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Two polls show that between 60-72 per cent of Italians want the country to remain part of the euro while 23-24 per cent would choose to drop the common currency....
US economy, the largest economy of the world, grew slightly lower than previously estimated in the first quarter, according to the US Commerce Department report. The economic growth was revised...
Police on Wednesday arrested a man who claims to be a 'Pir' (religious leader) for his alleged involvement in harassing women in Bhatbaur village of Sadar upazila. The arrestee was...
The Supreme Court has extended its previous order that stayed the High Court order granting bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in two cases filed in Cumilla. A three-member bench...
Delta Brac Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DBH) has recently opened a branch in Gazipur with an aim to provide home loan and deposit services to the local people. Q...
Uber Technologies Inc is talking with Alphabet Inc’s autonomous driving unit Waymo about using its technology on Uber’s ride-hailing app, Uber Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi said on Wednesday, signalling a...
Southeast Asian stock markets were mostly higher on Thursday, as concerns over government formation in Italy eased. Malaysia gained 2.1 per cent in early trade, but was on track to...
Term loan and small and medium enterprises (SME) continued to grab the major loan portfolio of Standard Bank Ltd. As per the loan portfolio mix-2017 of the bank, term loan...
The telecom regulator has moved to terminate the operations of the central zone Internet service provider (ISP) for providing bandwidth to illegal entities. Thus the ISP, Media and Multimedia, broke...
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he expects major drug companies to slash prices on their products in two weeks, but did not provide details on which companies would do...
FIFA has dropped Saudi Arabian referee Fahad Al-Mirdasi from the 2018 World Cup after he was banned for a match-fixing attempt in his country. Al-Mirdasi, 32, was already banned from...
Bangladeshi supply chain managers work in a more uncertain condition compared to any other country, unsure about delivery of goods from the Chattogram port, experts said on Wednesday. Poor infrastructure,...
Canada will impose targeted sanctions on 14 Venezuelan officials, adding to its previous moves to put pressure on President Nicolas Maduro’s government, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday. The sanctions...
Two more suspected drug pedlars were killed in reported gunfights between their rivals in Madaripur and Jashore districts in the early hours of Thursday. In Jashore, an unidentified young man,...
Police arrested an elderly man from Kolapara in Parshuram upazila in Feni on Wednesday for violating a six-year-old girl. The arrestee was identified as Ali Ahmed, 75 of the area....
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed downward trend in early hour of trading on Thursday while the key index of the country’s prime bourse fell...
The right-hand man to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has met US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in New York to discuss a historic summit. Gen Kim Yong-chol dined with...
A dissident Russian journalist reported murdered in Kiev on Tuesday dramatically reappeared alive on Wednesday during a televised briefing by Ukrainian state security about the killing, which they then said...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in separate drives arrested five members of banned Islamist outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from different places of Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts on Wednesday. The...
Movie producer Harvey Weinstein was indicted on Wednesday on charges of rape and a criminal sexual act, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said, the first case to emerge from a...
At least 20 shops were gutted in a fire that broke out at Sachiadah Bazar in Terokhada upazila on Wednesday night around 9:00pm. On information, 10 firefighting units from Khulna,...
The government is going to introduce an alternative loan support model soon replacing the existing equity fund, in an attempt to bring entrepreneurs under a legal framework, officials said. The...
Defamation suit filed against 70 activists and leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) over defamation speech on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday evening. Md Jamal Uddin, Chhatra League president...
The first meeting to determine the feasibility of a bilateral free trade area (FTA) agreement with China will be held next month, officials said. The meeting was deferred twice in...
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has taken a move to introduce Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) for ensuring smooth and secured traffic movement on the national highways. According to the...
The United States will announce plans to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium from the European Union as early as Thursday morning, two people briefed on the matter said, confirming...
Due to the bureaucratic tangles, more than two dozen China-funded projects are not progressing at a satisfactory pace. So far, the disbursement has been made against only two projects. The...
The central bank has asked the commercial banks to keep their intermediation spread between the lending and average deposit rates within 4.0 per cent. To this end, it issued a...
Asian stocks rebounded from a two-month trough on Thursday, while the euro enjoyed a respite after sinking to its lowest in 10 months as political turmoil in Italy that had...
The collection of package Value Added Tax (VAT) from small businesses has recorded a decline during the past three fiscal years, the officials said. They said most of the small...
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he expects major drug companies to slash prices on their products in two weeks, but did not provide details on which companies would do...
An electricity substation in Dhaka’s Paribagh has caught fire. No casualties have been reported immediately, according to bdnews24.com. An official at the Fire Service control room said two units were...
Thousands flocked around Shyamoli, Kalyanpur and Gabtoli bus terminals to book advance tickets as private bus services started selling tickets on Wednesday. According to the private bus operators, a big...
"In this time, going for digital marketing is the best move for any business," remarks the co-founder of a social media marketing agency. The term 'digital marketing' is quite broad....
In this competitive world of business, every organisation is striving to recruit graduates having unique credentials. Indeed, the differentiation comes from acquiring practical knowledge far from the conventional style of...
The population of Dhaka city is at a staggering number of over 18 million. This data in and of itself can raise the eyebrows of many Westerners when they hear...
Another golden feather was added in the crown of the University of Dhaka. After competitions with multiple teams from various countries, the Team Luminous from University of Dhaka won 'Extra...
Tesla Inc's battery cell supplier Panasonic Corp said on Wednesday it is aiming to develop automotive batteries without using cobalt in the near future amid soaring prices of the key...
Almost all countries have enacted laws prohibiting insider trading based on price sensitive information (PSI). However, such laws do not specifically mention what types of information related to company affairs...
RANGPUR, May 30: Natural cold storages have ushered in a new hope to the potato farmers of different areas under Rangpur district in recent years. The farmers are showing their...
MAGURA, May 30: Farmer Golam Ali has proved that hard work can make anything possible in life. He has turned into a successful farmer from an unemployed poverty-stricken ordinary youth....
Right-arm paceman Abul Hasan Raju will replace injury-gripped pacer Mustafizur Rahman in the Bangladesh squad to play the three-match Twenty20 International series against Afghanistan, reports UNB. The series will begin...
Government is perhaps considering reduction in the rate of interest on savings certificates. This decision may be announced soon after the presentation/ approval of the national budget for fiscal year...
Weed in a field of crops is a real hazard that can decrease the yield of food, nay all crops. Crop field's weed competes with crops for light, nutrients and...
There is a glimmer of hope that the proposed summit between US President Donald Trump and the Chairman of North Korean State Affairs Commission Kim Jong-Un would take place on ...
Setting up the NCD (non-communicable diseases) units in the upazila health complexes of the country some years ago was a praiseworthy move. It did promise to ease suffering of the...
In the 1950s, when scientists of south Norway and western Sweden noticed that the fish in the lakes and rivers were dying or disappearing, they detected that the phenomenon was...
The tax authorities will not necessarily receive more from a high rate of corporate income tax. The higher the tax rate, the higher the revenue - this proposition seems true...
The country's export earnings are increasingly becoming dependent on readymade garment (RMG) sector. It is not yet known whether the RMG-based or biased policy support of the government is responsible...
The Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase on Wednesday approved a total of 10 proposals, including one to appoint Russian state regulatory Rostekhnadzor as security and supervision consultant of the Rooppur...
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