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The theme of the 2018 World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, which is being observed in Bangladesh today as elsewhere in the world, is 'Enabling the Positive Use of Artificial...
Bangladesh economy is perhaps having more banks than it needs. Some banks have already run out of their capital. They lost their capital owing to bad loans. Of the capital-deficient...
Prices of some essential items, including onion and sugar, have shoot up ahead of the holy month of Ramadan. The price of local variety of onion has recorded 60 per...
Global growth is accelerating. But before we break out the champagne, we should acknowledge the long-term risks to sustained expansion posed by rising private and public debt. Market analysts view...
There are those highly critical of Indian terms in Bangladesh utilising both a $500 million line of credit (LOC) for defence cooperation as well as the $2.0 billion infrastructure development....
The current liquidity crisis that has afflicted the economy has generated much debates and discussions. The government and the Bangladesh Bank (BB) were supposed to take necessary initiatives and they...
Chicago wheat futures rose for a second session on Wednesday with prices underpinned by dry weather in key exporters the United States and Australia. Corn futures were little changed after...
William Spencer Vickrey (June 21, 1914-October 11, 1996) wrote a week before his death and three days before he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics the famous 'Fifteen Fatal...
The 38th Homecoming Day of Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be observed on Thursday. On May 17, 1981, Sheikh Hasina returned home from India after nearly...
Current trends indicate that the global economic recovery is on - albeit unevenly. Although growth looks to be a bit rapid in many emerging economies like the member countries of...
BOGURA, May 16: Nursery business is boosting solvency amid farmers in Bogura district from last few years. Mitigating the local demand, they are sending the sapling to the different adjacent...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said voters will reject the BNP in the upcoming national election as it has refused to accept the outcome of Khulna city polls...
University Press Limited (UPL) on Wednesday wrapped up a 12-day annual grand sale of its publications and foreign books attracting huge responses from the bookworms. Eminent publishing company UPL hosted...
The star of this year's biggest box-office hit is now turning his sights to YouTube's subscription service. Robert Downey Jr is following up the Avengers movies with an online series...
The holy month of Ramadan, the month of self-purification through fasting and abstinence, will begin in Bangladesh from Friday. The National Moon-sighting Committee took the decision at a meeting on...
Satellite ground station at Betbunia in Rangamati is ready for controlling and operating Bangladesh's first satellite, Bangabandhu-1, from the earth. Confirming the information, Project manager at the ground station Shipon...
Labour rights bodies of the readymade garment sector have demanded fixing Tk 16,000 as minimum wage and ensuring yearly increment of 10 per cent for RMG workers before June. The...
Hypertension is one of the major Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) which affects 14 per cent of the adult population in Bangladesh. The information was revealed in 'Bangladesh Health Watch Report' under...
Palestine has recalled its ambassadors in Romania, Hungary, Austria and the Czech Republic after US embassy move. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry recalled the ambassadors on Wednesday citing those EU nations’...
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon on Wednesday reaffirmed his commitment to turn the Dhaka city a livable one within his tenure. "Please have faith on us. Stay...
The World Bank (WB) will provide $110 million for Bangladesh’s enterprise development in a bid to ensure green industrialisation. The Washington-based lender conformed the loan as it signed a deal...
Bangladesh will attend a special summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) called by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who currently holds its rotating chairmanship. Turkey announced its decision to...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested a man along with 10 lakh Indian rupee from Gatipara border area in Sadar Upazila in Jashore on Wednesday afternoon. The arrestee is...
Banking experts at a workshop in the capital on Tuesday called for reining in the overwhelming sales of national savings certificates (NSCs) in the country. They also warned that the...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will prepare a list of top graft suspects through its intelligence unit by the year end to launch probe against them for effectively fighting corruption in...
FE Report Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) is set to increase its water tariffs by five per cent for both domestic and industrial consumers from July, officials said....
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two people and recovered fake notes worth Tk 157,000 from Rail station area under Akkelpur upazila in Joypurhat on Tuesday night. The arrestees were...
Tobacco causes over 0.16 million death every year in the country, 25.54 per cent of adult men and 9.68 per cent women, State Minister for Healthand Family Welfare Zahid Malek...
Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) in Dhaka on Wednesday issued warning for river ports of 16 districts in the country wherein river ports should hoist riverine warning signal number two. The...
European shares rose slightly at the opening session on Wednesday, supported by strength in mining stocks and some solid earnings updates, although a drop in Italian banks on fresh political...
Japan's economy shrinks for first time in time in two years, as private consumption and capital expenditure slowed, government data has showed. The third largest economy of the world fell...
Stocks witnessed yet another bearish session Wednesday, extending the losing spell for the eleven sessions in a row, as investors kept their selling spree on sector-wise issues ahead of Ramadan....
Bank Asia Limited has recently drawn the curtain of its 46th foundation training programme, arranged for 21 officers of the bank. The bank provided the month-long training to the participants...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called on the police to give the highest importance to people’s basic and human rights and the rule of law while discharging their duties. Stressing...
The dollar held firm near a five-month high on Wednesday helped by gains in long-term US Treasury yields, while the euro shrugged off reports that a possible future Italian government...
Explosions intensified on Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano on Tuesday, spewing ash and triggering a red alert for aircraft for the first time since the latest eruption began 12 days ago. Ash...
The employment in the country is not increasing in line with the gross domestic product (GDP), speakers said claiming that such GDP without employment is not expected. There are different...
‘Dorpon’- the ecommerce marketplace for unique and creative handmade goods has launched its journey recently, said a statement. The website of Dorpon www.mydorpon.com was launched to facilitate the buying and...
Provocateur Lars von Trier is under fire again after a screening of his film, The House That Jack Built, prompted dozens to walk out. Starring Matt Dillon as a serial...
Bangladesh Bank recently arranged the ‘School Banking Conference 2018’ at the playground of Dhaka Residential Model School and College at Mohammadpur area in the capital. Under initiatives of 57 commercial...
Social Islami Bank Limited (SIBL) opened its 72nd Agent Banking Unit at Bheramara, Kushita Tuesday. Managing Director & CEO of the Bank, Mr. Quazi Osman Ali formally inaugurated the unit...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited signed an agreement with Hotel Grace 21 on Tuesday at Islami Bank Tower. Abu Reza Md. Yeahia, Deputy Managing Director of the Bank and Nasimul Ghani,...
Police have killed a man accused in six criminal cases in a gunfight in Feni. The shootout took place in Daganbhuiyan upazila’s Khushipur village early Wednesday, said local police station...
The 10th batch Management Trainee Officers of Mercantile Bank Limited got certificates on completion of their Foundation Training in a ceremony organised by MBTI at a city hotel on Tuesday....
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently called for elimination of industrially-produced trans-fatty acids from the global food supply by 2023, which is estimated to cause more than 500,000 deaths from...
Members of the National Moon Sighting Committee will sit in a meeting today (Wednesday) to ascertain the commencement of holy Ramadan, the lunar month of self-purification through fasting and abstinence....
E-commerce in Asia-Pacific is booming - with 71 per cent of APAC consumers making an online purchase - but so is the risk of fraud, with one in five customers...
The Turkish Foreign Ministry has told Israel’s consul general in Istanbul to return to Israel ‘for some time’, state-run Anadolu news agency said on Wednesday, after Israeli forces killed more...
American electronic commerce giant Amazon Inc is bringing its grocery store without checkout lines to Chicago and San Francisco, the company said in a statement recently, confirming reports it will...
Southeast Asian stock markets were mostly lower on Wednesday tracking Asian peers after North Korea called off talks with Seoul. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dropped 0.2...
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