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Eminent film director Amjad Hossain has died at the age of 76 in a Bangkok hospital. Amjad suffered a stroke in November and was put on life support in a...
The number of prisoners stood at 89,097 as of December 14, 2018, according to the Prisons Directorate under the Ministry of Home Affairs. Of the total number of prisoners, 17,147...
Career-best bowling figures from Mehidy Hasan restricted West Indies to only 198 for 9 in the deciding third ODI against Bangladesh. His 4 for 29 engineered a mid-innings batting collapse...
Amazon has teamed up with police in the US in an effort to stop thieves who steal parcels left outside homes. Officers in New Jersey are planting dummy boxes fitted...
Dr Kamal Hossain was visibly angry when he was asked about his position on the Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamist party that openly opposed Bangladesh’s struggle for freedom from Pakistan. Kamal, 81,...
Keith Richards, the hard-partying lead guitarist of the Rolling Stones, has quit drinking - almost - saying he “just got fed up with it.” “It’s been about a year now,”...
An influential US Congressman has said the United States stands with the Bangladeshi people seeking free, fair and safe democratic elections but cautioned that Islamist groups like Jamaat-e-Islami pose a...
Nearly 30 million babies are born prematurely or become sick every year and of those 2.5 million die, mostly from preventable causes, a global coalition of concerned organisations said in...
Investment funds should be supervised at a European, rather than national levels, because a crisis there would be felt across the region, the vice president of the European Central Bank...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in special anti-drug drives arrested 27 suspects from different areas of Dhaka city for selling and consuming illegal drugs. They also recovered 299 pieces of yaba...
A US passenger plane travelling from Seattle to Dallas was forced to turn back hours into its flight because a human heart had been left on board. Southwest Airlines says...
Two people have been killed after a covered van hit a motorbike at Agargaon area in Dhaka city. The accident took place near the children’s theme park Shishu Mela in...
Experts at a workshop in the city have called for raising awareness among people, especially the youth section of society, to prevent cyber crime and extremism in the country. There...
A suspected drug pedlar was killed in a reported shootout with police in Cox’s Bazar in the early hours of Friday. The dead was identified as Yusuf Bahadur, 32, son...
Turkish authorities have issued detention warrants for at least 219 soldiers over their alleged links to a network blamed for a coup attempt in 2016. The suspects, all on active...
Growth in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, will slow in the coming years, the Bundesbank said on Friday, cutting its forecasts in a biannual review after a string of disappointing data...
Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South African, vowed on Thursday night to root out widespread corruption that has left several state-owned enterprises in need of government bailouts. Amid criticisms that cash-strapped...
More than one-fourth brick kilns in Khulna district are operating illegally as 45 of them did not renew their licences, the Department of Environment (DoE )'s Khulna office said. Sources...
Adobe Systems on Thursday reported a 22.8 per cent rise in quarterly revenue, helped by higher subscriptions for its flagship Creative Cloud suite of software that includes Photoshop. The San...
Bangladesh flower market has reached Tk 12 billion (142.86 million US dollars), according to the Bangladesh Flower Society. Abdur Rahim, President of the Bangladesh Flower Society, said that about 3.0...
Jatiya Oikyafront chief Dr Kamal Hossain's motorcade came under attack near Martyred Intellectuals Memorial at Mirpur in Dhaka while returning after paying tributes there on Friday morning, leaving at least...
The US Senate delivered a rare double rebuke to President Donald Trump on Saudi Arabia on Thursday, voting to end US military support for the war in Yemen and blame...
At least seven people were killed and three others injured after a vehicle carrying them fell into a gorge in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said Friday. The accident took place in...
Traffic Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Wednesday realised Tk 2.818 million in fines from traffic offenders. A total of 4,827 cases were also filed against different modes...
US import and export prices both dropped in November, US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has said. The bureau said the import price saw the largest monthly drop since August...
China's value-added industrial output, an important economic indicator, expanded 5.4 per cent year on year in November, official data showed Friday. The growth rate was 0.5 percentage points lower than...
Two flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines from United Arab Emirates (UAE) have failed to meet their arrival schedules at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka on Friday. BG 148...
A man was killed while 20 people were injured in a clash between two groups of people at Noagaon village under Baniachang upazila in Habiganj on Thursday. The deceased was...
At least four people were killed and five others injured after being hit by an overhead girder of Hardinge Bridge while travelling on a train roof at Pakshi in Ishwardi...
Japan’s Nikkei fell on Friday morning, led by SoftBank , Fast Retailing and other large-cap stocks, hit by a dull estimate for a futures and options expiry and worrisome Chinese...
The US House Committee on Foreign Affairs has declared it genocide in Myanmar as its military and security forces unleashed a targeted campaign against the Rohingya people. Mentioning killing unarmed...
Asian shares tumbled on Friday after China reported weaker-than-expected economic data, stirring up worries about the state of the world’s second largest economy. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index slid 1.7 per...
European Union leaders gave Prime Minister Theresa May assurances on Thursday that they would seek to agree a new deal with Britain by 2021 so that the contentious Irish "backstop"...
Eight out of 12 national/regional and international waste water operators showed interest to invest in Bangladesh's CETP (central effluent treatment plant) projects, a survey has shown. Of 12 operators, three...
Meat became pricier last week after remaining almost stable for about two months. Onion, ginger, and potato prices, however, showed a slight decline during the period while most of other...
Thirteen listed companies came under the scanners of the premier bourse, as they failed to 'declare' any dividend in the last five years in violation of the listing regulations. The...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday again trashed the remarks on plundering of Tk 225 billion from the banking sector in a decade, terming it politically motivated. "The information revealed...
The public subscription of Esquire Knit Composite will open on January 06, as the company is set to raise a capital of over Tk 562 million through IPO. The initial...
Some 93 per cent remediation of the Alliance-affiliated factories has been completed, including 90 per cent of the items that are most critical to life safety. Besides, a total of...
High volume of construction material import main factor Siddique Islam The overall import for industrial sector grew by over 10 per cent in the first quarter (Q1) of this fiscal...
After five years of its framing, transfer pricing law has started showing results, contributing additional taxes worth Tk 100 million. At least seven multinational companies (MNCs) paid income taxes through...
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday paid rich tributes to the martyred intellectuals on the occasion of the Martyred Intellectuals Day. First the President and then...
The securities regulator has asked a listed company --Pacific Denims --to return to its own account a part of the fund it had mobilised through the initial public offering (IPO)...
There is no greater virtue than self-preservation. A nation that feels deprived of its rights and privileges may not have the inborn instinct for freedom because disparate individuals have their...
Development of entrepreneurship among women is not easy. The process is arduous and in a less women-friendly social environment, it is even more challenging. Happily, some highly educated women of...
Army will be deployed for 10 days from December 24 in the forthcoming national election slated for December 30, said Election Commission Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed on Thursday night. "The...
Oil prices steadied on Thursday, under pressure from high inventories but buoyed by a drawdown in US crude stockpiles and indications that the trade war between the United States (US)...
At least two Israelis have been killed and two injured in a shooting in the occupied West Bank, after Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in separate operations overnight on Wednesday....
Amid repeated predictions about the disastrous impact of the global climate change came yet another prophecy of doom. The dreadful warning of David Attenborough, the British naturalist, 92, at the...
Statistics can never fully capture the length, breadth, and depth of intellectual loss. As in the case of the 1971 martyred intellectuals, they become but silent and solemn spectators of...
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