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President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the US Supreme Court to review lower court rulings blocking a policy barring certain transgender people from military service, declining to wait for...
Tim Allen has revealed Keanu Reeves has a part in the Toy Story 4 movie. Speaking to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show, Allen, who voices Buzz Lightyear in the...
China’s Xiamen airlines said it would stop serving pork on flights from Nov 24 due to African swine fever outbreaks, CAAC News, a publication run by China’s aviation regulator, reported...
The offshore patrol vessel (OPV) "DORIA" was officially commissioned by the Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta at Mombasa Port, Kenya on November 19, 2018 after one year of delivery from Bangladesh....
Stocks ended higher last week as optimistic investors kept their appetite for large-cap issues. Brokers said most of the investors were active on sector-specific stocks throughout the week while some...
Mutual Trust Bank Limited (MTB) and mobile financial service provider, bKash Limited have recently signed an agreement allowing fund transfer by customers from MTB accounts to bKash accounts and vice...
Russia has drawn up draft legislation aimed at stopping leaks of personal information from state agencies, a step that follows publication of details of Russians allegedly involved in clandestine intelligence...
A man was killed and 20 people were injured as a bus tumbled into a ditch on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway at Natun Bazar in Nabiganj upazila on Saturday morning. The deceased...
Ramakrishna Math and Mission (RKM) is set to launch Vivekananda Sahitya Prakashan, a centre on theological literature, at its Dhaka premises on Sunday. Swami Suhitananda Moharaj, vice President of Ramakrishna...
Sugarcane crushing at Rajshahi Sugar Mills (RSM) began in Rajshahi on Friday with a target of producing 8,250 tonnes of sugar by crushing 1,10,000 tonnes of sugarcane within next 67...
Two people were killed and 24 others injured in an explosion at a machinery plant in the northern Chinese province of Jilin, the local government said on Saturday. At least...
Spain was standing between Theresa May and a Brexit deal as it threatened to derail an EU summit on Sunday if it does not get new assurances on having a...
Shoppers across the United States snapped up deep discounts on toys, clothing and electronics both online and at stores on Black Friday, giving retailers a strong start to their make-or-break...
A court has sent a teacher of Chandpur Institute of Marine Technology to jail for making disrespectful remarks on Prophet Mohammad (SM) in a Facebook post. Senior Judicial Magistrate Md...
South Korea said on Saturday it had received sanctions exemptions from the UN Security Council for a joint survey on inter-Korean rail. It is the first step towards implementing an...
US stocks closed lower in a shortened post-holiday trading session on Friday as the energy sector tumbled on continued weakness in oil prices, and the benchmark S&P 500 confirmed its...
South Korea said on Saturday it had received sanctions exemptions from the UN Security Council for a joint survey on inter-Korean rail. It is the first step towards implementing an...
The once-promising export-oriented frozen fish sector is fast becoming moribund with 54 per cent of the total processing plants closed down over the years. Most of the remaining facilities are...
When G20 world leaders met for the first time in 2008 their mission was a desperate one - to rescue the global economy from the worst financial crisis in more...
Gunmen raided a town deep in Libya’s southern desert, killing six, the municipality said on Friday, adding that it believed the militant group Islamic State was responsible. A military source...
Bangladesh is likely to get nearly US$ 2.0 billion additional assistance from the World Bank (WB), as the latter has decided to divert unutilised funds from other member states to...
The insurance gap in Bangladesh relative to its GDP is the highest in the world, which poses a major economic risk for the country in case of a catastrophe, warns...
Prices of riverine fish further increased last week despite glut in supply. Broiler chicken and some winter vegetables, however, showed a slight decline during the period. Prices of most varieties...
Most of the listed pharmaceuticals companies saw a rise in the earnings for July-September period this year, thanks to higher expense on healthcare. Of the 15 pharmaceuticals companies listed with...
The UN Migration Agency on Friday opened two healthcare units inside a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has set up the medical units...
The excess liquidity in banks dropped by nearly 15 per cent or Tk 140 billion in September mainly due to higher growth of currency outside banking system before the national...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday interacted with a diverse group of youth and listened to their dreams, hopes and aspirations about future Bangladesh. Demonstrating a strong sense of...
The cabinet nod to the dredging of 470 kilometres (kms) of river routes to facilitate Bangladesh-India water transit and trade comes as a welcome relief. The waterway earmarked for dredging...
Afghan parents are selling their children to feed family members after a four-year drought wiped away their harvest and forced them from their homes in the western city of Herat,...
Vigilance is the price of liberty, as the saying goes. It is about individual liberty which, unless guarded jealously, will be encroached upon by others. Here others are competitors or...
Bangladesh is highly appreciated for bringing down the use of open space toilets closer to zero. While open defecation is largely visible in India, the opposite is true for Bangladesh. ...
Financial inclusion has emerged as a global hot topic over. For the last few years, financial inclusion has dominated public discourse. The exclusion of a large part of a nation's...
Since the assumption of power by Awami League (AL) in 2009, the General Economics Division of the Planning Commission (GED) presented to the nation two Five Year Plans and a...
While labour and raw material offer limited growth opportunity, technology opens up an endless frontier of growth. The invention of the steam engine started the 1st industrial revolution followed by...
One of the oldest questions doing the round in developing economies is why doesn't Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) continue to flow in to countries where macroeconomic fundamentals are doing well....
Agriculture is the major economic activity in Bangladesh. But this economic activity has been on the decline for the past few decades due to depletion of arable lands to non-agricultural...
Cash waqf, is categorised as a special type of endowment which is different from the ordinary real estate waqf. Its original capital, asl al-mal or corpus consists, fully or partially, ...
US stocks fell at open on Friday as energy stocks took a hit from oil prices sliding to their lowest in more than a year, while investors were nervous ahead...
Impersonation can be just a fun but at times a most serious business. In Chhadmabeshi, a comedy, mahanayak (super hero) Uttam Kumar plays the role of a taxi driver at...
Economic diplomacy is one of the most important appliances through which governments serve their national interests. Apparently, a developing country's multilevel system of economic interests in the global economic expanse...
Violence against women is considered as a persistent, serious and extensive 'global pandemic' nowadays and takes place in every society. Declared by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in December...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith said in Parliament recently citing data of the Credit Information Bureau (CIB) of the Bangladesh Bank available until June last that the number of loan defaulters...
The 14-party alliance led by Awami League (AL) has alleged that BNP and Jatiya Oikyafront are trying to make next general election questionable. Leaders of the alliance also urged the...
Migrants are entitled to the same human rights and protections as anyone else, said IOM Regional Director Argentina Szabados at the inaugural Asian Human Rights conference that ended on Friday....
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday at the start of a tour of several Arab countries. This visit is his first...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-2 on Friday arrested four active members of international gold smuggling gang from capital’s Kalyanpur area and recovered 56 gold bars weighing around seven kilograms. “Acting on...
The newly-constructed railway station in Khulna will start its operation from Saturday. Railway officials said Dhaka-bound Chitra Express train will left the railway station around 8:40am on Saturday, reports BSS....
China on Friday urged the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to close loopholes and correct practices by some member states that damage global trade, warning of a “profound crisis” facing the...
Bangladesh suffered an early jolt losing 5 wickets for 55 in the 2nd innings on day-2 after dismissing West Indies for 246 in the first innings in the first Test...
A suicide blast at a mosque in an army base in eastern Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 26 people and wounded 50, security officials in the area said, although...
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