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Social media can be defined as "forms of electronic communication through which people create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, etc." Social media technologies take many different forms...
Jatiya Oikya Prokriya, led by Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain, has announced to hold rallies across the country from October 1. The announcement was made during a citizens' rally organised...
The percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) spent on education is quite significant across the world. The global average in this regard is 4.73 per cent. Among the countries, Norway...
Indian traders have suspended exporting goods through Benapole Land Port from Saturday morning alleging that Bangladeshi handlers have been charging 'extra money' for unloading goods from their trucks. It was...
Police arrested a man along with a human skeleton from Malkhangar area under Sirajdikhan upazila in Munshiganj on Sunday. The arrestee was identified as Md Saiful Islam, 40, son of...
Three children, including two siblings, died as a boat capsized in Brahmaputra river in Belabo upazila of Narsingdi on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Nila Akhtar, 16, daughter of...
A Saudi Arabian journalist has become the first woman to anchor the main news bulletin on the country's main national television station. Weam Al Dakheel made the history co-presenting Al...
Two workers of Sylhet Palli Bidyut Samity (Rural Electricity Board) were killed and three others injured as a bus hit a van defying a red flag signal at Gazia under...
Civil rights body Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan) on Saturday demanded revision of the newly passed Digital Security Act through scraping its 'repressive' sections. In a written statement, the rights body...
Malaysian immigration officers detained 338 migrant workers, including fifty-five Bangladeshi nationals, during a raid in a town of the country, Cyberjaya. According to Malaysia's Immigration Department Director-General Mustafar Ali, the...
The World Bank (WB) is going to initiate a next generation 'Higher Education Acceleration and Transformation (HEAT)' project emphasising graduate employability, governance including excellence in women's education in Bangladesh. The...
Canada's Parliament has unanimously adopted a motion declaring crimes committed against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar to be genocide. The motion Thursday also endorsed the findings of a United Nations mission...
Pakistan has said Saudi Arabia has agreed to join the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and invest in its infrastructure and industrial projects. The agreement was reached during Prime Minister Imran Khan’s...
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have expressed deep shock at the untimely demise of Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang saying it is an irrevocable loss for the...
Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for an attack by gunmen on a military parade in southwestern Iran on Saturday, according to the group’s Amaq news agency. Amaq said Islamic State...
Bangladesh ODI captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza is still hopeful that his team will win a place in the Asia Cup final despite two straight losses. The Tigers got off to...
Comparing to their non-slum urban and village counterparts, community living in urban slums in Bangladesh get far less access to maternal and child health services. Only 29 per cent population...
BNP leaders on Saturday participated in the Dr Kamal Hossain-led Jatiya Oikya Prokriya rally at Mahanagar Natya Mancha in the city to create a greater national unity to ensure a...
Divers rescued a man on Saturday as they searched for survivors from the wreck of an overcrowded Tanzanian ferry that capsized on Lake Victoria on Thursday, killing at least 183...
Speakers at a view-exchange meeting in Chattogram on Saturday laid emphasis on working together to highlight the prospects and challenges of Chattogram and make it an environment-friendly sustainable city through...
At least 24 people were killed and 53 others injured in an attack on a military parade in Iran's southwestern city of Ahvaz on Saturday, Iran's state news IRNA said....
PRAN, one of the leading food processors in Bangladesh, has signed an agreement worth $5 million with the Engel Foreign Food, a popular chain shop in the Netherlands, to export...
As part of its fresh journey, The Farmers Bank Limited is set to carry out its banking operations under a new name from January 2019, the officials said. The bank’s...
A project for setting up adolescent clubs across the country was inaugurated at a function at Bangladesh Shishu Academy in Dhaka on Saturday. Sate Minister for Women and Children Affairs...
World Bank Vice President for the South Asia Region Hartwig Schafer will arrive in Dhaka on Sunday for talks on the Rohingya crisis and deepening Bangladesh’s connections to the international...
Gunmen have opened fire on an Iranian military parade in the south-western city of Ahvaz, killing at least 11 people, including civilians, and injuring more than 20, state media say....
Electronic Voting Machines or EVMs will be used in the election if it is legally approved but should not be forced, says Chief Election Commissioner K M Nurul Huda. The...
A union parishad chairman was gunned down by some miscreants at Karfa Bazar in Ujirpur upazila of Barishal on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Bishwajit Baroi Nantu, 40,...
The BNP claims that the trial over the Aug 21 grenade attack is proceeding according to the government’s ‘guidelines’. The party’s Joint Senior Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made the...
Anjali Saraogi, a 45-year-old businesswoman from Kolkata, who began running only four years ago and was the only woman to make it to the Indian team for the world ultra-run...
Hong Kong's mounting housing supply challenges have been brought under diligent scrutiny at the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors' (HKIS) Annual Conference 2018. More than 300 industry leaders, academics and...
Police in Brazil have arrested a man accused by the United States of being one of the main financial operators of the Lebanese militant group, Hezbollah. Assad Ahmad Barakat was...
At least eight children have been killed and six wounded in a bomb blast in Afghanistan's northern Faryab province. Police in the Shirin Tagab district blamed the Taliban for planting...
Belgium's traditional potato "frites" could soon be 3cm (1.1in) smaller than normal, growers have warned. Pierre Lebrun, head of the Walloon Potato Growers' Association, said lower levels of rainfall had...
The civil aviation sector in China expanded at a steady rate in the first seven months of the current year, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China. Total air...
Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit chief Monirul Islam on Saturday warned that law enforcement agencies will go tough if any attempt is made to create anarchy centring the...
Puerto Rico is still struggling to rebuild itself from the trail of ruins left by hurricane Maria even though a year has gone by since it hit the island on...
The entry test of Fine Art Faculty disciplines under ‘Cha-unit (Drawing Part)’ of Dhaka University (DU) for 2018-19 academic sessions was held at 10:00 am to 11:00 am in the...
Mercantile Bank Limited donated Tk 0.5 million to Nilphamari Diabetic Association for extension of their hospital building. Bank’s Managing Director & CEO Kazi Masihur Rahman handed over the cheque to...
Jamuna Bank launched its mobile app "justpay" at Jamuna Bank Head office recently. Director of the Bank Redwan ul Karim Ansari and Managing Director & CEO of the Bank Shafiqul...
A suspected robber and an alleged drug trader were killed in separate gunfights in Bandarban and Jashore districts on Saturday. In Bandarban, the suspected robber was killed in 'gunfight' with...
An Eye Sight Acuity Testing Camp was held at Arcobaleno Footwear Ltd, a LFMEAB’s member factory on Friday. A total of 65 workers were diagnosed with eye sight acuity problem...
The Netherlands has assured support for exporting diversified jute products from Bangladesh to the European Union (EU) market. This was conveyed to Bangladesh Ambassador to the Netherlands Sheikh Mohammed Belal...
The World Bank (WB) has endorsed an ambitious five-year framework for India with $25-30 billion in financial support for its transition from a low-middle income to a high-middle income country....
Police recovered the bodies of two garment workers from separate areas in Savar on Saturday morning. According to Abul Kashem, sub-inspector of Savar Model Police Station, they recovered the body...
Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) has signed a trade facilitation deal with Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Singapore recently, said a statement. Steven Beck, Head of Trade and Supply...
Several people were killed when unknown gunmen opened fire during a military parade in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz on Saturday, state television reported. Iran was holding a number...
A study published recently in the journal Science revealed the earliest confirmed animal in the geological record that lived 558 million years ago. Scientists have discovered molecules of fat in...
Awami League leaders have begun an election campaign by road to reach the common people and describe to them the development work undertaken by the government. Previously AL leaders had...
Mercantile Bank Limited has donated Tk 0.50 million to Nilphamari Diabetic Association for the purpose of extension of their hospital building, says a statement. Kazi Masihur Rahman, Managing Director and...
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