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Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon has repeated the threat to conduct drives against Aedes breeding grounds inside city houses. "The city-dwellers will face jail or fine if...
Chairman of Anti-corruption commission (ACC) Iqbal Mahmud on Tuesday said that ACC has been working neutrally to counter corruption from root level. He said this while executive director of Independent...
Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) has hailed the government for endorsing the draft of National Defence Policy-2018. The non-government body that combats corruption urged the government to create an opportunity for...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to visit Chittagong on Wednesday to award National Standard to BN Dockyard and inaugurate Bangabandhu Complex at BN Isha Kha. The Prime Minister will...
The dreaded six-letter word is all the more feared because it is apparently invisible. Cancer can strike anybody, irrespective of gender, profession, ethnicity and class. This article narrates the stories...
A fire burnt down huge valuables at Nasir Glassware and Tube Industries in Gorai area of Mirzapur upazila in Tangail on Tuesday afternoon. The fire originated from a chimney of...
Freedom Fighter Kakon Bibi Bir Protik was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital due to serious health complications on Monday night. Dr Mosaddek...
The government has appointed Major General Md Shafeenul Islam as Director General (DG) of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB). The Ministry of Public Administration issued a notification in this regard on...
Bangladesh is set to build roads along the India-Myanmar border aiming to ensure better security through improved road connectivity. The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) approved the...
India has confirmed the deaths of 39 construction workers kidnapped by Islamic State militants (IS) in Iraq. Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said the DNA of 38 workers matched with bodies...
BNP has appointed a British legal exper, Lord Carlile, to help BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's lawyers to face her cases properly. BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir came up...
President Abdul Hamid has asked prison authorities to keep vigil on prisoners so that they cannot take drugs and run drug business in jails. "A large number of prisoners are...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members arrested five alleged 'Rohingya robbers' along with seven sharp weapons from Ukhia upazila of Cox's Bazar on Monday night. The arrestees were identified as Md...
Realtors on Tuesday called for reducing the essential construction materials like rod and cement at an affordable level to help sustain the sector’s growth. They also feared that the housing...
A package has exploded at a FedEx depot in Texas of the United States, the local fire department said. An employee was injured when the package containing nails and shrapnel...
Experts at a seminar have called for formulating a law in a bid to protect the landless and marginal farmers and the agricultural land across the country. According to them,...
Stocks extended the losing streak for the second day in a row on Tuesday as risk-averse investors continued their selling spree on sector-wise stocks. Brokers said fresh concern over major...
Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor and Channel I director Shykh Seraj have got nomination for 'Swadhinata Padak- 2018' (Independence Award). The government has nominated Asaduzzaman Noor and Shykh Seraj for...
A Biman Bangladesh flight from Dhaka to Syedpur has made an emergency landing at the Hazrat Shahjalal Airport, 40 minutes after taking off from the same airport. The plane returned...
Bank Asia Limited has kicked off a three-day training course titled ‘CMSE Financing’ at its training and development institute in the city’s Lalmatia area recently. Sarder Akhter Hamed, SEVP and...
The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of the National Defence Policy-2018 outlining the armed forces role during wartime and beyond. The approval was given in the regular meeting of...
The headline consumer inflation of South Africa slowed to 4.0 per cent year-on-year in February from 4.4 per cent in January, data from Statistics South Africa showed on Tuesday. On...
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu on Monday sought technical support from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) to accelerate the country's industrialisation. "Under the prudent policy and dynamic leadership of...
A Manikganj court has sentenced a woman among two to death for murdering her husband in Harirampur upazila of the district in 2011. The condemned convicts are Selina Akter, wife...
Most Android phones will have to wait until 2019 to duplicate the 3D sensing feature behind Apple’s Face ID security, three major parts producers have told Reuters, handicapping Samsung and...
The Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) has demolished parts of Ha-Meem Group owner AK Azad’s Gulshan house built without following any approved design. RAJUK, the capital development authority, started the raid...
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was in police custody on Tuesday morning, where he was to be questioned as part of an investigation into suspected irregularities over his election campaign...
Marcel has released a lot of new models of appliances to grab its target of bagging 30 per cent growth in the sales in 2018 compared to the previous year’s...
The fifth death anniversary of former President Zillur Rahman, a veteran politician, a Language Movement hero, an organiser of the Liberation War and one of the close associates of Bangabandhu...
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said the UK must still deal with Russia despite ‘all fingers’ pointing to it over the Salisbury spy attack. He said he would ‘do business’...
SINGAPORE (S&P Global Ratings) March 20--Trade risks could cast a shadow on strong economic activity in Asia-Pacific in the first quarter of 2018, said S&P Global Ratings in a report...
US President Donald Trump has called for drug traffickers to face the death penalty as part of his plan to combat the US painkiller-addiction epidemic. He outlined the proposal during...
‘US- Bangla Airlines Dhaka Travel Mart 2018’ begins at the Ball Room of Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel on Thursday. A.K.M. Shajahan Kamal, Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism will formally...
Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL) and Finlay Properties Ltd. a premium property developer in Chittagong recently inked a Payroll Banking agreement in Dhaka. M Khorshed Anowar, Acting Head of Retail Banking...
The world's last surviving male northern white rhino has died after suffering months from illness, his carers said. Sudan, who lived at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, was put...
S M Mahmudur Rahman, one of the victims died in US-Bangla plane crash in Kathmandu, was buried at his family graveyard at Laskardia in Nagarkanda upazila under Faridpur district on...
Feni Lanka Power Limited (FLPL), a subsidiary of Lakdhanavi Limited, Sri Lanka signed Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) & Implementation Agreement (IA) with Bangladesh Power Development Board & Ministry of Power,...
Actress and liberal activist Cynthia Nixon, one of the stars of the hit television series ‘Sex and the City,’ announced on Monday she would run for governor of New York,...
Social and public health services providers play a crucial role in helping patients at risk of HIV access life-saving services, suggests a study released by University of Michigan (UM) on...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has told the National People's Congress (NPC) that China must not become complacent about its development. Speaking at the closing session of the annual parliament, Mr...
The election for the post of a shareholder-director of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) started at 10:30am on Tuesday as a director set to retire this year. The election will be...
Scholars, think-tanks, government officials, diplomats, business leaders and other stakeholders of the Bay of Bengal region have convened in Dhaka to take stock of the seven countries grouping BIMSTEC’s achievements...
Islamic University (IU), in association with ministry of posts, telecommunications and information technology, has organised a training programme on ‘Earning from Facebook’ in its campus. The two-day training titled 'Boost...
Kaplan in Singapore, one of Singapore's leading and an award winning private education provider, launched the 2nd edition of its Career Fair last Friday, according to Media OutReach. With FindSGJobs...
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has released the names of hundreds of companies and individuals who failed to return $827m (£590m) illegally stashed abroad despite an amnesty. After taking office last...
Police, in special drives arrested 24 people including two activists of BNP and an activist of Jamaat-E-Islami from different areas of the district in last 12-hour ending at 8 am...
Drivers for app-based cab aggregators Uber and Ola continued their indefinite strike across India on Tuesday, demanding extra pay as a surge in the number of cabs on the two...
A suspected robber was killed and another received bullet injuries in a reported gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Gabtoli area of Dhaka on Tuesday. The deceased...
The 45th Nalchity branch at Jhalakathi of Barisal of Meghna Bank Limited was inaugurated recently at Station Road, Nalchity, Jhalakathi. Director of the Bank Md. Ali Azim Khan inaugurated the...
Maldives will not extend the state of emergency that is due to expire on Wednesday amid criticism of the government over the recent political turmoil, says an envoy. Mohamed...
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