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US stocks rose on Wednesday as investors’ expectations for higher earnings lifted stocks across sectors. The S&P 500 has rallied strongly in the new year, gaining 4.8 per cent so...
The government is set to re-launch a programme in March, under which the ultra-poor people will get rice at Tk 10 per kilogramme (kg). The move comes after suspension of...
A total of 1000 students of Gaibandha Govt. Boys' High School received class routines from the district police on Wednesday amid much enthusiasm and festivity. Superintendent of police (SP) Mashrukur...
President Donald Trump denied on Wednesday that the planned relocation of the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would take place within a year, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested 18 people along with31 computers and huge pirated CDs from a shopping complex in the city on Wednesday night. Acting on a tip...
Stocks witnessed mixed trend in early hour of trading Thursday amid low trading activities as many investors remained followed cautious stance ahead of monetary policy announcement. Following the previous day’s...
The earnings of S Alam Cold Rolled Steels declined in fourth quarter (Q4) in 2017, compared to same period of the previous year. According to the company's un-audited financial statement,...
Cuts in food rations for 1.5 million refugees in east Africa, due to funding shortages, could increase school dropouts, crime and malnutrition, a United Nations official said on Wednesday. With...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has ordered the Bangladesh Freedom Fighter Welfare Trust to pay Moon Cinema Hall owner Tk 990 million in a case. A five-member bench...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested five people including the mastermind in the sensational double-murder case in Tongi of Gazipur. A team of Rab-1 arrested them from Ershadnagar in Tongi around...
Police on Thursday arrested five college students in connection with the recent killing of a student of Chittagong Collegiate School in the city's Jamal Khan area. Among them, four 2nd...
Fifty-two people have been killed after a bus in which they were travelling caught fire in Kazakhstan’s north-western Aktau region. The country’s interior ministry said on Thursday that only five...
A jealous husband phoned false bomb alerts into a pub to try and stop his wife having a night out, a court has heard. The Duke of Wellington hotel in...
Police arrested 11 persons including four wanted accused from different areas of Habiganj district in last 12-hour ending at 9am this morning. Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Nazim Uddin said,...
China's annual gross domestic product (GDP) grew 6.8 per cent in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2017 from a year earlier, better than expectations, official data showed on Thursday. A...
Filmmaker James Gunn has offered $0.10 million ($100,000) to know the accurate weight of US President Donald Trump. According to a report, after Trump's first physical assessment as President was...
The High Court on Thursday stayed the decision of cutting down the century-old trees on both sides of Jessore-Benapole road for six months. The Court also issued a rule asking...
At least eight Taliban insurgents including senior commander Mullah Jalal have been killed in Dand-e-Shahabudin district of Afghanistan's northern Baghlan province over the last three days. Ikramudin Sari, provincial police...
Testing all women for the "Angelina Jolie gene", even if not considered at risk, would prevent cancers, save lives and is cost effective, say doctors. The Hollywood actress had her...
Vegetable cultivation has brought smiles on the faces of hundreds marginal peasants in Natore district in this season. According to Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), the farmers have already brought...
The government of Bangladesh has imposed an indefinite ban on export of certain categories of raw jute, said an official source. The embargo on export came on Thursday in response...
Hundreds of students of colleges under the University of Dhaka have blockaded streets in the capital for three hours on Thursday to press for the announcement of exam results. About...
The Bank of Korea (BOK) has kept interest rates unchanged on Thursday, as expected, on the uncertainties of inside and outside of the country. The BOK Governor Lee Ju-yeol said,...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister and Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Thursday said that ruling Awami League had a 100 per cent chance of winning the Dhaka North...
The government in a recent move has made it mandatory to test all shipments of imported fish before sales take place in the local market. Fish importers find it hard...
Asian Development Bank (ADB) reaffirmed its commitment to support Bangladesh in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ADB’s Vice-President Wencai Zhang said it on Thursday. Zhang is currently attending the...
The Global Partnership for Education (GPE), a worthy and capable initiative to promote education in 65 low-income countries, is having what the jargon of development assistance calls a "replenishment round,"...
The secretary general of BNP has claimed that 80 per cent people will cast vote for their party if the next election is held in a fair and credible manner....
Five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova beat 14th seed Anastasija Sevastova in straight sets on Thursday to reach the last 32 of the Australian Open. The Russian, beaten in three...
European lawmaker Viorica Dancila has been named as Romania's first female PM following the sudden resignation of Mihai Tudose. Dancila, a member of the European Parliament, is regarded as an...
Two motorcyclists died in a road accident in the city's Gendaria area early Thursday. The deceased were identified as Russel, 26, Salahuddin, 27. The accident took place as a covered...
The securities regulator has imposed an aggregate amount of penalty worth Tk 0.4 million on three brokerage firms of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) for breaching the securities rules. The decision...
Republican US Senator Jeff Flake castigated President Donald Trump on Wednesday for his attacks on the media, saying Trump had embraced the despotic language of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin...
Top Narayanganj Awami League leaders - Mayor Selina Hayat Ivy and MP AKM Shamim Osman - have blamed each other over Tuesday’s clashes between their supporters over the eviction of...
Lionel Messi missed a penalty as Barcelona suffered a first defeat since August in their Copa del Rey quarter-final first leg against Espanyol. Messi was denied by goalkeeper Diego Lopez...
BBS Cables has been placed in "A" category from existing "N" category today (Thursday) as the company has reported disbursement of 5.0 per cent cash and 15 per cent stock...
Two American and two Canadian citizens have been kidnapped near the northern city of Kaduna, Nigeria, police say. Two police escorts were also killed in a shootout with the kidnappers,...
Parents in India's capital will soon be able to watch their children in the classroom in real time, using a mobile phone app. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said CCTV...
The chief of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), while taking part in a talk-show on a private TV channel the other day, was found to be clueless about finding a solution...
The country's education is mired by professional aberrations and criminal practices. So, it is not unusual that both laymen and educationists are concerned about the future of education in this...
Any fair with the tag 'national' has its insurmountable importance because it is an occasion to celebrate something touching the people's life irrespective of classes and segments. On that count,...
South Korea says it will continue high-level talks with North Korea with "clear eyes" amid global warnings that Pyongyang might be playing for time to continue its nuclear-arms programme. "We...
Apple will pay about $38 billion in tax on the roughly $250 billion cash pile it holds outside the US following recent changes to American tax rules. The sum is...
A new "text bomb" affecting Apple's iPhone and Mac computers has been discovered. Abraham Masri, a software developer, tweeted about the flaw which typically causes an iPhone to crash and...
The road transport and bridges minister has told the parliament that all-out efforts are on to complete the construction work on the Padma bridge by December this year. Obaidul Quader...
Top social media firms on Wednesday stressed the increasing effectiveness of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to spot posts from terrorists in a Senate Commerce Committee hearing. Executives from Facebook, Twitter,...
Financial experts said majority stakeholders of banks disfavor the latest legal amendment as they fear inducting four members of a family into bank boards would help establish oligopoly in the...
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has sought financing by development partners for successfully attaining the SDGs. The minister also asked them not to take away their attention from Bangladesh...
Suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers killed 12 people and injured 48 others in an attack on Wednesday on the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, officials from the State Emergency Management...
The revenue authorities will recast the policy on appointment of VAT consultants to prevent alleged abuse of licence for this service and appoint more such go-betweens in the tax collection....
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