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China's housing rental market was estimated at 1.3 trillion yuan (about 205 billion US dollars) in terms of revenue last year, according Liu Zhifeng, head of China Real Estate Association....
US scientists believe they have identified a new gene mutation that can raise the risk of ovarian cancer, and is passed from father to daughter. It is inherited through the...
A cooking gas cylinder blast has killed at least five persons and over injured over 20 in western Indian state of Rajasthan, local media reports said on Saturday. The incident...
Japan has okayed plans to let people choose to start drawing their state pensions beyond the age of 70 as it grapples with severe labor shortages, ballooning welfare costs and...
The election management body has taken an initiative to enroll as voters non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs), whose number stands at over more than 10 million. The Election Commission (EC) plans to...
FA Cup runners-up of the last season Chelsea crushed second-tier Hull City 4-0 and strolled effortlessly into the quarter-finals at Stamford Bridge on Friday. Willian netted twice and Olivier Giroud...
A deal on oil output cuts between OPEC and non-OPEC countries along with weaker demand for natural gas shipped from Russia may hit the growth of Russia’s economy in 2018,...
A total of 190 farmers in Gaibandha received loans of Tk 1.09 crore from banks to boost their agriculture production in the region. The loans were disbursed at the Agri-Loan...
A mild earthquake measuring 4.6 on Richter scale shook Hmawbi Township in Myanmar's Yangon region on Saturday morning. The country's Meteorology and Hydrology Department said in a press release that...
The dollar rose and stocks around the globe rallied for a sixth straight session on Friday to post their best week in more than two years, but a US indictment...
A Turkish court has sentenced six journalists to life in prison for alleged links to the July 2016 coup plotters. The judgement came as another Turkish court decided to release...
The Russian influence operation designed to tamper with the 2016 US presidential election used a combination of old-school espionage tactics and 21st-century technologies that will not be easy to stop,...
Bangladesh, which has emerged as a major importer of rice since 2017 after floods damaged its crops, scrapped a plan to import 150,000 tonnes of rice from Thailand, agreed at...
A Russian propaganda arm oversaw a criminal and espionage conspiracy to tamper in the 2016 US presidential campaign to support Donald Trump and disparage Hillary Clinton, said an indictment released...
Bangladesh's digital capability is taking a boost powered by a latest data centre, with a US institute endorsing its design and a Chinese bank bankrolling the scheme. The new National...
Ethiopia declared a state of emergency just a day after Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn announced his intention to step down amid a political turmoil in the Horn of Africa country....
An international survey finds Bangladesh's institutional quality and business environment deficient in weathering potential economic shocks while assessing 25 frontier markets' potential vulnerabilities for the year 2018. While identifying the...
Nine people have been killed after a fierce fire broke out at a waste processing facility in southern China’s Qingyuan city in the early hours of Saturday morning. A Xinhua...
Prices of vegetables and ginger further rose on Friday imposing extra burden on the consumers already battered by high prices of most essentials. Cucumber, bitter gourd, bottle gourd, bean and...
A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake that rattled Mexico on Friday, left nearly a million homes and businesses without power in the capital and south but the only reported deaths came...
Stocks rebounded strongly this week amid increased turnover as investors, relieved to see the clouds of political tensions start disappearing, went on buying spree. Market operators said the investors became...
The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has started realising 15 per cent VAT on tariffs of all 60 types of services it provides to port-users, with consent from the shipping ministry,...
Marriage registrars charge fees at will for 'nikah' registrations which people familiar with the issue termed 'much higher' than the government-fixed rates. They also said Kazis usually charge 300-400 per...
A hefty amount of over Tk 1.70 trillion of different banks remained stuck in 0.127 million money suits while a good number of them are facing liquidity crunch, sources said. ...
The Ministry of Health did not implement need-based resource allocation mechanism in one year to ensure equity and efficiency, although it was suggested in the 4th Health, Population and Nutrition...
BNP has decided to hold a public rally in the city on February 22 demanding the release of its chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail, reports UNB. Speaking at a press...
What a time! Two consecutive days' celebration of colour. First the yellow heralds the month of Falgun, the onset of the season of Spring in this part of the world....
Although Bangladesh has made remarkable recent strides like building green factories and meeting stringent safety standards, garment workers here are still paid one of the lowest minimum wages in the...
Over the past decade, the story of the Bangladesh retail industry has been nothing less than a revolution shaped and developed by high quality service provisions, world class design and...
One of the most elusive dating tactics since the beginning of time has to be 'playing hard to get'. While Socrates famously advised courtesan Theodote to boost her attraction by...
US crude extended gains in subdued trade on Friday as the dollar slipped to a three-year low, with many Asian markets closed for the Lunar New Year holiday, reports Reuters....
Delay in repatriation of the Rohingya refugees to their homeland was inevitable considering the fact that so far preparations for ensuring their safe and dignified return are incomplete. The situation...
The current moment in world history is a painful one. Open societies are in crisis, and various forms of dictatorships and mafia states, exemplified by Vladimir Putin's Russia, are on...
There is no way to be sure whether the government's plan -- the revised railway master plan -- to invest heavily in railway infrastructure is going to bear the desired...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn resigned on Thursday after long-running political turmoil, an unprecedented move in the vast East African country. The decision by Hailemariam, in power since 2012, comes...
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Friday that Turkey and the US agreed to normalize their ties, after weeks of rising tensions due to Turkey's military operation in Syria. Speaking...
The US secretary of state has acknowledged that his country's relationship with Turkey is "at a bit of a crisis point". At a joint press conference in Ankara on Friday,...
Science education should be attracted to create knowledge-based society aiming at transforming Bangladesh into an economically developed country. "The country will no longer import knowledge and technology.... We want to...
Some 273 new titles were released at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair on Friday amid a huge crowd. The fair that began with a moderate crowd at 11:00am witnessed huge...
Jacob Zuma has resigned as South Africa's president - an inevitable move, following the African National Congress' withdrawal of its support. Two decades after Nelson Mandela tried - and failed...
It is being generally alleged that researches hardly reach policy makers. It is thus no wonder to receive the allegation that research results barely see implementation. There are apparently two...
Interest in the public private partnerships (PPP) has increased in recent years as governments across the world look to alternative procurement methods to address their growing infrastructure gaps. It has...
iPhone users in Bangladesh may not get the experience of 4G/LTE mobile phone services immediately after the technology is launched. Mobile phone network operators (MNOs) in the country has said...
A networking conference on journalism was held at Rajshahi University (RU) on Friday aiming to enhance the education quality of journalism students. The organisers have also another aim to enhance...
A woman was beaten to death reportedly over her husband's extramarital affair at a rice-mill in Parkukrali area of the town on Friday morning. The deceased was identified as Sonia...
A Bangladesh woman was killed on Wednesday night after she was struck by a car while crossing a street at Chicago in US. A car hit Bina Chowdhury, 42, a...
Three mighty rivers, which enter Bangladesh from India at different points, play a very important role in the areas of transportation, cultural practices, and livelihoods of the people. Eastern states...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) sponsored by the United Nations (UN), otherwise known as the Global Goals or Agenda 2030, are a universal call of action to end poverty, protect...
The United Kingdom's (UK) export market is crucial for developing and small island developing states (SIDS) including Bangladesh. And among them, some of the countries' export is significantly dependent on...
Seven workers died of suffocation Friday while cleaning an underground drainage pit at a poultry farm in southern India, police said. Deputy Superintendent of Police Chowdesari said the deaths occurred...
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