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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Saturday that the government has taken up a project to establish a technical school and a college in every upazila to create a skilled...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two suspected drug pedlars along with 16,000 Yaba tablets from Jaliapara area in Teknaf upazila under Cox’s Bazar region on Friday night. The...
The Russian Orthodox Church has effectively cut diplomatic relations with the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which has authority over the world's 300 million Orthodox Christians. It follows signs that Constantinople's Patriarch...
Titas Gas Transmission & Distribution Company Ltd (TGTDCL) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Modhumoti Bank Limited (MMBL) over its bill collection. The MoU signing ceremony took place at the...
Rwanda has decided to immediately free Victoire Ingabire, an opposition leader jailed for 15 years, after President Paul Kagame exercised his power to grant mercy, the justice minister said on...
To make the occassion of Ganesh Chaturthi yet more special, a Tapeswaram-based sweet firm prepared a special laddu, weighing 580 kilograms. The laddu, popularly known as ' Maha Prasadam', was...
A total of 2,85,056 students have primarily submitted application for admission test for the first year honours courses in Rajshahi University (RU) under its 2018-19 academic session, an official said....
A microbus plunged into Hatirjheel lake in the capital on Saturday morning. Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters sources said the microbus fell into the lake breaking the railing of...
The Tezos cryptocurrency project is preparing to launch the long-awaited main version of its network that underpins a new virtual token on Monday, a Swiss foundation that promotes the initiative...
Country’s nominal exchange rate depreciated by 3.70 per cent in the past fiscal year (FY18), according to the latest statistics of the central bank. It showed that the per-unit exchange...
At the 2018 World Economic Forum on ASEAN in Vietnam's capital recently, the Asia-Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance announced support for a new initiative to accelerate the elimination of malaria in...
A helicopter carrying security forces crashed in western Afghanistan, killing all five people on board, including the pilot, officials said on Saturday, but ruled out a militant attack. A wave...
United States import prices dropped 0.6 per cent and exports prices edged down 0.1 per cent in August, the US Department of Labor reported on Friday. The decline of import...
Police recovered the body of a housewife from a house in Khaguria area of Bhakurta union in Savar on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Salma Akhter, 17. Sujon...
China's smartphone producer Vivo Communication Technology Co officially unveiled its latest flagship smartphone V11 Pro during a ceremony held in the Dhaka on Friday night. The V11 Pro, the successor...
A teenage boy has been killed and another injured after their motorcycle was hit by a truck in Tangail’s Modhupur. The accident occurred on Sagor Dighi Road in the Motorbazar...
World stocks hit their highest levels in over a week on Friday as expectations grew that the US and China would open new trade talks. The MSCI All-Country World index,...
Total deposits in the country’s Islamic banking industry crossed Tk 2.20 trillion in the past fiscal year (FY18). The amount reached Tk 2.24 trillion at the end of June, 2018,...
Singer Ariana Grande has posted on social media about her ex-boyfriend Mac Miller's death. In the first public statement since he died of a suspected overdose last week, Grande described...
Wall Street fell back on Friday after US President Trump instructed aides to proceed with tariffs on about $200 billion in Chinese products. US stocks, which had been trading marginally...
US technology and consumer discretionary stocks have been insulated from global trade tensions, but if another round of US tariffs on Chinese goods goes into effect, even those high-flying sectors...
The country's first village super market (VSM) is set to open in Khulna, aiming to benefit both farmers and agri-businesses by lessening middlemen's influence. Solidaridard Network Asia, a Netherlands-based organisation,...
Gunmen with rifles and pistols killed three people on Friday and injured at least seven in a tourist plaza in downtown Mexico City, police said, adding that they were chasing...
A strong typhoon packing winds of more than 200 kph (124 mph) tore across the northern tip of the Philippines on Saturday, bringing heavy rain and causing widespread power and...
Hurricane Florence ploughed into the Carolinas and lumbered slowly inland on Friday, knocking down trees, gorging rivers, dumping sheets of rain and leaving five people dead before it was downgraded...
Stocks extended the losing streak for the two straight weeks that ended on Thursday as cautious investors continued their selling binge on large-cap stocks. Market insiders said investors booked profit,...
Bangladesh will take on Sri Lanka in the opening match of the 14th edition of the Asia Cup Cricket at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in the UAE today (Saturday). The...
The flow of domestic financing for microcredit organisations is on the rise lessening their dependence on overseas funds, officials said. Micro-finance institutions (MFIs) are mainly dependent on clients' savings, bank...
Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has neither made any significant contribution to the public exchequer nor benefited the country's consumers over the years, opined experts. Rather, the state-run organisation has...
Bangladesh can boost its tax-GDP ratio by around 10 per cent by introducing carbon tax in the country, a recent World Bank study has said. Such type of tax can...
App-based ride-hailing services have become costlier for city commuters due to its growing demand mainly during rush hours. Many of the users said they have been experiencing a random fare...
The World Bank has identified five impediments to developing long-term finance in Bangladesh, officials said. The Washington-based lender has cited the weak points in a diagnostic report prepared under a...
The special loan restructuring facility offered to some businesses on the grounds of political instability in 2014 have yielded little results in keeping them out of the "default-cycle". The central...
President Donald Trump of the United States of America, the second-largest carbon-dioxide emitting nation on earth, quit Paris International Climate change pact in June 2017. San Francisco of California was...
With the full-blown Bangla monsoon receding, the dengue onslaught is back once again. The scourge has become an annual one over the last one decade. The current year is no...
The manpower recruiting syndicate that has allegedly ripped off the government's move to ease movement of Malaysia-bound workers is still lurking in the dark. Malaysia has suspended recruitment of manpower...
Bangladesh has moved three notches up to the 136th place among 189 countries in the Global Human Development Index (HDI) 2017, according to the Human Development Report (HDR) of the...
Some 8,000 people were prevented from returning home in Boston suburbs on Friday as investigators scrambled to find out the cause of dozens of gas explosions that killed at least...
The ministers of 16 Asia-Pacific countries in the last week of August agreed to reinvigorate the mega-trade deal titled Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). They expressed their willingness to conclude...
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has been conducting National Household Survey (NHS) on corruption since 1997. The sectors covered in this research are related to the delivery of public services. These...
The second of a three-part series titled 'The role of banking in RMG trade '. Regulatory framework for the trade services in general is relevant for the readymade garment (RMG)...
On Monday September 10, Trump administration ordered shutdown of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's office in Washington alleging that "the PLO has not taken steps to advance the start of direct...
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States (US) was under no pressure to make a trade deal with China, even as Chinese officials welcomed an invitation...
Rice export prices in India slumped this week as the rupee fell and demand remained weak with buyers expecting further dips, reports Reuters. Low supplies and the prospect of a...
A portion of the link road of the second Teesta Bridge at the mouth of a small bridge was washed away by strong current while a part of the bridge...
Oil on Friday clawed back some of its losses from the previous session, when prices fell the most in a month, with concerns about supply countering worries that emerging market...
Water Resource Minister Anwar Hossain has sounded philosophical when he almost echoed the immortal song, O nadire (Hey river) sung by Hemanta Mukhopadhya. The minister comments it is the order...
In the morning of September 8 we started from our residence at Uttara well ahead in order to reach in time the scheduled meeting at New DOHS, Mohakhali, Dhaka-1206. Luckily...
The Rohingya are the inhabitants of Rakhine state (historically known as Arakan) in Myanmar. Arakan emerged a kingdom with the military and diplomatic assistance from the Bengal Sultanate in 1429....
The media communication ecosystem has been facing profound challenges in the 21st century. Big bangs are happening around us in the media industry and we- with our brands- are trying...
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