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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves here for Dhaka on Sunday afternoon wrapping up her three-day official visit to Australia. A Thai airways plane carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage...
Australia will continue its support to Bangladesh for resolving the Rohingya crisis. Australian Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull made assurance at a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at his residence...
The government is going to formulate a new law and amend the existing prison rules to turn all the jails of the country into correction centres. Law Minister Anisul Huq...
Around 250,000 Bangladeshi passport holder Rohingyas, currently residing abroad, are involved in various criminal activities and tarnishing the country’s image, said expatriates’ welfare minister Nurul Islam BSC on Saturday. “Many...
A total of 10 garment factories have been awarded Saturday for maintaining high safety and workers’ health standards. State Minister for Labour Mujibul Haque handed over the ‘Occupational Safety and...
The declaration, made by North and South Korea to work for “complete denuclearisation” in the peninsula, has earned guarded but optimistic praise from Korean media and world leaders. The North’s...
Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, will be celebrated across the country on Sunday. Buddha Purnima marks Gautama Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death. On this day...
A man has lost his leg after being hit by a bus on the Mayor Mohammad Hanif flyover in Dhaka’s Jatrabari on Saturday. The victim is identified as Md Russell,...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a daylong drive on Thursday filed 2,429 cases on charges of traffic rule violation. Traffic division in their simultaneous drives on the city streets also...
The government plans to upgrade the Faridpur-Kuakata highway to a four-lane in a bid to boost tourism and improve the overall road communication system. The 236.74-kilometre highway from Bhanga of...
A healthcare emergency can strike anyone, anytime, anywhere. Take the instance of Bashir ul-Quadir, a 48-year-old taxation consultant who was holidaying in one of the remote islands of Greece. He...
After a week of controversial Twitter postings, Kanye West has defended his political views in a new song. The track Ye vs. The People sees the star trading lyrics with...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has urged the government to ensure 'better treatment' of Khaleda Zia at United Hospital in the capital. The BNP leader made the demand...
US President Donald Trump has announced to maintain pressure on North Korea until denuclearisation occurs. The US president came up with the statement on Friday after the historic meeting between...
BSRM Group, the largest steel production company in the country, has signed a partnership agreement with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for the second time recently to support the...
BNP on Saturday alleged that the party's ‘critically ill’ Chairperson Khaleda Zia cannot be taken to a specialised hospital for better treatment as a file in this regard are stuck...
The first Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) shipment, which arrived on Tuesday, will enjoy duty-benefit through an undertaking. The importer of LNG will be able to release goods enjoying exemption from...
Prices of beef and poultry meat have increased further in the city markets just ahead of holy Shab-e-Barat with the demand soaring. Besides, prices of some fishes, varieties of pulses,...
Dulali Begum, a resident of Surandah village at Ramjibon union in Sundarganj upazila, has set an example and generated huge interest among local farmers cultivating purple rice. Purple rice is...
India and China have agreed to improve communication between their militaries to maintain peace at the border. Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale came up with the statement on Saturday at...
The Chittagong Development Authority or CDA has launched a Tk 50 billion mega project aimed at easing water-logging from the next monsoon season. “The city is going to see visible...
Bangladesh is one of the 32 developing countries classified as both the ‘low commodity-export-dependent’ and ‘low commodity-import- dependent’. The Commodities and Development Report 2017, prepared and released by the United...
Turkish authorities have detained 63 people suspected of links to a network accused of orchestrating a failed coup and were hunting for 40 others on Saturday, the state-run Anadolu news...
Campaigning for Malaysia’s general election started officially on Saturday, pitting Prime Minister Najib Razak against his former mentor, Mahathir Mohamad, in a contest marred by claims of sabotage and a...
Five local people were killed and two others injured in a collision between a tanker truck and a Lexus SUV on Saturday in Southwest Cambodia's Koh Kong province, a local...
The family of Juba League activist Farid Islam, who was killed in a shootout over the control of a cable TV business in Chattogram, has filed a case against nine...
Brazilian President Michel Temer denied any wrongdoing following a newspaper report that police are investigating whether he laundered bribes through real estate transactions. Federal police suspect that Temer laundered 2...
At least four civilians and two soldiers were killed in a suicide bomber attack in an army base in southern Helmand province of Afghanistan, officials have said. Omar Zwak, spokesman...
Growth of the transport, storage, and communication sector is likely to decline in the current fiscal year (FY 2017-18), according to the provisional estimation of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics...
The 35th meeting of Shariah Supervisory Committee of Trust Bank Limited was held recently at Head Office of the Bank. Janab Dr. Mufti Muhammad Abdullah, Chairman, Trust Bank - Shariah...
Rohingya refugee camps are under imminent threat, unless urgent funding is secured in the next six weeks, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has warned. “Without new funding, the lives...
NCC Bank arranged a day-long workshop on "Foreign Remittance Payment System and AML & CFT Compliance" for Officers of Ansar-VDP Unnayan Bank at NCC Bank Training Institute recently. Khondoker Nayeemul...
Some 116 extremely poor families came out from the vicious cycle of poverty in Sarkerpara village under Ramnagar union of Sadar upazila in Nilphamari district. The villagers who used to...
The two-day long 8th Social Business Day begins in Bengaluru, India at Infosys Campus, Electronic City on June 28. Yunus Centre and Yunus Social Business have arranged the event, said...
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates says the US and the rest of the world lack a sense of urgency to counter biological threats. The American tech mogul said if there was...
Myanmar’s trade with foreign countries in the first 20 days of the six-month transitional period has reached over 1.5 billion US dollars, according to figures from the Commerce Ministry on...
Two international flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines failed to meet their arrival schedules at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Saturday. BG 120 from Doha was scheduled to arrive at...
Grameenphone and DataSoft have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop comprehensive IoT solutions for businesses that will leverage both DataSoft’sIoT application development capabilities and Grameenphone’s M2M Connectivity Plan...
Robi, the largest 4G network operator with the advanced 4.5G technology, has celebrated the milestone of having reached 1.0 million subscribers. In the fourth-generation arena, Robi is the first mobile...
Rafael Nadal continued his clay-court domination with a 6-0 7-5 win over Slovakian qualifier Martin Klizan in the Barcelona Open quarter-finals. The Spanish world number one, 31, extended his Open...
A gauge of world stocks rose slightly on Friday, buoyed by gains in Amazon as yields on US Treasuries dipped for a second straight day in the wake of data...
“Avengers: Infinity War” took in $39 million on Thursday evening at US and Canadian box offices, the biggest opening for a Marvel Studios film and the fourth-highest of all time,...
US stock markets struggled for direction on Friday as inflation jitters and sagging technology and energy stocks offset an advance in the consumer discretionary sector led by Amazon. Data showed...
Khulna Zone of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited organised a performance review meeting recently at the zonal office, said a statement. Mohammed Monirul Moula, Additional Managing Director of the bank attended...
Britain’s interior minister Amber Rudd resisted calls to quit, apologising for not being aware of the use of deportation targets in her department and vowing to implement fair and humane...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called on Bangladeshi nationals studying in Australia to make use of every opportunity presented to them. The prime minister made the remarks on Saturday morning,...
The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has begun replacing several thousand old autorickshaws, sometimes referred to as ‘moving bombs’, in Dhaka and Chattogram. The process began on Apr 1 at...
A total of 84 people have so far fallen ill due to an ongoing outbreak of E. coli illness in 19 US states after around 60 people who have been...
The prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) witnessed a mild correction last week that ended Thursday as risk-averse investors booked profit on sector-wise stocks. Market operators said the...
Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the largest single mass child sacrifice event in human history. More than 140 children were sacrificed at about the same time in Peru’s northern...
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