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Three days after formation of a new alliance involving BNP, the BNP-led 20-party alliance suffered a split as two of its components announced to leave it. National Awami Party (NAP)...
A tribunal in Chuadanga on Tuesday convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his wife over dowry in 2011. The convict is Mamun Ali, son of Akubbar...
Two suspected militants were found dead at a 'militant den' at Bhogiratpur in Narsingdi following a joint operation, Gordian Knot, on Tuesday. Briefing journalists around 4:00 pm, CTTC chief Monirul...
Police, in special drives arrested 51 persons including five activists of Jamaat-E-Islami from eight upazilas of the district in last 12-hour ending at 8am this morning. Sources with the district...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for Riyadh on Tuesday on a four-day bilateral visit to Saudi Arabia at the invitation of King Salman Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud. Bangladesh...
Nicole Kidman has said her marriage to Tom Cruise gave her "protection" from sexual harassment early in her career. The Australian actress married Cruise in 1990 after they starred together...
A military jet of Saudi Arabia has crashed during a training mission in the kingdom and that the members of its crew were killed. The crash of the Hawk training...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Saudi King Salman at his palace in Riyadh on Tuesday, reporters travelling with the envoy said. “I hope you are comfortable here,” the...
A court in Kishoreganj has sentenced four people to death and 21 others to life term imprisonment in a double murder case. Kishoreganj Additional District and Sessions Judge Abu Taher...
Sleeping rough in public areas is now against the law in Hungary. The law was brought in by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government, but the United Nations called it "cruel"...
A medical aid worker held hostage in Nigeria since March was killed by Islamist militants after their deadline expired, the government said. Three aid workers, Hauwa Mohammed Liman, Alice Loksha...
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, whose government faces a crucial by-election in four days, said on Tuesday Canberra was open to recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, prompting concern from Indonesian...
A 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit Jinghe County in Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bortala, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, at 10:10am Tuesday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The...
Prime Minister Theresa May urged the EU on Monday not to allow a stand-off over a ‘backstop’ for Ireland to derail Brexit talks, saying she believed a deal was still...
Gulf markets were mostly firm on Tuesday but Saudi Arabia’s shares fell amid concern that international outrage over the disappearance of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi will hurt foreign investment. After...
Mercantile Bank Limited arranged a get together with young entrepreneurs under its special loan scheme ‘UDAYAN’ held at bank’s Training Institute in the city on Monday. Kazi M. Aminul Islam,...
A man was killed after a tractor overturned on Kushtia-Meherpur road in Kushtia on Tuesday morning. The victim was identified as Saddam Hossain, 30, son of Jannat Hossain. Witness said...
Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok said on Tuesday that the Netherlands was hoping for a deal on Britain’s orderly exit from the European Union but he added his country was...
The US budget deficit rose to 779 billion US dollars in the fiscal year 2018 (FY 2018) ending Sept. 30, the highest since 2012, according to the US Treasury Department...
Alphabet’s Google has become the latest company to drop out of a business conference in Saudi Arabia. Pressure has mounted on Saudi Arabia since prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a...
Police recovered the beheaded body of an unidentified young man in Barguna on Monday night. Locals of Kismat Koruna village in Betagi upazila spotted the body at night and informed...
Facebook Inc will ban false information about voting requirements and fact-check fake reports of violence or long lines at polling stations ahead of next month’s US midterm elections, company executives...
Hollywood star Nicole Kidman undergoes a dramatic makeover for new drama “Destroyer”, playing a tired-looking and worn out police detective with a painful history. The Oscar winner swaps her blonde...
Dhaka bourse declined marginally amid ups and downs observed on Tuesday. The market started the session with a positive note but shortly afterwards it failed to continue the upward trend....
India’s oil demand is expected to rise by 5.8 million barrels per day (bpd) by 2040, accounting for about 40 per cent of the overall increase in global demand during...
The 3rd Quarter Business Performance Conference-2018 of Union Bank Limited was held recently. Omar Farooque, Managing Director of Union Bank Limited inaugurated the conference as the chief guest and advised to...
Online shopping platform Daraz Bangladesh (daraz.com.bd) has recently signed a partnership agreement with Hi-Tech Furniture. The furniture brand has been doing its business successfully for the past 10 years and...
The number of Yemenis on the brink of famine could rise to 12 million - or two in five of the population - from around 8.5 million in coming months...
A court in Dhaka has fixed October 29 to deliver its verdict against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and three other accused in Zia Charitable Trust graft case. Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman...
eGeneration, one of the leading IT consulting and software solutions companies in Bangladesh has recently celebrated their 5 successful major implementations of Microsoft solutions during the July- September quarter recently,...
Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) is set to hold its admission test for the first year Bachelor of Science in Engineering courses under its 2018-19 academic sessions on...
England ran riot by scoring three first-half goals to stun Spain and earn a 3-2 away win in the Nations League on Monday night. With their first victory on Spanish...
A suspected drug pedlar was killed in a reported gunfight between two groups of drug pedlars in Jashore in the early hours of Tuesday. The dead man is around 30-year...
IDLC Finance Limited, reported net profit after tax of BDT 1,821.51 million in the first 9 months of 2018, posting a 1.0 per cent growth from the same period last...
Trade between Bangladesh and India through Benapole land port has been put on a four-day suspension from Tuesday on the occasion of Durga Puja, the largest religious festival of Hindu...
North Korea, South Korea and the United Nations Command (UNC) held their first three-way talks on Tuesday to discuss demilitarising the border as the two Koreas push for peace, Seoul’s...
Mir Akhter Hossain Limited, a construction and engineering company, has moved to go public under the book building method. The company will raise a capital worth Tk 1.25 billion, said...
Asian stocks rose modestly on Tuesday, gaining a firmer footing after a week of heavy losses, although increasing tensions between Saudi Arabia and the West have fanned geopolitical concerns and...
Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) is set to allot 30 acres of land to Berger Paints Bangladesh Limited for expansion of its manufacturing facilities. A lease agreement in this regard...
Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft, has died aged 65 from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He had revealed the disease's return only two weeks ago, after previously being treated for it...
Saudi Arabia is preparing to acknowledge the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in a botched interrogation, CNN and the New York Times said on Monday, after US President Donald...
The apex apparel trade-body - BGMEA - termed implementation of the new wage structure for the sector a 'big challenge', saying the declining global demand for apparel products has increased...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has clarified that a 15 per cent Value Added Tax on the distribution of natural gas to the consumers will remain unchanged. The VAT...
Bangladesh and India will sit tomorrow to review projects under the multi-billion dollar Indian line of credit (LoC) amid poor implementation, officials said. The progress in the India-supported projects, especially...
The inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) globally declined sharply in the first half of the current calendar year. The amount is estimated at $470 billion in the January-June period...
The commercial banks are now allowed to hold collaterals on behalf of the on-resident lenders against external loans, availed by the state entities, without prior approval from Bangladesh Bank (BB)....
Police are all set to launch operations on the suspected hideouts of the banned militant outfit JMB in two houses in Narsingdi. They have cordoned off the two houses in...
Three members of a family were killed when a truck carrying a group of workers plunged into a roadside ditch on Dhaka-Tangail highway in Shubulla area of Mirzapur upazila on...
State-run Petrobangla has sought fiscal support worth around Tk 54 billion to purchase LNG from global suppliers during the current fiscal year until June 2019 as gas price has not...
Bangladesh will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on defence cooperation with Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) during Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina's visit to the country. The prime minister...
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