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Bangladesh appears to be too much complacent on its achievements these days. Such complacence is understandable, but too much of that may be harmful. Bangladesh has a long way to...
Although the Bureau of Statistics (BBS) is claiming that the country's economy is expected to achieve 7.65 per cent growth in the current financial year, economic analysts tend to believe...
Myanmar Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Minister Win Myat Aye will visit Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar next week. This will be the first visit by any Myanmar minister to...
GOPALGANJ, Apr 04: Onion farmers of Muksudpur upazila of the district are passing busy time as they have started harvesting the produce recently. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension...
RANGPUR, Apr 04: A good yield of wheat has made the growers of Rangpur division delighted during the current season. Farmers and DAE officials have attributed the achievement to congenial...
Five new profiles are created on Facebook every second--ALL Facebook 2012 An US consumer spends 40 minutes on an average on Facebook per day--Nielsen Report Facebook users create 3.2 billion...
The phrase Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0), coined in Germany in 2011, has become a buzz word nowadays. IR 4.0 will connect, integrate and automate everything on a grand scale:...
The electric car boom is gathering pace, with sales doubling in 2017 to exceed one million for the first time last year. Despite the uncertainty of diffusion rate of the...
Why something so rewarding as paperless trade should still be confined to the domain of potentiality analysis and expression of commitments poses a baffling question. More so, when it promises...
Police arrested four people from Khilkhet area in the capital early Wednesday in connection with a case filed for killing of a Jubo League activist on March 26. Mohammad Shahidullah,...
You are in the grocery store standing in a queue for almost half an hour when your turn finally comes and you hastily move forward to take out the umpteenth...
Owners of steel and re-rolling industries has announced to cut Tk 1,000 from the existing price of the per tonne MS rod. The industries owners came up with the announcement...
A woman was killed and three others injured as an abandoned mortar shell exploded in Maidherchala area of Ghatail upazila in Tangail on Wednesday noon. The deceased was identified as...
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) sent letters to seven banks asking for account statements of eight top BNP leaders, ACC Secretary Shamsul Arefin told reporters on Wednesday. He said ACC sent the...
President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday emphasised the use of information technology at every stage of education to face the challenge of globalisation. Addressing the 3rd convocation of Khulna University of...
Bangladesh will receive 85.11 million Euro in loan from the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) for rural and peri-urban housing. Bangladesh signed a loan agreement with this Jeddah-based lending agency on...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will interrogate two lawmakers over allegation of acquiring illegal wealth. The ACC on Wednesday asked the two members of parliament, Kamrul Ashraf Khan (Narsingdi-2) and Mohammad...
Director General of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Benazir Ahmed has said Rathis Bhowmik, a 55-year-old lawyer, was killed over an extramarital affair of his wife. The RAB DG addressed a...
The woman identified by police as the attacker who wounded three people at YouTube’s headquarters in California was a vegan blogger who accused the video-sharing service of discriminating against her,...
Law enforcers have arrested the prime accused on Tuesday night in a case over the killing of a woman and her son in Sylhet on Sunday noon. The arrestee was...
A Chapainawabganj court has sentenced three people to life term imprisonment for raping a woman at Hossain Dying area in 2015. The lifers are Sohel Babu; 27, son of Kasimuddin,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday directed the leaders of Mohila Sramik League to work together to further strengthen the organisation. The Prime Minister gave the directives while delivering a...
A Dhaka court has acquitted all 11 accused in a case over the technical glitch in a VVIP flight of Biman carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2016. Dhaka Metropolitan...
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has taken a move to set a Guinness World Record through a cleaning campaign with participation of highest number of people on April 13. DSCC...
Drooto, a web and app-based on-demand service platform that aims to provide technical repairing and installation services, has launched its operation in Bangladesh recently. The app was officially launched by...
At least 10 people have died after consuming poisonous home-distilled drink moonshine in Indonesia’s capital and its outskirt cities, a senior police officer said Wednesday. Police chief in East Jakarta...
Three warehouses were gutted in a fire which broke out at a cotton mill in Tongi of Gazipur city early Wednesday. Atiqur Rahman, senior station officer of Tongi Fire Service...
Stocks ended almost flat Wednesday with turnover falling further as investors were active on both sides of the trading fence. Analysts said the market ended flat after high volatility as...
Many business entities are reluctant to pay VAT (value added tax) to the government exchequer as it is yet to get acceptance like income tax, National Board of Revenue (NBR)...
A young Indian woman named Rupali Meshram was lucky to survive, doctors say, after she fought off a tiger with a bare stick, which attacked her goat. Rupali, 23, said...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) during a drive seized 27 gold bars from Taluigaccha border area in Satkhira Sadar upazila on Wednesday noon. After being tipped off that a...
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) cut its key lending rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday. The central bank unexpectedly cut the key rate as policy makers sought...
An experimental smartphone app might be an effective alternative to a traditional method of assessing circulation in people who need surgery to restore normal blood flow to the heart, a...
China condemned the United States on Wednesday as the Trump administration pushed ahead with plans to slap tariffs on about $50 billion of Chinese industrial and hi-tech products, and vowed...
Indonesia has taken an initiative to open up the university sector to 100 per cent foreign investment. The South Asian country’s President Joko Widodo has instructed his cabinet to open...
With her arms crossed and poised for action, ‘Wonder Woman’ television actress Lynda Carter was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday as her most...
DHL Parcel and DHL eCommerce are now offering online retailers a global solution for their e-commerce fulfilment needs with a global platform and new centres in the UK, Americas and...
Drone delivery firm Zipline has revealed a new aircraft that it says will let it make up to 500 deliveries every day. Zipline operates a commercial service delivering blood supplies...
Russia’s foreign intelligence agency chief Sergei Naryshkin said on Wednesday that the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal in Britain was an act of provocation by US and British...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the government would establish SME advisory centres in all districts and upazillas, which will act as one-stop centres to provide service to the...
British shop prices dropped in March at the fastest pace in more than a year, adding to signs that inflation pressure caused by the pound’s post-Brexit drop is fading away,...
Christian militias stormed a UN base in southern Central Africa Republic, killing one peacekeeper and wounding 11 early on Monday, the United Nations said. At around 5 am (0400 GMT),...
The initiator of the concept of the Migrants Sponsored Banking (MSB) system in Bangladesh has got recognition from the central bank. Md Bayazid Sarker, a joint director of the central...
The detection of fraud is a key concern for companies around the world, particularly for consumer banking and credit card companies. 78 per cent of retail banking and cards companies...
Jamuna Bank Limited recently organised a NRB camp and CSR seminar at Sonapur Labour Camp in Dubai. Mr. lsmait Hossain Siraji, Chairman, Board of Directors inaugurated the event as the...
Former Australia captain Steve Smith says he will not appeal against his 12-month ban for ball-tampering. David Warner was also given a one-year ban and Cameron Bancroft handed a nine-month...
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) authorities have introduced a shuttle bus service on the campus to facilitate the movement of teachers and students. The bus service was launched...
The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) arranged a seminar on “Accounting Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)” at ICMAB Ruhul Quddus Auditorium, Dhaka Wednesday, said a statement. Mr....
A controversial church bell in Schweringen, northern Germany, has had a swastika inscription removed as part of an unauthorised ‘spring cleaning’. The unknown perpetrators left a note on the door...
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has found Rathis Chondro Bhowmik dead in Rangpur following the arrest of his schoolteacher wife Dipa Bhowmik and two of her colleagues. RAB-13 commander Major...
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