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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s government tabled a bill in parliament on Monday outlawing “fake news”, with hefty fines and up to 10 years in jail, raising more concerns about...
Fears of a full-blown trade war between the United States and China battered Asian shares again on Monday, keeping the safe haven yen near a 16-month peak as investors fretted...
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration has added seven Pakistani companies to a list of foreign entities that presumably pose a significant risk to the national security and policy interests of...
Australia has told Myanmar that international observers must be allowed into the isolated Rakhine state to monitor the situation of Rohingya still living there, and to supervise the return of...
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid tributes to the martyrs of the Liberation War by placing wreaths at the National Memorial in Dhaka's Savar on Monday morning...
India could very well be the next recipient of US trade action. This was viewed by William Reinsch, senior adviser at the Center For Strategic & International Studies. Reinsch previously...
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman is coming to Hollywood in early April for meetings with prominent power brokers, bookended by stops in New York and Silicon Valley. The goal...
Egyptians begin three days of voting on Monday to elect a new president in an election expected to produce a landslide for the sitting president. There are few doubts that...
Ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies has agreed to sell its Southeast Asian business to bigger regional rival Grab, the firms said in a statement on Monday, marking the US company’s second...
Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont was detained in Germany on Sunday, five months after entering self-imposed exile from Spain, where he faces up to 25 years in prison for organising...
The government has prepared a draft policy on financial assistance for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects, aiming to attract private investments in such projects, officials said. "A draft policy styled Guidelines...
A mother vessel carrying containers arrived in the Chittagong port from the Bussan Port of Korea on Saturday, marking the beginning of direct container transportation between the two ports. Businesses...
The initial public offering subscription of Indo-Bangla Pharmaceuticals is set to begin on April 8 while public subscription of Intraco Refueling Station will be ended tomorrow (Tuesday). Indo-Bangla Pharmaceuticals: Indo-Bangla...
At least 64 people have died in a fire that tore through a shopping and entertainment complex in the Siberian coal-mining city of Kemerovo. Many of the victims are children,...
The central bank has introduced a new set of regulations on appointment of chief financial officer (CFO) and chief information technology officer (CITO) of the banks to ensure good governance...
Veteran journalist Rahman Jahangir has passed away aged around 68. He died at Lab Aid Hospital in Dhaka city at 5 am on Monday, his family says. He was currently...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines Sunday started operation of its third weekly flight to Jeddah from port city Chittagong. The national flag carrier's flight no BG 135 took off Hazrat Shah Amanat...
Discussants at a seminar Sunday identified illegal visa trading, influence of local and foreign brokers and vague job and wage agreements as key barriers to ensuring low-cost and safe migration...
The government will introduce E-chalan soon for collection of VAT and income tax. Finance secretary Muslim Chowdhury informed the media this at city function Sunday to inaugurated 'e-chalan' . State...
The nation celebrates the 48th Independence and National Day today with Bangladesh emerging as a thriving economy with notable success in many socio-economic indicators. The aspiration of the people to...
RAJSHAHI, Mar 25: Nearly 10-kilometre area at the bank of the Padma river surrounding Rajshahi city which was once a place of entertainment and thought as pleasure lovers' paradise, has...
BOGRA, Mar 25: Many people in the district have attained financial solvency by rearing ducks on commercial basis. A good number of rearers of Dupchanchia, Nandigram, Sherpur, Adamdigghi, Kahaloo, Shibganj,...
The nation is set to celebrate the 48th Independence and National Day on Monday with due respect. On March 26, 1971, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared...
A court on Sunday sentenced an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of police and his wife to life imprisonment for killing a housemaid after rape in 2003. The convicts are ASI...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday reiterated Bangladesh's support to independent Palestine state, saying the brotherly country enjoys a special place in the hearts of the people of Bangladesh. She...
The members of Detective Branch of police on Sunday seized 50,000 pieces of contraband Yaba pills from a Pajero vehicle with VIP flagstand and government sticker from Fakinnirhat area of...
A Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) unit leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was stabbed allegedly by a fellow on the campus on Sunday. The victim is Zahid...
Joyous celebration of an occasion like that of the Independence Day is always special to any nation. And when independence is achieved at the cost of blood, the celebration assumes...
As the country's Independence Day, March 26 surpasses in its poignant significance every other red letter day on the calendar. But the day evokes all the sinister and dark memories...
A 16-year old Tamjid Sultan Mahi has become a symbol of grief. He is the son of the deceased pilot of the ill-fated US-Bangla airliner that crashed at Tribhuvan International...
Immediately after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur declared the independence of Bangladesh on March 26, 1971, the people braced themselves for an onslaught from the Pakistani army. The news of the massacre...
Sheikh Mujib is a great man, much larger than life. Unfortunately, the generations, born and brought up in the post-1975 period up to the mid-1990s when there was an attempt...
The name 'Mahesh Khola' is engraved in my heart as it is a place where my family took refuge during the war of independence in 1971. I had an opportunity...
Depending in what the objectives for any given year is, top executives of companies parrot themes such as 'customer', 'quality', 'safety' or 'people' as being priority. Return to shareholders is...
A sub-registrar was suspended on Sunday after a video footage of bribe taking by him went viral in social media. The suspended sub-registrar, Eshak Ali Mandal, was working at Araihazar...
Russia and the Taliban have separately rejected comments made by the head of US forces in Afghanistan that Moscow has been supporting, and even supplying weapons to, the insurgent group....
The Committee for Development Policy (CDP), a United Nations Panel, meeting at the UN headquarters in New York has formally announced that Bangladesh now has the eligibility to graduate to...
The government has introduced 'e-chalan' to facilitate people to pay fees for passport, police verification and national ID card online which is expected to ensure hassle-free services to the people....
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) is planning to set different price rates for internet use, especially for social media sites such as Facebook, in an effort to curb the “addiction”...
Three minor girls drowned while taking bath in the Meghna River at Ibrahimpur village in Chandpur on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Fatema Akhter, 6, daughter of Swapan Rarhi,...
Three people died and seven others were injured as a truck hit a human hauler at Harikhali area of Sharsha upazila in Jessore on Sunday afternoon. The deceased were identified...
The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) will provide US$ 51 million loan to Bangladesh for urban infrastructure development in 51 municipalities in the northern region. The loan agreement...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said the government has equipped law enforcers with all modern facilities to prevent any type of terrorist and militant attack like the one at Gulshan...
The High Court (HC) on Sunday summoned five doctors of Comilla Medical College Hospital over the alleged decapitation of a baby during a caesarean operation. The doctors are head of...
UN assistant secretary general Haoliang Xu has suggested Bangladesh to work together to escape the middle-income trap it faces. The country should focus on structural transformation, innovation, increasing productivity, improving...
France will pay a national tribute to a security officer who died from gunshot wounds after voluntarily taking the place of a female hostage during a supermarket siege by an...
US President Donald Trump has lauded Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s “personal leadership’ in addressing the Rohingya crisis. In a message to Hasina on Bangladesh’s Independence Day he also thanked the...
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg apologised to Britons on Sunday over a "breach of trust", taking out full page advertisements in British newspapers after a political consultancy got its hands...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested three suspected robbers and seized arms from Madhurchora area under Ukhia upazila in Cox’s Bazar early Sunday. The arrestees are...
Sabina Khatun and Krishna Rani Sarkar, players of Bangladesh women's football, on Sunday were granted visa to participate in Indian Women's League. They were granted visa when they met Indian...
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