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The government of Saudi Arabia has provided 200 metric tonnes of dates to Bangladesh. Generally, the Saudi government offers dates to all Muslim countries every year before Ramadan but they...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged everyone to refrain from spreading rumours on social media, saying that she had not built a digital Bangladesh for the spreading of lies, reports...
Stocks finished almost flat on Sunday after choppy trading as investors were active both sides of trading fence ahead of Eid-ul-Azha. Analysts said the some investors sold shares while some...
A court in Chapainawabganj on Sunday convicted two people and sentenced them to death for killing a woman after rape in Mohanbagh area of Sibganj upazila in 2014. The condemned...
Around 15,000 unemployed youths have been turned into skilled human workforce by Rangpur Technical Training Centre (TTC) on 22 courses under eight trades since its inception in 2008. About 10,000...
Local people blocked Dinajpur-Rangpur highway for two and half hours and vandalised eight vehicles following the death of school student in a road crash at Darshana in the city on...
The United States urged Britain on Sunday to ditch its support for a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and instead join forces with Washington to counter the global threat it...
The International Crimes Tribunal will deliver the verdict on five alleged Patuakhali war criminals, including Ishaq Sikder, on Monday. They were accused of killing 17 people, committing 15 rapes, vandalism,...
Nearly 11,000 women die of uterus cancer annually in Bangladesh, while about fifty million females are at risk to be affected by the disease, a recent research said. The research...
About 40 per cent of young Chinese entrepreneurs are female, according to a report released recently. The report was based on a survey of 6,928 entrepreneurs aged 16 to 35...
A Gazipur court on Sunday convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his wife in Tongi area in 2015. After examining all the records and witnesses, District...
What would the summer be without a shark movie? Warner Bros' shark picture The Meg, starring perennial action star Jason Statham, is showing some reel teeth at the box office...
The Australian government has said it is committed to working with Bangladesh to support Rohingyas in need at camps in Cox's Bazar. The Australian government has provided AUD 70 million...
A mentally disabled man was burnt to death inside his house in a slum fire at Chandgaon of the port city on Sunday. The victim Ahatul Islam, 32, was tied...
Russia’s military said it had shot down a drone that came close to its Syrian air base at Hmeimim on Saturday and was launched from the Idlib “de-escalation” zone controlled...
American researchers are employing novel machine-learning techniques to improve the quality of life for patients by reducing toxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy dosing for glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain...
Barcelona's Spain defender Gerard Pique has confirmed his retirement from international football. The 31-year-old centre-back made 102 appearances for his country between 2009 and 2018, scoring five times. He was...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday promised to bring justice to those responsible for the accident that took the lives of two students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment School and...
A total of 50 militants including Taliban key commander Mullah Toofan have surrendered to local authorities in the western Badghis province of Afghanistan on Sunday, police spokesman Naqibullah Amini said....
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested a man along with two pistols and 100 round bullets from Kagojpur area in Benapole on Saturday night. The arrestee was identified as...
Jordan says four people were killed during a police raid on a house sheltering militants suspected of being behind a bomb attack on a police van a day earlier. Security...
Thousands of protesters rallied in Tel Aviv against Israel’s new law declaring it the nation-state of the Jewish people, legislation that has angered the country’s Arab minority and drawn criticism...
Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslims, will be celebrated across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on August 21 (Tuesday) as the moon for the month of Zilhaj...
Speakers at a programme on Saturday underscored the need for countrywide awareness programme to make people alert about cyber security. They also said many people in the country are getting...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday laid the foundation stone of an underpass at a road adjacent to Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment School and College in Dhaka city. The underpass...
Academics and experts in Rajshahi have urged the rural people to boost commercial sheep farming to meet the nutritional demand besides providing valuable wool for expediting the huge opportunity of...
A leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has poured cold water on plans by Steve Bannon, US President Donald Trump’s former political strategist, to forge a wide...
A college student was killed while another injured as a pick-up van hit a motorcycle on Jashore-Chuknagar road in Monirampur upazila on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Obhi,...
A schoolboy died from snake bite at Bhatoail in Magura’s Shalikha upazila on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Topai Biswas, 10, son of Parimal Biswas and a class...
Bangladesh and India will jointly identify locations for setting up six more border haats by next March, an official said. Four border haats are currently in operation in Kurigram, Brahmanbaria,...
Mondelez International has announced the establishment of its operations in Bangladesh, expanding the company's presence in South Asia. The company has set up its country headquarters in Dhaka, marking its...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday upheld a High Court order that granted six months of bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in an arson case filed...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 0.34 million (3.40 lakh) pieces of contraband Yaba tablets from Teknaf upazila in Cox's Bazar early Saturday. A BGB team conducted a drive...
The government has selected 56 businesses as commercially important persons (CIPs) for the year 2016, officials said. The industries ministry announced the names in a gazette notification issued last week...
A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatradal was killed and two activists injured in a factional clash in Kumarpara area of Sylhet city on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as...
India’s battered rupee will trade in a tight range in the coming year but not far from its historic low, hampered by higher oil prices and as trade tensions hurt...
Some seven companies have been shifted to 'Z' category within two to seven years of listing due to poor performance. The prices of the stocks, barring one, presently remain below...
An international road safety charity rejected on Saturday the proposed Road Transport Act (RTA) 2018 terming it incomplete. The draft did not address issues except those concerning drivers, though those...
Field level officials have requested the revenue board for issuing a fresh guidelines or user manual for filing VAT (value added tax) returns in the new form to steer clear...
Novelist Sir VS Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize in literature, has died aged 85, his family have said. Sir Vidia, who was born in rural Trinidad in 1932, wrote...
Slightly over two-fifths of physical work of the Padma bridge project was completed until last fiscal, although its execution deadline will end in December, officials said. Officials said they were...
"Green" is a buzzword these days. Going green actually reduces carbon footprint and helps the environment. Green buildings are designed in such a way as to reduce overall impact on...
It's a good piece of news that the foreign investors in Bangladesh are set to be eligible for getting the prestigious Commercially Important Person (CIP) status. A draft policy is...
The outcome of a study on child feeding practices and nutrition carried out by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDRB) could be surprising if it had been...
Bangladesh Khilafat Majlish, an Islamist political party, has forged an election alliance with the Jatiya Party led by former military dictator HM Ershad. Both parties held a joint press conference...
Bangladesh now hosts almost a million Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar district bordering Rakhine state in Myanmar where these people lived for generations. The influx of Rohingyas was the result...
The Bank of England (BoE) raised interest rates to 0.75 per cent this month, in the belief that inflation will exceed its mandated 2.0 per cent target in about two...
On April 19, 2018, the third Global Findex Database was released by the World Bank at the Bank's Spring Meeting. According to Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), this...
Iran fired a short range anti-ship missile last week as part of the short notice naval exercise it held near the Strait of Hormuz, according to two US officials. Earlier...
FE ReportBangladesh Bank Governor Fazle Kabir on Saturday asked the students to prepare themselves as responsible and worthy citizens to serve the nation through proper education and probity. The BB...
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