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BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said acting party chief Tarique Rahman surrendered his passport to the UK Home Office to get political asylum in London, but not to...
Ekushey Padak winning poet Belal Chowdhury has died at a city hospital on Tuesday. He was 79. The eminent poet breathed his last at 12:30pm at Anwar Khan Modern Hospital...
MPs cannot join the electoral campaigns of their party candidates in Gazipur and Khulna city corporation polls as the Election Commission has not amended the relevant electoral law. Gazipur Returning...
Bogra Zone of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) has recently arranged a discussion session titled ‘Compliance of Shariah in the Banking Operations’ and client get-together at a local convention centre....
Spotify, the UK's biggest music streaming service, has started testing a way of filtering out songs which have explicit lyrics. The feature has been introduced on its iPhone and iPad...
An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale jolted Turkey’s southeastern province of Adiyaman early on Tuesday, leaving 39 people injured, said state-run Anadolu news agency. The US Geological Survey...
A former Pakistan hockey player has appealed to the Indian government to grant him a visa so he can travel to the country for a heart transplant. Mansoor Ahmed, 49,...
YouTube's first three-monthly "enforcement report" reveals the website deleted 8.3 million videos between October and December 2017 for breaching its community guidelines. The figure does not include videos removed for...
At least 16 Taliban militants were killed and four others injured after Afghan army waged an operation in restive southern province of Zabul, the defence ministry said on Tuesday. “The...
Britain’s upper house of parliament handed the government its third defeat over Brexit in less than a week on Monday, voting down plans not to retain EU rights in national...
bKash Limited, the largest mobile financial service provider in the country recently signed an agreement with Marico Bangladesh Limited to provide disbursement solutions to the leading consumer goods manufacturer in...
US Acting Secretary of State John J. Sullivan has urged all actors to play a constructive role in resolving the Rohingya crisis, while announcing $50 million in additional humanitarian assistance...
Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus recently delivered a keynote speech at ‘The Future of Finance’ conference at the Business School of Imperial College London. Professor Yunus called upon financial regulators...
National Nutrition Week-2018 began in the district as elsewhere in the country on Monday with a call to create much awareness among the people about nutrition for health. This year's...
An accused of a rape incident was killed in a reported gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Pekua area of Banshakhali in Chattogram early Tuesday. The deceased...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will receive the prestigious Global Women's Leadership Award in Sydney during her next week visit to Australia. Hasina will visit Australia from Apr 26 to Apr...
LankaBangla Finance Ltd (LBFL) recently signed a MoU with CALENDAR Tours & Travel Ltd for its customer privilege. Khurshed Alam– Head of Retail Finance of LBF and Md. Shahriar Zaman...
The newborn baby, who was found alive prior to her burial in the city's Azimpur Graveyard on Monday, has died at Shishu Hospital early Tuesday. Dr Mohammad Abu Tayeb, deputy...
Angolan President Joao Lourenco sacked the chief of staff of the armed forces and the head of the foreign intelligence agency on Monday, his latest moves against officials tainted by...
Japan’s Nikkei share average rose to near seven-week highs on Tuesday, with financials leading the gains after US bond yields spiked to four-year highs. The Nikkei advanced 0.67 per cent...
Standard Chartered Bangladesh offers financing support to implement a key infrastructural project under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of the Chinese government. The BRI is a development strategy proposed...
Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has formed a three-member inquiry committee to investigate into recent unusual movement in price and volume of shares of six listed companies. The committee...
The Berlin-based conductor Daniel Barenboim is returning prizes he has won at Germany’s biggest music awards in a row over what he said were ‘clearly anti-Semitic’ rap lyrics. The Israeli...
Most Asian stocks markets were mostly higher Tuesday as a surge in US bond yields pushed the value of the dollar higher against other major currencies. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225...
A moderate earthquake jolted different parts of Sylhet on Tuesday morning. Measuring 5.2 on the Richter Scale, the tremor was felt around 10:08 am, according to Sylhet Met office data....
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two suspected drug traders along with possession of 8,600 pieces of Yaba tablets from Muradpur area of Nachole upazila on Monday night. The...
A young man was set on fire by his former in-laws at Daulatdihi village in Sadar upazila on Monday afternoon. The victim was identified as Moniruzzaman alias Rony, 28, son...
At least 18 people were killed and five others injured at a devastating fire that allegedly caused by arson at a karaoke bar in Qingyuan City in southern China, according...
Mexico’s interior minister said that authorities had arrested the alleged murderer of a renowned journalist in northern Mexico whose death had become emblematic of a spike in violence across the...
Five years after the Rana Plaza disaster, Bangladesh-born British MP Rushanara Ali has described what happened as "not an accident" but "a man-made disaster". She was speaking at a panel...
With the nearing of the Ramadan month the people of the region are concerned about the unusual price hike of essential consumer items. As for today, the prices of consumer...
Chartered accountants on Monday suggested the government set a national revenue target and distribute it among the tax offices in a logical manner. The revenue target and distribution of the...
At least 10 people were killed and 15 others injured as a rented van plowed down a crowded Toronto sidewalk on Monday, Canadian authorities said. Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders...
CHATTOGRAM: A delegation of Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry from Kolkata has visited the Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) at the World Trade Centre in the city....
More than 47 per cent of the survivors of Rana Plaza disaster are still unemployed while most of the injured people couldn't bear medical costs of their own, a roundtable...
Modern Steel Mills Limited will submit the IPO (initial public offering) proposal to the securities regulator soon as the company has already completed the road show. As part of going...
The country's overall import grew by more than 12 per cent or US$ 453.97 million in March, mainly due to higher import of food grains and capital machinery, officials said....
Five years after the collapse of Rana Plaza, the building that housed several garment factories and shops in Savar, fashion giants have yet to establish a fair supply chain, reports...
The government has recently taken up a project to build a Jail Museum, first of its kind in the country, on the site of Old Dhaka Central Jail, officials said...
The two-day national event on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) concluded in the city on Sunday with a call for improving technical and allocative efficiency for advancing in UHC. Participants at...
Police in Pakistan have arrested a Muslim man accused of burning a Christian woman to death for refusing his marriage offer, an official said Monday. Ijaz Shahid, a police official...
Pollution caused by widespread use of plastic products, including polythene bags, has turned out to be a grave concern for us nowadays. Reports say a person in Bangladesh currently uses...
Banking shenanigans have grabbed headlines recently for good reasons. Throughout history people have heaped scorn on money-lenders. Good governance is a must if institutions, especially the ones which sit at...
That the government is least disturbed by the sorry state of most public sector enterprises is evident from the latest allocation of taxpayers' money as lifeline to one of those....
Grand Slam-winning Indian tennis player Sania Mirza and former Pakistan cricket captain Shoaib Malik are expecting their first child. Mirza, 31, broke the news on her social media accounts with...
SYLHET, Apr 23: Boro farmers of Sylhet division are suffering acute shortage of day labourers during the current harvesting season. Sources said paddy growers of the region are in difficult...
Bangladesh stars Shakib Al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal along with top-ranked bowler Rashid Khan of Afghanistan have confirmed their participation for the ICC World XI, which will take on the...
India's Vice-President and chairman of the Upper House of parliament, Venkaiah Naidu, has rejected the opposition's notice for impeachment of Chief Justice (CJ) of India, Dipak Misra. But the Congress,...
There was a time in the eighties and early nineties, when eating out was deemed as an occasion. Middle-class families made it a point to eat out at restaurants, usually...
Some years ago, in discussing future prospects of telecommunication, personal privacy popped up. The prompt was technology's ability to track individuals' movements and fine-tune advertising in ways that had hitherto...
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