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The moon will get its first mobile phone network next year, enabling high-definition streaming from the lunar landscape back to earth, part of a project to back the first privately...
Eleven people at a US military base in Arlington, Virginia fell ill and three were taken to a hospital on Tuesday after a letter was opened in the Marine Corps’...
Walt Disney plans to invest 2 billion euros (£1.8 billion) in Disneyland Paris, expanding the park with a lake and new areas devoted to hit films such as Frozen and...
Women workers in the country' readymade garment (RMG) sector are deprived of their lawful rights and also face various forms of harassment in the workplace, according to a study report...
The US Treasury Department has added two individuals and seven organisations in Africa and Asia connected to Islamic State to its sanctions list for global terrorism, it said on Tuesday....
The government has planned to introduce automation system in workers' recruitment to help reduce their migration cost as well as to ensure transparency and accountability in the process. As a...
A strong quake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale struck 111 km South West of Porgera, Papua New Guinea at 02:45:44 GMT on Wednesday, said the US Geological Survey. The...
The securities regulator sought clarification from the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) Tuesday on some clauses of the Chinese consortium's proposal, submitted to the premier bourse to be its strategic partner....
The US special envoy for North Korea plans to retire on Friday, the State Department said just hours after President Donald Trump again rejected talks to resolve the North Korean...
The apex chamber rejected government-proposed amendments to the existing VAT rules to resolve a standoff as it terms the draft a copycat of the ditched VAT and SD Act 2012....
The ministry of finance (MoF) foresees the necessity of depreciating taka further if Bangladesh's external financial imbalance intensifies in the second half of this fiscal year, officials said. Taka depreciated...
President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has had his White House security clearance downgraded, US media are reporting. Mr Kushner, a senior adviser to the president, had been receiving top-level...
State-run Petrobangla would propose to raise natural gas tariff next week, aimed at passing a portion of the imported LNG cost on to the consumers. "We're working on it with...
The cost of Cox's Bazar Airport upgradation project is likely to reach a staggering Tk 20.16 billion, up from its present estimate of Tk 11.93 billion, as the project cost...
Bangladesh will fence off some border patches with barbed wire to secure Border Outposts and frontiers with neighbouring India and Myanmar, officials said, apparently following some recent developments. To this...
Britain was the weakest Group of Seven economy over the course of 2017 in terms of overall growth, and there are other ways that the vote to leave the European...
The dollar steadied against most major currencies on Tuesday, with traders cautious ahead of testimony from new Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell that could determine whether the currency's recovery from...
Courtney Walsh, filling in as Bangladesh's head coach on an interim basis, feels the role itself is that of a father figure and is eager to take on the challenge...
The much talked about Raniganj bridge on the river Kushiara in Jagannathpur upazila of Sunamganj would bring a major shift in the locals communication. It would reduce three hours for...
A good number of people in Charmohor upazila under the district have been making bamboo items from the last three decades. Bamboo craft artisan Akmal Hossain said, "We do not...
The United States (US) threatened unilateral action against Iran on Monday after Russia vetoed a western bid for the United Nations Security Council to call out Tehran for failing to...
Robi Axiata Limited has successfully concluded outstanding administrative and process matters with the National Board of Revenue (NBR). Thus, the company received a stay order from the courts to release...
Coincidences are just that. When three women Nobel laureates descend on the Rohingya camps it warms the heart and brings with it questions. And when in the social media some...
Experts and bankers have suggested for, among others, formation of a bank enquiry commission and forced mergers and acquisitions (M&As) of poor-performing banks. The couple of suggestions, made at a...
Policy making cannot and should not take place without sound policy analysis. This, in turn, requires up-to-date policy research. In most cases policies are made on existing problems or as...
In the face of the growing mosquito menace in recent times, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has launched a mobile hotline to take its mosquito-control services to the doorsteps of...
First of a two-part article on default culture in the banking industry The inability of the commercial banks to force borrowers to repay loans is the central problem of the...
A whiff of relief may have wafted our sensibilities following the just-released corruption perception index (CPI) of the Transparency International's local chapter, TIB. Bangladesh has moved two steps up by...
The High Court will deliver its verdict Thursday (March 1) on a writ petition filed challenging the legality of parliament membership of Awami League MP Nizam Uddin Haza The single...
That Bangladesh is currently the world's largest raw cotton importing country is a reality. This needs to be gauged in terms of two-pronged implications. One, it is clearly the use...
Eminent lawyer Dr Kamal Hossain will provide legal advice to the lawyers of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to ensure her bail in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case, said BNP...
With only a day to go before the closing of Amar Ekushey Book Fair, a good number of book-lovers and buyers crowded the fair premises. Though Boi Mela, the national...
Commuters' suffering peaked during a 40-kilometre long tailback stretching from Eliotganj to Meghna Bridgeon the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway on Tuesday. Vehicular movement remained shut from Eliotganj Bridge in Daudkandi upazila to...
Customs Intelligence recovered eight iPhones and some cosmetics from five cabin crew members of Biman Bangladesh Airlines at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Tuesday. Based on secret information, a team...
Awareness can go a long way towards fighting and preventing diabetes. Diabetes is a group of metabolic diseases, clinically known as Diabetes mellitus (DM) in which a person has high...
Bangladesh Bank has recently extended the deadline up to December 31, 2018 for bringing down Advance Deposit Ratio (ADR) of commercial banks below the benchmark set earlier. Previously this timeframe...
The Eurozone economic sentiment slipped again in February, for the second month in a row, as confidence sapped from every sector except services, the European Commission said on Tuesday. European...
The month-long 'Amar Ekushey Boi Mela' will end on Wednesday with release of a record number of books. Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor will be present as the chief guest...
Manchester United’s Ander Herrera could be facing time in jail after prosecutors said on Monday that they want to put him behind bars over an alleged match-fixing scandal. Spanish state...
Formulation of liquid petroleum gas (LPG) price policy is underway keeping the interests of both importers and users. State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid made the...
Nigerian economy returned to growth in 2017 after suffering its first recession in a generation the previous year, data released from the country’s statistics office showed on Tuesday. The Gross...
Four people have been killed in car crashes as heavy snow has forced hundreds of schools to close and brought major travel disruption to the UK. Scores of trains and...
Doctors in Bangladesh are gearing up to separate the fused heads of 19-month-old twins in an arduous surgery. Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) are hopeful about a...
Scotland’s government is set to introduce its own, alternative Brexit bill, increasing pressure on the UK government over legislation needed to pass in Britain’s national parliament, according to a media...
The BNP has sent a letter to the Election Commission (EC) registering objection about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's 'unilateral election campaign'. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir sent the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate 47 development projects and lay foundation stones of 52 projects in Khulna city and district during her visit there on Saturday. According...
Speakers at a seminar have discussed the present status of the e-commerce industry in Bangladesh and stressed on the importance of Electronic Payments to flourish the industry. They also discussed...
Bollywood legend Sridevi passed away on February 24. On Monday, Dubai Police revealed that Sridevi’s death ‘occurred due to drowning in her hotel apartment’s bathtub following loss of consciousness.’ Dubai...
The completion of a 300-megawatt power plant project in Anwara Upazila of Chittagong is likely to miss the deadline. Suspension of work for the last three months over a land...
Visiting Nobel laureates Tawakkol Karman and Mairead Maguire went to the no man's land along Bangladesh-Myanmar border where as many as 6,000 people are stranded. They listened to the horrific...
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