A teenager girl reportedly committed suicide by hanging herself at Abad Kochua village in Jashore Sadar upazila as she could not tolerate an assault on her mother and brother following...
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) in Sylhet reopened on Tuesday after a 14-day winter and Christmas vacation. The academic activities of the university resumed in the morning, said...
Three children have drowned at different locations in Chandpur’s Sadar upazila. The incidents occurred at Balia Union’s Forakkabad on Monday afternoon and Kalyanpur Union’s Dasadi Village on Monday evening, said...
Jatiya Oikya Front is going to submit a memorandum to the Election Commission demanding new elections under a nonpartisan administration after rejecting the results of the 11th parliamentary polls. All...
The board of directors of Delta Brac Housing Finance Corporation has decided to issue Non-Convertible Zero Coupon Bonds of Tk 3.0 billion (in face value). The bond will be multiple...
Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has paid tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of her party's absolute victory in the...
The Textbook Festival, marking the distribution of free textbooks among school and madrasa students, was kicked off across the country on Tuesday morning. Millions of schoolchildren have joined the festivity...
Landslides on Indonesia’s heavily populated island of Java killed at least two people and left 41 missing, an official at the country’s disaster agency said on Tuesday. The landslides, which...
Mobile internet services have been resumed since Tuesday morning after a suspension of about 37 hours. The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has directed the mobile phone operators to restart...
A young man who sustained bullet injury in firing on the eve of the voting in the national election in Barura upazila of Cumilla on Sunday died at Dhaka Medical...
The UN has called on all sides in Bangladesh to exercise restraint and ensure a peaceful post electoral environment, where people can maintain their right to assembly and expression. "We...
Stocks witnessed sharp rise in early hour of trading on Tuesday, the opening session of the New Year 2019, as optimistic investors are active on sector-wise issues. After the national...
Johnson & Johnson Inc’s statement was unequivocal. "The FDA has tested Johnson's talc since the '70s. Every single time it did not contain asbestos," the company said in a December...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive seized 9,300 piece of Yaba tablets from Agrabhulot border area of Benapole on Monday night. Being informed that a gang of...
Handling a chaotic and vulnerable banking sector along with a huge amount of bad loans is going to be the biggest challenge for the new government in this year (2019),...
Jute sector comprising small cap companies posted the highest return in 2018 though major sectors witnessed sharp correction during the year. In 2018, share trading was executed on 242 working...
Democrats in the US House of Representatives plan to vote on Thursday on a funding package to end the 10-day-old partial US government shutdown, without providing the $5 billion President...
Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held BNP responsible for its debacle in the national election. "BNP got only seven seats in the election only because of them....
Trading and official activities on both bourses resumed today (Tuesday) after a four-day holidays, officials said. The trading on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) will...
Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) downgraded three listed companies to "B" category from existing "A" category as these companies have approved 5.0 per cent or less than 5.0 per cent dividend....
French President Emmanuel Macron used his traditional New Year's Eve speech to sound a warning to extreme elements among anti-government protesters. He promised to keep order "without complacency" and decried...
Zero tolerance to corruption, quality implementation of the mega infrastructure projects and lower cost of business should be the priority of the new government in the New Year, top industry...
Trading on the occasion of the New Year celebration showed a grim picture in the city this year amid low presence of customers which traders attributed to the fear of...
Uncertainty looms large over the achievement of US$50-billion export earning target by the country's readymade garment (RMG) sector by the year 2021, sources said. The recent export earning trend of...
A minivan slammed into pedestrians in the early hours of Tuesday on a street where people had gathered for New Year’s festivities in Japan’s downtown Tokyo, injuring eight people, police...
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has sought the help of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) to develop a model for operating the bus-based mass transport service...
Textile and apparel industry leaders want to see in the New Year the continuation of the business- and investment-friendly climate and steps to address the challenges facing the sector. The...
Rumana Ahmed, the Bangladeshi star women cricketer, has been selected for the ICC Women's T20 Team of the Year, reports UNB. Rumana is the first Bangladeshi women to earn this...
It's mind-boggling to say the least but after two quiet arrests and even quieter releases no one is any the wiser about the drones that disrupted Christmas Travel in the...
The impressive performance of female students in the school-level JSC and PEC examinations this year is no doubt heartening. The results have once again showed the girls' steady march in...
The relations between time and space are confounding. It is because man's place here is impermanent and he has a desperate search for anything that will leave an imprint to...
Currently, there are 64 banks in Bangladesh, including both scheduled and non-scheduled banks. With the recently approved Community Bank, 47 of them are scheduled commercial banks of which 41 are...
One can hardly believe how the United States, with unemployment diving towards the incredibly low 3.5 per cent level throughout 2018, could still be clamouring so loudly with populist tones....
It seems that a new alignment among Turkey, Qatar, Iran and Russia has emerged in the Middle East following an abrupt decision taken by US President Donald Trump to withdraw...
Some called it the Outback Uber - ten cane toads have been caught riding a python, reports BBC. Paul Mock of Kununurra in the far north of Western Australia filmed...
The last few months of 2018 have seen the Democrats take over the House of Representatives and Republicans retain control of the Senate; a flurry of revelations about the Kremlin's...
Bringing an allegation of massive vote rigging in Sunday's national election, BNP rejected the results and demanded re-election. "The election was held creating an unprecedented war-like situation spreading panic and...
Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina on Monday said people elected her party again as the common people were the beneficiaries of the steps her government took...
RAJSHAHI, Dec 31: Severe traffic congestion on the Rajshahi-Tanore Highway at Kaliganj and Talanda under Tanore upazila of the district is now a regular phenomenon during the two weekly haats...
MAGURA, Dec 31: Cabbage growers in the district are frustrated over the present low market prices. Sources said though a bumper production of cabbage has been achieved, farmers are not...
Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering on Monday phoned Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and congratulated her as her party secured absolute majority in the parliamentary elections. The Bhutanese premier phoned the...
The Jatiya Party will decide whether it will sit in the opposition bench in parliament after discussion with its allies in the Awami League-led Grand Alliance, its secretary general says....
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia has said there is no security threat over the 31st night to be celebrated tonight (Monday night). He, however, said they have taken...
Russia’s domestic security service (FSB) said on Monday it had detained an American citizen suspected of spying in Moscow. The FSB, which said the American had been detained on December...
The government repaired and reconstructed 21,000 mosques and religious establishments alongside building a 170 feet high minaret and expanded female prayer room of Baitul Mokarram national mosque during the last...
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda has rejected the BNP and Jatiya Oikyafront’s demand for fresh polls. The CEC said he had not received written complaints about the vote....
Bangladesh ODI cricket captain and newly elected member of the parliament Mashrafe Bin Mortaza on Monday said he will give priority to the development of health, education and youths. “I...
Tennis greats Roger Federer and Serena Williams will meet on court for the first time at the Hopman Cup on Tuesday when Switzerland face the USA in Perth. They will...
Severe cold wave is sweeping over Panchaghar district. Mild to moderate cold wave is sweeping over Mymensingh division and the rest part of Rangpur division, and the regions of Tangail,...
After a 10-day winter vacation, the academic activities of Comilla University (CoU) will resume on Tuesday. Earlier, the vacation started on December 22 which will end on December 31, said...
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