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Jatiya Party has nominated its Secretary General Moshiur Rahman Ranga as the opposition chief whip of the 11the parliament. A letter in this regard signed by Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman...
Ericsson India Private Limited has petitioned the Supreme Court (SC) to arrest Reliance Communications (RCom) chief Anil Ambani over recurring delays in payment of its dues worth Rs 5.50 billion....
The Awami League has expelled Noakhali party leader Ruhul Amin in connection with the gang-rape of a woman in Noakhali’s Subarnachor on election day. The Subarnachor Upazila Awami League publicity...
Fariha Salma Deiya Bakar was born to a Bangladeshi family in Hong Kong and now aims to become the city’s first ethnic minority lawmaker, the South China Morning Post reports....
Tottenham Hotspur’s Fernando Llorente got a hat-trick as they chalked up their record competitive away win with the 7-0 thrashing of fourth-tier Tranmere Rovers in the opening game of the...
China’s armed forces must strengthen their sense of urgency and do everything they can to prepare for battle, President Xi Jinping told a meeting of top brass on Friday. China...
A 16-year-old girl was reportedly raped by the employer of her father at Krishnapur village in Cumilla’s Lakhsham upazila on Thursday night. Police arrested Tajul Islam Majumdar, 42, son of...
Police recovered the bullet-riddled bodies of two unidentified young men from Balichar area adjacent to Rajarchhora Marine Drive in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Saturday morning. Pradip Kumar Das,...
World stock markets rallied on Friday while bond yields rose after sharply declining earlier in the week ahead of the US and China trade talks and US employment data pointed...
US stocks rebounded on Friday to close at its highest level in two weeks after a strong jobs report and assurances from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Powell said that...
Bhutan is pressing its case seeking to furnish a customs guarantee instead of a bank guarantee for transit of its goods through Bangladesh. Bhutan fears that the issuance of any...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and other Jatiya Oikya Front leaders are headed to Noakhali to meet the woman who became the victim of gang-rape on the election...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines is conducting a feasibility study on its freighter operation, a senior Biman official said. A five-member committee, formed on December 12 last, has been assigned to do...
The prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) climbed 3.80 per cent this week in a sign of positive reaction from the investors to the outcome of the national...
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen called on Saturday for international support to defend the self-ruled island’s democracy and way of life in the face of renewed threats from China. Tsai’s comments...
The initial public offering (IPO) of Esquire Knit Composite opens tomorrow (January 06) for public subscription, aiming to raise a capital of over Tk 562 million. The subscription period ends...
President Donald Trump threatened to keep the US government partially shut for months or years on Friday after he and Democratic leaders failed to resolve their dispute over Trump’s request...
Three people were killed as a truck hit a pick-up van on Bangabandhu West Bridge connecting highway in Kamarkhanda upazila of Sirajganj in the early hours of Saturday. The victims...
Visa trading goes uncontrolled badly affecting the lives of Bangladeshi workers in Kuwait as many of them still remain jobless there, victims and insiders said. In addition, they said, many...
Chinese face recognition technology firms look to expand their business in South Asian countries including Bangladesh following the omnipresence of the tech across China. Chinese public and private firms have...
The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) has sought more than twice the funds it had originally asked for building its 12-storied headquarters (HQ). The BIDA wants to make the building...
Rice prices have gone up further in the retail market in less than two weeks, but reasons behind such a surge remain unascertained. As always, millers and traders play a...
A report of World Bank (WB) has suggested the government to overhaul its current insurance act to make way for launching a diverse line of agri-insurance schemes. At the same...
The country's tax-GDP ratio continues to miss its target despite a fast-expanding economy. Policymakers and analysts across the globe use the tax-to-GDP ratio to compare tax receipts year on year....
BRAC Bank Limited won two awards in the 'ICAB Best Presented Annual Reports 2017' competition recently, says a statement. It secured second position under both the categories of 'Private Commercial...
Addiction to pornography is on the rise in the country. Thanks to easy internet access through smart phone, porn sites are now probably the most watched sites by different age...
There is no denying the fact that Bangladesh has done well in terms of mobile phone use. Even in rural areas, roughly four-fifths of households have at least one cell-phone...
The shipping ministry's move to bring inland waterway dredging under real-time monitoring is possibly the first of its kind to keep track of dredging activities. As part of a government...
Climate scientists are sounding the alarm about global warming, but the world is not responding. In October, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned of catastrophic risks...
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested Miah Nuruddin Ahmad Apu, a former aide to BNP's acting chairperson Tarique Rahman, over the seizure of money in Dhaka before the elections....
It is one of the most feared fiscal laws in the offing but it will be implemented in the 2019-20 fiscal bound as it is to a tranche of grant...
When most of us think about artificial intelligence (AI), our minds go straight to robots, sci-fi thrillers where machines take over the world. But the fact is that AI is...
President Donald Trump's announced withdrawal of US forces from Syria has met with near-universal condemnation by Democrats and Republicans alike. That says less about Trump than it does about the...
The core issue of achieving sustainable development goals is about increasing wealth creation capacities of less developed countries in a globally connected competitive economy while causing less harm to the...
A three-kilometre-long tailback was created at Daulatdia Ferry Ghat in Rajbari on Friday following shortage of ferries and rush of city-bound passengers. Thousands of passengers of the country's southern region...
Gold discounts in India widened to a two-month high this week as prices surged to a more than six-month peak and demand remained subdued due to New Year holidays, reports...
The body of Awami League presidium member and Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam will be brought back home on Saturday evening. Ashraf, who passed away at a Thailand hospital...
This is not as widely known a competition as the Miss universe or the Miss World but perhaps in substance and significance far outpaces those beauty pageants. This is Miss...
Since assuming presidency on January 20, 2017 of the United States of America, the oldest democracy and a global leader in the world, Donald Trump has been unlike any other...
The global economy looks poised to slow moderately from 3.8 per cent in 2018 to 3.5 per cent next year in Goldman Sachs Research's view, led by deceleration in the...
The Chakma inhabited Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh and its neighbouring regions in India and Myanmar. They belong to the Tibeto-Burman (TB) ethnic folk, though they speak one of...
President Donald Trump on Friday sought to cast blame for recent gyrations in financial markets on Democrats takeover of US House of Representatives and aimed to soothe investors’ worries saying...
Awami League will organise a grand rally marking its landslide victory in the 11th parliamentary election at 2.30pm on January 19 at Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital. AL President and...
BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday has slammed the Election Commission (EC)’s “Pitha Utsab”. His criticism came a day after the EC organised the festival at its headquarters in...
Hackers have posted personal data from hundreds of German politicians from major parties, including credit card details and mobile phone numbers, ARD TV said on Friday. The data, published on...
The sixth edition of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) T20 Powered will begin on Saturday at the Sher-e- Bangla National Cricket Stadium (SBNCS) in the city’s Mirpur. Defending champions Rangpur Riders...
Canadian teenager Bianca Andreescu says she "did the impossible" by beating seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams a day after defeating world number three Caroline Wozniacki. Andreescu, 18, won 11...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said BNP is doing what the defeated opposition parties do and this trend will stop after a few days. “The people of...
A US delegation will visit China next week for talks aimed at defusing the trade war between the world's two largest economies. The closely watched meeting follows a dismal week...
Bangladesh’s position in doing business ranking is likely to come down to below 100 from the existing 176 by 2021 as the government has taken various reform initiatives to improve...
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