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The dollar wallowed near a one-month low against a basket of currencies on Friday, while commodity currencies such as the Australian and Canadian dollars were at two-month highs. The dollar...
Gold were on track for their best year since 2010 on Friday, driven higher over the past 12 months mainly by a weaker dollar and safe-haven buying prompted by global...
For the third year in a row, Donald Trump tops the list of world's most dangerous online person. In just the most recent months of his first year as president,...
US oil prices hit their highest since mid-2015 on the final trading day of the year as an unexpected fall in American output and a fall in commercial crude inventories...
Southeast Asian stocks mostly rose on Friday, the last trading day of the year, with Indonesia scaling a new high for a third straight session and the Philippines extending gains...
New Zealand stocks dipped on Friday, the last trading of the day of the year, led by industrials and consumer staples, but still posted solid gains 2017, its best year...
Australian shares finished lower on Friday, dragged by financials, but posting their best annual performance since 2013 on the last trading day of the year. The S&P/ASX 200 index fell...
Hong Kong stocks edged higher on Friday, poised to gain roughly 36 per cent for the year. The Hang Seng Index was up 0.4 per cent at 29,969.51. Chinese H-shares...
The Election Commission has locked on Mar 1 to observe Voters’ Day every year and now waits for the government’s green light. The day aims to raise awareness among the...
China stocks ended higher on Friday, capping a strong year of gains as domestic and global investors increased their exposure to mainland markets despite worries about a slowing economy. At...
Rain hampered England's bid for victory on the fourth day of the fourth Ashes Test on Friday. David Warner and Steve Smith also offered resistance at the crease. At tea...
Asian shares mostly drifted higher on Friday, the last trading day of 2017, after Wall Street finished with modest gains. Japan’s Nikkei 225 finished 0.1 per cent lower at 22,764.94....
Japanese shares erased early modest gains and ended slightly lower on its final trading day of the year on Friday, but the index still gained nearly 20 per cent in...
Police have arrested a woman along with 500gm heroin in Godagari upazila of Rajshahi district. Police nabbed Momtaz, 36, wife of Alam of Shibsagar village of Godagari municipality, on Friday...
Train communication of Sylhet with Dhaka and rest of the country remained suspended since Friday morning following the derailment of a bogie of a freight train at Sayestaganj thana of...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel in a raid nabbed a man along arms and drugs from Alamkhali village of Sadar upazila of Magura district on Thursday night. The arrestee was...
A rickshaw-puller was killed as a private car hit his three-wheeler in Hazaribagh area of Dhaka city on Friday. The deceased was identified as Abul Kalam, 55, rickshaw puller, reports...
Rihanna is mourning the death of her cousin and calling for an end to gun violence. The singer posted photos of herself with 21-year-old Tavon Kaiseen Alleyne on Instagram on...
SYLHET, Dec 27: The authority concerned could not start the work on the flood control and crop protection schemes in Sunamganj and other districts of Sylhet division due to delay...
MAGURA, Dec 27: High yielding rapeseed, another variety of mustard, farming is gaining popularity among the farmers of the district. Farmers' sources said the short duration crop is generally cultivated...
India will borrow an additional 500 billion rupees ($7.79 billion) this fiscal year ending March, the government said on Wednesday, a higher-than-expected borrowing that could breach the fiscal deficit target...
Newly appointed Bangladesh cricket team Test and T20 side captain Shakib Al Hasan and batsman cum wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim have been placed on the list of The Guardian's best Test...
India is set to surpass China as the biggest importer of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) this month as a drive to replace wood and animal dung fires for cooking boosts...
At least two people were injured in a clash between the supporters of two union parishad member candidates in Char Alexander union of Ramgati upazila of Laxmipur on Thursday. The...
As part of business expansion plan, Summit Power Limited (SPL) has made changes to its Memorandum of Association (MA) at the 16th Extra-Ordinary General Meeting (EGM) held at Krishibid Institution...
A US police officer has told how he broke through the ice on a frozen pond and jumped in to rescue an eight-year-old boy on Christmas Day. Washington County sheriff's...
Top-ranked Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the Brisbane International due to his "late start of preparation" for the new season. Brisbane International tournament director Cameron Pearson said Thursday that "we...
Stocks witnessed upward trend in early hour of trading on Thursday, the last trading session of 2017, as investors are active on sector-wise large-cap stocks. Following the previous two days’...
Former President Barack Obama told Prince Harry in an interview broadcast Wednesday that people in leadership roles must be careful in their use of social media and warned against spending...
Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Hiroyasu Izumi seen at the 13th annual general meeting (AGM) of Japan-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JBCCI) held recently in the city. JBCCI president Salahuddin...
Around 85 per cent of the foreign companies operating in Bangladesh and executing international transactions hardly share their incomes with the host nation, thus allegedly contributing vastly to capital flight....
Bangladesh economy may grow at a slower pace of 6.9 per cent this fiscal year after a record growth of 7.28 per cent in the last fiscal, a global financial...
The board of directors of Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited (DBBL) has approved the issuance of 2nd subordinated bond worth Tk 5.0 billion, said an official disclosure on Thursday. The bank is...
The World Bank wants Bangladesh to receive an assistance it is offering for rehabilitation of Rohingyas, amid lukewarm response from the authorities concerned due to the mixed nature of the...
A British medical team from the UK's Emergency Medical Team (EMT) are making their way to Cox's Bazar to save thousands of lives at risk from a rapid and deadly...
The last trading session on both bourses closed higher on Thursday as investors continued their buying appetite on selective large-cap stocks. Market insiders said investors were active on banking sector...
A senior officer of BRAC Bank Limited remained missing since Tuesday morning. A report was filed with the Tejgaon Industrial Zone Police Station on Wednesday in this connection. The report...
A court on Thursday fixed January 3 and 4 for placing further arguments in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case filed against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia. Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman of...
Textile Directorate under the Textile and Jute Ministry has been upgraded to Textile department for further development, extension and expansion of the country's textile industries. To this effect, the public...
At least 103 people accused of having links with Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have been arrested in India. The National Investigation Agency (NIA), the central counter terrorism law enforcement agency, and other...
Md Nojibur Rahman, currently NBR Chairman and Senior Secretary at the Internal Resources Division, will be the new Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, said highly-placed government sources. Rahman, who...
A woman and her two children sustained burn injuries in a gas cylinder blast in Garibullah Shah residential area under Khulshi thana in Chittagong on Thursday. The victims are Tanjira...
The United Nations’ independent investigator into human rights in Myanmar has called for international pressure on China and Russia to try to get them to oppose human rights abuses in...
The country’s remittance earning is expected to witness 0.81 per cent decline at the end of December this year, according to a report. But it predicted that the overseas employment...
The instigator of a rape incident of four women during a robbery at a house in Chittagong’s Karnaphuli was placed on three-day remand. Abdul Hannan alias Hannan Member, was remanded...
Bangladesh Fisheries Development Corporation (BFDC) has launched a specialised government fisheries market for the first time at Jatrabari of Dhaka on Thursday. State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Narayan Chandra Chanda...
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Civil Aviation and Tourism on Thursday expressed its concern over slow progress of constructing 3rd terminal at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. The committee recommended completing the...
The government's recent move to reopen 13 closed state-owned textile mills under public private partnership (PPP) sounds good. However, the decision triggers some concern about the way things are going...
Locals blocked Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Kararchar area of Shibpur upazila of Narsingdi district on Thursday morning following a road crash that killed a woman and her minor son. Hafizur Rahman,...
Israel’s parliament ratified on Thursday a law barring police investigators from going public with their findings, in what opposition lawmakers saw as a bid to soften scrutiny of corruption probes...
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