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The country's earnings from goods exports witnessed a sluggish 2.51 per cent growth to $6.79 billion in the first two months of the current fiscal year (FY), 2018-19. The earnings...
Ten Bangladeshi students of Huawei’s flagship CSR programme “Seeds for the future 2018” reached China on Tuesday. The students were welcomed in Beijing opening ceremony on the day at the...
More than 1,500 listings of live animals for sale have been found on Facebook in Thailand by a wildlife trafficking watchdog. Traffic, which monitors such activity, said many of the...
California has passed a law committing to exclusively carbon-free electricity sources by 2045, setting it against US President Donald Trump's energy policy. "There is no understating the importance of this...
The Boeing Company is bringing retired workers back on the job as the world’s largest planemaker tries to fix delays at its 737 jetliner plant outside Seattle, a union official...
More than 10,000 people of 23 villages in the char areas of Teesta and Dharala rivers in Lalmonirhat district have been trapped in flood water following onrush of water from...
A Dhaka court on Tuesday turned down a bail appeal filed by renowned photographer and activist Shahidul Alam who was arrested in a case under the Information and Communication Technology...
Japanese trade minister Hiroshige Seko said on Tuesday that electricity supply will remain tight in Hokkaido in the wake of last week’s powerful earthquake until Friday, when the northern island’s...
Police recovered the bodies of a woman and a man from Nagarghata and Jhorghachha villages of Tala upazila in Satkhira on Monday. The deceased were identified as Mamtaz Begum, 55,...
The Trump administration on Monday threatened tough action against the International Criminal Court should it try to prosecute Americans for alleged war crimes in Afghanistan and said the PLO’s office...
At least 35 people were killed and hundreds injured when a gas tanker exploded in northern Nigerian state of Nasarawa and started a blaze, the state emergency agency said. The...
With congressional elections looming, Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Monday proposed more deficit-expanding tax cuts, an effort seen by some tax experts as unlikely to become law...
The board of directors of Western Marine Shipyard has recommended 20 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2018, said an official disclosure on Tuesday. The...
Evacuations have been ordered as the US East Coast braces for Hurricane Florence - in what may be the strongest storm to hit the region in decades. South Carolina's governor...
Asian shares were struggling to avoid a ninth straight session of losses on Tuesday as the spectre of a Sino-US trade war haunted investors, while the pound perched near a...
US President Donald Trump received a “very warm, very positive” letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un asking for a second meeting and the White House is looking at...
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) will celebrate its silver jubilee tomorrow (Wednesday) through a series of programmes. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to attend the inaugural session...
The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has handed over two newly constructed cargo-lightering jetties to two private industrial groups. Through a open tendering method, two major business houses-KSRM Group and Confidence...
The consumers in the Chattogram region get 300mmcfd of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Monday. Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company Ltd (KGDCL) is supplying gas to local industries, gas-based power plants,...
The share price of Active Fine Chemicals is soaring without having any undisclosed price sensitive information (PSI). Within three consecutive trading days, the company's share price jumped nearly 15 per...
A total of 344 garment factories have faced the music due to their failure to fix the safety flaws identified in their initial inspection, people familiar with the matter said....
Commuters continued to suffer for the acute shortage of public transport during the ongoing campaign against delinquent city bus service operators. People were seen Monday waiting at different places in...
The government has almost achieved its rice procurement target in the Boro season thanks to lucrative price offer that lured millers and farmers. Meanwhile, local smooth supply and higher imports...
Despite close monitoring by the central bank, the amount of non-performing loans (NPLs) jumped by over 20 per cent or Tk 150.37 billion at the end of June this year...
British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party faces a "catastrophic split" if she persists with her proposals on Brexit, which 80 or more of her lawmakers are prepared to vote...
Digital games are bad for children as they can easily become addicted to them. Often, this addiction can drive children and teenagers to spend between 14 to 16 hours hunched...
Labour market in rural areas has undergone radical changes over the couple of decades. This owes both to demand and supply side effects. In the 1980s, for example, about 30...
The graduation from individual Solar Home Systems to nano- and mini-grids deserves to be considered a remarkable development, in that it enables villagers to utilise solar power in economical way....
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft announced that Biman Bangladesh Airlines has ordered three new Q400 turboprops by signing a purchase agreement with the Canadian Commercial Corporation. Based on the list price of...
The decision of Glaxo Smith Kline Beecham (GSK) to close down its pharmaceutical division in Bangladesh is another example of how inflexible policies and unfair competition affect an industry. In...
Bangladesh has been bearing the heavy cost of sheltering the illegal Rohingya refugees in terms of economy, social security and environment. International Chamber of Commerce-Bangladesh (ICCB) has expressed deep concern...
Great Eid business is possible in Dhaka that does not have to subordinate piety to profits, but it must build upon pre-planning. At stake is animal sacrifice, its relationship with...
South Asian countries facing challenges in efficiently meeting growing electricity demand can benefit from increased cross-border electricity cooperation and trade by harnessing complementarities in electricity demand patterns, diversity in resource...
In early July, I travelled to the Kutupalong refugee settlement in Bangladesh, which is now host to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled horrific violence in Myanmar. With...
Oil prices rose on Monday as US drilling stalled and as investors anticipated lower supply once new US sanctions against Iran's crude exports kick in from November, reports Reuters. Benchmark...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday appreciated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's development goals of transforming Bangladesh into a middle income country by 2021 and a developed one by 2041....
Bangladesh Navy (BN) rescued nine fishermen of a fishing trawler that sank near to Mongla fairway in the Bay of Bengal today (Monday) morning after colliding with a commercial vessel....
The second ship containing 140,000 cubic metres (cm) LNG has arrived and started gas supply to the national gas network. The ship will meet 10-day supply, said the officials, as...
TANGAIL, Sept 10: Lemon growers in the district have been making a good profit for the last couple of years. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Tangail, sources said lemon...
NAOGAON, Sept 10: Classes as well as exams at Lalpara Government Primary School in Manairi union under Atrai upazila are going on under the open sky due to bad shape...
Head of the English and Humanities Department of University of the Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) Prof Dr Shamsad Mortuza has been appointed as ULAB Pro-Vice-Chancellor for a four-year period. ULAB...
Union Digital Centers (UDCs) are truly paying back with its diverse services as rural people are getting as many as 150 types of essential services from these centers. Formerly known...
The country’s food grain stock reached 1.6 million tonnes at present. Food Minister Mohammad Qamrul Islam made the disclosure on Monday. ”The food grain stock in the country till September...
Britain's first ever case of monkeypox in a human was confirmed recently, Public Health England (PHE) announced. The patient, a Nigerian national, is undergoing expert treatment in the infectious disease...
Alastair Cook scored a century in his final Test innings for England before international retirement. The opener was giving a lengthy ovation as an overthrow gave him the five runs...
The initial public offering (IPO) lottery draw of Indo-Bangla Pharmaceuticals will be held tomorrow (Tuesday), said officials. The event will be held at 10:30 am at the Auditorium of the...
India has started supplying an additional 500MW of electricity to Bangladesh as part of the neighbours’ cooperation in the energy sector. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra...
“The Nun” had a divine opening weekend atop the North American box office. Warner Bros. dominated for the fifth weekend in a row as the latest installment in the “Conjuring”...
Tencent Holdings will shut a popular Texas Hold’Em poker video game, the Chinese tech giant said to its users on Monday, in a further step to comply with intensifying government...
Stocks ended marginally lower for two consecutive sessions on Monday as investors opted to book profits in the later part of the session. Market insiders said the downward shift in...
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