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An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 has shaken Myanmar’s Bago region on early Saturday. The quake, with an epicentre of 40 km southwest of Phyu city, struck at 04:58:42 local time,...
NRBC Bank has recently organised its ‘Managers’ Meet April-2018’. Tamal S M Parvez, Chairman of the bank was present at the programme as chief guest, according to a press release....
Praava Health hosted two Continuing Medical Education (CME) events on Friday at Praava Family Health Center at Banani in Dhaka. The events featured Dr. Varun Shetty, cardiothoracic surgeon and son...
The farmers have produced a record quantity of 10,308 tonnes of pulses during the just-ended Rabi season, higher by about 1,000 tonnes than the previous season, in Rangpur agriculture region....
A motorcyclist was killed as a truck hit his vehicle at Atahar area in Sadar upazila of Chapainawabganj district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Akbar Ali, 50, son...
The Audited Financial Statements of ONE Securities Limited, a subsidiary of ONE Bank Ltd was signed recently. ONE Securities Limited directors Mr. Asoke Das Gupta, Mr. Syed Nurul Amin, Mr....
The country is expected to see an increase in its ratio of the imports of goods and services to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in current fiscal year 2018. The...
World leaders, finance ministers, the private sector and nongovernmental organisations begin the Spring International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings on the 10-year anniversary of the global financial crisis. On...
Chattogram Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (CWASA) has taken a Tk 10.36 billion water plant project - Bhandal Jhuri Water Supply Project (BJWSP) - aiming to meet the growing water...
Bangla Trac Power Unit-2 Ltd.’s ongoing power project, built in Noapara, Jashore, has successfully added 100MW electricity to national grid recently, according to Power Development Board (PDB) source. Besides, another...
The Dhaka University (DU) authority has brought back the three residential students of Kabi Sufia Kamal Hall, who were forced out of the dormitory 'for spreading rumour on Facebook'. As...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina joined the British queen’s Dinner at Buckingham Palace in London on Thursday night. Hasina’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told the press on Friday she exchanged greetings...
Nanozymes, nanomaterials with intrinsic enzyme-like activities, have been widely used in cancer diagnosis in recent years, but controlling their performance in treating a target tumour cell remains a challenge. A...
How do you win thousands of pounds straight from your phone for free? For many, the answer is the popular quiz show app HQ Trivia. The game came to the...
Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI) has said the country should join the global registration system of the Intellectual Property Right (IPR). It is important to ensure the global IPR registration of...
Uttara Bank Limited has organised its 2nd zonal head’s conference at the head office of the bank. Mohammed Rabiul Hossain, Managing Director and CEO of UBL, attended the meeting held...
At least two German tourists were killed and 10 others injured when their minibus went off the road and fell into a ravine in the Andes Mountains, authorities in Peru...
More than 300 people from at least 25 villages in the hilly district of Khagrachhari have become homeless following factional clashes between two hill tracts-based political parties over establishing supremacy...
South Africa’s president has cut short a visit to Britain to return home and deal with violent protests in a provincial capital. President Cyril Ramaphosa left the Commonwealth summit in...
A woman was killed when a truck hit a rickshaw carrying her in Dhanmondi area of the capital on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Masuda, 35, wife of...
The Canadian annual inflation rate in March edged up to 2.3 per cent from 2.2 per cent in February, the highest level in more than three years, in part due...
Police recovered the floating body of an old man from the Padma River in Charalatuli-Horma area of Sadar upazila on Friday afternoon, 21 days after he had gone missing. Locals...
A housewife was beaten to death allegedly by her husband over dowry at Bagachra village in Sharsha upazila of Jashore district on Friday night. Ripon Hossain, 38, son of Moslem...
World stocks slipped on Friday amid weakness in the energy sector and as worries about a global slowdown in smartphone demand dented the technology sector. Oil prices were also traded...
Swedish DJ Avicii, one of the world’s biggest dance music stars, has died in Oman at the age of 28. Avicii’s club anthems include Wake Me Up, Levels, and recently,...
US stocks slipped on Friday, as Apple led a decline in technology stocks amid fears about weak iPhone demand and investors worried about the impact of a rise in US...
The Democratic Party sued the Russian government, US President Donald Trump’s campaign and WikiLeaks on Friday, charging that they carried out a wide-ranging conspiracy to influence the 2016 US presidential...
An air strike lunched by a Saudi-led military coalition in south-western Yemen killed twenty people on Friday, residents said. The attack hit a car transporting 20 passengers south of Taiz...
A suspected robber was killed in a so-called gunfight with members of Detective Branch (DB) of police at Saharpur in Phulpur upazila under Mymensingh early Saturday. SA Newazi, additional superintendent...
Uruguay says it has rejected a request by the United States to expel Russian diplomats from the South American country in response to the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in...
The Commonwealth leaders have expressed solidarity with Bangladesh over the Rohingya issue and demanded justice for the persecution of the minority group in Myanmar. “Heads expressed full solidarity with the...
The European Union needs to be exempted from steel and aluminum tariffs announced by the United States in order to work with Washington on trade with China, France’s Finance Minister...
North Korea will immediately suspend nuclear and missile tests and scrap its nuclear test site and instead pursue economic growth and peace, the North’s state media said on Saturday, ahead...
US technology stocks tumbled on Friday ahead of a crucial week of quarterly reports from Alphabet, Facebook and other heavyweights as investors worried that the high-performance sector may be running...
The Dhaka bourse performed mixed in last week as many investors were busy with 'rebalancing' their portfolio following the declarations of dividend and first quarter earnings. The premier bourse, however,...
Foreign e-commerce ventures are unlikely to be allowed to operate in Bangladesh without forming joint venture (JV) with local firms, as per the national e-commerce policy. The policy is now...
The Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) is likely to incur a loss of around Tk 19 billion for selling urea fertiliser at much lower price than the production cost in...
Bangladesh has made a little progress in adventure tourism comparing to its neighbouring countries despite having a huge potential in the specific sector, tourism experts said. They noted that the...
KHULNA, Apr 20 (BSS): Ten mobile courts will begin drives on Tuesday ahead of Khulna City Corporation polls. Consisting with 10 executive magistrates, the mobile teams will take steps against...
A man was killed after being electrocuted by live electric wire in Balunda village of Sharsha upazila on Friday morning. The deceased Usman Ali, 50, son of Budo Morol of...
Rafael Nadal produced a stunning performance to thrash Austrian fifth seed Dominic Thiem and reach a record 14th Monte Carlo Masters semi-final. World number one Nadal, bidding for his 11th...
The Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan against the Russian government, the Trump campaign, WikiLeaks, and numerous others close to the president, alleging they were...
There was a time when businesses were far more open in putting the blame of loan default on lengthy process and graft. The essence of the argument was that the...
It is heartening to know that South Asia has regained its status as the world's fastest growing region. The semi-annual South Asia Economic Focus Spring 2018 report published by the...
The continued pollution and grabbing of many relatively smaller rivers in the country go on mostly unnoticed. To the woes of their users, they remain out of the national-level focus....
Traffic on the Shariatpur-Shibchar road remained suspended from Thursday night after a bailey bridge collapsed under the weight of an overloaded truck on the Kirtinasha river at Rajgaon-Arigaon area. The...
China will retaliate if the United States (US) insists on initiating a trade war, China's ambassador to the United States was quoted as saying by the state news agency Xinhua...
Exports of both goods and services have been increasing gradually for the last couple of years. But as a percentage of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), exports have been declining....
For many economists, Bangladesh case is a paradox since such steady and reasonably high growth took place in the context of 'bad' or 'weak' governance. The fundamental assumption of this...
Atletico Madrid lost 3-0 at Real Sociedad on Thursday, leaving Barcelona one victory away from mathematically clinching the Spanish league title. Barcelona, which drew 2-2 at Celta Vigo on Tuesday...
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