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Students and job seekers have organised a demonstration blocking the Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka to call for quota reforms. Nearly a thousand protesters gathered in front of the public library...
The Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) has published a circular for the 39th Special Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination to recruit 4792 physicians. BPSC Chairman Dr Muhammad Sadiq said they...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has submitted the concise statement of appeals to the Supreme Court challenging BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's bail in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case The ACC...
The Anti-Corruption Commission or ACC has arrested Kutubuddin Ahmed, personal secretary of land minister, over a graft case involving land in Dhaka’s Gulshan. Ahmed was attested from Segun Bagicha area...
Country’s hotel and restaurant sector is going to post higher growth in the ongoing fiscal year. Provisional estimation of the national income, released by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS),...
Stocks edged higher on Sunday with turnover on the major bourse crossing Tk 6.0 billion-mark after nearly two months as optimistic investors showed their buying appetite on sector-wise stocks. Market...
ESCAP Business Advisory Council (EBAC) Chairman and International Chamber of Commerce, Bangladesh (ICCB) President Mahbubur Rahman left Dhaka for Cyberport, Hong Kong on Sunday to attend the 5th EBAC meeting...
The government has announced procure Boro rice paddy at Tk 26 per kg and rice at Tk 38 per kg during upcoming Boro season. Boro farmers will receive Tk 2...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three people along with 23,580 Yaba tablets from Shaplapur Bazar in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar district on Saturday night. The arrestees were...
The government will address the provision on multiple taxation on multi-layer dividend of companies in the upcoming budget for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2018-19, said National Board of Revenue (NBR)...
The Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), which is one of the largest investors in the capital market, has decided to issue a subordinated bond worth Tk 20 billion. “The board...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been shown arrested for the second time in a case filed over the 2015 arson attack on a bus in Chouddagram upazila of Cumilla that...
Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda says he is in support of troop deployment during the upcoming parliamentary elections, but says the Election Commission has yet to reach a final...
Beximco Pharmaceuticals Limited has recently donated near about Tk 14.5m to the Bangladesh Workers’ Welfare Foundation Fund. Chief Operating Officer of Beximco Pharma, Rabbur Reza handed over the cheque of...
The "ground-breaking" sugar tax on soft drinks has come into force in the UK. From Friday manufacturers have to pay a levy on the high-sugar drinks they sell. Ministers and...
The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) has demanded increasing the tax-free income ceiling for individual taxpayers to Tk 0.45 million (4,50,000) for the upcoming fiscal year from existing...
Bangladesh Bank has suggested encouraging Islamic Shariah compliant investment certificate Sukuk in the capital market. The central bank made the suggestion in its latest quarterly report on ‘Capital Market Developments...
Manchester City must wait to secure the Premier League title after Manchester United mounted a remarkable second-half derby fightback to come from two goals down to win at Etihad Stadium....
A Town Hall meeting of United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB) was held in Chittagong recently. Managing Director of UCB Mr. A. E. Abul Muhaimen along with other senior executives of...
A Tangail court has sentenced absconding garment worker Mostafizur Rahman to death for the 2012 murder of labour leader Aminul Islam. Tangail Special Judge Wahiduzzaman Sikdar announced the verdict on...
The Training Institute of Midland Bank (MDBTI) recently organised a five-day Foundation Training Programme for its officials. Md Ahsan-uz Zaman, Managing Director and CEO of the Bank inaugurated the programme...
The board of directors of City General Insurance Company Limited has recommended 10 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2017, said an official disclosure on...
Japanese police have arrested a 73-year-old man suspected of keeping his son in a wooden cage for over 20 years. Yoshitane Yamasaki said he locked up his son, now 42,...
An international flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines failed to meet its arrival schedule at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Sunday. The flight from Abu Dhabi was scheduled to arrive...
Three members of a family have received burn injuries after a gas line leakage led to a blast in Bhadail area of Ashulia in Savar on early Sunday. The injured...
Two passengers were killed and 25 others injured as a bus overturned on Dhaka-Khulna highway at Gopnathpur under Gopalganj sadar upazila on Sunday morning. The deceased have been identified as...
Nearly all Bangladeshi products face tariffs with its average rate being the highest in the United States market. The amount is 15.2 per cent of the total value of Bangladesh’s...
It's his 54th birthday, and it would have been his 15th wedding anniversary, so it was time to clear out "stuff". Actor Russell Crowe has held his "Art of Divorce"...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed travelled to a region where clashes have displaced nearly a million people, his first trip since being sworn in as premier five days ago. Violence...
Myanmar is not ready for the repatriation of Rohingya refugees, said the most senior United Nations official to visit the Southeast Asian country this year, after Myanmar was accused of...
IPDC Finance Limited recently sponsored the Jubilee Concert Dhaka of Aga Khan Foundation. To celebrate the 60 years of service to the world, Aga Khan Foundation organised this concert at...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered an Indian air gun and two bullets from Boro Achra border area under Benapole thana of the district on Saturday night. Tipped off,...
Police recovered the body of an unidentified woman from Puranpara area in sadar upazila on Sunday morning. The age of the deceased was around 25 years, said Mozaffar Hossain, inspector...
United International University has become champion of the HSBC-IBA Business Case Competition-2018, said a statement. The members of the team—Mahir Abid, Ahmed Yusuf, Khatib Mohammad Taameem and Fabia...
The board of directors of Uttara Finance & Investments Limited has recommended 30 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2017. The final approval of the...
The board of directors of Bay Leasing & Investment Limited has recommended 10 per cent cash and 5.0 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2017,...
Father of Beauty Akhter and two others were involved in the sensational murder of the 16-year-old girl, police said on Saturday. Victim's father Sayed Ali, his relative Moyna Mia and...
Millions of French commuters and holidaymakers faced another wave of crippling transport stoppages on Sunday, as rail workers protested at President Emmanuel Macron’s economic reform plans and some unions warned...
The Quarterly Business Conference of Chattogram zone of First Security Islami Bank Limited was held recently at Hotel Agrabad, Chattogram. The Conference was presided over by Mr. Syed Waseque Md....
Shooter Abdullah Hel Baki has won Bangladesh its first medal at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games 2018 by taking silver in the 10m Air Rifle final. Baki finished with a...
Some 44.3 per cent or 26.9 million employed people are own-account workers, according to the Labour Force Survey 2016-17 (LFS 2017). They are basically self-employed with no employees in their...
The board of directors of Premier Leasing & Finance has recommended 5 per cent cash and 5.0 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2017. The...
Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick as runaway leaders Barcelona equalled the La Liga record of 38 games unbeaten with victory over Leganes. Messi curled home a fantastic 30-yard free-kick before...
One man was killed and six firefighters received minor injuries in an apartment fire on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in New York on Saturday, in a blaze that...
The trustee of Grameen One: Scheme Two, a closed-end mutual fund (MF), has sought regulatory opinion to decide their position regarding continuation, or liquidation, or conversion of the fund. The...
Saudi Aramco IPO-ARMO.SE took the first steps toward expanding the largest U.S. refinery on Saturday, which is operated by its subsidiary Motiva Enterprises. Aramco’s Chief Executive Amin Nasser signed agreements...
The apparel trade group has initiated a process of allotting space at its under-construction building at Uttara for its existing space owners on a priority basis. The current headquarters of...
Rohingya crisis, Teesta deal, and connectivity will top the agenda as foreign secretaries of Bangladesh and India meet today (Sunday) in Dhaka. The meeting will be held tomorrow at the...
Bangladesh's services account deficit hit a record high in the seven months to January as the payment for freights jumped by nearly 24 per cent on back of rise in...
Scientists in developing nations plan to step up research into dimming sunshine to curb climate change, hoping to judge if a man-made chemical sunshade would be less risky than a...
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