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Saudi Arabia’s Oil Minister Khalid al-Falih on Friday said oil markets are rebalancing and he expected inventories to continue declining this year. “The oil markets, it’s clear, are rebalancing,” said...
Barnaby Joyce says he will resign as Australia's deputy prime minister following a politically damaging saga that began with his affair with a former staffer. Mr Joyce said he would...
It was one of those last working days of the week - a Thursday. And the city's Shahbagh sidewalks were filled to the brim with waiting passengers jostling for space....
Norway has said Bangladesh needs to make sure that the benefits of economic growth continue to reach the poor to remove inequalities in the country. "It's important to keep up...
Regent Airways has spread the wings to the skies of Saudi Arabia, the largest workers market of Bangladesh in abroad. The inaugural flight with 150 passengers left Hazrat Shahzalal International...
The head of the National Rifle Association lashed out at gun control advocates on Thursday, saying Democratic elites are politicising the latest mass school shooting in the United States to...
British Prime Minister Theresa May will set out “the way forward” for Brexit next week after a meeting with top aides on Thursday intended to resolve differences over strategy that...
A total of 10 solar irrigation units have been installed in all the four districts of Sylhet division this year. The main objective of the scheme is to ensure smooth...
Fifteen-year-old Alina Zagitova won the first gold for the Olympic athletes from Russia at the 2018 Winter Olympics in the women's single figure skating. She followed her short programme world...
Indian shares rose on Friday, tracking broader Asia, after Fed official’s comments eased worries about faster rate hikes in the United States. The stock markets have been under pressure recently...
South Korea said it had approved the Winter Olympic visit by a sanctioned North Korean official, blamed for the 2010 sinking of a South Korean ship that killed 46 sailors,...
The Southeast Asian stock markets rose on Friday as the US rate hike worries abate after the fed officials allayed concerns that the central bank would intensify the pace of...
Three motorcyclists were killed as a bus rammed their vehicle on Bonpara- Hatikumrul road in Kachikata area of Gurudashpur upazila on Friday noon. The identities of the deceased could not...
The central bank has lowered the required general provision against unclassified housing finance from 2.0 per cent to 1.0 per cent allowing banks to extend more loans for housing. Following...
In the decades before oil was discovered in the northern Kenyan region of Turkana South, 100,000 poor villagers living in arid scrubland relied on a lone church-run health centre in...
US businesses and diplomats are pressing India to cut tariffs, industry and government sources say, after New Delhi’s move to increase customs duties on dozens of products to help its...
The total investment in the country’s Islamic banking sector jumped 19 per cent at the end of December 2017, over the same period of the previous year (2016). Statistics release...
Doctors in India have removed a 1.8kg (3.9lb) brain tumour from a 31-year-old man recently and said it could be the largest tumour removal operation in the world. The surgery,...
At least four people were killed and 30 others injured as a bus overturned on Mymensingh-Kishoreganj highway in Char Rasulpur area of Ishwarganj upazila on Friday morning. One of the...
Police have filed charges against journalists Shafik Rehman, Mahmudur Rahman and three others over an alleged plot to abduct and kill Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina....
Country’s annual import from the United States of America (USA) crossed the US$1 billion-level again after two years in 2017. Statistics release by the US Census Bureau showed that the...
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probing wrongdoing in the banking sector arrested the owner of pen maker Rotomac Global and his son on Thursday, a spokesman said. CBI arrested...
Saudi Arabia plans to invest $64 billion (£46 billion) in developing its entertainment industry over the next decade, according to a global report. The head of the General Entertainment Authority...
A suspected robber has died in a ‘shootout’ with the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Chittagong Robbers attacked a car with wedding revellers aboard at Kumira Bridge in Sitakunda Upazila...
The Bank of Korea (BOK) is widely expected to hold its key interest rate steady at a review next week but appears on course to raise them in May, a...
Some of the world's largest technology firms are facing hefty new bills as the UK government moves to fundamentally change the way they are taxed. Google and Facebook are braced...
Asian shares rebounded on Friday as comments from a Federal Reserve official eased worries about faster rate rises in the United States, while the safe-haven yen held on to its...
Rail communication of Sylhet with the rest of the country has remained suspended since Friday morning following derailment of 11 bogies of a train in Santgaon station in Srimangal upazila...
Japanese shares edged up on Friday, as sentiment improved after fears of more aggressive US interest rate hikes receded, with defensive stocks such as construction and utilities outperforming. The Nikkei...
The securities regulator BSEC formed a four-member committee on Thursday to look into the proposal from the Dhaka Stock Exchange to pick a Chinese consortium as a strategic partner of...
Barnaby Joyce says he will resign as Australia's deputy prime minister following a politically damaging saga that began with his affair with a former staffer. Mr Joyce said he would...
The government is set to exempt banking companies from the purview of Bangladesh Labour Act 2006 as the bankers do not want to be treated as 'workers' as they perform...
Ten top-traded companies accounted for over 27 per cent of transactions on the country's premier bourse on Thursday, with Square Pharmaceuticals topping the turnover list. Market-insiders said fundamentally sound stocks...
Bangladesh has moved up two steps in corruption perception index (CPI), but overall graft situation still remains a matter of concern, according to a report released by Transparency International (TI)...
The revenue authority issued a show-cause notice to the state-owned Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) on Thursday, claiming payment of Tk 358 million 'unpaid' Value Added Tax (VAT). BPDB collected...
The Sevilla crowd was ready to erupt when forward Luis Muriel appeared free from markers inside the area, with the ball in perfect position for his header just a few...
RANGPUR, Feb 22: Plantation of eucalyptus tree is increasing alarmingly in different upazilas of the district, posing serious harm to environment, cultivable land and human health. According to sources, the...
The Palli Sanchay Bank (PSB) says it’ll open its branches in all upzilla headquarters to help the poor and extreme-poor become self-reliant by providing them with collateral-free loans. According...
As feared, the Bangladesh Petroleum of Corporation (BPC), the state-owned agency that enjoys monopoly in the marketing of petroleum products, has come up with a proposal to hike prices of...
Very often we ask businesses to go public for raising their equity capital through stock market. We argue that raising of equity or long-term capital through listing with the bourse...
The worries aired at a meeting of the cabinet committee on law and order at the Home Ministry on February 12 over the country's drug abuse situation and the actions...
The prime minister has sharply criticised the BNP leaders for their movement to have their party chief released, reports UNB. At a Rajshahi programme on Thursday, Sheikh Hasina said if...
Blockchain is the latest technology to create an impact on the fintech landscape and has already brought disruption to the financial industry. Despite historically having been one of the most...
The changes in the urban landscape go mostly unnoticed compared to that in villages, especially in developing countries. The overall village scene appears with a new look after even minor...
Bangladesh was listed, along with 30-odd other 'emerging economies', as a 'stand out' country in the 2017 Inclusive Growth and Development Report. Organised under the framework of the World Economic...
In the seventies, a decent meal from roadside restaurants and cafes of rice,meat/fish and daal, usually had a nice freebie added. Daal refill was free. Such arrangements are impossible to...
A Joypurhat mobile court Thursday sentenced two SSC (Dakhil) examinees to two-year in prison on charges of leaking Chemistry question paper. The examinees were identified as Alamin and Minhaz, students...
School-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) is at the moment a global phenomenon that affects millions of children, families, schools and communities. While it is in an aggravated situation in countries affected...
A three-day 'Yellow Pages International Expo on Machinery' began in the capital on Thursday with a view to expanding the market of machinery for boosting the country's industrial sector. Liberation...
Three people were killed in a head-on a collision between a bus and a microbus on Dhaka-Khulna highway in Gopinathpur area of sadar upazila on Thursday evening. Two of the...
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