At least 39 people were killed and 40 others injured in a suicide car bomb attack at a hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Friday, police said on Saturday. “We...
Cricketers Shakib Al Hasan and Mashrafe bin Mortaza will collect nomination papers of ruling Awami League on Sunday for contesting the upcoming 11th parliamentary election. They confirmed the matter to...
Raheem Sterling has signed a three-year contract extension at Manchester City, committing him to the club until 2023 in a deal worth up to £300,000 a week. The 23-year-old England...
One flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines has failed to meet its arrival schedule at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Saturday. A flight from Muscat was scheduled to arrive at...
Eastern Bank Ltd. (EBL) Women Banking jointly with SME Foundation organised a “SME Business Management Training for Women Entrepreneurs” in Chouhatta, Sylhet recently. The 4-day training programme was participated by...
American and Chinese scientists developed a single device that can collect heat from the sun and coldness from the outer space simultaneously. The study published on Thursday in the journal...
Apple Inc said it had found some issues affecting some of its iPhone X and 13-inch MacBook pro products and said the company would fix them free of charge. The...
Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) has received two prestigious global awards - “2017 Best issuing Bank Partner-South Asia” and “2017 Best Trade Operations Bank Partner-South Asia” from international Finance Corporation (lFC)...
BRAC Bank Limited and Daraz Bangladesh Limited have signed a memorandum of understanding to provide banking services to E-Commerce sellers who sales their products on Daraz.com.bd platform. With...
The latest Fantastic Beasts film The Crimes of Grindelwald has earned mixed reviews from critics. It has a number of three-star reviews with suggestions that the plot is "overburdened" with...
US researchers found that immune cells cause cholesterol to be trapped in blood vessels, thus putting people with autoimmune diseases such as psoriasis, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis at high risk...
Mexico's industrial activity grew 1.0 per cent in September compared to August, its largest increase in nine months, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) has said. The growth...
A suspected drug trader was killed in a reported gunfight with police in Cox’s Bazar in the early hours of Saturday. The trader was identified as Ziaul Bohir Shahin, 30,...
For Nurul Amin, a Rohingya Muslim living in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, the days since learning he and his family were among a group of people set to potentially...
Heavy rains and flooding killed at least eight people in Jordan and forced authorities to evacuate more than 3,700 tourists from the ancient city of Petra on Friday, officials said....
The main accused in the murder case of special public prosecutor Rathish Chandra Bhowmik died at Rangpur Medical College Hospital in police custody on Saturday. The deceased was identified as...
Police arrested five outsides along with cannabis from the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) in Sylhet on Friday. The arrestees are Soyab Ali, Milon Miah, Moinul Miah, Saleh...
Two teenage boys were run over by a vehicle and killed amid a clash between two factions of the Awami League in the Adabor area of Dhaka’s Mohammadpur. The dead...
A suspected drug trader stabbed a policeman with a sharp weapon in a chase during a drive in Sylhet on Friday. The victim was identified as Assistant Sub-inspector Abdul Mannan...
Global stocks were on pace for their biggest drop in two weeks while oil prices weakened again on Friday and soft Chinese data hit demand for risky assets. US stocks...
A woman was allegedly killed on a moving bus in Dhaka’s Ashulia, while her father was thrown from the moving vehicle onto the road on Friday. Ashulia Police Station SI...
Bangladesh will start exporting processed jackfruit products to the EU countries early next year, which experts believe will diversify the country's export basket. Presently, the national fruit is shipped abroad...
Shaheed Noor Hossain Day, commemorating the martyrdom of a young pro-democracy activist during the anti-Ershad movement in the late 80s, is being observed on Saturday. Different socio-cultural and professional organisations...
Wall Street fell Friday as a combination of weak economic data from China and disappointing earnings hurt technology and internet companies. Crude oil prices fell for the 10th day in...
Police arrested a former councillor from his house at Mollagram under Golapganj upazila in Sylhet on Friday evening on charges of planning to commit acts of sabotage. The arrestee was...
At least nine people have been killed and more than 150,000 evacuated as two big wildfires rage in California in the United States, officials say. Five people of the dead...
The government has taken an initiative to bring infrastructural reforms in the Internal Resources Division (IRD) and create new units at the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to boost revenue...
Stocks finished flat last week, after remaining down in the past three weeks, as investors mostly followed cautious stance ahead of national elections. Market insiders said most of the investors...
The United States is halting refuelling of aircraft from the Saudi-led coalition engaged in Yemen, the United States and Saudi Arabia said on Friday, ending one of the most divisive...
Twelve more listed companies and two mutual funds have recommended dividend last week for the year ended on June 30, 2018, according to separate official disclosures. The companies are: Meghna...
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) chief representative for Bangladesh Hitoshi Hirata said Japanese entrepreneurs see Bangladesh as the most attractive investment hub. Terming Bangladesh a centre of development, he emphasised...
Bangladesh for the first time in its 47 years of history defaulted on servicing any external debt and faced penalty. Officials said this happened in the case of much-touted Bangabandhu...
Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus on Friday said the circular economy and social stock market will lead to a new civilisation. "Instead of greed-driven stock market, there will be social...
A growing number of Bangladeshi businesses are becoming concerned about protectionism worldwide despite maintaining a positive outlook on global trade for the coming years, according to a survey of HSBC....
Bangladesh will seek US$4.0 billion more funds from the World Bank (WB) the global lender's replenishment meeting next week in Zambia, officials have said. Besides, it will request the Washington-based...
First the early cherry blossoms and now the disappearance of an island -actually an islet -- off the northern coast of Japan! The disappearance of the island follows the obliteration...
Generally the situation of children in conflict with the law, with special focus on girls is because of relative powerlessness of poor communities. Socially excluded children regularly come into conflict...
The recent 48-hour strike, enforced countrywide by road transport workers, has caused an outcry among many-with rights activists putting the blame partly on the state because of its inaction to...
Bangladesh, one of the developing countries, continues to make significant efforts to improve governance. Despite successes in many important areas, institutionalisation of democratic governance has not progressed that much in...
The Prime Minister's recent promise to set up five more medical universities in the country if her party is re-elected to power appears to be reassuring. People concerned about the...
Mainly there are two types of migration - external and internal. Internal migration can be rural-rural or rural-urban. In recent years, rural-rural migration has diminished while others have increased. Until...
That renewable energy isn't attracting Public Private Partnership is a sign that though the economy has been on course to the middle-income status, the mind set hasn't. Without fossil fuel...
Donald Trump heads to Paris to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the truce that ended World War One, surrounded by more than 100 heads of state, all of whom have...
On September 25, 2015, leaders of 193 countries of the world unanimously adopted the post-2015 international development agenda for the period of 2015-2030, popularly known as Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)....
Amidst the success of the Paris Agreement in committing towards a sustainable environment and the breakthrough in handling the refugee crisis in Europe, the year 2015 gained momentum when 12...
Train communications on Naogaon route was suspended on Friday following derailment of a compartment in Shahagola area of Atrai upazila. Saiful Islam, station master of Ahsanganj Rail Station, said a...
US President Donald Trump has signed an immigration proclamation, an order that would help effectively ban migrants who cross the US border with Mexico illegally from qualifying for asylum. The...
Financial ratios are the key to understand how a company performs. We will discuss five valuable financial ratios that every investor must know. Many of us probably heard about some...
Eid-e-Miladunnabi, the day of birth and demise of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad SM), will be observed in the country on November 21 (Wednesday) as the moon of Rabiul Awal was sighted...
In a unique move, Department of Traffic of Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP), has set a replicable example in digitising the traffic management system to protect citizens from harassment and immense...
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