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A Portuguese tech firm is uncorking an Android smartphone whose case is made from cork, a natural and renewable material native to the Iberian country. The Ikimobile phone is one...
Canadian rapper Drake, the world’s best-selling artist of 2016, looked on course to set records tumbling again on Friday with his soul-baring new album “Scorpion,” in which he reveals he...
At least six leaders of Bangladesh General Students' Rights Protection Council were injured in an attack allegedly by some Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists on Dhaka University campus on Saturday....
Police recovered the bullet riddled body of a young man from Kayemkhola intersection in Jhikargachha upazila headquarters under Jashore region on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Zahid Hasan...
The 3rd Annual General Meeting of Meghna Bank Securities Limited was held recently at Hotel Le Meridien, Dhaka. Chairman of Meghna Bank Securities Limited Mr. H. N. Ashequr Rahman, MP...
Social Islami Bank Limited (SIBL) and Daraz Bangladesh Ltd. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Head Office of the Bank recently. In presence of the Deputy Managing...
A two-year-old child has died due to alleged medical malpractice at a private clinic in Chattogram. Police detained a doctor-on-duty and a nurse after the child passed away at Max...
The US Senate has passed the 2018 Farm Bill that includes an amendment to fund Puerto Rico's Supplementary Nutritional Assistance Program with up to 635 million in dollars. More than...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a 2 billion US dollar loan instalment for Egypt under a 12 billion dollar aid deal to support the country's economic reform. The...
The 5th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of NRB Bank Limited was held recently at Nazimgarh Garden Resort, Sylhet. The AGM approved 8.0 per cent cash dividend for the year 2017....
Khulna City Corporation (KCC) has worked out a Tk 8.4384 billion mega project, aiming to resolve the city's perennial waterlogging problem. A proposal for the project titled 'Drainage system development...
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) arranged a Members’ Conference on ‘New Format of Auditor’s Report Based on Latest International Standards on Auditing’ on Friday, said a statement....
Malaysia’s new government said on Saturday it is considering amending laws on human trafficking and migrant smuggling just days after the US State Department reported a lack of progress in...
With the theme “Higher Education for Inclusive Development”, the Dhaka University (DU) authorities will celebrate the 97th founding anniversary of the institution on July 1 in a befitting manner. To...
Two siblings drowned in a pond at Modhhaparain Akhaura upazila in Brahmanbaria on Friday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Jannat, 8, and Sayeed, 6, daughter and son of Masuk...
Global stock markets rallied on Friday, with Wall Street seeing its record gains and European indexes recovering from a volatile week pegged to a growing US trade battle with other...
US stocks ended higher on Friday after Nike Inc and banking shares surged, though all three still posted weekly declines. Based on the latest available data, the Dow Jones Industrial...
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi and UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee arrived in Dhaka on Friday. They will visit...
The airport on Indonesia’s holiday island of Bali reopened on Friday after ash from a volcano forced a brief closure and the cancellation of more than 300 flights. Mount Agung...
Customs Officials detained a man along with 22 gold bars weighing around 2.5kg from Sylhet Osmani International Airport on Saturday morning. The arrestee has been identified as Sadikur Rahman Samu,...
At least 100 migrants, including three children, are feared dead after their boat capsised off the coast of Libya, the Libyan navy said Friday. The navy rescued 16 migrants, the...
Lionel Messi is not dictating Argentina's team selection and tactics, manager Jorge Sampaoli said before Saturday's World Cup tie with France. Sampaoli reportedly asked Messi whether he should bring on...
A female teacher of a polytechnic institute was killed when a battery-run auto-rickshaw carrying her collided with a speeding bus on Joypurhat-Mangalbari road in Khanjanpur PDB area in Joypurhat district...
The US ambassador to Estonia is resigning, reportedly in frustration at remarks made by President Donald Trump about America’s European allies. James D Melville revealed in a Facebook post that...
General Motors Co warned on Friday that higher tariffs on imported vehicles under consideration by the Trump administration could cost jobs and lead to a “a smaller GM” while isolating...
The share price of Bangladesh Autocars is soaring without any price sensitive information (PSI) as it surged further by 42 per cent last week. Bangladesh Autocars dominated the week's gainer...
Islamist militants armed with rockets and explosives raided the headquarters of an African military taskforce in central Mali, leaving at least six people dead on Friday, a spokesman for the...
Fund raising by companies through initial public offerings (IPOs) surged by 39 per cent in the outgoing fiscal year (FY) compared to the previous fiscal. Nine companies and two mutual...
Bangladesh expects to draw a large investment from China by signing a free trade area (FTA) agreement, trade officials have said. Both countries have started working towards a joint feasibility...
The central bank is set to make a new guideline on writing off non-performing loans (NPLs), an official said. The Bangladesh Bank (BB) is actively considering a new strategy in...
The outstanding loans of government firms to state-owned commercial banks (SoCBs) increased in May by Tk 2.42 billion over the previous month, statistics show. With the increase, the total outstanding...
A move is underway to increase export of mung bean to Japan considering its huge potential in the Japanese market, officials said. As part of the move, a Japanese business...
Bangladesh's textiles and clothing sector stands to gain, to some extent, from the ongoing trade war between China and the United States. The benefit will largely be accrued from the...
Per-kilometre road construction cost is likely to increase by 18 per cent in the country due to a new schedule of rates, sources said. Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has...
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) called on Chinese businessmen to invest more in Bangladesh considering the investment-friendly environment in the country. Senior vice president of...
History is a witness to the fact that settlers anywhere on this globe have provided momentum to the pace of civilisation. The generation that has moved in search of a...
We landed in Karachi, the port of Pakistan, on March 19; we were a 10-member media delegation from Bangladesh. It was a week ahead of March 26, the Independence Day...
Basically, the United States of America has been a country of immigrants since the discovery of it by Christopher Columbus in October in 1492. The British, Irish and Dutch as...
The news sent a shockwave through the circle who came to know about him. The sudden death of Dr Karunamaya Goswami on Friday night on June 30, 2017 was a...
With four years to go to retirement a police officer has been assigned to a gratis course offered by Alliance Francaise, designed to prepare him and others. This is ideal...
The fourth International Day of Yoga was observed across the globe including Bangladesh on June 21with the slogan 'Yoga for Peace'. Earlier, the India-sponsored resolution for observing the day was...
Gone is the golden period when the country's exports posted an annual growth between 20 and 25 per cent. But, one single sector, the readymade garments (RMG), was behind the...
Bangladesh economy is growing by about 7.0 per cent per annum. It is apparently an achievement in the present-day context. But, the scenario of employment generation seems to be slow....
Forty-five years after the establishment of formal diplomatic ties between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, both the South Asian neighbours have undergone remarkable changes in their foreign policies. They have immense...
Malaysia's new government has announced to withdraw its troops from Saudi Arabia in a bid to keep the country safe from regional conflict. Defence minister of Malaysia Mohammed Sabu made...
The issues revolving around accounting for bad debt have again come to the fore. Prior to the Financial Sector Reform Programme the practice in Bangladesh regulatory procedures was to consider...
An outcry has been growing across the globe in recent times following the rapid increase of plastic wastes in the land and sea. The conservative estimates published in the documents...
Asian champions Bangladesh women’s cricket team have got a four-wicket victory over hosts Ireland in the second match and their first T20 series win. Shamima Sultana’s fifty has fired Bangladesh...
Two people have died in a road accident on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Trishal upazila of Mymensingh on Friday. UNB says, 15 others were injured in the accident when a bus...
Customs officials detained a man along with 13 gold bars at Darshana check-post in Damurhuda upazila of Chuadanga on Friday. The arrestee was identified as Delwar Hossain, 50, son of...
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