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The bodies of two slain Honduran migrant youths were found in the Mexican border city of Tijuana over the weekend, officials said on Tuesday, in a sign of the dangers...
At least 11 members of a family received burn injuries in a fire that was ignited reportedly from gas line leakage in Haq Bazar of Fatullah in Narayanganj on early...
The government revenue earnings from the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) fell 19 per cent month-on-month in November this year on the back of falling trade volumes. Market insiders said sluggish...
Aramit Limited, a unit of Aramit Group, a Chittagong-based leading industrial conglomerate of the country has approved 50 per cent final cash dividend for the year ended on 30th June,...
Accounting professionals in Bangladesh and across the world need to adopt new technologies to cope with the ever changing business environment, said a top official of a global body for...
Top ten traded companies captured more than 24 per cent turnover of the prime bourse on Tuesday. Meghna Life Insurance Company topped the list. According to statistics available with the...
Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) expressed its grave concern over 'rampant attacks on and harassment of' the opposition party candidates, contesting in the 11th general election due on December 30. The...
The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has long been hamstrung by capital shortfall, making it difficult for the agency to carry out timely market intervention, officials said. Supply of key...
Majority of the tea plantation workers in the country are being deprived of their rights mainly because of legal bottlenecks and irregularities in government monitoring agencies, a study has revealed....
The government has now taken a move to dredge the main channel of Payra port on a test basis, officials said. It will carry out dredging to check the siltation...
That the government agencies are incapable of delivering designated services due to their incompetence and lack of coordination has again been proved in the case of an important energy sector...
There is hardly any argument that among the many hazards affecting the environment, brick making is one that not only adversely affects the ecosystem but more significantly leaves a ruinous...
Hot on the heels of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have recently become a global watchword. The MDGs had become a hype in the media...
Challenges and vulnerabilities of the banking industry are amongst the major newspaper headlines. Especially, the volumes of non-performing loans (NPL) and governance issues have become key concerns. Even questions are...
When it comes to foreign investment in the country the emerging elements from trade talks and discussions almost always range from political stability, policy continuity and infrastructure. That that is...
Emmanuel Macron and Imran Khan have one thing in common and plenty adrift in between. They have difficult decisions to take to fix economies that went south due to bad...
The 'Doing Business' report is an annual publication of the World Bank Group since 2003. It publishes the ease of doing business index of a country, after ranking it in...
RANGPUR, Dec 18: The peasants in five districts under the Rangpur agriculture zone are passing busy time preparing Boro seedbeds.While visiting different areas in the district this correspondent found that...
The theory that people use only 10 per cent of their brains has been dismissed as a myth. Still most people are willing to embrace it as a truth as...
JHENIDAH, Dec 18: A total of 1,523 homeless families in the district have got houses free of cost under Prime Minister's Ashrayan Project II.The total allocation for the construction of...
TANGAIL, Dec 18: Officials at the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office in Tangail and growers are expecting a bumper mashkalai or black gram yield this season. DAE official sources...
As representatives from more than 100 countries debated climate change in the COP24 - the 24th UN climate change conference - held in Katowice, Poland, the outcome could only be...
The panel, led by Saiful Alam of the Daily Jugantar and Farida Yasmin of the Daily Ittefaq, swept the election to the executive committee of the Jatiya Press Club held...
The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday fixed a budget of Tk 2.7183 billion for five forces who will be deployed to maintain law and order during the parliamentary polls. They...
The annual financial accounting of the country's scheduled banks will be closed on December 27 instead of December 30. The Bangladesh Bank took the decision as the 11th parliamentary election...
US Ambassador in Dhaka Earl R Miller has said his country encourages all to participate in the democratic and electoral process in Bangladesh avoiding violence as the national election is...
Green Delta Insurance has taken an initiative titled ‘Supreme Celebrity’ on the occasion of the Victory Day. The ‘Supreme Celebrity’ is aimed at making a digital selfie archive with freedom...
US President Donald Trump has warned the Federal Reserve not to “make yet another mistake” ahead of an expected interest rate hike. Trump made the remarks on twitter on Tuesday...
Renowned drama and film director Saidul Anam Tutul passed away at a city hospital on Tuesday. The 68-year-old freedom fighter, who had long been suffering from heart related complications, breathed...
Khanqah-e-Shaheed (Quddesa Sirrahul Aziz) Mia Saheb's Maidan Khanqueh Sharif at Luxmibazar in the old city of Dhaka observed the 878th holy Fateha-e-Yazdaham of Bara pir Hazrat Gawsul Azam Shaikh Syed...
Police in special drives arrested 53 people from eight upazilas of Satkhira from Monday evening to Tuesday morning. Of them, 13 were arrested from Sadar upazila, 9 from Kolaroa upazila...
The BNP has avoided the issue of war crimes trials in its election manifesto, which was announced on Tuesday ahead of 11th parliamentary election. The party's manifesto did not make...
The government on Tuesday honoured 178 businesspersons with Commercially Important Person (CIP) cards for their outstanding contributions to the economy of the country in 2016. Among them, 137 received the...
More journalists were killed, abused and subjected to violence in 2018 than in any other year on record, with those in the profession facing an "unprecedented level of hostility," a...
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda on Tuesday once again claimed that there is a level-playing field for the forthcoming 11th parliamentary elections billed for December 30. "A congenial...
A case was filed in Kushtia against BNP candidate for Kushtia-4 constituency Mehedi Ahmed Rumi and a Tanti Dal leader under the Digital Security Act over their reported audio clip...
The High Court has ordered the Election Commission to resolve within three days a plea to bar 25 Jamaat-e-Islami leaders from contesting in the election. Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam and...
The Election Commission (EC) has directed the Public Administration Ministry to declare December 30 as a general holiday for the 11th parliamentary elections. A letter signed by the EC Joint...
The authorities of Islamic University (IU) on Tuesday appointed two female provosts to Deshratna Sheikh Hasina Hall and Bangamata Fazilatunnesa Mujib Hall of the university. The provosts are Prof Selina...
The ground reality shows that the Election Commission (EC) has, so far, miserably failed to ensure a conducive atmosphere for holding a free and credible election. Experts came up with...
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has left the club with immediate effect following a dismal start to the season, the Premier League side announced on Tuesday. United have made their...
Around 5,000 hectares of land have been brought under potato cultivation in the current Rabi season in Panchagarh district. The farmers are seen busy over nurturing their potato fields. They...
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) must take tough measures to put pressure on Myanmar to end atrocities against the Rohingya people. "We...
Bangladesh Accreditation Board (BAB) is going to introduce a new internationally recognised accreditation guideline for giving certificates to the interested local and multinational companies. The information came on Tuesday from...
Stocks backed to the positive zone on Tuesday, snapping a seven-day losing streak, as some investors showed their buying binge on lucrative price level of issues. Analysts said although the...
United Commercial Bank Limited has opened its 186th branch at Sharaf Bhata area in Chattogram. Asifuzzaman Chowdhury, Director of UCB inaugurated the branch today (Tuesday), according to a press statement....
The Traffic Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Monday realised over Tk 2.092 million in fines from traffic offenders. In simultaneous drives on the city streets conducted on...
A 63-year-old man has been arrested from Dhaka’s outskirt Savar for spreading anti-state rumours and propaganda through social media platforms. A team of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit...
A total of 1016 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed in different parts of the country, including the capital, ahead of the national election slated for December...
Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to continue hoisting the local cautionary signal number three as a well-marked low is persisting over the Northwest...
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