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People from the region of Chittagong need not to depend on foreign or Dhaka hospitals for high standard cardiac healthcare services anymore. AFC Health Fortis Cardiac Institute established a 63...
The Reserve Bank of India has asked commercial lenders to provide it with details of all letters of undertaking - a form of credit guarantee at the centre of an...
Germany’s incoming minister with responsibility for digital policy says she will push social media giants to make users’ information feeds more diverse and timely to avoid creating “echo chambers” for...
At least fourteen militants have been killed and 12 others injured after Afghan army struck their positions in Helmand province in south of Afghanistan. Defense Ministry said on Saturday that...
Two people have been killed and two others seriously injured after a light aircraft crash-landed in Thailand's Phuket on Saturday. The Phuket News reported citing the police that the incident...
Some of twenty six international flights missed their departure schedules from 12:00am to 12:00pm at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in the capital on Saturday. The flights failed to meet...
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has been fined 20,000 pounds ($27,720) by the English Football Association (FA) for wearing a yellow ribbon in support of jailed pro-independence politicians in his...
Britain has resisted a call by campaigners and lawmakers to impose a so-called “latte levy” on single-use coffee cups, opting instead to reduce the use of the cups through voluntary...
Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, Africa’s only female head of state, is to step down over a financial scandal. She has been accused of using a credit card issued by an...
The foreign exchange market witnessed a good volume of payments in the week ended Thursday last. Higher import payments than export receipts continued widening the current account deficit. Bangladesh Bank...
The Executive Committee of UCB Foundation, a CSR organisation of United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB), has appointed State Minister for Land Saifuzzaman Chowdhury as adviser of the foundation. Saifuzzaman Chowdhury...
An eight-day long "12th Pharma Week 2018", arranged by Pharmacy Department of State University of Bangladesh (SUB) began on March 8, said a statement. Prof. Dr. Sayeed Salam, the Vice...
Two schoolgirls were killed in a road accident at Bagachra market in Sharsha upazila on Saturday morning. Humayun Kabir, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Bagachra Police outpost said, the accident took place...
A minor boy was burnt to death in a fire at Hathatpara village in Shibganj upazila on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Nabi, 9, son of Sumon Ali...
Mercantile Bank Limited has celebrated International Women’s Day. A gala event was organised to celebrate the day at a city hotel on Thursday evening. Female executives & officers of the...
Wall Street jumped sharply on Friday, after strong job additions in February but sluggish wage growth that pointed to a gradual rise in inflation and helped temper expectations of faster...
The National Rifle Association has sued Florida after it passed a gun control law in the wake of a school shooting last month that left 17 people dead. Governor Rick...
The former pharmaceutical chief executive, Martin ‘Pharma Bro’ Shkreli found guilty of defrauding investors, has been sentenced to seven years in prison. The 34-year-old wept at a hearing as a...
Two men have been shot and hacked to death by a mob in Noakhali’s Begumganj Upazila. The incident occurred early on Saturday in Eklashpur village. The dead have been identified...
French firm Technip has submitted a draft final design of a crude oil refinery to be set up in the country with an annual capacity of 3.0 million tonnes. They...
Stocks saw yet another bearish week, extending the losing streak for the third straight week, as investors remained mostly inactive to make fresh investment in stocks. Analysts said the bearish...
Bangladesh has once again ranked at the bottom of a global survey of women entrepreneurs due mostly to the poor access to finance for female business owners. The country has...
Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) is in a fix for witnessing a massive loss to the tune of Tk 3.9 billion after making profits in the recent years, said officials...
Local airlines, including the state-owned Biman, are facing a severe blow and losing their competitiveness globally due to exorbitant price of jet A-1 fuel, fixed by Padma Oil Company Limited,...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith has again expressed his subtle opposition to the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE)'s stance on the Chinese consortium's offer to become its strategic partner. "It happens that...
Daily life becomes a misery in many parts of the capital for severe fall in pressure of the piped gas supply to households, city-dwellers lament, as they count an extra...
The state-owned Sonali Bank has sought guarantee worth Tk 60 billion from the government to meet its huge capital shortfall urgently, officials said. According to data available until September, Sonali...
The ratio of direct green finance to total green finance by banks and financial institutions declined in the past year, according to latest central bank statistics. It showed that the...
Rescuers have found the dead body of a minor boy who drowned in a canal at Adabor in Dhaka on Friday night. The Fire Service declined to describe the condition...
Child marriage, marriage at the age of less than 18, is considered to be both social and economic menace. Each year, 12 million girls get married before they are 18...
There are difficulties in running state-owned jute mills although the private sector ones are doing well and making profits. Exports of jute items developed by privately-owned jute mills are on...
In 2016, Northwestern University's Robert Gordon published his 700-plus-page magnum opus, The Rise and Fall of American Growth. Two years on, with not just the United States, but the entire...
Top Indian cricketer on Friday Mohammad Shami has been charged with attempt to murder following a complaint by his wife. Shami was dropped from a list of contracted players for...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for the European Union to be exempted from new US tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. "The best option would be [for the EU]...
The news of continued graduation of the country's toy-making sector from its novitiate will surely make many feel upbeat. As the industry stands now, it indicates high potential for fast...
Incidents of question-paper leaks at each level of exams in the country have developed an uncanny feeling of panic among students, parents and civil society alike. People have been wondering...
Media reports have it that banks of the country decided to furnish particulars of major loan defaulters to the Directorate of Passport and Immigration and also the matter of furnishing...
Former US president Barack Obama is in advanced talks with Netflix Inc to produce a series of high-profile shows, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with...
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday hailed a proposed meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as “a step in the right direction”....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said historic March 7 speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is now a model for all countries. The Prime Minister made the remarks in...
Video games have been linked to real-world violence, US President Donald Trump told gaming industry leaders in a meeting after a school shooting last month reignited a national debate over...
Cox's Bazar is known for its share of importance in the arena of tourism in Bangladesh. It's a fishing port. The beach in Cox's Bazar is a sandy slope with...
Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard in a drive seized some 600,000 shrimp fries from Nahalganj Ferrighat area of Barisal on Friday. Six people were also fined over the seizure of...
Smoke and other particles emitted by traditional mud stoves are major contributors to household air pollution. It is unknown to many that exposure to smoke from traditional cook stoves and...
Bangladesh's tourism sector is set to stage a comeback defying the security threats in the wake of the attack on Holey Artisan Bakery at Gulshan, Dhaka on July 1, 2016....
More than 500 doctors in Canada’s Quebec have protested against a pay raise kick-starting a campaign demanding a decrease in their salaries, The Washington Post reported. On February 25, a...
On the eve of the International Women's Day, this city was witness to a number of sexual assaults on girls. In one such incident a girl student forced to walk...
President Md Abdul Hamid has visited Balat village in Meghalaya of India, where he stayed during the 1971 Liberation War, and recollected the memories of those days. During the Liberation...
More than two million children in the Democratic Republic of Congo are at the risk of dying from starvation, said the United Nations on Friday. UN’s World Food Programme (WFP)...
The US on Friday announced a USD 5.0 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Maulana Fazlullah, the chief of the banned terror outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan which has...
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