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The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped on Friday, swooning almost 666 points, for its biggest daily percentage loss in 20 months. It was the biggest daily point fall in the...
WhatsApp now has 1.5 billion monthly active users (MAUs) who are exchanging nearly 60 billion messages in a single day, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday. In an earnings...
Concerned about Russia’s growing tactical nuclear weapons, the United States will expand its nuclear capabilities, a policy document released on Friday said. This is a move some critics say could...
Managing director of Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) Shaifur Rahman Majumdar on Friday said more government and multinational companies should be enlisted with the capital market to raise the depth of...
A government body eagerly looks to the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) as main source for financing huge investment needs in the emerging LNG sector, officials said. It found...
Transactions through mobile financial service platforms posted more than 34 per cent increase in 2017 with continuing the momentum of mobile-based money transactions in the country in recent years. According...
The Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF-2018) saw a large number of visitors on Friday, a public holiday, as traders lured them with lucrative offers, gifts, raffle draw and wide range...
The venue is the grassy open lawn of the Teachers and Students Centre (TSC) of the University of Dhaka. Someone bald-headed from among the crowd comes forward to embrace you....
They all gathered there to welcome her back. Despite being a brilliant Nazrul Sangeet exponent, she had stayed out of the limelight for almost two decades. But the solo musical...
Human security, a non-conventional security, denotes the human dignity. The term human security propagated by UNDP in the post-cold war era is intended to focus on individuals coming across values...
As citizens are living in a globalised world where physical distance is not a limiting factor to dissemination of information, it is appalling to note that we attach little importance...
Bangladesh must increase the stymied private investment to boost economic growth and help generate enough jobs for its burgeoning workforce, the central bank recommends. "To reach the next phase of...
Syeda Anjuman Ara Girls’ School, founded by Anjuman Ara-Mujib Foundation, has been inaugurated at Jagannath Dighi under Chauddagram upazila in Comilla. Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed and Railways Minister Md Mazibul Hoque,...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has alleged the country’s lower courts are just following the government orders as they do not have the power to pronounce a proper judgment. BNP Chairperson...
Bangladeshi exporters have failed to benefit from uptrend in prices of black tiger variety shrimp on the international market due to supply shortage. Exporters said that the current price of...
Incidents of mugging have gone up significantly in and around the capital in the recent times despite the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) claims that it is paying special attention to...
The core index of the Dhaka bourse dipped 3.13 per cent last week as nervous investors sold shares in bulk. Merchant bankers and stockbrokers alleged that a 'political rumour' spread...
A faction of the garments sector’s apex trade body has opposed the latest tenure extension of its board of directors. Earlier on Monday, the Commerce Ministry extended the tenure of...
Swiss Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan has been charged with rape and ordered to stay in the custody in France. Ramadan, the 55-year-old professor of Islamic studies, was questioned by police...
Myanmar's government has denied a report by The Associated Press documenting at least five mass graves containing Rohingya Muslim civilians killed by the military. It said that only "terrorists" were...
BNP’s National Executive Committee’s daylong meeting has begun at Hotel Le Meridien in Dhaka on Saturday with the party chairperson Khaleda Zia in the chair. The inaugural session of meeting...
Tania Ahmed, a popular Bangladeshi TV actress, suggested all mothers-to-be to take advice not only from a physician but also from a psychiatrist. “A mother-to-be needs mental healthiness besides physical...
Pakistani provincial minister Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, who was found dead in his house along with his wife, first killed her and then committed suicide with the same weapon, police...
Asier Illarramendi scored two second-half goals as Real Sociedad routed Deportivo La Coruna 5-0 to end a four-match winless streak in the Spanish league on Friday. Willian Jose, Aritz Elustondo...
Police on Friday night recovered the body of a 21-year-old female receptionist from a dental clinic in the capital’s Badda area. The deceased Liza Akhter had been serving at...
The Philippines said on Friday the anti-dengue vaccine Dengvaxia may be connected to three deaths in the country, according to a government-ordered inquiry, and that the drug is not ready...
Veteran journalist SheikhRakib Uddin died at a city hospital on Saturday. He was 85. Rakib Uddin, diplomatic correspondent of The Independent and also founder vice-president of Diplomatic Correspondents Association, Bangladesh...
The Bangla second paper examination of the ongoing Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations has been held with leaked question paper. The questions went viral on the social...
The Myanmar Rice Federation (MRF) will hold a multi-stake holder forum for sustainable development of rice industry this month, the official Global New Light of Myanmar reported Saturday. Under the...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith has said that there remain a lot of weaknesses in the country’s banking sector. He had soul-searching over the persisting problems in the sector on Saturday...
A pickup in wage growth and inflation are signs of a healthy economy and at this point are not enough to force the US Federal Reserve to raise rates much...
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) recovered ten anti-tank rockets from Satchhari National Park in Habiganj’s Chunarughat Upazila early Saturday. Members of Rab-9 recovered the deadly weapons conducting a drive in...
The world has failed to protect the Rohingya women, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcukaon said on Saturday. “I think their [Myanmar] government to begin with. Their country has failed...
National Board of Revenue (NBR) is preparing a list of the 'apparently' rich people, who pay comparatively less taxes, with the aim to collect some more money for the national...
An anonymous benefactor has donated $5 million in bitcoin to the California-based Open Medicine Foundation, the non-profit research organisation said on Friday. The OMF said it had received $4 million...
The president of the Maldives fired a national police chief on Saturday for the second time in three days, as political unrest continued to grow in the Indian ocean archipelago...
Old pensioners surrendered their pension money as per the past pension rule. They did it for addressing genuine causes like building residential houses, paying children's education/higher studies, medical services, and...
Last July, the government appointed a chairman for the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). The FRC is a key requirement of the Financial Reporting Act, passed by parliament in 2015. It...
The photograph printed in FE recently showing a young man feed a flock of crows at a park in Dhaka does not evoke any deeper feeling instantly. Spectacles like this...
Urging the government to shun its ‘repressive acts’ and create a peaceful atmosphere in the country for the next election, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has put forward six conditions to...
Ethnic farmers of Mohadevpur upazila in the district have started planting Boro paddy amid labour shortage. They are also facing acute fertiliser crisis this season. According to the Department of...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) unveiled the monetary policy for the second half (January-June) of the current fiscal year. The governor of the central bank, while formally announcing the policy, indicated...
Bangladesh will face energy security challenges by the year 2030 if the country is to attain Gross Domestic Product (GDP) beyond 7.0 per cent. An expert Dr. Mohammad Tamim of...
Now that the cabinet ministers express their helplessness in resisting the river polluters, the orgy of killing the rivers around Dhaka seems to be completing its full cycle. People have...
In order to make corporate governance of the country better in the interest of the investors and capital market, Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has circulated the draft corporate...
We define a worker or labourer as a person who is engaged at least for one hour in activities that fetch, increase or save income for the household. This definition...
US President Donald Trump on Friday has accused top officials of politicising FBI and justice department investigations to damage his Republican party. Trump’s accusation came prior to his expected approval...
About this time last year, bond markets in Asia had kicked off on a buys note. Many market players harboured hopes for a good year; I had especially set my...
In an age, when cricket is an entertainment commodity vying for eyeballs, it is natural that business tycoons who are investing pots of money in the Indian Premier League (IPL),...
Advance Ruling has been included in the Article 3 of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreement on trade facilitation with the aim of providing stakeholders with predictable information in advance...
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