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The United Kingdom has condemned recent political violence in Bangladesh and laid emphasis on a democratic election slated for December 30. "We urge all in Bangladesh to refrain from further...
The Election Commission has ordered the authorities not to allow Rohingyas outside the refugee camps for three days during the parliamentary election to prevent the abuse of the Myanmar nationals...
Police in a special drive arrested 77 people from different upazilas of Satkhira district from Friday night to Saturday morning for being accused in different cases and on charges of...
Colombian armed forces killed Marxist insurgent commander Walter Patricio Arizala in an operation aimed at ending his attacks on civilians after he kidnapped and shot dead three Ecuadorean media workers...
Police have arrested a man and a woman after rogue drone operators crippled London’s Gatwick Airport for three days by repeatedly flying onto the airfield, sparking a major security response....
Mastercard, in association with Daraz Bangladesh Limited, has announced the winner for ‘Win Trip For Two To Singapore’ campaign for November 2018, which aims to drive digital payments on Daraz....
A woman believed to be dead appeared in front of police on Thursday after her family conducted her funeral in the northern Indian city of Patiala in Punjab. Police were...
The board of directors of Rangpur Foundry Ltd (RFL) has declared 23 per cent cash dividend for the year 2017-2018. The approval of the dividend came at the 38th Annual...
Unidentified miscreants’ hurled a petrol bomb on an election rally of the ruling Awami League in the Muktagaccha municipality of Mymensingh district on Friday night. One person, Anwar Hossain, was...
Mohammad Idris, the designer of the national emblem of Bangladesh, passed away on Saturday. He suffered a heart attack at his Basabo residence in Dhaka in the morning and died...
Iran on Saturday executed a businessman sentenced to death by a fast-track court set up to fight economic crimes, state television reported, following an outcry against profiteering and corruption that...
Field level development activities of silk are progressing successfully with the aim of bringing back its lost glory through revitalising the sector across the country. Bangladesh Silk Development Board (BSDB)...
The White House on Friday laid out objectives for trade talks with Japan, setting the clock for them to begin as early as Jan. 20, as the administration seeks to...
Pakistan is planning to ease visa restrictions for visitors from 55 countries, including most European nations, in a bid to revive tourism that was devastated by Islamist violence in the...
Cuba's economy is expected to expand 1.5 per cent in 2019 after a 1.2-per cent growth in 2018 which is below the government's previous forecast of 2.0 per cent, the...
An Extra-Ordinary General Meeting (EGM) of Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS), the apex ICT trade association was held recently in the city. The EGM took place...
Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-09 has successfully landed in Kazakhstan, bringing back the three astronauts who have completed their missions on the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian mission control centre...
A car bomb exploded in the city centre of Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday, police said, causing huge clouds of smoke to rise above the city, followed by a second...
A bus carrying college students and their instructors back from a botany field trip drove off a highway in a mountainous area on Friday, leaving 21 dead and 15 injured,...
Comic actors Will Ferrell and John C Reilly reunite on the big screen on Christmas in the film “Holmes & Watson,” a spoof of the famous stories about the legendary...
Chattogram port city suffers from severe traffic congestion. An intolerable situation prevails on all working days except Fridays and Saturdays. Traffic gridlocks are witnessed even during late hours of night....
The United States has agreed to help South Korea send flu medication to North Korea, a South Korean official said on Friday, after the United States said it would help...
Two young men have been killed after a tractor collided with a motorcycle in Thakurgaon’s Ranishongkoil. The accident took place near Gazirhat Degree College at around 9:00pm on Friday, said...
British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Friday that two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar on charges of breaking the country’s Official Secrets Act were innocent and that Britain had...
Bikroy.com the largest marketplace of Bangladesh, announced the winners of #ILoveBangladesh story writing competition on the occasion of the Victory Day. The prize-giving ceremony was organised at the head office...
Two truck drivers have been killed and two others injured after a road accident in Gazipur. The accident occurred on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway near the Square Pharmaceuticals factory in Kaliakoir...
Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina arrived in Sylhet this morning in the second leg of her election tour. A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight carrying Sheikh Hasina landed...
A worker was killed while another severely injured after falling off from a crane while working at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) project in Pabna’s Iswardi upazila on Friday. The...
Liverpool will spend Christmas on top of the Premier League after goals from Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk earned them a 2-0 win at Wolves on Friday, opening up...
Canadian main stock market fell for a fourth day in a row Friday due to lower health and oil prices while the Canadian dollar weakened to a 19-month low. The...
Two local Awami League leaders were injured as miscreants blew off a crude bomb in front of AL's election campaign office at Rohanpur in Chapainawabganj on Friday night. The injured...
India has authorised 10 federal government agencies to intercept and monitor information from any computer, a move opposition parties said on Friday risked creating a “surveillance state”. The interior ministry...
World stock markets continued a week-long sell-off on Friday as the threat of a US government shutdown. MSCI’s index of global equities fell 1.5 per cent, dragged down by broad...
The US government was partially shut down early on Saturday in a fierce dispute over President Donald Trump’s demands that Congress assign $5 billion for a wall along the border...
Stocks posted a marginal gain last week that ended on Thursday, as smart investors collected shares despite growing political tensions in the run-up to the national election. Week-on-week, DSEX, the...
The 37th annual general meeting (AGM) of Titas Gas Transmission & Distribution Company was held at the Officers' Club in Dhaka on Thursday. Abu Hena Md Rahmatul Muneem, Secretary of...
Yellow vest protesters, who have blocked roads across France and fought running battles with police since mid-November, will march in the former royal city of Versailles on Saturday in their...
The board of directors of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has recommended 5.0 per cent cash dividend for the fiscal year (FY) 2017-18, although its net profit fell nearly 16 per...
The United States joined Canada on Friday in calling on Beijing to release two Canadians detained in what are widely believed to be tit-for-tat arrests related to the high-profile detention...
The lengthy process of sending home the dead bodies of migrant workers from abroad just adds to the agony of their family members. In most cases, families wait for up...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested three suspected drug traders along with 1038 pieces of yaba pills from Pirojpur in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj on Friday...
Operating costs of local airlines have increased this year due to a rise in jet fuel price and devaluation of taka, aviation industry insiders said. To help sustain the local...
The World Bank (WB) is likely to adopt a new reference rate from next year in calculating the interest of its high-cost loans, officials have said. Presently, the interest rate...
A company, on an average, has to spend around 435 hours to comply with tax payments each year in Bangladesh, according to a recent global report. The length of time...
China, the world's top oil importer, is set to start 2019 buying little or no crude from the United States despite a three-month truce in a trade scrap between the...
Notwithstanding some marked progress in women empowerment, Bangladesh still has a long way to go to ensure broader safety of women and children. Public transport is one of the areas...
Like the two Eids in a year, the five-yearly national election in Bangladesh is a festive occasion unless, of course, it is not marred by violence or otherwise. We can...
Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan applauded the batsmen after registering a stunning win over West Indies on Thursday at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium to level the three-match T20I series, reports...
The wintry bite as of the past is fast becoming mellower. Climate experts may ascribe this dropping intensity of cold to factors like global warming. But the winter has not...
The UN's major donors - led by the United States - have long been accused of influence-peddling and misusing their financial clout not only to grab some of the high...
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