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China, along with the United Nations decided to extend further rehabilitate the flood effected people of last year’s flood. To this end, the embassy of China in association with the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Dhaka for Rome on Sunday morning on a four-day official visit to Italy. The Prime Minister is going to Italy to attend the annual...
Search and rescue workers found the bodies of two people believed to be members of a Chinese family trapped in a partially collapsed hotel in Taiwan on Saturday, bringing the...
A man allegedly slaughtered his wife and sister-in-law in sequel to a family feud at Borobangla under Nikli upazila in Kishoreganj on Saturday. The victims were identified as Aysha Khatun,...
China lifts at least 13 million people out of poverty each year, according to the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development. The country's poverty rate dropped...
A local trader of milk was killed on Saturday as a motorcycle collided head-on with his milk carrying three-wheeler on Satkhira-Kaliganj road in Debhata upazila of the district. The deceased...
Four teams of European Parliament members will visit a Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar on Monday to see their plight on the ground. One of the teams arrived in Dhaka...
Advent Pharma limited is set to begin its initial public offering (IPO) subscription on Sunday which will raise a capital worth Tk 200 million from the public. The subscription for...
The BNP announced on Saturday new three-day programmes, including sit-in protests and a hunger strike, to protest the conviction of party chief Khaleda Zia. The new programmes were announced at...
Average retail price of coarse rice continues to remain high in the country despite a record high import in the current fiscal. A recently released market report of the United...
Over eighty thousand Bangladeshi people have got overseas job January 2018, according to an official of the Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment. With this fresh 81,846 people, a...
Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) will organise a five-day Basanta Mela and handicraft exhibition starts Sunday (tomorrow). The BSCIC's Design Centre will arrange the fair at its Motijheel...
A three-day agricultural machinery exhibition has kicked off in Dhaka city aiming to raise mechanisation in agriculture to boost production. Local government, rural development and cooperative minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain...
A 35-year-old man died after a major fire broke out at a garment factory in the Indian capital Delhi Saturday, officials said. "The fire erupted at a jeans factory on...
Speakers at a discussion have called for the formulation of a law to protect agricultural land, ensuring food security for all. Farm land grabbing has put the food security at...
Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide Eastern Bank Ltd. (EBL) a term loan to the tune of US$ 20 million to help improve the standards and quality of Bangladesh’s textile...
The 15th edition of a four day Dhaka International Textile and Garment Machinery (DTG) Exhibition 2018 will end on Sunday (tomorrow). The exhibition, popularly known as DTG-2018, has been jointly...
Turkish police have detained 31 suspected Islamic State members in Istanbul who were preparing to launch an attack, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Saturday. Police raided six addresses in...
Paris's Eiffel Tower, which attracts six million tourists every year, will remain closed until Sunday as a result of heavy snowfall in the city. The tower, a symbol of Paris,...
Daffodil International University (DIU) has organised a three-day long ‘Daffodil ICT Carnival 2018’ at its Ashulia Campus. Daffodil Family arranges the carnival for the students, teachers of the institutions under...
Akila Dananjaya and Rangana Herath have torn through Bangladesh’s batting line-up to clinch victory for the Sri Lankans in the Dhaka Test. The visitors won the game by 215 runs...
BNP leaders and activists brought out a procession from Purana Paltan area in Dhaka city on Saturday in protests against the imprisonment of the party's Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a...
A French Muslim singer who became an internet sensation following her performance on France’s The Voice has quit the TV show after being criticised for comments she had made on...
TK Group Chairman MA Tayab has passed away in Dhaka city. He was 72. He died while undergoing treatment at the United Hospital at around 10:30am. Also a freedom fighter,...
Police say an extremely simple sketch helped investigators identify a suspect in a theft from a Pennsylvania farmers market. Lancaster police say the suspect pretended to be an employee before...
The business wing of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives vowed to block certain projects included in this week’s coalition agreement with the Social Democrats (SPD), as tensions roiled both political blocs....
US Congress voted for a bipartisan spending package to end a brief government shutdown. The Senate and House approved nearly $90 billion in recovery aid for Puerto Rico, the US...
Google has been fined 1.36 billion rupees (£15.2 million; $21.2 million) by India's competition regulator for abusing its dominance in the country. Users searching flight details were directed to Google's...
Rajshahi locals have detained a woman ‘showing SSC exam questions’ on her mobile phone and turned her over to police, says Bowalia Police Station OC Aman Ullah. The SSC math...
Six students of a madrasha sustained burn injuries as a transformer blasted in Bangshal area of Dhaka on Saturday morning. The injured were identified as Saber, Sajjad, Ashik, Soleman, Mostakin...
Pakistani export surged by 11.11 per cent during first seven months of the current fiscal year ranging from July 2017 to June 2018 as compared to exports during the same...
Israel shot down an Iranian drone launched from Syria and in response also struck Iranian targets there on Saturday, the Israeli military said. “A combat helicopter successfully intercepted an Iranian...
People with a history of migraines may be more likely to develop cardiovascular problems like heart attacks, stroke, and an irregular heart beat than individuals who don’t experience these headaches,...
Iraq seeks around $100 billion in foreign investment in transport, energy and agriculture as part of a plan to rebuild parts of the country and revive the economy after a...
A brief US government shutdown ended on Friday after Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed into law a temporary spending deal expected to push budget deficits past $1 trillion...
An army soldier and his daughter have been wounded after militants stormed a military camp in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday morning, said police. The gunmen, believed to be fidayeen...
Sonali Bank will get Tk 200 million as commission on a hefty letter of credit (LC) opened for Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP), after the trimming down of its bigger...
A twin bombing at a small mosque in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi has killed three people and wounded at least 48 others, medics said. The explosions occurred during Friday...
Uber and Waymo have reached a settlement over claims Uber stole trade secrets from the self-driving company. As part of the agreement, Uber is giving a 0.34 per cent Uber...
The central bank has started work on calculating the country’s House Price Index (HPI) on a regular basis. In March 2016, the research department of the central bank has taken...
Facebook is testing a new "downvote" button that will let people hide comments and provide feedback about them. However, the social network denied that the new feature was a "dislike"...
A government move to convert its fiscal accounting to "accrual" system fails to sail through in eight years and, under the circumstances, the country does not get a realistic picture...
The government will sign LNG import deals with 30 global suppliers to source the 'expensive' fuel from spot market. State-run Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company Ltd (RPGCL) has already prepared a...
International Labour Organization (ILO) has expressed concern over Bangladesh's steps in addressing its recommendations especially related to freedom of association in and outside EPZ factories and bringing EPZ units within...
Exposure to radiation from electromagnetic fields, especially of mobile-phone tower, is being limited up to 300 GHz under rules in the making to avert health risks. Officials said Bangladesh Telecommunication...
Almost two-third of the country's banking entities are not using risk tools in their decision making procedure, according to a recent survey conducted on the chief risk officers (CROs) of...
Dhaka sent three project proposals to New Delhi recently for getting endorsement of receiving nearly US$1.37 billion fund from the third phase of India's US$4.5 billion Line of Credit (LoC-III),...
Thousands of Venezuelans have rushed to border crossings with Colombia after Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced a tightening of controls. Only those who have registered for a special border...
Stocks extended the losing streak for the second straight week that ended Thursday as investors were selling shares amid political tension. Analysts said the investors went for selling shares, keeping...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) completed the revision of its master plan with an investment proposal of Tk 5.10 trillion until 2045 for making the train system efficient in both cases of...
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