Three people have suffered burn injuries after a petrol bomb attack on an Awami League campaign in Madam Bibirhat area of Chattogram's Sitakunda upazila. Four people were admitted to Chattogram...
The board of directors of aamra networks limited (ANL) has declared 10 per cent cash dividend for the fiscal year 2018. The approval of the dividend came during the 17th...
A total of 3,44,114 students of primary and secondary schools in Manikganj will get 29,67,081 text books free of cost on the 1st of January, 2019. Manikganj District Education Office...
A 10-member Oikyafront delegation, led by its chief Dr Kamal Hossain, have sat in a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda at Nirbachan Bhaban in Dhaka. They are...
A gauge of stocks worldwide posted an eighth straight decline on Monday as investors ignored Trump administration attempts to reinforce confidence and the US president called the Federal Reserve the...
China has reported two new cases of African swine fever outbreak in two of its provinces. China’s agriculture ministry on Tuesday reported a new outbreak of African swine fever in...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a 24-hour-long anti-narcotics drive arrested 30 drug suspects from different areas of the capital for selling and consuming illegal drugs. A special team of...
US actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenager at a bar in Massachusetts. He will appear in court on 7 January over the incident, which allegedly...
Police in Cumilla have recovered the bullet-riddled body of an unidentified young man from an embankment along the Gomti river in Debidwar upazila on Tuesday morning. Locals spotted that the...
A case has been filed against 85 people after an arson attack on an election campaign office of grand alliance candidate for Sunamganj-1 constituency in Jamalganj upazila. Local Awami League...
Some unidentified miscreants on Monday night vandalised and torched an election campaign office of Awami League (AL) in Satkhira’s Patkelghata upazila. The perpetrators hurled crude bombs first, then vandalised and...
One flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines has failed to meet its arrival schedule at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka on Tuesday. BG 092 from Kolkata was scheduled to...
Police in special drives arrested 74 people, who are accused in different cases, from eight upazilas of Satkhira district from Monday evening to Tuesday morning. Of them, 14 were arrested...
Christians in Bangladesh are celebrating Christmas Day as elsewhere in the world on Tuesday, commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. To them, the day means the celebration of rebirth, new beginning,...
At least 10 journalists were injured and 16 vehicles carrying them vandalised as some unidentified miscreants attacked them at a rest house in Kolakopa of Nawabganj upazila on Monday night....
The United States has welcomed Chinese concessions since the two declared a trade war truce in early December, but trade experts and people familiar with negotiations say Beijing needs to...
A total of 31 entities won the ICAB National Award in 10 different categories for their best presented annual reports 2017. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) distributed...
A Mexican governor and her senator husband were killed on Monday in a helicopter crash near the city of Puebla in central Mexico, the government said, just days after she...
The Bangladesh Association of Publicly Listed Companies (BAPLC) has demanded of the regulatory bodies to remove the conflicting clauses from the Corporate Governance Guidelines promulgated recently by the Bangladesh Securities...
Confidence Cement Ltd has declared 35 per cent dividend (15 per cent cash and 20 per cent bonus) for its shareholders for the year ended on 30 June, 2018. The...
The Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA) is set to miss the December deadline to build the workers' database of its member factories, sources said. As a result, workers...
The dollar fell to four-month lows against the yen on Tuesday as investors cut exposure to riskier assets as Washington struggled with a partial government shutdown and open confrontation between...
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) will not charge monthly Tk 150 per user for trading using DSE Mobile app. The DSE board of directors changed its decision after widespread criticism...
Gunmen who raided a government building in the Afghan capital killed at least 28 people - mostly government employees - and wounded more than 20 others in a seven-hour standoff...
Labour leaders of the country's readymade garment sector have again called on all agitating workers to join their work and continue the production activities peacefully. They also assured that the...
The government has approved proposals for setting up six power plants that would generate 257 megawatts (MW) of electricity from renewable sources. A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on government...
The central bank has started taking preparations to formulate its next monetary policy, giving top priority on creating employment opportunities through boosting financing in the productive sectors. The priority was...
President Donald Trump and top Democrats in Congress sparred over the partial shutdown of the US government on Monday, with no sign of tangible efforts to reopen agencies closed by...
The Planning Commission (PC) has started work on revising the Tk 1.7 trillion Annual Development Programme (ADP) amid unsatisfactory execution of the ongoing projects during last five months of the...
Speakers at a press conference expressed doubt about fair polls in the present situation. They said many voters still think that violence can take place on the days ahead as...
Across the world annual reports will have glossed over the massive bailout debts that they owe. Once in a while legislators and, in Europe, the central bank will issue friendly...
Except the keen observers, majority of people cannot often tell a smoothly passed university graduate from one not being able to cross the bar. True, the former finds a wide...
Unsurprisingly, Kuala Lumpur takes the lead in weeding out middlemen or agents from its pre-existing migrant workers' recruitment policies and practices. In a propitious combination of circumstances, one may add, ...
Bangladesh's state grains buyer issued an international tender to import 50,000 tonnes of milling wheat, officials said on Monday, as it looks to secure supplies, reports Reuters. The deadline for...
Bangladesh's foreign policy has turned almost full circle since those testy 1971 days. Battling Pakistani troops back with Indian help then structured what kind of a foreign policy trajectory the...
This month's United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) in Katowice, Poland succeeded in producing a rulebook to implement the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Every UN member state signed on. But...
We wait for summer months to enjoy mouth-watering delicious fruits, including watermelon. But it's a tricky job to spot optimally ripe watermelons. A mobile app with artificial intelligence could help...
After a prolonged honeymoon for the digital economy, the dark side of the Internet, social media, and "Big Tech" has become increasingly apparent in recent years. Online, what is good...
Two state-owned electricity distribution entities Rural Electrification Board (REB) and Dhaka Power Distribution Company Ltd (DPDC) on Monday formally signed power purchase agreement (PPA) with the state-owned Power Development Board...
Jatiya Oikyafront chief Dr Kamal Hossain on Monday said the countrymen are now united to ensure their voting rights. Dr Kamal, also the Gono Forum chief, made the remarks while...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday said Bangladesh Army does not work for any particular political party. "Army has taken positions in districts to discharge their duties for...
RANGPUR, Dec 24: Sale of warm clothes has gained momentum in the district and its adjacent areas as mercury has plummeted across the region with the wintry chill intensifying over...
SYLHET, Dec 24: Farmers in different areas of Sylhet division are busy for preparing Boro seedbeds. An official at the Sylhet divisional office of DAE said on Monday so far...
Italy’s Mount Etna, Europe’s highest and most active volcano, erupted on Monday, sending a huge column of ash into the sky and causing the closure of Catania airport on Sicily’s...
Police in Sudan have fired tear gas at football fans demanding an end to President Omar al-Bashir's rule as protests spread across the country. Hundreds of demonstrators blocked a road...
Israel is set to hold a general election in April, the ruling coalition said on Monday. The political partners decided to call the poll after failing to resolve a dispute...
The ruling Awami League on Monday urged the Election Commission to arrest BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami men, involved in attacking its activists, to ensure a peaceful polls atmosphere. A 10-member delegation...
The tsunami in Indonesia killed at least 373 people and injured more than 1,400 on the islands of Java and Sumatra, an official said on Monday. “1,459 people are injured,...
The Christian community will celebrate the Christmas Day in the country, as elsewhere across the world, on Tuesday, commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas, the biggest religious festival of...
Outgoing US Defence Secretary James Mattis has signed an order withdrawing US forces from Syria, a Defence Department spokesman said on Monday, following through on a decision by President Donald...
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