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Police in Canada have confirmed that 14 people were killed when a lorry and a bus carrying a junior ice hockey team collided on Friday evening. The Humboldt Broncos were...
Myanmar Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Win Myat Aye says more time is needed to verify people before beginning the repatriation of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Aye is...
A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.3 rocked the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea on Saturday, the European earthquake monitoring service reported. The very shallow quake was only two kms...
Babul Miah, the prime accused in a case over the killing of teenage girl Beauty after rape in Sayestaganj upazila of Habiganj district, gave statement before a court here confessing...
Six people have died after a fierce fire gutted a residential building in Ussuriysk in the Russian federal subject of Primorsky Krai, the local department of Russian Investigative Committee said...
Facebook Inc backed for the first time on Friday proposed legislation requiring social media sites to disclose the identities of buyers of online political campaign ads and introduced a new...
A Bangladeshi vegetables vendor has allegedly been shot and killed by a Saudi in Jeddah. The deceased, Azizul Talukder, 40, hails from Raipura in Narsingdi. His two sons and a...
Prime Insurance Company Ltd and Risk Care Insurance Broking Services Pvt Ltd, India recently signed a re-insurance agreement for Hajj & Umrah Policy, said a statement. Mohammodi Khanam, CEO of...
The US economy created 103,000 jobs in March while the wage growth picked up a bit. Average hourly earnings rose eight cents or 0.3 per cent last month after edging...
A flight of Saudi Airlines has failed to meet its arrival schedule at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Saturday. The flight from Riyadh was scheduled to arrive at the...
Farmers in the district have started harvesting wheat amid an expectation of achieving a bumper production of the crop in the current season. Sources with the Department of Agriculture Extension...
The government has no plan to cut yield rates on state-owned savings certificates, said National Board of Revenue (NBR) chairman Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan on Saturday. Despite the interest payments being...
The Quarterly Business Conference of Dhaka, Sylhet & Rajshahi zones of First Security Islami Bank Limited was held at Dhaka Regency Hotel & Resort Saturday. The conference was presided over...
The ratio of the export of goods and services to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country may decline in the ongoing fiscal year. It may reach 14.36 per...
A total of 13 people were killed in separate road accidents in six upazilas of five districts across the country on Friday. In Raipur of Narsingdi, four motorcyclists were killed...
The 743rd meeting of the Executive Committee (EC) of Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited was held recently at the Board Room of Head Office of the Bank, said a statement. The...
bKash Limited, the largest mobile financial service provider in the country, recently signed an agreement with Capacity Development Services Limited(CDSL), a bill payment solutions provider to facilitate bKash customers pay...
Former chief justice and the first black member of Brazil’s Supreme Court, Joaquim Barbosa, joined the centre-left Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) late on Friday mulling a presidential bid in the...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has left prison and reached Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) for medical tests. A cabin at BSMMU has been made ready for the former prime...
Global stocks slipped on Friday while crude oil and equity markets tumbled after US President Donald Trump upped the ante in a trade dispute with China. MSCI’s gauge of worldwide...
US stocks plunged on Monday as investors fled technology stocks amid resurgent trade war worries, with key indexes trading below their 200-day moving averages. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell...
Paris St Germain missed out on a chance to secure the Ligue 1 title at the weekend as they could only salvage a 1-1 draw at St Etienne and finished...
This year’s public forum of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will be held on October 2-4 in Geneva. “Trade 2030” is the main theme of the forum, the largest annual...
Six more listed companies, including three banks, recommended dividend last week ranging between 10 per cent and 30 per cent for the year ended on December 31, 2017. The companies...
Speakers at a seminar in the capital on Friday called for ensuring policy support and access to finance for the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) before they enter the e-commerce...
Eight activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir were arrested along with seven bombs from Narayandpur union in Sadar upazila of Jashore district on Friday night. A team of police, led by...
“Don’t overreact,” President Donald Trump’s chief economic adviser told investors on Wednesday, when US stocks were deep in the red over worries about the administration’s plan for $50 billion of...
The government is considering introducing a separate security instrument for the Islamic banks, aiming to meet its budget deficit. Such banks have no fixed-income instrument for liquidity management like conventional...
The prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) soared 4.35 per cent last week, the biggest single-week gain since its inception in January 2013. Market operators said the enthusiastic...
Russian former spy Sergei Skripal is no longer in a critical condition after being poisoned by a nerve agent, doctors have said. Salisbury District Hospital said Skripal is responding well...
The governments of Bangladesh and India are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) early next week in Dhaka to implement a cross-border pipeline. India would finance Rs 3.03...
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is eager to invest in Bangladesh's power, energy and tourism sectors as the oil-rich country is growingly looking to diversify its investment portfolio. During...
Sales of clothes have started picking up at different fashion and boutique houses in the city ahead of Pahela Baishakh, the country's biggest cultural festival. On the occasion of Bangla...
Employment growth in the industrial sector has fallen since 2013 due to "automation" of some factories and the closure of many clothing units, according to government survey findings and economists....
The government has been allocating resources for health to 16 other ministries even as the core ministry responsible for overall health outcome struggles to find money. Health experts suggested integrating...
The government is likely to earmark more than Tk 600 billion as project aid in the development budget for the next financial year (FY) 2018-19, up 16 per cent from...
Bangladesh achieved considerable progress in utilising Japan's aid loan in the Japanese financial year ending in March, data shows. The disbursement of overseas development assistance loan from JICA (Japan International...
A move taken by the authority concerned to bring disciplines in the city's bus system through major reform is going on at a snail's pace. In absence of introduction of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday invited UN Secretary-General António Guterres to visit Bangladesh and see the plight of Rohingya refugees himself. The Prime Minister made the invitation when the...
Three Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces during fresh protests on Gaza's border with Israel, Palestinian health ministry officials say. The Israeli military said troops had opened fire when...
South African Chad le Clos became the most successful male swimmer in history at the Commonwealth Games after winning the 50m butterfly - his 13th medal. Failing to claim a...
Two United Nations peacekeepers have been killed in a mortar attack in the far north of Mali. The two Chadians were killed and 10 other peacekeepers were injured in the...
Armed robbers Friday blew up the entrances of five banks in central Nigeria's Offa town with dynamite, in an operation which lasted for more than an hour after the close...
A daylong 'Nature Festival 2018' was held at Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus on Friday. JU environmentalists' organisation, Natural Conservation Initiative (NCI), organised the festival with the slogan 'Reduce Pollution, Save...
Spain hopes to reach an agreement with the UK over Gibraltar by the summer, its foreign minister has said on Friday. Alfonso Dastis said Spain would "defend our position" but...
Rajshahi University Journalist Association (RUJA) on Friday demanded inclusion of the university correspondents who works as campus reporters at various universities in the 'Ninth Wage Board'. RUJA came up with...
Women in Bangladesh are usually considered a second-rated species. They have to comply, barring in high societies, with dress codes and several socially sanctioned restrictions. Their status cannot be said...
Millennials (people born between 1981-2000) are a completely different variant of the human race who, unlike any other generation, are leading the changes taking place in today's world, shifting and...
Comparative advantage is again at the centre of discussion as the concept of globalisation appears to have outrun established economic principles such as the one based on the Ricardian concept....
Sexual harassment is an unwanted advance, unwelcome request for sexual favour or other unwelcome conduct of this type which makes a person feel offended, humiliated or intimidated, where a reasonable...
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