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The bodies of three other Bangladeshis, who were killed in the US-Bangla plane crash in Kathmandu, arrived in the capital on Thursday afternoon. A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying...
China has raised its short-term market interest rates by 5 basis points (bps) following the US Federal Reserve Bank’s move overnight. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) hiked the interest...
Best Buy Co Inc, the largest US consumer electronics retailer, will cut ties with China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, a person familiar with the matter said, amid heightened scrutiny on...
The government launched 'Export Diversification and Competitiveness Development Project (Tier-2)' at a programme at CIRDAP auditorium in the capital on Thursday. Organised by the Ministry of Commerce and WTO Cell,...
The fifteenth edition of an international tourism fair titled ‘US-Bangla Airlines Dhaka Travel Mart 2018’ began at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Dhaka on Thursday. Forty eight organisations from Bangladesh and other...
Coca-Cola Bangladesh Limited has made 20 school sanitation complex in Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira. The complexes have been built during April 2017 to March 2018 under the project titled ‘’Climate...
A court in the northern Indian state of Jharkhand has sentenced 11 men to life in prison for lynching a Muslim meat trader last year. Alimuddin Ansari, 55, was beaten...
A minor boy was crushed under the wheel of a tractor in Yusufnagar Pulpara area of Sadar upazila on Thursday morning. The deceased was identified as Samiul Haque, 2, son...
A court in Dhaka on Thursday sentenced two people to death and two others to life term imprisonment for killing two young men in 2010. The condemned convicts are -...
Slovakia President Andrej Kiska appointed Peter Pellegrini as prime minister on Thursday to end a political crisis touched off by the murder of an investigative journalist that led to mass...
An Iranian delegation lead by Shahabuddin Mashaekhi, representative of Al- Mustafa International University, has called on Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dr. Md. Akhtaruzzaman. Mashaekhi, accompanied by associate professor of...
Stocks returned to green on Thursday, snapping the three-day losing streak, as investors went on late hours’ buying spree on sector-wise stocks. Market operators said the optimistic investors went on...
The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested four people, including key suspect Sanjit, from Sherpur in suspicion of killing Garo woman and her daughter in Dhaka recently. RAB detained the four...
Oil prices gave up earlier gains as the relentless rise in US crude production threatens to undermine efforts led by producer cartel OPEC to tighten the market. Brent crude futures...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) during a drive seized 10 gold bars weighing 1.16 kilogram from the first gate of Panama Port Link Limited at Sonamasjid land port in...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday Turkey’s military offensive in Syria’s northern town of Afrin was unacceptable and she criticized Russia for “just watching” the continuing attacks by Syrian...
Maldives President Abdulla Yameen lifted a 45-day state of emergency on Thursday imposed amid political upheaval on the Indian Ocean island chain. “Though there still exists a diminished threat to...
The US dollar slipped on Thursday after the Federal Reserve held back from increasing the pace of this year’s rate hikes, while worries over an impending announcement on trade tariffs...
Serena Williams was knocked out of the Miami Open in the first round by Naomi Osaka as the 23-time Grand Slam winner continues her return after pregnancy. Williams, unseeded after...
India has dropped a plan to double a wheat import tax to 40 percent, two government sources said, in a sign it expects imports to make up for a shortfall...
Five Indian soldiers and five suspected militants were killed in a gun fight near the de facto border between India and Pakistan in the disputed region of Kashmir on Wednesday,...
A chartered tour bus lost control on a downhill curve in Thailand's northeast and slid off the side of the road, killing at least 18 people and injuring dozens more,...
China stocks slipped on Thursday, as the investors concern over a potential trade war between the world’s largest and second-largest economies intensified. The markets fell as the traders digested the...
Mutual Trust Bank Limited (MTB) has recently opened its agent banking centre at Kabirajhat Bazar area of Birganj upazila in Dinajpur. Azam Khan, Group Chief Communications Officer of MTB and...
Bangladesh is set to enter the laptop export market as its leading electronics giant Walton has signed an agreement on exporting the ‘Made in Bangladesh’ labelled ones in Nigeria. The...
British scientists have developed a lightweight and highly sensitive brain imaging device that can be worn as a helmet, allowing the patient to move about naturally. Results from tests of...
Following the success of last year’s superhero smash hit ‘Thor: Ragnarok’, Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth are now looking to team up for another big movie. Thompson is in talks...
Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has quit over a vote-buying scandal. He has denied wrongdoing but said on Wednesday that he did not want to be an obstacle to the...
Police arrested the main accused of a case filed for gang-raping a housewife inside a running microbus on Dhaka-Aricha highway 10 months ago from Dudhbazar in Manikganj Sadar on Wednesday....
Dr Nimal Keerthi Dangalle, Professor Emeritus of University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka called on Islamic University (IU) Vice Chancellor Professor Dr M Harun-Ur-Rashid Askari at his office on the campus...
The body of a college student who went missing in the Padma River on Sunday was found floating at Charkhidirpur in Rajshahi town on Wednesday. Farhad Hossain, senior station officer...
India has taken down the local website of Cambridge Analytica following allegations the company used personal data of 50 million Facebook members to influence the US presidential election. The account was...
Libya is not ready to hold free and fair elections, campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned. The country’s rival authorities are planning to hold parliamentary and presidential elections...
Bangladesh is celebrating the historic achievement of eligibility for graduation from the group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs). The celebration began at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) this morning. The...
A motorcyclist was killed in a road accident in Rajganjarea of Manirampur upazila on Wednesday afternoon. Police said Jamal Hossian, 45, a speech-impaired son of late Jabber Sarder, hailing from...
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed positive trend in early hour of trading on Thursday as optimistic investors went on buying binge on sector-wise stocks....
Asian shares were mixed on Thursday after US stock indexes finished with small losses following the Federal Reserve’s hike in interest rates. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates, as investors...
President Donald Trump will announce tariffs on Chinese imports on Thursday, a White House official said, in a move aimed at curbing theft of US technology and likely to trigger...
Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May will seek on Thursday to persuade EU leaders to condemn Russia over what London says was a nerve agent attack in England directed by Moscow...
The bid of a good Samaritan to save a man went in vain as both were crushed to death by a train at Belpukur level crossing in Puthia upazila on...
Almost half of the country's wetlands have already disappeared and most of the domestic sewage and major portion of the industrial wastewater are being discharged into natural environment without treatment,...
A helicopter carrying American tourists crashed at a coral-viewing site on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, killing two and injuring two others, police said. The helicopter pilot pulled one passenger from...
The central bank has relaxed foreign exchange regulations allowing the shipping lines to issue bills of lading to the name of importers after receiving advance payment instead the name of...
Apparel makers are likely to invest a total of US$ 2.0 billion at the proposed garments park in Chittagong's Mirsarai Economic Zone (MEZ), creating around 0.5 million job opportunities there....
China said it expects Bangladesh's relevant authorities would not 'politicise" the issue of China's planned strategic investment in the Dhaka bourse. "…this is a completely commercial investment project," the spokesperson...
Bir Pratik Noorjahan Kakon Bibi, who fought the Pakistani forces during Bangladesh’s Liberation War of 1971, has died. The centenary freedom fighter died at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital...
The overall excess liquidity with the country's banks shrank by nearly 18 per cent or Tk 154.61 billion by January, mainly for a lending binge against a deposit dearth. Selling...
A good number of garlic growers in the district are worried as root rotting disease has affected their field a few days ago. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension...
RAJSHAHI, Mar 21: Villagers and the owner of a brick kiln at Shurkali village under Adhaipur union of Badalgachhi under greater Rajshahi district were in a confrontational state following the...
While there are 40 public universities in Bangladesh and a total of 47,636 seats there for admission, the number of students sitting for the admission tests every year exceeds 800,000....
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