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99601. Former Trump adviser Flynn to be sentenced for lying to FBIPublished: December 18, 2018 14:42:07

A judge will decide on Tuesday whether former national security adviser Michael Flynn should be sent to prison for lying to the FBI in a case stemming from the investigation...


99602. Oil prices drop for third session as oversupply worries dragPublished: December 18, 2018 14:29:49

Oil prices fell more than $1 on Tuesday, dropping for a third session as reports of growing inventory and forecasts of record shale output in the United States stoked worries...


99603. S Korean fire dept recovers bodies of three teens from motelPublished: December 18, 2018 14:27:26

South Korean fire department officials say three teenage boys were presumed dead and seven other boys were being treated for injuries after they were found unconscious at a motel in...


99604. UK economy likely to hit nine-year lowPublished: December 18, 2018 14:07:07

British economic growth this year and in 2019 looks set to be the nine years low, due to a freeze in business investment and weak consumer demand ahead of Brexit,...


99605. Japan to buy more stealth jets, radar to counter China, RussiaPublished: December 18, 2018 14:04:31

Japan will accelerate spending on advanced stealth fighters, long-range missiles and other equipment over the next five years to support US forces facing China’s military in the Western Pacific, two...


99606. EC asks Italy to cut €2.5-3b to clear budget with EUPublished: December 18, 2018 13:53:33

The European Commission (EC) has asked Italy for a further €2.5 billion-€3 billion ($3.40 billion) in savings before approving the country’s 2019 budget, Corriere della Sera daily reported on Tuesday....


99607. US petroleum exports jumps in recent years: EIAPublished: December 18, 2018 13:34:47

The petroleum exports of United States have increased in recent years, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a report on Monday. The EIA said in its latest Petroleum...


99608. DMP detains 26 drug suspects in DhakaPublished: December 18, 2018 13:30:56

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a special anti-drug drive arrested 26 people from different areas of Dhaka city for selling and consuming illegal drugs. A special team of DMP, comprising...


99609. BHBFC pays tribute to freedom fightersPublished: December 18, 2018 13:29:04

Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation paid tribute to the valiant freedom fighters on the Victory Day by placing wreaths at the National Memorial at Savar and to the portrait of...


99610. Indian shares break five-day rallyPublished: December 18, 2018 13:27:31

Indian shares halted their five-day rally on Tuesday, amid concerns that global economic growth was weakening and as investors booked profits after five straight days of gains. The losses came...


99611. Jeff Bridges to receive lifetime achievement awardPublished: December 18, 2018 13:23:08

Oscar-winning actor Jeff Bridges will receive a lifetime achievement award at January’s Golden Globes ceremony for his wide range of work, from Western “True Grit” to comedy “The Big Lebowski,”...


99612. BNP promises higher GDP growth in polls manifestoPublished: December 18, 2018 13:03:36

BNP rolled out its election manifesto for the 11th parliamentary elections on Tuesday with a set of promises, including making democracy its everyday practice, building a revenge-free Bangladesh and raising...


99613. HC rejects appeals to restore Khaleda’s nominations for pollsPublished: December 18, 2018 13:02:34

The High Court has rejected three petitions to restore Khaleda Zia’s nominations for three parliamentary races in the Dec 30 polls. As a result the BNP chairperson is blocked from...


99614. AL will come to power again, Quader hopesPublished: December 18, 2018 12:48:23

Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday expressed hope that his party will be elected again in the upcoming national election slated...


99615. Court frees Salvadoran woman jailed under anti-abortion lawsPublished: December 18, 2018 12:36:41

A Salvadoran woman accused of the attempted murder of her newborn baby under the country’s strict abortion laws after she was raped by her stepfather was freed by a court...


99616. Poacher to watch Disney film in prisonPublished: December 18, 2018 12:32:47

A poacher in US has been ordered to watch the Disney film Bambi repeatedly after he was convicted of illegally killing "hundreds" of deer. Missouri hunter David Berry Jr must...


99617. RHD now can keep record of its 98pc landPublished: December 18, 2018 12:17:03

Roads and Highways Department (RHD) is now able to put 98 per cent of its own land on record after its three-year efforts, officials said. RHD owns a total of...


99618. Asian shares follow Wall Street lowerPublished: December 18, 2018 11:59:39

Asian stocks slipped on Tuesday, tracking losses on Wall Street as traders braced for an interest rate hike by Federal Reserve. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index was 1.2 per cent lower...


99619. Stocks advance amid political tensionsPublished: December 18, 2018 11:46:41

The prices of most of the shares on bourses witnessed positive trend in early hour of trading on Tuesday as some investors are active on sector-wise issues amid lucrative price...


99620. Stroking babies 'provides pain relief'Published: December 18, 2018 11:45:09

Gently stroking a baby reduces activity in their brain associated with painful experiences, a study has found. The study, by University of Oxford and Liverpool John Moores University, monitored the...


99621. Voting underway in Jatiya Press Club electionPublished: December 18, 2018 11:36:05

Voting to elect the new managing committee of the Jatiya Press Club is underway in Dhaka city on Tuesday. The voting began at 9:00 am and will continue until 5:00...


99622. Turkish national among two dies in Rajshahi road mishapPublished: December 18, 2018 11:31:50

A Turkish national and a pick-up van driver were killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Rajshahi highway at Senbhag in Puthia upazila on Monday night. The victims were identified as...


99623. Jeremy Corbyn tables Theresa May no-confidence motionPublished: December 18, 2018 11:24:43

Jeremy Corbyn has tabled a motion of no confidence in Theresa May, after she said MPs would not vote on her Brexit deal until the week of 14 January. The...


99624. Russia ‘used social media for widespread meddling in US politics’Published: December 18, 2018 11:23:33

Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election on social media was more widespread than previously thought and included attempts to divide Americans by race and extreme ideology, said reports...


99625. Twitter warns of ‘unusual activity’ from China, Saudi ArabiaPublished: December 18, 2018 11:09:00

Twitter has warned of ‘unusual activity’ from China and Saudi Arabia related to a bug in a help form. The bug - discovered on 15 November and fixed the day...


99626. In manifesto, AL promises urban facilities in rural areasPublished: December 18, 2018 10:51:24

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday rolled out her party’s 21-point manifesto with various pledges, including expansion of urban facilities to villages and creating huge jobs...


99627. Grain import plunges 75pc on bumper rice outputPublished: December 18, 2018 10:49:33

The country's food-grain imports plunged by over 75 per cent to US$ 386 million during the first quarter of this year in terms of letters of credit (LCs) opened after...


99628. CVO production suspended for 15 daysPublished: December 18, 2018 10:41:47

The production of CVO Petrochemical Refinery remains stopped for 15 days due to scheduled maintenance and machinery up-gradation work. The company's maintenance and machinery up-gradation work will be executed as...


99629. Small footwear makers need low-cost fund to flourishPublished: December 18, 2018 10:39:59

Despite having immense potential, footwear manufacturing business in Bhairab cannot flourish at the desired level, largely due to lack of both low-cost fund and technical assistance, according to insiders. If...


99630. Overseas jobs for BD workers witness sharp fall this yearPublished: December 18, 2018 10:34:23

Bangladesh celebrates the 'International Migrants Day 2018' today (Tuesday) amid substantial fall in overseas jobs and soaring costs of migration. The day is being observed, as also elsewhere in the...


99631. Petrobangla to count capacity payment for few more weeksPublished: December 18, 2018 10:24:11

Petrobangla is unlikely to utilise the full capacity of the floating LNG import terminal and its re-gasification facility before next few weeks due to the scarcity of imported LNG. But...


99632. J&J moves to limit asbestos report impactPublished: December 18, 2018 10:12:50

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) on Monday scrambled to contain fallout from a Reuters report that the healthcare conglomerate knew for decades that cancer-causing asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder, taking...


99633. BD decides to cancel Dhk-Ctg rail projectPublished: December 18, 2018 09:58:14

The government has decided to scrap the Dhaka-Chattogram high speed rail line project as China complained that the signing of a MoU on the scheme between Bangladesh Railway (BR) and...


99634. BB eases farm loan policyPublished: December 18, 2018 09:51:54

Bangladesh Bank (BB) issued a fresh rescheduled policy on short-term agriculture loans on Monday aiming to boost production through facilitating farmers across the country, officials said. Under the policy, the...


99635. Vegetarians and vegans  Published: December 17, 2018 22:19:00

Years ago a Bangladeshi-origin London resident surprised his deshi guest at the dining table when the dishes served were found to be all vegetarian. Accustomed to sumptuous meat preparations and...


99636. Streamlining the election dynamics  Published: December 17, 2018 22:13:16

In this country in the past, precisely from the mid-1950s onwards, 'vota-vuti' (colloquial Bangla for election) had been integral to the list of its many social festivities. The East Bengal...


99637. Expressway network: The vital missing link  Published: December 17, 2018 22:06:00

We have been constantly wrestling with two intertwined issues revolving around the country's roads- and- highways infrastructure in a collective sense. The first one is to keep pace with the...


99638. The article that changed historyPublished: December 17, 2018 21:53:32

Anthony Mascarenhas's "Genocide" article, published on June 13, 1971 in the Sunday Times of London, was a game-changer. Until then, only first-hand observers would use 'genocide' to describe what they...


99639. Can we punish the hate provocateurs for genocide?Published: December 17, 2018 21:49:48

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines Xenophobia as fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign. Thus, one need not necessarily be a foreigner or...


99640. Corporate responsibility in transport sectorPublished: December 17, 2018 21:48:39

On November 28, 2018, BBC news reported that a bus operator in Birmingham, England has been fined around £2.2 million for failing to carry out corporate responsibility as evidenced from...


99641. Expanding bicycle export marketPublished: December 17, 2018 21:42:33

Export diversification, as an economic strategy, has not yet been successful enough. Policy-level discrimination is often cited as a major cause for this.  Exporters believe that supporting policies are more...


99642. Jatiya Press Club election TuesdayPublished: December 17, 2018 21:17:20

The election to the Jatiya Press Club managing committee will be held on Tuesday. The voting to elect the new managing committee of the club for the 2018-19 tenure will...


99643. Sweet potato cultivators expecting bumper outputPublished: December 17, 2018 21:10:14

JOYPURHAT, Dec 17: Due to favourable weather conditions and timely supply of necessary agri-input, sweet potato farmers are expecting a bumper output in the district.Experts said sweet potato is vitamin-A,...


99644. Deviated person can give nothing to nation: PMPublished: December 17, 2018 21:04:38

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said those who have got deviated from ethics and ideology can give nothing to the nation. Without naming anybody, the Prime Minister said, "None can...


99645. MU face PSG, Liverpool face BayernPublished: December 17, 2018 20:51:03

Manchester United will face Neymar and Paris Saint-Germain in the last 16 of the Champions League, while Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp must tackle German opposition in the form of Bayern...


99646. AL calls Oikyafront’s manifesto a jokePublished: December 17, 2018 20:40:48

The Awami League has described the promise mentioned in Jatiya Oikyafront's election manifesto to continue the trial for war criminals as a joke to the nation. Joint general secretary of...


99647. West Indies blows away Bangladesh in first T20iPublished: December 17, 2018 20:38:12

West Indies have started the T20I series against Bangladesh with a comprehensive 8-wicket win in Sylhet. After winning the toss and electing to bat first, Bangladesh failed to set a...


99648. HC blocks four nominees from competing in electionPublished: December 17, 2018 20:20:38

Four BNP-nominated Upazila chairmen who sought to compete in the parliamentary election have been blocked from entering the race by a series of court orders. Dhaka-20 candidate Tamiz Uddin, Bogura-3...


99649. Turkey may start new Syria operation at any momentPublished: December 17, 2018 19:17:32

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country may start a new military operation in Syria at any moment. Erdogan made the comments during a speech in the central...


99650. Euro rebounds ahead of Fed meetingPublished: December 17, 2018 19:00:00

The euro recovered nearly half a per cent from recent lows on Monday as the dollar slipped, with traders reluctant to push the US currency much higher before the Federal...