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South African city of Cape Town will not have to turn off water supplies if current consumption levels are maintained, the region’s governing party has said. Amid a drought, the...
Prime Minister Theresa May defended Britain’s links to security ally Saudi Arabia on Wednesday as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met Queen Elizabeth for lunch on a high-profile visit that...
The bi-yearly edition of Asian University for Women International Model United Nations (AUWIMUN) was hosted by the Asian University for Women Model United Nations (AUWMUN) Club from February 21 to...
When someone commits suicide, he or she most likely does it out of frustration saved up for many days. In most cases, the victims die without expressing their feelings even...
Ad Maker Bangladesh, one of the biggest marketing competitions in the country, returns in 2018 for its seventh edition. The premier business club of North South University Young Entrepreneurs Society...
The Trustee Committee of the Vanguard AML Rupali Bank Balanced Fund has declared 12 per cent cash dividend based on net income for the year ended on December 31, 2017,...
Businesses can now describe themselves in Google Maps listings as being owned, led or founded by women, the American multinational conglomerate Alphabet Inc unit announced Wednesday. The feature would roll...
As part of its countrywide scheduled programme, BNP leaders and activists staged their sit-in programme in the city on Thursday, demanding the release of its chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail....
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola said his side ‘forgot to attack’ against Basel as they suffered their first home defeat since 2016 but still reached the Champions League quarter-finals. City’s...
The anti-graft body has started interrogating former BASIC Bank chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bachchu for the fourth time over a Tk 35 billion loan fraud. Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) director Syed...
A suspected robber died in an alleged gunfight between two groups of them near a Rohingya refugee camp at Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday. The deceased was identified...
Florida lawmakers, spurred by last month’s deadly high school shooting, have given final passage to a bill to raise the legal age for buying rifles, impose a three-day waiting period...
Three international flights have failed to meet their departure schedules at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka on Thursday. BG 091 was scheduled to leave for Kolkata at 7:...
Stocks on both bourses moved narrowly at the opening on Thursday as investors mostly followed cautious mood. Following the previous day’s sharp decline, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the...
China will make a necessary response in the event of a trade war with the United States, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday, while warning that such a war...
The death of a homeless man who played piano on the street has struck a chord with many in the Canadian city of Edmonton, Alberta. Ryan Arcand was used to...
The euro zone economy grew by 0.6 per cent in the final quarter of last year, European statistics agency Eurostat confirmed on Wednesday, ensuring that the single currency bloc expanded...
Police, in regular drives, arrested 21 people, including 18 wanted accused, from different areas of Habiganj district in the last 12 hours ended at 9 am on Thursday. Assistant Superintendent...
A curfew in the Sri Lankan town of Kandy will be temporarily lifted on Thursday, authorities said, following days of violence against members of the minority Muslim community by Buddhists....
European multinational corporation Airbus that designs, manufactures, and sells civil and military aeronautical products worldwide has said up to 3,700 jobs could go across its four "home" countries because of...
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum has rescinded its top award to Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi because of her failure to condemn and stop military attacks on her country’s...
Tottenham's Champions League ambitions came crashing down as Juventus produced two goals inside three second-half minutes to decide the destiny of their last-16 tie. Son Heung-min's scrambled finish six minutes...
An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale has shaken the eastern parts of Indonesia on Thursday morning, according to the meteorology and geophysics agency. The moderate quake struck at...
Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has finally selected a Chinese joint venture company for construction of Dhaka bypass road under public private partnership (PPP) initiative. Sources said the company was...
A man is reflected in an electronic stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan February 9, 2018. Reuters/Files Asian shares found relief on Thursday as fears about a...
A fire broke out at a cotton godown of a spinning mill at Bagher Bazar in Gazipur city on Thursday. Aktaruzzaman Liton, deputy assistant director of Gazipur Fire Service, said...
Proper policy support and adjustment of fiscal burden could help the jute sector become one of the important economic growth drivers of the country, said economist Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman...
The country's overall imports grew by 11.66 per cent in the first seven months of the current fiscal year (FY), 2017-18, mainly due to higher import of food grains and...
Businesses rue their fate as some 1170 TEUs of containers, mostly with apparel and jute exports, missed scheduled shipment for a cargo-transport strike. A greater dimension of the external trade...
The White House says there could be exemptions to US plans to impose tariffs on metal imports, in a softening of its tough stance. Canada, Mexico and other countries may...
The securities regulator has extended the timeframe by one week to submit report on the Chinese consortium's proposal for being a strategic partner of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). Bangladesh Securities...
Watchdogs of all wings of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) are now set to sniff out money-laundering offences, as limited probe authority proved insufficient. Officials said the revenue board...
Dr Muhammed Zafar Iqbal was shifted to a cabin from the ICU of Combined Military Hospital (CMH) on Wednesday. The eminent writer has been undergoing treatment at CMH after suffering...
Women's role in the workplace is at the heart the International Women's Day commemoration. Even though it first celebrated a demonstration by women workers in New York in 1857, it...
In the age of digital service, ride sharing has been a rapidly diffused innovation across the globe. The pioneer in promoting this innovation is Uber. The Uber was founded in...
Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase has approved contracts under three projects involving Tk 9.06 billion for improvement of Dhaka city's water and sewerage system. The committee approved the proposals of...
Bangladesh has been drawing lots of attention due to its economic growth, young population and commitment to innovation and economic activities. The 2016 gross domestic product (GDP) growth emphasises an...
Italy's inconclusive general election, with its clear populist drift, will likely lead to a prolonged period of political stalemate, freezing the adoption of much-needed structural reforms. But the deadlock, and...
Jute production witnessed 8 per cent increase in 2017 comparing previous year, said State Minister for Textiles and Jute Mirza Azam The state minister informed that farmers produced 9.2 million...
Every major financial crisis leaves a unique footprint. Just as banking crises throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries revealed the importance of financial-sector liquidity and lenders of last resort, the...
Reports have it that the government is contemplating a mechanism to bring back the huge amount of money siphoned off the country through various conduits, including false trade declarations. An...
British Prime Theresa May has confirmed that the United Kingdom will leave the European Union’s Digital Single Market after completing the Brexit process. The move means the UK will not...
The ratio of female workers' participation in the ready-made garments (RMG) sector, so long known as a women-driven one, has seen a decline in the recent years. In 2005-2012, their...
Detective Branch (DB) of police in separate drives arrested 13 drug traders and seized 3,300 pieces of yaba tablets from Sadar upazila in Noakhali on Wednesday. District DB police sources...
The very independence of Bangladesh was underpinned by the pledge of establishing an egalitarian society. But after 47 years of independence it seems that dream has become more distant. Over...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said their Chairperson Khaleda Zia is facing 'adverse situation' with courage. The BNP leader made the remarks while talking to reporters after...
The ruling Awami League’s rally at Suhrawardy Udyan has left Dhaka commuters in trouble. Many suffered due to inadequate public transport on Wednesday, while others spent hours in the gridlock...
Ambassadors of China, Egypt and Palestine and High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to Bangladesh presented their credentials to President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban on Wednesday afternoon. The envoys are Zhang...
A Bangladesh national and two Indians were killed in an explosion of a gas cylinder in Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh. The Bangladeshi victim was identified as Asadullah, 22, hailed from...
Over 28,000 new women entrepreneurs will be created across the country in the next five years in a bid to make them self-employed, according to an official document. The document...
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