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China’s Sina Weibo will remove gay and violent content, including pictures, cartoons and text posts, during a three-month clean-up campaign, the microblogging platform said. Friday’s announcement comes amid a clampdown...
Assamese-language drama “Village Rockstars” was named the best film of 2017 at India’s National Film Awards on Friday while Bollywood actress Sridevi got the best actress award two months after...
Some 89 members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) identify themselves as ‘developing countries.’ Trade News Centre has unveiled the information which it derived from the WTO negotiating coalitions as...
Members of Coast Guard Bangladesh in a drive recovered three lakh pieces of Yaba pills from St Martin's Island in Teknaf on Friday noon. Based on secret information, a team...
PANCHAGARH: Farmers are expecting a bumper groundnut production in all the five upazilas of Panchagarh district in the current season. Sources with the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) said suitable...
Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a combined Senate Judiciary and Commerce committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 10, 2018 in...
At least six Bangladeshis among seven were killed in a fire at a residential building occupied by expatriate workers in Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh on Friday. Confirming the incident, Golam...
UNITED NATIONS — A new U.N. report puts Myanmar’s armed forces on a U.N. blacklist of government and rebel groups “credibly suspected” of carrying out rapes and other acts of...
Maitree Express, a cross-border train, has entered the 10th year of its run between Dhaka and Kolkata today. It was formally introduced this day in 2008, re-establishing the missing rail...
Nepal follows Bikram Sambat as its official calendar and New Year starts on the first day of Baishakh month. In Nepal, preparations have been completed to celebrate its new year...
The move to divest five state firms' stakes on the stock market is unlikely to see daylight anytime soon as those are mired in deep financial trouble, a senior official...
Arrivals of Chinese tourists to Nepal overtook those from India during the first quarter of 2018 for the first time, the Department of Immigration (DoI) said here on Friday. ...
The Supreme Court announced its verdict on the case pertaining to the duration of disqualification of lawmakers under Article 62(1)(f) of the constitution. The apex court ruled that those disqualified...
Apple may start iPhone 6S Plus production at a new factory in southern India to lower the model’s price, local media outlet The Economic Times reported Friday. It may start...
Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla calendar, has started celebrating across the country today amid festivity and gaiety. True to their centuries’ old tradition, people from all walks of...
US, British and French forces pounded Syria with air strikes early on Saturday in response to a poison gas attack that killed dozens of people last week, in the biggest...
The nation celebrates Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla calendar year, today (Saturday) amid festivity and enthusiasm across the country. The day is a public holiday. People from all...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Friday asked the bank authorities to bring down lending rate to a single digit to expedite the country's investment, reports BSS. "I would like to tell...
COX'S BAZAR, Apr 13: A fairly large number of tourists arrived in Cox's Bazar town to celebrate Pahela Baishakh. Most of the residential hotels of the town are now swarming...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said on Friday tough actions will be taken against the perpetrators who misused social media, including Facebook, to spread rumours to instigate violence in the...
Of the many childhood delights, one is surely a kind of irresistible attraction for magic. Magicians produced -and still do -pigeons out of a cap or a hat. If this...
The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Bangladesh dates back to 1984 soon after enactment of the 1980 Foreign Private Investment Act. FDI is a major source of capital...
Economist Professor Abul Barkat has authored a book on fundamentalism. It has been published by Muktobuddhi Prokasana. It is the 7th publication of the publishing house. This book titled 'Fundamentalism...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) North Zone maintained the top spot in the Bangladesh Cricket League (BCL) after a draw against bottom-run Walton Central Zone on day four in the 4th...
England won three gold medals on the ninth day of the Commonwealth Games on Australia's Gold Coast on Friday, reports BBC Sport. Two came in the diving pool as Tom...
The next year's budget is likely to be presented in parliament in the first week of June next. Brisk preparations are already on from the government side to have forethoughts...
The changing of the guard that is taking place at the systemically important central banks in 2018-2019 will mark the beginning of a new era of monetary policy. Who is...
The Noboborsho, Bangla New Year, most likely dates back to Emperor Akbar's ascension to the throne on March 16, 1586, although the calendar for the same was introduced a year...
The nation is celebrating Pahela Baishakh, the Bangla New Year's Day, today. The eagerly-awaited day begins, as has been the custom, in Dhaka with Chhayanaut's musical session at Ramna Batamool....
A little over two decades back, a report titled 'Human Development in South Asia' strongly suggested that given the burgeoning growth of unskilled labour force with low productivity and in...
Food import in the first nine months of the current fiscal year reached to 8.40 million tonnes, according to the statistics released by the food ministry. Of the total import...
In Bangladesh, three calendars are followed: the Gregorian solar calendar (used officially for all purposes), the Islamic lunar calendar (for religious purposes) and the Bangla calender (used for socio-cultural occasions...
The first day of Bangla New Year, Pahela Baishakh stands before us like the first blank page of the first chapter of a 365-page book waiting to be written. It's...
The Indonesian capital is set to see some new 14,564 low-cost apartments in the next five years, according to a report in The Jakarta Post. The construction of some projects...
Country’s current account deficit crosses $6.0 billion in the first eight months of the current fiscal year (FY18). Latest statistics, released by Bangladesh Bank, showed that current account deficit stood...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will apprise the heads of government of the Commonwealth countries of the latest scenario of the Rohingya crisis in the upcoming summit. The Commonwealth summit is...
Hilsa was selling at much higher prices at city kitchen markets on Friday, just one day ahead of Pahela Baishakh, following a high demand for the fish. Although vigorous campaigns...
Liverpool will play Roma in the Champions League semi-finals, with Bayern Munich facing Real Madrid. The Reds, who beat Manchester City 5-1 on aggregate in the last round, will host...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at a few places over Rangpur, Mymensingh, Dhaka, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions and at one...
Burglars have looted Tk 55,000 from the offices of three organisations at the upazila complex of Alamdanga. Alamdanga municipality mayor Saifur Rahman said burglars entered the three offices sometime on...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves here on Sunday on a nine-day official visit to Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom. During the two-nation visit, the Prime Minister will attend the...
Bangladesh export to India jumped by 18 per cent for the first time in nine months of the current fiscal year (FY18). The latest statistics available with Export Promotion Bureau...
The Democratic Republic of Congo has boycotted a UN donor conference in Geneva seeking to raise $1.7bn (£1.2bn) for the country. The UN says more than 13 million Congolese need...
Police recovered the decomposed bodies of two missing women from a pond in Sultanpur area of Nawabganj upazila of Dhaka on Friday. The deceased were identified as Moyna Akhter, 50,...
A Russian court on Friday ordered that access to the Telegram messenger service be blocked in Russia, heralding possible communication disruption for millions of users in the latest clash between...
In separate incidents, members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested three people along with Tk 2.72 million Hundi money, 1200 bottles of Phensidyl syrup and five maunds of hemp in...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Friday said a reported chemical attack in Syria was staged by foreign agents. The US and France have said they have proof it took place,...
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) set Guinness Book of World Record by organising minute-long symbolic cleaning programme titled "Dettol Clean Dhaka" in the city on Friday. DSCC and the Reckitt...
The Chinese military on Thursday held its largest ever maritime drill in the disputed South China Sea during which it displayed for the first time the country's aircraft carrier strike...
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the Bangladesh government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) relating to the voluntary returns of Rohingya refugees once the conditions in Myanmar are...
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