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Thailand will hold a much-delayed general election on Feb 24, pending the lifting of a ban on political activity by the junta in Bangkok by January, the Election Commission said...
NRB Commercial Bank Ltd. (NRBC) opened its 64th branch at 110, Sadar Road, Agailjhara, Barisal on Monday. Professor Syed Shahjahan, prominent social worker and educationalist inaugurated the branch. The ceremony...
High Court judges are divided over whether BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who is currently serving time in prison over graft, will be able to contest the December 30 election. The...
The Institute of Cost & Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) has awarded BRAC Bank Limited the First Position in the Private Commercial Bank Category at the “ICMAB Best Corporate...
France’s President Emmanuel Macron has announced wage rises for the poorest workers and tax cuts for pensioners in further concessions meant to defuse weeks of often violent protests that have...
Stocks nudged up in early hour of trading on Tuesday as investors are showing their buying spree on sector-wise issues. Following the previous three days’ correction, the Dhaka Stock Exchange...
The United States said it had sanctioned three North Korean officials, including a top aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, for serious human rights abuses and censorship. The...
China shares rebounded cautiously on Tuesday in thin trade as investors look to government policies to support markets and counter signs of slowing domestic growth amid a weakening of global...
Asian markets were mixed Tuesday in narrow trading on doubts that US and China can manage to resolve their festering trade dispute. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.4 per cent...
Malaysian High Commissioner in Bangladesh Nur Ashikin Mohd Taib on Monday showed her country's eagerness to make investment in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has made extensive development for which the businesses of...
Japan will provide Japanese Yen 500 million in grant for the development of primary education in Bangladesh. A signing ceremony on "Japanese Grant Aid for the 4th Primary Education Development...
A fire has broken out at a cotton mill in Noyapara of Madhobpur upazila under Habiganj district early Tuesday. The fire originated at warehouse no 3 of Saiham Texttile Mills...
Rights campaigners called on the political parties to include the right issues of migrant workers in their election manifestos to ensure their human rights. More than 10 million Bangladeshi workers...
Finance Minister A M A Muhith on Monday said the new VAT law might be fully implemented in fiscal year (FY) 2021-22. He made the comment just after a day...
The share price of National Tea Company is soaring without having any undisclosed price sensitive information. Within a month, the company's share price jumped more than 68 per cent or...
Hours after unblocking 58 news portals, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has blocked 54 of them again. Emdadul Haque, secretary general of Internet Service Providers' Association of Bangladesh (ISPAB), said...
The Japanese donor agency has finally assured Bangladesh of providing nearly US$ 4.55 billion in loans for constructing the second metro-rail in Dhaka from Airport to Kamalapur, officials said on...
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has left Dhaka for Singapore for a medical checkup. Ershad along with party presidium member Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu and his APS Manjurul Islam left Hazrat...
Overall shortfall in provisioning against loans in the country's banking system swelled by over 20 per cent or Tk 13.60 billion during the first nine months of the year. The...
None of the state-owned banks (SoBs) and financial institutions have displayed the list of top loan defaulters on their notice boards and posted the same on websites, defying a directive...
BOGURA, Dec 10: Farmers in the district are happy with the fair market prices of the newly-harvested potato. The early cultivated potato is being sold at Tk 1,600 to Tk...
RANGPUR, Dec 10: The broccoli cultivators in different areas of the district are hopeful about a plentiful yield of the vegetable in this season. This year winter vegetable growers under...
SATKHIRA, Dec 10 (UNB): The oversupply of vegetables is forcing farmers in Satkhira to sell their produces at lower prices, raising fears that they will not be able to get...
Bangladesh's second One Day International (ODI) against West Indies today (Tuesday) is set to be the 100th international match to feature the quintet of Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Mashrafe...
Theresa May says she has called off Tuesday's crucial vote on her Brexit deal because it "would be rejected by a significant margin". She said MPs backed much of the...
Election campaign is expected to begin in full-swing from Tuesday as Election Commission (EC) has opened the campaign field after completing official formalities including allocation of symbols among the candidates....
The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a timeless fairy tale. In the story, the Pied Piper was hired by the town's officials to rid the town of its rats. In...
Forty-seven long years into the independence of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Railway is still stuck in the doldrums. It had its heyday in the pre- and post-partition era, mainly up to the...
Two major developments with regard to the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate have taken place lately. Both of these reflect the Prime Minister's eagerness to see a fully functional tannery complex...
As home of one of the world's largest non-governmental organisation (NGO) in BRAC (an institution with an evolving nomenclature that is explained below), Bangladesh may also be the country that...
Leadership is an extremely complex and broad subject which can be tagged with a country, community, society or business entity. Leadership focuses on human qualities involving creation, imagination, expression, communication...
Police recovered the body of a minor boy who went missing on December 3 from a septic tank at Ghona village in Matlab South upazila in Chandpur on early Monday....
The UN Climate Change Conference (COP24) began on December 03 at Katowice, Poland. It is scheduled to continue till December 14. This conference is an important bridge between the Paris...
The fight against climate change could be reshaped in the final month of the year, with the just-completed G20 summit in Argentina followed this week and next by the United...
The world is going through a massive technological transformation. Evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, blockchain, and big data proves that the 4th Industrial Revolution is...
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has unblocked 58 websites, including some news portals. BTRC Senior Assistant Director (Media) Jakir Hossain Khan said the websites were unblocked after 5pm on...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) will get two helicopters for its Air Wing within December next year, said its Director General Maj Gen Md Shafeenul Islam here on Monday. While talking...
CFA Society Bangladesh has declared a team of North South University champion of the local final of the CFA Institute Research Challenge 2018-19. The society announced the name of the...
A touchstone statue of Hindu goddess 'Lakshmi Narayan' was recovered from the district's Baliakandi upazila of Rajbari on Monday. Police's Detective Branch made the recovery during a raid in the...
Two people were killed and seven others injured in a road accident involving two buses and a pickup at Gazaria in Nagarkanda upazila in Faridpur on Monday. The deceased were...
India's central bank governor Urjit Patel resigned on Monday citing 'personal reasons', a statement issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said. "On account of personal reasons, I have...
Dublar Char, an island in the Sundarbans, will get about 4.5 square kilometre of land as soil will be deposited in the island during the dredging of the outer bar...
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday trashed the ruling party's allegation involving their party’s link with Pakistan High Commission and ISI, saying it is a false propaganda...
Heads of missions of different European countries in Dhaka have urged all political parties to refrain from violence centring the upcoming general election. “They (envoys) urge all political parties to...
Brazilian President Michel Temer has signed a decree making official a federal “intervention” in the state of Roraima which borders Venezuela, the government’s official newspaper said on Monday. Waves of...
Iran has the ability to build ballistic missiles with a broader range, a senior commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards said on Monday. Iran’s missiles currently cover a range of...
The European Union has contributed over US$ 690,000 to support UNICEF’s work to protect the rights of children affected by migration in Bangladesh. The contribution will directly reach an estimated...
British Prime Minister Theresa May is due to make a decision on Monday on whether to delay a parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal set for Tuesday, British political correspondents...
The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has accelerated its investments in technology and is keeping the door open to strategic partnerships for technology investments. QIA's CEO Mansour Ibrahim al-Mahmoud gave the...
Over 355,000 landless and homeless families across the country will get shelters and livelihood by 2019 through one of the Prime Minister’s 10 priority initiatives -- Ashrayan Prakalpa. “A total...
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