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Ten activists of Awami League (AL) were injured in a clash between two factions of the party at Samair village in Savar on Monday. Locals said Sajib, a local AL...
President Abdul Hamid on Monday congratulated Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on her party's third consecutive win with absolute majority in the 11the national election. Secretary to...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a special anti-drug drive on Monday arrested three suspects from different areas of the city for selling and consuming contraband substance. A special team of...
Jatiya Oikyafront, BNP and 20-party alliance are going to hold separate meetings to discuss their next course of action In the wake of a massive debacle in the 11th parliamentary...
Dozens of people were killed in the eastern Philippines in a weekend storm that set off landslides and flash floods as the country prepared for the New Year, officials said...
Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda has said the voter turnout in the 11th national parliamentary election was 80 per cent. KM Nurul Huda gave the information at a press...
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang on Monday extended their heartfelt congratulations to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on securing her party's absolute majority in the 11th parliamentary...
Rejecting the results of the national election, Jatiya Oikya Front has demanded reelection under a non-party caretaker government. Dr Kamal Hossain, the convener of the opposition alliance, made the demand...
Taliban representatives from Afghanistan arrived in Tehran on Sunday and started peace negotiations with Iran, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman has said. The talks are designed to set parameters for negotiations...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has warned Awami League activists to not get carried away after their victory in the polls and to refrain from behaving badly with political...
US Senator Lindsey Graham said on Sunday he was optimistic that Republicans, Democrats and President Donald Trump could reach a deal to end a government shutdown that includes border wall...
Iraq’s prime minister said on Sunday that top security officials from Baghdad had met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, and hinted at a bigger Iraqi role fighting Islamic State...
An Awami League leader, who sustained injuries during a clash between Awami League and BNP activists in Godagari upazila on Sunday, died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) early Monday....
The main opposition camps in Congo’s presidential election on Sunday complained of widespread irregularities after a chaotic vote disrupted by long queues, broken voting machines and torrential rain. Voting in...
South Korea’s central bank chief said in a New Year’s message on Monday that policy should remain accommodative next year as demand-side inflation pressures were expected to remain low. “For...
The number of British citizens applying for Irish passports rose by 22 per cent in 2018, Ireland’s foreign office said on Monday, more than doubling the total of annual applications...
Oil prices climbed on the final trading day of the year on Monday, mirroring gains in stock markets, but were on track for the first yearly decline in three years...
The textbook festival will be celebrated across the country on Tuesday, marking the distribution of free textbooks among the students of schools and madrasa. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid will...
A teen in Norway was forced to call the police for help after getting locked inside a car he was trying to steal. Luckily for him, cops were able to...
Veteran Indian actor Kader Khan's son Sarfaraz has said that his father has been admitted to a hospital in Canada, dismissing media reports of his demise. "It is all a...
A group of foreign and local observers on Monday termed the just-held 11th national election a free and fair that maintained the international standards. They said voters could cast their...
Google is celebrating New Year's Eve with an animated playful doodle which shows two purple baby elephants wearing a yellow and a green party cap each. The baby elephant on...
Hussain Muhammad Ershad’s Jatiya Party (JP) is set to emerge as the main opposition in the parliament again as the party has won the second largest number of seats in...
A total of 2,826 people died as a result of infectious diseases in China in November, according to statistics released by the National Health Commission. There were 636,722 cases of...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on her re-election as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. "The Indian Prime Minister phoned his counterpart Sheikh Hasina...
An official survey shows China's manufacturing activity contracted in December, adding to pressure on Beijing to reverse an economic downturn amid trade tension with Washington. The purchasing managers' index issued...
Manchester United caretaker manager Solskjaer says he is not solely focused on "attacking football" after the Red Devils scored their 12th goal in three games in a scintillating victory over...
Trading and official activities on both bourses resumed tomorrow (Tuesday) after a four-day vacation, officials said. The trading on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) will...
At least two people were killed Monday in a suspected gas blast which hit an apartment building in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk in the Ural Mountains, reports Xinhua citing...
Malaysia's producer price index (PPI) for local production decreased 2.9 per cent year-on-year in November, according to the Malaysian Statistics Department. The official statistics said in a statement on Monday...
Secondary trading of the government's fixed income securities declined drastically in the outgoing calendar year, according to the latest statistics of the central bank. It showed that the value of...
Movement of containers between Chittagong port and other parts of the country remained suspended from early hours of Sunday, the day of general election, despite no official restriction on the...
Southeast Asian stocks rise in narrow trading on Monday as a phone call between US and Chinese leaders spurred hopes that the two economic heavyweights would reach a deal that...
US-based online retail giant Amazon is planning to expand its Whole Foods Market portfolio by adding more stores to put more customers within its two-hour delivery service range, according to...
Asian shares crept higher on Monday as hints of progress on the Sino-US trade standoff provided a rare glimmer of optimism in what has been a rough year-end for equities...
The inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first ten months of the outgoing year, 2018, witnessed a moderate rise as was indicated initially. The full data of FDI...
The market cap to GDP (Gross Domestic Product) ratio, which reflects the depth of the capital market, marginally rose in the premier bourse at the end of 2018. But the...
Share trading through DSE-mobile app continued to rise as the number of users of the application rose 62 per cent year-on-year in 2018. The number of active users of the...
Sheikh Hasina is set to be prime minister for the third straight term as her ruling Awami League-led Grand Alliance clinched a landslide victory securing more than two-thirds majority in...
One more a year passed with sluggish growth in deposits in the banking system, though different measures were taken by the government and the central bank to improve the situation....
Awami League-led Grand Alliance candidates were unofficially declared elected in 288 constituencies while Dr Kamal-led Jatiya Oikyafront, of which BNP is the main component, came out successful only in seven...
A satellite in space, the launch of 4G service and the advent of local handset assembling are some of the highlights from 2018 for Bangladesh in telecoms, and information and...
Classified loans in the agriculture sector increased slightly in the five months to November, notwithstanding close monitoring by the central bank, official said. The amount of non-performing loans (NPLs) lent...
The 11th parliamentary elections ended on Sunday, with sporadic violence and boycott by around 50 opposition candidates halfway through the polling. At least 16 people, including an Ansar member, were...
Unlike many other megalopolises in advanced countries, Dhaka City presents a changed face not just on a daily basis but almost in every passing hour. So unpredictable are its changes...
It has become more of a routine affair for the public sector agencies to seek recurrent hike in cost of development projects and extension of the deadline for their execution....
Discourse on cruelty to and sexual abuse of domestic helps -- mostly underage poor girls -- has remained partial and flawed. Society's double standard could not be more conspicuous here....
Awami League candidate Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Sunday was unofficially won Rangpur-6 by a huge margin. The speaker of the 10th parliament bagged 2,34,426 votes in all 107 polling...
SYLHET, Dec 30: Cultivation of different crops in addition to Boro paddy during the current Rabi season has increased as the farmers are showing more interest in the diversified crops...
Amid the Christmas meltdown, the Dow Jones plunged to less than 22,000, the lowest since September 2017. Thereafter, it soared over 1,000 points; the biggest single-day point gain ever. Nevertheless,...
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