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Prof Dr Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah, Vice Chancellor of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur has expressed grief shock at the death of noted writer and educationist Prof Mustafa Nurul Islam. In a...
In a drive by the members of Members of Rapid Action Battalion or RAB, a duo was arrested along with 9,920 Yaba tablets from Khuniapalong area in Ramu upazila of...
Police raided a deluxe Kuala Lumpur apartment block at which relatives of ousted Prime Minister Najib Razak had been staying as they searched for sensitive documents the new government fears...
Police in a drive arrested 40 leaders and activists of Islamic terrorist organisation - Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen after a drive on a flat in city’s Mirpur area on charges of plotting sabotage...
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s finance minister, relatively unknown in international financial circles, is a man he threw into prison twice. Mahathir announced three top cabinet posts on Saturday, including...
A 3-member delegation from Bangladesh participated in TiE Inflect 2018 (formerly known as TiEcon), the largest conference for tech entrepreneurs, held recently at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Silicon Valley,...
Around 600 metres of the long-awaited Padma Bridge is now visible following the installation of fourth span on pillar no 40 and 41 on Sunday. The span has been installed...
An assailant shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ killed a passer-by in a knife attack that also wounded four others in the heart of Paris late on Saturday before he was shot dead...
A workshop on the key findings of Bangladesh Logistics (Warehousing and Storage) Study undertaken by the World Bank Group will be held at Pan Pacific Sonargon Hotel, Dhaka Sunday. Dhaka...
Police recovered the bodies of two men from Kamalapur and Kaundia areas of Birulia of Savar on Sunday morning. A 42-year-old rickshaw puller Chand Miah reportedly committed suicide by taking...
The recent liquidity crisis in private banks has created uncertainty in the credit flow in favour of the micro entrepreneurs, specially in agriculture and micro loans, a microfinance expert told...
Just 20 years back, land-starved Bangladesh was blessed with a considerable volume of land reclaimed from the Bay of Bengal at the Mirsarai point of Chattogram. And local people say...
Suspected IS-inspired suicide bombers attack Indonesian churches, at least 9 dead Suicide bombers suspected to be from an Islamic State-inspired group killed at least nine people and wounded 40 in...
LDC graduation might throw Bangladesh into 'double trouble' as the country's preparation for coping with the post-graduation challengers is not satisfactory, economists and businessmen have warned. They said on Saturday...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited and Central Shariah Board for Islamic Banks of Bangladesh (CSBIB) jointly organised a workshop on 'Islamic Banking' Saturday at the auditorium of Islami Bank Training and...
Expo Freight Limited, largely known as EFL started its weekly air freight from Dhaka to New York in collaboration with Qatar Airways Sunday, said a statement. This exclusive freighter will...
The World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development (ADB) are likely to provide grants for Rohingya rehabilitation as they have given second-thought to their lending decisions, officials said Saturday.Officials at...
The word 'prantor' in Bangla is unique to the language. Many would go further. The term means a topographical shape in Bengal, or in today's Bangladesh. Its connotation has no...
Unplanned urbanisation is likely to pose a challenge to the nation's goal of becoming a developed country by 2041, according to analysts. Marking the launch of a book titled 'Institutions...
It is quite logical to raise a few questions about the government's annual development programme (ADP). The questions relate to its size and quality of projects included for implementation. Despite...
The state-owned trading house Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB)’s move to sell daily essentials before Ramadan for keeping the market under control has failed for various reasons, including 'overpricing' in...
Remittance and ready-made garments (RMG) are the two economic engines that have pushed Bangladesh through numerous challenges in last few decades. Agriculture had been and still is a major source...
Our CorrespondentCHATTOGRAM, May 12: The Philippines Ambassador to Bangladesh Vincente Vivencio T Bandillo has expressed his country's interest to strengthen economic cooperation with Bangladesh.Stressing the need for increasing investment in...
French President Emmanuel Macron's state visit to the United States last month was a study in contrasts. Despite the friendly dynamic, Macron's agenda and rhetoric were almost diametrically opposed to...
Established in Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco, on September 12, 1969 with fifty-seven member-states, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is an inter-governmental organisation, having its Secretariat in Jeddah. Theoretically,...
French President Emmanuel Macron faced with high unemployment (close to 10 per cent), mass demonstration against his draconian labour laws, strikes by railway workers, agitations on university campuses, stoppages by...
The government has disbursed subsidy of Tk 44.81 billion, out of the allocated Tk 45 billion, to the entitled export sectors for current fiscal (FY18), said sources. Currently 27 export...
As a member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Bangladesh is committed to comply with the substantive obligations of the two main conventions of Word Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). These...
SYLHET, May 12: With a target to bring larger areas under Aus farming in Sylhet division in the Kharif season, the farmers in many areas are busy in preparing seedbeds....
Two people, including a teenager, committed suicide at Sadar Upazila in Sherpur and Boda upazila of Panchagarh on Friday night and Saturday. In Sherpur, a housewife committed suicide after her...
In what could be its first trading of power with a foreign nation, Odisha, via its bulk purchaser cum trading entity Gridco, is aiming at long-term supply of power to...
A total of 222 hearing impaired people have been leading normal life overcoming their impairment by having surgeries and hearing cochlear implants (CI) provided by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University...
The wage board for garment sector will submit its proposal recommending the wage hike for the workers to the government by next three months, state minister for labour Mujibul Haque...
National Committee to Protect Oil Gas Mineral Resources Power and Ports will stage demonstration on May 14 (Monday) across the country protesting the government's move to raise gas prices and...
The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) in an anti-adulteration drive on Saturday destroyed a total of 2,100 water jars in the city's Mohammadpur area. Executive Magistrate Sarowar Alam led...
The much-awaited second tea auction centre of the country at Sreemangal in Moulvibazar is all set to start its activity from Monday. Bangladesh Tea Board Chairman Major General Md Jahangir...
BNP on Saturday alleged that the ownership of the country's first communication satellite, Bangabandhu-1, has gone to the hands of two persons. "This is fine that they've launched the satellite....
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a daylong drive on Friday filed 2,419 cases on charges of traffic rule violation. Traffic division in their simultaneous drives on the city streets also...
US network NBC has picked up Brooklyn Nine-Nine, just one day after Fox announced it was cancelling the cult comedy. The decision to end the series had sparked outrage among...
Selling labour is a common scenario at different 'human haats' in Cumilla during the harvesting season. People from different impoverished areas parts of the country usually throng human haats, the...
A newborn baby girl was rescued from a dustbin near Janata Housing in the capital's Mohammadpur area early Saturday. Cleaning staffs of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) found the infant...
A three-member delegation of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI), led by its Director General Sardar Abul Kalam, visited two industrial parks of PRAN-RFL Group on Saturday. The delegation visited...
Speakers at a function have underscored the need for social campaign to give the proper idea of zakat and its distribution system as it is one of the five pillars...
Five policemen, including two sub-inspectors of Sitakundu highway police, were closed to Chattogram police lines for releasing a drug trader after embezzling Yaba seized from his possession. They are two...
Quota protestors will observe a two-hour strike in all colleges and universities across the country on Sunday. They made the announcement on Saturday as their 24-hour ultimatum to the government...
The four-day 'Bangladesh Furniture and Interior Decor Expo-2018' will begin tomorrow (Sunday) to showcase the strength of the country’s furniture and home furnishing sectors to both global and local buyers....
The government is set to release a sum of Tk 11.05 billion in favour of the Bangladesh Bank for the payment of cash incentives/subsidy to local exporters, officials said. It...
The central bank is set to constitute a high-powered committee soon to oversee and implement the readymade garment factory remediation project financed by France, officials said. The committee will be...
Despite receiving growing interest, Bangladesh cannot attract Chinese outbound investment in a large volume due to multi-pronged hurdles, a key official of the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka told a panel...
Myanmar has so far verified some 1,100 Rogingya people out of the list of 8,000, which was given to them by Bangladesh. Myanmar will repatriate these refugees who have fled...
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