At present, even a business organisation cannot operate its daily activities without maintaining a bank account. Despite the massive development of alternative delivery channels like Internet Banking, BEFTN (Bangladesh Electronic...
A young mother holding her child's hand turns round the corner of the lane. The child, four or five years old, clearly does not like to surrender his brief life...
Beauty Akhter was murdered in presence of her father. As shocking as that may sound, it was confessed by Beauty's father, Sayed Ali, before a judicial magistrate's court in Habiganj...
For the last couple of years, poverty reduction got much importance as the country's key objectives to achieve the related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under the 2030 development agenda set...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has alleged that relatives of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia were not allowed to meet her in jail. Fakhrul said some of Khaleda's relatives,...
The present state of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital mismatches all the perceptions about a public hospital. Within a short span of time it has been transformed into a...
Ramadan is knocking at the door. Consumers are hoping for good food at Iftar and Sehri after fasting for the day. They are already counting the extra cost needed for...
It is argued that economic inequality has been a defining feature of human civilisation ever since human beings began to farm, herd livestock and pass on their assets to future...
Arsene Wenger is to leave Arsenal at the end of the season, ending a near 22-year reign as manager. The Frenchman departs a year before his latest contract was due...
A boat carrying 76 Rohingya Muslims landed in northwest Indonesia on Friday, the latest in what rights groups expect will be a wave of dangerous sea crossings by members of...
Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, Bir Bikram, has said BNP is out to spread rumours centring baseless issues to thwart the next Jatiya Sangsad (JS) election....
Mother fishes of indigenous species have released a huge quantity of eggs in the Halda river, the only natural fish breeding sanctuary in the world, early today. According to experts,...
Huge number of visitors flocked around the booths of the international tourism fair on Friday to take advantage of big discounts for both overseas and domestic trips offered by participating...
Australia’s prime minister said the Australian navy has a “perfect right” to traverse the South China Sea after a media report Friday that the Chinese navy had challenged three Australian...
Commonwealth leaders have approved Prince Charles as the successor to Queen Elizabeth II as head of the group. The group’s heads of government took the decision at a meeting at...
BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain has said it will be a violation of the constitution if the Election Commission (EC) allows MPs to carry out election campaigns in Khulna...
India’s opposition parties launched an unprecedented bid to impeach the country’s top judge on Friday. They submitted a motion to vice president Venkaiah Naidu accusing the chief justice of failing...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held a meeting with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in London on Thursday on the sidelines of The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). "On the...
A school headmaster has been hacked to death in Bogura’s Adamdighi Upazila in the early hours of Friday. The teacher has been identified as 53-year old Abdur Rashid, a resident...
A Malaysian aircraft with 139 people on board aborted its takeoff and skidded off the runway of Tribuvan International Airport in Nepal on Friday. All 132 passengers and 7 crew...
Bandhan Express, a passenger train on Khulna-Kolkata route, has failed to attract passengers. The commuters who travel to India from Bangladesh by train have mainly blamed high ticket prices and...
The Election Commission has formed a committee to verify accounts of campaign expenditure by mayor and councillor contestants in the Gazipur and Khulna city corporation polls. The panel has been...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested an alleged female drug dealer along with 10,000 Yaba pills from Mirpur in the city on Thursday evening. The arrestee was known as...
Police arrested a young man reportedly along with a light gun, three bullets and 5 kg hemp at Charmohona in Raipur upazila early Friday. The arrestee was identified as Nasir...
A young man allegedly killed himself jumping before a running train at Chatmohar Railway Station in Chatmohar upazila, Pabna on Friday morning. The deceased was identified as Sirajul Islam, son...
Dhaka University Vice-chancellor Prof Md Akhtaruzzaman has said Kabi Sufia Kamal Hall authority expelled three female students for their alleged involvement in spreading rumour through fake Facebook accounts. The DU...
Queen Elizabeth II has expressed her hope that Prince Charles will succeed her as the head of Commonwealth, the association of Britain and its former colonies. The Queen also urged...
National Board of Revenue (NBR) Chairman Md. Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said the government has decided to establish a National Single Window (NSW) for trade facilitation, and NBR will act as...
E-commerce titan Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has bought a Chinese microchip maker to further its cloud-based “internet of things” (IoT) business, underscoring its commitment to the chip industry, an Alibaba...
Local pharmaceutical products manufacturers on Thursday demanded changes in calculating process loss and potency compensation before realising VAT (value added tax) from the imported life-saving drugs, according to a press...
American magician David Copperfield has been forced to reveal a famous trick after a participant claimed he'd been injured during a Las Vegas performance. British tourist Gavin Cox, 58, filed...
US-backed forces in Syria nabbed a man linked to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, the Pentagon has announced. “We can confirm that Mohammad Haydar Zammar, a...
Kenya suspended a land distribution programme on Thursday after nine people were shot or attacked with crude weapons in six days, with local officials facing investigation for their role. Land...
Princess Diana would approve of her son Prince Harry’s marriage to US actress Meghan Markle, according to author Andrew Morton whose famous biography of the late royal caused uproar in...
A workshop on non- violent communication for peace in life has been held on the Dhanmondi campus of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB). The workshop, originally organised by...
The Indian Supreme Court on Friday directed the government to take over most-wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim’s properties worth millions in the city of Mumbai, dismissing petitions by his sister Hasina...
Jamil Selim, a resident of Thakurpara in Cumilla city, has successfully produced black-coloured tomato, 'Beauty Black', in Bangladesh for the first time. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) of Cumilla has...
A two-armed robot in a Japanese factory carefully stacks rice balls in a box, which a worker carries off for shipment to convenience stores. At another food-packaging plant, a robot...
Police are likely to press charges in the case of July 1, 2016 militant attack on Holey Artisan Bakery at Gulshan in Dhaka city next month as their investigation has...
A man was killed when a truck hit a motorbike at Ranihati in Shibganj upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as Manirul Islam, an employee of Shibganj upazila Resource...
AB Bank Limited has inked a health care agreement with Universal Medical College and Hospital (UMCH) Limited at the hospital premises in the capital. Shamshia I Mutasim, deputy managing director...
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) authorities fined 245 passengers of eight trains Tk 88,410 for travelling without tickets on different routes under Lalmonirhat railway division on Thursday. "BR officials, let by...
The Standard Bank Limited has organised its 292nd board meeting at Radisson Blu Water Garden in the capital city. Chairman of the Board of Directors Mr Kazi Akram Uddin Ahmed...
A large-scale evacuation is to take place in Berlin on Friday morning (local time) to allow experts to defuse a World War Two bomb. Buildings will be cleared from 09:00...
State Minister for Textile and Jute Mirza Azam in Jamalpur on Friday said the government had reached healthcare services at the doorstep of people across the country. He said many...
The US Treasury is considering ways to restrict sensitive Chinese investments in the United States by invoking an emergency powers law and bringing forward some security review reforms for corporate...
Walton will organise a distributors conference titled ‘Let’s go to Walton’, which is to be the country’s largest gathering of businessmen of electronic products, at its headquarters in Chandra area of Gazipur. Nearly...
Eye-catching fruit setting has created a high hope among farmers and others concerned including scientists, researchers and traders about bumper litchi production during the upcoming harvesting season. According to the...
Two passenger trains were involved in a crash while being coupled together at the main station in the Austrian city of Salzburg early on Friday, and up to 40 people...
Grameenphone (GP) Limited has organised its 21st Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB) in the capital. The board of directors approved 100 per cent cash...
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