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US wildlife officers in Washington state have shot dead a mountain lion that killed a cyclist and mauled another. The two cyclists were in North Bend, about 30 miles (50km)...
Eden Hazard's first-half penalty decided the FA Cup final in Chelsea's favour at Wembley to leave Jose Mourinho and Manchester United empty-handed this season. Hazard - in a moment which...
Comoros has put former President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi under house arrest just days after he was questioned over his role in a scheme to sell citizenship that investigators say...
US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear accord and re-impose sanctions on Tehran threatens to derail a project to help build Afghanistan’s economy, endangering a...
Cuban authorities said the fiery crash of an aging Boeing passenger jet on Friday shortly after takeoff from Havana had killed 110 of the 113 on board, making it the...
Venezuela has accused the United States of using new sanctions against its government’s top officials to sabotage a controversial presidential election on Sunday, which the country’s opposition says has been...
South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG Group said its chairman Koo Bon-moo passed away on Sunday due to illness. Koo, 73, had been struggling with an illness for a year, LG...
The railway's regional connectivity project faced delay as over 100-kilometre rail line from Dohazari of Chattogram to Cox's Bazar could not be constructed upon failure to acquire land. Officials said...
The revenue board cut advance income tax on the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in order to keep its prices low on the local market. The National Board of...
The government would get around Tk 1.1 billion in taxes at source from the revenue earned by the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) through the sale of its shares to the...
China's state-owned company -- Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC) -- wants to build the proposed second nuclear power plant in Bangladesh. A top official of the corporation said recently that the...
Rafael Nadal came out on top in a captivating Italian Open semi-final against long-term rival Novak Djokovic as he won 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 in Rome. A gruelling contest was full...
The hysteric rush and jostling for an exit or entry leading to mindless deaths and injuries is not unique to Bangladesh. Given the tragic incident's troubling recurrence these days, some...
Unprecedented tailback on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway has taken serious turn. After opening of the Feni overpass recently, the traffic movement on the highway slightly eased. But the situation is back...
Throwing stones at passing trains is no fun. It is potentially a fatal act. Even a small stone thrown at a train travelling at high speed can endanger the lives...
The tax regime in Bangladesh is largely marked by low tax revenue and very widespread evasion. The tax/GDP (gross domestic product) ratio stood at 11.17 per cent of GDP in...
Traffic congestion in Dhaka is causing a loss of Tk 370 billion annually, which is equal to 11 per cent of the national budget, according to a recent study. The...
Donald Trump's renunciation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran and the reimposition of US sanctions on that country threaten global peace. Europe's security depends on defending...
US President Donald Trump’s wife, Melania Trump, returned to the White House on Saturday after undergoing a surgical procedure this week to treat a benign kidney condition, her office said....
Bangladesh was born out of a liberation war nurturing the values of freedom, democracy, social justice and self reliance -- all of which, according to Andre Malraux, together were "the...
The ready-made garment (RMG) industry has been Bangladesh's key export industry and one of the main job-creating sectors for the last three decades. Minimum wage for RMG workers is Tk...
The teenage boy, who sustained injuries while taking selfie in front of a moving train, died while undergoing treatment at Chattogram Medical College Hospital on Saturday. The deceased was identified...
HONG KONG, May 19 (AFP): Energy firms surged on the back of further gains in oil prices in Asian trade Friday wile regional equity markets mostly rose as traders keep...
TOBOLSK, Russia, May 19 (Reuters): On a sprawling construction site in Western Siberia, about 20,000 workers are busy building what will be one of the world's five biggest petrochemical plants,...
PARIS, May 19 (Reuters): Global insurers are taking stock of how the US withdrawal from an international agreement to deny Tehran nuclear weapons, and threatened sanctions against companies that do...
Hundreds of people gathered in Bangkok on Saturday to mark the anniversary of a deadly army crackdown on an anti-government protest in 2010 that killed 91 people and injured hundreds,...
Mango growers in Satkhira are eyeing at exporting a larger volume of the juicy fruit to Europe this year, following the success of last two years. Satkhira farmers exported 121...
Transport workers blocked the Dhaka- Chattogram highway in front of Load Control Station (weighing scale) in Sitakunda upazila for two hours on Saturday protesting an alleged assault on a truck...
Two BNP leaders have alleged that the government has failed to control the market at the beginning of the fasting month of Ramadan. BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain...
Officials of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) on Saturday seized 262 illegal mobile phones, including 121 expensive iPhones by conducting drives at city's Bashundhara Shopping Complex, Mohakhali, Gulshan and...
Three people were killed and two others injured in separate incidents of lightning strike in Banshkhali and Sandwip upazilas in Chattogram on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Latun Barua,...
Rafael Nadal reached his first Italian Open semi-final since 2014 with a hard-fought victory against home player Fabio Fognini in Rome. The Spanish world number two won 4-6 6-1 6-2...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated a hydroelectric power plant in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, amid protests from Pakistan which says the project on a river...
The government has initiated the process of allocating unused land of state-owned jute mills to small entrepreneurs to produce diversified jute goods. To this effect, the Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation...
A mobile court of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Saturday destroyed around 1,100 maunds of chemically ripened mangoes and jailed six traders at the Mazar Road area of Mirpur-1...
Amid growing concerns about the recent "jobless growth" phenomenon, the government is conducting a survey on employment, productivity and sectoral investment in the country. The survey, which is commissioned by...
The government, for the first time, has decided to issue new investment bonds having a floating rate. The objective behind introducing the bonds is to meet the government's own rising...
Chattogram port is facing a severe problem in the delivery of cargo stockpiled in its yards due to the unprecedented tailback on the Chattogram-Dhaka Highway and the inter-district roads. Although...
More than 1.0 million people have been living on the slopes of 30 hills in Chattogram amid danger of landslides during monsoon. According to the Divisional Hill Management Committee, these...
The taxpayers of the country are going to get some good news in the coming budget for 2018-19 fiscal. The tax free income ceiling for the individual taxpayers would be...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Saturday said that the government follows a zero tolerance policy to control the drug business in the country. "If anyone found guilty of extrajudicial...
China has for the first time landed bombers on disputed territory in the South China Sea, its air force said, prompting fresh US warnings that it is destabilising the region....
Some 100,000 Rohingyas, who have taken shelter in Bangladesh amid persecution in Myanmar, will be relocated to Bhasanchar of Hatiya upazila in Noakhali within two months. Disaster Management and Relief...
Britain’s Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle were pronounced husband and wife on Saturday by the Archbishop of Canterbury in a glittering union that brought a measure of modern...
Miscreants hacked a young man to death and injured his brother at Uttar Kolma in Savar Sadar union in the city on Saturday morning over previous enmity. The deceased was...
The protesting jobseekers, who have been demanding reforms in quota system in government job recruitments, have postponed their examination boycott programme. They stated holy Ramadan and session jam at educational...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday asked the authorities concerned to repair all roads and highways by June 8 for smooth vehicular movement during the upcoming holy...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a daylong drive on Friday filed 1,980 cases on charges of traffic rule violation. Traffic division in their simultaneous drives on the city streets also...
The eurozone has recorded a 26.9 billion euro surplus in trade in goods with the rest of the world in March, declined from 28.5 billion in March 2017, data from...
The European Union's energy chief tried to reassure Iran on Saturday that the bloc remained committed to salvaging a nuclear deal with Tehran despite US President Donald Trump's decision to...
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