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The 47-member new cabinet, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, will take oath at a ceremony in Bangabhaban at around 3.30 pm on Monday a week after the 11th parliamentary...
A farmer died from electrocution at Srifalkati village in Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira on Monday morning. The deceased has been identified as Ichha Morol, 55, according to a news agency...
The military says it has seized power in oil-rich Gabon, where the ailing leader's family has ruled for 50 years. Soldiers in the west African country say they launched a...
Bangladesh is the 41st largest economy in the world in 2019, according to a UK-based think tank. It is up by twp steps from last year, when the country was ranked...
India ended a 71-year wait for a test series victory in Australia on Monday, their 2-1 triumph finally confirmed when the rain-affected fourth and final test ended in a draw...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a 24-hour-long anti-narcotics drive arrested 41 drug suspects from different areas of the capital for selling and consuming illegal drugs. A special team of DMP,...
Traffic Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Sunday realised Tk 2.717 million in fines from traffic offenders in the city. Besides, a total of 4,846 cases were also...
Vast numbers of bluebottle jellyfish have swarmed beaches in Queensland, Australia, stinging thousands of people and forcing the closure of swim spots. Surf Life Saving Queensland said over 2,600 people...
Lionel Messi scored for the seventh time in four La Liga games as champions Barcelona scrapped their way to a hard-fought 2-1 win at Getafe on Sunday that propelled them...
The government of Japan and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) concluded an agreement on Monday which will provide US$5 million to support Bangladeshi smallholder farmers and Rohingya people...
The Dhaka bourse witnessed moderate correction in Monday’s early session following mixed performance of the major sectors. DSEX, the broad index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), declined marginally although the...
Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla, and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted distant cautionary signal number-one as Cyclone 'Pabuk' weakened into deep depression over Andaman Sea. The...
Asian shares sped ahead on Monday as a dovish turn by the Federal Reserve and startlingly strong US jobs data soothed some of the market’s worst fears about the global...
An earthquake of 5.4 magnitude rattled Zamboanga del Norte province in the southern Philippines on Monday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. The institute said the quake, which...
A class three girl died after being violated allegedly by a college student at Gabtola village in Ashashuni upazila of Satkhira on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Sushmita,...
US and Chinese officials will begin talks today (Monday) aimed at resolving their damaging trade dispute. Last year, both countries imposed billions of dollars of tariffs on one another's goods....
A human rights group urged Thai authorities on Monday to halt plans to deport an 18-year-old Saudi woman who says she is fleeing abuse from her family and fears they...
US President Donald Trump pledged on Sunday not to bend in his demand for a wall along the southern border with Mexico but said the barrier could be made of...
English footballer Wayne Rooney was arrested in December at Dulles Airport outside Washington, DC for public intoxication, local police said on Sunday. Rooney, who has been playing for US football...
Sudanese security authorities arrested several faculty members from Khartoum University on Sunday, two professors said, after they joined anti-government protests that have posed the most serious challenge to President Omar...
Emmanuel Macron intended to start the new year on the offensive against the ‘yellow vest’ protesters. Instead, the French president is reeling from more violent street demonstrations. What began as...
A new service to help consumers get exact weight of goods purchased in the kitchen markets will be launched at the end of this month, an official said. The service,...
The kitchen market monitoring activities are seriously being hampered as required number of law enforcers are not available for conducting drives against irregularities committed by traders, officials said. The officials...
An earthquake with a revised magnitude of 6.6 struck 174 km (108 miles) north-northwest of the city of Ternate in Indonesia’s Molucca islands late on Sunday, followed by a series...
Experts from different sectors hailed on Sunday Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's prudence and dynamism in forming her council of ministers. The cabinet division declared the names of 46 members for...
A 47-member new cabinet has been declared with the induction of a crop of new and young faces to run the Sheikh Hasina-led government for the next five years. Thirty-six...
Police recovered the unidentified body of a man from Sukhbaspur in Munshiganj sadar upazila on Sunday night. Md Aminul Islam, inspector of Hatimara Police investigation camp, said locals spotted the...
Energy experts see ensuring sustainable primary energy, reducing over-reliance on fuel import, and checking 'corruption' as major challenges of Bangladesh's power and energy sector. The new government should expedite oil...
A move is under way to facilitate sending of money back home free of cost by the Bangladeshi migrant workers. The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has prepared a concept paper...
Lack of chilling facilities for preserving fresh produce in major vegetable hubs is holding back expected growth of export earnings in the sector, insiders said. As a result, the country's...
Bangladesh is now going through a major development phase with a number of mega projects like Padma Bridge, Rooppur Nuclear Plant, Rampal Power Plant etc. Obviously, there is a...
Comilla Victorians started Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) campaign with style as they beat Sylhet Sixers by four wickets on Sunday at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in the city, reports UNB....
Japan's government will keep a close eye on looming risks to a global economic recovery as it guides policy, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in an interview aired by public...
If election campaign was marked by some stray incidents of violence, the polling day happily was free from all such incidents. Post-polls time was also mostly peaceful. But an ugly...
BOGURA, Jan 06: The bitter gourd farmers are happy over fair market price as well as good output in Bogura district this season. Each maund of bitter gourd is being...
How should one explain the development now taking place in vast rural areas of the country? Should he or she refer to newly built roads or power connections to rural...
Downslide in shrimp export continues as exporters of the item are in a double whammy. Shrimp exporters, on the one hand, are fighting a losing battle against low-priced 'vannamei', one...
RAJSHAHI, Jan 06: A long cherished desire of millions of people of Rajshahi will be fulfilled if a project, left abandoned for the last 108 years, is implemented. With the...
NAOGAON, Jan 06: Cultivators and local agro-officials are expecting a bumper potato production across the district this season. Sources at the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) said, a total of...
The planned US troop withdrawal opens up a void in the north and east of Syria, and the conflicts and rivalries among all the powers in the Middle East are...
The Global Economist Forum (GEF) has said the Bangladesh economy will enjoy one of the happiest years in 2019 in respect to economic freedom, which will help achieve above 7.5...
The world's two most populous states, China and India - together, around 37 per cent of the global population - have rolled out nationwide digital systems of monitoring and classification....
Bangladesh's macroeconomic management has usually focused on the following goals which are quite similar to what was laid out in the Maastricht Criteria: (i) low and stable inflation (Bangladesh's monetary...
It was the week before Christmas, when US President Donald Trump issued another bombshell from the White House. With a single tweet, he decided to withdraw all US troops from...
Like many other developing countries, Bangladesh is very much dependent on the remittance inflow that we receive from our expatriate workers. This receives particular attention as it helps us not...
Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, who is going to take the charge of finance ministry, has said the Ministry of Finance would begin its journey from Monday with a new...
Police recovered the bodies of two young men from Brahmanbaria and Narisingdi districts on Sunday. In Brahmanbaria, police recovered the body of a young seven days after he went missing...
Veteran Awami League leader and Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam was laid to eternal rest at Banani Graveyard in Dhaka on Sunday afternoon, three days after he breathed his...
Sheikh Hasina, who has always included representatives from the Awami League’s allied parties in her administration, has not picked any of them as her new cabinet members. The Awami League...
The Appellate Division on Sunday cancelled the six-month High Court bail of suspended Shahjadpur municipality mayor Halimul Haque Miru over Daily Samakal's Shahjadpur correspondent Abdul Hakim Shimul murder. A four-member...
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