A bank is a financial institution that acts under the prevailing bank company act of the country and takes its licence from the central bank. Banking means what the bank...
Police recovered the body of an unidentified youth from Fatullah in Narayanganjearly Friday. Officer-in-charge (Investigation) of Fatullah Model Police Station Shah Jalal said a night guard spotted the bloodstained body...
A fire that broke out at high-rise Zaman Tower at Purana Paltan area in Dhaka on Friday was doused after two and a half hours' effort. The fire fighters doused...
A pregnant garment worker was slaughtered at her residence in Siddhirganj of Narayanganj on Friday morning. Police recovered the body of Mukta Akhter, 22, wife of Kawser Ahmed. Hailing from...
Restriction has been imposed on holding any kind of meetings, gatherings and processions from 48 hours before the start of voting and 48 hours after ending in the general election...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police assured voters on Friday that there would not be any trouble during Sunday's national election. "Tight security measures have been taken to provide a safe atmosphere for...
The Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry has taken a Tk 22.1 billion project aiming to introduce e-judiciary in the country. “The money will be allotted to introduction of digital...
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has hinted that she is considering a move into politics in the future. In an interview on the BBC's Today programme, she said she would have...
Almost 1,000 North Korean defectors have had their personal data leaked on Friday after a computer at a South Korean resettlement centre was hacked, the unification ministry said. A personal...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country and light to moderate fog may occur at places over the country during late night to morning. Mild...
Pakistan's Supreme Court has summoned former president Asif Ali Zardari, his sister and several other suspects in connection with a money laundering case. Friday's development was the latest blow to...
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has said his government is going to take a formal position on the halting arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Giuseppe Conte gave the information while...
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is considering three options for a relief package to help farmers suffering because of low crop prices at a cost of as much as 3...
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman ordered a wide-ranging overhaul of top government posts, including a new foreign minister, after the international fallout from the killing of the Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi...
Three people, including a minor boy, were killed as a cement-laden truck hit a rickshaw at Mirsharai Upazila in Chattogram on Friday. The victims were identified as Sultan, 31, from...
Professor Dr Yasushi Makihara of Osaka University, Japan called on Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor (VC) Prof Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman on Friday at his residential office of the university. Professor of...
Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will cast her vote at the Dhaka City College centre on Sunday morning. "Dhaka City College is the polling centre of the...
Bangladesh witnessed high volume of investment from both local and foreign sources over the last 10 years as the government offered a number of incentives by adopting a time-befitting industrial...
Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda has hoped that the 11th parliamentary election will be held in a festive and joyful atmosphere. "A large number of parties and candidates are...
A fire broke out at Zaman Tower at Purana Paltan area in Dhaka on Friday afternoon. Smoke was seen billowing out of the 16-storey building around 3pm, report bdnews24.com and...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 180,000 yaba tablets (worth Tk 55 million) from Moulvibazar area in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar in the early hours of Friday. Acting...
Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) is set to formally launch its ‘One Stop Service (OSS) Centre’ in January aiming to provide all the necessary services to the investors of the...
Bahrain says it will resume operations at its embassy in Syria some seven years after it shuttered its embassy in Damascus in the early days of the civil war. The...
Oil prices rebounded on Friday, clawing back some of the ground lost this week, but remained close to their lowest levels in more than a year as rising US inventories...
Indian airports will be able to use body scanners from next year and spare “clean” passengers physical frisking, the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) said. The BCAS is soon...
Chinese scientists have said they have come up with a more efficient luminescent solar concentrator (LSC), which can be made into "solar windows" that turn sunlight into electricity. Researchers at...
Serena Williams says she wants to "move on to bigger and better things" following her first match back since her controversial US Open final defeat by Naomi Osaka. Williams, 37,...
Islamic University (IU) will go into a 14-day winter vacation on Saturday. The academic and administrative activities of the university would remain closed until January 9, acting registrar of the...
An explosion at an electrical power station in New York City on Thursday evening lit up the sky with an eerie blue light - and triggered a flurry of speculation...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a 24-hour-long anti-narcotics drive arrested 26 drug suspects from different areas of the capital for selling and consuming illegal drugs. A special team of...
Celine Dion, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson and John Legend will be among a host of singers to perform at a tribute concert for the late Aretha Franklin in January, the...
Morocco's navy coast guards have rescued 367 illegal migrants in the Mediterranean, the Moroccan army said. The rescued were onboard several boats, the army added. The majority of the rescued...
The Premier Bank Limited has inaugurated its 109th branch at Nikunjo area of the capital. Mr Muhammed Ali, Advisor of the Premier Bank Limited, was present at the programme as...
Another Hindu family home has come under alleged arson attack at Thakurgaon Sadar upazila. So far, three homes belonging to members of the religious minority community were torched in Thakurgaon...
Barred by an arbitrary religious edict imposed by a local pir (religious leader), female voters of an entire union in Faridganj upazila have willingly not exercised their right to franchise...
Genia Sarkar, a 40-year-old, runs her family with her husband and two daughters. But her mood remains always pettish. Her elder daughter was born blind and she spends most of...
Thirteen shops were gutted in a fire which broke out at Satroshi Bazar in Sadarpur upazila of Faridpur early Friday. Faridpur Fire Service station officer Saifuzzaman said the fire broke...
eGeneration Limited held its 15th Annual General Meeting (AGM) in the capital recently. The board of directors, shareholders, and notable institutional investors of the leading software company attended the meeting....
The Rangpur division has witnessed massive infrastructural uplifts in the education sector for improved academic facilities spending about Tk 13.31 billion in over 4,000 educational institutions in the last ten...
President Donald Trump is considering an executive order in the new year to declare a national emergency that would bar US companies from using telecommunications equipment made by China’s Huawei...
Japan’s industrial output contracted in November and partially reversed the previous month’s gain, while retail sales slowed sharply as increasing global risks drag on demand and threaten the country’s export-reliant...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake rattled the eastern Indonesian province of West Papua on Friday, the US Geological Survey said, causing nervous residents to panic about a week after a tsunami...
The newly build airport in Istanbul will be fully operational on March 3, Turkey’s Milliyet newspaper has reported, after the $12 billion project was twice hit by delays. The airport,...
A class X student allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree after being failed to secure first position in the final examination at Ista village in Jashore’s Jhikargachha...
Nissan Motor Co plans to cut vehicle production in China by 30,000 units in the coming months, a person briefed on the matter told Reuters news agency, as global automakers...
Attacks, torture and vandalism marked the closing day of electioneering in Khulna and Cumilla districts on Wednesday. In Khulna, the house of BNP candidate of Khulna-3 constituency was attacked and...
Vietnam's national index of industrial production advanced 10.2 per cent on-year in 2018, according to the country's General Statistics Office on Friday. Main driver of the surge, the processing and...
Southeast Asian shares gained little in dull year-end trading on Friday and stared at double-digit yearly declines in a tumultuous 2018, Singaporean shares jumped. Stock indexes in Singapore, the Philippines...
Asia stocks gained on Friday after Wall Street ended volatile trade in the green, adding to the big advances of the previous session, although lingering investor jitters helped support safe-haven...
The curtain fell on the campaign this morning (Friday), 48 hours before the voting in the 11th parliamentary elections starts on Sunday morning. The restriction came into effect at 8:00am...
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