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Indonesia has declared a state of emergency around a port on Borneo island, officials said on Tuesday, after a large oil spill and fire killed four people at the weekend....
Three college teachers were relieved of examination duty for providing wrong question papers to examinees at a centre during the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations in Natore on Monday. The...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) approved 10 projects at a combine cost of Tk 34.16 billion at its meeting Tuesday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over...
A Chinese father has been reunited with his daughter after looking for her for 24 years. Wang Mingqing's tireless search included becoming a taxi driver in Chengdu city, in the...
Bangladesh Coast Guard members rescued 178 Bawalis (wood collectors) who were held hostage by forest robbers after a gunfight with the bandits in Tepar Bharani canal of the Sundarbans under...
The High Court has ordered eight directors of two companies to surrender before the trial court in two cases filed over the 1996 share market scam. The HC bench of...
The government has decided to drop Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) in Primary Education Completion (PEC) examinations from this year. Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman came up with the...
A four-day Inter-Service Qirat and Azan competition began on Tuesday at the central mosque of Bangladesh Air Force in the capital on Tuesday. Major General Md Abu Sayed Siddique, SPP,...
The point-to-point inflation rate in the last month March of the current fiscal dropped to 5.68 per cent compared to that of 5.72 per cent in the previous month February....
Facebook's chief executive and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg on Monday said the social media company is aware that its tools have been used to spread anti-Rohingya propaganda and "incite real harm"...
Chowdhury MAQ Sarwar has joined Eastern Bank Limited as deputy managing director (DMD). He was the Consultant of Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd. A distinguished banker with 34 years of experience...
In an unprecedented move, India and Bangladesh have started a freight train service between Kolkata and Dhaka. The trial run of the train was flagged off at a Concor terminus...
Two school students drowned in the Buriganga river as a boat capsized while crossing the river at Sadarghat in the city on Monday. The deceased were identified as Sanjida Aktar,...
A Chinese father has been reunited with his daughter after looking for her for 24 years. Wang Mingqing's tireless search included becoming a taxi driver in Chengdu city, in the...
Six miners were killed when unknown attackers threw a petrol bomb at a bus transporting them to the Modikwa platinum mine in north east South Africa, the National Union of...
German prosecutors filed a request to a regional court on Tuesday for the extradition of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont to Spain, where he faces charges of rebellion over the...
Stocks drifted lower Tuesday, snapping a three-day winning streak, as risk-averse investors opted to book quick gain. Market operators said the market returned to the red as retail investors went...
The Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) on Tuesday proposed the revenue authority to slash corporate tax rates in phases for listed and non-listed companies in the upcoming budget....
Two shootings in London in the space of an hour have left a 17-year-old girl dead and a boy, 16, critically ill. The teenage girl was found with a bullet...
Cricket Australia should reconsider bans given to three Test cricketers involved in a ball-tampering scandal, the players’ union says. Former captain Steven Smith and batsmen David Warner and Cameron Bancroft...
A total of 82,473 students have got scholarships in the Primary Terminal Examinations 2017. Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman announced the list of scholarship recipients at a press...
Indian shares edged lower on Tuesday tracking global peers, with gains in state-run lenders such as State Bank of India being capped by losses in tech stocks such as Wipro....
Two international flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines failed to meet their arrival schedules at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Tuesday. BG 036 from Jeddah was scheduled to arrive at...
Mohammad Masoom has joined Midland Bank Limited (MDB) as Additional Managing Director (AMD). Earlier, he served in Bangladesh Finance and Investment Company Limited (BD Finance), as its managing director and...
Guardian Life Insurance has introduced the first-ever mobile app ‘My Guardian’ in the insurance industry, aiming to provide comprehensive digital insurance services to the customers. Shafiqur Rahman Patwary, Chairman of...
The militant group Islamic State (IS) on Tuesday claimed responsibility for killing four members of a Christian family in southwestern Pakistan. A statement issued by the group claimed that militants...
Bangladesh has estimated that per capita income will rise to $1,752 in the current fiscal year (FY) ending Jun 30 from $1,610 a year ago. Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal...
LankaBangla Finance Limited (LBFL) has recently inked a Memorandum of Understanding with Apex Husain Limited to avail mutual benefits. Khurshed Alam, Head of Retail Finance of LBFL and Moazzem Husain,...
The country's export earnings maintained a moderate growth of 6.33 per cent during the first nine months of the current fiscal year (FY), 2017-18. The export earnings stood at US$27.45...
Marcel, electronics appliances manufacturer, has resumed its ‘Digital Campaign’ across the country aiming to continue its post sales services into the online activities through database system. During the campaign, details...
Facebook's chief executive has defended his leadership following criticism from his counterpart at Apple. Mark Zuckerberg said it was "extremely glib" to suggest that because the public did not pay...
At least five people have been killed and 19 others wounded in a car crash in Gwa township, Myanmar's Rakhine state, the Home Affairs Ministry said on Tuesday. The incident...
Two motorcycle riders were killed and two others injured following a head-on collision between two motorbikes on Kaliganj-Shymganj road in Pirojpur Katakhali area of Kaliganj upazila on Tuesday morning. The...
South Bangla Agriculture and Commerce (SBAC) Bank Limited celebrated its 5th anniversary at the bank’s head office recently. S M Amzad Hossain, Chairman of SBAC inaugurated the ceremony cutting a...
Channing Tatum and wife Jenna Dewan have announced they're splitting up. The couple say that "no secrets or salacious events" caused the split - they've instead "lovingly chosen to separate"...
Beximco Pharmaceuticals has completed accusation of 85.22 per cent stake in Nuvista Pharma to strengthen its position in hormones and steroids segments. “The board of directors of Beximco Pharma has...
India will deny government access to journalists who publish fake news, the information ministry has announced, a decision that critics promptly labelled an attack on the freedom of the press...
The Regional Director for Southeast Asia of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh has observed that community ownership in primary healthcare system made Bangladesh one of the...
The White House has criticised China after the second largest economic country imposed retaliatory tariffs against the US on a range of goods, including pork, fruits, and wine. Beijing has...
Police in a drive arrested a murder accused from Fatullah area in Narayanganj city on Monday noon. The arrestee was identified as Al-Amin, son of late Ahellah Sardar of Kotailbagh...
The US Justice Department is to impose quotas on immigration judges in an attempt to get cases processed faster, US media report. Judges will be told to get through at...
SoftBank Group is investing $400 million in India’s Paytm E-Commerce Pvt. Ltd. in a funding round that will value the online retailer at roughly $1.9 billion, a regulatory filing showed...
Two idols were reportedly stolen from a shiv temple at Kamargaon Ganghati Purbapara village in Tanore upazila in Rajshahi. A written complaint was filed with Tanore Police Station around 10:30...
Asian shares slipped for a second day Tuesday amid jitters about US-Chinese trade tensions and mounting public scrutiny of technology companies. Most of the Asian markets declined. The dollar temporarily...
At least seven shops were gutted in a fire at Arpara Bazar in Shalikha upazila in Magura early Tuesday. Moniruzzaman, an officer at Magura Fire Service, said the fire broke...
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has been re-elected for a second four-year term, after winning 97% of the vote last week, official results show. The amount is the same as...
The prices of most of the stocks witnessed positive trend in early trading Tuesday, as investors continued their buying spree encouraged by the government’s steps to ease the ongoing liquidity...
The initial public offering (IPO) lottery of Intraco Refuelling Station will be held on April 17 to allocate 30 million ordinary shares among the successful applicants, officials said. The lottery...
A suspected robber was killed in a reported gunfight with police in 29 Mile area near Thakurgaon-Dinajpur highway in Sadar upazila early Tuesday. Tipped off that a gang of robber...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was suspending a new agreement with the UN refugee agency to relocate thousands of African migrants, as right-wing pressure mounted on him to...
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