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Facebook has said it will block any advertising promoting cryptocurrency products and services. The company said it was open to emerging technologies but many companies were not acting in "good...
Liberia's President George Weah has called for the removal of a "racist" clause in the constitution which restricts citizenship to black people. The clause was "unnecessary, racist and inappropriate", the...
The securities regulator has approved the proposal of issuing above 26.04 million IPO shares by the Bashundhara Paper Mills to raise a capital worth Tk 2.0 billion under the book...
Chittagong Ship-breaking Yards Employees and Workers Federation president Md Shafar Ali said the government has finalised the regulations and guidelines for the country's ship-breaking industry. "The laws for regulating the...
Firefighters have recovered the bodies of four people including two children who were killed in a house fire at Cleveland in the United State of Ohio. Crews needed heavy equipment...
Despite significant progress in reducing gender gap in the country in last two decades, women still lag behind in areas like education, energy, transport and urban development, according to a...
Climate Change Trust Fund (CCTF) had decided to deposit its money with Farmers Bank Limited (FBL), considering higher interest rate offer. The fund was deposited without exercising necessary due diligence...
Economists find the new monetary policy statement wanting in adequate strategies to ensure quality bank lending as a counterbalance to excessive growth in private credits. During their critical appreciation of...
Asia stocks eased on Wednesday, pulling further back from record highs, as the recent rise in global bond yields weighed on equities. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged bitterly divided Republicans and Democrats to work toward compromises on immigration and infrastructure after a bruising year of partisan battles that centered on Trump’s...
Terming alternative dispute resolution (ADR) a more business-friendly channel for resolving disputes, discussants at a roundtable have stressed the need for setting up commercial courts in divisional level to address...
Bangladesh will take on visiting Sri Lanka in the 1st Test of the two-match series at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong today (Wednesday), reports UNB. The match will begin...
Farmers of Raghunathpur union under Sadar upazila are making a good profit by growing 'Beautiful-2' tomato variety this season. Dilip Biswas, a farmer of Raghunathpur village under Sadar upazila, said...
The Large Taxpayers Unit (LTU) under VAT wing Monday and Tuesday issued separate demand notices to three large taxpayers to pay VAT and excise duty worth Tk 2.12 billion. The...
Coriander cultivators of the district are expecting a good output this season amid a favourable weather condition. The growers are now busy taking care of the cropland to get a...
Bangladesh lost their two left-handed top order batsmen Tamim Iqbal and Imrul Kayes before the lunch against visiting Sri Lanka on Wednesday. Earlier in the morning, Bangladesh's stand-in skipper Mahmudullah...
Police have detained BNP leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy in Dhaka’s Gulshan. Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the member of the party’s policymaking body National Standing Committee was...
At least three people died and two others were injured in a road accident at MC Bazar on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Sreepur upazila on Wednesday morning. The identities of the...
US President Donald Trump called upon lawmakers on Tuesday to work toward bipartisan compromises, but pushed a hardline on immigration, insisting on a border wall and other concessions from Democrats...
The syndicate of Dhaka University (DU) permanently expelled 15 students on charges of gaining admission to the university through fraudulent methods, while also alleging their involvement in admission test fraud...
Police have started three cases over attacks on police personnel by BNP activists near the High Court in Dhaka. Two cases were filed under the Special Powers Act—one at Ramna...
Customs Intelligence officials recovered 3.5 maunds firecrackers from a commuter train at Navaran rail station on Wednesday morning. Acting on a tip off, a team of customs intelligence conducted the...
A suspected leader of outlawed ‘Zulhas Bahini’ was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with police at Dhalarchar in Bera upazila early Wednesday. Zulhash Mandal was arrested at the New Market on...
A female traveller was recently banned from taking a large "emotional-support peacock" on board a United Airlines flight, it has emerged. She had offered to buy the bird its own...
Reiterated her government's steadfast stance against corruption and misuse of public money, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina warned that the government would never tolerate corruption and financial irregularities. She made the...
A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.1 jolted the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, said the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre. The quake, which was also felt in neighbouring Pakistan, struck 270...
Bangladesh has ranked the lowest position of the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) Democracy Index-2017 in a decade. The EIU said Bangladesh's score fell to its lowest in line with a...
Food Minister Advocate Qamrul Islam said BNP has taken ill strategies to delay proceedings of the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case to create anarchy in the country ahead of the...
Households of Bangladeshi nationals working overseas have achieved no improvement in poverty rate in last three years. A study of Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) said about 9.0...
Fashion famously comes in cycles and things once considered past it can make a surprise appearance on the runway. Now, the global fashion brand Zara has started selling something remarkably...
A Supreme Court lawyer has served a legal notice on the Election Commission (EC) and the government seeking cancellation of the presidential elections in 24 hours. Advocate Eunus Ali Akond...
Ferry services on Shimulia-Kawrakandi route resumed after three hours of disruption caused by thick fog on Wednesday morning. The ferry services suspended at 6:00am due to poor visibility caused by...
The number of the country's voters has increased to 104.10 million, according to the Election Commission.Releasing the updated voter list at a press conference at Nirbachon Bhaban, acting secretary to...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) claimed arrest of two alleged members of the banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in Rajshahi city early Wednesday. The arrestees were Atiul...
Bangladesh has been witnessing a tremendous growth of its middle-class population over the last two decades. However, the full potential of this driving economic force still remains untapped due to...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has decided to appoint SK Sur Chowdhury as its Banking Reform Adviser after completion of his tenure as Deputy Governor of the bank. A BB press...
Bangladesh has been ranked at 102nd among 113 countries in an indicator that measures how the rule of law is experienced and perceived by people in general across the world....
Bangladesh Bank has brought in a number of innovations in formulation and implementation of monetary policy. Elaborate stakeholder consultation has become hallmark of formulation of participatory monetary policy. As a...
Ruling Awami League has nominated incumbent President M Abdul Hamid as its candidate to contest upcoming presidential election. The presidential voting is scheduled to be held in the parliament on...
Some very pertinent questions have arisen out of an evaluation of how the Chittagong port had fared in the outgoing year. They spell out lessons for the on-going year. But...
So, finally, as things stand now, Bangladesh is set to quit the Least Developed Country (LDC) club — a long cherished dream to shed off the unease of being at...
Barring a few high expectations and some ambitious projections, the monetary policy statement (MPS) for the January-June (H2) period of the current fiscal year (FY), unveiled last Monday, is pragmatic....
USA has said it’ll continue to call upon Myanmar government to create right conditions in Rakhine state so that persecuted Rohingyas can voluntarily return to homes safely from Bangladesh. Visiting...
Minister Tofail Ahmed on Tuesday said there was no syndicate behind the onion price hike in the country. According to him, “There was no activity of syndicate behind onion production,...
Financial inclusion, broadly understood to be financial services, is gaining greater importance to the policy makers worldwide mainly because of its appeal as a tool for sustaining economic welfare and...
Investment proposals recorded 18.45 per cent rise during the period of October-December of 2017. Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) received 483 proposals involving a total of Tk 826.40 billion...
The World Economic Forum's annual flagship meeting in Davos has always been an easy target for caricature, even ridicule. Over the years, it has gained a somewhat deserved reputation for...
Cricket is known as the game of glorious uncertainties. But Bangladesh's defeat in Mirpur could hardly be blamed upon cricket's glorious uncertainties. Bangladesh had beaten Zimbabwe twice and Sri Lanka...
The next March will mark the second anniversary of the imposition of ban by the United Kingdom (UK) on direct cargo flights from Hazrat Shahjalal airport. The UK move was...
BNP activists allegedly snatched away two of their fellows from law-enforcers by vandalising a prison van in front of High Court on Tuesday afternoon. Police said BNP men also broke...
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