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A German-Bangla movie night will be organised at Goethe-Institut Dhaka on Sunday. Dhaka University Film Society (DUFS) in cooperation with Goethe Institut will organise the film show. The film screening...
A collision between a bus and a human hauler, locally known as Laguna, left 13 people dead in Baraigram upazila of Natore on Saturday. A private television, quoting fire service...
The government is updating the Model Production Sharing Contract (Model PSC) to invite a new round of international bidding for oil and gas exploration in the country's offshore blocks sometime...
The Election Commission will held a meeting on Sunday to find ways to reform the Representation of the People Order amid discussion on the issues related to the electronic voting...
BNP on Saturday alleged that ruling party high-ups are making 'reckless remarks' involving Khaleda Zia and Tarique Rahman over the August-21 grenade attack case as part of its plot over...
A man and his grandson were killed and two others were injured in a collision between a motorcycle and an auto-rickshaw in Katakhali area of Rajshahi on Saturday morning. The...
Government offices will reopen on Sunday after the vacation of Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival of the Muslim community. The government service holders have got five-day vacation as weekend...
The Asians in new movie “Searching” are neither rich nor crazy, but the contemporary thriller is in some ways as ground-breaking as the big romantic comedy currently making waves in...
On the plain of Arafat, I stood among hundreds of thousands of people who were all trying to reach the top of Mount Mercy, whilst covering my first Hajj after...
China's consumer confidence remained high in the second quarter (Q2) of the year, according to a research report by global measurement and data analytics company Nielsen. The country's Consumer Confidence...
Mobile payments in China continued fast growth in the second quarter (Q2) of 2018, the central bank data showed. The country's banks processed 14.92 billion mobile payment transactions in the...
It is difficult for even veteran farmers to recognise every pest variety, making choosing the right pesticide to kill them difficult. But Chinese scientists have made the work as easy...
At least ten people were killed and five others injured after a boiler exploded in a residential area of the city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran, Fars News reported in...
Wells Fargo & Co, the fourth-largest US bank, is laying off more than 600 workers as it grapples with a slowdown in its mortgage business, a bank spokesman says. The...
Ahead of their first working day after the Eid vacation, holidaymakers started returning to the capital on Saturday after celebrating the Eid-ul-Azha with their families in their hometowns. Moderate crowds...
The top US envoy on Iran criticized a European Union decision to give $20.7 million (£16.12 million) in aid to Tehran on Friday, saying it sent “the wrong message at...
An auto-rickshaw driver was killed and three people were injured in a road accident at Katakhali in Rajshahi city on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Nazim, 50, of...
An island volcano on the north coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG) erupted early on Saturday, forcing 2,000 villagers to flee from lava flows, the PNG National Disaster Centre said....
Police recovered the body of a man, said to be member of an extremist group, from Hugoldanga in Damurhuda upazila of Chuadanga on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as...
US President Donald Trump abruptly cancelled his top diplomat’s planned trip to North Korea on Friday, publicly acknowledging for the first time that his effort to get Pyongyang to denuclearise...
Tottenham captain Hugo Lloris has been charged with drink-driving after being stopped by police in west London. The 31-year-old French goalkeeper was stopped by a routine patrol in Gloucester Place...
Global equity markets rose on Friday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell expressed no surprises in a key speech outlining a steady course for monetary policy. Oil prices surged on...
Law enforcers, in special drives arrested 22 people including nine drug traders from different areas of Dinajpur district in last 12-hour ending at 8 am Saturday morning. Law enforcers also...
Kazi Shahnewaz, president of Bangladesh Frozen Fish Exporters Association (BFFEA), passed away at his Natun Bazar residence in Khulna city on Friday night. He was 72. Shahnewaz, also a freedom...
Wall Street rallied on Friday, with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq hitting all-time highs, as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell affirmed the US central bank’s current pace of rate...
Bangladesh is the second largest importer of the commercial services among the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Word Trade Statistical Review-2018, released by the World Trade Organization (WTO) last month, unveiled...
Former United Nations chief and Noble prize laureate Kofi Annan will be buried in his home country Ghana on Sept 13, the West African nation’s president said on Friday. Nana...
Bangladesh has failed to tap into the labour market for its women workers in Hong Kong due to lack of proper initiatives, migrant experts and sector insiders said. Manpower recruiting...
A woman was allegedly strangled to death inside her residence at Rajanigandha area in Jashore town on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Kalpana Begum, 37, who was living...
Two suspected robbers were killed in a reported shootout between his cohorts and police at Routora in Magura district town early Saturday. The deceased were identified as Sibadul Islam Siba,...
India's Sembcorp Gayatri Power Limited (SGPL) power plant has won a tender from Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) to supply 250MW of power for 15 years, reports power-technology.com. SGPL is...
The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has sought to build a dedicated railway track for transportation of the increased volume of cargoes to and from Dhaka, officials said. CPA Chairman Zulfiqur...
The industrial production marked a sharp increase in the first nine months of the last fiscal year (FY) compared to the same period of the previous fiscal. The industrial output...
Stocks extended their winning streak for the fourth straight week that ended on Monday, in the short week before Eid holidays. Brokers said the market passed another positive week as...
The board of directors of KDS Accessories Limited has recommended 10 per cent cash and 5.0 per cent stock dividends for the fiscal year ended on June 30, 2018. The...
Fish, vegetables and many grocery items were rare in the city markets on Friday, the weekend just after the three-day Eid-ul-Azha holidays, as most vendors did not turn up. Cashing...
A fire early on Saturday morning at a hot springs hotel in the far northeastern Chinese city of Harbin killed 18 people, with 19 injured, authorities in the city said....
Two people were killed and 25 others injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway at Jimaltola in Daudkandi upazila on Saturday morning. The identities of the deceased could not...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is contemplating a plan to conduct sudden drives at non-company entities, including beauty parlours and fast food shops, in a bid to find out...
One year after the mass exodus of Rohingya people from Myanmar to Bangladesh following the military crackdown, it has become crystal clear that repatriation of these 'most persecuted' people to...
The United States is cutting more than $200 million (£155.7 million) in aid to the Palestinians, the State Department has said, amid a deteriorating relationship with the Palestinian leadership. A...
ONE Bank Limited signed an agreement with Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited recently, according to a statement. Additional Deputy Managing Director of ONE Bank Limited Rozina Aliya Ahmed...
Cainiao Network Technology Co, Ltd, the logistics arm of Chinese e-tailing giant Alibaba Group, signed a strategic partnership with Singapore Airlines to step up its international air cargo services on...
The Turkish lira firmed against the dollar on Friday after weakening in thin holiday trade this week, as a bitter standoff dragged on between Ankara and Washington over the fate...
After spending 28 years working across the world in developing countries, I recently arrived in Dhaka as the new director of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission. Even...
Agriculture is still the main driving force in the economy of rural Bangladesh. Food security of a vast segment of the country's population is dependent on headways in the agricultural...
It is bewildering to know that only 45,288 or 10.88 per cent out of a total 416,091 structures constructed in the city area under the jurisdiction of the Rajuk (Rajdhani...
More than half a million Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh are being denied the chance of a proper education and are susceptible to fall prey to despair and frustration, said...
Bangladesh seems to be out of the shadow of famine - as far as physical availability of food is concerned. The micronutrient or hidden hunger problem still persists, but people...
The minimum we expect from the government is to differentiate between right and wrong. But when it comes to regulating our food, it's like asking for too much. Our latest...
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