WASHINGTON, Nov 03 (AP): Wheat markets were slightly higher for the week, spending a lot of time testing harvest lows before finally catching a bid.After last week's late rally on...
The Hong Kong film producer Raymond Chow - who introduced martial arts legend Bruce Lee to the world - has died at the age of 91. Their first film together,...
At least three people were killed while another severely injured in separate road accidents in Jhenaidah and Manikganj districts on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Al-Amin, 45, son of...
President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday congratulated Bangladesh Under-15 national football team for clinching the trophy of SAFF under-15 championships tournament by beating Pakistan. In...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said the world opposes every decision made by US President Donald Trump. “The world opposes every decision made by Trump,” Khamenei said during...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday criticised BNP and Jatiya Oikyafront for announcing programmes for movement when the dialogue is going on and said their this stance is incomprehensible to...
Police detained 10 protesters from Shahbagh area in Dhaka on Saturday when they tried to form a rally demanding extension of age limit to 35 from 30 for entering the...
Jatiya Oikyafront has formally requested the Election Commission to announce the schedule for 11th parliamentary election after the conclusion of ongoing dialogue. Dr Kamal Hossain, on behalf of the alliance,...
Bangladesh footballers have won the SAFF Under-15 Championship beating Pakistan. After the game was tied at 1-1, the Bangladesh boys held their nerve in tiebreakers to snatch their victory, reports...
Traffic division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in their simultaneous drives on the city streets on Friday filed 2,874 cases against different modes of vehicles for traffic rule violation....
An Australian nun who angered the Philippine president by joining anti-government protests used her final hours in the country Saturday to call on Filipinos to unite and fight human rights...
BNP has announced a two-day programme marking November 7 to observe what it said the 'civil-military uprising' on the day of 1975. Senior joint secretary general of the party Ruhul...
Hundreds of passengers were stuck in a five-km tailback stretched from Daudkandi toll plaza to Shaheednagar in Cumilla on Dhaka-Chattogram highway. The tailback ensued on Friday and was persisting till...
Russia said on Saturday that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had agreed to send a group of senior politicians to peace talks in Moscow, at which a delegation representing the Taliban...
Police have recovered the beheaded body of a man in Sylhet on Saturday morning. The victim was identified as Sultan Miah, aged 30 years, son of Alkas Miah of Durga...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said that strict actions will be taken against any attempt to create anarchy after the announcement of election schedule. The minister came up the warning...
A total of 372 homeless families have got new houses in Jibannagar upazila of Chuadanga district. “The houses were built in seven unions and one pourasabha of the upazila through...
A small island, called Esanbe Hanakita Kojima, has unexpectedly vanished off Japan's northeast coast. The mysterious disappearance has prompted Japan's coast guard to search for the island. Authorities are also...
Iran has started production of the locally-designed Kowsar fighter plane for use in its air force, state television reported, as tensions mount with the United States after the reimposition of...
Russia blamed bureaucracy rather than censorship for a decision to halt the release of a Hollywood movie that tells the fictional story of US troops rescuing a Russian president from...
Scientists in the US have recruited an unlikely ally in their efforts to develop a new flu treatment. Llamas have been used to produce a new antibody therapy that has...
Two people were killed and about 300 others were forced to take shelter at higher grounds as floods and landslides struck West Sumatra province of western Indonesia, a disaster agency...
The European Union plans to have a 29-strong team of diplomats in London to represent it after Brexit. It will be called a "delegation" - not an embassy - and...
The spending by the country's scheduled banks and financial institutions (FIs) on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes has nearly doubled in the first half of this year, compared to the...
Winter vegetables are selling at 60-180 per cent higher than the farm-level prices in the city's kitchen markets, although recent weeks saw rising supply from the key growing hubs, according...
The government is likely to approve nearly 25 development projects on 'political consideration' tomorrow (Sunday). Of these, some nine projects of one public agency will be tabled for endorsement, officials...
NRB Bank Limited, a leading 4th generation bank of the country, inaugurated its 6th Agent Outlet at Monohorpur Bazar, Jashore recently. Mr. Md. Mehmood Husain, Managing Director & CEO of...
At least seven people were killed and 12 others wounded in an attack on Coptic Christians near a monastery in the southern province of Minya in Egypt on Friday, an...
Freedom fighters (FFs) at a view-exchange meeting in the city on Thursday demanded that the 30 per cent quota for their descendants be reinstated in the government jobs immediately; otherwise...
Dhaka Electric Supply Company (DESCO) consumers can pay their pre-paid bill through NRB Commercial Bank Limited. Recently Mr. Khondoker Rashed Maqsood, Managing Director & CEO of the Bank and Mr....
Shares in Apple Inc fell 6.0 per cent on Friday, cutting its market value back to less than $1 trillion after it forecast softer-than-expected sales for the holiday quarter. The...
Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee is "disappointed" with the current state of his invention and how it allows hate to prosper. In a recent interview, Sir Tim said some sites'...
World stocks ended a strong week on Friday, while US stocks slipped as Apple absorbed its worst loss in more than four years. Apple forecast weak revenue in the current...
A company in south China has released a bendable smartphone made with active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) display. The product is a combination of a smartphone and a tablet computer,...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says there will be no further discussions after November 7, when the Election Commission is likely to announce the schedule for the coming national...
Prime Bank has recently signed an agreement with Prime Insurance Company Limited at the bank’s head office. Under the deal, the bank’s monarch customers (priority banking segment of the bank)...
A two-day career fair concluded on the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) campus amid much enthusiasm and festive mood. RUET Career Forum (RCF), an organisation which facilitates to...
PER CENT job growth rebounded sharply in October and wages recorded their largest annual gain in 9-1/2 years, pointing to further labour market tightening that could encourage the Federal Reserve...
A construction worker accidentally drowned in Poysa river after falling from an under-construction bridge in Gopalganj on Friday. He was Shamrat Mollah, 28, son of Ishahak Mollah, a resident of...
A tigress in India who is said to have killed 13 people has been shot dead after a major hunt, officials say. The six-year-old tigress had evaded capture in the...
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam has said there is no alternative to leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for continuation of development spree in the country. “Bangladesh is...
US trade deficit widened to a seven-month high in September as imports hit a record high and exports bounced back, the US Commerce Department has reported. The goods and services...
Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations of November 4 (Sunday) have been rescheduled to November 9 (Friday). The matter was confirmed by Professor Ziaul Haque, chairman...
The nation is observing the Jail Killing Day today (Saturday) with due solemnity. On November 3, 1975, four national leaders and heroes of the country's Liberation War—Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin...
Police arrested 30 people including 18 wanted accused and 12 accused in regular cases from different areas of Habiganj district on Saturday. The crackdown was in operation for 12 hours...
The United States said on Friday it will temporarily allow eight importers to keep buying Iranian oil when it re-imposes sanctions on Monday to try to force Iran to curb...
A mobile court has sentenced a young man to six months in jail for stalking a schoolgirl at Ramdeb Nagar village of Boalmari upazila in Faridpur. The convict is Mehedi...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday unveiled a dozen measures to support small- and medium-sized businesses, as he aims to woo a large voting bloc ahead of a national election...
The Trump administration is to reinstate all US sanctions on Iran removed under the 2015 nuclear deal. The White House said it was "the toughest sanctions regime ever imposed on...
Jukto Front coalition chief AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury says he is drawing heart from the way the pre-election dialogue has kicked off with the ruling coalition headed by Awami League chief...
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