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Bank Asia recently launched the Bank’s online marketplace at Agent Banking outlets through partnership with Grameenphone, said a statement. Md Arfan Ali, President & Managing Director of Bank Asia, formally...
A total of 34,750 farmers will get incentives of seed, fertilizer and irrigation support for the cultivation of Aus paddy in the current Kharif-1 season in four districts in Rajshahi...
The 14th World Islamic Economic Forum will be held in Astana, Kazakhstan on July 4. Professionals and industry leaders will discuss, among other things, what benefits Islamic finance and fintech...
Police, in regular drives arrested 35 people including 23 wanted accused and two drug traders from different areas of the district in last 12-hour ending at 9 am Tuesday morning....
A 25-year-old woman carrying her minor son reportedly committed suicide by jumping in front of a running train at Dhamail under Gafargaon upazila of Mymensingh on Tuesday morning. The deceased...
The Dhaka bourse witnessed upward trend on Tuesday following investors’ increased participation. DSEX, the broad index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), crossed 5800-point mark in the early trading. Following a...
Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB) arranged ‘Shuvo Halkhata’ in all of its 1031 branches recently. A number of 1,29,581 loanees repaid loans worth Tk 4.75 billion of which Tk. 861.7 million...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-5 arrested an alleged member of the fake question paper leaking gang from Jambaria Girls High School area under Bholahat upazila in Chapainawabganj district on Monday evening....
Dr. Thomas Prinz, Ambassador of Germany visited Beximco Industrial Park in Gazipur Monday. He was welcomed by Ilias Agridiotis, Operations Director, Beximco Ltd, said a statement. -rmc//
A suspected mugger was killed in a reported gunfight between his cohorts and police in Bypass Rail Gate area of Akhaura upazila early Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as...
A devastating fire inside a crockery-manufacturing factory in Indian capital city of New Delhi left at least two people dead on Monday night, said officials on Tuesday. “The fire broke...
Three people have died in a house fire in Australia following reports of an explosion, police have said. Authorities found the bodies of two women and a man after flames...
Three Kenyan election officials resigned on Monday, increasing chaos at the electoral Commission following last year’s botched presidential vote that had to be rerun and was then boycotted by the...
Facebook must face a class action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology, a California judge has ruled. The lawsuit alleges that Facebook gathered biometric information without users' explicit...
The Canadian government has recalled families of its diplomatic staff in the Cuban capital, Havana. The move comes as 10 Canadians continue to show unexplained brain symptoms, government officials said....
Pharmaceutical giant Shire is raising $2.4 billion (£1.7 billion) by selling its cancer treatment unit to France's Servier. The sale comes just weeks after Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical said it was...
The historic Mujibnagar Day is being observed on Tuesday marking the formation of Bangladesh's first government that led the War of Liberation in 1971. On this day in 1971, senior...
Syrian anti-aircraft defences shot down missiles fired at the Syrian air base of Shayrat in Homs province late on Monday and another base northeast of the capital, Damascus, Syria’s state...
Twelve students of Rajshahi University (RU) were given Dean's Award for their brilliant result for the first time with the main thrust of inspiring and encouraging the student towards academic...
Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) has permanently suspended twenty-four of its central and Dhaka University (DU) Kabi Sufia Kamal hall unit leaders and activists for their alleged involvement in the April...
None of the newly listed companies could fulfil the required criteria for being included in the broad index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) during the period from December last year...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reached London in the early hours of Tuesday (local time) on a six-day official visit to the United Kingdom (UK) to attend the 25th Commonwealth...
Consultants of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) presented five technical papers in a workshop on its preparatory survey on Matarbari deep seaport development on Monday. JICA survey team leader Takashi...
Rajib Hossain, the Government Titumir College student who lost his right arm to a race between two buses in Dhaka recently, has died. Rajib lost his battle for survival in...
The central bank of Bangladesh has asked the banks to take effective measures to bring down the interest rate on lending to single digit from the existing level as soon...
The aggregate tax revenue collection target may be trimmed by up to Tk 300 billion in the current fiscal year (FY) following a large amount of shortfall of the ambitious...
The Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) has opposed a demand coming from the Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) for allocating a substantial amount of additional fund under the Padma Bridge...
CHATTOGRAM, Apr 16: With procurement of cargo handling equipment worth Tk 12 billion and construction of new port jetties and container terminal infrastructure facilities in the pipeline, the Chittagong Port...
The losses caused by last year's flood in haor areas notwithstanding, Bangladesh has been doing well for years in production of agricultural commodities, including rice output in particular. Still, Bangladesh's...
With 53 member countries and 2.4 billion people, the Commonwealth is a powerful force for positive change. For nearly seven decades, Commonwealth states have been global leaders on trade, female...
A mass cleanliness drive initiated by the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) last Friday is likely to earn it a place in the Guinness Book. Although the mayor of the...
Modern industrial economy started its journey with the burning of coal for powering machinery-and emitting carbon. With the invention of internal combustion engine, although our dependence on coal lowered, we...
It is widely presumed that elections for the 11th National Parliament will be held toward the end of this year. The Prime Minister who is also the head of the...
A recent Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) study revealed the information that nearly 90 per cent of the banks in our country do not have full-fledged information technology (IT)...
Seven inmates were killed and at least 17 others were seriously injured after fights broke out between prisoners inside a maximum security prison in South Carolina. Prisons spokesman Jeff Taillon...
The no-show by the Emir of Qatar at the 29th Arab summit held in Dhahran on Sunday is an obvious case of arrogance, a UAE senior official has said. “The...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhammam of Saudi Arabia for the UK on Monday afternoon. A special flight of Saudi Government carrying the prime minister and members of her entourage...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines offers a 20 per cent discount on six international routes during the Bangladesh Travel and Tourism Fair from April 19 to 21. On the occasion of the...
Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook, recently noted that the public scrutiny of Facebook is "very much overdue," declaring that "it's shocking to me that they didn't have to answer...
Walkar, footwear brand of RFL Group, opened its outlet in Rangpur city recently, says a statement. Numerous stylish footwear including casual shoes, kid's shoes, sports shoes and sandals for people...
The special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court judge of Hyderabad K Ravinder Reddy resigned on Monday, barely hours after acquitting the five accused in the Mecca Masjid blast case, a...
Doctors in Australia have called for urgent research into why a flesh-eating ulcer has become a "worsening epidemic" in the state of Victoria, reports BBC. Local cases of Buruli ulcer,...
GAIBANDHA, Apr 16 (BSS): Harvest of maize, one of the cash crops of the district, has been progressing fast in all the seven upazilas here for few weeks last amid...
Rana Dasgupta's poignant piece, "The demise of the nation state" (See Guardian, April 05, 2018), traces the collapse of a four-century institution to a variety of "countervailing 21st century forces":...
BNP has demanded that Khaleda Zia should be transferred to Gulshan’s United Hospital without delay after her health ‘deteriorated even further’. “Yesterday, we said the leader of the country, Begum...
A bicyclist was crushed under the wheels of a tractor at Sundarpur under Chapainawabganj sadar upazila Monday morning, reports BSS. The deceased was identified as Nizam Uddin, 30, son of...
Six leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) have been injured in a factional clash on the Dhaka University campus over their upcoming national council. The injured BCL members...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has suggested mobile phone operators to go for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) for quick settlement of cases relating to revenue arrears. The NBR made...
A social worker was shot dead by miscreants at Perachhara under Sadar upazila of Khagrachhari on Monday afternoon. Police recovered the bullet-hit body of Surya Bikash Chakma from the courtyard...
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina failed to keep her election pledges. Ershad said that Sheikh Hasina came to power promising to provide the...
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