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Some banks are failing to keep requisite provisions against both classified and unclassified loans as the volumes of such problem credits kept ballooning, sources said. The findings came as the...
Some 49 per cent of country's total population are now under the network of internet on the back of the growing use of digital platforms in the country. The disclosure...
India beat Bangladesh by 4 wickets to win the Nidahas Trophy at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Sunday. Chasing a score of 167, India reached home in the last...
Each one of them is a beauty of exquisite shape and colour. Some parade deep indigo, others violet, still others magenta and a large majority green with a shade of...
Inspector General (IG) of Prison Brigadier General Syed Eftekhar Uddin on Sunday said that the jail authority has taken initiative to set up luggage and body scanners inside jails across...
The national savings scheme (NSS) instruments have been in the centre of discussion in recent months, mainly for their higher yield rates and consequent abuse of the facility. Economists, bankers...
A study conducted by BRAC in collaboration with the BRAC University paints a grim picture of harassment women are subjected to in public transports. The very date of its release,...
State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid has said that after successful power generation through private sector, the government is now contemplating the sector's participation in power transmission and...
About 12 per cent adolescents are addicted to smoking in Bangladesh and nine per cent of them are boys while three per cent girls. The Guardian, an influential media of...
Bangladesh has scored a fighting score of 166 for 8 in the final of Nidahas Trophy at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Sunday. After the initial hiccup, losing three...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said assassination of Bangabandhu has delayed Bangladesh’s LDC graduation. Sheikh Hasina believes if the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman remains alive, Bangladesh...
Over the last couple of decades, a few incidents have acted as big blows to the profession of audit. The jolts include the dissolution in 2001 of Arthur Andersen, which...
China's national legislature adopted a massive cabinet restructuring plan last Saturday to make the government better-structured, more efficient and service-oriented. Approved at a plenary meeting of the first session of...
Bangladesh will enjoy GSP facilities until 2017 although it has turned into a developing nation, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said at his ministry office on Sunday. The minister revealed it...
The tourism sector of Bangladesh is set to stage a comeback defying security concern of some of the western countries. Threats were issued to the citizens of a number of...
BNP will put up a strong resistance like the Great Wall of China if the government tries to play a game with the upcoming national election. Senior joint secretary general...
Zimbabwe's first presidential and parliamentary elections since the end of former strongman Robert Mugabe's long rule will take place in July, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Saturday. The polls will...
The British establishment since June 2016 has been trying to find a compromise within the anticipated Brexit process paradigm. In this context both British and European leaders have been facing...
The attacker of Prof Zafar Iqbal, Faizul Hasan, has given confessional statement before a magistrate court in Sylhet in a case over the attack. Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate Haridas Kumar recorded...
As a country we are paying unnecessary economic levies for our individual and collective political decisions. This important point has been articulated, rightly or inadvertently, and noted in several observations...
The Committee for Development and Policy (CDP) in its First Triennial Assessment meeting, held at the UN on March 16, cleared Bangladesh's eligibility for graduation from least developed country (LDC)...
Miscreants allegedly abducted two female activists of United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) from Kutukchhari area in Rangamati on Sunday. The victims are Monty Chakma and Doyashona Chakma, reports UNB. In...
India has won the toss and elected to field in the final of Nidahas Twenty20 Tri-Series at R.Premadasa Stadium in Colombo against Bangladesh. Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan at the...
University students and job-seekers on Sunday staged demonstrations across the country, demanding reforms of the existing quota system in government recruitment tests including Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations. In Dhaka,...
NOVOAIR, one of the popular airlines of the country, has recently launched its fresh flights to Rajshahi starting from April 1. One way starting fare to Rajshahi will be Tk...
Head of Aircraft Accident Investigation Group (AAIG) of Bangladesh Capt Salahuddin M Rahmatullah left for Kathmandu on Sunday. The expert will conduct joint investigation on the plane crash with Nepalese...
Bangladesh want stay relaxed in the final match of Nidahas Trophy Twenty20 tournament against India on Sunday. “We are trying to stay relaxed and free of pressure as we can...
Anybody who has paid tax, irrespective of the amount, will get tax card as an incentive to pay tax properly in the furutre. Finance Minister AMA Muhith said it on...
A clean-up campaign has begun at Mount Everest, aiming to airlift 100 tonnes of rubbish left behind by tourists and climbers of the world's highest mountain. On its first day,...
The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) has launched digitalised e-agriculture service, aimed at providing necessary agriculture information and technology support to some 30 million (3 crore) farmers across the country....
The 2nd International Conference On Disability and Disaster Risk Management will be held in the capital on May 15 -17. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the three-day international conference...
Preparations are underway to bring the bodies of 17 Bangladesh nationals, who were killed in the US-Bangla plane crash in Nepal back, to Dhaka. Mohammad Al Alamul Emam, first secretary...
In nearly a decade, Bangladesh witnessed an appreciable rise in women empowerment in all fields including the government and private jobs, securing their dignified places in the armed forces and...
Health Minister Mohammad Nasim has requested the ministers and the political leaders not to gather at Dhaka Medical College Hospital to visit the US-Bangla plane crash survivors. The minister made...
Polls have opened in Russia's presidential election, in which Vladimir Putin is seeking to stay in power for a fourth term in office. Voting began in the Russian far-east at...
Bangladesh and India have agreed on the extension of Protocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade (PIWTT) which was signed in 1972. The proposed high-level meeting on the Protocol on...
Afsana Khanom, wife of pilot Abid Sultan who died in the US-Bangla aircraft crash in Kathmandu, suffered a brain stroke on Sunday morning. Afsana was admitted to the National Institute...
The High Court has rejected the writ petition that was filed challenging the legality of Section 70 of the Constitution that allows cancellation of parliament membership for crossing the floor....
At least 15 people were killed and scores injured in heavy rains and flooding, Kenya‘s Daily Nation said on Friday. The rains had pounded parts of the east African nation...
Stocks ended flat on Sunday after volatile trading as investors were active on both sides of the fence throughout the session. Market operators said some investors preferred to book profits...
Global power hub China has been a specialty gas importer for over a decade. Now with its own growing capacity to produce various specialty gases, China is to become more...
IOM, the UN Migration Agency, is appealing for US$182.1 million to assist 0.9 million Rohingya refugees and local community members in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. IOM's appeal is part of a...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the authorities concerned to give special attention to the private medical colleges to make sure that they are following the standard of the medical...
A senior North Korean diplomat left for Finland on Sunday for talks with former US and South Korean officials, Yonhap News Agency reported, amid a series of diplomatic encounters ahead...
Morocco has proposed using 14 stadiums and budgeting to spend 15.8 billion dollars on infrastructure if it wins the right to host the World Cup soccer finals in 2026, the...
A dash of cumin or dill might help convince high school students to load up their plate with vegetables during lunchtime in the cafeteria, a small study suggests. Researchers got...
More than 11,000 convicted prisoners took part in the skill development programme in 2016. A total of 11,198 prisoners received training in the year before last, according to latest prison...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has asked other countries to abandon the International Criminal Court because it is ‘rude.’ Duterte is facing a possible complaint before the world tribunal for the...
A woman and her seven-year-old son were killed after a microbus ran them over in Bagerhat’s Morrelganj Upazila. The accident took place on Bagerhat-Morelganj Highway in the Kalikabari Dona neighbourhood...
A Rangpur court has sentenced seven militants, including neo-JMB regional commander Masud Rana, to death for the 2015 murder of Kawnia shrine caretaker Rahmat Ali. Neo-JMB leader Jahangir Alam aka...
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