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The net foreign investment in stocks marked 27 per cent rise year-on-year in 2017 as overseas investors showed their confidence in the capital market of Bangladesh. Analysts said the favourable...
The Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) has made all preparations for the 23rd Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) 2018 beginning on January 01, officials said. This year, there will be a...
The central bank has advised service exporters to open notional accounts only with the Online Payment Gateway Service Providers (OPGSPs) having arrangement with banks in Bangladesh. "We've revised the instructions...
Country's capital market witnessed a good year in 2017, showing signs of bouncing back from a sluggish trend that continued for more than six years since a debacle seven years...
South Korea will provide an additional US $1.4 million on humanitarian ground for the Rohingya refugees. The South Korean government's contribution will be delivered through multilateral channels such as Unicef...
Police filed a case against columnist Farhad Mazhar and his wife Farida Akhter for giving 'false information' to police and court. Inspector Mahbubul Haque of Detective Branch of police filed...
The year of 2017, designated as the Year of Friendship and Exchanges between China and Bangladesh, saw the friendly ties between the two nations. The both sides pushed forward cooperation...
A team of police arrested a sub inspector along with a stolen motorcycle of a journalist at Taltola of the city in the district on Thursday evening. The arrestee is...
Border Security Force (BSF) of India has seized 11 gold biscuits worth over Rs 4 million near the Indo-Bangladesh border in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. Acting on...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested five suspected kidnappers from Chowrasta in Gazipur city on Thursday night. A team of the elite force launched a drive and arrested the...
Dense fog has caused a highway pile-up on the Bangabandhu Bridge as several buses rammed into a bus that had hit another from behind. The crash involving six long-haul buses...
India has mobilised around 60,000 police and paramilitary troops in a sensitive border state ahead of the publication of a list of its citizens. The drive will be used to...
China extended its visa-free period for people transiting through Beijing to 144 hours Thursday, and added neighbouring Hebei Province and Tianjin City to the program. Transit air, train, and ship...
Hrithik Roshan is all set to play mathematician Anand Kumar in his upcoming film Super 30. Though the lead actress of the biopic hasn't been finalised yet but Mrunal Thakur,...
Bangladesh decided to amend its labour law and the Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority Law to comply with the European Union (EU) recommendations. The EU had earlier called on Bangladesh...
The results of this year’s Primary School Certificate (PSC), ebtedayee, Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations will be published today. Prior to the publishing of the...
More than 40 million students are ready to get about 354.29 million textbooks on January 1 of next year. The government is going to celebrate the National Textbook Festival on...
The government has prepared a list of 100,000 Rohingya refugees for repatriation to Myanmar in the first phase. Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader revealed the information while distributing aid...
India’s finance ministry on Friday cautioned investors about the risks of trading in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, saying digital currency investments are like “Ponzi schemes.” Cryptocurrencies are not legal tender...
A woman was slaughtered allegedly by his son at Dhubil Mehmanshahi village in Salanga thana of Sirajganj district on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Zohura Begum, 55, reports UNB....
Fourteen people were killed and many others injured in a late night fire at a multi-storey building in Kamala Mills Compound in Lower Parel in Mumbai. The fire broke out...
A local Jamaat-e-Islami activist was stabbed to death by miscreants at Kashipur village in Kotchandpur upazila of Jhenaidah on Friday. The deceased was identified as Rabiul Islam, 45, a resident...
Entrepreneurship, particularly industrial entrepreneurship, is one of the business-activity domains least traversed by women. Despite laudable growth in women empowerment in recent decades, the state of growth in female entrepreneurship...
Food security has never been fool-proof in any country across the world. This is because food production has always been climate-dependent and there are natural and man-made disasters that take...
After playing havoc with the country's almost all public and major admission and vital recruitment examinations, the question-leak pestilence has made its onslaught on some rural primary schools. A few...
The revenue authority has extended the deadline for obtaining nine-digit electronic Business Identification Number (e-BIN) until March 31, 2018 for the businesses, having 11-digit BINs. Validity of the 11-digit old...
Members of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police arrested three from Tantibazar of the city for their alleged involvement in trading counterfeit medicines on Friday. The arrestees were identified as...
South Korea on Friday has revealed it seized a Hong Kong-registered ship last month suspected of supplying oil to the North in breach of international sanctions. Officials said the Lighthouse...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has handed over two Indian citizens to Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Friday morning through a border point Kurigram district. BGB handed over them through...
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that the elections to 126 local bodies on Thursday were 'marred by widespread violence and various irregularities'. "There were irregularities...
The recently released Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2016 and by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) portray positive outcome as far as poverty in Bangladesh is concerned. The...
In 1953, Milton Friedman published an essay called "The Case for Flexible Exchange Rates," arguing that they cushion an economy from internal and external shocks by bringing about just the...
Essential components of sustained and inclusive economic growth as identified by the UN Sustainable Development Goal (number Eight) are: increasing labour productivity, reducing unemployment rate and improving access to financial...
The major central banks' vigilant pursuit of positive but low inflation has become a dangerous delusion. It is dangerous because the policies needed to achieve the objective could have unwanted...
Informal channels still remain popular among a large number of Bangladeshi expatriates although there has been a rise in remittance inflow through formal channel over the last few years. Against...
US President Donald Trump has urged his country’s postal service to charge more from online retailer Amazon. Reuters says Trump wrote in a post on Twitter on Friday targeting Amazon...
Alexis Sanchez stole the show with a pair of excellent quick-fire goals as Arsenal beat Crystal Palace 3-2 at Selhurst Park as Arsenal close in gap with the top four....
Two foreign journalists, an interpreter and a driver jailed for flying a drone near Myanmar's parliament have been released, the authorities say. All four, who work for Turkish broadcaster TRT,...
At least 10 people have died after a gunman opened fire on a Coptic church near the Egyptian capital, Cairo. The attacker tried to enter Mar Mina Church in Helwan...
Police recovered the hanging body of a college girl at Dagarmora in Savar on Friday noon. The deceased was identified as Shikha Akter, wife of Alamin of Mollapara village of...
The leader of a prominent Russian environmental group has been brutally beaten by unknown attackers, his deputy said Friday. The Environmental Watch on the North Caucasus for years has exposed...
The 6th edition of Bengal Classical Music Festival at the Abahani playground in Dhanmondi will end on Saturday. The Bengal Foundation organised the festival, commenced on December 26 night, with...
After facing after US President Donald Trump's criticism, China has denied the reports of illicitly selling oil products to North Korea. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters she...
Facing lawsuits and consumer outrage slow older iPhones with flagging batteries, Apple Inc has apologised over the issue. The company also announced to make a number of changes for customers...
No Bangladesh citizen is affected by the fire in New York, said a Bangladesh diplomat on Friday. "So far, we have not heard about any Bangladeshi being affected by the...
Vin Diesel, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Gal Gadot kicked some major butt on screen and at the box office this year, according to Forbes magazine's list of the top-grossing...
Untimely rain has damaged mustard crops and vegetables worth about Tk 150 million in fields of eight upazilas in Chandpur. Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) sources said the damage created...
The military warned the US against ‘unilateral action’, saying that despite its desire for cooperation on Afghanistan, there could be no compromise on national respect and sovereignty. “The armed forces...
South Korean government has finalised a power supply plan that aims to make renewables the country’s fuel of choice for power generation for the next 15 years, its energy ministry...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained 13 people while illegitimately entering Bangladesh from India along Borochhara border. The detainees are Zafar Sheikh, 40, Taslima Begum, 28, Tasamul Sheikh, 9,...
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