Emergency room patients at the National Institute of Traumatology & Orthopaedic Rehabilitation, popularly known as Pongu Hospital, have been suffering due to power outage that began on Sunday morning. The...
NILPHAMARI, Apr 29: With the increase in demand of flowers, along with the flower shops, cultivation of varieties of flower has increased in the district. One Shafiqul Islam of Saidpur...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo underscored the need for unity in the Gulf on Sunday during a brief visit to the Saudi capital, reports Reuters. "Gulf unity is necessary...
The recent US-Bangla plane crash in Nepal caused immeasurable loss to the families of the victims. The airlines authority had insurance coverage up to $0.2 million or about Tk 16...
This year's theme of the Earth Day was "End Plastic Pollution". To end the menace of such pollution, Bangladesh has already imposed a ban on production, marketing and use of...
Physical gold demand lacked vigour in most Asian hubs this week amid a slight dip in prices, while the yellow metal switched to a premium in India for the first...
BERLIN, Apr 29 (Reuters): German business leaders voiced disappointment on Saturday over the outcome of talks between Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Donald Trump, saying they feared he would...
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating, enabling profound progress in every field of human endeavour - from healthcare to education to climate control and crop yields. By combining...
Vietnam's coffee exports for the January-April period rose an estimated 17.7 per cent from the same period a year ago, while rice exports grew an estimated 22.3 per cent during...
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh made emotional pleas to the UN Security Council delegation for help to return safely to their homes in neighbouring Myanmar. They also sought help to get...
Bangla Trac has started supply of electricity from its 200MW power plant in Daudkandi of Cumilla. According to the company, the 200MW Bangla Trac Power Unit-1 at Daudkandi was commissioned...
The country's leading institution of medical education and research Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) will celebrate its founding anniversary and 21st University Day tomorrow (Monday) in a befitting manner....
One of the biggest tasks for every government is to prepare and pass a budget that has two characteristics: (1) Ensure that the size of the deficit and its financing...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday that a ban on Filipino workers from heading to Kuwait that's been in effect since February would now be permanent, inflaming a dispute sparked...
One factor is generally agreed upon in international law which is women enjoy rights and inherent human dignity equally with men. This is reflected in the Cairo Declaration of Human...
Shanxi University of China has announcement scholarship opportunity for Bangladeshi students. A delegation of the university made the announcement at programme in Dhaka, said a press release on Sunday. Around...
Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister AKM Shahjahan Kamal has said that journalists are the conscience of the society, as they work for wellbeing of people as well as the country...
Britain, France and Germany have agreed to support the Iran nuclear deal as it is the best way to prevent Tehran from gaining nuclear weapons. British Prime Minister Theresa May’s...
Habibur Rahman, an East West University student, along with his three friends, got on a bus from Farmgate to go back home at Malibagh and he sat in a window...
US President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to shut down the federal government in September if Congress did not provide more funding to build a wall on the border with...
Two constables of Shahzadpur Police Station in Sirajganj were closed to the district police lines over escaping of two accused from police custody. The punitive action was taken against Abdul...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the BNP is spreading lies with their claim that party chief Khaleda Zia’s medical file has been kept at Prime Minister Sheikh...
Thousands of people have marched in northern Spain for a third consecutive day to protest the acquittal of five men on gang rape charges. Local police in Pamplona estimated the...
President Abdul Hamid on Sunday urged all irrespective of party affiliation, opinion and religious belief to play a proper role in the national development upholding communal harmony and tradition. "Bangladesh...
Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the largest single mass child sacrifice event in human history. More than 140 children were sacrificed around the same time in Peru's northern coastal...
Adverse weather conditions have interrupted launch service from Dhaka to southern parts of Bangladesh. All water transport service from Dhaka’s Sadarghat was halted from 8:28am to 9:42am and 11:50am to...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members arrested a 'drug peddler' with 1,035 pieces of contraband Yaba tablets from Sirajdikhan upazila of Munshiganj on Saturday night. The arrestee was identified as Md...
The election commission will take action against those involved in negligence of duty and violation of election code of conduct in the upcoming city corporation election in Khulna Election Commissioner...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members arrested five members of banned Islamic outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Bajitpur area of Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj on Sunday. The arrestees were identified as...
The visiting high-profile delegation of the UN Security Council on Sunday termed Rohingya crisis a very “complex” issue and said there is no ‘easy solution’ to it. “This is indeed...
Eleven people were killed in lightning strikes in Sirajganj, Sunamganj, Magura, Noakhali and Rangamati districts on Sunday. According to UNB, among the 11 victims, five people were killed by separate...
A fire broke out at a readymade garment factory, Asiana Garment Industry, on Wapda Road in Rampura area of Dhaka city on Sunday noon. Ten units are working to put...
Australia has pledged A$500 million ($379m) to protect the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef. In recent years, the reef has lost 30 per cent of its coral due to bleaching...
Two Dhaka city corporations will not be able to achieve their revenue targets in the current fiscal year due to non-execution of general assessment of holding tax and failure to...
The board of directors of Southeast Bank Limited (SEBL) has recommended 15 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2017, said an official disclosure on Sunday....
In a bid to make the customs procedure more transparent, country’s apex trade body has urged the government to introduce the ATA Carnet system in Bangladesh. The Federation of Bangladesh...
The Cox's Bazar beach town expects a record turnout of tourists during April 27-May 05 that turns out to be virtually a nine-day vacation barring two working days on April...
A man was killed and three others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Sylhet-Jakiganj road at Fulbari union of Gopalganj upazila on Sunday...
At least nine Afghan police personnel were killed and ten others injured in a gunfight after the Taliban attacked a remote district in Northern Afghanistan on Saturday night. "Militants stormed...
Adverse weather conditions have interrupted launch service from Dhaka to southern parts of Bangladesh. All water transport service from Dhaka’s Sadarghat was halted from 8:28 am to 9:42 am and...
Indonesian companies have secured US$274 million (Tk 22.5 billion) worth of orders from Bangladeshi importers during the first-ever Indonesia Fair 2018 that ended on Saturday. Ms. Arlinda, the Deputy Trade...
Mexican scientists have found evidence that megamonas, bacteroidetes and firmicutes and bacteria that live in the digestive tract can lead to obesity in children. In the lead up to Children's...
A collision between a truck and a bus in India’s Madhya Pradesh state has left at least seven people dead and 25 others injured on Sunday, said police. The accident...
ActionAid Bangladesh, MACOMM and the University of Liberal Arts of Bangladesh have jointly organised a roundtable discussion titled “Driving Sustainable Consumption and Production: The Role of the Private Sector” at...
Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country’s Export Processing Zones (EPZs) increased by 15.20 per cent in the past year. Latest statistics of the central bank showed that net inflow...
Heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to occur over the country in next 48 hours, after a rain and thunderstorms swept over the capital on Sunday morning affecting the...
A European Commission plan to tax the digital turnover of large companies drew scepticism on Saturday from the global rule-setting body on tax matters and some EU states, which called...
Five international flights failed to meet their arrival schedules at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Sunday. A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, BG 044 from Kuwait was scheduled to...
Bangla Trac Power Unit-1 Ltd.’s ongoing power project, built in Daudkandi, Comilla, has successfully added 200MW electricity to national grid recently, according to Power Development Board (PDB) source. Now, Bangla...
The IPO subscription of Bashundhara Paper Mills Limited begins April 30 and ends May 9. The company will raise Tk 2.0 billion with a face value of Tk 10 each. ...
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