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About 75.2 per cent workers of Bangladesh's total labour force are employed in vulnerable jobs and the majority of them have own-account status, according to the latest International Labour Organization...
Chittagong Stock Exchange Ltd (CSE) and Bangladesh Institute of Capital Market (BICM) jointly organised training programmes on Financial Statement Analysis on Friday and on Technical Analysis on Saturday at the...
Ten top-traded companies captured more than 31 per cent transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) Monday with Western Marine Shipyard dominating the chart for three consecutive sessions. Brokers said...
The 19th annual general meeting (AGM) of Premier Bank Limited has approved 15 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2017, according to a statement. Bank...
Voting in the Khulna City Corporation (KCC) elections began on Tuesday morning to elect its new mayor and councillors. The balloting that began at 8:00am will continue till 4:00pm without...
Unipec Singapore and Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) may supply up to 1.52 million tonne (mt) of diesel, jet fuel, furnace oil and octane combined during July to December of...
Bank Asia approved 12.5 per cent stock dividend for the year 2017 at the 19th annual general meeting (AGM) of the bank at Dhaka Officers Club in the city on...
The national budget for the next fiscal year (FY) should have adequate measures to protect external account and reduce income inequality for the country's overall socioeconomic stability, economists, businesses and...
The 95th birth anniversary of late Mirza Mehdy Ispahani was observed through a programme at Mirza Ahmed Ispahani High School on Monday, says a statement. The programme includes recitation from...
The 19th annual general meeting (AGM) of Premier Bank Limited has approved 15 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2017, according to a statement. Bank...
The school of thought that supports change to the process of political thinking has cringed at the seesawing between extremes. Nationalism and too left-leaning views, though perhaps temporarily the right-fit...
The general discourse on poverty in Bangladesh hardly harps on the classification of poverty in line with time dimension. Poverty can both be persistent or short-lived, adducible to structural or...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has once again expressed her frustration over the inferior quality of health service rendered in the country. She has posed the question: if countries like Singapore,...
Easy money creates unsustainable bubbles was the conclusion of a documentary film recently broadcast by DW, the respected German news channel. In the aftermath of the great recession (2007-10) the...
Inequality is increasing in Asia and the Pacific. Our region's remarkable economic success story belies a widening gap between rich and poor. A gap that's trapping people in poverty and,...
Travis Bradberry may have one dandy of an answer to why rational choice may not always produce desired outcomes. For those too ensconced with market competition being the solution, here...
On the surface, mass illiteracy seems like an evil that should be easy to eradicate. Achieving that goal requires neither a technological breakthrough nor a scientific discovery. With funding for...
Upon graduation from the least developed country status, Bangladesh aspires to be a middle-income country in near future. Thanks to abundant low skilled labour helping Bangladesh to sustain above 6...
Juventus extended its record streak to seven Serie A titles after its 0-0 draw against 10-man Roma on Sunday was enough to secure the trophy with a match to spare,...
Second-seeded Alexander Zverev eased past fifth-seeded Dominic Thiem 6-4, 6-4 to win the Madrid Open on Sunday, claiming his second title in a week, reports AP. The German broke Thiem's...
Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has signed an agreement with the Chinese consortium of Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) and Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) to make the consortium a strategic partner. The...
Indian MP and former UN diplomat Shashi Tharoor has been charged with aiding his wife’s suicide in 2014. Sunanda Pushkar's unexplained death was initially treated as suicide, but police later...
Quota reform protesters have called off their protest and blockade at Shahbagh intersection after receiving an assurance from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina regarding their demand. The protesters demanding a gazette...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Director General (DG) Benzir Ahmed on Monday warned drug dealers, addicts and drug pedlar saying that the force will employ everything at its disposal to prevent...
Khulna City Corporation (KCC) goes to polls on Tuesday to elect its new mayor and councillors with the contenders of both the ruling Awami League and BNP claiming to come...
Foreign direct investment (FDI) will increase by seven to eight folds in the next couple of years as the decline in power and gas supply crisis will woo more investors. ...
The Appellate Division of Supreme Court (SC) will deliver its order on Tuesday on two leave-to-appeal petitions filed challenging BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's bail granted by the High Court in...
An alleged robber was killed in a firing over a failed bid by his fellow gang members to rescue him from a mob in Gumkot village of Nangalkot upazila in...
Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) on Monday officially launched a platform called 'Bangladesh Jatiya Prabin Manch' in the city to ensure a better and respectable life for senior citizens in...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has fixed the office hours for all banks from 9.30 am to 4 pm for the holy month of Ramadan. Citing a BB circular issued on Monday,...
Barcelona's dream of going a whole La Liga season unbeaten ended in their penultimate game as they were beaten by lowly Levante in a remarkable match. The hosts moved into...
Two minor siblings died of electrocution at Pangashia under Lalmohan upazila in Bhola on Monday. The deceased were identified as Al-Amin, 6, and Siam, 4, sons of Mizan Khandaker of...
A Madaripur court on Monday convicted four people and sentenced them to death for killing a young man in 2013. The convicts are - Alamin Kha, 17, Shahin Hawladar, 28,...
At least 52 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces during clashes at the Gaza border on Monday. The demonstrations were taking place hours before the new US embassy was due...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will again interrogate former BASIC Bank chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu on Tuesday as he skipped the last quizzing on May 9 in connection with a...
A Tangail court on Monday sent Awami League lawmaker from Tangail-3 constituency Amanur Rahman Khan Rana to jail after completion of his two-day remand in a case filed over the...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) approved two charge sheets on Monday against three government officials in connection with taking bribe and embezzlement of money of the government project. ACC Deputy Director...
Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam said the decision over quota reform will be announced soon. “No decision was taken at the meeting over quota system, but it is in progress....
BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Monday alleged that the government is conspiring to resist their party's victory in Tuesday's Khulna City Corporation polls by rigging votes. "A tense...
Bangladesh's first-ever international nursing conference titled 'Higher Nursing Education: Trends and Challenges' was held in the newly launched National Institute of Advanced Nursing Education and Research (NIANER) at Mugda in...
The Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) has sought an allocation of Tk 5.0 billion in every national budget for an indefinite period against the losses it makes due to "high...
The domestic market has been flooded with illegally imported yarn and fabric, hitting the local industry hard, industry people alleged. As a result, a huge quantity of locally produced items...
After experiencing devastating flash floods last year, Haor farmers are also in serious peril during this Boro harvesting season as its price reached a three-year low. Influence of middlemen including...
There is a need for bundling agricultural risk coverage with farm credit in a bid to scale up the weather index-based crop insurance in Bangladesh, ADB country director Manmohan Parkash...
The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has fixed the maximum price of per kg beef at Tk 450 and buffalo meat at Tk 420 ahead of holy Ramadan. The prices...
The government has renamed the Ministry of Environment and Forest as the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. The Cabinet on Monday approved a proposal for changing the name...
Weak energy and financials stocks sent European shares down on Monday after a strong run of weekly gains, while dealmaking livened up trading with Portugal’s EDP and Britain’s IWG both...
Britain’s MI5 spy chief has accused Russia on attempting to subvert Western democracies by sowing disinformation and spreading lies. In the first public speech outside Britain by a serving head...
Oil prices eased from 3-1/2-year highs on Monday as resistance emerged in Europe and Asia to US sanctions against major crude exporter Iran, while rising US drilling pointed to higher...
Gulf markets were mixed in early trade on Monday, showing signs of recovery from jitters last week over the US decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. Saudi and...
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