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A national campaign, titled ‘Responsible Use of Electricity’, has been launched to get users to become more responsible about electricity use. Bangladesh Solar and Renewable Energy Association (BSREA) and Forum...
A Tangail court will deliver its verdict on Monday in a case filed over the killing of Zakia Sultana Rupa after gang rape in a running bus on August 25...
The indices of two stock exchanges in Dhaka and Chittagong went up 29 and 80 points respectively amidst choppy trading on last Thursday (Feb.08, 2018) one of the eventful days...
The Road Transport and Bridges Minister has said that the third span of Padma Bridge will be installed in the first week of next month (March). The remaining spans, Obaidul...
The Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has incurred a loss of over Tk 5.0 billion in the last three months and its loss per month now amounts to more than Tk...
Yet another worker died on Sunday while he was extracting stones from a quarry at Shah Arifin Tila in Companyganj upazila of Sylhet. The deceased was identified as Basir Miah,...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a youth along with 15 Molotov cocktails and Yaba tablets from Goalchamot area of Faridpur town on Sunday morning. The arrestee was identified...
The World Bank declares that its mission is to end extreme poverty within a generation and to boost shared prosperity. These goals are universally agreed as part of the Sustainable...
DCCI on Sunday laid emphasis on creating infrastructure platform for entrepreneurs to carry on their operations smoothly and improve the country’s ‘Doing Business’ ranking. DCCI chief passed on the comment...
A passenger plane operated by Saratov Airlines crashed in the Moscow region of Russia on Sunday – thereby killing all 71 people on board. Russian news agency Interfax said this...
Md Mahbub ul Alam has been promoted to the Managing Director (MD) and CEO of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL). Bangladesh Bank, regulator of banking sector, formally approved the appointment...
British Council has recently hosted a readers’ development conference by arranging a book reading competition, a flagship outreach programme of the organisation. Principals and educational coordinators from different schools attended...
Country’s overall imports marked more than 9.0 per cent growth or US$2.07 billion rise in the first-half (H1) of the current fiscal year (FY 18). Officials apprised this to higher...
Collaborative efforts of the private sector are essential for flourishing the talents of the country’s underprivileged children, said speakers at a dialogue. The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and...
Chittagong University authority has temporarily suspended Sociology Department Professor Anwar Hossain Chowdhury, former assistant proctor of CU. He is currently in jail over his suspected roles in the 2016 murder...
Nvidia’s most loyal customers, — pc gamers — are feeling the pressure as cryptominers buy up every graphics card they can find, driving card prices through the roof. That’s not...
The road transport and bridges minister has opposed the idea of introducing separate lanes for VIPs in favour of emergency service lanes in Dhaka. He instead thinks emergency service lanes...
Guardian Life Insurance is set to indemnify the life and health of the employees of Rancon Holdings Limited. To this end, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the...
The jail authorities has ensured the facilities of the first class division for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia following a court order. Several televisions confirmed the information quoting Inspector General of...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan sees no failure of law enforcers in unearthing the mystery behind the murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi. The minister came up with...
President Abdul Hamid on Sunday urged the authorities of the country's universities to take the responsibility of turning the youths into well-educated and skilled human resources. "Bangladesh is passing through...
Renowned local ICT venture eGeneration Limited has made a pre-IPO (Initial Public Offering) placement to local conglomerate United Group. eGeneration is preparing to be the first software technology company in...
Bangladesh's star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has become an Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) goodwill ambassador to campaign against corruption. The signing ceremony was held at the ACC's office at Segunbagicha in...
The law minister has said that the country’s court and Election Commission will take the final decision on BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s eligibility for participation in the next general election....
Boris Johnson has met Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi for talks amid the Rohingya refugee crisis. The foreign secretary called for the safe return to the country...
Stocks rebounded strongly on Sunday after recent bearish mood as optimistic investors went on buying spree - especially riding on banking and telecommunication issues. Analysts said investors became optimistic as...
Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jahangir passed away at a hospital in Lahore on Sunday due to a cardiac arrest at the age of 66. Jahangir was the daughter of...
A woman was killed and 12 other injured after a man carried out a knife attack in a mall in the Chinese capital, Beijing, police said on Sunday. Beijing police...
Senior leaders of the BNP-led alliance will sit in a meeting on Sunday evening to discuss the evolving situation following the jailing of Khaleda Zia, and work out its next...
BRAC Bank Limited has recently signed an employee banking agreement with Bangla Trac Group at the latter’s head office in Dhaka. Under the agreement, it will provide salary disbursement and...
One in four Iraqi children are in poverty and four million are in need of assistance as a result of the country’s war with Islamic State militants, the United Nation’s...
A public elementary school in Tokyo’s upscale shopping district of Ginza has raised parents’ eyebrows with a plan to adopt uniforms designed by Italian fashion brand Giorgio Armani for its...
The United Nations (UN) has laid emphasis on investment in women and girls to help them achieve their full potentials as scientific researchers and innovators. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said,...
Two police officers in the mid-western US state of Ohio was shot to death while responding to a 911 call at the Columbus suburb of Westerville on Saturday, officials said....
Australia’s big banks are responding to a revenue crunch by cutting jobs and other costs, prompting fears on the eve of an inquiry into their businesses that the industry’s tarnished...
The country for the first time in its history has attained self-sufficiency in fish and meat production. The fisheries ministry sources say the fish production target for 2016-17 was set...
A political party backed by Sri Lanka’s former president Mahinda Rajapaksa looks set for a landslide victory in local polls, early results showed on Sunday. The results are potentially undermining...
Telecom operators stalled internet connections for over an hour before the SSC test on information and communication technology started on Sunday. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission took the step to prevent...
Mastercard has announced the winner of its ‘Roman Holiday with Mastercard’ campaign at a hotel in Dhaka. The grand prize, which was a complimentary vacation for two to Rome, was...
A bus driver was killed and his helper injured in a road accident near Sarangpur Boro mosque on Dhaka-Chapainawabganj highway in Godagari upazila of Rajshahi on Sunday morning. The deceased was...
A rights organisation has called for cancellation of additional plane fare for Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims during the ensuing hajj. The Bangladesh Pilgrim and Haji Welfare Council also demanded reduction in...
A Dhaka court has directed the authorities to provide BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who was jailed for five years in a graft case, with the facilities of the first class...
English-Canadian TV star Kim Cattrall took to Instagram to vent her anger at her 'Sex and the City' co-star Sarah Jessica Parker after she sent condolences following the death of...
Polyploid cells in the liver can protect the liver against cancer, said researchers from the US University of Texas (UT) Southwestern on Friday. Researchers of the Children's Medical Center Research...
Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI) has started a comprehensive work to design the `Trade Policy Advocacy Agenda 2018’. The main objective of the agenda is to sensitise the policymakers and businesses...
Saudi women should not have to wear the abaya, a long loose-fitting robe used to cover their bodies in public, a top religious cleric has said. Sheikh Abdullah al-Mutlaq, a...
A Maine man says he punched and kicked a 150-pound bear, scaring it away after it attacked his puppy in the woods. Twenty-nine-year-old Dustin Gray said the bear lunged at...
Thousands of people marched in an anti-racism rally in the Italian city of Macerata on Saturday, a week after a far-right extremist targeted African citizens in a racially motivated attack....
The British economy continues to show stable growth, with the uncertainties around Brexit failing to blunt GDP expansion, according to an economic research institute report. The British economy grew by...
Colombia has contacted international lending agencies about devising a financial rescue plan worth up to $60 billion for neighbouring Venezuela if President Nicholas Maduro leaves power, Colombia’s finance minister said...
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