The government has appointed new deputy commissioners to 10 districts in yet another major reshuffle in field-level administration. The Public Administration Ministry issued a gazette notification in this regard on...
Two non-commissioned officers of Bangladesh Navy were killed and six others injured in a cannonball explosion during a test firing at a ship in the Bay of Bengal in Chattogram...
The 72nd birthday of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also the President of Bangladesh Awami League, will be celebrated across the country on Friday. On September 28 in 1947, Sheikh Hasina,...
The passengers of a Muscat-bound flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines staged demonstrations at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram on Thursday following its flight schedule collapse. At least 50 passengers...
A court in Sherpur on Thursday sentenced three men to death in a case over killing a minor girl after rape at Bakakura village in Jhenaigati upazila in 2016. The...
A local leader of Jubo League was killed and two others injured when a truck rammed a jeep on Dhaka-Tangail highway in Bhuapur upazila on Thursday. The deceased was identified...
Shohoz, country’s leading online ride-sharing and ticketing platform, has announced that it raised $15 million US dollar from Golden Gate Ventures (GGV) of Singapore to expand the business. The firm...
Stocks witnessed sharp decline on Thursday as investors were mostly on selling spree, fearing further fall of stock prices. Analysts said the ongoing pessimism coupled with fear of political unrest...
Members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 600 grams of heroin worth Tk 1.2 million from Nodar Field area under Godagari upazila in Rajshahi in the early hours of...
Saudi Arabia will quietly add extra oil to the market over the next couple of months to offset a drop in Iranian production but is worried it might need to...
A Russian man accused of the Salisbury poisoning is a military officer who received an honour from Vladimir Putin, an investigative website says. Following the attempted poisoning in March, UK...
American researchers have unlocked new information about how the brain encoded speech, moving closer to developing speech-brain machine interface that can decode the commands the brain is sending to the...
A passenger has been pinned to the ground by police at Dublin Airport after running out of the terminal towards a plane and shouting at the pilot to wait. The...
Concord Group, a renowned construction company in the country, has given a freezer van to Bangladesh Police to carry dead body, says a statement. Shahriar Kamal, managing director of the...
The tech giant is celebrating its 20th birthday with a new Google Doodle marking the special occasion on Thursday. Founded 20 years ago, the company is marking the occasion with...
The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday and left intact its plans to steadily tighten monetary policy, as it forecast that the US economy would enjoy at least...
LankaBangla Finance Limited (LBFL) has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Total Air Services Limited (GSA Air Asia) for its customer privilege. Under the agreement, LBFL card holders...
Inner Mongolia in northern China has detained four people for forging documents and illegally selling and transporting pigs from a province that has been hit by African swine fever, said...
Bangladesh has said a number of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are now in the pipeline to graduate and their challenges should be taken into consideration so that they do not...
Mission heads of the European Union (EU) member states, the EU delegation, and chiefs of Norway and Switzerland missions have reiterated their concerns over several provisions of the Digital Security...
Australian Broadcasting Corp chairman Justin Milne has resigned, leaving a leadership vacuum at the national broadcaster after the board’s sacking of managing director Michelle Guthrie on Monday. Milne’s resignation follows...
Police in Oman say 10 members of a single family have died after suffocating in a fire at their home in the sultanate. The Royal Oman Police said on Twitter...
Rajshahi University (RU) is going to construct two new modern ten-storied dormitories for the students. The move aims at removing the existing accommodation crises. According to the RU sources, one...
A colourful rally was brought out in Dhaka on Thursday morning marking the World Tourism Day 2018. The rally started from Matsya Bhaban intersection at around 8:30 am and ended...
La Liga champions Barcelona slumped to a shock 2-1 defeat at struggling Leganes and Real Madrid were resoundingly beaten 3-0 by Sevilla on Wednesday as Spain’s two biggest clubs lost...
Japan’s Tokyo stocks edged lower Thursday morning as investors secured profits after the benchmark Nikkei stock index's eight-day winning streak. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average lost 32.07 points, or 0.13...
Asian shares mixed on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve lifted its key interest rate as expected for the third time this year. Japan's Nikkei 225 dropped 0.3 per cent...
India said on Wednesday it is raising import tariffs on 19 “non-essential items,” marking a further tilt toward protectionism as it tries to reduce its widening current account deficit and...
The board of directors of Bangladesh Autocars Limited has recommended 3.0 per cent cash and 12 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2018. The board...
A suspected robber has died in an alleged shootout at Chattogram’s Pahartali. The incident took place at Uttar Kattali Beribadh on Wednesday midnight, said Pahartali Police Station chief Sadeep Kumar...
The prices of most of the shares on bourses saw downward trend in early hour of trading Thursday as investors followed cautious stance amid ongoing dividend declaration session. Following the...
A disgraced former state governor from Mexico’s ruling party was sentenced to nine years in prison on Wednesday for money laundering and links to organised crime in a case that...
Uber Technologies will pay $148 million for failing to disclose a massive data breach in 2016, marking a costly resolution to one of the biggest embarrassments and legal tangles the...
The state-owned Palli Sanchay Bank (PSB) has taken an initiative to produce skilled drivers in a bid to curb road accidents as well as create employment for them, officials said....
Police recovered six crude bombs and six petrol bombs from an under construction building in Mirpur Bazar of Bahubal upazila of Sylhet’s Habiganj on early Thursday. Noticing 4-5 people near...
No outbound worker can go abroad with the government-fixed migration cost as recruiters are violating the rules, rights campaigners said on Wednesday at a dialogue. They said even women workers...
The International Monetary Fund has agreed to provide a bigger, faster bailout to Argentina than initially planned in an effort to restore market confidence in the country. The IMF plans...
The board of directors of Standard Ceramic Industries Ltd has decided to open letter of credit (LC) for importing new capital machinery to enhance production capacity and reduce the production...
China has executed a man on Thursday for killing nine students and injuring 11 others in a knife attack at a middle school in central China’s Shaanxi province in April,...
The government has formed two teams to identify and recover abandoned commercial property in the country, an official said. Commerce ministry has taken an initiative to identify such property located...
The chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has resigned following allegations of political interference. Justin Milne resigned from the national broadcaster amid reports he had asked for journalists to...
A biker was killed and three others injured when a car hit a motorcycle on Akhteruzzaman Flyover in port city's Sholosohor area on Wednesday night. The deceased has identified as...
The government is planning to construct an 'outer' circular road surrounding the city under Roads and Highways Department (RHD) in coordination with the Public-Private Partnership Authority (PPPA). An inter-ministerial meeting...
Bangladesh live to fight another day after Mustafizur Rahman’s four-wicket haul following a brilliant 99 by Mushfiqur Rahim propelled them into the Asia Cup final with a 37-run victory over...
A consignment of three more quay gantry cranes is likely to reach the port by the second week of this October. It will further expedite the Chattogram port's containerised cargo...
For three days, the campus of Independent University, Bangladesh was unrecognisable to the students. There were four models of spaceships from the 'Star Wars' in the central courtyard of the...
From the time of Socrates to Baul music in rural Bengal, communal space has been the catalyst for collaboration and learning. A space where diverse minds, irrespective of their background...
Enjoying unbridled success since its very first session in 2016, Bangladesh University of Professionals Global Affairs Council (BUPGAC) is back once again to awestruck the MUN community with its third...
Economists and financial experts have rightly detected the ills the country's economy is suffering from. They are categorical that a growing nexus between a 'certain political class and business class'...
When policymakers say something about the country's stock market, it seems that everything is running fine in the market and that the market is witnessing improvement with no setback in...
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