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China Eastern Airlines and Xiamen Airlines said on Tuesday they had cancelled 176 round-trip flights to Taiwan amid a row between Beijing and Taiwan over flight routes. The airlines said...
Manchester City have on Tuesday have smashed club record by signing French defender Aymeric Laporte from Athletic Bilbao for £57 million. The fee for Laporte, yet to win a cap...
Dismissing all popular beliefs, a new study has delivered a big warning saying vaping causes mutations in DNA which can cause cancer. Experts at the New York University carried out...
Bangladesh has earned US $ 81.03 million foreign currency from vegetable export in fiscal 2016-17. Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed came up with the revelation while responding to a query in...
The central bank slashed the limit of advance-deposit ratio (ADR) on Tuesday. The move has been taken to help check any possible liquidity pressure on the market due to ‘aggressive...
Country’s anti-corruption watchdog has pleaded for maximum punishment, which is seven-year imprisonment, for BNP chief Begum Khaleda Zia and other accused in Zia Charitable Trust graft case. The Anti-Corruption Commission...
A senior minister on Tuesday said Bangladesh is ready to face any challenge that may emerge from LDC graduation. He continued, moreover, the country would be able to get generalised...
Scientists have discovered that improving water, sanitation and hygiene in resource poor settings of Bangladesh have helped to better overall health conditions of the inhabitants living in those areas. ...
BNP's mass education affairs assistant secretary Anisur Rahman Talukder Khokon went missing. He was allegedly picked up by law-enforcers on Monday night, alleged the party and his wife. Talking to...
Customs officials at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport of Dhaka have detained a citizen of the United States with a drone, which was brought without a declaration. Customs Intelligence chief Moinul...
Stocks returned to the red territory on Tuesday as investors went to the selling binge amid lower than expected earnings disclosure of some listed companies. Brokers said the market backed...
Three children were killed by unexploded ordnance when they were playing near the social security building in the city in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Monday. There were...
Japan’s job market is the tightest it’s been in more than 40 years, raising prospects for higher consumer spending and inflation. The employment data along with solid retail figures released...
The moon is providing a rare triple treat this week. On Wednesday, much of the world will get to see not only a blue moon and a supermoon, but also...
Kuwait has announced a state budget for the year ending on March 31, 2019 with a deficit of 17.00 billion dollars or 6.556 billion dinars. The petroleum-based economic country on...
A Supreme Court lawyer has sent a legal notice to the government authorities concerned, urging them to take action against musical events arranged on the rooftops in residential areas. On...
A suicide car bomb attack on a checkpoint in south-eastern Yemen, run by local forces backed by the United Arab Emirates, has taken the lives of at least 11 people...
An American study shows that a disorder in sleep and wake cycle might be early signs for Alzheimer's disease. The research at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis...
Asian share markets dropped on Tuesday after Wall Street slipped to four-month low. Japan’s benchmark languished as the yen firmed against the US dollar. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index lost 1.4...
Japanese stocks slipped to a one-month low on Tuesday, led by weakness in Apple suppliers, while mining shares underperformed on lower oil prices. The Nikkei ended 1.4 per cent lower...
Stocks failed to stay positive trend at midday on Tuesday as cautious investors went on selling spree amid lower than expected earnings declaration of some companies. Some 30 listed companies...
Former England captain David Beckham has launched his long-planned Major League Soccer (MLS) team in Miami in the United States. Beckham exercised an option in his contract with former side...
A total of 30 more listed companies disclosed their un-audited second quarter (Q2) earnings for October-December period of 2017, according to official disclosures on Tuesday. Of them, earnings per share...
SpherePay, Singapore's homegrown mobile payment app, announced on Tuesday it completed its fundraising exercise, which saw the company raise over $10 million, according to Media OutReach. It has not disclosed...
Bangladesh Development Bank Limited (BDBL) has organised ‘Annual Business Conference-2018’ at its auditorium. Sahabuddin Ahmed, secretary-in-charge of the ministry of food, and also the director of the bank,attended at the...
An Egyptian politician emerged just ahead of a deadline on Monday as the sole challenger to the incumbent President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a March election. Several leading opposition figures...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three alleged drug pedlars along with 2,460 pieces of Yaba tablets from Mohuripara in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Monday night. The...
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed upward trend in early hour of trading Tuesday as investors’ tension over monetary policy statement eased. Bangladesh Bank (BB)...
Meryl Streep, the most celebrated American actress of her generation, has filed an application to trademark her name. The application was filed with US Patent and Trademark Office on January...
The board of directors of Grameenphone (GP) has recommended 100 per cent final cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2017, said an official discourse on Tuesday. The...
Export and import activities between Bangladesh and India through Benapole land port in Jessore district resumed on Monday night after five days of halt. The land port activities remained suspended...
State-run Jalalabad Gas Transmission and Distribution Systems Ltd (JGTDSL) has sought to increase the tariff of natural gas it makes available to LafargeHolcim Bangladesh Ltd for running its captive power...
Facebook says it is changing the way its news delivery service works by focusing on local news sources in its drive for "high quality" content. "Local news helps us understand...
The desire among parents in India to have sons instead of daughters has created 21 million "unwanted" girls, a government report estimates. The finance ministry report, published on Monday, found...
IPO lottery of Queen South Textile Mills Limited will be held on Thursday next (February 1) to allocate 15 million ordinary shares among the successful applicants. The lottery programme was...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Fazle Kabir has said the central bank will take steps to facilitate raising funds from the capital market through bonds. This, he said would help gradually...
The government extended again the tenure of the BGMEA board of directors by one year on Monday, bypassing the election that was supposed to be held on March 07 next,...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) is not against allowing new banks, but it would depend on the decision by its board of directors, the central bank governor said. "We are not making...
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has sought around 75 per cent higher allocation in the revised budget for the current fiscal year aiming to carry out periodic maintenance works....
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, criticised by President Donald Trump and other Republicans for alleged bias against him, has stepped down, US officials confirmed. McCabe, who served as acting Federal...
Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said on Monday none has to do anything to break BNP as negative politics of the party is...
Regent Airways, a renowned airline of Bangladesh, has spread its wings further, adding a new route from Dhaka to Dammam, the third biggest commercial city of Saudi Arabia. The Airways...
Controversial Bollywood movie "Padmaavat", which has released in India after a struggle, is now barred from opening in cinemas in Malaysia over concerns regarding "sensitivities of Islam", reports Reuters. Malaysia's...
Bangladesh pacer Mustafizur Rahman has recently signed a two-year renewal agreement with Coca-Cola Bangladesh Ltd. He has been the brand ambassador of Coca-Cola in Bangladesh for the last two years....
Microcredit sector might face some challenges, including less inflow of foreign funds, after Bangladesh's gradation from Least Developed Country (LDC) status, the regulator predicts. In its concept paper, the Microcredit...
The country’s current account deficit is likely to cross US$4.0 billion by the end of this fiscal year (FY18) over widening trade gap due to higher import payments against lower...
A US ban on refugees from 11 "high-risk" countries has been lifted but any who seek to enter the country will face new security measures, officials say. They will undergo...
A fire that broke out at City Heart Shopping Complex in capital's Nayapaltan area on Tuesday morning was doused after nearly two hours of frantic efforts. Fire service control room...
Argentine President Mauricio Macri has announced government job cuts aimed at reducing the deficit and attacking a patronage system in place for decades. Ministers will be forbidden from employing close...
Women working for the BBC have complained they were paid less than men in equivalent jobs and have accused managers of misleading them about their pay to hide widespread gender...
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