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Argentina and Lionel Messi scraped into the knockout stages of the World Cup by the skin of their teeth after an 86th minute strike from defender Marcos Rojo gave them...
United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB) and Robi have signed a corporate agreement recently. This comprehensive agreement paves the way for UCB to significantly enhance its ability to provide better customer...
Three minors died in two separate drowning incidents in Bijoynagar and Nasirnagar upazila under Brahmanbaria district on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Zannat,7, daughter of Mizan Mia of Chatur...
IPO subscription of ML Dyeing Ltd will begin on July 8 which will raise a fund worth Tk 200 million from the capital market. The company's initial public offering (IPO)...
Bangladesh has scrapped its decision on taking US$ 1.0 billion financial support from Saudi Arabia for building over 550 model mosques, officials said. On Tuesday, the government's economic council revised...
The central bank has reinstated the letter of credit (LC) margin on rice import after more than one year to make sure farmers get fair prices for their produce. The...
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has shown interest in financing two projects in the country's transport sector for improving regional connectivity as well as boosting trade and business. Of...
The central bank has directed the non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) to refrain from sending short message service (SMS) through mobile phone, offering high interest rate, to collect deposit. "We've issued...
Awami League mayoral candidate Jahangir Alam was unofficially declared elected in Tuesday's Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) election as he defeated his rival BNP contestant Hasan Uddin Sarker by a huge...
The finance bill of proposed budget for the fiscal year, 2018-19, is expected to be passed today (Wednesday), two days ahead of the schedule. The budget will be passed the...
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has taken up a road upgradation project at a bloated cost despite its 'unviability', official said on Monday. Project insiders said the RHD itself...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide Bangladesh with US$500 million in loan to help build a state-of-the-art 800 megawatt (MW) power plant in Khulna. Part of the loan will...
ADP implementation patterns over the years in our country have had almost similar contours. Resolute words to hit the ground running without a matching steady start; gathering pace towards end...
The fact that as much as $5 billion gets remitted from the country annually by foreign nationals is no big surprise, but what in reality is more than a surprise...
The construction of the veritable dream highway connecting Dhaka with Chattogram has met a number of basic requirements of the regular travellers. Two years on, with the use of the...
Peru recorded their first win at a World Cup finals since 1978 as they beat Australia in the last match of the tournament for both sides. Australia needed to defeat...
Awami League (AL) mayoral candidate Jahangir Alam widened his lead in the Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) election on Tuesday. Till the filing of this report, Jahangir bagged 281,835 votes in...
The public investment programme namely the Annual Development Programme (ADP) constitutes more than 95 per cent of development budget of Bangladesh. ADP projects are undertaken with an objective to facilitate...
Pakistan was carved by the British out of the womb of a kicking and screaming Subcontinent. The surgeon fled the scene before the umbilical cord could be cut. Brother turned...
If a free and fair election is a sine qua non for democracy, that election is knocking at the door. The Awami league- led ruling alliance headed by Awami League...
URUGUAY VERSUS RUSSIA: Never, most of us fancied, it was easy to beat Russia, especially after the host country have won their first two games with relative ease. Thanks mainly...
Hosts Bangladesh made a good start in the South Asian Qualifiers of the Dhaka Bank FIBA Asia Champions Cup- 2021 beating Bhutan by 61-49 points in the opening match at...
With each passing day, it becomes increasingly evident that US President Donald Trump's administration cares less about economics and more about the aggressive exercise of political power. This is obviously...
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has promised his countrymen to handle the economic pressure of new US sanctions. The president came up the statement on Tuesday amid reports of a second...
The Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor (BCIM-EC) is a sub-regional initiative for economic cooperation among the four Asian countries for developing multimodal connectivity that would link East, Southeast and South Asia. The...
Britain's Queen Elizabeth granted royal assent to Prime Minister Theresa May's flagship Brexit legislation on Tuesday, ending months of debate over the legislation that will formally end the country's European...
The US supreme court has upheld the travel ban imposed by the country's president Donald Trump targeting several Muslim-majority countries. The court handed down a 5-4 ruling on Tuesday, in...
A court in Pirojpur on Tuesday sentenced a man to five years jail for selling fake US dollars at Tuskhali village of Mathbaria upazila in 2015. The convict is Selim...
Newly appointed 18 judges of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court made a courtesy call on President Md Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban in Dhaka on Tuesday. “It’s a...
Within hours of the EU’s sanction announcement, the Myanmar military announced that one of the generals had been fired on Monday and another had left the army last month after...
Habib-ul Bashar was excited as his visa for visiting India was successfully granted. After all, he diligently completed the paperwork and provided all the supporting documents to the visa officer....
Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, is more expensive than Frankfurt of Germany , Brussels of Belgium and Boston of the United States. Mercer’s 24th annual Cost of Living Survey,...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said the government is set to install wire fence and build a road along Myanmar border mainly to stop smuggling of yaba and other illegal...
A Bangladeshi peacekeeper was killed on Tuesday in western South Sudan. The peacekeeper was killed when unidentified gunmen ambushed him on a road in western South Sudan, reports Reuters citing...
Awami League mayoral candidate Jahangir Alam has taken lead in the early counting of votes in the Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) election on Tuesday. According to unofficial results of four...
An outbreak of polio has been confirmed in Papua New Guinea, 18 years after the country was declared free of the disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) says the virus...
Newly appointed Chief of Army Staff General Aziz Ahmed paid a courtesy call on President M Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban Tuesday afternoon. “During the meeting, the new army chief expressed...
The Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry has decided to declare both sides of marine drive in Cox’s Bazar as preserved tourist zone. The ministry also agreed to develop a special...
Mentioning that a process is underway to prepare a list of the patrons of drug dealers, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Tuesday said action will be taken against them, too....
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has arrested a field officer Md Zahidur Rahman of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) with bribe money of Tk 200,000 from his Uttara office...
Speakers at a workshop on Tuesday called for creating greater awareness to conserve and preserve the country's heritage sites, especially archaeological ones, to promote those as tourism attractions. Bangladesh Tourism...
The company behind the photo-editing program Photoshop says it has developed a tool that can detect if an image has been tampered with. Vlad Morarium, an Adobe researcher, employed artificial...
A total of 220 candidates have so far collected nomination forms from Rajshahi district election office for contesting the forthcoming election of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC). Of them, two for...
The government plans to replace old and dilapidated rolling stocks of Bangladesh Railway with new ones in a bid to further improve the railway services. The Executive Committee of the...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday filed a case against Badiur Rahman, a director of Al-Arafah Islami Bank Ltd, on charges of siphoning 500,000 Singaporean dollars equivalent to over Tk...
Reaching for the faucet felt like a frustrating game of chance for Elizabeth Robles. At first, water flowed only one or two days a week, so Robles, president of her...
Law enforcers have arrested BNP central executive committee member Major (retd) Mizanur Rahman from Dhaka on charge of his 'evil efforts' to make Gazipur election controversial. Masudur Rahman, deputy commissioner...
An alleged criminal was killed in a reported gunfight between two groups of miscreants at Nimtala village in Chaugachha upazila of Jashore early Tuesday. The identity of the deceased could...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday conducted a surprise drive in the Department of Government Transport Pool on Abdul Gani road adjacent to Bangladesh secretariat upon receiving a graft allegation...
A bus helper was killed and ten others were injured as the bus hit a roadside electric pole in Vhadrahat bazaar area under Kamarkhanda upazila of Sirajganj district on Tuesday...
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