Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said that BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has been sentenced in Zia Orphanage Trust case and "she has not been shown arrested" in any other...
President of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) Abul Kasem Khan on Tuesday urged the Philippine entrepreneurs to invest in the infrastructural development projects of Bangladesh. He came up...
A Gazipur court on Tuesday sentenced a woman and her lover to death for killing her husband in 2012 over an extramarital affair in Sataish area of Tongi. The convicts...
Mobile phone maker Symphony launched ‘Symphony P11’ -- a 4G-enabled smartphone -- on the local market recently. The handset sports a 5.7-inch 2.5 HD+ display, 64-bit quad core processor, 3GB...
Honda Motor Company in a joint venture with the state-owned Bangladesh Steel and Engineering Corporation (BSEC) is going to start manufacturing motorcycles locally this year. The joint venture company 'Bangladesh...
President Abdul Hamid on Tuesday urged students to stand against terrorism and militancy aiming to build a 'Sonar Bangla' envisioned by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) expresses optimism about the continued growth of the global trade in the first quarter (Q1) of the current calendar year. The latest World Trade Outlook...
The National Credit and Commerce (NCC) Bank, in association with Thengamara Mohila Sabuj Sangha (TMSS) and MoneyGram, has organised a day long workshop on preventing money laundering. The bank arranged...
Government will formally hand over 4G licence to mobile network operators (MNOs) on February 20 – paving the way for launching 4th generation broadband cellular technology in country by February...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday urged the development partners to invest in sustainable rural economies to ensure resilience to agricultural crisis as the inclusive and sustainable rural transformation hold...
The BNP secretary general has said that they will intensify their current movement to force the government to release their chairperson from jail. Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said,...
The government has set up eight more police stations in Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) to make the city better and safer place to live. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely...
Japan’s economy was expected to grow for an eighth straight quarter in October-December, the longest period of expansion in about 30 years, a Reuters poll found on Feb 2, led...
Country’s merchandise trade deficit with the rest of the world jumped by 91 per cent in the first half (H1) of the current fiscal year (FY18). Statistics released by Bangladesh...
Stocks finished marginally higher on Tuesday amid choppy trading as investors went on buying spree in the late hours on sector-specific items. Brokers said the market edged higher as optimistic...
Fish farming in cages, a new form of fish farming, has turned a boon for a good number of youths in Narsingdi. District fisheries officials said the youths are getting...
People with anxiety and depression might feel a little better after they get mild electric shock therapy, but it’s unclear how much it will help or whether this treatment might...
Five people have been killed and around 11 others wounded after a blast occurred, caused by a fire on a ship undergoing maintenance at India’s Cochin Shipyard Limited, a company...
Asian stocks pulled further away from two-month lows on Tuesday, lifted by Wall Street’s extended rebound from last week’s steep fall, but investors remained cautious ahead of US inflation data...
During the first eight months of the past year, some 253 Bangladeshi citizens availed the long-term residency in Malaysia under the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme. A total of...
Indian High Commission in Dhaka in collaboration with Department of Fine Art, Jahangirnagar University (JU), will host an art camp titled ‘India@Bangladesh 2.0 Art Camp’ on February 17-19. Fifty artists...
R Spencer Balentine who claims ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’ is based on his work, not on the eponymous comic series from a Marvel imprint, is suing Fox. The screenwriter is...
Banks in the United Arab Emirates are hopeful of recovering some funds in 2018 from the multibillion-dollar collapse of Saudi Arabia’s Saad Group and Ahmad Hamad al-Gosaibi & Bros Co...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared way for holding recruitment procedure for different 2,201 posts of state-run Sonali Bank as per the circular issued in 2016. The four-member bench of...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said radio can unite and empower communities and give voice to the marginalised. "Radio reaches the widest audience in the world," the UN chief said...
Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said on Tuesday that he did not break any parliamentary rules while having an extramarital affair with a former staffer as he faced down...
Appier, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, demonstrated pioneering research that showcased AI’s ability to be creative at the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), one of the world’s...
Amazon is cutting hundreds of positions at its headquarters and global operations, a move that comes after several years of significant growth. The cuts were first reported by the Seattle...
An Ohio woman had given up hope of seeing her wedding dress again after a dry cleaner mix-up three decades ago until her daughter’s friend saw photos of the dress...
Singapore's homegrown mobile payment app company SpherePay has announced its strategic partnership with TrueChain (TRUE), one of the world's fastest next generation blockchain company, says a Media OutReach release Tuesday....
The British and Irish prime ministers held talks with Northern Ireland’s feuding political parties on Monday and said later they were hopeful the province’s year-old political stalemate would soon end....
Police in separate drives arrested 15 persons including two activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and three activists of BNP from different areas of Dinajpur in last 12-hour ending at 8 am on...
The government has unveiled a tool it says can accurately detect jihadist content and block it from being viewed. Home Secretary Amber Rudd told the BBC she would not rule...
BNP leaders and activists are staging a sit-in programme in front of its Nayapaltan central office in Dhaka on Tuesday protesting the jailing of the party chairperson Khaleda Zia in...
Afghan air force launched airstrikes in southern Afghan province of Kandahar on Monday night, killing at least 43 militants and wounding more than 20 others, provincial police chief said Tuesday....
Executive Director of World Food Programme (WFP) David Beasley has said donor agencies are gradually losing their interest in providing food assistance for the displaced Rohingyas who have taken shelter...
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) and Brac IT Services (biTS) Ltd. on Monday at IUB’s own campus in Bashundhara, Dhaka. This MoU would...
BRAC Bank Limited took part in “Bankers-SME Entrepreneurs Conference and View Exchange Programme” organised by SME & Special Programs Department, Bangladesh Bank in Rajshahi recently. Fazle Kabir, Governor of Bangladesh...
Chelsea clinched a comfortable 3-0 home win over struggling West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League on Monday, easing pressure on coach Antonio Conte following two defeats for the champions....
A six-month-old baby boy was killed and his parent injured as a battery-run easy-bike overturned after being hit by a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Uttar Algee area of Haimchar upazila. The...
A German consumer rights group said that a court had found Facebook’s use of personal data to be illegal because the US social media platform did not adequately secure the...
The dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Rangamati district unit protesting attack on Supayan Chakma, general secretary of Sadar upazila unit of BCL, is underway. Due to the...
US President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law Vanessa Trump was taken to a New York hospital after she opened a piece of mail containing an unidentified white powder on Monday, officials said....
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed a downward trend in early hour of trading Tuesday as investors are on selling binge on sector-wise stocks. Following...
Nearly 29 per cent or Tk 2.58 billion of the Tk 9.0-billion capital market refinancing fund remains undisbursed due to poor response from the investors, who were the victims of...
Powerful tropical cyclone Gita barrelled through the Pacific island nation on early Tuesday, tearing roofs off homes, flattening the parliament and causing widespread flooding. There were no confirmed reports of...
Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority (DTCA) has taken an initiative to focus on properly managing the lanes of the city roads for easing the traffic situation that often remains unbearably congested,...
A bus driver was killed and its helper and supervisor were injured in a robbery attack on Nabinagar-Chandra highway in Sripur area under Ashulia thana on Tuesday morning. The deceased...
Share price of three Z-category companies -- Beximco Synthetics, Sonargaon Textile and Information Services Networks - are soaring without any price sensitive information (PSI). In the last three months, the...
South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) party executive committee has decided to ‘recall,’ or remove, President Jacob Zuma as head of state, a senior ANC source said on Tuesday. The...
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