The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday issued a notice to Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Mizanur Rahman and his wife Sohelia Anar Ratna asking to submit their wealth statement within seven...
There is no unregistered Rohingya in Bangladesh, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Wednesday. The minister came up with the statement while replying to a question from Awami League MP...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged all to remain careful of stopping spreading confusion about Islam. She made the call while inaugurating the Hajj Programme of 2018 (1439 Hijri) in the...
The Bangladesh Power Development Board has signed a deal with General Electric to build a 3,600MW LNG-based power plant in Moheshkhali of Cox's Bazar. The memorandum of understanding was signed...
Chief executives and representatives of different business entities, ministries and development agencies of France have applauded the impressive growth of Bangladesh and expressed their interest to be part of Bangladesh’s...
A professor of Sociology Department of Dhaka University (DU) has allegedly threatened to call police if students try to obstruct him from taking classes and create any problem at the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is now in jail for her corruption and there is no political motive behind her imprisonment. "She is in jail...
The nail-biting rescue of a Thai boys soccer team and their coach from a flooded cave complex transfixed news viewers around the world, and the story could be headed for...
World Population Day, a United Nations' initiative celebrated every year on July 11 to raise awareness about the exploding world population, focuses on reproductive rights this year to mark 50...
At least two people were killed and five others injured when a bus rammed a microbus at Phulchhari Dargah Bridge in Chakaria upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday. The deceased...
Scientists have discovered the oldest colours in the geological record, 1.1 billion-year-old pigments extracted from rocks deep beneath the Sahara desert in Africa. A study published on Monday in the...
A Dhaka court has sentenced Hall-Mark Group Chairman Jasmine Islam to three years in jail in a case filed by the graft regulator for not submitting a wealth statement. On...
Gulf markets opened lower on Wednesday as financials weighed on Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabian shares, while Qatar and Dubai were slightly down. Abu Dhabi’s index was down 0.5 per...
European shares slipped on Wednesday as an escalation in the US-China trade dispute looked set to bring a six-session winning streak to an end. The pan-European STOXX 600 index was...
SK Trims and Industries will make its shares trading debut on July 15 (Sunday) on the stock exchanges under “N” category, officials said. SK Trims, which received approval from the...
Egypt’s official news agency says security forces killed at least 11 suspected militants in a shootout in the northern Sinai Peninsula. MENA quoted an unnamed security official Wednesday as saying...
Stocks edged higher for the second straight session on Wednesday with turnover surpassing Tk 11 billion-mark after eight months on the major bourse. The market opened on upward trend and...
Harrison Ford’s big screen return as adventurer Indiana Jones has been pushed back until 2021, Walt Disney Co announced on Tuesday, two years after the fifth movie in the action...
A German woman was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for her part in the murders of 10 people during a seven-year campaign of violence by a neo-Nazi gang....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday inaugurated the Hajj Programme of 2018 (1439 Hijri) urging everybody to remain careful of stopping spreading confusion about Islam. “We must keep religion above...
Torrential rains triggered landslides in northeastern India on Wednesday, killing eight children and a woman, an official said. Heavy rains set off landslides in Tamenglong, about 155 kilometres (96 miles)...
China sent a new Beidou navigation satellite into orbit on a Long March-3A rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, in the southwestern Sichuan Province, at 4:58 am Tuesday. The...
An Afghan official says a roadside bomb struck a vehicle in the western Farah province in Afghanistan, killing five civilians, including two women and a small child. Mohammad Naser Mehri,...
A member of the Bangladesh Police Aradhon Chandra Saha has gotten a brand new 800cc car for purchasing a Walton brand 8 cft fridge under the ongoing ‘Walton Eid Mega...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's lawyers have gone to a judge’s court after failing to secure bail from a magistrate’s court in two cases involving the appointment of anti-liberation men as...
Greece will expel two Russian diplomats and ban entry to another two over suspicions they tried to undermine an agreement between Athens and the neighbouring Macedonia last month, Greek newspaper...
Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk on Tuesday landed a deal with Chinese authorities to build a new auto plant in Shanghai, its first factory outside the United States,...
A writ petition has been filed with the High Court seeking directives of the concerned authorities in keeping physicians, officials, and staffs of government and private hospitals refrained from work...
A new study revealed how working night shifts disrupted metabolism, leading to obesity, diabetes and other metabolic disorders. The study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy...
Asian University for Women (AUW) Hong Kong Support Foundation has raised over $0.75 million to provide 50 female students a one-year scholarship from the most marginalised communities in Asia. The...
Easy Build, a retail chain shop of building materials of RFL Group, has opened its outlet in the capital’s Banasree area. Around 3,000 building materials including construction, electrical, safety and...
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced, in coordination with the State Department, the implementation of visa sanctions on Myanmar and Laos due to “lack of cooperation” in...
Meghna Bank Limited has signed a MoU with Butterfly Marketing Ltd recently. Under this MoU, Meghna Bank Credit Card holders can avail zero per cent EMI facilities for 3, 6,...
An elderly woman was reportedly beaten to death allegedly by her daughter-in-law at Bamondanga Dakuatari in Sundarganj upazila under Gaibandha district early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Maksuda Begum,...
Business Initiative Leading Development (BUILD), a national public private dialogue platform will arrange a policy dialogue on Regulatory Predictability and Private Sector Development on July 12 in the city. The...
The Trump administration raised the stakes in its trade dispute with China, threatening 10 per cent tariffs on a list of $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, sending stocks lower...
The World Population Day is being celebrated worldwide including Bangladesh on Wednesday to spread awareness and discuss issues related to population growth. In 1989, the Governing Council of the United...
Bangladesh Supply Chain Management Society (BSCMS), the biggest association of supply chain professionals and leaders in the country recently organised a round table seminar titled ‘Road to Supply Chain Excellence’...
The Sri Lankan cabinet has unanimously approved a move to bring back capital punishment for drug-related crimes, the Times of India reports citing a senior minister. Gamini Jayawickrema Perera, minister...
Manchester City have broken their club record to sign winger Riyad Mahrez from Leicester City for a fee of £60 million, £3m more than the £57 million that they paid...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained 22 more suspects in Rajshahi on Tuesday and they were sentenced to six months jail each by a mobile court on charge of...
Rangpur Technical Training Centre (RTTC) has turned 14,719 unemployed youths into skilled human workforce on 22 courses under eight trades since its inception in 2008. “The institution is producing skilled...
The United States and Mexico have vowed to work with Central American nations to reunite migrant families separated at the US border “as quickly as possible” as the Trump administration...
Soon after getting their respective election symbols on Tuesday noon, the candidates for both mayoral and general councillor posts in the upcoming Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) polls have launched hectic...
Prices of most of the shares on both bourses jumped at the opening session on Wednesday after the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) scaled Tk 10-billion mark on Tuesday. Following the...
At least five people have been killed in so-called anti-drug shootouts with law-enforcement agencies in four districts during the ongoing anti-narcotics raids throughout the country. Among them, two were killed...
Authorities in Saudi Arabia say a Defence Ministry official has been arrested on suspicion of accepting over $260,000 in a bribe. A report Tuesday night by the state-run Saudi Press...
The securities regulator has allowed Runner Automobiles to determine the cut-off price required to go public under book building method. The approval came at a meeting at Bangladesh Securities and...
Two minor cousins drowned in a pond at Khajuria Laxmipur village in Kachua upazila of Chandpur on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Tanvir, 6, son of Jamal Hossain of...
A three-day fair titled 'Bangladesh Buildcon International Expo 2018' related to construction sector will kick off on Thursday aiming to give an impetus to the country's economy. To be held...
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