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A new integrated state-of-the-art Indian Visa Application Centre (IVAC), the largest Indian visa centre in the world, has been inaugurated at Jamuna Future Park in the capital. Indian Home Minister...
Nestlé Bangladesh Limited, a leading Swiss-based food manufacturer, has announced that it is going to export ‘NESPRAY’ to Sri Lanka for the first time as the company seeks new and...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor Fazle Kabir on Saturday called the public and private commercial banks to remain alert over the growing mismatch in the growth of import and export. He...
A summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin will go ahead as planned despite tension over Moscow’s alleged election meddling, the White House says. The pair...
Detectives arrested five people from Gulshan and Mirpur areas on Friday night for their suspected link to the murder of Awami League leader Farhad Hossain. Tipped off, a team of...
Al-Arafah Islami Bank Ltd. has opened its ‘Hajj Booth 2018’ for the pilgrims at Ashkona Hajj Camp, Uttara recently. The Bank will provide the pilgrims free passport endorsement, foreign currency...
NCC Bank has signed an agreement with Computer Source InfoTech Ltd for purchasing ‘Loan Management Solution’ software. Muhammad H Kafi, Head of Operations of the bank and Md Solaiman Hossain,...
World stocks markets were nearly flat on Friday, while the safe-haven US dollar touched to a two-week high after data showed a record Chinese trade surplus. US stocks were little...
US stocks closed higher on Friday as investors digested a slew of quarterly corporate earnings reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 94.52 points, or 0.38 per cent, to 25,019.41....
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested 27 more people in Rajshahi while 21 of them were sentenced to different terms of jail each by mobile courts on charge...
India's trade deficit widened to more than five years of $16.6 billion in June, the trade ministry said on Friday, driven largely by a surge in oil prices and a...
Twelve Thai boys and their soccer coach rescued from a flooded cave in Thailand are recovering well from their ordeal and will be discharged from hospital next week, health minister...
Police recovered the body of an unidentified young man from Agmundia village in Kaliganj upazila under Jhenaidah region on Saturday morning. Police said that locals spotted the body besides a...
The body of a schoolboy was recovered from the Padma River near Rajshahi city on Friday night, five hours after he drowned in the river. The deceased was identified as...
Police arrested five young men from Chawkbazar Jangishah Majar gate area in the port city on Friday in connection with the gang-rape of a college girl. The arrestees were identified...
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov arrived in the capital city on Friday night to visit Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the Russian deputy...
US actor Scarlett Johansson has dropped out of a role in which she was going to play a transgender man following a backlash from the LGBT community. The Avengers star...
Stocks finished almost flat last week that ended Thursday as investors booked some profits with cautious positioning. Brokers said some investors preferred to take the approach while some others continued...
The first Hajj flight of this year has departed for Saudi Arabia with 419 on board. A total of 126,198 Bangladeshi nationals will be allowed to make the pilgrimage this...
New eligible traditional and non-traditional export items are going to get cash incentive/subsidy this fiscal year (FY), 2018-19, sources said. The government has made the initiative to bring new potential...
The death toll in the deadliest attacks in Pakistan's troubled election campaign has risen to 132, including a candidate, just before the arrest of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. A...
Regulatory predictability is the key to reducing the cost of doing business and spurring domestic and foreign investments in the country, experts have said at a programme. The government should...
The cut-off price of Esquire Knit Composite share has been fixed at Tk 45 each, as discovered by institutional investors through bidding under a book-building method. Esquire Knit Composite, a...
The government has moved to ban the import of recycled lube oil and lube base oil, given their damaging effects on the vehicular engines and the environment. In a letter...
With the global halal economy booming, public and private-sector stakeholders have made a move to increase halal meat exports abroad, according to sector insiders. The fisheries and livestock ministry has...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) is yet to upgrade its century-old law that would help ensure orderly operation of trains for 'not getting competent consultants'. Sources said the BR has invited expression...
The government's climate-related expenditure is set to come under enhanced scrutiny, thanks to the recent introduction of an audit system. The audit protocol is known as 'Climate Performance Audit.' The...
Returned women domestic helps from Saudi Arabia are not getting support from the government, though they went there through the official channel, said victims and rights activists. According to workers...
Bangladesh and India recently sat together to review eight slow-moving projects under the Line of Credit (LoC) characterised by procurement complexities, officials said on Friday. Eight projects involving a substantial...
The 2018 FIFA World Cup is almost over. Thirty of the 32 teams to enter the competition have already been sent home. The two teams that survive will meet in...
As one of those with suspicions around all the data made available to government in an effort to provide seamless identification of wrong-doers the latest information leakage news of FaceBook...
Following the resolution of maritime boundary disputes with neighbours Myanmar and India, the Government of Bangladesh expressed its intention in 2014 to use the sea resources as a key ingredient...
Proving many people's foreboding true, the Halda river's largely unspoiled existence is now under threat. The river in Chattogram is the only source of breeding carp and other fishes in...
Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen in one of his writings said, "It took the world population millions of years to reach the first billion, then 123 years to get to...
Airbus SE and Boeing Co split firm orders for 19 jets from the Indian affiliate of Singapore Airlines Ltd that is seeking to start international flights and bolster local operations....
A great many of us Bangladeshis travel to the United States quite frequently. Many of us have daughters or sons or both and their families there. Thus notwithstanding the fact...
Moving the financial year from existing July-June to a more suitable 12-month timeline has gradually been gaining support. The development momentum of the country combined with rapid growth in allocations...
A suicide bomber hit a campaign event in southwestern Pakistan, a police official said, killing 70 people in the second election-related attack on Friday amid tensions over ousted prime minister...
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday that the death toll from an air strike in eastern Syria overnight had climbed to 54, including IS fighters and 28...
A co-pilot smoking an e-cigarette on an Air China flight caused the plane to start a rapid emergency descent, investigators have said, reports BBC. They say he tried to hide...
For US President Donald Trump, a summit with Vladimir Putin risks a political backlash at home and abroad. For the Russian president, however, the fact the summit is even happening...
Freedom of speech and opinion, access to information and holding the powers that be to account play a crucial role in the improvement process of any society. If people cannot...
When Mario Fernandes's equaliser only four minutes before extra time kept alive host Russia's chance of an unexpected semi-final berth in the World Cup, the goal scorer became an instant...
Nearly a dozen lenders are operating in the country based on the Shariah principle alongside conventional banking. They are thus making their additional contribution to the growth of the country's...
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya said on Friday he would run for re-election in October, aiming to extend his 36-year rule and keep his place on the roster of Africa’s longest-serving...
Ambassador of France to Bangladesh Marie-Annick Bourdin on Friday said the two countries can do a lot more together for peace and stability internationally and in respective regions and ensuring...
A student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) was hacked by a group of miscreants at the university campus on Friday. The victim was identified as Md...
Mukesh Ambani overtook Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma to become Asia’s richest person as he positions Reliance Industries Ltd. to disrupt the e-commerce space in India. The chairman of India’s...
Germany has deported to Tunisia a man who once allegedly protected Osama Bin Laden and had been living in Germany with his family since 1997. The 42-year-old Tunisian, known as...
Indian police on Friday have arrested a training instructor in the southern state of Tamil Nadu after a 19-year-old college student died in a safety exercise. Police said N Logeshwari...
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