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Growth of the economic activities generated through the wholesale and retail trade along with repair of motor services may decline marginally in the current fiscal year. Wholesale and retail trade...
Russia may consider supplying S-300 missile systems to Syria and other countries, Colonel-General Sergei Rudskoi said on Saturday after US, French and British air strikes on Syria. Rudskoi said the...
Around 5.30 per cent of the country’s total employed population have completed tertiary level education, according to the latest data of the labour force survey. It also showed that the...
Cost of funds of the Non-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFI) increased sharply in the recent months as reflected in the Cost of Funds Index (CoFI). CoFI represents the weighted average interest...
Around 88 per cent of the employment in Bangladesh is depended on the domestic final demand, according to an estimate of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Again, only 8.0 per...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) entertained India's Border Security Force (BSF) members with sweetmeats on Saturday on the occasion of Pahela Baishakh. Members of BGB Battalion-18 distributed sweetmeats among the BSF...
A lawmaker from India’s ruling party was arrested on Friday in connection with the rape of a teenager, police said, after days of protests by activists accusing authorities of failing...
An accused in a case filed over Rangpur's public prosecutor Rathish Chandra Bhowmik murder has died in police custody. The deceased, Milon Kumar Mahant; 30, died at Rangpur Medical College...
NEW DELHI: Japan's Honda Motor is betting big on India, a country which accounts for 30 per cent of its global two-wheeler sales and, the company believes, holds great...
President Md Abdul Hamid will take his oath of office for his second consecutive term as the country’s 21st president on April 24. Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury will conduct the...
SOWETO, South Africa: Thousands of mourners gathered in South Africa’s Soweto township on Saturday to bid farewell to anti-apartheid heroine Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in a funeral ceremony that united the nation...
Slovenia will hold an early general election on June 3, President Borut Pahor announced on Saturday, a month after centre-left Prime Minister Miro Cerar resigned over a legal obstacle to...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), in two separate anti-crime drives, arrested two with two foreign pistols and 1,187 Yaba tablets in Rajshahi in the past 16 hours. The arrested...
A Marc Chagall painting stolen from a New York couple’s home in 1988 will be returned to the family’s estate after nearly 30 years, the FBI says. The 1911 painting,...
Moscow has described the overnight coalition operation in Syria as “a flagrant violation of international law” and has promised “consequences.” But while the official reaction was loud, it was also...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday greeted all Freedom Fighters (FFs) on the occasion of 'Pahela Baishakh', the first day of Bengali New Year-1425. Like the previous years, the Prime...
Israel has issued a statement on Saturday in support of the air strikes on Syria by US and its allies. "Last year, President Trump made clear that the use of...
Google Doodle celebrated Pahela Baishakh by replacing its regular homepage graphic with a special doodle featuring a colourful elephant. According to Google's blog, the elephant on the search engine signifies...
A man was hacked to death in a clash over a coconut tree dispute at Farmpara in Chuadanga district town on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Lalon, 34,...
KUALA LUMPUR: A boat carrying 70 Rohingya Muslims set out for Malaysia from Myanmar this week, two sources and a rights group said, the latest to embark on a dangerous...
ANKARA: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said an attack on Syria by the United States, France and Britain on Saturday was a crime and would not achieve any gains....
WASHINGTON: The US Treasury added India to its watch list of countries with potentially questionable foreign exchange policies, joining China and four others, according to a report issued Friday, according...
Khandaker Md Khurram, former MP of Sherpur-3 constituency, died at a hospital in Dhaka due to old age complications on Saturday. He was 65. Md Khurram, member of Awami League...
Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand are some of the forerunners in general and business aviation (GA/BA) in Southeast Asia. However, the Indochina region is emerging as a contender for growth with...
LONDON: Members of the UN International Maritime Organisation on Friday (Apr 13) struck a deal to halve carbon dioxide emissions from shipping by 2050 in a deal that will force...
US President Donald Trump's top lawyer is under criminal investigation, the US justice department has announced. Prosecutors say they are focusing on Michael Cohen's business dealings rather than his work...
Jeremy Corbyn has described air strikes in Syria by US, British and French forces as a "legally questionable action". The Labour leader condemned the attack aimed at reducing the Syrian...
Volkswagen has chosen Herbert Diess as its new chief executive officer (CEO) in an overhaul that includes streamlining the company’s multiple car brands into just three groups while preparing its...
Kenyan elephant conservationist Daphne Sheldrick has died of cancer aged 83. She helped save the lives of more than 230 elephants - many of which had lost their mothers to...
Some 12 listed companies, including three banks, will hold Annual General Meetings (AGMs) between April 17 and April 30. The recommended dividends, audited financial statements of these companies for the...
The share price of Monno Jute Stafflers is soaring without any price sensitive information (PSI) as the company dominated the gainers chart for the two consecutive weeks. Within 10 trading...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged all to remain united so that evil forces like BNP-Jamaat clique cannot grab power as they will undermine the country's heritage, culture and...
About 10 days ago, US President Donald Trump told national security aides that he wanted US forces out of Syria in six months or so, adamant that it was time...
Bangladesh Export Import Company (Beximco) dominated the week’s turnover chart on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) last week, ending on Thursday. Market operators said the investors continued their buying appetite...
Greeting cards embroidered with Bengali alphabets or signs are being sold like hotcakes on the eve of Pahela Baishakh. People were seen buying cards from different holiday card shops in...
Deficit financing of the country’s budget in the first seven months of the current fiscal year jumped by 73 per cent over the same period of the past fiscal year....
Old Dhaka Traders Friday said they will join the Pahela Baishakh celebration by observing the Halkhata tradition like every year. The traders also said they carry out the tradition to...
Bangladesh and Tajikistan have agreed to work together to take bilateral relations to a new height saying there are ample scopes to expand the current relations encompassing more mutually beneficial...
The number of people testing HIV positive in Mongolia rose to 255 after three new cases were registered in the first quarter of this year, the National Statistical Office said...
The UN's secretary general has said the Cold War is "back with a vengeance". Antonio Guterres also warned about the dangers of escalation over Syria, reports BBC. The US and...
Youths were seen flocking around different makeshift and temporary flower stalls in Shahbagh intersection on the eve of Pahela Baishakh as quota reformation movement in the area somewhat thwarted the...
Supply of various items of Indian clothing to the market has affected the sales of locally made Baishakhi wear to some extent, according to fashion house owners in the city....
MOSCOW: Russian lawmaker Vladimir Dzhabarov said on Saturday that Russia was likely to call for a meeting of the United Nations security council to discuss U.S., British and French air...
Mentioning that celebration of Pahela Baishakh has increased over the years, Prominent Journalist Abdul Momen on Saturday said the use of Bangla and Bengali culture is gradually decreasing in the...
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been named the world's most admired man and Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie the most admired woman in a YouGov survey. Philanthropist Gates and humanitarian...
The list of World's most admired 2018 by YouGov is out. This year, three Indian actresses Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone found a place for themselves in...
Greece's annual EU-harmonised inflation rate slowed in March, the reading in March was 0.2 per cent from 0.4 per cent in February, statistic service ELSTAT data showed on Friday. The...
Three people including a balloon vendor were injured in a gas cylinder blast at Fairdpur Government Rajendrapur College campus here on Saturday morning. The injured were identified as Azim Talukdar,...
Russian lawmaker Vladimir Dzhabarov said on Saturday that Russia was likely to call for a meeting of the United Nations security council to discuss US, British and French air strikes...
The UN has awarded the 139 members of the Bangladeshi Formed Police Unit for its work with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) to bring peace...
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