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A teacher of a local madrasa was found dead at Deupur village in Kalihati upazila under Tangail region on Thursday evening. The deceased was identified as Anisur Rahman, 55, an...
The government eyes launching a new bidding round within the next couple of months as the draft of a new model production sharing contract (PSC) is awaiting final approval, said...
Transactions in foreign portfolio investment in Bangladesh stock market rose 17.18 per cent in the outgoing fiscal year (FY) 2017-18 compared to previous FY, according to Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE)....
No visible progress has been made so far in reviving the halted project for digitising the country's land registration system even after eight years of launching it, officials said. The...
The 23rd Annual General Meeting of Dhaka Bank Limited was held on Thursday at the Grand Ball Room, Pan Pacific Sonargaon, Dhaka, said a statement. The AGM approved 12.50 per...
Asian share markets rallied from nine-month lows on Friday, after China eased foreign investment limits, but underlying sentiment was dampened by worries over trade frictions a week before initial US...
The amount of Bangladesh-linked funds in the banks of Switzerland dropped 27 per cent last year (2017), according to the latest data released in Zurich on Thursday. The report titled...
The central bank has relaxed regulations, allowing commercial banks to issue guarantee on behalf of foreign-controlled firms favouring the local authorities against counter-guarantee from foreign banks. The banks are also...
Apparently for no reason, high cost of public sector development projects has emerged as a major problem in recent years. The Planning Commission that approves projects after thorough scrutiny, in...
As the world is now honing in on the World Cup football in Russia, there seems to be a sharp division in the global population. On the one side, the...
The phrase, 'look before you leap' might be befitting for the government's reported move to allow overseas investment by Bangladeshi entrepreneurs. It is important to take stock of all the...
Yerry Mina's second-half header sent Colombia into a potential last-16 tie with England at the World Cup at the expense of Senegal, who lost out to Japan having received more...
Argentina's Lionel Messi has set an incredible World Cup record following his goal against Nigeria on Tuesday. He netted the 100th goal of the tournament and became the first player...
Many of us were disconcerted to watch in the social media how people, especially Bangladeshi football fans, had enjoyed defeats of Germany to South Korea on Wednesday night! Was it...
A Rohingya child suffered bullet wounds in firing by Border Guard Police (BGP) in Myanmar along the Tumbru border of Naikkhonchhari upazila in Bandarband on Thursday. The injured is Ansar...
A lot of people may have already been on the verge of becoming oblivious to Europe's migrant crisis of 2013-15. But although the intensity of the mass influxes into the...
The government has amended the guidelines for disbursement and utilisation of budgetary allocations for the development projects aimed at speeding up implementation of Annual Development Programme (ADB). Project directors of...
Iran criticised Saudi Arabia's plan to raise oil output and pressure from the United States (US) on Riyadh to do so, saying this was in breach of OPEC's decision last...
China's authorities say they are capping the pay of actors as part of a move to crack down on tax evasion and "money worship" in the industry. Actors in Chinese...
What has happened to the United Kingdom? Ever since the June 2016 Brexit referendum, British foreign policy has all but collapsed. With the United States in retreat, Russia belligerent, and...
It is a general perception that the national budget for the fiscal year 2018-19 has not taken adequate measures that can help the banking sector overcome the challenges it faces....
Dambiso Moyo is no fan of protectionism. In "Protectionism's false promise" (Time, June 04, 2018, 23-4), she attributed the three causal factors why the United States is marching towards a...
SYLHET, June 28: The newly-constructed building of the Sunamganj District Hospital was handed over to the Health Department recently. District Civil Surgeon Ashutosh Das said, "We took over the new...
A court on Thursday sentenced 29 people to three years' imprisonment in a case filed for embezzling Tk 5.3 million from Rupali Bank 33 years ago. The convicts, tried in...
Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Wednesday settled a seven-year patent dispute over Apple's allegations that Samsung violated its patents by ‘slavishly’ copying the design of the iPhone....
Everton striker Wayne Rooney on Thursday has signed a three-and-a-half-year deal with Major League Soccer club DC United. He will officially complete his move when the US mid-season transfer window...
Many of us have a Euro trip on our bucket list. However, because of the prohibitive expenses involved, we put the trip off for the next year. Sadly however, the...
Fresenius Medicare Care, world's largest provider of dialysis products and service, has opened its office in Yangon, Myanmar. The move reinforces the company's commitment to support healthcare systems in providing...
The government on Thursday signed two financing agreements totalling $715 million with the World Bank (WB) to improve the primary education sector, and to help the country produce timely and...
A 12-year-old French boy has broken the record for crossing the English Channel in a small children's sailing dinghy. Tom Goron set sail from the Isle of Wight at 05:00...
A Sherpur court Thursday sentenced a youth to life term imprisonment for raping a teenage girl after abduction at Akhrapara village in Nalitabari upazila in the district. The court also...
Election Working Group (EWG), an alliance of election observing bodies, has found irregularities in 46.5 per cent of the polling centres during the Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) elections. The EWG...
US President Donald Trump will meet with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16. The White House revealed the details of the high-stakes meeting in a statement...
Armed groups in Pakistan continue to recruit children, including those from madrassas, and allegedly use them for suicide attacks, according to a UN report released on Thursday. The annual report...
Awami League nominated mayoral candidate AHM Khairuzzaman Liton on Thursday submitted nomination paper for contesting in the upcoming mayoral election of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC). Flanked by a large number...
UNICEF spent over US$ 550 million to deliver emergency and life-saving supplies to children in urgent need of assistance last year since famine, droughts, conflict and malnutrition threatened the survival...
Moscow says the top Russian and US diplomats are likely to meet to set the stage for a summit between President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, reports AP....
China is committed to peace but will not give up "even one inch" of territory, President Xi Jinping has said, after talks with visiting US Defence Secretary James Mattis. Tensions...
A meeting of the Core Group of SAARC Immigration Authorities and Visa Experts began on Thursday at the SAARC Secretariat in Kathmandu, Nepal. Comprising representatives from the Immigration Authorities of...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained 19 Bangladeshi nationals, including seven children and six women, from Dharmapur border in Phulbari upazila in Kurigram early Thursday while they were entering...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said the chargesheet in Holey Artisan cafe attack case will be submitted within 10 days. The minister came up with the information while talking to...
The volume of industrial production in Mongolia grew 23.3 per cent in the January-May period compared to the same period last year, amounting to $2.439 billion US dollars. The Ministry...
Five people were killed in a small airplane crashed in a suburb of India’s financial capital Mumbai on Thursday, police and aviation officials said. The King Air C-90 aircraft was...
European shares slipped on Thursday amid the ongoing trade tensions as investors positioned for a potentially divisive European Union summit. Having clawed back some ground on Wednesday, the pan-European STOXX...
Average life expectancy at birth in Bangladesh rose to 72 years in 2017 from 71.6 in 2016, according to the national statistical agency. The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics or BBS...
Stocks ended with negative note on Thursday, the last trading session of the outgoing fiscal year (FY18), as investors were on selling mode on selective stocks. Following the previous day’s...
LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain said 99 per cent people are now under basic sanitation across the country. Of them, 61 per cent use modern latrines, 28 per...
Chinese electric carmaker BYD Co Ltd has opened a new lithium battery plant in the northwestern province of Qinghai, which will be the world’s biggest when construction is fully completed...
For many people, the smell of a pizza fresh from the oven and lovingly crafted is a culinary delight that’s hard to beat. But now that hand-crafted pizza has a...
The Jatiya Sangsad (JS) today passed a Tk 4.64 trillion national budget for fiscal year 2018-19 setting the GDP growth target at 7.8 per cent in a bid to further...
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