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98851. Ensuring sustainable banking practicesPublished: December 28, 2018 20:24:04

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...


98852. Youth found dead in NarayanganjPublished: December 28, 2018 20:23:24

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...


98853. Zaman Tower fire dousedPublished: December 28, 2018 20:16:25

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...


98854. RMG worker slaughtered by ‘husband’ in N’ganjPublished: December 28, 2018 18:56:49

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...


98855. Ban imposed on meetings, processions until 4:00pm, Jan 1Published: December 28, 2018 18:39:28

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...


98856. DMP assures voters safety in cityPublished: December 28, 2018 18:08:12

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...


98857. Tk 22.1b project afoot to introduce e-judiciaryPublished: December 28, 2018 18:07:34

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...


98858. Angelina Jolie considering move into politicsPublished: December 28, 2018 17:59:44

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...


98859. Hackers leak data of almost 1,000 N Korea defectorsPublished: December 28, 2018 17:52:29

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...


98860. Partly cloudy sky likelyPublished: December 28, 2018 17:49:29

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...


98861. Pakistani court summons ex-president in money launder casePublished: December 28, 2018 17:42:59

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...


98862. Italy plans to halt arms sales to SaudiPublished: December 28, 2018 17:42:17

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...


98863. Indian farmers hit by low crop prices to get aidPublished: December 28, 2018 17:33:48

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...


98864. Major reshuffle in KSA government postsPublished: December 28, 2018 17:23:07

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...


98865. Chattogram road crash leaves three deadPublished: December 28, 2018 17:12:07

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...


98866. Japanese Professor meets DU VCPublished: December 28, 2018 17:09:21

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...


98867. Hasina to cast vote at Dhaka City College centrePublished: December 28, 2018 17:09:11

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...


98868. BD witnesses high investment flow in 10 yearsPublished: December 28, 2018 17:05:59

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...


98869. CEC hopes for festive electionPublished: December 28, 2018 16:46:59

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...


98870. Fire breaks out at Zaman Tower in Purana PaltanPublished: December 28, 2018 16:19:25

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...


98871. BGB seizes 180,000 yaba pills in Cox’s BazarPublished: December 28, 2018 16:05:37

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...


98872. BEZA to launch one-stop service centre in JanuaryPublished: December 28, 2018 15:31:09

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...


98873. Bahrain to resume work at embassy in SyriaPublished: December 28, 2018 15:25:48

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...


98874. Oil prices rebound but still weak due to oversupplyPublished: December 28, 2018 15:24:19

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...


98875. Indian airports set to install body scannersPublished: December 28, 2018 15:21:05

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...


98876. New technology moves "solar windows" closer to realityPublished: December 28, 2018 15:11:02

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...


98877. Serena keen to move on from US Open controversyPublished: December 28, 2018 15:05:58

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,...


98878. IU announces winter vacation from SaturdayPublished: December 28, 2018 15:00:17

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...


98879. New York awe-struck as sky turns bluePublished: December 28, 2018 14:42:28

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...


98880. DMP arrests 26 in anti-narcotics drivePublished: December 28, 2018 14:42:08

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...


98881. Celine Dion, John Legend to perform at Aretha Franklin tribute concertPublished: December 28, 2018 14:26:36

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...


98882. Morocco's navy rescue 367 migrantsPublished: December 28, 2018 14:19:28

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...


98883. Premier Bank opens branch at NikunjoPublished: December 28, 2018 14:07:43

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...


98884. Miscreants torch another Hindu home in ThakurgaonPublished: December 28, 2018 13:58:48

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...


98885. Edict bars Chandpur females from voting since 1972Published: December 28, 2018 13:44:05

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...


98886. Govt to launch website on female mental healthPublished: December 28, 2018 13:40:59

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...


98887. Blaze at Faridpur bazar guts 13 shopsPublished: December 28, 2018 13:24:45

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...


98888. eGeneration holds 15th AGMPublished: December 28, 2018 13:15:52

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....


98889. Rangpur edn sector sees Tk 13.31b infra upliftsPublished: December 28, 2018 13:12:07

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...


98890. White House mulls order to bar Huawei, ZTE purchasesPublished: December 28, 2018 13:06:19

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...


98891. Japan factory output falls, sales slow as risks to economy risePublished: December 28, 2018 12:47:07

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...


98892. Magnitude 5.8 quake strikes IndonesiaPublished: December 28, 2018 12:40:35

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...


98893. New Istanbul airport will be fully open March 3Published: December 28, 2018 12:02:42

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,...


98894. Jashore 10th grader ‘commits suicide’Published: December 28, 2018 11:57:11

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...


98895. Nissan to cut China auto output over three monthsPublished: December 28, 2018 11:54:06

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...


98896. Violence marks closing day of electioneering in Khulna, CumillaPublished: December 28, 2018 11:47:04

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...


98897. Vietnam's industrial production up 10.2pc in 2018Published: December 28, 2018 11:46:20

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...


98898. SE Asian stocks gain in year-end tradingPublished: December 28, 2018 11:35:52

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...


98899. Asia stocks lifted as Wall Street extends comebackPublished: December 28, 2018 11:10:04

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...


98900. Countdown on as curtain falls on electioneeringPublished: December 28, 2018 11:04:04

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...