Traffic Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a day-long drive filed a total of 3,841 cases against different modes of vehicles for violating traffic rules on Saturday. The...
A two-day long Executives & Branch Managers "Annual Business Conference-2019" of NCC Bank Ltd ended recently at Royal Tulip Beach Resort in Cox's Bazar. Md. Nurun Newaz Salim, Chairman...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold talks with the parties and alliances she spoke to before the election at the Ganabhaban. The...
A Chinese hospital on Thursday launched free consultations featuring artificial-intelligence (AI) cameras to detect ocular fundus diseases, which are a major cause of blindness. Deqing county hospital in Guangdong Province...
The apparel sector’s apex body - BGMEA - has threatened to shut all the garment factories for an indefinite period unless the agitating workers join their respective workplaces from tomorrow...
Southeast Bank Limited (SEBL) organised Business Policy and Planning Conference 2019 to evaluate the business position of the Bank at BRAC CDM (BCDM), Savar, Dhaka on January 12-13. Alamgir Kabir,...
TVEL Fuel Company, a subsidiary of Russia’s state atomic energy corporation - Rosatom and CNLY, a subsidiary of China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) have signed a contract for supply of...
At least 20 workers of several readymade garment factories were injured in a clash with police in Narsinghapur area of Ashulia during the workers' demo for the seventh consecutive day...
Passengers of ridesharing services have expressed their dissatisfaction over the low quality of the helmets supplied for free by the companies. An expert has also expressed concern over the use...
At least 50 houses were gutted in a fire that broke out at Reserve Bazar Mosque Colony in the Rangamati district town on Sunday morning. The fire broke out in...
Although there are couple of weeks more to an ending winter, some of the mango trees have started sprouting early in Rajshahi region. Mango trees are sprouting early at various...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Bangladesh today (Sunday) signed agreements for $200 million in loans to improve the rural road network in Bangladesh. Monowar Ahmed, Secretary,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has paid rich tributes to the martyred members of the Bangladesh Armed Forces on the occasion of the assumption of her office as the premier for...
A former commander of Colombia's FARC rebel group, Iván Márquez, has released a video six months after going into hiding. In the film, he accuses the government of betraying the...
Saudi Arabia plans to set up a $10 billion oil refinery in Pakistan’s deepwater port of Gwadar, the Saudi energy minister said on Saturday, speaking at the Indian Ocean port...
A worker died after falling down from an under construction building in Satkhira district court premises on Sunday morning. The dead man was identified as Jewel Hossain of Bagharpara village...
Despite Bangladesh’s “serious efforts” to resume the halted repatriation process, the recent deteriorating condition in Rakhine State of Myanmar has brought “much worries” among all concerned, clouding the repatriation prospect,...
Police arrested a total of 32 people from nine upazilas of Bagerhat district in special drives conducted from Saturday night to Sunday morning. Police conducted the drives in nine upazilas...
A failure to deliver Brexit would be "a catastrophic and unforgivable breach of trust in our democracy", Prime Minister Theresa May has warned. Writing in the Sunday Express, Mrs May...
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed an upward trend in the early hour of trading on Sunday as investors continued their buying spree on sector-wise...
An auto-rickshaw driver and a passenger were killed when a bus rammed the vehicle at Abdullahpur stand area in Keraniganj on Sunday morning. The details of the deceased could not...
Top 10 turnover leaders featured a total transaction of above Tk 9.0 billion, snaring 18.28 per cent in last week on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). The premier bourse featured a...
At least 35 shops were gutted in a fire that broke out at Elisha Junction Bazar in Bhola sadar upazila on Saturday night. The fire originated from an electric short...
The government has made a move to import raw sugar to boost its stock, for the first time, to address huge shortages of the sweetener, officials said. Abul Rafique, chief...
CHATTOGRAM: Meghna Petroleum Ltd has approved 140 per cent cash dividend for the fiscal year (FY) 2017-18 at the company's 40th annual general meeting here on Saturday. The company’s Chairman...
Auditors need to sit with the people involved with governance in banks and other financial institutions (FIs) regularly to overcome challenges for proper implementation of new auditor's report, experts said...
United Power Generation & Distribution Company (UPGDC) posted a steady growth in dividend disbursement in last few years. During the period, the company's earnings per share (EPS) also rose moderately....
A coal mine roof collapse in northwest China’s Shaanxi province has killed 21 miners, according to a People’s Daily report run by the Reuters on Sunday. Saturday's accident is the...
Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei said on Saturday it had sacked an employee arrested in Poland on spying charges in a case that could intensify Western security concerns about the...
The absence of a separate corridor at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) hurts exporters in maintaining quality of agro products bound for the European Union. Insiders said consignments are often...
The government is likely to slash foreign aid allocation in the revised development budget as most of the ministries and agencies sought lower funds, officials said on Saturday. The lower...
Bangladesh needs to develop a Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) strategy on its own to cope with the next wave of global technological transformation, experts said on Saturday. They also called...
The government committee has agreed, in principle, to raise basic pay of certain grades in the new wage structure for garment workers, insiders said. The committee, however, decided not to...
Private commercial banks (PCBs) will devise strategies for curbing the volume of non-performing loans (NLPs) in the banking system. Chairman of the Association of Bankers, Bangladesh (ABB) Syed Mahbubur Rahman...
The recent death of yet another Language Movement hero in Sherpur district may prompt many youths to repeat the question: How many people took part in the historic 1952 movement...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said last week that the government would prepare a guideline to verify all classified loans in the banking sector and take necessary steps for curbing...
If the government decision, albeit belated, to create a national database of buyers of government-sponsored savings instruments (sanchyapatras and bonds) and seek some basic information and documents from them is...
The single most important public health measure of 2019 is the replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB), and Malaria. These three diseases, which currently kill around...
A two-day business development conference of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited began at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel, Dhaka on Saturday. The conference disclosed that as on December 31, 2018 IBBL...
French President Emmanuel Macron appears to be struggling at the helm of his country. The whole trouble started on November 17, 2018 when people across France took to the streets...
A Saudi teenager who fled her family and got stranded at a Bangkok airport has arrived in Canada after being granted asylum there. Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, had been trying...
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has taken a move to bring illegal mobile handsets under its surveillance. The BTRC says it has taken the initiative to prevent illegal imports,...
NEW DELHI, Jan 12 (BBC): An Indian guru who is already in jail for rape has been convicted for the 2002 murder of a journalist.Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, leader of...
The Rohingya are a minority community living in Rakhine State in Myanmar. The Muslim Rohingya are considered intruders into Buddhist Myanmar – illegal immigrants from bordering Bangladesh. They have been...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday described Venezuela’s government under President Nicolas Maduro as illegitimate. Mike Pompeo also said the United States would work with like-minded countries in...
The Kunming Initiative, which is known as "BCIM (Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar) Economic Connectivity Forum for Regional Cooperation" began its journey in August 1999 in Kunming, capital of China's southwestern province of Yunnan....
Prime Minister’s ICT affairs adviser Sajeeb Wajed Joy has said the opposition claims of vote rigging during 11th parliamentary election are mathematically impossible in view of the margin of votes...
RANGPUR, Jan 12: The growers of banana in different areas of the district are hopeful of getting a plentiful yield of the fruit during this year.According to the agriculturists, the...
BOGURA, Jan 12: Surplus carrot output has brought smile to hundreds of farmers in Bogura region.Farmers of Dupchanchia, Kahaloo, Adamdighi, Sonatola, Sharikandi, Gabtoly, Sibganj, Serpur, Nandigram, Shajahanpur, Dhunot and Sadar...
A superb finish by West Ham midfielder Declan Rice - the 19-year-old's first Premier League goal - earned his side a fine win and dented Arsenal's top-four ambitions on Saturday....
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