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Cyril Ramaphosa was confirmed Thursday as South Africa's new President, hours after scandal-plagued leader Jacob Zuma resigned. Ramaphosa, 65, the leader of the ruling African National Congress party since December,...
The six-day film festival, which begun at TSC Auditorium of Dhaka University on Monday, will end on Saturday. Dhaka University Film Society (DUFS) organised the event, marking the International Mother...
Bangladesh has handed over a list of 1673 families of 8032 Rohingyas to start the first phase of repatriation of Rohingyas living in Bangladesh. "The Myanmar side has cordially accepted...
Hollywood couple Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux are separating after two years of marriage. The pair, who reportedly met on the set of comedy film Wanderlust, said the mutual decision...
More than 100,000 Critically Endangered orangutans have been killed in Borneo since 1999, research has revealed. Scientists who carried out a 16-year survey on the island described the figure as...
The teenager accused of killing 17 people at a Florida high school on Wednesday has confessed to the shooting, police say. Nikolas Cruz, 19, said he arrived on campus and...
The US has rejected a proposed merger between the Chicago Stock Exchange and a Chinese-linked investor group. The decision comes after more than two years of reviews by officials. The...
An officer of the Chittagong Metropolitan Police was shot, when a search was underway at a checkpoint. The incident was reported Friday afternoon from Panchlaish area of Chittagong city. CMP...
Police in India have arrested a woman who allegedly posed as a man and duped two women into marriage for dowry. Krishna Sen was arrested on Wednesday in the northern...
A team of detective branch (DB) detained two drug traders and seized 26,800 Yaba tablets from Shahidganj area in Sirajganj on early Friday. The arrestees are Abdul Matin, 35, son...
Police have recovered the remaining 50 of the 75 secondary school certificate (SSC) examination answer scripts misplaced from an examiner in Joypurhat. On Thursday, high school teacher Golam Sarwar was...
Members of Coast Guard, in separate drives, arrested three suspected robbers along with Deer hide, firearm and ammunition from Office Kella and Majher Char areas in the Sundarbans early Friday....
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi could be held accountable for crimes against humanity, said UN Special Envoy Yanghee Lee in an interview with the UK’s Channel 4 News. She said...
BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed on Friday alleged that the government is passing time as part of its trick to give a certified copy of the verdict against their party...
Bitcoin rose above $10,000 (7,108.33 pounds) on Thursday, for the first time in more than two weeks, as the trader sentiment has improved towards the cryptocurrency. The first digital currency...
Pakistan army has destroyed an Indian army post in the Himalayan region of Kashmir and killed five Indian soldiers, after Indian sniper fire struck a school van, killing the driver,...
Turkey has proposed to the United States that Kurdish YPG fighters withdraw to east of the Euphrates river in Syria and that Turkish and US troops be stationed together in...
Green University Cultural Club (GUCC) has organised the two-day annual cultural competition at its green seminar hall. The event, ‘Annual Cultural Competition 2018’ arranged with a view to acclimatise the...
French carmaker Renault posted record sales and profit for 2017, bolstering Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn’s position in the face of government demands for a clearer succession plan and deeper integration...
Hackers stole $ 6.0 million (339.5 million rubles) in an attack on the SWIFT international payments messaging system in Russia last year, the Russian central bank said on Friday. The...
A fire at a courier service outlet in Dhaka following a transformer blast has left one killed and two others hospitalised with burn injuries. The incident was reported late on...
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam will lead a delegation comprising senior officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for an official visit to the Republic of Kosovo...
Japan has reappointed central bank chief Haruhiko Kuroda for another term, amid heightened anxiety in Japanese and global financial markets. The government on Friday nominated Kuroda, a 73-year-old former finance...
Colombia’s gross domestic product rose 1.8 per cent in 2017, the lowest in eight years, the government’s DANE statistics agency said. The Latin America’s fourth largest economy expanded more than...
At least 100 shops, including 15 furniture showrooms, were gutted as a fire broke out in a market in City Gate area beside Dhaka-Chittagong highway on Friday morning. Sarwer Jahan,...
Amid a series of demonstrations for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s release, the party has now announced plans to hold a public rally in Dhaka on February 22. Senior leader Ruhul...
Japan and Australia shares were higher in thin trading on Friday, while all other Asian markets closed Friday for the lunar new year holiday. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index climbed 1.1...
82 brick kilns have been set up in the last two years in greater Faridpur violating rules and regulations and destroying huge farmlands in the region according to a recent...
The Unites States has rejected a proposed merger between the Chicago Stock Exchange and a Chinese-linked investor group. The decision comes after more than two years of reviews by officials....
The 19-year-old man accused of shooting 17 people to death at a Florida high school legally purchased the assault rifle used in the killings and may have foreshadowed the attack...
Dividend yield of the MSCI Bangladesh Index increased marginally to 1.64 per cent at the end of January this year from 1.63 per cent at the end of December last....
India's Punjab National Bank, the second-biggest state-run lender, stunned the country's financial sector when it announced this week it had discovered fraudulent transactions worth $1.77 billion at a single branch...
Gap in the prices of different seasonal vegetables between farm and retail levels has widened sharply in recent times. As a result, consumers are now paying higher prices for fresh...
The third annual economists’ conference of the South Asian Network on Economic Modelling (SANEM) will kick off on Saturday morning in Dhaka. The theme of the two-day event is: ‘Leave...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) authorities have been asked to speed up the implementation work of four projects, including the Akhaura-Agartala rail link project, financed by the Indian grant and the first...
Net foreign investment in the country's capital market increased 27.14 per cent year-on-year in 2017 as many overseas investors considered the Bangladesh stock market as a frontier and emerging market....
The ten top-traded companies accounted for nearly 25 per cent of the total transactions on the country's premier bourse on Thursday, with Unique Hotel & Resorts topping the list. Analysts...
A new set of data from Paradise Papers mentioned the names of 22 Bangladeshis or people linked with Bangladesh. All of them have registered their entities in Malta, a popular...
Authorised persons involved in managing 'deposit insurance fund' at the central bank will get indemnity under a proposed law styled, the Deposit Protection (DP) Act, 2017. The Bangladesh Bank (BB)...
The current volume of non-performing loan (NPL) is not a big problem for the economy as it still remained at a lower level than many other countries, Planning Minister AHM...
A leading trade body has stressed ensuring political harmony in the country apart from facing properly the challenges of rising geo-political tensions and the Rohingya refugee crisis to achieve the...
Authorised persons involved in managing 'deposit insurance fund' at the central bank will get indemnity under a proposed law styled, the Deposit Protection (DP) Act, 2017. The Bangladesh Bank (BB)...
Speakers at a workshop stressed Thursday the need of prudential guidelines for venture capital to attract investment and expand its market. They said venture capital was the only way of...
Former governor of Bangladesh Bank Professor Dr Atiur Rahman has stressed greater social responsibility of the corporates to contribute more to the society from which they make all the profits....
IDLC Finance Limited reported net profit after tax of BDT 2,277 million in the year 2017, recording a strong 28 per cent growth from last year. "All our business divisions...
RAJSHAHI, Feb 15: Due to depletion of flow of water, the mighty river Padma near Rajshahi has now turned to dried bed of sand dunes and silts. Every year, the...
BOGRA, Feb 15: Boro growers of the district are worried over the high rate of saplings this season. Sources said shortage of Boro saplings is prevailing in the area. A...
That civil servants are not liked by most people is a known fact. The reasons for rating the government servants poorly are understandable. Inefficiency and love for graft are two...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made a strong plea in favour of greater international investment in rural economy under the aegis of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). She made...
The Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority (DTCA)'s disagreement with the cabinet decision on creation of a separate lane for the VIPs (very important persons) comes as a great relief to ordinary...
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