is an incipient and hidden side to corporal punishment which is larger than the exposed side to it. That way it is fed on a culture of silence and...
The government has waived all taxes and supplementary duties imposed against every SIM card replacement through the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) service. The Internal Resources Division of the finance ministry...
For the eighth time in the 19 completed years of the 21st century, Time magazine's "Person of the Year" was awarded to a social/professional/grassroots movement, in 2018 to "The Guardians,"...
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen does not see any easy solution to the crisis surrounding the Rohingya people, which he says is “a very serious issue”. “There will be no...
BOGURA, Jan 14: Sudden price fall makes hundreds of T-Aman paddy farmers worried in the district. After harvesting the crops the farmers were worried as they were selling each maund...
RANGPUR, Jan 14 (BSS): Farmers are expecting a bumper production of winter vegetables after exceeding its fixed farming target of the crops in all five districts of Rangpur agriculture region...
NATROE Jan 14: The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) is expecting more than one thousand tonnes of garlic output this season due to favourable weather condition in Natore agri-zone. From...
The global aviation industry represented by Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA) and more than 30 other associations has called upon US President Donald Trump and Congress to end the partial...
Unusually high levels of smog worsened by weather patterns are raising alarm across Asia, with authorities in Thailand's hazy capital Bangkok opting to hand out face masks and step up...
It has been learnt from a media report that our banking sector is facing a crisis as nine banks are identified with capital shortfall. The report further states that six...
As the home of both the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, Italy has long been at the forefront of cultural developments in Europe and Western Eurasia. But it has also...
China continues to borrow an average of $2.0 billion a year from the World Bank, making it one of the Bank's top borrowers - despite being the world's second-largest economy...
The internet is so dynamic that its features change every day. Platforms using the internet tend to be aware of these changes. Such changes can affect e-commerce and e-businesses. It...
A student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) was found hanging from the ceiling at his room at Kajalshah in Sylhet on Monday. The deceased was identified as...
The mayor of the Polish city of Gdansk has died in hospital on Monday, a day after being stabbed at a charity event. Pawel Adamowicz, 53, was attacked on stage...
Gono Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain and General Secretary of the party Mostafa Mohsin Montu have demanded legal actions against Hefajat-e-Islam chief Allama Shah Ahmed Shafi over recent anti-female education...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has retained her five advisors of the previous tenure for the new government. The advisors are: HT Imam (Political Affairs), Dr Mashiur Rahman (Economic Affairs), Dr...
The first meeting of the new cabinet will be held on January 21, said Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam on Monday. The meeting will be held at the Prime Minister's...
Andy Murray produced a superb fightback on Monday in what might have been his final match but eventually lost in five sets to Roberto Bautista Agut in the Australian Open...
The government is likely to revoke three more solar park projects in the private sector as the implementing agencies have failed to make any progress though the deadlines of the...
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has acknowledged the efforts of all parties, led by the Ministry of Labour and Employment of Bangladesh, to work towards setting new wage structure for...
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