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Sri Lankan government has declared a state of emergency for 10 days to rein in the spread of communal violence, a government spokesman said on Tuesday. The emergency has been...
The trade volume between Bangladesh and Vietnam could reach US$ 2 billion in next two years if the two countries can properly tap into their two-way business potentials, Vietnamese President...
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has left interest rates at record lows, as expected, and sounded less confident that the country’s economy would grow at 3.0 per cent or...
A Chandpur court on Tuesday has sentenced three people including notorious serial killer Rashu Kha to death in a case filed over killing a woman after rape in 2009. The...
Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) has recently signed an agreement with the transportation technology company ‘Pathao’ in Dhaka. M Khorshed Anowar, head of business (retail banking) of the EBL and Hussain...
Herders in Tanzania are killing more than 200 lions every year according to a conservationist at Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute. Dennis Ikanda says given the global status of lions, an...
Noted sculptor Ferdousi Priyabhashini passed away at a Dhaka city hospital on Tuesday noon. She was 71. Ferdousi Priyabhashini, who was undergoing treatment at Labaid Hospital, breathed her last around...
Asian shares regained ground on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump faced growing pressure from political allies to pull back from proposed steel and aluminum tariffs, easing investor worries about...
Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) and Pathao signed an agreement in Dhaka recently under which EBL cardholders are offered 40 per cent discount during the first use of the Pathao app...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday urged all, including officials and workers, to be sincere in protecting the mills and work to boost jute production. The Prime Minister said people...
Standard Chartered Bank and Friendship are cooperating to perform 400 cataract surgeries for disadvantaged people in remote coastal regions of Bangladesh,for which reason 5 camps were set up in the...
A South Korean provincial governor announced his resignation on early Tuesday, just hours after his secretary accused him of raping her. The woman who accused South Chungcheong Governor Ahn Hee-jung,...
Nemanja Matic scored a stunning long-range goal in injury time as Manchester United came from two goals down to beat Crystal Palace 3-2 in a wild English Premier League game...
Plainclothes policemen detained Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal president Shafiul Bari Babu from Jatiya Press Club area on Tuesday. A team of Detective Branch of police picked him up while he was...
Japan’s Nikkei share snapped a four-day losing run on Tuesday after Wall Street shares rallied overnight, with the dollar’s bounce lifting exporter shares. The Nikkei ended the day up 1.79...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met senior South Korean government officials for the first time and said it is his “firm will to vigorously advance” inter-Korean ties and pursue...
An agreement signing ceremony between Edison Power Bangladesh Ltd (EPBL) and Hera Sweaters Limited (HSL) was held recently at Edison Group Head Office, Tejgaon Industrial Area for procurement of Bus...
At least seven people, including a traffic constable, were killed and six others injured in three separate road crashes in Dhaka, Kuhstia and Narsingdi districts on Tuesday. In Dhaka,...
Billionaire explorer discovers sunken US WWII aircraft carrier The wreck of a US aircraft carrier that was sunk during World War Two has been found off the coast of Australia....
There has been a significant drop in the number of child marriages worldwide, the United Nations children's agency says. UNICEF estimates that 25 million child marriages have been prevented in...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private investment arm of the World Bank, has proposed to provide up to $40 million in senior financing in IDLC Finance Ltd (IDLC), the...
A man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing Frances McDormand's Oscar after the awards ceremony on Sunday. Los Angeles Police have confirmed Terry Bryant was arrested for grand theft,...
At least 25 people were killed when a truck carrying a wedding party fell into a deep drain in India's western state of Gujarat on Tuesday, Xinhua reported citing News18...
A four-storey bunkhouse collapsed in the central Philippine city of Cebu on early Tuesday, killing five workers and wounding 55 others, said disaster officials. Xinhua news agency reported citing the...
At least four people were killed, including two women, in a head-on collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw near Laxmipur bus stand in Sadar upazila of Kushtia district...
Social media giant Facebook Inc hired the former head of BuzzFeed Studios to lead its global video content and a former Pinterest executive as in charge of its video content...
A former campaign aide to US President Donald Trump has said that he will not co-operate with Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US election. Sam...
A traffic constable was crushed under a truck in Technical intersection of Mirpur Road in Dhaka on Tuesday morning. The deceased has been identified as Abdul Majid, 35, hailing from...
British American Tobacco Bangladesh Company (BATBC) has recommended 600 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2017, said an official disclosure on Tuesday. The final approval...
Albany, NY - Religious leaders, lawyers, academics and debt experts are meeting to discuss changing New York laws that govern debt contracts from Puerto Rico to Mozambique, said a statement...
With sensors that can collect data on body movements, heart rate, blood pressure and other metrics, the list of health trackers that go beyond activity trackers like Fitbits gets longer...
The leaders of two anti-establishment parties have each claimed they have the right to govern Italy, after voters in Europe's fourth-largest economy did not return a majority to any single...
Sri Lanka sent troops and elite police to central Kandy district and imposed a curfew there on Monday to prevent clashes between majority Sinhalese Buddhists and minority Muslims after a...
Prime Bank became Participating Financial Institution (PFI) for refinance programme of SMEDP2 (Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project 2) implemented by Financial Inclusion Department (FID) of Bangladesh Bank, said a...
China set its gross domestic product (GDP) growth target at 6.5 per cent on Monday for the year 2018, slower than 6.9 per cent achieved by the world's second largest...
The government has fixed the minimum monthly wages for the tannery sector workers, announcing a 46.28 per cent hike, officials said. The minimum monthly wages for the grade-V workers living...
The auction of treasury bills (T-bills) and bonds resumed, after a month's suspension, to partly finance government budget deficit likely at higher expense now. Officials said the government is set...
The government will take action against those who will be found involved in irregularities and corruption in constructing roads and highways after reviewing a report of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC),...
The government revenue collection from the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) marked a 35 per cent decline month-on-month in February in lockstep with falling turnover. The government bagged tax worth Tk...
Chittagong Port faced a temporary halt in transportation of cargo from the off-docks on Monday. The truck, covered-van, trailer and prime mover operators abstained from entering the off-docks, protesting realisation...
A number of life insurers made higher management expenses in 2017 implying that their financial strength was on the wane, in terms of profitability and claim-settlement. Management expense is the...
The interest rate on term deposits has reached double digit after about a couple of years as the banks are now out of comfort zone, as far as their liquidity...
COX'S BAZAR, Mar 5: Some 6,022 Rohingya refugees of Tumbru no-man's-land are willing to stay at their present makeshift camps until a normal situation is created in Rakhaine state of...
Credit risk has emerged as the most challenging for banks, involving as much as 88 per cent of the overall assets of the country's financial sector, an academic said on...
Open market sale (OMS) of rice and flour (atta) began in the city and elsewhere across the country on Monday, but the government-initiated programme failed to attract enough consumers due...
Italy faces a prolonged period of political instability after voters delivered a hung parliament on Sunday, spurning traditional parties and flocking to anti-establishment and far-right groups in record numbers,...
From the colourful banners that are sadly distorting historical basics without the semblance of remorse, to school banners and public signboards getting Bangla spelling all wrong, no one seems really...
A renewed interest has been created in South-South cooperation in the wake of the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) by the United Nations. The implementation of the 17...
Much as one may have longed for obtaining a comprehensive picture of the readymade garments (RMG) sector, it proved a daunting task. But now that the think-tank, Centre for Policy...
Sixteen distinguished personalities have been nominated for the Shadhinota Padak (Independence Award) in 2018, the highest state award, for their 'glorious and outstanding" achievements at national level. Prime Minister Sheikh...
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