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London police say they are investigating a suspicious package that was sent to Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle. The Metropolitan Police force says "a package containing a substance"...
More than 2,500 poor patients received free treatment and necessary medicine at a ‘Free Medical Camp’ at Hatibandha of Shakhipur in Tangail on Wednesday. Kidney Awareness Monitoring and Prevention Society...
An Egyptian court has sentenced 21 people to death and seven others to up to life in prison on terrorism-related charges. Thursday's verdict, reported by the state-run MENA news agency,...
Russia has said it will consider supporting the UN-proposed ceasefire in Syria as long as it does not cover Isis and al Qaeda-linked groups. The UN security council is due...
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) on Thursday published Chartered Accountant (CA) Professional examination (November-December 2017) results. Details of the results are available on the website www.icab.org.bd, said...
US President Donald Trump promised strong background checks and mental health screenings for gun buyers after hearing pleas from survivors of the recent Florida school shooting and affected families on...
Uber Technologies Inc’s chief executive pledged to continue investing aggressively in Southeast Asia even though the US ride hailing firm expects to lose money in the fast growing market due...
The government will bring down the price of rice at Tk 10 per kilogram for ultra-poor people from next month. Five million ultra-poor families across the country will get rice...
The ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya people in Myanmar is the ultimate consequence of hate, scapegoat and fear minorities, said Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday. The human rights watchdog made...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith has said he will consider the withdrawal of existing VAT on internet usage in the next budget. "I promise to seriously consider the VAT on internet...
The government has transferred 23 senior members of the BCS education cadre in the wake of recent question paper leaks. Among the officials are the assistant personal secretary to Education...
Scientists say they have settled one of medicine's biggest debates after a huge study found that anti-depressants work. The study, which analysed data from 522 trials involving 116,477 people, found...
Russia's opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, said he had been detained by police weeks ahead of a presidential election in which he has been barred from running. Mr Navalny, who is...
Jatka Preservation Week-2018 will be observed across the country from February 24 to March 2, aiming to create mass awareness on preserving Jatka (Hilsha fry) to boost the production of...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is unlikely to get bail in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case before Sunday as the High Court on Thursday deferred the hearing until then on...
A growing chorus of politicians have urged the government to take action against Bangladeshis who have secretly invested in offshore tax havens following recent revelations. Eighteen Bangladeshis have been named...
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu has said the government will establish information complexes soon in the first phase at 26 district headquarters of the country. "The ‘Construction of 26 (1st...
Noted music composer and director Ali Akbar Rupu died at a city hospital on Thursday. He was 57. Rupu, who had long been suffering from kidney and heart diseases, breathed...
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Executive Director Dr Iftekharuzzaman has said setting more examples of graft punishment are required to improve Bangladesh's score in Corruption Perception Index (CPI). The director of...
A three-day International Sufi Festival will begin from Friday at the academy's Nandan Mancha, a floating stage on the premises of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in Dhaka. The inauguration ceremony of...
The US ambassador in Dhaka has laid emphasis on collecting evidence from the crime scenes meticulously and preserving carefully keeping crime evidence free from contamination. Marcia Bernicat said, "Contaminated evidence...
The prime minister has directed the officers and soldiers of Bangladesh Army to stay always ready to unitedly face any external and internal threat to the country's constitution and sovereignty....
Turnover on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) dipped to Tk 2.89 billion Thursday, hitting nearly 20 months low, as investors were mostly inactive amid persistent liquidity shortage. Turnover, the crucial indicator...
A police official has been suspended for his attempt to snatch Tk 0.3 million from a local Awami League leader at Gurpatti in Shibganj municipality of Chapainawabganj. A probe body...
Detective Branch (DB) of police has detained two cops among four people on charge of looting Tk 0.95 million from a cattle trader in Satkhira. According to the police, the...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) has recently organised a client get together on the occasion of Cash Waqf Campaign at a local hotel in Khulna. Md Mahbub ul Alam, managing...
A four-day software and IT-enabled services exposition titled 'BASIS Softexpo-2018' kicked off in Dhaka on Thursday. The extravaganza will showcase mainly the local companies' capability in IT and related service...
European shares retreated in early trading on Thursday as a flurry of corporate results fail to lift sentiment after a new wave of speculation about faster hikes in US interest...
Mobile banking apps keep getting better, but 60 per cent of Americans would still rather open a new checking account in person at a bank branch than on a phone,...
Centrica plc, Britain’s largest energy supplier, has decided to cut about 4,000 jobs by 2020 as the company raised its cost savings target by 500 million pounds. The company, which...
“The Shape of Water,” a contender for this year’s best picture Oscar, was hit with a plagiarism lawsuit on Wednesday, alleging that its fantastical plot about a romance between a...
Japanese shares slipped on Thursday on across-the-board selling after US shares dropped overnight on speculation about faster interest rate hikes. The Nikkei declined 1.1 per cent to 21,736.44. Ricoh Co...
A US morning radio show presenter has given birth on air during her show. Cassiday Proctor, a weekday morning presenter on The Arch station in the US city of St...
Twitter Inc revealed Wednesday that it would bar people to post identical messages from multiple accounts. Cracked down on a tactic over Russian agents’ alleged use to make tweets or...
The government will resume its food friendly programme -- open market sale -- for the poor across the country in March, less than a week away, Food Minister Quamrul Islam...
The government is planning to appoint 10,000 more doctors and 3,000 nurses in the near future, Health and Family Welfare Minister Muhammad Nasim said. He said the present government appointed...
Despite encouraging growth in terms of both subscriber and revenue, mobile operator Robi was unable to register any profit in 2017. Alongside continued investment for network development, a number of...
A bomb blast killed two bank employees and injured 22 other people in Myanmar’s northeastern city of Lashio on Wednesday, the government and the military said. Police said an investigation...
An unknown person threw an explosive device, probably a hand grenade, at the United States embassy building in Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, before blowing himself up, the government said...
Though Bangladesh has made two steps of improvement in the corruption perception index (CPI), graft still persists alarmingly in the country, according to a report of the Transparency International (TI)....
At least 44 lives have been claimed in Peru on Wednesday after a bus hurtled some 100 meters into a ravine in the mountains south of the country. An official...
Cigarettes are not the only type of tobacco products that can lead to premature death or fatalities from smoking-related cancers, a US study confirms. While people who exclusively smoke cigarettes...
The board of directors of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has finally submitted the Chinese consortium’s proposal to the securities regulator for approval. DSE Deputy General Manager (PR) Shafiqur Rahman...
Most Asian share markets followed S&P 500 futures lower on Thursday as speculation of faster hikes in US interest rates soured risk appetite globally. The dollar held onto most of...
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) placed floral wreaths at the Central Shaheed Minar in the capital on 21st February. Prof Dr Saiful Islam, Vice-Chancellor of BUET, was present...
Five people – three in Rangpur and two in Sherpur – were killed in two separate road accidents on Wednesday. In the Rangpur road crash, according to witnesses, 25 people...
Catalonia's jailed former vice-president has called for an end to the deadlock in parliament over the region's next president. Oriol Junqueras said there is life in the pro-independence movement beyond...
Police recovered an around 150-year-old Shiva idol, which was stolen 15 months ago, from Uttarvurshi Mallikpara in Boalkhali upazila of Chittagong on Wednesday night. On information, a team of police...
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed upward trend in early hour of trading on Thursday as investors active on sector-wise stocks amid optimism. Following the...
Brazil environmental agency Ibama will decide on French oil firm Total’s application to drill in the environmentally sensitive Amazon river basin before the end of May, and possibly as soon...
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