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Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu has said chemical factories will be relocated from the capital soon. "The government is working to relocate the chemical factories as soon as possible," he...
Export earnings from the USA, one of Bangladesh's key destinations, witnessed 1.62 per cent growth in the first eight months (July-February) of the current fiscal (FY18) compared to the corresponding...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is now in London to join the 25th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), has cleared 13 urgent files digitally. "Despite her busy schedule in...
Indian shares inched higher on Thursday on the back of gains in metal stocks as global aluminium prices soared, while Tata Consultancy Services Ltd rose ahead of its results. The...
Mideast stocks were mixed trend at the opening session on Thursday, last trading day of the week, while Saudi Arabia and Qatar stock markets climbed by strong earnings. Saudi Arabia’s...
A 30-month long project, ‘Sarathi—progress through financial inclusion’, has been launched on Thursday aiming to bring readymade garment workers under the formal banking services. State Minister for Ministry of Planning...
A group of men on motorcycles hurled acid at three female students when they were on their way to university in the city of Gujrat, say Pakistani police. Officer Umair...
The Asia Foundation with assistance of Pubali Bank Limited (PBL) donated 3,500 Bangla and English language books worth Tk 4.425 million to 25 schools of the district here on Wednesday...
A new mother’s alleged death due to ‘negligence of physicians’ sparked tension at a private hospital in Rajshashi on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Sultana Begum, 30, wife of...
The GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Bangladesh Limited has organised its 45th Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Hotel Radisson Blu Chittagong. The board also approved the declaration of final cash dividend of...
Ride sharing service provider OBHAI has added 650 CNG three-wheelers to its existing fleet in a move to strengthen its services. A signing ceremony among CNG drivers, owners and OBHAI...
The retail sales of the United Kingdom recorded their biggest quarterly fall in a year during the three months to March, after unusually cold and snowy weather kept shoppers at...
An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck Kaki region in Iran’s southern Bushehr province at 11:05am local time (0635 GMT) on Thursday, Iran Seismological Center said. With a depth of 18...
China plans to launch its heavy-lift carrier rocket, the Long March-5 Y3, in late 2018, after finding the cause of the failure of the Long March-5 Y2, according to the...
The US space agency's TESS satellite has been launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a mission to find thousands of new worlds beyond our Solar System. The mission will...
A four-day long annual trade fair ‘Thailand Week 2018’ will kick off at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the capital on Monday. The Department of International Trade Promotion (DITP), Ministry...
The Election Commission (EC) plans to amend the electoral code of conduct ahead of Gazipur and Khulna city corporation elections. The move comes in response to the ruling party Awami...
The government will bring three wheelers, including CNG-run auto-rickshaws, under its tax net in the budget for the fiscal year (FY) 2018-19. “We will also make trade license and E-TIN...
More than 60 independent British festivals - including Boardmasters and Bestival - have pledged to rid their sites of single-use plastic by 2021. As a minimum, those festivals have committed...
An international flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines failed to meet its arrival schedule at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Thursday. BG 128 from Abu Dhabi was scheduled to arrive at...
US aviation authorities are to order inspections of jet engines after a mid-air explosion that punctured an airliner's window, killing a passenger. The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday said the...
Midland Bank Limited (MDB) has organised a drawing competition among the children of MDB employees on at the campus of fine art (Bakultola of Charukala Institute) of Dhaka University recently....
Medical services at Lohagara Health Complex of Narail district have long been getting hampered for various problems, including the shortage of physicians and accommodation. Sources at the health complex said...
India’s Supreme Court dismissed on Thursday petitions calling for an investigation into the death of a lower court judge in 2014 when he was presiding over a case against a...
Most of the Southeast Asian stock markets rose on Thursday on the back of strong commodity and crude oil prices, while Philippine shares plummeted to their lowest in a year...
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he hoped an unprecedented summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would be successful after a recent visit to Pyongyang by CIA...
Brazil international Neymar hopes to be fit for this summer's World Cup and says he will return to training from a broken foot on 17 May. The Paris St-Germain forward...
China wants the next general election in Bangladesh to be smooth and fair as it has a huge investment here, said Li Guang Zun, economic and commercial counsellor of Chinese...
Puerto Rico has suffered an island-wide power outage nearly seven months after Hurricane Maria destroyed much of the island’s infrastructure and power grid. The US territory’s power authority, known as...
The board of directors of Bangladesh Finance and Investment Company Limited (BD Finance) has recommended 10 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2017. The final...
A car bomb hit a convoy of the chief of staff of the eastern Libyan military outside Benghazi, leaving one person dead and at least two others wounded, security and...
A court in Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday sentenced two people to eight years imprisonment each for possession Yaba tablets. The convicts were identified as Sheikh Absar Kamal, son of late...
A member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) was killed when a speeding truck ran over him on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Chauddagram upazila on Wednesday night. The deceased, Abul Kalam, was...
Oil prices rose on Thursday to their highest since the end of 2014 as US crude inventories declined and as top exporter Saudi Arabia pushes for higher prices by continuing...
United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB) has recently organised a Town Hall meeting in the capital. Managing Director of UCB Mr A E Abul Muhaimen along with other senior executives of...
A schoolboy was killed as a speedy truck dashed his bicycle on Keshabpur-Boga road in Keshabpur upazila on Wednesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Saifuzzaman alias Sumon, a Class-VII...
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses saw positive trend in early trading on Thursday as investors are showing their buying appetite on sector-wise issues. Following the...
Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Pakistan are expected to be the biggest beneficiaries of the China-led US$1.5 trillion Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), according to a Nomura Group report. The report also...
Cristiano Ronaldo's 42nd goal of the season prevented Real Madrid from suffering a second successive defeat at the Bernabeu. Inaki Williams had put Athletic Bilbao ahead with a fine clipped...
An era will end in Communist-run Cuba on Thursday when President Raul Castro retires, likely handing over the reins to his right hand man Miguel Diaz-Canel, born the year after...
The first reverse auction for buy-back of the government securities was held Wednesday at the central bank headquarters in Dhaka without accepting any bids, officials said. Only three primary dealer...
US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday they had agreed to intensify trade consultations between the two longtime allies, with an aim to expand...
Police arrested a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami from Shamserbad area in the Lakshmipur municipality town in connection with an arson case on Wednesday night. Acting on a tip-off, police raided...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) chairman Md Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan on Wednesday said the revenue authority will provide necessary trade facilitation to the local electrical and electronic manufacturers and...
Two minor girls drowned in a pond at Boro Bakail village in Brahmanbaria sadar upazila on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Madhu Begum, 7, daughter of Mafiz Mia and...
A fire in the Saudi Arabian city of Ha’il has left at least six expatriate Bangladeshi workers dead and another ‘critically’ injured in a grim repeat of a similar incident...
Banks have decided to keep transactions open around the port area from 10 am to 10 pm on all days from next week. In line with the government order to...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has recently moved to formulate a guideline for realisation of non-performing loans (NPLs) in the banking sector and make amendment to relevant laws. During a recent tripartite...
Resource stocks were on a roll in Asia on Thursday as oil prices hit heights not seen since late 2014, though the potential boost to inflation globally also pressured fixed-income...
The country's apex trade organisation FBCCI has observed that the prices of essential commodities rise during the holy month of Ramadan largely because of "rampant extortion in the transport sector...
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