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Tourism spending in China plunged over this week's Qingming festival, as the world's second-largest economy battles a rise in infections. The amount tourists spent during the key three-day holiday was...
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd reported on Thursday an estimated 50 per cent jump in quarterly operating earnings to post its highest first-quarter profit since 2018, beating expectations as solid demand underpinned...
Authorities have registered 8,374 new private cars in Dhaka in the past three months while only 362 more buses and minibuses were brought to the streets of the city –...
More than half of the European population support legalisation of adult use of cannabis and around 30 per cent of them are interested in purchasing it, according to polling data...
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has wrested control of thousands of routers and firewall appliances away from Russian military hackers by hijacking the same infrastructure Moscow’s spies were using...
বন্দরনগরী চট্টগ্রামের প্রায় সব সড়কেই অফিসে যাওয়া আসার সময় ছাপিয়ে যানজট থাকছে এখন দিনের বড় অংশজুড়েই; রোজায় বিপণি বিতানকেন্দ্রিক সড়কগুলোতে যা আরও বেড়েছে। নগরীর বহাদ্দারহাট থেকে বন্দর পেরিয়ে ইপিজেড পর্যন্ত...
বিশ্বের সবচেয়ে ঘুমবঞ্চিত মানুষদের তালিকায় দক্ষিণ কোরীয়দের অবস্থান উপরের দিকে। দেশটিতে ঘুমের ওষুধে আসক্তি চলে গেছে মহামারী পর্যায়ে। তারপরও অনেকেই একগাদা ওষুধ খেয়েও ঘুমোতে পারে না। এই নিদ্রহীনতা দেশটির মোট...
ঢাকার কলাবাগানে প্রধান সড়কের পাশেই তার দোকান, বিক্রি করেন হালিম, পিতৃপ্রদত্ত নাম দীন মোহাম্মদ; তাকে চেনা যায়? দেশ স্বাধীন হওয়ার আগে দীন মোহাম্মদ কাজ করতেন এক খাবারের দোকানে। সেখানেই ওস্তাদের...
Armenia and Azerbaijan on Wednesday agreed to peace talks to address tensions over the long-disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which borders both nations, the office of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan...
Ukraine wants sanctions that are economically destructive enough for Russia to end its war after accusing some countries of still prioritising money over punishment for civilian killings that the West...
The Bangladesh China Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCCCI) and the Research and Policy Integration for Development (RAPID) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Wednesday to promote mutual collaboration...
Trade leaders seek massive investment in seed production as Bangladesh is almost fully getting import-dependent for seeds to feed the most vital agricultural sector of the economy. The country produces...
Licenses of stock brokers will not be renewed and their existing facilities will be denied if they have dues in payment of fees of both BO account maintenance and share...
The market extended losses on Wednesday, with turnover dipping below Tk 5.0 billion-mark, as investors were reluctant to make fresh investments in stocks amid persistent volatility. Market insiders said the...
CHATTOGRAM: Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) has demanded Tk 1.0 billion (100 crore) from a mega project to maintain the canals of the port city. CCC Mayor Rezaul Karim Chowdhury said,...
The Bibiyana gas field may add 70 million cubic feet of gas per day (mmcfd) by Thursday morning to further ease the gas crisis in the capital, reports UNB. The...
Farmers in the haor areas of Sylhet, Netrakona and Sunamganj are living in fear that they may be deprived of their boro paddy's harvest, as flash floods following incessant rainfall...
The environmental concerns should be given priority while doing a social cost-benefit analysis, said Dr Wahiduddin Mahmud. "However, it is extremely difficult and there are so many interrelated aspects of...
The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka (MCCI) urged the government on Wednesday to extend validity of several licences related to trade and environment by three to five years...
The integration of the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) and the National Board of Revenue (NBR) database starts paying off following field-level taxmen's random access to it. The database was...
Bangladesh has outshone neighbours in crisis-time economic performance and may see higher growth at 6.9 per cent in the current fiscal, says the Asian Development Bank, although it cautions about...
The HULT Prize at BUTEX-2022 was successfully completed on March 25, with Team Neoterics as the champions, and Team Infinity and Team Attention Seekers as the first and second runners-up...
After a month-long preparation and composition, Holy Cross College English Language Club pulled off the Fourth Inter College Language Fest with absolute gusto. The event took place on March 31...
In the last few years, the percentage of Bangladeshi students in the top undergraduate universities of the United States such as MIT, Princeton, Harvard etc. has been increasing exponentially. With...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said the foreign minister’s request to the US secretary of state for ensuring BNP’s participation in the next polls has exposed...
Canada on Tuesday laid out details of a proposed legislation that would compel platforms like Facebook and Google to negotiate commercial deals and pay news publishers for their content, in...
The Rapid Action Batallion (RAB) has identified some motives, including an altercation with film producer and controversial businessman Aziz Mohammad Bhai, behind the killing of actor Sohel Chowdhury that took...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday greeted leader of the opposition in parliament Begum Raushon Ershad and deputy leader of the opposition and Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on the...
The husband of the woman, who was gang-raped at Sylhet’s MC College hostel in September 2020, received a death threat over the phone. Quamrul Ahsan, officer-in-charge of Dakkhin Surma Police...
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will not resign, a minister said on Wednesday, despite demonstrations against his handling of the country's worst economic crisis in decades and as doctors held...
A 24-year-old youth was beaten to death allegedly by some other youths over betting on an Indian Premier League (IPL) match at Hathazari in Chattogram early Wednesday. The deceased was...
The unliveable city has started living up to its rating from the very first day of Ramadan. With every passing year, Dhaka traffic goes from bad to worse particularly in...
Dhaka University has decided to hold admission tests for the academic session 2021-22 from June 3. Applicants can apply for the entry test from April 20 to May 11 through...
The United States targeted Russian banks and elites with a new package of sanctions on Wednesday that includes banning any American from investing in Russia, after Washington and Kyiv accused...
Along Bangladesh's 710 kilometre coastline, several million people from the 14 coastal districts and 49 Upazilas are estimated to depend directly or indirectly on marine fishing for their livelihood-- either...
Since the introduction of the World Health Day, World Health Organisation (WHO) has been launching awareness campaign on health-related problems and urging for ensuring proper health care across the world....
রোজায় বেগুনের দাম হঠাৎ বেড়ে যায় বলে ইফতারের মুখরোচক খাবার তৈরির ক্ষেত্রে বিকল্প সবজি দেখিয়ে দিলেন প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনা। তিনি বলেছেন, চাহিদা বাড়ায় বেগুনের দাম বাড়ছে বলে মিষ্টি কুমড়া দিয়ে...
As Bangladesh is set to be graduated from the Least Developed Country (LDC) category by 2026, developing strategy for continuing the preferential market access after graduation is a key task...
চতুর্থ শিল্প বিপ্লবের চ্যালেঞ্জ মোকাবিলায় আগামী ৩ থেকে ৪ বছরের মধ্যে ৫৬ লাখ মানুষকে দক্ষ করে গড়ে তোলার লক্ষ্য নিয়ে জাতীয় কর্মসংস্থান নীতি চূড়ান্ত করেছে সরকার। বুধবার জাতীয় সংসদ ভবনে...
Japan plans to ease COVID-19 related border restrictions by lifting its entry ban for foreign nationals from 106 countries including the United States, Britain and France on Friday, the government...
Shamima Nasrin, co-founder of scam-tainted e-commerce platform Evaly, walked out of jail on Wednesday. She was released on bail from Kashimpur Central Jail on Wednesday evening, said some television channels...
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said Bangladesh will be happy if the United States withdraws the sanctions imposed on the elite force Rab, reiterating that it was “inappropriate and...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday alleged that the BNP has become an aimless, ineffective and failed political party as it did not take any political programme for...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia underwent some medical tests at the city’s Evercare Hospital on Wednesday. She arrived at the hospital from her Gulshan residence around 5:00 pm and stayed there...
বাংলাদেশ ঋণ পরিশোধে কখনও ‘খেলাপি হয়নি’ এবং দেশের অর্থনৈতিক ভিত্তি ‘অনেক মজবুত’ উল্লেখ করে শ্রীলঙ্কার মত অর্থনৈতিক সংকট এড়াতে সরকার ‘অত্যন্ত সতর্ক’ বলে জানিয়েছেন প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনা। বুধবার জাতীয় সংসদের...
A total of 57 extremists, who came back to normal life after surrendering to the administration, in Rajshahi have received the prime minister's financial assistance worth Tk 5.5 million. Rajshahi’s...
The ripple effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are felt across the world, including in Bangladesh, and now the war has caused a delay to the opening of the Padma...
Three people including two women received burn injuries in a fire that broke out in a building in Mirpur area of Dhaka on Wednesday. The identities of the injured couldn’t...
অস্থাবর সম্পদ বন্ধক রেখে ব্যাংক থেকে ঋণ পাওয়ার সুযোগ রেখে নতুন একটি আইন করার প্রস্তাবে সম্মতি দিয়েছে সরকার। বুধবার জাতীয় সংসদ ভবনে প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনার সভাপতিত্বে মন্ত্রিসভার বৈঠকে ‘সুরক্ষিত লেনদেন...
India has reported its first known case of new coronavirus variant XE -- a mutant hybrid of two versions of Omicron -- in the western city of Mumbai. The XE...
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