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The Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore (SEAS) is organising the Asia Clean Energy Summit 2018 (ACES) with speakers setting the benchmark for best practices, debate trends, and solutions in the...
Malaysian factories are hiring Myanmar labourers directly, without charging them broker fees, because of a labour shortage, according to the Myanmar Overseas Employment Agencies Federation. “Employers from Malaysia are directly...
Institute of Chartered Secretaries of Bangladesh (ICSB) organised a workshop on Tuesday on the new ‘Corporate Governance Code’ and ‘Financial Reporting and Disclosures’notifications issued by Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission...
The number of people dying from heatwaves is likely to rise sharply in some regions by 2080 if policymakers fail to take mitigating steps in climate and health policies, according...
The Foreign Investors' Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has organised a dinner meeting at the Westin Dhaka recently. Md. Nojibur Rahman, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,...
City Bank recently presented its half yearly financial performance for the year 2018 through an 'Earnings Disclosure' webcast event held at the Bank's head office. Existing and potential investors across...
BENGALURU: American ride-sharing major Uber on Tuesday claimed making one billion trips in South Asia, mainly in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in five years. "Uber hit a...
The Trump administration plans to propose slapping a 25-per cent tariff on $200 billion of imported Chinese goods after initially setting them at 10 per cent. The administration plan to...
Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party won the majority of seats in parliament after sweeping rural constituencies by huge margins, official results showed on Wednesday, setting the stage for President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s...
Chattogram mayor AJM Nasir Uddin on Monday conveyed his gratitude to the city residents for enduring sufferings resulting from road cutting in the port city by different service providers. Tolerance...
Andre Russell made an unbeaten 35 from 21 balls to guide the world champion West Indies to a seven-wicket win Tuesday in the rain-affected first Twenty20 international against Bangladesh. Russell...
Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management will hold a research workshop on Internal Audit and Performance of Banks in Bangladesh at the BIBM Auditorium on August 02. Mr. Abu Hena Mohd....
Commuters in different parts of Dhaka were facing serious troubles in reaching their destinations on Wednesday as public transports went off the roads apprehending agitations by students. School and college...
Japan’s Tokyo shares rose Wednesday morning, tracking strong US stocks overnight as well as robust earnings reports of the country’s major companies. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average rose 120.60 points,...
An unidentified 'criminal' was killed in a reported shootout with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members at Tarash Uttarpara in Rajshahi city on Tuesday night. AM Ashraful, deputy commanding officer of...
Asian shares are mostly higher as traders watch to see what might come of reports the US and China are looking to restart trade talks. Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose...
Bangladesh Chhatra league (BCL), students' wing of ruling Awami League, has got its new president and secretary. Rezwanul Haque Chowdhury Shovon and Golam Rabbani were respectively made president and general...
Japan has assured Bangladesh that it will continue to have duty-free and quota-free (DFQF) access to the Japanese market even after it graduates from the least developed country (LDC) status....
A three-day long fruit bearing tree fair began on the premises of Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha district on Tuesday afternoon. Local lawmaker Principal Abul Kalam Azad inaugurated the fair, organised...
The board of directors of Sunlife Insurance Company has recommended only 2.0 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on 31 December 2017. The final approval will come during...
Stocks witnessed upward trend in early hour of trading on Wednesday as investors are showing buying appetite on sector-wise stocks after announcement of monetary policy. Bangladesh Bank on Tuesday unveiled...
The earnings of half of the country's 30 listed banks declined during the first half of this year (H1) as compared to the same period of previous year, mainly due...
Facebook has identified a new coordinated political influence campaign to mislead users and organise rallies ahead of November’s US congressional elections, taking down dozens of fake accounts on its site,...
A suspected drug peddler was killed in a reported gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Natore’s Baraigram upazila on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Kabil Hossain, 45,...
Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB) has declared a dividend of Tk 40 per unit certificate of ICB Unit Fund for financial year (FY) 2017-18, according to a statement. The rate...
United Power Generation & Distribution Company (UPGD) dominated the Dhaka bourse's transaction chart while top ten traded companies accounted for about 28 per cent of the transaction on Tuesday. According...
The 18th annual general meeting (AGM) of Sonar Bangla Insurance Limited was held at IDEB Bhaban in the city recently, according to a statement. The shareholders approved 10 per cent...
A plane has crashed in the capital of Mexico's Durango state, television images show, with the state governor confirming nobody was killed. Governor José Aispuro tweeted that there were no...
Bangladesh can emerge as the world's next big supplier of pharmaceuticals by acting as the 'India Plus One' source of low-cost medicines in the global market, the head of a...
Three ministers concerned are yet to sit together even one month after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gave directives to monitor the traffic management system and hold meetings from time to...
Country's overall trade deficit may cross US$22 billion by the end of the current fiscal year (FY) 2018-19, the central bank said. "Our trade deficit may create new record in...
Leading economists are divergent over the monetary policy stance of the central bank, with some seeing it as 'expansionary' while others call it 'contractionary'. Bangladesh Bank governor Fazle Kabir unveiled...
Government employees will get home loan as much as Tk 7.5 million at 5.0 per cent simple interest rate. The lowest amount of home loan for them is Tk 2.0...
The central bank announced a new monetary policy statement (MPS) on Tuesday for promoting job-centric growth with a restraining approach to curb inflationary pressure on the economy. Bangladesh Bank (BB)...
A group of businesses is reported to have been involved in capital flight amounting to Tk 40 billion in disguise of imports and exports. Bangladesh Financial Intelligent Unit (BFIU) has...
Iconic business journalist and Editor of The Financial Express A.H.M. Moazzem Hossain is no more. He breathed his last on Wednesday evening at Square Hospital in Dhaka. He was 73....
New Zealand are set to play Asian teams Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh during their 2018-19 home season from December to March, reports ESPNcricinfo. The India tour will be particularly...
Quantum Foundation emerged champions in the Cute Metropolis Premier Division Handball League, reports UNB. They beat lowly Old Ideals by 40-15 goals in their last league match at Shaheed Capt...
A drama has unfolded when a member of the four-member advisory board of the Department of Homeland Security in the United States, Elizabeth Holtzman, submitted her resignation letter on July...
JOYPURHAT, July 31: Hundreds of cattle rearers across the district have been facing acute fodder shortage over the last couple of weeks. Many cattle rearers of the area said they...
The tourism sector holds enormous potential for gearing up the country's GDP growth. The government has already formulated a National Tourism Policy, the main objective of which is to attract...
SYLHET, July 31: Aus farmers across the Sylhet division are expecting a good yield this season and they will start harvesting the produce after three or four weeks. Aus cultivation...
The reappearance of dengue in metropolis Dhaka with eight fatalities and around one thousand recorded sufferers up to mid-July, as reported by the media, is really disturbing news. Ominously, the...
If something is impossible, it does not happen. If a country votes to make two plus two equal five, this "democratic decision" will eventually be overridden by the rules of...
The participation of women in the labour force is rising in Bangladesh. The Labour Force Survey (LFS) 2016-17, published in January 2018, shows that the female labour force participation rate...
Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) officials on Tuesday seized two luxury vehicles in Dhaka and Chittagong cities on charges of tax evasion. Sources at the CIID said based on...
The government has decided to take separate admission tests for the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) and Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) for 2018-2019 session. The admission...
Acceleration of migration and human mobility marks the present times. Approximately 214 million people or about three per cent of the world's population live outside their countries of origin. The...
Chris Gayle and Rayad Emrit are out as West Indies named a strong 13-man squad for the three Twenty20 Internationals against Bangladesh. The first match will be played Wednesday in...
Within two weeks after the FIFA World Cup 2018, German international midfielder Mesut Ozil announced his retirement from the national team, alleging racism on the part of the German Football...
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