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Two teenage girls of ethnic minority were found dead at Jangal Mahadevpur hilly village in Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram on Friday night. The deceased were identified as Sukhlati Tripura, 15,...
Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) will observe the ‘World Metrology Day’ to aware the mass people in importance of measurements in everyday life. The theme for this year is...
Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB) has organised a day-long conference for its Chief Regional Managers, Corporate Branch Heads and Branch Managers of Dhaka division. Md Ali Hossain Prodhania, Managing Director of...
Three young men were killed as a bus rammed a CNG-run auto rickshaw on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Malihata area in Sarail upazila in Brahmanbaria on Saturday morning. The deceased were...
Around 28.40 per cent of people in Bangladesh are covered by at least one social protection benefit which is much lower than the average rate in Asia and the Pacific....
The country’s export promotion bureau (EPB) will participate at an international trade fair titled ‘Interior Lifestyle Tokyo 2018’ with a Bangladesh pavilion for the second time. Messe Frankfurt, world’s largest...
US President Donald Trump on Friday issued a proposal that would effectively stop giving government funds that subsidise birth control for low-income women to Planned Parenthood and other clinics that...
Two international flights have failed to meet their arrival schedules at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Saturday. A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, BG026 from Doha was scheduled to...
Mastercard has announced the launch of an exciting Buy One Get One (BOGO) Iftar offer for Mastercard cardholders in Bangladesh. Aiming to accelerate the adoption of cashless payments by rewarding...
edotco Bangladesh (“edotco BD”), an integrated telecommunications infrastructure services company in Bangladesh has welcomed Getco, a prominent Bangladesh-based conglomerate as a 30 per cent shareholder and strategic partner to further enhance its efforts towards the development of telecommunications infrastructure in the country. "Through...
G4S Bangladesh, world’s leading security solutions provider, headquartered in the U.K. and Firexpress A/S, a renowned Danish company specialised in First Strike Fire Fighting systems have signed a Memorandum of...
Social Islami Bank Limited (SIBL) opened its 72nd Agent Banking Unit at Bheramara, Kushita recently. Managing Director & CEO of the Bank Quazi Osman Ali formally inaugurated the unit as...
Two smart luggage firms have closed in May, with both blaming changes to airline policies regarding how lithium batteries can be taken on board planes. Raden and Bluesmart said the...
96.4 Spice FM, the official radio station of Radio Masala Limited, has recently received ‘Silver Creator Award’ from YouTube for hitting 0.1 million subscribers. The news was revealed at a...
BRAC Bank Limited has provided scholarships to the meritorious students of Business Studies Faculty of Dhaka University (DU) as part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme. This year, the...
Field level promotional activities of sericulture are progressing with the aim of bringing back its lost glory through revitalising the sector. In last five fiscal years, Bangladesh Sericulture Development Board...
The country’s external financial account posted a surplus of $6.05 billion in the first nine months of the current fiscal year. This amount is almost twice as much as $3.13...
Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL) has organised the 2nd CEO Roundtable to promote Energy Efficient Technologies (EET) in the textile and RMG sectors across Bangladesh. The 2nd CEO roundtable showcased...
A custom-made yellow guitar owned by Prince sold for US $225,000 in New York on Friday, headlining a sale of jewellery, outfits and memorabilia from the late pop icon, Julien’s...
Morocco's tourism revenue rose 18.1 per cent year on year to 2.1 billion US dollars in the first four months in 2018, the country's foreign exchange regulator said on Friday....
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will travel to China later this year to smooth over bumpy diplomatic ties that have now developed into trade problems for some of Australia’s biggest...
Russian President Vladimir Putin handed ministerial jobs to a former bodyguard and the son of an ex-intelligence chief on Friday, promoting trusted lieutenants with security ties at the start of...
A young man was killed and two other people were injured as an auto-rickshaw overturned after being hit by a truck at Kutupalong in Ukhia upazila on Saturday morning. The...
A man was killed and at least 20 people were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers at Char Ghoshpur village in sadar upazila of Pabna district on...
Police say three people have been killed in an alleged shootout with RAB in Jessore’s Abhaynagar, but the families of the dead claim that they were taken and murdered by...
World stocks steadied Friday as the political uncertainty in Italy weighed on the country’s stocks and bonds as well as the euro, while Wall Street wobbled amid tepid corporate earnings...
Bangladesh has underlined the importance of mobilising international pressure on Israel for halting and reversing its policies and practices, urging the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to play its central...
A murder accused has been killed in a reported gunfight with DB police in Chowrasta area of Nandail upazila in Mymensingh on early Saturday. The deceased Emon, son of Nurul...
US stocks were mostly lower on Friday, benchmark S&P 500 stock index dipped on persistent trade concerns, while US 10-year Treasury yields declined from a near seven-year peak. The Dow...
Nineteen people have been killed and seven wounded after a cement-laden truck in which they were travelling overturned on Bhavnagar-Ahmedabad highway near Bavalyali village in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar in India. The...
A political bloc led by populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a long-time adversary of the United States who also opposes Iranian influence in Iraq, has won the country’s parliamentary election, the...
Multiple explosions at a sports stadium in the eastern city of Jalalabad left as many as eight people dead and dozens more wounded late on Friday night, officials said. The...
Square Pharmaceuticals has attained an average growth rate of 20 per cent in the past five years, beating the national average growth rate, riding on the expanded domestic market as...
China’s push to open up its financial sector to foreign banks and financial institutions will be based on the principle of reciprocity and will not reward protectionism by other countries,...
Stocks extended the loss for fourth straight week as worried investors continued heavy sell-offs amid lack of confidence. Core index of the Dhaka bourse hit one-year low, much to the...
More than 100 people have died after a Boeing 737 airliner crashed near Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuban state media say. Three people have survived but are in...
The Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) is going to inject some Tk 75 billion in additional funds for upgrading rural roads, as those were not constructed by maintaining standard, officials...
Despite classy look and modern facilities, two state-owned passenger vessels have become a burden for the water transport corporation owing to gross mismatch between their earnings and expenditures. After nearly...
The Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) fears incurring a loss of about Tk 80 billion in the upcoming fiscal year because of selling fuel oil at lower rate than import price,...
The Vatican says it needs improvements in global finance policies on debt resolution, taxation and transparency to address inequality and prevent financial crisis. “The recent financial crisis might have provided...
News on moves to revise energy prices often hit the headlines in both print and electronic media. Gas and electricity being two most critical inputs for production of goods and...
Bangladesh is a riverine country endowed with 24,000-kilometre long waterways. But the navigable water network for mechanised vessels varies from 5,968 km during monsoon to 3,865 km during the dry...
A media report on the sufferings of rural elderly people in receiving their old-age allowance at a local-government office is depressing. Long agonising wait by people entitled to the allowance...
Florida police have shot and injured a gunman rambling about US President Donald Trump in the lobby of his golf resort near Miami, officials say. The man, identified as 42-year-old...
Farmers worldwide are feeling the pinch as fuel costs rise to near four-year highs just as they plant and harvest their fields, eroding agricultural income already hamstrung by depressed crop...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the risk of Ebola spreading from the Democratic Republic of Congo. A panel will decide on Friday...
Mikel Arteta has agreed in principle to replace Arsene Wenger and become the new manager at Arsenal. A Goal report says that while no contract has yet been signed, the...
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was established under article 11 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by the parties to the convention at the 16th Conference...
Had there been a wetter Baishakh than the one just gone by? Kalbaishakhi (tropical storm in this part of the world), the name of which is derived from the month,...
Traffic is moving slowly in Munshiganj’s Gazaria on Dhaka-Chattogram highway, leading a tailback to continue. On Friday, the tailback stretched on a 13-kilometre portion of the highway from Meghna Bridge...
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