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A Dhaka court on Sunday has issued arrest warrants against 23 BNP leaders and activists including the party’s joint secretary general Barkatullah Bulu, journalist leader Shawkat Mahmud, in a sabotage...
Hospitality company Brac Services Ltd (BSL) has signed a customer benefit agreement with Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) in Dhaka recently. Under the agreement, BSL will offer 20 per cent discount...
Prime Bank recently signed a participatory agreement with Bangladesh Bank (BB) on the JICA-assisted Foreign Direct Investment Promotion Project. Managing Director& CEO of Prime Bank Rahel Ahmed and General Manager...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday put emphasis on the diversified production of tea-based items alongside maintaining the standard to grab the international market in a greater way. "There's a...
BNP on Sunday submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Dhaka, demanding the release of its chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail. A BNP delegation, led by its Dhaka...
Myanmar has urged Bangladesh to investigate and provide information about the list of "terrorists and criminals" belonging to the ARSA, which had been previously sent to Bangladesh. Myanmar Union Minister...
All 66 passengers and crew aboard a plane have died as the plane crashed in central Iran on Sunday. The plane operated by Iranian carrier Aseman Airlines crashed in a...
BRAC Bank Limited conducted a day-long programme titled “Women's Leadership Skills Development” recently at its Head Office for its female employees. The workshop was conducted by Nasreen Sattar, Chairman...
Researchers in the US have used a new scanning technique to discover a painting underneath one of Pablo Picasso's great works of art, the Crouching Woman (La Misereuse Accroupie). Underneath...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly criticised his Polish counterpart on Saturday for saying the Jews were among the perpetrators in World War Two. Poland passed a law this month...
A housewife was allegedly hacked to death by her husband at Sonatonpunji village in Kanaighat upazila of Sylhet on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Jahanara Begum (19), wife...
Actor Rebecca Gayheart has filed for divorce from former 'Grey's Anatomy' star Eric Dane after 14 years of marriage. According to court documents, the actor, best known for films such...
The Ethiopian defence minister has said the newly imposed state of emergency will last for six months as authorities seek to tamp down unrest in the Horn of Africa country....
Police have arrested a young man for opening fire on a police checkpoint in Chittagong. The latest arrests made on Sunday takes the number of arrestees to six over the...
China's industrial capacity utilisation hits 77 per cent in 2017, the highest level in nearly five years, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The rate is 3.7 percentage...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three suspected activists of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Bilshahar village in Tanore upazila of Rajshahi district on Saturday night....
Ispahani Agro Ltd (IAL) signed a Market Actor Agreement (MAA) on Thursday with the US non-profit international economic development organisation ACDI/VOCA to act as a partner for the United States...
Australian authorities have issued a red alert warning as the tropical cyclone Kelvin has hammered the Western coast with deadly winds of up to 150 kilometres per hour on Sunday...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate 20 development projects and lay foundation stones of nine others during her visit to Rajshahi on February 22. Rajshahi City Awami League...
India’s City Union Bank Ltd said on Saturday it had suffered three “fraudulent remittances” of nearly $2 million that had been pushed through the SWIFT financial platform. City Union said...
Four Israeli soldiers have been wounded by an explosion that occurred near the border fence with the Gaza Strip on Saturday, spurring Israeli air strikes later in the day against...
Twitter has announced it is ending support for its dedicated desktop Mac application and that it has pulled it from the web and from Apple’s App Store. “We’re focusing our...
Barcelona warmed up for Tuesday's Champions League trip to Chelsea with a hard-fought win over Eibar to equal their best ever La Liga unbeaten run. Ernesto Valverde did not rest...
Romelu Lukaku extended his impressive FA Cup scoring record by netting twice in Manchester United’s 2-0 win at Huddersfield Town to earn Jose Mourinho’s side a quarter-final tie at home...
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed downward trend in early hour of Sunday trading as many investors followed cautious stance ahead of divided declarations. Following...
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has no objection to plans to turn the euro zone’s bailout fund into a European Monetary Fund, she said in comments published on Saturday....
US stock markets are unlikely to return to the unusually calm conditions seen last year, even though equities have already recovered more than half the ground lost in the recent...
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has dismissed as ‘blather’ the charges levelled by the FBI special counsel against 13 Russians for election tampering. He said at a major security conference...
Young survivors of Wednesday's school shooting in Florida have taken part in an emotionally charged rally demanding tighter gun controls. Protesters in Fort Lauderdale chanted "shame on you", referring to...
A three-day long art camp began on the campus of Jahangirnagar University on Saturday. Department of Fine Arts in association with the Indian High Commission in Dhaka arranged the programme...
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) detained two employees of Punjab National Bank, the state-run lender that says it has been the victim of a $1.77 billion fraud, in the...
A fire broke out at the most important shrine in Tibetan Buddhism - the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa. Footage posted online showed flames billowing from the roof and what appeared...
A minor earthquake with a 4.4 magnitude has affected parts of Wales and England. The quake was felt over all of Wales, most of western England, as far east as...
The IPO (initial public offering) subscription of Advent Pharma will close tomorrow (Monday). The company opened its IPO subscription on February 11. The Bangladesh Securities & Exchange Commission (BSEC) approved...
Dhaka Stock Exchange is expected to propose to the securities regulator for approving Chinese consortium's offer as it qualified in the bidding as the bourse's 'strategic partner', outbidding its challenging...
US-based Russian news outlet RIA Global LLC has registered as a foreign agent with the US Justice Department, the fourth Russian-linked media company to do so since November under pressure...
A helicopter carrying senior officials has crashed while they assessed damage from Friday's earthquake in Mexico, killing at least 14 including a baby. Mexico's interior minister and the governor of...
The state-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has placed a proposal with the relevant ministry for a substantial hike in prices of petroleum products to "avoid losses" following oil-price rises on...
Government's chief investment promoter aired frustration over investment prospect for ballooning bad loans and huge loan-case backlog as experts at a seminar Saturday suggested legal amendments for a remedy. The...
FE ReportSpeakers at a conference on Saturday stressed the need for a 'fair process' in achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) along with ensuring 'good enough governance' at different levels in...
A senior jail official has said they are not taking Khaleda Zia to court on Sunday for the hearing of another graft case. The Special Judge’s Court No. 2 of...
Drum chimney and rigid chimney are being used in 27 brickfields openly in Lama upazila of the hilly Bandarban district. These hills have been developed in violation of policy of...
Boro farming is going on in full swing in Sylhet region. A good number of farmers will continue the paddy cultivation till mid-March, an official said, adding, there is a...
More than 1,300 children have received psychosocial support from the UN migration agency - IOM in Cox's Bazar since September 2017. Children account for around 60 per cent refugees who...
United Nations has expressed optimism that a favourable climate will be created in Bangladesh to hold a free and fair election. UN Secretary-General’s Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said, "...like in any...
In the coastal swamps of western Bangladesh, there are a few options for making a living. Three million people live on the edge of the mangrove forest - their houses...
The ethnic cleansing operation carried out by the Myanmar security forces against the Rohinyas since August, last year caused the fastest growing humanitarian crisis that the United Nations has ever...
Even to find the recipe of a favourite dish, we have got used to asking Google. Google's mighty search engine goes through millions of options to take us to the...
Country’s main opposition party is looking for a way to launch a synchronised movement that is similar to the early 90s protest against then president Hussain Muhammad Ershad. The aim...
Bangladesh has established formal diplomatic ties with Kosovo through signing a Joint Communiqué on Friday. Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations Masud Bin Momen and Consul General of...
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