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European shares dipped on Friday after the Italian government agreed to set a higher than expected budget deficit target that could put Rome on a collision course with Brussels. Shares...
Police recovered the throat-slit body of an unidentified young man from the Garai River in Magura district on Friday. According to Mahbubur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Sripur Police Station, local people...
Asia’s emerging markets, the key driver for global oil demand growth, are being hit hard by soaring crude prices and sliding currencies, raising red flags over expectations of further increases...
Boeing has been selected to build the US Air Force’s next training jet in a contract worth up to $9.2 billion over the life of the programme, the Air Force...
Limiting children's recreational screen use has been linked with improved cognition. Children aged eight to eleven who used screens for fun for less than two hours a day performed better...
The Rohingya issue should not be complicated, expanded or "internationalised", China's top diplomat said, as the United Nations prepares to set up a body to prepare evidence of human rights...
Mukesh Ambani, managing director of Reliance Industries, earned Rs 3.0 billion per day over the past one year, according to a report by Barclays Hurun India Rich List 2018. ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a high-level discussion in New York has put emphasis on three actions in a bid to advance the women empowerment as a tool for development....
American streaming service Netflix Inc plans to double its investments in France and produce 14 local shows, twice as many as previously planned, Chief Executive Reed Hastings said Friday. Hastings...
Japan’s Nikkei hit a 27-year high on Friday, taking heart from a boost for the dollar after the Federal Reserve chairman said he did not expect a near-term recession, and...
“Hasina: A Daughter’s Tale”, a documentary drama on the Bangladesh prime minister, is finally releasing after an extensive five-year-long collaboration between the Centre for Research and Information(CRI) and Applebox Films’...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has received two international awards for her humanitarian roles in the Rohingya response from separate organisations during the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. She...
Canadian MPs have voted unanimously to revoke the honorary citizenship of Myanmar's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Passing the motion was a response to her failure to stop the persecution...
Today is the 72nd birthday of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also the President of Bangladesh Awami League. On September 28 in 1947, Sheikh Hasina, the eldest of the five children...
Bangladesh has made a move to seize an opportunity of farming in the Northeast African country Sudan through overseas investment. To this end, an 11-member committee, led by Bangladesh Investment...
After a magnificent victory over Pakistan, motivated Tigers are ready to roar again as they face India in the final of ACC Asia Cup at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in...
Bangladesh has been ranked 161th country on human capital list, improved more than India and Pakistan, a new study published in The Lancet showed. The country has witnessed improvement in...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission accused Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Elon Musk on Thursday of fraud and sought to remove him from his role in charge of the...
A suspected drug pedlar was killed in a reported gunfight with members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Paba upazila of Rajshahi in the early hours of Friday. The...
Editors' Council has decided to postpone its human chain programme announced earlier in protest against some provisions of the just-passed Digital Security Act 2018. The council took the decision after...
At least 18 shops were gutted in a fire which broke out at Haat Krishnapur Bazar in Sadarpur upazila of Faridpur on Thursday night. Saifuzzaman, senior station officer of Faridpur...
The government is hurriedly opening a window at the Ministry of Finance for dealing with government employees' home loan issues. The window is required to facilitate the first-ever home loans...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has once again blamed Myanmar, this time in her address to the annual UN gathering, for delaying the process to take back the Rohingya refugees from...
State-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has floated a tender to appoint a consultant for carrying out land acquisition and requisition related job to initiate the construction of the proposed India-Bangladesh...
Google has introduced a new app called kormo aiming to help people find jobs and generate economic opportunities for everyone in the country. Kormo is an experimental job marketplace from...
Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has permitted Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) to allocate 400 acres of land to 10 investors. The investors will invest a total of around US$ 1,981...
Prices of flour, fish, and vegetables increased last week raising woes of the consumers further. Both loose and packaged flour became pricier in the city markets which traders attributed to...
Finance Minister A M A Muhith has criticised errant borrowers for not repaying loans, terming them 'shameless'. "Loan default is a matter of shame for any individual. Somehow we do...
Four listed banks will raise an aggregate amount of Tk 21 billion by issuing bonds to strengthen their Tier-II capital base. The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) on Thursday...
Police arrested son of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Panel Mayor Jamal Mostafa and two of his associates along with 115 pieces of yaba tablets from Mirpur area on early...
Germany has beaten Turkey to host Euro 2024 after a vote by Uefa's executive committee on Thursday. The two countries made final bid presentations before voting took place in Nyon,...
German exports to Iran are already suffering from the re-imposition of US sanctions against the country, recent trade data obtained by Xinhua on Wednesday from the German Association of the...
Air pollution is taking a heavy toll on human life in Bangladesh. If left unchecked, the frequency of diseases linked to pollution and the number of deaths from those can...
Education and skill gaps for students and job-seekers are always a serious concern anywhere in the world. In a country burdened with an oversize population, this turns out to be...
It is nearly two months since school children took to the streets in an unprecedented display of disciplining the chaotic traffic situation in the capital and elsewhere. The incident --...
Sustained and impressive economic growth is a matter of pride for Bangladesh. What is not is the lacklustre growth of employment, recently experienced by the manufacturing sector especially. The momentum...
No, that was not Don McLean singing his signature song, itself a landmark in contemporary music history. Strangely enough, it was US President Donald J. Trump. He was not singing...
A green economy is one that "results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities" (UNEP, 2011, p. 2). A green economy embodies...
Amid the continuing debate on the relevance of the United Nations to the 21st century world, suggestions from different quarters on the subject keep pouring in. A group moots the...
China has accused US President Donald Trump of "slander" after he accused Beijing of trying to meddle in upcoming US congressional elections, reports Al Jazeera. Trump told a UN Security...
The United States (US) was not able to register any achievements at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting which took place this week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on...
The eighth-grade girls already know what to expect from France's new smartphone ban in all primary and middle schools because their school voluntarily instituted one last year, reports The New...
BOGURA, Sep 27: Farmers of Sonatola and Sarikandi upazilas of the district are delighted over the good market price of jute this season. Spending Tk 1200 to Tk 1300 to...
Two 16-year old girls unfurled a new dawn of the golden age of Indian films in 1949. One was Lata Mangeshkar and the other Madhubala. It was "Mahal" (The Mansion),...
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda on Thursday said Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) will be used in the next general election on a small scale. "EVMs could not be...
Visiting World Bank vice president for South Asia Region Hartwig Schafer Thursday urged the global community to continue providing support to Bangladesh for helping the stranded Rohingya people. On the...
Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said his party will not announce any programme to counter BNP’s rally in the city. “We...
The city dwellers will get traffic jam-free and safe roads within the next two years. Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokan made the comment while presiding over...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has decided to give a loan of $500 million to upgrade the primary education sector of Bangladesh. The approval came on Thursday at the...
India's top court has ruled adultery is no longer a crime, striking down a 158-year-old colonial-era law which it said treated women as male property, reports BBC. Previously any man...
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