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The Election Commission, headed by Kazi Habibul Awal, has started laying the groundwork for the 12th national election. The commission has drafted an action plan emphasising nine issues, including the...
A mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is expected to meet the revenue authority on Monday next (July 18) to discuss pros and cons of the country's need for...
The implementation work of the capital city's first metro rail is progressing fast with the target to open the mass transportation system from Uttara to Agargaon (11.73 kilometres) in December...
The central bank is set to enhance the foreign-exchange flow by nearly $1.0 billion as part of regulatory measures to manage the ongoing volatility in the market, officials say. Around...
Duty cut could hardly impact the overheated rice market as strings binding the fiscal intervention delay import of the main staple in Bangladesh, worsening consumer woes. Such conditions -- from...
Bangladesh Bank has made several policy changes in a bid to ease the pressure on the country's foreign exchange reserves amid a global economic crisis.As part of the import monitoring...
As the Russia-Ukraine war rages unabated, with Ukraine abruptly turning real aggressive with its mortar shells fiercely hitting the enemy targets, the European flashpoint turns grimmer by the day. Regional...
Two flagship bridges of riverine Bangladesh, the Padma Bridge and Bangabandhu Setu, have revolutionised the country's communication. Of the two, the latest to have been opened to traffic is the...
The edible oil prices in the international market after reaching their record levels in May last, started declining and those are now about to return to 2020 levels. Traders are...
In the last 20 years, Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in empowering women across the country. The country has set an exemplary record, ranking first in gender equality among the...
Amid gloomy developments such as high inflation, falling reserves and Covid resurgence, the workforce export has emerged as a silver lining on the horizon. Bangladesh, according to a report published...
Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa emailed his resignation letter to the speaker of the parliament of the country on Thursday after landing in Singapore. Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, the speaker of...
Human traffickers earn a profit of around $150 billion per annum, said an official of the US State Department on Thursday. An estimated 25 million people are subjected to Human...
Chief of Army Staff General S M Shafiuddin Ahmed has handed over a cheque of Tk 100 million to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for the flood-affected people in northeastern parts...
India on Thursday reported its first case of monkeypox, Priya Abraham, head of the National Institute of Virology, told Reuters. Monkeypox, endemic in parts of Africa, is a viral disease...
A court in the northern Indian state of Punjab on Thursday sent popular pop star Daler Mehndi to jail, rejecting his appeal against a two-year prison term for trafficking migrants...
Advanced Chemical Industries or ACI has terminated its equity joint venture agreement with Indian company Dabur, ending a 19-year partnership.According to an announcement on the Dhaka Stock Exchange or DSE...
Outgoing Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa landed in Singapore on Thursday after fleeing mass protests over his country's economic meltdown, as troops patrolled the commercial capital Colombo to enforce a...
Barcelona has reached an agreement with Manchester United for the potential transfer of Netherlands midfielder Frenkie de Jong, who would still need to approve the move, a person at the...
Britain’s former finance minister Rishi Sunak won the biggest backing from Conservative lawmakers on Wednesday in the first vote to choose who will succeed Boris Johnson as party leader and...
A self-portrait of Dutch post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh has been uncovered hidden behind one of his paintings.National Galleries of Scotland said on Thursday art conservators made the discovery, believed...
The government has worked out an action plan for FY23 for the agricultural sector to ensure food security as the world faces pressure on food production due to Covid-19 pandemic...
At least 20 civilians were killed and dozens wounded on Thursday in a Russian cruise missile strike on the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia by a submarine in the Black...
Facebook-owner Meta released its first annual human rights report on Thursday, following years of accusations that it turned a blind eye to online abuses that fuelled real-world violence in places...
More than five thousand cases are pending for 22 years or more than that in the lower courts across the country, said a statistics of the Supreme Court. The apex...
International Cricket Council (ICC) has suspended Bangladeshi cricketer Shohidul Islam from all forms of cricket for 10 months after failing a dope test. Shohidul pleaded guilty to breaching Article 2.1...
Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey will go on trial in London next year after pleading not guilty on Thursday to accusations of sex offences dating back almost 20 years, news agency...
রাজশাহীর গোদাগাড়ী উপজেলার রাজাবাড়ি ডিগ্রি কলেজের অধ্যক্ষ সেলিম রেজাকে সঙ্গে নিয়ে সংবাদ সম্মেলন এসে সংসদ সদস্য ওমর ফারুক চৌধুরী তাকে পেটানোর অভিযোগ অস্বীকার করেছেন। এমপির সঙ্গে বসে ওই কলেজ অধ্যক্ষও...
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that attempts by the Group of Seven to cap oil prices may in fact cause them to rise. "Those plans are...
বন্যার কারণে পিছিয়ে যাওয়া এসএসসি ও সমমানের পরীক্ষা শুরুর তারিখ জানাতে বিশেষ সংবাদ সম্মেলনে আসছেন শিক্ষামন্ত্রী দীপু মনি। শিক্ষা মন্ত্রণালয়ের তথ্য ও জনসংযোগ কর্মকর্তা মোহাম্মদ আবুল খায়ের বৃহস্পতিবার বলেন, “রবিবার...
Awami League lawmaker from Rajshahi-1 Omar Faruk Chowdhury and principal of Rajabari Degree College Selim Reza both have trashed the media reports on the assault on the principal by the...
IHG® Hotels & Resorts (InterContinental Hotels Group PLC) has signed an agreement with Doreen Hotels & Resorts Limited, to open Crowne Plaza Dhaka Gulshan in Bangladesh by the end of...
Thousands of firefighters battled more than 20 blazes that raged on Wednesday across Portugal and western Spain, menacing villages and disrupting tourists' holidays amid a heatwave that pushed temperatures above...
বাড়তি উৎপাদন খরচের কারণে নিজস্ব চিপ পণ্যের দাম বাড়ানোর সিদ্ধান্ত নিয়েছে ইনটেল কর্পোরেশন। ইতোমধ্যেই নিজস্ব চিপের ক্রেতাদের দাম বাড়ানোর বিষয়টি জানানো শুরু করেছে প্রথমসারির চিপ নির্মাতা কোম্পানিটি।বার্তাসংস্থা রয়টার্স এক প্রতিবেদনে...
1,247 rape cases were filed in 2021, excluding the 286 rape attempts, according to Ain O Salish Kendra, a Bangladeshi Human Rights group. And this was just a part of...
US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid pledged to deny Iran nuclear weapons on Thursday, a show of unity by allies long divided over diplomacy with Tehran....
প্রথমবারের মত দূরবর্তী মহাকাশের বেশ কিছু ছবি পাঠিয়েছে সদ্য মহাকাশে প্রেরিত ‘জেমস ওয়েব স্পেস টেলিস্কোপ’। ছবিগুলো তাক লাগিয়ে দিয়েছে জ্যোতির্বিজ্ঞানীদের। পূর্বের হাবল টেলিস্কোপের তুলনায় এই নতুন টেলিস্কোপ মহাকাশের আরো স্পষ্ট...
The US is getting another Covid-19 vaccine choice as the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday cleared Novavax shots for adults. Novavax makes a more traditional type of shot than...
The US is getting another Covid-19 vaccine choice as the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday cleared Novavax shots for adults. Novavax makes a more traditional type of shot than...
Bangladesh has recorded 1,324 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,993,382. The death toll from the disease climbed by six in 24 hours...
North Korea has recognised two Russian-backed breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as independent states, according to Reuters and Al Jazeera. The move makes North Korea only the third country after...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday said it had reached a staff-level agreement with Pakistan on the resumption of a bailout package. According to Reuters, the decision would pave...
Turnover on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) dipped below Tk 6.0 billion-mark Thursday, as investors were mostly reluctant to put fresh funds in stocks amid growing microeconomic worries. Turnover, the crucial...
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has left the Maldives on a Saudia airlines flight bound for Singapore, according to BBC, Reuters and Associated Press. A Maldives government official said Rajapaksa...
Netflix Inc said on Wednesday it has selected Microsoft Corp as a technology and sales partner for its planned ad-supported subscription offering, as the streaming giant looks to plug slowing...
Nearly three-quarters of young people aged 15 to 24 in 92 countries with available data are off-track to acquiring the skills needed for employment, according to a new report published...
A new wave of coronavirus infections is rapidly spreading through Asia, prompting warnings for residents from New Zealand to Japan to take precautions to slow the outbreak and help prevent...
Bangladesh One-Day International cricket captain Tamim Iqbal says he and three other senior players -- Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim and Mahmudullah Riyad -- may quit cricket after the end...
A Philippines court has dismissed a defamation case filed by Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) against Bangladesh Bank for linking it to the biggest cyber heist in the world. The...
Every year, during the winter and fall admission season, a swarm of Bangladeshi youngsters apply to pursue their undergraduate studies abroad. In 2019-2020, just before the pandemic- Covid-19 had hit...
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