Two brothers have died from electrocution in Pangasia area under Lalmohon upazila of Bhola district on Monday morning. The deceased were identified as Al-Amin (6), and his brother M Siam...
Stocks extended the losing streak for the ninth sessions on Monday, as the investors adopted a cautious stance ahead of the much-talked about share purchase agreement with the Chinese consortium....
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in separate drives arrested four suspected militants in Rajshahi on Monday. The arrestees are: Naimul Islam, Piarul, hailing from Godagari upazila, Jewell, hailing from...
Interport Corporate Academy (ICA), a sister concern of Interport Group, recently organised a separate two-day training course on warehouse management at its training centres in Dhaka and Chattogram. The first...
Union Bank Limited has opened a new branch at Raozan upazila in Chattogram. Omar Farooque, Managing Director of the bank inaugurated the branch on Monday (today), according to a media...
Quota protesters have gathered at Shahbagh in Dhaka city blocking one of the main thoroughfares to press home their demand that a gazette be issued on the quota abolition immediately....
At least 11 people were killed and 50 others injured as they scrambled to collect iftar items distributed by the management of Kabir Steel and Re-Rolling Mills (KSRM) at Nolua...
Bank of France, the central bank of the seventh largest economic country of the world, on Monday estimated quarterly growth rate at 0.3 per cent during the second three months...
Social Islami Bank Limited (SIBL) has organised a Foundation Course in Banking for newly- recruited Officers at SIBL Training Institute in Dhaka. Managing Director and CEO of the Bank Mr....
A Review Workshop on Treasury Operations of Banks will be held at the BIBM Auditorium on May 15, said a BIBM statement. Abu Hena Mohd. Razee Hassan, deputy governor of...
Jamuna Bank Limited has recently arranged a get-together for the non-resident Bangladeshi customers of the bank living in the United Arab Emirates. Al-Haj Nur Mohammed, Chairman of Jamuna Bank Foundation...
China and Hong Kong stocks rose on Monday on signs that the US and China were toning down their trade war rhetoric. The CSI300 index rose 1.1 per cent to...
Dhaka Central Zone of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited organised a client get together and a discussion titled “Compliance of Shariah in the Banking Operations” recently at Karwan Bazar Branch of...
Despite preventative measures, Dhaka has not received any respite from the prevalent mosquito problem that spread diseases like dengi and chikungunya last year. Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) recently found...
Quota protesters have started an indefinite class and exam boycott programme at all educational institutions across the country demanding the immediate issuance of a gazette abolishing the existing quota system...
Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL) and Fintech Innovations International, UAE have signed an agreement recently under which EBL customers will be able to buy and sell trade assets faster and in...
Bollywood star Kajol is going to unveil her wax statue at the Madame Tussauds Singapore, a wax museum and tourist attraction at the Imbiah Lookout of Sentosa Island. The launch...
Russia’s Acting Energy Minister Alexander Novak has planned to discuss the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal with Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih when they will meet at an...
Libya will return to Egypt on Monday the bodies of 20 Egyptian Christians killed in 2015 by Islamic State in its former Libyan stronghold of Sirte, a Libyan security official...
A 60-year-old man was hacked to death allegedly by his drug-addict nephew at Ulpur village in Gopalganj Sadar upazila on Monday morning. Officer-in-Charge (operational) of Sadar Police Station Moktar Hossain...
A local leader of an Awami League-allied group has been killed in a bomb attack in Jessore. Another person was seriously injured in the incident, which occurred at the town’s...
Xerox says it is ending a planned $6.1 billion deal with Fujifilm Holdings Corp and has already reached a settlement with activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason. The US...
The board of directors of Peoples Insurance Company Limited has recommended 10 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2017, said an official disclosure on Monday....
Prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed upward trend in early trading Monday as investors are active on sector-wise issues amid ongoing quarterly earnings declarations. Following the...
Militants have carried out an attack on an army vehicle on patrol in the Pakistani north-western tribal region North Waziristan, killing seven soldiers before fleeing back to neighbouring Afghanistan, Pakistani...
Two workers were killed as a chunk of cement collapsed on them at a cement factory at Paschim Muktarpur in the Munshiganj district town on Monday morning. The deceased have...
Police recovered bodies of a woman and her daughter-in-law from their house at Sadullapur village in Kurshi union of Nabiganj upazila in Sylhet’s Habiganj on Sunday night. The deceased were...
A suspect in five cases has been killed in an alleged shootout involving police in Mymensingh after he was arrested in Dhaka. The deceased has been identified as Sarfan Islam...
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s new government will review political representation in the country’s largest government-linked investment firms, including the main sovereign and state pension funds, the funds have said....
Dust storms, thunderstorms and rain accompanied by gusty winds hit many states including Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and the national capital New Delhi, leaving at least 41 people...
The concept of economic zone is now considered one of the best investment and employment generation models across the world in this age of globalisation, analysts said. Economic zone (EZ)...
The United States threatened on Sunday to impose sanctions on European companies that do business with Iran, as the remaining participants in the Iran nuclear accord stiffened their resolve to...
Unfinished work of the Dhaka-Chattogram four-lane project is partly responsible for the nagging traffic congestion on the country's prime highway, sources said. Though the project was officially announced closed in...
A suicide bomber on a motorbike wounded several Indonesian police outside a police building in Surabaya on Monday, a day after Islamist militants launched suicide attacks on churches in the...
Asian shares shot up to near two-month highs on Monday on signs the United States and China were toning down their trade war rhetoric, while Malaysian Ringgit hit a four-month...
The government's gross borrowing from the banking system jumped suddenly Sunday to finance budget deficit partly for the current fiscal year (FY), officials said. Bangladesh government borrowed Tk 13 billion...
Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) will sign the much-talked-about share purchase agreement with the Chinese consortium, comprising Shenzhen Stock Exchange and Shanghai Stock Exchange, today (Monday) for making the latter its...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed has assured the local furniture makers of the government's necessary support including providing bonded warehouse facility for imported raw materials to help boost the sector's export....
The country's age-old warehouses act has become totally outdated, and the government should move for its complete overhaul, according to a recent study, commissioned by the World Bank (WB) Group....
Now is the peak harvest season in the country. The good news is that most paddy growing areas are expecting a bumper crop. This is despite the fact that crops...
It is quite apparent that the government is in a dilemma over yield rates of national savings tools. The conflicting statements coming from none other than Finance Minister AMA Muhith...
Deng Qiong has no time for marriage or romance, because she's busy being a "mother" of 12 orphans, reports Xinhua. Deng, 45, is the mother of No. 9 family in...
Mahathir Mohamad is back. He has staged a comeback in the centre-stage of Malaysian politics with a big bang. The victory of the opposition Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope) in...
US President Donald Trump has accused foreign governments of extorting "unreasonably low prices" from pharmaceutical firms, reports BBC. Speaking in Washington on Friday, he said he had directed his top...
Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has won the Premier League's Player of the Season award, reports BBC Sport. The 25-year-old Egypt international has scored 31 goals in 37 league matches in...
Mohamed Salah set a Premier League scoring record as Liverpool sealed a place in next season's Champions League with victory over Brighton. Jurgen Klopp's side were slow to start but...
The concerns over irreversible damage of anthropogenic climate change have changed the dynamics of energy use globally and forced countries to reconsider the prevailing growth strategies and make a transition...
The 45th meeting of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers has just concluded in Dhaka. It has stressed on unity and solidarity within the Ummah in its common aspirations of...
A woman and her daughter were allegedly gang-raped by some members of a fraud gang named ‘Jiner Badhsa’ at Gobindaganj upazila in Gaibandha. The victims were residents of the capital’s...
Not long ago, Bangladesh was totally dependent on imported electrical and electronics (E&E) goods. But people now feel proud of buying goods produced in our country; even the assemblers and...
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