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Speakers at a programme on Wednesday laid emphasis on enhancing the government’s monitoring to address hazardous child labour across the country. They also stressed the need for adopting alternative actions...
Two people were hospitalised after a car reportedly hit pedestrians near a Muslim community center in northwest London overnight in an incident police said was not related to terrorism. There...
An Aboriginal man has launched legal action against Australia over what he argues is an attempt to deport him to Papua New Guinea (PNG). Daniel Love, 39, was born in...
A young man was crushed to death under the wheels of a train at Bypass Railway Station in Ishwardi of Pabna district on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as...
A man known as the local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) was reportedly trampled to death by a wild elephant in Sagarnal area of Juri upazila in Moulvibazar on...
A Kushtia court on Wednesday placed 'Ganj-e-raj Paribahan' bus driver Mahit Mia on a two-day remand in a case filed over the death of a baby girl in a road...
IBM is launching a tool which will analyse how and why algorithms make decisions in real time. The Fairness 360 Kit will also scan for signs of bias and recommend...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved an additional loan financing of $110 million for a project to improve urban primary healthcare services in Bangladesh through PPPs. "ADB's support to...
US poet Danez Smith has won the Forward Prize for best poetry collection for their work Don't Call Us Dead. The 29-year-old from Minnesota is the youngest ever winner of...
South Africa’s highest court has allowed the private use of marijuana, upholding a lower court’s ruling that found the criminalisation of cannabis was unconstitutional. Activists who include members of the...
President Emmanuel Macron promised extra money and more doctors in rural areas to ease pressure on France’s hospitals, which are creaking under the weight of budget constraints and closures of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated that the government firmly believes in freedom of press and urged the journalists to play a constructive and responsible role for the development of...
Members of Armed Police Battalion (APBn) arrested a man along with 40 gold bars, weighing 4.64 kilograms, from a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight at Sylhet MAG Osmani International Airport on...
China will invest 14.6 billion US dollars (about 100 billion yuan) for developing the digital economy in the next five years, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said. The investments...
Walton, the local electronics company, started the ‘Season 3’ of its digital campaign countrywide from September 1, 2018 and this season customers have the chance to win cars. Huge customer...
Roberto Firmino's injury-time winner gave Liverpool a dramatic victory over Paris St-Germain on Tuesday in their opening Champions League Group C game at Anfield. Firmino was only fit enough to...
Bangladesh’s first large solar power plant has gone into operations. The power plant in Teknaf’s Hnila has a capacity to produce 28 megawatts (MW) and will feed 20MW to the...
Asian shares inched up on Wednesday, despite jitters over the escalating trade dispute between the US and China. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 added 1.4 per cent in early trading to...
Japan’s Tokyo stocks advanced Wednesday morning as a comparatively weak yen gave exporter issues a boost, while semiconductor issues also drew buying. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average added 356.15 points,...
A suspected drug pedlar was killed in a reported gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Shimrail in Narayanganj’s Siddhirganj upazila early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as...
Amazon.com said on Wednesday it had launched activities in Turkey, offering products across 15 categories to customers across the country. “We are committed to building our business in Turkey in...
The board of directors of Simtex Industries Limited has decided to set up a spinning unit of 26,000 spindles to produce high quality spun polyester Sewing Thread. The project cost...
The two Koreas have agreed to pursue a bid to co-host the 2032 Olympic Games, they said in a joint statement on Wednesday following a summit between North Korean leader...
The prices of most of the stocks on bourses witnessed upward trend in early hour of trading Wednesday as investors are showing buying appetite on large-cap stocks. Following the previous...
Police recovered the bodies of two students from BSCIC Industrial area in Nazira village of Kurigram Sadar upazila on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Selina Akter, 12, a class...
Lionel Messi scored a record eighth Champions League hat-trick as Barcelona kick-started their campaign with a 4-0 home win over PSV Eindhoven, although they had defender Samuel Umtiti sent off...
Staff at McDonald's restaurants in 10 US cities have walked out over claims the fast food giant is not doing enough to prevent sexual harassment. The strike comes after 27...
China and the United States plunged deeper into a trade war on Tuesday after Beijing added $60 billion of US products to its import tariff list in retaliation for President...
Top ten traded companies captured 40 per cent turnover of the major bourse on Tuesday while Khulna Power Company topped the chart for third day in a row. Market insiders...
The International Criminal Court has opened a preliminary examination into Myanmar's alleged crimes against its Rohingya Muslim minority. The move could pave the way to a full investigation into Myanmar's...
The government has extended the tenure of an ongoing project until 2020 for capacity building to promote trade, officials said. The project titled 'Strengthening Institutional Capacity and Human Resource Development...
North Korea has agreed to allow international inspectors to observe a “permanent dismantlement” of its key missile facilities, and will take additional steps such as closing its main Yongbyon nuclear...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) will organise a weeklong tax fair in all divisional cities across the country from November 13. The tax fair will be held in 56...
Experts at a dialogue have laid emphasis on transparency, accountability and government mechanism to help ensure best use of climate change resilience fund. They also called for ensuring data openness...
President of the Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) Mahbubul Alam has disputed a suggestion that operational activities of the Chittagong Port be handed over to a foreign entity....
Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) has invited Bangladesh to subscribe to its second edition of Sukuk (Islamic bonds), officials said. The bond is scheduled to be floated this month. Under...
A move has been taken to revise the city transport sector's plan for the second time. Sources said the Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority (DTCA) has already requested the Asian Development...
JOYPURHAT, Sept 18: The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) is expecting to produce over 0.5 million tonnes of T-Aman output this season in the district. More than 0.1 million peasants...
The mobile industry in Bangladesh has become the fifth largest in the Asia Pacific, with 85 million unique subscribers and 145 million connections as of 2017. The telecommunications has boomed...
The basic goal of the country's rural health sector has remained largely unmet. Its much-vaunted purpose: bringing health services to the doorsteps of villagers still faces a daunting challenge. Qualified...
For long, Bangladesh was depending on only one product - readymade garment or RMG for its export to other countries. Roughly, 80 per cent of Bangladesh's $33 billion export comes...
We cannot rest on the laurels of incremental GDP growth rates and the beckoning of an upper middle income country status. On the contrary, we are obliged to step up...
After US markets closed on Monday, Trump announced he would impose a 10 per cent tariff on $200 billion worth of Chinese exports to the United States - half the...
Since independence, overall economic inequality in Bangladesh has become pervasive; but it is avoidable. The rising inequality has emerged not only because of differences in what people inherited and received;...
To begin with a real-life air travel experience in Canada. I needed to go to Regina, the capital city of Saskatchewan Province. I bought the airline ticket through Air Canada's...
The escalating trade war between China and the United States is hurting both the countries, posing threat to global slowdown. Is it about just steel and soybean? Why should a...
Ten years after the failure of Lehman Brothers, we know that multilateral action was crucial in preventing the so-called Great Recession from becoming even worse than it was. Back then,...
Grameen Nippon, the Japanese version of Grameen Bank, has recently been launched in Tokyo of Japan aiming to reduce the economic gap in the society. Masahiro Kan, the founder and...
River erosion-victims of Noria upazila in Shariatpur will get support under the Vulnerable Grouping Feeding (VGF) programme until December 31. Besides, 5000 bundles of corrugated iron (CI) sheets and Tk...
Convener of Jatiya Oikya Prokriya Dr Kamal Hossain on Tuesday called upon the people of all walks of life to join together for 'greater national unity' to ensure a good...
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