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The country's imports of minerals and cardamom from Bhutan marked a surge in the last calendar year (2017), comparing to the corresponding period. The amount of minerals imported by Bangladesh...
A parliamentary standing committee on Thursday asked the local government engineering department (LGED) to settle eight audit objections of the audit report of 2004-2013 on professional fee involving Tk 1.48...
The government has set up an inter-ministerial committee aiming to create a low-interest fund of Tk 100 billion to help boost the jute sector. The six-member committee will fix the...
Stocks were marginally higher last week, snapping the five-week losing spell, driven by the government's move to ease the ongoing liquidity crunch. Analysts said the market edged higher as optimistic...
A proposal for formation of a defence entity within the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) is likely to come up for discussion in its next Council of Foreign Ministers...
Rajuk Uttara Apartment Project Flat Owners Welfare Association has alleged that the city development authority has been handing over the flats without making them livable. They also alleged that neither...
Japan has offered some US$1.83 billion in assistance for bankrolling Bangladesh's six major development projects on communications infrastructures, power and port. Ministry of Finance (MoF) officials said Friday Japanese Ambassador...
State enterprises will now be allowed to deposit 50 per cent of their funds with the private commercial banks (PCBs), up from the 25 per cent cap they used to...
Members of APTA-a major bloc encompassing nearly half of humanity--are considering adopting 'negative list' in tariff preferences to give a nudge to trade in the Asia-Pacific region. Officials said the...
The city had nor'wester rain and stormy weather on Friday. Swept by squally winds, it started raining at around 5.0 pm and briefly halted the normal life in the capital....
M Azizur Rahman The government has moved to sign two more agreements with the LNG suppliers to ensure the import of 2.25 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas ahead of...
French international Lucas Digne has returned to Barcelona from international duty with a muscular problem. The tests carried out on Wednesday have confirmed that he has a thigh injury in...
A Sylhet court on Friday placed a foreigner on a two-day remand in a case filed over cheating a teacher of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST). Police produced...
Most people are blithely unaware of the damages inflicted by extensive and indiscriminate urbanisation. Over half a century of efforts of making agriculture more industrial have given us a near...
Prudent budgetary management requires maintenance of a balance between the incomes and expenditures of a government. But the financial spending by the incumbent government in Bangladesh during the election year...
Bangladesh Edible Oil Limited (BEOL), a trusted edible oil house in Bangladesh, received the 'Asia's Most Admired Brands' award at 'The Brand and Leadership Conclave' held in Singapore recently, says...
With technology available more noticeably than ever before, one of the key areas where it is well-suited for public welfare is banking. No doubt, banking and financial transactions in the...
The United States plans to collect social media identities from nearly everyone who seeks entry into the country. The proposal of US State Department was published in the Federal Registrar...
Who would dare openly declare of physically pounding the president of the most powerful country on earth to pulps! How many heads does he have on his broad shoulder (kar...
I may not have been good at leading a methodical life. But I can say I am successful in the equation of family expenditures! It's because I am a man...
Lipi's mother who works at my home as a part time domestic help after doing two shifts elsewhere was today late. When asked for the reason for the delay, she...
Jute farmers of Nilphamari district were facing trouble after harvesting their bumper crop over the years. The reason was usual: they were not getting the fair price for their produce....
China is taking its first steps towards paying for imported crude oil in yuan instead of the US dollar, three people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, a key...
Former central bank governor of Bangladesh Dr Atiur Rahman urged local exporters to take advantage of the available low-cost green fund at the Bangladesh Bank (BB) to transform their factories...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah have again secured the top positions, number 1 and 2, in the 'Indian Express Power list for...
More than 140 Russian diplomats have so far been expelled as per Article 9 of the Vienna Convention (1961) from across the world in a co-ordinated response to alleged poison-attack...
The initiatives taken by the government over the past nine years under the vision of 'Digital Bangladesh' has brought about many welcome changes in our economy and the nation as...
Recently both the bourses of the country experienced sharp declines in share prices, of course followed by an increase again. However, this situation led to a lot of brouhaha among...
The Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) under the Ministry of Food has revealed interesting findings on the size of agricultural land being reported to be lost every year in...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has attended a doa mahfil on the occasion of the 43rd death anniversary of Sheikh Lutfar Rahman, the father of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Bangabandhu's younger...
The widow of the gunman who killed dozens at a Florida nightclub two years ago has been found not guilty of helping him. Noor Salman, 31, was charged with obstruction...
Eleven per cent children under 18 fall victim to cyber crimes in Bangladesh that pose a major threat to their lives, according to UNICEF. The Cyber Crime Awareness Foundation, a...
The Czech Republic's Olympic Committee has suggested an overhaul of the country's national anthem to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia. They have commissioned several new arrangements...
The recruitment test to appoint cash officers for Rupali Bank Limited has been cancelled due to power cut during squally weather in Dhaka. Around 4,000 candidates sat the examination at...
Light rain has brought relief to the people of Dhaka city as temperature was gradually increasing with approaching hot weather. "We recorded light rain with wind speed of 67 kilometres...
Even after formally being graduated from the Least Developed Country (LDC) category in 2024, Bangladesh will be able to enjoy the existing trade benefits for another three years or up...
Pakistani forces and their local collaborators carried out as many as 1,752 incidents of genocide in 10 districts in 1971, a survey has revealed. A group of researchers, with noted...
A fruit trader has reportedly been missing for five days in Golapganj upazila of Sylhet. The missing trader, Abdul Matin; 42, used to run a fruit shop at Hetimganj Bazar....
Palestinians in Gaza have marched in thousands to the Israeli border at the start of a six-week-long protest. The Palestinian health ministry says at least five people have been killed...
A hailstorm coupled with rain lashed Panchagarh and Nilphamari districts on Friday, damaging different crops and fruits on vast tracts of land. In Panchagarh, a violent hailstorm that swept a...
Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Nooron has said only the parties that believe in the Liberation War and the country's independence should be allowed to join polls. "Only those parties that...
In a recent discovery, researchers uncovered a galaxy, that lacks the enigmatic substance known as the dark matter, which is generally considered as an essential ingredient in the birth of...
Russia has expelled 60 US diplomats and closed the St Petersburg consulate in a tit-for-tat response to US action over a spy poisoning case in the UK. Russia's foreign minister...
Two teenage lovers from an indigenous community allegedly committed suicide jumping before a running train at Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar on Friday. The deceased were identified as Sandha Sangma, 17,...
The Ministry of Agriculture wants to import 1.75 million tonnes (mt) of MOP and DAP fertilisers to meet the demand for the upcoming fiscal year 2018-19. According to a government...
The government plans to change the English spellings of five districts to make them sound similar to the Bangla alphabet. According to bdnews24.com, the proposed spellings are Chattagram (for Chittagong),...
Female cabin crew at Cathay Pacific have won a battle to scrap a rule forcing them to wear skirts. The Hong Kong airline has agreed flight attendants can choose to...
The government will arrange necessary medical care for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in jail after assessing her ailments. Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader came up with the statement on...
The government has taken an enormous project to expand technical education in the country, aiming to develop skilled human resources and thus harness its efforts to make Bangladesh a middle-income...
Internet users in Bangladesh jumped by 29.7 per cent within a year, according to the new 2018 Global Digital suite of reports from We Are Social and Hootsuite. It showed...
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