Misinformation, as opposed to disinformation, was chosen Monday as Dictionary.com's word of the year on the tattered coattails of "toxic," picked earlier this month for the same honour by Oxford...
A construction worker died after falling off the rooftop of an under-construction building in Chandpur district town on Monday. The deceased was identified as Alamgir, 35, son of ObaidUllah of...
Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort breached his plea deal by lying to federal investigators, according to a court filing on Monday, in a potential setback to the special...
A suspected robber was killed in a reported gunfight with Detective Branch (DB) of Police on Jashore-Chougaccha road at Dogachia Bazar in Sadar upazila early Tuesday. The deceased was identified...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has asked Argentina to use a war crimes clause in its constitution to investigate the role of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s in possible crimes...
Jack Ma, the head of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and China’s best-known capitalist, is a Communist Party member, the official Party newspaper said on Monday, debunking a public...
General Motors Co says it will cut production of slow-selling models and slash its North American workforce because of a declining market for traditional gas-powered sedans, shifting more investment to...
Carlos Ghosn, the former chairman of Nissan Motor Co, shifted personal investment losses incurred during the 2008 financial crisis to the automaker to avoid millions of dollars in losses himself,...
IFAD Auto inaugurated the largest commercial vehicles service center in the country on Monday at its own industrial area at Madanpur in Bandar thana of Narayanganj. IFAD launched the commercial...
The real wage growth in Bangladesh declined to 3.0 per cent in 2017 after showing an upward trend in the previous two consecutive years, according to a latest report of...
The government has finally set the minimum monthly wage for entry-level workers in the readymade garment (RMG) industry at Tk 8,000. The ministry of labour and employment published the gazette...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive arrested a man along with 94,000 Indian rupee from Baliaghat border in Tahirpur upazila of Sunamganj on Monday. The arrestee was...
A local company has recently made a shipment of Lukluki (coffee plum) for the first time which, experts believe, will help diversify the country's export basket. The traditional fruit Lukluki,...
Three years after its enactment, a move has been taken to amend the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Act for incorporating a new concept in it facilitating government-to-government (G to G) investment...
The market prices of around 90 per cent units of closed-end mutual funds (MFs) are below their face value as investors' participation in trading is thin. The prices of most...
Md. Shakil Rizvi, managing director of Shakil Rizvi Stock Limited, has been elected president of the DSE Brokers Association (DBA) for the next two-year term. Mr. Rizvi, who had been...
It has to be said that amid the chortling rumbustiousness of glee the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has just missed a one-off opportunity to add to their tax-payer list....
The spectacular, yet somewhat fraught, 100th anniversary of the end of the World War-1 was commemorated globally on November 11. The venues included Paris, London, Canberra, Wellington, and New Delhi....
It is called activism, not campaign, against gender-based violence. The activism spanning 16 days from November 25 - the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to December...
Barcelona striker Luis Suarez has been ruled out for two weeks with a knee injury as Ernesto Valverde's squad continues to be pushed to its limits. Suarez will require stem...
It's almost always cold in Churchill, Manitoba, a remote coastal community on Hudson Bay in Canada's subarctic region. Today (November 26), a month before winter officially begins, it's -25 degrees...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a subject of headline news for a quite while. Google's AlphaGo's success in beating a human professional Go player on a full-sized board game created...
The UBICO has sponsored an eye camp for Rohingya refugees in cooperation with the Resource Integration Centre (RIC) under its corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme, says a statement. Dr. S....
One of the key themes shared by the narratives of rapid economic rise of Japan, South Korea, China, and the Asian Tiger economies, has been the expansion of global trade....
China may have spawned a second East-West conflict through two flanks: its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an economically-driven ice-breaking global leadership announcement; and its South China Sea politically/militarily-designed island-construction....
A two-member election expert mission representing the European Union (EU) arrives in the city on Tuesday to monitor the situations before and after the national election scheduled on December 30....
The Election Commission has asked the authorities concerned to monitor the social media round-the-clock to check the propaganda and rumours ahead of forthcoming national election. The commission gave the directives...
RANGPUR, Nov 26: The growers of aromatic rice under Rangpur and Dinajpur districts are optimistic of achieving an excellent yield of crops during current season. According to Department of Agriculture...
NAOGAON, Nov 26: Farmers of Badalgachi Upazila under the district are happy over the good yield of winter vegetables. Cauliflower, cabbage, bean, brinjal, tomato, carrot, cucumber, bottle gourd, white gourd,...
Kuwait’s central bank has issued regulatory guidelines for companies wishing to experiment with new financial technology products and services, it said on Monday. Kuwait’s regulatory testing framework, known as a...
The Maldives Supreme Court on Monday cancelled 13-year jail sentence awarded for former president Mohamed Nasheed after a review of the controversial terrorism conviction. The top court said the island...
Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian director of Last Tango in Paris and The Last Emperor, has died in Rome, aged 77. Born in Parma in 1941, his other films included The Conformist,...
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has said around 3.8 million tax returns were submitted this year. The minister gave the information on Monday while submitting his tax return through...
Former Awami League MP Golam Maula Rony formally joined BNP on Monday. He joined the party at a simple ceremony at BNP chief's Gulshan office in the evening, reports UNB....
Sevilla scrambled to the top of La Liga with a scrappy 1-0 victory at home to Real Valladolid on Sunday, moving one point clear of champions Barcelona. Pablo Machin's side...
BNP on Monday alleged that Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda has lost the moral ground to stay in office after Awami League nominated his nephew as its candidate...
Electronic voting machines (EVMs) will be used in Dhaka-6 and 13, Chattogram-9, Rangpur-3, Khulna-2 and Satkhira-2 constituencies in the forthcoming general election as picked by the Election Commission. The Commission...
The United Arab Emirates on Monday pardoned and released British academic Matthew Hedges jailed for life on spying charges. The academic secured the pardon as the UAE granted a request...
Four Turkish soldiers were killed and another wounded on Monday when a military helicopter crashed in a residential area in Istanbul during a training exercise. The helicopter went down in...
The European Union’s executive urged Russia on Monday to release three Ukrainian ships it seized at the weekend near the Crimean peninsula that it annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The...
Turkish police are carrying out inspections at a villa in a north-western province in relation to the investigation into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The state-run Anadolu news...
Jukto Front Chairman and Bikalpadhara President AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury held meetings with foreign diplomats on Monday at his residence in Baridhara of Dhaka. Badruddoza first met with Chinese diplomats at...
Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal of Dhaka framed charges against eight militants on Monday in a case filed over the attack on Gulshan’s Holey Artisan Bakery two years ago. Judge of the...
The last meeting of the cabinet will be held on December 3 before the 11th parliamentary election slated for December 30. According to bdnews24.com, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made the...
The cabinet has approved in principle the draft of 'The Company (amendment) Law, 2018' incorporating a provision allowing formation of a 'one-man company'. The approval was given at the weekly...
Stocks rebounded amid the political tensions on Monday after volatile trading as investors were mostly followed cautious stance. Dealers said a section of investors closely eyeing on the political front...
BNP standing committee member Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah filed an appeal on Monday against a lower court order that recently sentenced him to three years imprisonment in a graft case....
La Liga champions Barcelona were dealt a serious double injury blow on Sunday as midfielder Rafinha was practically ruled out for the season after tearing cruciate knee ligaments and defender...
A housewife died from electrocution at Kanungopara in Boalkhali upazila of Chattogram on early Monday. The deceased was identified as Kanika Dey, 20, wife of Sujit Dey. Family sources said...
United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB) organised a strategy meet and budget session for 2019 named “Seize the Goal” at BCDM, Savar recently. Management of the Bank focuses on setting the...
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