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A total of 154 listed companies increased their capital by over Tk 35.57 billion through issuing stock dividends in the outgoing year, 27 per cent up from the previous year....
More Americans blame President Donald Trump than congressional Democrats for the partial US government shutdown, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday, as the closure stretched into its sixth...
The 3G and 4G mobile internet is back after a 10-hour blackout ahead of the national election. The data services resumed at around 8:00 am on Friday following a directive...
Biman Flight Catering Centre (BFCC) is expecting to exceed its profit target this year following growing demand for its food both in Biman and foreign carriers, a senior Biman official...
The prices of both chicken and egg increased further last week which traders attributed to a rising demand of the commodities ahead of the national election and New Year. The...
Amid fear of chaos before and after the national polls, a significant number of foreigners left Bangladesh, leaving occupancy rate in upmarket hotels and guest houses in the capital to...
Nine banks including state lenders suffered a total capital shortfall of over Tk 190.63 billion in the third quarter (Q3) of this calendar year as growing classified loans sapped their...
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has moved to upgrade and rehabilitate 22 more bridges in the country's western zone to manage a Japanese assistance given for the purpose, officials...
Bangladesh has the potentials of earning an additional amount of $17.4 billion from the global market with its existing export capacity, of which $11.4 billion can come from the European...
The capital market ended 2018, a gloomy year for it, as the core index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) suffered a 14 per cent loss amid lack of investors'...
It is dangerous to mix politics with ideology. Whereas, politics is the art of statecraft, ideologies spring from deeply held values nearly as old as human civilisation. They are distilled...
The concentration of 99 per cent of world's wealth in one per cent of its inhabitants has made screaming headlines -- and genuinely so. That the 99 per cent of...
The just published results of both the Junior School Certificate (JSC) including its equivalent examinations and the Primary Education Completion Examinations (PECE) together with its equivalent exams have registered marked...
The police arrested three leaders of the Jubo League and the Shechha Shebok League and produced them to court on Thursday in connection with the attack on BNP Dhaka-3 candidate...
SYLHET, Dec 27: Boro paddy cultivation has started in all the four districts of Sylhet division as farmers began transplanting seedlings in the main cropland from seedbeds. An official at...
JHENIDAH, Dec 27: Maize cultivation is expanding in the district for its popularity among the farmers. Every season cultivators make handsome profit from the crop amid favourable weather condition. The...
Thousands of Taiwanese, taking a page from France's yellow vest movement, protested on Thursday for the third time in a week to demand lower taxes and the fair handling of...
Equal rights for women and affirmative action for promoting gender equality are guaranteed in the Constitution of Bangladesh. According to the Constitution, all citizens are equal before law and are...
The deaths of three brilliant figures in the country's field of the arts in a gap of little over a fortnight is hard to endure --- especially on the part...
Prime Bank South Zone clinched the Bangladesh Cricket League (BCL) first class title for the fourth time on Thursday, crushing BCB North Zone by nine wickets. They achieved the feat...
Shipments of liquefied natural gas (LNG) into Northeast Asia have risen to a record in December, mainly driven by China's continued gasification push, and as the region faces colder-than-usual temperatures...
Typical 'Asian Century' characterisations stem from one of its key countries, or more, standing out in a global setting. That causal force has usually been economic competitiveness. In its heydays...
Miscreants torched an election campaign office of Awami League (AL) candidate for Meherpur-2 constituency at Bholadanga village in Gangni upazila early Thursday. Harendranath Sarker, officer-in-charge of Gangni Police Station, said...
A total of 188 foreign observers from nine international organisations and a dozen foreign missions in Bangladesh and 56 foreign journalists are set to observe the upcoming polls. Revealing this,...
The Bangladesh Bank has imposed restrictions on mobile financial services during the polls on the Election Commission’s instruction to avert influence of money on votes. The central bank has asked...
Apple Inc will begin assembling its top-end iPhones in India through the local unit of Foxconn as early as 2019, the first time the Taiwanese contract manufacturer will have made...
Awami League president and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said opposition BNP appeared to have sensed their defeat in the December 30 elections which could led them to sabotage...
Eden Hazard reached a century of goals for Chelsea to inspire them to a 2-1 victory over Watford in Wednesday's Premier League clash. The Belgium star moved onto 101 for...
The largest online school of the country, Robi-10 Minute School (www.robi10minuteschool.com), has celebrated the milestone achievement of having 1.3 million people on its Robi-10 Minute School LIVE group on Facebook...
Journalists covering the December 30 national election will be able to use motorcycles, the Election Commission announced on Thursday. The EC withdrew the ban on motorcycles a week after imposing...
Election Commissioner Brig Gen (retd) Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury on Thursday said the Armed Forces personnel will act only when police, RAB and BGB members fail to control any untoward situation...
Members of joint forces morning arrested three people along with an AK 22 automatic rifle, three rounds of ammunition and four Chinese knives during a drive at Farua under Bilaichhari...
BNP on Thursday claimed that 12,588 opposition leaders and activists were injured in around 2,716 incidents of attack across the country during electioneering in last 22 days. Besides, eight leaders...
Jatiya Oikyafront chief Dr Kamal Hossain on Thursday said December 30 will be another victory day of the nation Oikyafront will win the election through a ‘ballot revolution’. "We won...
Jatiya Party (JaPa) Chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad on Thursday has announced that he is pulling out of the Dhaka -17 election race after returning from Singapore. The JaPa chief confirmed...
The High Court on Thursday cleared the way for 25 Jamaat-e-Islami leaders to contest the 11th parliamentary elections as it declined to direct the Election Commission to treat the Jamaat...
The unusual cold weather is disrupting normal life in Rajshahi and its adjacent areas for the last couple of days as the difference between maximum and minimum temperature was further...
Two men were arrested with petrol bombs from Chattogram city's Khulshi area in the early hours of Thursday. They detainees are Md Jabed, 40, and Md Ruhul Amin, 41, said...
Within a decade and three years, Bangladesh is set to enter the league of top 25 largest economies of the world, according to an international projection unveiled Thursday. It projects...
The government and the UNDP signed an agreement to implement a $33 million project, aiming to build adaptive capacity of women. Monowar Ahmed, ERD secretary, and Sudipto Mukherjee, UNDP's country...
A cold wave is settling on Bangladesh ahead of the Dec 30 national parliamentary election. The lowest temperature recorded across the country on Wednesday was 7.4 degrees Celsius in Rajshahi....
French judges have dropped a long-running investigation into the shooting down of a plane carrying the former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana. His death in 1994 was a trigger of the...
Stocks ended on Thursday, the last trading session of this year, with a positive note as investors continued their buying appetite on selective large-cap stocks. Market insiders said the investors were...
Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) has begun excavation and re-excavation works of five rivers at a cost of Tk 1.5 billion in five upazilas of Panchagarh district. Deputy Commissioner of...
Agricultural Marketing Company Limited (AMCL PRAN) has declared 32 per cent cash dividend for its shareholders for the year 2017-2018. The approval of the dividend came during the 33rd Annual...
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has opened a Facebook page titled 'RAB - Cyber News Verification Center' to make people aware of false news and rumours surrounding the upcoming general...
The Russian government on Wednesday approved a draft bill allowing the country to produce crops used in medicinal narcotics, saying this would reduce its dependence on foreign states that have...
Traffic Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Wednesday realised Tk 2.5 million in fines from traffic offenders in the city. Besides, a total of 4,420 cases were also...
A two-day long international conference on “Innovation in Engineering and Technology (ICIET)” has begun at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban Auditorium of Dhaka University (DU) from Thursday. Vice-Chancellor of...
The Access to Information (a2i) Programme of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has won nine international awards in different categories and a national award this year for various digital innovations....
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