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Australian shares rose to 10-year highs on Tuesday, helped by firmer financials and as miners found support on solid commodity prices after China issued new curbs on steel production. The...
Justine Greening has resigned from the government after refusing a job as work and pensions secretary in Theresa May's cabinet reshuffle. The PM was reportedly "disappointed" as the ex-education secretary...
US stocks ended mixed on Monday, while the S&P 500 extended its winning streak for 2018, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped into red zone. The healthcare sector was...
The country is witnessing a respite from the severe cold wave that has been continuing for the past few days and plunged mercury to a 50-year low on Monday. The...
The executive magistrate can run mobile court until the settlement of three appeals filed by the government against the HC verdict over the mobile court act. A five-member Appellate Division...
The Bangladesh Taka (BDT) depreciated by 5.15 per cent against the US dollar ($) during the last one year despite selling of the greenback by the central bank to keep...
By-polls to Dhaka North City Corporation will be held on February 26, the Election Commission announced on Tuesday. By-polls to Dhaka North City Corporation fell vacant after death of former...
Talks begin today (Wednesday) in Delhi about introducing the stalled sub-regional transport connectivity under BBIN bloc, leaving out a reluctant Bhutan. The negotiations on implementation of the Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) motor-vehicle...
Some 0.20 million (200,000) Salvadoran immigrants allowed to live and work in the United States since 2001 will lose their right to remain in the country in 2019, officials said...
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed positive trend Tuesday as investors went on buying spree. After around one hour of trading, the prime bourse rose...
The Padma rail link project appears to be uncertain as the government has failed to sign a loan agreement with a China bank in time. Railway ministry sent a letter...
A suspected forest robber was killed in a alleged gunfight with police in Katiarkhal area of Sarankhola upazila in Sundarbans East Zone early Tuesday. The deceased was, 30, a resident...
A conference on “Growth with Equity”, jointly organised by Dhaka School of Economics (DScE), Constituent Institute of University of Dhaka and Palli Karma- Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) begins today (Tuesday) at...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday asked the police to gain the trust and confidence of people as this is very important for them. "There's a proverb in Bengali, 'Baghe...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 'hundi' money Tk 3.46 million from Sadhupur border area in Sharsha upazila on Tuesday morning. Lt Col Ariful Haque, Commanding Officer of BGB-49...
Walton has displayed more than 700 models of appliances at Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) in the capital so that the buyers can buy their all desired products from one...
Police in a special drive arrested 40 people, accused in different cases, from different areas in the district on Tuesday. The drive was conducted from Monday evening to Tuesday morning,...
North Korea said during rare talks with the South on Tuesday it will send a delegation to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea next month. Seoul said it was...
A joint team of archaeologists of Bangladesh and China have unearthed an archaeological site in Bangladesh with unique architectural features. The site contains the remains of a Buddhist town and...
The government has removed Deputy Inspector General of police Mizanur Rahman from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police over allegations of abducting a woman and later marrying her forcefully. Rahman, an Additional...
Following into the footsteps of non-MPO teachers, ebtedai madrasa teachers have launched a hunger strike demanding nationalisation of all registered institutions. Hundreds of madrasa teachers, at the demonstration near Jatiya...
Engineering major Larsen & Toubro has commissioned and handed over the 360 MW Bheramara Power Plant to the respective authority. The Bheramara Combined Cycle Power Plant Development project was handed...
Private Indian airline, Jet Airways, has fired two pilots who allegedly fought inside the cockpit of a London-Mumbai flight last week. The private Indian airline said in a statement that...
Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) seeks 1,149,014 Swiss francs to support 50,000 people in Bangladesh. The support will come through the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies...
The government is going to set up 160 upazila ICT training and resource centres with all necessary facilities to train up the teachers of secondary level educational institutions. The Executive...
The former Sheraton and Ruposhi Bangla hotel will reopen as InterContinental Dhaka from May this year. Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister AKM Shahjahan Kamal revealed the information on Tuesday while...
Last week, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the country's first six-lane flyover at Mohipal in Feni. The flyover, constructed on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway, is expected to ease traffic jam on this...
The government has a plan to establish a regional flower research centre at Jessore. Agriculture Minister Begum Matia Chowdhury came up with the statement while responding to a query placed...
The Jatiya Sangsad on Tuesday introduced a bill to stop illegal trade of human organs. The 'Transplantation of Human Organs Bill, 2018', was passed in Parliament with a provision of...
With the start of the new year, businesses are making efforts to forge a personal connection with clients. Way ahead of the pack, Group CEO of R.E. Lee International, Calvin...
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd unveiled its first set of components for autonomous driving and infotainment solutions developed with Harman International, which it bought about a year ago in a major...
The government made obtaining the local sales permit (LSP) mandatory for the industries in Bangladesh's economic zones if they were willing to sell their products for domestic consumption. Also, they...
Apple Inc investors are shrugging off concerns raised by two shareholders about kids getting hooked on iPhones, saying that for now a little addiction might not be a bad thing...
Top 10 companies grabbed 35.3 per cent of the total turnover featured by Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Monday. The premier bourse DSE witnessed a sharp correction and featured a...
Customs officials seized Indian goods worth Tk 2.5 million (25 lakh) from a Dhaka-bound Indian bus in Brahmanbaria's Akhaura land port. Debasish Kundu, revenue officer of the port, said that...
It is common in Bangladesh for the Human Resources (HR) Department of a company or any other organisation, while recruiting employees, to complain about lack of commercial knowledge among graduates...
Bangladesh's imports through FoB arrangement are rising rapidly, implying that overseas procurement is now dominated by local consignees in a paradigm shift in external trade. But large importers, who have...
Nuclear weapons have been around for many years but this has become an issue of enormous concern because of the kind of political sound bites that the world has been...
North and South Korea have begun high-level talks on Tuesday, the first between the countries in two years. The meeting, at the Peace House in the truce village of Panmunjom,...
A section of the publishers have protested against, what they said, discriminatory stall allocation policy ahead of this year’s Ekushey Book Fair. A number of publishing houses, including BehulaBangla, Megh,...
President Abdul Hamid has sought cooperation from newly appointed Myanmar Ambassador to Dhaka to start Rohingya repatriation process soon. The President made the call when the envoy, U Lwin Oo,...
The decision, reportedly taken at the meeting of the executive committee of Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority (DTCA), to disallow rallies on Dhaka streets on workdays, is a piece of welcome...
Despite the much touted policy support for the small and medium enterprises (SMEs), it is becoming increasingly clear that this sector is far from being adequately nourished. Small and medium...
The private sector has been exploring in recent months overseas funds at competitive rates but at low cost. These funds are available at LIBOR plus a minimal rate of interest....
Eight full-fledged Islamic banks are currently operating in the country. Moreover, 19 Islamic banking branches of nine commercial banks and 25 Islamic banking windows of eight commercial banks, are also...
The local jewellers have increased gold prices again within two weeks on all categories of gold, effective from Wednesday. With the fresh hike, per bhori (22 carat) gold ornament will...
The government has implemented 27 per cent of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) during the first half (July-December) of the current fiscal. However, it has failed to improve its project...
President Emmanuel Macron of France has responded to China's "panda diplomacy" by offering counterpart Xi Jinping a horse of the elite Republic Guard. The offer of Vesuvius, an eight-year old brown...
A Hindu woman has killed herself after facing harassment over her friendship with a Muslim man in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. She told a friend on WhatsApp that...
The World Bank will provide US$245 million worth of loans for modernising Bangladesh’s social safety-net programmes for improving equity, efficiency and transparency of the state services. The Washington-based lender signed...
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