RAK Ceramics (Bangladesh) has posted an impressive 191 per cent increase in its net profit year-on-year in 2021, riding on what the company says is a "responsive business strategy" taken...
The stock market edged higher on Thursday, maintaining the winning streak for the third straight session, as investors showed buying interest in the banking sector issues. Market analysts said the...
European Investment Bank (EIB) will provide 250 million euros to Bangladesh to support procurement of safe and effective vaccines and country-wide immunisation against Covid-19. Vaccination efforts will also include Rohingya...
Mark Zuckerberg lost $29 billion in net worth on Thursday as Meta Platforms Inc's (FB.O) stock marked a record one-day plunge, while fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos was set to add...
Shares of Facebook owner Meta (FB.O) plummeted 26per cent on Thursday, the biggest single-day slide in market value for a US company, after the social media giant issued a dismal...
England head coach Chris Silverwood has stepped down following the team's meek surrender in the Ashes series against Australia, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Thursday, Reuters...
The blue tint comes from spirulina, an algae that is grown in basins by a company called Etika Spirulina in northern France. The component of the spirulina that gives the...
A flaw in Apple's software exploited by Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group to break into iPhones in 2021 was simultaneously abused by a competing company, according to five people familiar...
The government is going to demolish the 64-year-old Sufia Kamal National Public Library, popularly known as central public library, at Shahbagh, in order to construct a multi-storey building there under...
The Internal Resources Division (IRD) under the Ministry of Finance (MoF) has waived Tk 580 million stamp duty of the Summit LNG Terminal Co (Pvt) Ltd. The IRD recently issued...
US intelligence agencies believe Russia has formed a plan to fabricate a pretext for an invasion of Ukraine, potentially by producing propaganda videos showing a staged attack, the United States...
The leader of Islamic State died when he blew himself and family members up during a US military raid in Syria, President Joe Biden said on Thursday, dealing a blow...
The government is set to prepare a roadmap aiming to increase rice production amid a growing demand of the main staple in the country. Prices of rice increased recently despite...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) has turned down the revenue board's review petition on retrospective VAT and SD claim worth Tk19.24billion against the listed company British American...
Bangladesh plans to challenge diplomatically and legally the US decision to impose sanctions on Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and some of its officials, foreign office high-ups said on Thursday. Dhaka...
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has requested the NBR to simplify business procedures for seizing the new opportunities created for the readymade garment sector. "Business procedures including customs...
Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) asks banks to provide detailed information on accounts of 30 e-commerce companies, including Daraj, Evaly, Alesha Mart and e-Orange, some of whom sank into troubles....
Bangladesh annually imports the highest number of scrap ships to provide vital backward linkage to booming steel and re-rolling industries, thus holding top global position. Such ranking as leading scrapped-vessel...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) circular on salaries of private sector bank officials at the entry-level, issued a couple of weeks back, came all of a sudden. Both bank owners and...
Mobile courts' drives against adulterated and unsafe foods have become almost a routine, albeit hackneyed. Magistrates under whom the raids are conducted slap hefty fines and at times seal off...
Shrimp export from the country has been experiencing a robust growth in the last six months (July-December 2021) of the current fiscal. No doubt a rebound of unlikely kind amid...
গাজীপুরের শ্রীপুরে বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিব সাফারি পার্কে জেব্রা আর বাঘের পর এবার একটি সিংহের মৃত্যুর খবর এসেছে। বৃহস্পতিবার দুপুরে ১১ বছর বয়সী ওই আফ্রিকান সিংহর মৃত্যু হয় বলে পরিবেশ, বন...
Business environment in Bangladesh experienced changes during 2021 when the businesses were at an early recovery phase after the covid contamination had eased. However, there have been some problematic factors...
A senior army warrant officer was killed and an army soldier injured when armed terrorists of JSS main group backed by Santu Larma opened fire on a patrol team in...
The government is preparing a roadmap to boost rice production within two years to meet the increasing demand, said Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque on Thursday. "This year aus, aman...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) will provide €250 million to Bangladesh to support the procurement of safe and effective vaccines and country-wide immunisation against Covid-19. Vaccination efforts will also include...
It's a rare spectacle to see Vice Chancellors of a few public universities becoming subject to their students' anger. The nature of agitation belongs to no ordinary protest against the...
An African lioness died at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Gazipur on Thursday. The death was reported when mystery shrouded the deaths of 10 zebras in the park within...
অধ্যাপক মুহাম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল এবার নতুন পরিচয়ে এলেন সবার সামনে। এই প্রথম সিনেমার গান লিখলেন জনপ্রিয় এই লেখক। গানটি লিখেছেন ‘অ্যাডভেঞ্চার অব সুন্দরবন’ চলচ্চিত্রের জন্য। জাফর ইকবালের উপন্যাস ‘রাতুলের রাত...
As gas pressure drops due to short supply, consumers in many areas in the city are feeling the pinch of the crisis. Many families just get an hour or so,...
ব্র্যাক ব্যাংক এর বিশেষ রিক্রুটমেন্ট কার্যক্রম - ইয়ং লিডারস প্রোগ্রামের - আওতায় রেকর্ড সংখ্যক সদ্য পাশ করা গ্র্যাজুয়েট নিয়োগ করা হয়েছে। ব্যাংকের ব্যবসায়িক সম্প্রসারণে সহায়তা প্রদানের লক্ষ্যে একসাথে ৮০...
The government has granted permission to four local companies to invest US$13.5 million in five foreign countries. The committee of Bangladesh Bank for allowing investment abroad in its last sitting...
US President Joe Biden said a US special forces counter-terrorism raid in northwest Syria on Thursday targeted the leader of Islamic State, adding he would address the operation in remarks...
The International Monetary Fund deleted a sentence critical of Japan's continued financing of high-emissions coal projects from a staff mission statement on the Japanese economy, a copy of an earlier...
Germany has praised Bangladesh saying the economy of the "up-and-coming" country continues to grow rapidly, even during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the poverty rate has been halved since 2000. "In...
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam on Thursday said there is no possibility to expand the US sanctions beyond the existing individuals in Bangladesh, noting that it will...
Merck & Co said on Wednesday it expects its 2022 sales to increase as much as 18 per cent over last year, mostly on sales of its new Covid-19 pill,...
NATO said Russia had stepped up deployments to Ukraine's northern neighbour Belarus in recent days and was expected to have 30,000 troops there for joint military exercises this month. The...
Air quality in Gazipur, Dhaka, and Narayanganj districts is twice as much worst than the country average and nearly five times higher than the standard means, revealed a study on...
The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU), a wing of the central bank, has summoned the bank accounts of 30 e-commerce companies including Daraj, Alesha Mart, Evaly and e-Orange. The BFIU...
এক ধরনের ‘বিশ্বাস’থেকে ফরিদপুরের সদর উপজেলার একটি গ্রামের সনাতন ধর্মাবলম্বীরা মহাধুমধামে জড়াজড়ি করে থাকা দুটি বট ও পাকুড় গাছের ‘বিয়ে’ দিয়েছেন; যেখানে প্রায় ৫০০ মানুষকে খাওয়ানো হয়েছে। গতকাল বুধবার উপজেলার...
Bangladesh has registered 33 deaths from the coronavirus in a day, taking the total death toll from the disease to 28,494. It also recorded 11,596 new Covid-19 cases in a...
নৃত্যশিল্পী জিনাত বরকতউল্লাহ, প্রয়াত গীতিকার নজরুল ইসলাম বাবু, অভিনেতা আফজাল হোসেনসহ এবার ২৪ জন একুশে পদকের জন্য মনোনীত হয়েছেন। বৃহস্পতিবার সংস্কৃতি বিষয়ক মন্ত্রণালয়ের এক সংবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তিতে ২০২২ সালের জন্য মনোনীতদের...
The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program is one of the most prestigious fellowships in the world. It provides ten months of non-degree academic study and related professional experiences in the...
Abt Associates is a mission-driven, global leader in research and program implementation in the fields of health, social and environmental policy, and international development. Known for its rigorous approach to...
US special forces carried out what the Pentagon said was a large-scale counterterrorism raid in northwestern Syria early Thursday. First responders at the scene reported 13 people had been killed,...
Two phases of the BPL are over and the third phase is underway. From the beginning, it was declared that there will be 3 venues for this edition of BPL...
Bangladesh has awarded the Ekushey Padak, the second highest civilian award in the country, to 24 recipients, including three scientists from the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute. The scientists were recognised...
The High Court on Thursday asked the Home Ministry and the country's telecom regulator to remove the video of actor Riaz Ahmed's father-in-law Abu Mohsin Khan committing suicide from all...
উচ্চ ফলনশীল জাতের ধান উদ্ভাবনের স্বীকৃতিতে বাংলাদেশ ধান গবেষণা ইনস্টিটিউটের তিন গবেষকসহ ২৪ জন পাচ্ছেন এবারের একুশে পদক। বৃহস্পতিবার সংস্কৃতি বিষয়ক মন্ত্রণালয় ২০২০ সালের পুরস্কারের জন্য মনোনীতদের নাম ঘোষণা করে।...
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