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The prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed downward trend in early hour of trading Tuesday as investors are on selling mood. Brokers said investors’ confidence dented...
SINGER Sewing Instructress meet was held in Dhaka Monday with participation of Sewing Instructresses from across the country. During his inaugural speech, Singer Bangladesh Limited Managing Director & CEO Mr...
Social media giant Facebook, reported a dramatic fall of share value, the sharp decline wiped $37 billion off the firm's value, as it faces questions from US and UK politicians...
A 75-year-old Spanish businessman has died after being shot in the head in Mexico City, while a separate shooting in an upscale shopping mall on Monday led to the death...
AB Bank Limited Monday launched two new products, “Visa International Debit Card” & “Deposit Double Installment Scheme” through a press meet at a local hotel. Visa International Debit Card is...
Dhaka Regency signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bangladesh China Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCCCI), recently. Shahid Hamid FIH, executive director of Dhaka Regency Hotel & Resort, and...
Uber said it is suspending self-driving car tests in all North American cities after a fatal accident. A 49-year-old woman was hit by a car and killed as she was...
The ongoing survey on marine resources in the Bay of Bengal is expected to be complete in April. The Department of Fisheries (DoF) has been carrying out the survey under...
With support of all directors and members, Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) has decided to build a special economic zone (SEZ) here with its own fund. The decision...
Four Bangladeshi youths returned home on Monday evening through Benapole Check Post after serving two and half years jail term in India. The returnees are - Mintu Rahman, 14, son...
Asian stocks slipped Tuesday, as pessimism followed an overnight drop in New York amid a rout in technology companies. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 dropped nearly 1.0 per cent in morning...
Prices of rice, especially those of fine quality, increased again at the retail level, straining purses of fixed-earning consumers. Factory-gate and city wholesale prices of coarse rice also increased, but...
Japanese shares dropped in midmorning trade on Tuesday as local tech stocks tracked their US counterparts’ declines on Wall Street, which knocked other sectors into negative territory. The Nikkei dropped...
An inspector of Detective Branch (DB) of police was killed in a reported gunfight with criminals at Middle Pirerbagh in the capital's Mirpur area on early Tuesday. The deceased Md...
Bangladesh's stock-market regulator finally expressed its inability to approve Chinese consortium's bidding offers for being strategic partner of the country's premier bourse. The securities regulator, however, asked the bidder to...
The government is considering making the use of treasury challan mandatory for tax payment to avoid delay usually made in encashment of pay orders, demand drafts and account payee cheques,...
The election for the post of a shareholder-director of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) will be held today (Tuesday) as a director set to retire this year. This year, Md Shakil...
The garment sector wage board asked the representatives of owners and workers to submit proposals for the minimum monthly pay for the entry-level workers. The board asked the parties to...
The digitisation process of the value-added tax (VAT) system under the VAT online project (VOP) of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) is in limbo due to the revenue board's...
Several hundred children are in the country's central jails with their imprisoned mothers. Such confinement, according to experts, might affect their normal upbringing and lead them to go astray. Bangladesh...
International news agency Thomson Reuters in Dhaka has donated Tk 0.11 million to Gonoshasthaya Dialysis Centre, a non-profit service institution of Gonoshasthaya Kendra, says a press release. Serajul Islam Quadir,...
Awami League Presidium Member Mohammed Nasim expressed his apprehension on Monday that if anti-liberation communal forces like BNP-Jamaat come back to power, the country will fall into darkness and will...
The government plans a move to install 20 million (two crore) pre-paid meters to ensure hundred per cent pre-paid metering system in the next three years to reduce the system...
A good yield of potato failed to make the growers of the district delighted for the low market price. Sources said the potato cultivators of the district made vigorous efforts...
SYLHET, Mar 19: Boro cultivation target has exceeded in Sylhet division this season amid a good weather condition. However, for reasons the cultivation much-awaited crop in the region had been...
SIRAJGANJ, Mar 19: Villagers of Khas Kaulia under Chouhali upazila in the district are worried due to sudden collapse of some 30 metre-long embankment. A good number of farmers said...
Commercial brinjal cultivation is gaining popularity in the district. A good number of farmers have attained financial solvency by growing the vegetable on their land. The Department of Agriculture Extension...
The number of air passengers in the country, both international and domestic, marked a witness in the last five years. Editor of The Bangladesh Monitor, Kazi Wahidul Alam claimed this...
Two leading mobile phone operator Grameenphone (GP) and Banglalink (BL) have paid Value Added Tax (VAT) of Tk 1.52 billion to NBR as spectrum acquisition fee for 4G. Bangladesh Telecommunication...
The fiddling around with interest rates may have just annoyed the one person that banks and the regulator should have stayed clear of. The Prime Minister has warned that if...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said Bangladesh's graduation to the developing country group is a slap on the faces of those who had thought it would be a 'bottomless...
Poverty can be both persistent and short-lived. The former may be adducible to structural reasons while the latter to temporary factors. Persistent or long-term poverty implies a state of poverty...
The longevity or useful life -- technical term is economic life -- of the 13,000 CNG-driven auto-rickshaws imported in the year 2000 is long over. Actually, they had to be...
Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro captured his maiden Indian Wells title on Sunday, becoming the 2018 BNP Paribas Open men's singles champion with a victory over No.1 Roger Federer. In...
Two minor siblings were burned to death in a fire that broke out at Shibson village in Bhedarganj upazila of Shariatpur on Monday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Asma,...
Spinning industry in Bangladesh has reached a mature stage and it is now looking for consolidation. Spinning mills are challenged with eroding profit margin, increasing cost of power and rise...
The recent discussions and media reports indicate that preparations are afoot to add nine more new banks to the country's financial industry. Industry experts and think-tanks are vocal against this...
Barisal Metropolitan Police (BMP) has suspended five more members of Detective Branch (DB) of police over the incident of assault on a journalist. Those who were suspended are sub-inspector Abdul...
Lawmakers in the United States have introduced legislation that, if enacted, would create a new development finance institution (DFI) to replace the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Unlike its predecessor, the...
Police have neutralised two bombs reportedly planted by a young man at a shopping mall at Badda area of Dhaka. Witnesses said he fled after placing a bag on the...
The Election Commission (EC) will announce the election schedules for Khulna and Gazipur city corporations on March 31. EC Secretary Helaluddin Ahmed told reporters that the EC took the decision...
It is not very difficult to know who the real target of President Trump's trade war is - it is undoubtedly China. During his presidential campaign, Trump, said, "There are...
Bangladesh paid last respect to the victims, who were killed in US-Bangla plane crash in Kathmandu, at Bangladesh Army Stadium on Monday afternoon. The bodies of 23 identified Bangladeshi victims...
Enes Unal came off the bench to score two late goals for Villarreal, denying Atletico Madrid victory and dealing Diego Simeone's men a huge blow in LaLiga's title race, according...
Ryan Coogler's comic-book sensation "Black Panther" on Sunday became the first film since James Cameron's 2009 smash "Avatar" to top the weekend box office five straight weekends. The Disney release...
Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard in a drive recovered 1.20 lakh pieces of Yaba tablets from Noyapara area in Shah Porir Dwip of Teknaf upazila in Cox's Bazar on Monday....
A two-day South Asia Regional Conference on gender equity and access to justice began on Monday. The conference titled "Gender, Rights and Choices: Access to Justice in a Megacity" started...
The UK and EU on Monday have agreed on a "large part" of the agreement that will lead to the "orderly withdrawal" of the UK. Brexit negotiators Michel Barnier and...
Afsana Khanom, wife of pilot Abid Sultan who died in the US-Bangla aircraft crash in Kathmandu, has been kept on life support at the National Institute of Neurosciences & Hospital....
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday alleged that its chairperson Khaleda Zia was denied justice by the Supreme Court (SC) as its order staying her bail until...
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