The Nepal government has formed a six-member committee to probe the crash-landing of US-Bangla Airlines at Tribhuvan International Airport. Yagya Prasad Gautam, former director general at the Civil Aviation Authority...
When video game character Lara Croft first debuted in “Tomb Raider” on the big screen nearly two decades ago, she was a daring, action-superwoman embodying a role reserved for men....
A tooth that belonged to an ancient giant shark has been stolen from a World Heritage Site in Australia, authorities have said. The 8cm (3in) tooth went missing from an...
Women at Microsoft Corp working in US-based technical jobs filed 238 internal complaints about gender discrimination or sexual harassment between 2010 and 2016, according to court filings made public on...
The government and its anti-corruption commission (ACC) filed two separate appeals against four-month interim bail of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. Lawyer Khurshid Alam...
An international seminar on"Inter-Religious Harmony and Banglar Rumi Syed Ahmadul Huq" was held in Kolkata recently to discuss how the universal message of love and empathy considered vital for sufi mystic...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) said that they are still trying to appoint Paul Farbrace as their new head coach, despite having a recent contract offer turned down by England's...
House Building Research Institute(HBRI) and Friendship will formally launch Standard Guideline for Rural Housing in Disaster Prone Areas of Bangladesh Wednesday. The guideline has defined the core and technical...
Two minor cousins drowned in a pond at Mollapara village in Shyamnagar upazila under Satkhira district on Tuesday morning. The deceased have been identified as Marium Akhter Sumaiya, 5, daughter...
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that Washington was considering lifting a travel ban on Chad, offering an olive branch to an ally in the fight against Islamist militant...
The International Crimes Tribunal or ICT has sentenced three people to death and jailed a fourth for 20 years for crimes against humanity committed in Noakhali during the 1971 Liberation...
At least five people have died in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu after a car in which they were travelling, collided head-on with a state-run bus the state's...
Dhaka stocks displayed the declining trend for third consecutive session as investors’ confidence is yet to be restored amid liquidity crisis. The market started the session with a flat movement...
Bangladesh and Singapore have inked four MoUs at the signing ceremony in the opening session of the Bangladesh-Singapore Business Forum 2018 in Singapore. Trade bodies and government agencies of the...
Empathy helps us to make close connections with people, and influences how we behave in a range of situations, from the workplace to a party. Now scientists say empathy is...
Exiled Congolese opposition leader Moise Katumbi vowed to return to Democratic Republic of Congo by June to lodge his candidacy for a presidential election to replace President Joseph Kabila, currently...
A flight of US-Bangla Airlines, carrying 46 relatives of victims who died and injured in Monday's deadly crash of its another flight at Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal, reached Kathmandu...
The authority of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia is set to launch 'Bangabandhu Corner' at central library of the university on March 17, said a press release on Tuesday. IU...
SHANGHAI, CHINA - 13 March - Development of plastics and rubber technologies has roared ahead like a tiger in current years. CHINAPLAS, as a leading trade fair, offers a technology-oriented platform...
Summit Corporation Ltd, a subsidiary of Summit Power International (SPI) along with Summit Holdings Limited signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Japanese Mitsubishi Corporation and its subsidiary Diamond Gas...
Mastercard in partnership with WARBE Development Foundation has announced the Grassroots Level Financial Education programme on remittance utilisation, investment and savings to educate and train 35,000 migrant workers and their...
Republicans on a House panel have found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin in the US 2016 presidential election. Mike Conaway, who leads the inquiry,...
Voting in the election to Brahmanbaria by-election began on Tuesday morning with over two lakh people expected to exercise their franchise. The voting started at 8am and will continue till...
The leading digital service provider, Robi, has offered free call to the Bangladesh High Commission’s emergency hotline numbers: +977 981 010 0401 and +977 986 146 7422 in Nepal for...
Asian shares were mixed in lacklustre trade on Tuesday, as the investors are keeping a close eye on tensions over trade following US President's announcement of hikes on steel and...
All four crew, including pilot Abid Sultan, of the crashed US-Bangla Airlines flight have died, an official said on Tuesday. M Delwar Hossain, Director General (External Affairs) at the Ministry...
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited in Bangladesh celebrated International Women’s Day 2018 by hosting an event titled ‘Celebrating Womanhood’, where a panel discussion was organised with the theme...
American multinational technology company Apple Inc’s streaming music service now has 38 million paid subscribers, up from 36 million in February, the company said on Monday. Apple is locked in...
Moscow faces a deadline of midnight tonight to explain why a Russian-made nerve agent was used in the poisoning of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter. The PM...
Japanese shares ticked lower in Tuesday morning trade, with shares in steelmakers and automakers still battered by concerns about US tariffs on imported steel and aluminium. The Nikkei average dropped...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday invited the business community in Singapore to be Bangladesh's partners in its journey towards economic development as the country is now transforming. "Bangladesh has...
An elderly woman was killed in a fire while cooking in her kitchen at East Chararkul village in Hathazari upazila in Chittagong on Monday night. According to local sources, the...
The IPO lottery of Advent Pharma Limited will be conducted today (Tuesday). The event will be held at 10:30AM at the auditorium of the Institution of Engineers Bangladesh (IEB) in...
The government has decided to cut the requisite rate of workers' representation in trade union registration, bringing it down by 5.0 and 10 per cent depending on the size of...
A US-Bangla flight left Dhaka for Nepal on Tuesday morning with 46 relatives of the victims who died and injured in Monday's deadly crash of its another flight at Tribhuvan...
Bangladesh is set to get the qualifying marks for LDC graduation when the UN policy body sits for a review of the country status today (Tuesday). The 20th plenary meeting...
The central bank has strengthened its foreign currency support to the commercial banks to settle their import payment obligations, particularly for fuel oils, officials said. As part of the move,...
The foreign ministry says nine Bangladeshis were rescued alive and hospitalised followed the US-Bangla aircraft crash in Kathmandu on Monday. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam posted on...
Police in a drive arrested four suspected activists of banned outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Dighapatia, on the outskirts of Natore town, early Tuesday. The arrestees have been identified...
The government plans to resume piped natural-gas connections to all consumers but households from next month with the start of expensive LNG (liquefied natural gas) import. Already, according to officials,...
A devastating fire destroyed several thousand houses at a slum in the city's Mirpur-12 area during early hours of Monday. The incident left one elderly woman injured and thousands of...
Bangladesh T20I side stand-in captain Mahmudullah Riyad was fined 20 per cent of his match fee for 'minor over-rate' while Sri Lankan skipper Dinesh Chandimal received a two-match suspension due...
MAGURA, Mar 12: One Moksed Mandal has achieved success in farming BINA-9 Mosur in Ramnagar village under Magura Sadar. The farmer said cultivation of the lentil variety is profitable as...
The Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh (CAAB) has sent two officials to Nepal to assist the Nepalese probe body looking into the causes of US-Bangla Airlines aircraft crash. CAAB public relations...
As is now so boringly usual, the Annual Development Programme (ADP) has had 3.29 per cent sliced off it with roughly three and a half months left for the current...
Women empowerment has long been a popular concept in the discourse on development. These days, scholastic presentations on the role of NGOs in empowering women are in discourses on rural...
Bangladesh's much vaunted self-sufficiency in foods received a major shock when paddy production in Sylhet's haor areas of the country and also in its northern part was badly affected by...
The world media is at present agog with the news that the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and the US President Donald Trump would meet by next May in a...
Trade has rarely involved fret-free relations between partners; and the more partners a country has, the higher the degree of bickering and skirmishes. Yet, when push approaches shove, disputing countries...
The monetary policy statement (MPS) of Bangladesh Bank (BB) for January-June 2018 was released late January. Although none of the monetary targets was changed significantly BB's policy was criticized for...
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