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Police arrested a Union Parishad Chairman from Choudhola bazar of Gomastapur upazila in Chapainawabganj on Wednesday night. The arrestee was identified as Shah Alam, Chairman of Chodhola Union Parishad in...
Police in a drive arrested a suspected arms trader along with a pistol at Sonatankathi in Sharsha upazila of Jashore district on Wednesday night. The arrestee Rafiqul Islam was a...
BGMEA President Md Siddiqur Rahman called on apparel makers on Wednesday for making timely payment of wages and other allowances to their workers. He also sought cooperation from all, including...
National Board of Revenue (NBR) received Tk 5.51 billion income tax on Wednesday, the second day of tax fairs that kicked off Tuesday. Tax fairs took place in a total...
The central bank has strengthened its foreign currency support to the commercial banks to settle their import payment obligations particularly for fuel-oils, officials said. As part of the move, Bangladesh...
Securities regulator has prepared a four-point formula for boosting institutional investments in bourses, officials have said. The formula includes addition of certain provisions to the Bank Companies Act to help...
An Indonesian woman whose fiancé was on a Lion Air flight which crashed into the sea has gone ahead with her wedding pictures alone, reports BBC. Intan Syari and Rio...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained a young man along with 12 gold bars weighing around 1.2kg from Putkhali border under Benapole Port Police Station on Wednesday. The arrestee...
The domestic sector in some areas of the country having piped gas connections had its supply restored tolerably. Many areas are still reeling from a crippling disruption to the supply...
Chairperson of Shuchona Foundation Saima Wazed Hossain will present two separate papers at the 5th World Autism Organisation International (WAO) Congress 2018 being held from November 12-15, 2018 at Houston...
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is calling for an immediate ban on corporal punishment worldwide in all settings including schools, homes and madrasahs. In a strong statement issued this...
SYLHET, Nov 14: A research by the academics at the Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU) says early farming of short-duration paddy could save the crop from the risk of early flood...
JHENIDAH, Nov 14: Students of Purabetai Government Primary School in Jhenidah Sadar have been attending classes in a shed made of the matting of bamboo and corrugated sheets, hampering educational...
Bangladesh has a serious lack of healthcare workforce; the situation is even dire when it comes to number of nurses. Nurse-doctor ratio for Bangladesh is the lowest in the world:...
Every year we expect Bangladesh to do better in doing business index, though unfortunately we get routinely frustrated seeing the country's pitiable performance. In the World Bank's "Doing Business Report...
While tourism and travel generates 10 per cent of world gross domestic product (GDP), it generates only 2.1 per cent of GDP for Bangladesh, says United Nations World Tourism Organisation...
Bangladesh now ranks 24th in the world for countries sending students to the United States for higher education, according to a new study. The country has got 10th place in...
The next economic crisis is closer than you think. But what you should really worry about is what comes after: in the current social, political, and technological landscape, a prolonged...
I returned last week from a trip to the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar. The Rohingya responses against the move for repatriation without creating the right environment in Myanmar...
Indian High Commission Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Wednesday said India would like to see the continuation of democratic process in Bangladesh and constitution of a government in due time through...
BizMaestros is one of the biggest business competitions of our country that sets the platform for undergraduate students to compete and apply their theoretical knowledge into real-life business problems. The...
Youth School for Social Entrepreneurs, in association with the Entrepreneurship Development Club (EDC) of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) successfully organised the third event under their initiative, Bangladesh...
Butterflies are one of the most beautiful creatures of nature. The tiny creature makes the world a little more colourful. Their vivid wing coloration and fluttering flight path lend a...
Dozens of migrants have barricaded themselves in a container ship in the Libyan port city of Misrata for the past five days, after being picked up at sea, and refuse...
President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday gave his assent to four bills adopted in the 23th session of the 10th Jatiya Sangsad, said an official release this evening. The bills are:...
The survivors are still recalling the nightmare of the devastating Cyclone Sidr that claimed hundreds lives as well as destroyed cattle, crops and dwelling houses eleven years ago. Those who...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Wednesday said attacks and setting fire to police vans in front of BNP party office were planned. “To foil the upcoming parliamentary elections, BNP...
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said the election commission and the government have so far failed to demonstrate a positive attitude for ensuring a credible election. The...
A Cumilla court on Wednesday sentenced five people to death in a case over slaughtering three people, including a minor boy, in Laksam upazila of the district in 2007. The...
US Vice President Mike Pence expressed the Trump administration’s strongest condemnation yet of Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims on Wednesday. Pence also told Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi that...
Bangladesh will emerge as the biggest driving force in the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2030 as predicted by HSBC Global Report “The World in 2030”. The country is...
A Dhaka court has fixed January 3 for hearing on charge framing against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and others in the Niko graft case. Dhaka Special Judge Court- 9 Judge...
Bangladesh declared their second innings for 224/6 and set a target of 443 runs for Zimbabwe on the Day 4 in the second Test in Mirpur in Dhaka on Wednesday....
The attack was carried out on police on Wednesday without any provocation to create an issue, said Additional Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Monirul Islam. He came up with...
Two persons were killed and three others injured as a truck collided head on with an auto-rickshaw in Sakhipur upazila of Tangail district on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as...
EE, a British mobile network operator, has announced that six UK cities will be the first to get faster 5G mobile networks. Building on existing trials, EE will turn on...
BNP’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that police have assaulted the party’s leaders and activists in front of their headquarters in Dhaka's Naya Paltan without any...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has alleged that BNP activists, led by their senior leader Mirza Abbas, attacked police 'without any provocation' as part of the party's 'plot' to...
Several South Sudanese patients suffering long time eye complications are reaping dividends of peace returning to the country following the government's decision to roll out free surgery campaign being undertaken...
Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal number two (Rpt) as the cyclonic storm ‘Gaja’ lies over southwest bay and...
Stocks slipped into the red territory on Wednesday, after a single-day break, as cautious investors went on late hours selling on sector specific issues. Market insiders said most of investors...
Tanzania is finalising draft of a bill to make it mandatory for every person to be covered by health insurance services, a senior official said Tuesday. Ummy Mwalimu, Tanzania's Minister...
US President Donald Trump has nominated a retired Army general to be the country’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, as Washington faces pressure to respond to the killing of journalist Jamal...
BNP’s senior leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has reproached the ruling Awami League for using public money and state media in campaign for national elections due in December. The senior joint...
Stan Lee, who dreamed up Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Hulk, Black Panther and a cavalcade of other Marvel Comics superheroes that became mythic figures in pop culture with soaring success...
Members of Coast Guard in a drive seized 2,30000 Yaba tablets worth Tk 110.50 million (11 crore 50 lakh) from Sera-deep of Sent Martin island in Teknaf on Wednesday. In...
US vice president Mike Pence pressed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi “multiple times” on Wednesday to pardon two Reuters journalists jailed in her country, a senior White House official...
A rare pink diamond has fetched 50.3 million Swiss francs ($50 million; £38.5 million) at auction, a record price per carat. Pink Legacy, weighing in at just under 19 carats,...
Regent Airways is offering up to 50 per cent discount on tickets on six international and four domestic routes marking its eighth anniversary. To make the travelling easier and low...
A fierce clash broke out between police and BNP leaders and activists in front of the party's Naya Paltan Central office in Dhaka on Wednesday, disrupting traffic in the areas....
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