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The Cabinet on Monday constituted a committee, headed by Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), asking to further scrutinise the draft of the proposed Bangladesh Tariff Commission (Amendment)...
Road digging works across the country will remain suspended for 15 days from June 8 to ensure smooth journeys for Eid holidaymakers. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader minister...
A court in Chattogram on Monday sent former general secretary of the port city unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League(BCL) leader Nurul Azim Rony to jail in an extortion case. Additional...
South Africa’s former leader Jacob Zuma is impeding a crackdown on corruption by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) under President Cyril Ramaphosa, the head of the communist party said....
European shares extended their recovery rally on Monday thanks to bank stocks as deal-making took centre stage again after a week of political tension in Italy and Spain. Investors' concerns...
Detectives arrested an on-duty Ansar member along with some Yaba tablets from Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the early hours of Monday. The Ansar member was Asad Miah, 35. Bacchu...
Stocks gave up their earlier gains to turn lower, extending the losing streak for the sixth straight sessions, on Monday as investors continued their selling spree on sector specific stocks....
Australia's Commonwealth Bank has said it will pay a A$700 million ($530m) fine for breaching anti-money laundering and counter-terror financing laws. The scandal relates to 53,000 suspect transactions that the...
Philippine inflation likely accelerated for the fifth straight month in May, a Reuters poll showed, but analysts were divided over when the central bank will again raise interest rates. The...
A freedom fighter has been killed after trying to settle a dispute between a van driver and some local youths in Gopalganj’s Muksudpur Upazila. The incident took place at the...
Novak Djokovic strengthened his claims as a French Open contender by reaching the quarter-finals with a straight-set victory over Spain's Fernando Verdasco. Djokovic, seeded 20th, won 6-3 6-4 6-2 against...
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury returned home on Monday from Paris, France, where she attended a conference on Rohingya crisis. The conference titled ‘International Conference on the Rohingya situation in...
A court on Monday sentenced a man to death and two others to life term imprisonment in a case filed in connection with the murder of a BCL leader in...
A Dhaka court has extended the bail for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia until June 28 in Zia Charitable Trust graft case. Judge Md Akhteruzzaman of the Special Judge Court-5 passed...
Brazil talisman Neymar returned in style with a dazzling goal in a 2-0 World Cup warm-up win over Croatia but Spain goalkeeper David de Gea made a rare error elsewhere...
The Anti-corruption Commission has initiated an investigation of the wealth of 300 drug traffickers who became 'millionaires’ through the illegal drug trade. The commission claims it has prepared a list...
Most Southeast Asian stocks rose on Monday, while Singapore jumped as upbeat sentiment following positive US jobs data pushed global equities higher. Asia ex-Japan shares rose 1.0 per cent to...
The volume of classified loans in the banking system jumped by more than 19 per cent or Tk 142.86 billion in the first quarter (Q1) of 2018 despite the central...
The rice procurement drive is going on at a snail's pace in the Sylhet division with a target of 17,907 tonnes during the current season. The target includes 8,012 tonnes...
Rajshahi University (RU) has been suffering acute shortage of teachers. Sources said though some new departments started journey a few years ago, the number of teachers did not changed. Some...
The United States urges China to make a full public account of those killed, detained or who went missing during a crackdown on student-led pro-democracy protests in and around Beijing’s...
Share prices of three companies – Monno Jute Stafflers, Alif Industries and Safko Spinning Mills—were rising despite having any price sensitive information (PSI). Despite the capital market passing a bearish...
The celebrated author Margaret Atwood has told a conference that humanity's future is linked to the survival of ocean ecosystems. Commenting on ocean plastic pollution, she said: "Something has to...
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed positive trend in early hour of trading Monday as some investors are showing their buying appetite on sectors-wise stocks....
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he plans to visit North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, North Korean state media reported on Sunday, potentially the first meeting between Kim and another...
Police arrested 40 people, including seven suspected drug traders, in an anti-narcotics drive at different parts of Satkhira from Sunday night to Monday morning. Of them, six each were arrested...
Asian shares rose to their highest level in two-and-a-half-weeks on Monday as strong US jobs data offset worries that tariff wars between the United States and the rest of the...
Cold storage owners have sought long-term loan rescheduling facility for their survival. Otherwise, the industry might face serious consequences and many cold storage owners would be forced to close down...
China will launch a tax evasion investigation into the country’s film and television industry, the tax bureau said in a statement posted on its official website on Sunday. Some of...
The net withdrawal of foreign funds invested in shares listed with the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) hit Tk 2.83 billion (283 crore) in May last. The foreign investors were in...
Global airlines on Monday slashed their forecast for industry profits in 2018 on a spike in fuel costs, while warning higher interest rates and a host of geopolitical tensions would...
Bangladesh should reform and liberalise its foreign currency borrowing regime to address the current liquidity shortage and attain its investment target, a leading think tank has said. At the same...
The securities regulator on Sunday approved the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (Substantial Share Acquisition, Takeover and Control) Rules 2018. The seal of approval was given at a meeting at...
The world should stand up to Washington’s bullying behavior, Iran’s foreign minister was quoted as saying on Sunday by state media in a letter to counterparts, as the top diplomat...
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has said that the overall business climate needs to be improved simultaneously with any cut in corporate tax rates. The CPD, a leading private...
An estimated 25 people, including at least three children, were killed and nearly 300 injured on Sunday in the most violent eruption of Guatemala’s Fuego volcano in more than four...
Marc Zuckerberg looked emotionless as he sat before the US Congress to reveal that for all of the reassuring intent, individual privacy had been irreversibly compromised. In the same breadth...
The country has seen bumper harvests of two major rice crops---Aman and Boro---this year. The positive development follows a debacle in the production of the main staple last year due...
The Open Market Sale (OMS) programme that is purported to catering to the needs of low-income groups, is in a terrible shape. The items on sale at subsidised prices are...
Afghanistan posted a big score of 167 for 8 in stipulated 20 overs in the first T20 internationals against Bangladesh at Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Dehradun, Uttarakhand in...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged all to create a social movement against drugs menace. "There was a social movement against militancy; like that we want another social movement against...
The plastic industry that began its journey in Bangladesh in a small scale in the 1960's has developed into an important industrial sector in the last two decades. A 2012...
Armed police have cordoned off Berlin Cathedral after an officer reportedly shot a man inside the building on Sunday afternoon. Eyewitness video showed crews with submachine guns and police tape...
A disquieting finding of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017, Building Resilience for Peace and Food Security, or (SFSN2017), Rome, is that, in 2016, the...
A team of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) made a surprise visit at Kamalapur Railway Station on Sunday. The team visited the station to check irregularities in the sales of advance...
Although black and ugly, I am a derivative of carbon and handy for mankind. I am known as a solid fossil fuel (or hydro-carbon). Organically made up of pre-historic vegetation...
Islamophobia appears to be slowly gaining ground throughout the world. It, according to Professor Khaled A. Beydoun, the author of American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear, is...
JHENIDAH, Jun 03: A total of 10 members of an insolvent family in Atlia village under Modhuhati union of Jhenidah Sadar have been suffering from vision problem for long and...
Afghanistan posted 42 runs for no loss in 5 overs in the first T20 internationals against Bangladesh at at Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Dehradun, Uttarakhand in India n...
Presenting a dismal picture of the national economy Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has said that it strongly believes huge amount of money is being laundered in the disguise of...
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