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CHATTOGRAM: After a magnificent victory in the first one day international (ODI) motivated Bangladesh want to wrap up series as they face visiting Zimbabwe in the second ODI of the...
The state-run Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB) and the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) shareholders are set to invest their much-talked-about fresh funds in the capital market very soon. They expressed...
Eight more listed companies recommended dividend up to 48 per cent for the year ended on June 30, 2018, according to separate official disclosures on Wednesday. The companies which recommended...
China has signed a free trade agreement Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Palestine, China’s commerce ministry said on Wednesday in a statement posted on its official website. China’s Ministry of...
The Board of ICB has recommended 30 per cent cash dividend and 5.0 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2018. The recommendation came at the...
The prices of ginger, one of the main spices, soared at city markets in the last three days, compounding woes of the consumers further. One kilogram (kg) of ginger was...
The securities regulator has allowed United Energy Limited (UEL) to transfer its substantial amount of shares, held at two listed companies, in favour of another company floated under same ownership....
Grameenphone Ltd ended the third quarter of 2018 with 71.4 million active subscribers, registering a11.8 per cent year-on-year (YoY) growth. With 36.3 million data subscribers, 50.9 per cent of the...
Aarong, a concern of BRAC, has taken a three-day programme from tomorrow (Thursday) to celebrate four decades of its journey. The celebrations will be held at the Army Stadium in...
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday Saudi authorities staged the “worst cover-up ever” in the killing of prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi this month, as the United States vowed to revoke...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Tuesday signed an administrative arrangement to promote sustainable management of community development for Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT)....
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has interrogated six top officials of AB Bank Ltd including a former managing director in connection with loan disbursement against fake mortgage documents. The officials were...
Subsidised tariff for electricity consumers has led to a positive impact on household income and expenditure, small-scale business and agriculture, a recent study has revealed. Besides, it helped promote education,...
Exchange rate of cash US dollar against the local currency in the banking channel and also in the open market, known as kerb market, has increased by around Tk 1.0...
State-run Petrobangla has planned to start importing lean LNG from Oman Trading International (OTI) by May 2019, one year after inking a sales and purchase agreement (SPA). Petrobangla and OTI...
The recent introduction of a digital financial service scheme by Bangladesh Post Office (BPO) has raised concerns among relevant parties and industry insiders. The Bangladesh Post Office early this week...
MAGURA, Oct 23: Most of the farmers in the district are applying the perching method to kill insects in their Aman paddy field.The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Magura, sources...
BOGURA, Oct 23: Banana growers in the district are delighted over the bumper production and fair market prices this season.According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office sources said...
NAOGAON, Oct 13: Experimental dragon fruit farming has brought smile on the faces of grassroots farmers in Raninagar upazila of the district this season.Sources said the fruit cultivation is expanding...
It is time the myopia about Dhaka city ceased to exist in preference to a composite national approach to realising the full potential of Chattogram, Khulna, Rajshahi, to name the ...
The government's effort in exploring strategies for boosting exports while formulating the upcoming Export Policy has been well covered by the media. However, it remains to be seen whether the...
Compared to the continued increase in the number of television audiences across the country, the number of radio listeners not long ago dropped to a nearly non-existent level. The situation...
No more the effect would follow the cause. What was stashed away in the nook and fold of quantum physics, finally seems to have found light of the millenia. Thanks...
Only weeks ago, the world's leading climate scientists warned that 2°C of global warming would have even worse impacts than anticipated. The report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
Every year Bangladesh faces natural disasters like drought, flood, water-logging, cyclone, tidal surge, tornado, thunder storm and so on. Occupational therapists can play an important role in the rehabilitation of...
Like any other country of the world, Bangladesh features both favourable and unfavourable ecosystems. The unfavourable or the fragile ecosystems occupy a substantial proportion of land and population in Bangladesh....
Jute has been a driving force for Bangladesh's economy for several decades. Despite a decline in the global demand for it around the late 2000s, jute is still one of...
Former deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank Abu Hena Mohd. Razee Hassan has become the head of Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) on a contractual basis. The Public Administration Ministry issued...
It was inevitable. Another upturn in the US inflation cycle is at hand. Since the Great Disinflation of the early 1980s, when the annual increase in the Consumer Price Index...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Tuesday said Barrister Mainul Hosein was not arrested for any political reason but for using degretory words at journalist Masuda Bhatti. He came up with...
A suspected mugger was caught by angry mob while snatching money from a school teacher at DC Banglo area of the city on Tuesday. The locals handed the man to...
Environment Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud has said twenty-one species of migratory birds may carry avian influenza virus to Bangladesh during the winter season. "Some 244 species of migratory birds usually...
Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists allegedly attacked the quota reformists on the Dhaka University (DU) campus on Tuesday, leaving three injured, reports UNB. The injured are Ratul Sarker, Faruk Hossain...
The 'Standards of Weights and Measures Bill, 2018', was passed in Parliament on Tuesday, seeking to achieve the international standard in maintaining weight and measurement of products. Industries Minister Amir...
Bangladesh has moved up by five notches this year and ranked 39th out of 100 valuable nation brands in the Nation Brands 2018 report. The report, published by London-based Brand...
Bangladesh has a tremendous prospect of sending skilled workers to Japan as both the population and workforce in Japan are gradually shrinking. Bangladesh Ambassador to Japan Rabab Fatima said this...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s Democratic Governance Portfolio Manager Mahmuda Afroz paid a courtesy call on Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury at her office in the city...
A Meherpur court on Tuesday sentenced three people to death and two others to three years' imprisonment for killing the driver of a battery-run auto-rickshaw in 2016. The condemned convicts...
The killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was planned days in advance, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told MPs from his ruling party, reports BBC. He said Turkey had strong...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Tuesday signed an administrative arrangement to promote sustainable management of community development for the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT)....
The government plans to procure some 35 dredgers involving Taka 44.89 billion to restore navigability of 100 major rivers across the country. The Executive Committee of the National Economic (ECNEC)...
A Chattogram court on Tuesday placed BNP organising secretary for Chattogram division Mahbubur Rahman Shamim and city unit general secretary Abul Hashem Bakkar on a one-day remand in a case...
Dyson, the British company best known for innovative vacuum cleaners, says it will build its electric car in Singapore. The company says the bespoke manufacturing facility is due for completion...
The Buddhist community will celebrate their second largest religious festival, Prabarana Purnima, in the city as elsewhere across the country tomorrow (Wednesday) with due solemnity. The festival is also known...
President Abdul Hamid has said graduating least developed countries (LDCs) should get preferential treatment for a reasonable period. Calling for making the international system equitable, the president mentioned that the...
The boatman of a riverboat carrying a team of river police sustained bullet injuries in a reported gunfight between the law enforcers and fishermen in the Padma River in Louhajong...
A team of maritime archaeologists, scientists and surveyors has discovered what it believes to be the world's oldest intact shipwreck — a Greek trading vessel whose design had previously been...
Vietnam's rubber stamp National Assembly elected Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong as the country's president on Tuesday, consolidating his influence as the most powerful man in the Southeast...
Dhaka University (DU) authorities have decided to hold fresh admission test for its Gha Unit amid allegations of questions leak in the previous test. Only 18,464 or 26.21 per cent...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has officially opened the world's longest sea crossing bridge, nine years after construction first began. Including its access roads, the bridge spans 55km (34 miles) and...
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