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So far this year, the world has marked the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring (and its suppression), the centennial of the end of World War I, and the bicentennial...
Electronic commerce (popularly known as e-commerce) has picked up in Bangladesh in recent years. Modes of operation in such business vary depending on market segments or categories. Business-to-consumer (B2C) companies...
Over-fishing, warming oceans and plastic pollution dominate the headlines when it comes to the state of the seas. Most of the efforts to protect the life of the ocean and...
Bangladesh will be nominated as a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board at Geneva Headquarters in Switzerland for a 3-year period beginning from 2019. The disclosure came...
The recent decision of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to introduce e-auction has been a long-awaited one. Disciplining the auctioning procedures in the customs houses by removing not only...
In the space of less than a year, scientific studies published in the prestigious Lancet have on one hand creamed the concept of fatty food and then, on the other,...
Following the last Eid-ul-Fitr, a large number of people left the big cities to spend their holidays in remote areas during the Eid-ul-Azha also. Those may be a beach, a...
Bond market in Bangladesh remains largely underdeveloped. Dominated by the government debt securities in the primary market, the secondary market is largely absent. The lack of an active bond market...
If we take a look at the Bangladesh Bank's monetary policy for the fiscal year 2018, we observe that in FY18 GDP growth momentum was fuelled by sturdy domestic and...
Rural land market in Bangladesh is very narrow and getting narrower over time. For example, land transactions almost halved from 2.0 per cent in the 1980s to 1.0 per cent...
Myanmar has claimed that two journalists of Reuters got punishment from an independent court that followed due process. Myanmar’s government spokesman Zaw Htay came up with the statement at a...
The LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain has said the country is moving forward in every sector under the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. “Once upon a...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has unveiled a book containing intelligence documents on Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The book, titled Secret Documents of Intelligence Branch (IB) on...
Four lawyers of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia met her at the Old Dhaka Central Jail at Nazimuddin Road on Friday. The four Supreme Court lawyers, led by BNP standing committee...
The Jatiya Sangsad will go into its 22nd session on Sunday after a 58-day recess. President M Abdul Hamid convened the session exercising his power bestowed upon him by article...
Amnesty International has welcomed a ruling by the International Criminal Court (ICC) establishing its jurisdiction over alleged crimes against Rohingya people by Myanmar military. On Thursday, the ICC ruled it...
A Turkish filmmaker was convicted on Friday of membership of a terrorist group for a feature film that portrayed President Tayyip Erdogan having a gun pointed at his head as...
Two suspected thieves were killed in a lynch-mob attack in Gourisankarhat in Raujan upazila headquarters in Chattogram early Friday. The deceased were identified as Mokter Hossain and Saiful Islam, residents...
BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain has said different political parties' current efforts to forge a national unity for holding a fair election will soon turn into a political unity....
The International Literacy Day will be observed on Saturday in Bangladesh, like other countries around the globe, in a befitting manner. “Literacy and skills development” is the global theme of...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has rejected BNP's allegation of arresting its leaders and activists arbitrarily. "Members of law enforcement agencies do not arrest any innocent person," the minister said. He...
The euro zone economy grew at 0.4 per cent in the second quarter (Q2) as business and other investments rose sharply while net trade was negative, a statistics agency said...
The economic growth of Japan is expected to be revised up in the second quarter (Q2) due to an acceleration in capital expenditure, a Reuters poll showed on Friday. The...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that they will soon launch a new policy to boost the production and use of electric and alternate fuels-driven vehicles aims to cut the...
Indian shares ended higher on Friday helped by gains in energy and automobile stocks as the rupee regained some lost ground, but the benchmark indexes logged their worst week since...
Installing huge numbers of solar panels and wind turbines in the Sahara desert would have a major impact on rainfall, vegetation and temperatures, researchers say. They found that the actions...
VFS Thread Dyeing will make its share trading debut on Sunday next on both the bourses under 'N' category. DSE trading code for the company is "VFSTDL" and DSE company...
The board of directors of City Bank has decided to invest Tk 1.30 billion in share capital against an offer by City Brokerage, a subsidiary of the bank. The bank...
Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week in a sign of strengthening ties between the two Asian giants. The summit will take place during...
Almost all the ice-cream factories in the city are running without any operational licence and in very unhygienic condition. Experts said substandard ingredients are used to produce ice-creams which are...
Bumper production of paddy has brought smiles to the faces of jhum farmers in Rangamati district this year, thanks to the timely rainfall and favourable weather. During a recent visit...
European shares remained stuck at five-month lows on Friday as uncertainty over global trade rippled through markets and investors dumped riskier sectors. The pan-European STOXX 600 gave up timid early...
Filmmaker Michael Moore compares US President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler in his provocative new documentary, “Fahrenheit 11/9” that got its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on...
An Israeli teenager has fallen to his death in California's Yosemite National Park while trying to take a selfie, reports say. Tomer Frankfurter, 18, had been on a two-month trip...
The bodies of at least 166 people have been found in the Mexican state of Veracruz, prosecutors said on Thursday, the latest in a string of grim discoveries made in...
A Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) team has seized 200 bars of gold weighing about 23 kilograms on the bank of the Padma in Dhaka’s Dohar area. They also arrested five...
The construction works of one of the biggest projects of Chattogram Development Authority – City Outer Ring Road (CORR) is nearing completion. The 4 lane 17 km long CORR from...
Two suspects in the murder of publisher Shahjahan Bachchu have died in alleged shootouts with police in Munshiganj. The incident of the gunfights took place at around 1:45 am at...
Infrastructure development of more than 50 schools and colleges in Rajshahi city involving Tk 1.1 billion is going to start very soon. Sources concerned said entire scenario of the city’s...
Oil prices held steady on Friday as a fall in US crude inventories to the lowest levels since 2015 supported the market, although Sino-US trade tensions and economic weakness from...
Financial and personal data has been stolen from potentially hundreds of thousands of British Airways customers who booked online in recent weeks, extending a run of embarrassing technological mishaps suffered...
Chevron Bangladesh has been recognised by the Ministry of Power, Energy & Mineral Resources as the largest natural gas producer of the country in the private sector. Chevron Bangladesh President...
West Nile fever has appeared again in Czech after a several-year pause, Hana Zelena, an expert with the Czech National Reference Laboratory for Arboviruses, said on Thursday. Zelena said an...
China’s cabinet has pledged sweeping tax reforms will not increase companies’ cost burdens, though analysts remain cautious as the government has yet to unveil specific measures. Rising business costs are...
Prices of chicken and ginger increased further while those of some fishes declined in the city kitchen markets last week. Prices of some vegetables including pointed gourd and sponge gourd...
36-year-old Serena Williams has another shot at winning her first Grand Slam title since giving birth after defeating Anastasija Sevastova in 66 minutes in their US Open semi-final. The 23rd...
Police on Thursday recovered the bullet-riddled body of an unidentified youth from Hilejor area in Kapasia upazila under Gazipur region. When police went to the area after hearing sounds of...
US and Canadian negotiators pushed ahead in grinding talks to rescue the North American Free Trade Agreement on Thursday, but a few stubborn issues stood in the way of a...
Voicing serious concern over its chairperson's health condition, BNP has alleged that the government is out with an 'evil plan' to kill Khaleda Zia in jail. "The family members of...
Twitter says it has permanently suspended the accounts of Alex Jones and his Infowars website. It made the move after a number of tweets that violated Twitter's abusive behaviour policy,...
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