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All five mobile network operators (MNOs) in the country have proven their eligibility for offering 4G/LTE services. The four MNOs, except state-owned Teletalk, have also been eligible to take part...
A CEO from one of the world’s top five global fashion brands has to work for just four days to earn what a garment worker in Bangladesh earns in an...
The US has approved controversial tariffs on imported washing machines and solar panels. The move is in line with President Donald Trump's "America First" trade policy, which aims to protect...
A tsunami alert has been issued after a 7.9-magnitude earthquake was recorded off the coast of Alaska in the US. It hit 280km (173 miles) south-east of Kodiak, at a...
The High Court on Tuesday awarded a one-month jail in civil prison for former Proshika chairman Qazi Faruque Ahmed for violating court's directive. The bench of Justice Md Mozibur Rahman...
A huge column of ash shoots up to the sky during the eruption of Mayon volcano has seen around 340 kilometres (200 miles) southeast of Manila, Philippines. The Philippines' most...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has launched an investigation against some education ministry officials for their alleged involvement in graft. ACC chairman Iqbal Mahmud came up with the revelation on Tuesday...
UAE doctors have treated over 9,000 children and elderly patients among Rohingya refugees at the Zayed Humanitarian Field Hospital in the Cox Bazaar. The hospital began its operating in Bangladesh...
Bangladesh has been placed 34 at the emerging economies in World Economic Forum (WEF) Inclusive Development Index-2018. India ranked at the 62nd place among emerging economies on an Inclusive Development...
Bank of Japan (BoJ) has kept monetary policy unchanged as it continues to grapple to achieve its lofty 2.0 per cent inflation target. The central bank on Tuesday offered a...
Arsenic poisoning from ground water in Bangladesh has long been posing a massive threat to public health. About 20 million people are exposed to harmful levels of the chemical element...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith said Monday the country's banking sector is bothered very much about the non-performing loans (NPLs) and argued that it has been a big problem since the...
Stocks witnessed yet another positive session Tuesday amid increased trading activities as optimistic investors showed their buying spree on largest market cap Grameephone’s shares. Traders said the market stayed on...
A grandmother and her granddaughter have been killed after a Kalnaghat-bound truck hit a three-wheeler easy bike carrying them on Narail-Lohagora road in Narail Sadar upazila Tuesday noon. The deceased...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's adviser and also a party leader from Narayanganj Taimur Alam Khandakar has been arrested. The police detained him from Narayanganj's Chanmari area at 1:15pm on Tuesday...
Police arrested 21 persons including 12 wanted accused from different areas of Habiganj district in last 12-hour ending their drives at 9am on Tuesday. Nazim Uddin, Assistant Superintendent of Police...
For Novak Djokovic it must have felt like some nightmarish fight to the death against a clone of himself on Monday as Chung Hyeon stunned the six-times Australian Open champion...
More than half of all child refugees – at least 170,000 – in Bangladesh’s camps are at risk of psychological and social distress. For at least 50,000 of them, the...
Legendary jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela, a leading figure in the struggle to end apartheid and "the father of South African jazz", has died aged 78. In a statement, his family...
Philippine’s economy grew 6.6 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2017, slightly below market expectations, while the annual gross domestic product (GDP) grew 6.7 per cent. The Philippine central...
SINGAPORE (S&P Global Ratings) Jan. 23,2018--Export growth remains high in the more trade-dependent Asia-Pacific economies, while domestic demand growth is broadening, said S&P Global Ratings in a report titled...
LankaBangla Finance Ltd (LBFL) recently signed an MoU with Hotel Lake Castle for its privileged customers. Khurshed Alam– Head of Retail Finance of LBF and Shameem Hasnain Huda –Executive Director...
Manchester United have signed Alexis Sanchez from Arsenal, in a swap deal with midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan. Chile forward Sanchez, 29, who almost joined Manchester City last summer, has signed a...
Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB) has organised its branch managers' conference of Barisal division, recently. The BKB arranged the day-long conference for divisional audit officer, chief regional managers, regional audit officers...
Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL) organised a workshop supported by Helaba Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale, a renowned German bank on “Export Credit Agency (ECA)-covered Financing” in the city recently. Thomas Kuerten,...
Imran Nazir and Akhtar Hossain Azad have been elected the president and the secretary respectively of Rotaract Club of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia on Monday. The election was held...
Police have arrested an Indian citizen with 182 yaba tablets in his possession in Netrokona. Acting on a tip-off in the northern district Lithon Marak, 33, was arrested on Monday,...
Police have recovered the bodies of a woman and her child from a house in Sabujbagh of Dhaka. The deceased are 25-year-old Shantona Akter and her daughter Mahfuza, around a...
The mayor of Venice has pledged action after a group of Japanese tourists claimed a restaurant handed them a bill of €1,100 (£970; $1,347) for four steaks, a plate of...
Local people beat a Royal Bengal Tiger dead after it entered into the village from the Sundarbans at Moreganj in Bagerhat. Md Mahmudul Hasan, East Sundarbans divisional forest officer (DFO)...
Japanese share on Tuesday ended at its highest in more than 26 years, with real estate and precision machinery stocks leading the gains. The Nikkei finished up 1.3 per cent...
Asian share markets posted strong gains on Tuesday, as an upbeat forecast for global economic growth and the end of the US government shutdown helped lift sentiment. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei...
More than 1,000 people have been evacuated from a nightclub and a hotel in London's West End after a gas leak was discovered on Craven Street, just off Strand. Approximately...
Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) and Vroom Services Limited (Vroom) have introduced Diners Club International Auto Credit Card and Diners Club International Fuel Card for Drivers for vehicle owners in Bangladesh....
Bank Asia and Shakti Foundation for Disadvantaged Women recently signed an agreement aiming to promote digital financial inclusion among Shakti’s beneficiaries. Md Arfan Ali, President & Managing Director of Bank...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives start preparing for formal coalition talks with the Social Democrats (SPD) on Monday, wasting no time after the centre-left party narrowly voted to go ahead...
Police have recovered the bodies of a man and a woman from a hotel room in Sylhet. The bodies were found in Hotel Meherpur at the city’s Sobhani Ghat around...
Mutual Trust Bank Limited (MTB), as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, has recently donated blankets for distribution amongst the cold-affected people of different regions of the country...
Clashes during a religious festival in Ethiopia's northern Amhara regional state have taken the lives of seven people, a regional official said Sunday. Amare Goshu, Head of North Wollo Zone...
Japanese shares inched lower on Monday as the US government shutdown hurt risk appetite globally. The US Senate set a vote for 12 pm on Monday for advancing a measure...
US researchers have taken a major step forward in the fight against cancer by developing a single blood test that screens for eight common types of tumours in early stages....
Afghan officials declared that a 12-hour gun battle at Kabul's largest hotel had ended on Sunday after security forces killed four assailants, a siege that left six civilians, including a...
Asian share markets were mixed on Monday after global investors shrugged off the latest US government shutdown. The Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.2 per cent to 3,495.40 while Tokyo’s Nikkei...
Bangladesh government's decision to ban export of raw jute, partially, has some trade policy implications. The ban, though temporary, may be considered by many as a response to the recent...
The government made tanners in Hazaribagh shift to Savar Tannery Estate hastily, being misguided by a group of people about preparedness of the leather hub, said the BSCIC chief. As...
Some 82 per cent of money generated in 2017 went in the pockets of the richest one per cent, while the poorest half saw no increase at all, Oxfam international...
Garlic peasants of the district are eyeing a bumper production this season amid a favourable weather condition. The plants are growing well across the district as the local agri office...
Hundreds of poor and marginal farmers of Jamuna, Bangalee and Nagore rivers basin of the district are expecting to make a good profit from pumpkin cultivation. Excellent growing of the...
Four people were killed and another 10 injured after a bus, carrying 30 Biswa Ijtema devotees, collided head-on with a truck on a Sylhet highway. The incident was reported from...
Sixteen people have been injured after a train hit a railway buffer on the outskirts of Australia’s Sydney, said police. The accident happened at the end of a railway...
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