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RANGPUR, Oct 22: The peasants in eight districts under Rangpur division incur massive loss every year due to crop damage caused by rat attack during Aman season. According to sources...
RANGAMATI, Oct 22 (UNB): The farming of Malta is picking up pace in the district, especially the Bari Malta-1 type. Hemkumar Chakma, one such farmer, started farming malta fruits back...
Seaborne trade can be encouraged by improving port facilities and other logistics support. In 2017-18, goods worth US $ 51.53 billion were imported into the country while goods worth of...
The death of musician Ayub Bachchu on October 18, 2018 came as a shock to many Bangladeshis at home and abroad. The untimely demise of the rock-star was being deemed...
Our love affair with the modern city is evidenced by various appellations given to it-metropolis, megalopolis and conurbation. Dhaka is no exception. However, the question which has taken on urgency...
There is growing unease in the global economy: some ostensibly 'emerging' or 'frontier' countries have nose-dived into deep financial straits, with sky-rocketing debt and plunging currency values; stock-markets have been...
'The Children (Amendment) Act, 2018' was passed in Parliament on Monday with provisions to set up one or more children tribunals in each district. Social Welfare Minister Rashed Khan Menon...
Gano Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain has said they formed the Jatiya Oikyafront only for ensuring a free and fair election. In the wake of criticisms over BNP's involvement with...
Power Division has initiated a move to introduce enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to bring all of its officials and that of its subordinate bodies under one platform. To this...
The highest number of call drop incidents (103,43,00,000) occurred in Grameenphone (GP) network in the last 12 months, according to Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC). The statistics of the call...
Secondary trading of the government’s fixed income securities declined 11.41 per cent in the first quarter of the current fiscal year. Latest statistics, released by the central bank, showed that...
The Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the authorities to review the proposed provision in the draft of the 'Sarkari Chakori Ain, 2018' that says prior permission is mandatory for...
Bangladesh earned US$ 41 billion in foreign exchange by exporting 744 products to 202 countries in the 2017-18 fiscal years, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed told Parliament on Monday. Mentioning that...
US principal deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells on Monday said her government will continue their call on Myanmar to create necessary...
Inter Milan captain Mauro Icardi scored a dramatic injury-time winner as they beat city rivals AC Milan at the San Siro in Serie A. The 222nd Milan derby was petering...
Dhaka University (DU) authorities on Monday formed a fresh five-member probe committee to investigate the alleged entry tests question leak of 'Gha' unit under the Social Science faculty. The committee...
An adviser to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has rejected the explanation of Saudi Arabia over the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom’s Istanbul’s consulate. “One cannot help but...
Bangladesh earned US$ 41 billion from exports during fiscal 2017-18. Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said made the disclosure while replying to a starred question from treasury bench member AFM Bahauddin...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged all to abide by traffic rules for reducing road fatalities. "Pedestrians are not following traffic rules...there's a necessity to change the habit and stop...
Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Harsh Vardhan Shringla made a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office in the city on Monday. PM’s press secretary Ihsanul Karim...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said the government has undertaken a plan to construct another unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) to provide treatment to additional 5,000 patients....
Newly elected mayor of Barishal City Corporation (BCC) and its councillors took oath at a function at Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on Monday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina administered the oath...
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday alleged that the government has been filing 'fictitious' cases to suppress political activists. "We're now deprived of all democratic rights, and...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is addressing a press briefing on her recent trip to Saudi Arabia. The press conference began at the Ganabhaban at 4pm on Monday, reports bdnews24.com. At...
A woman allegedly committed suicide by taking poison after killing her 'mentally and physically challenged' daughter in the same way at Goaldanga village in Ashashuni upazila of Satkhira on Monday....
Bangladesh has appointed Saida Muna Tasneem, currently serving as its ambassador to Thailand, as the new high commissioner to the United Kingdom. Foreign ministry of Bangladesh confirmed about the appointment...
After facing two recent cases over extortion, Zafrullah Chowdhury, the leader of BNP-backed professional group, has now been sued for stealing. A case was filed against him with Ashulia Police...
Soroptimist International (SI) Club of Dhaka has organised a breast cancer awareness seminar at the Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) in the capital. As October is the month of creating awareness...
The Japanese government is set to tell Facebook to better protect its users’ personal data after a leak involving British firm Cambridge Analytica that affected 87 million users globally, Kyodo...
Oracle welcomes more than 60,000 customers and partners from 175 countries and 19 million virtual attendees to Oracle OpenWorld 2018, the world’s most innovative cloud technology conference. At the annual...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday asked the public representatives to work for the welfare of people, not for making own fortune. "You're elected representatives. People cast votes for you....
Two workers have been killed in an accident at a Chattogram WASA Water Treatment Project septic tank. The incident occurred at the WASA water treatment plant in Hathazari Upazila’s Mudnaghat...
Unidentified gunmen killed at least 14 people, including two health workers, on Saturday in an area of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where militia violence has hampered efforts to contain...
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has signed a friendship "Letter of Intent (LoI)" with the China's Yiyang city aiming to promote mutual understanding and friendship between the two countries. The LoI...
At least 40 people were injured in a clash between garment workers and members of law enforcement agencies at the Adamjee Export Processing Zone (EPZ) in Naryanganj on Monday morning....
A lioness has killed the father of her three offspring, suffocating her mate by locking her jaws onto his neck at the Indianapolis Zoo in the US in an attack...
Leading civil society and NGO sector actors joined key government civil servants to address the sustainability challenge as it pertains to the concrete tasks of project design and implementation. They...
The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank of China, injected 120 billion yuan (about 17.3 billion US dollars) of funds into the market on Monday through reverse repos...
Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Elon Musk put electric heavy commercial trucks on the map in November 2017 when he unveiled the company’s futuristic, battery-powered Semi, booked hundreds of orders...
The world's longest sea bridge, linking the cities of Hong Kong, Macau, and Zhuhai across the South China Sea, is set to open to traffic on Wednesday (October 24), the authorities...
Dhaka bourse displayed a moderate loss on Monday after a sharp of observed on Sunday. After two hour of the session, the DSE broad index DSEX declined 0.85 per cent...
Most Southeast Asian stock markets edged higher on Monday as Chinese stocks extended gains from the previous session after Beijing's pledge to support the economy and tackle market volatility. MSCI's...
Some people drowned and others were hurt after a boat carrying migrants sank near Bodrum, off the western coast of Turkey, broadcaster NTV reported on Monday. No further details were...
United Commercial Bank has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ‘NAGAD’, the digital financial service of Bangladesh Post Office that is operated by Third Wave Technologies Limited. Md...
Saudi Arabia has no intention of unleashing a 1973-style oil embargo on Western consumers and will isolate oil from politics, the Saudi energy minister said on Monday amid a worsening...
A case has been filed against some 150 leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies on charge of attacking police on the court premises. Police filed the case...
Canadian airplane maker Bombardier has sued the aircraft unit of Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, saying former Bombardier employees passed on trade secrets to help Mitsubishi’s oft-delayed regional jet project....
President Abdul Hamid left Dhaka early Monday for Switzerland to attend two international conferences on investment and security in the Palais des Nations of Geneva. A regular flight of Emirates...
A 105-megawatt (MW) power plant of Orion Power Rupsha Ltd. (OPRL), a sister concern of the Orion Group, has started supplying electricity to the national grid recently. With the completion...
Uber Technologies has decided to appeal a decision by the Singapore competition regulator that its merger with regional rival Grab violated the city-state’s competition laws, the firm said on Monday....
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