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An election for the post of a shareholder-director of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) will be held on March 20, as a director will retire this year in line with the...
Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has incurred a loss of over Tk 5.0 billion in fuel oil trading over the past three months to January as the price of the petroleum...
In the wake of free-fall of the country's stock markets, the port city's bourse has come up with a four-point recommendation to improve the situation. The proposals sent to the...
US entrepreneur Elon Musk has launched his new rocket, the Falcon Heavy, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mammoth vehicle - the most powerful since the shuttle system...
Rescuers combed through the rubble of collapsed buildings on Wednesday, some using their hands as they searched for about 60 people missing after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck near the...
Shaken out of many months of calm, Wall Street braced for a higher level of volatility in the days ahead, after a roughly 2 per cent rebound in US stocks...
The government cuts foreign-aid component of Bangladesh development budget by 9.0 per cent or Tk 49.50 billion for project-implementation backlog, officials said. They said Tuesday the upcoming revised development budget...
Shortage of gas, electricity and land has slowed down the growth of investments in the country's primary textile sector during a couple of years, BTMA leaders claimed Tuesday. The leaders...
Appollo Ispat Complex Limited, one of the largest CI sheet manufacturers of the country, is going to introduce advanced and environment-friendly technology to enhance production portfolio and reduce cost. Appollo...
The installation work of the 16 km-long new water supply line is progressing fast in Lalmonirhat municipal area. The Public Health Department of Lalmonirhat is implementing the work under the...
Abdul Jalil of Kakonhat area under Godagari upazila has launched a silent revolution in producing seedless guava for the first time in Bangladesh. This year he has cultivated 4,000 guava...
The Real Estate and Housing Association of Bangladesh has sought government announcement on single digit interest loan and a refinancing facility worth Tk 200 billion to bring dynamism in the...
A Bangladesh-India meeting is set to begin today (Wednesday) in a Dhaka hotel to discuss ways of expediting bilateral trade between the two next-door neighbours, officials said. "We'll discuss trade...
The Editors' Council has expressed grave concern over section 32 of the proposed Digital Security Act and urged the government to revoke the section and other controversial ones from the...
President Abdul Hamid has urged the private universities to constitute monitoring committees in their respective institutions to keep eyes on their teachers and students so that none can get involved...
The United Nations secretary-general has called for ending all forms of violence against women and girls that also includes female genital mutilation. "With the dignity, health and well-being of millions...
Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists on Tuesday allegedly vandalised the Rajshahi Engineering Survey Institute (RESI) principal's office and ransacked papers over a trifling matter on Tuesday. The principal of the...
A 38.50 megawatt gas-fired quick rental plant in Bhola is likely to get an extension for three more years, official sources said. Power Division has moved a proposal in this...
Different locations of a city experience varying degrees of heat on account of segregated urban development. The temperature of urban areas is likely to be higher than rural and suburban...
The law minister has urged newly-appointed chief justice (CJ) to launch investigation into corruption allegations brought by the attorney general (AG) against apex court officials. Anisul Huq made the call...
High economic growth in Bangladesh is now a recognised fact. But it is not adequately benefiting the larger section of the people. With sustained growth, inequality is also rising. While...
The Annual Meeting of Sonali Bank Limited, 2018 held last Sunday passed with a good deal of soul-searching and a frank exchange of views between the finance minister and the...
Financing for the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been perceived as a problem ever since the UN's roadmap for global development made it to academic as well as...
The ongoing Rohingya crisis is probably one of the worst human tragedies of the 21st century the world community, particularly Bangladesh, has seen. In the last five months, more than...
At this year's World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, participants did not question the basic building blocks of growth in today's global economy: free markets, good governance, and investment...
Tourism ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states have chosen Dhaka as the "City of Tourism" for 2019. The declaration was made at the closing session of...
Regional integration has always been a pressing issue for the members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) who have actively voiced in favour of widespread regional tie-ups in liberalising trade...
South African President Jacob Zuma's state of the nation speech in parliament has been postponed, as pressure grows on him to resign. Parliament speaker Baleka Mbete made the announcement, without...
One central Vietnamese court has sentenced an activist to 14 years in jail for livestreaming fishermen marching to file a lawsuit against a Taiwan-owned steel plant's spill of toxins into...
A Norwegian power producing company will set up a solar power plant in Chandpur. To this end, the Norwegian company, I Scatec Solar and Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) signed...
Awami League lawmaker Shamsul Hoque Chowdhury has defended Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid amid huge criticisms for the 'failure' to prevent the repeated incidents of question paper leak. "If another...
The government has initiated a project to provide safe drinking water in the capital as per demand. The ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives will implement the project,...
Some 138 more new books have hit the stalls of Amar Ekushey Book fair on Tuesday. With these, a total of 530 new books have been released in this year’s...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit Italy and the Holy See (Vatican City) from February 12 to 14. She will also attend the annual governing council meeting of Rome-based International...
The production at Fenchuganj Fertiliser Factory in Sylhet remained suspended since Tuesday morning as government decided to stop gas supply to all fertiliser factories. The government took the decision to...
Gunmen stormed a hospital in Indian-administered Kashmir and escaped with a high-profile Pakistani prisoner who was undergoing a medical check-up. Two Indian police officers were killed in the attack on...
Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali on Monday visited a Jamdani Saree stall at the '25th Guwahati International Trade Fair' at Guwahati, Assam. UNB said this year 18...
Former president of the Maldives on Tuesday has called from exile for other countries to intervene in a political crisis engulfing the island nation. Mohammed Nasheed asked India to help...
A six-month old baby girl died and three other members of a family were injured as a gas cylinder blasted at a village in Chandpur on Tuesday. The deceased was...
The commerce secretary level talk between Bangladesh and India will take place in Dhaka after around 14 months. Commerce secretary of Bangladesh Mr Shubhashis Basu will lead the 16-memeber delegation...
A court in central Vietnam jailed a prominent environmental blogger on Tuesday for 14 years for abusing his democratic freedom and opposing officials on duty, his lawyer said. Vietnamese activist...
Law Minister Anisul Huq on Tuesday said he will “fight free of cost” for journalists affected by the proposed Digital Security Act, dubbed as the emerging media-gagging law. He came...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a man along with arms during a drive from Sadar upazila in Munshiganj on Monday. The detainee is identified as Md Jahangir Hossain Sarkar (39),...
The 15th edition of a four day Dhaka International Textile and Garment Machinery (DTG) Exhibition 2018 will begin in the capital on Thursday. The exhibition popularly known as DTG-2018 and...
A Gazipur court on Tuesday sentenced four people to death for killing a CNG-run auto-rickshaw owner in 2012. The convicts are Kamrul Islam of Narsingdi, Shawkat of Gazipur, Mizan and...
US entrepreneur Elon Musk will attempt to fly the world's most powerful rocket later from the Kennedy Space Center. His Falcon Heavy vehicle is designed to have more than twice...
At least six people, including an Indian citizen, died and 22 others were injured in separate road accidents in the district on Tuesday morning. The deceased were identified as Milon...
Online retailer Amazon has reached a deal with French authorities to pay about $250 million in back taxes. Amazon was asked in 2012 to pay the amount over earnings made...
Four people have been killed and two others gone missing after landslides hit a tourist resort in Indonesia's West Java province, national disaster management agency said on Tuesday. Heavy downpours...
A military helicopter from Taiwan fell into the sea on Monday night and six people on board are still missing. The rescue operation continued till Tuesday morning, Xinhua news agency...
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