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Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has handed over 150 cheques to the nominees of RMG workers and employees who died during their service. The government trade body organised...
Australian shares fell to their weakest level in over a week on Thursday, after Wall Street was pressured by a report that China may slow its buying of US governments...
Axe-wielding robbers looted jewelry on Wednesday possibly worth more than $5 million from a store in the famed Ritz Paris hotel, police said. Five thieves carried out the heist at...
WaveMaker, GroupM’s new billion-dollar revenue, media, content and technology agency created from the merger of MEC and Maxus, started business in Bangladesh. Wavemaker Bangladesh, also a part of Asiatic 360,...
Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May will pledge on Thursday to eliminate avoidable plastic waste within 25 years, in an attempt to shift the focus away from her government’s divisions over...
A new report on Tuesday claimed that green sea turtles in Australia's Great Barrier Reef could be in danger of going extinct due to warmer ocean temperatures. Conducted by the...
A bomb went off in the centre of the Pakistani city of Quetta, capital of the province of Balochistan, killing seven people and wounding 23 on Tuesday, police and hospital...
RAJSHAHI, Jan 9: Rajshahi silk factory is going to restart operation once again after 16-years of closure. Fazley Hossain Badsha, Member of Parliament of Rajshahi sadar constituency, has taken up...
Harpic, a leading toilet cleaner brand Tuesday began its 40-year celebration programme at the Lakeshore Hotel in the city. A new pack for Harpic was also unveiled in the event,...
SIRAJGANJ, Jan 9: Spinach cultivation brings solvency amid 30,000 marginal peasants in Sirajganj upazila in this current season due to its good market price with assistance of authority concern. The...
Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Anisul Huq has said that the new judges will be appointed soon to both the Appellate Division and High Court Division of the...
Valencia’s Luciano Vietto scored a hat-trick, including a stunning strike from nearly 50 metres, as they thrashed Las Palmas 4-0 to reach the Copa del Rey quarter-finals 5-1 on aggregate...
A massive earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck north of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea on Tuesday, sparking a tsunami warning in the area, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. The...
Secondary trading of treasury bills and treasury bonds, two short-and long-term fixed income government securities, declined steeply last year. Latest statistics of the central bank showed that the total turnover...
Scheduled banks' fund management came under close supervision as the central bank issued Tuesday directives on wholesale borrowing (WB) and commitment for maintaining a sound asset-liability balance. Under the new...
Bangladesh is hoping for a new beginning with Myanmar through the repatriation of Rohingays, whose influx has remained as an irritant in the bilateral relations. "With the repatriation of the...
The government will send 1.2 million workers abroad in 2018, said expatriates' welfare and overseas employment minister Nurul Islam on Wednesday. More skilled workers will be included among them to...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of his historic Homecoming Day. She paid the homage...
Stocks on both bourses have witnessed an uptrend in early trading as investors were active on both sides of trading fence on Wednesday. The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the...
Manpower export from the Chittagong region increased substantially last year to around 58,000 people, highest in recent years, thanks to necessary services to the outbound workers at home. Some 57,...
A special court has sentenced two people – Yunus Ahmed and Ujer Ahmed Chowdhury – to death for their 1971 crimes, including genocide, in Moulvibazar. The International Crime Tribunal...
Kazi Mamunul Haq, economic editor of the now defunct the Bangladesh Observer, has died at the age of 72. Haq breathed his last at his Shantinagar residence around 10:30pm on...
Rohingya children need a political solution to the issue of legal identity and citizenship and in the interim they need to be recognised first and foremost as children, said the...
Oil prices hit their highest levels since 2014 on Wednesday due to ongoing production cuts led by OPEC as well as healthy demand, although analysts cautioned that markets may be...
Intel's chief executive has said software fixes to address the recently discovered Meltdown and Spectre bugs in microchips would be released in the next few days. Brian Krzanich was speaking...
World Bank has estimated that Bangladesh economy will grow by 6.40 per cent in the current fiscal year (FY18). The multilateral lending agency came up with the growth projection in...
Zimbabwe’s anti-corruption agency is investigating whether former first lady Grace Mugabe was wrongly awarded a university doctorate more than three years ago, an official said on Tuesday. Grace, whose efforts...
A woman was hacked to death over land dispute in Mohichile village of Chandina upazila of Comilla on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Shilpi Rani Das (38), wife...
BRAC Bank has launched a health card in association with Mastercard and Apollo Hospitals aiming to facilitate Bangladeshi patients’ transaction in India. This first-ever co-branded health card was launched on...
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) ended marginally lower on Wednesday, extending the losing streak for fifth days. Market insiders said investors went on the...
The roads in and around the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka is completely gridlocked following protests over the arrival of a top religious scholar from India to attend the...
BNP on Wednesday said the transfer of 14 cases filed against its Chairperson Khaleda Zia to a Bakshibazar special court is a brutal government step. "The transfer of 14 false...
The body of a newborn wrapped in a bag was thrown from a human-hauler at Bamnabamni village in Jaldhaka upazila on Wednesday. Witnesses said a man and a woman threw...
India’s rice exports likely jumped 22 per cent in 2017 to a record 12.3 million tonnes as Bangladesh stepped up purchases after flooding affected its crops, industry officials told Reuters....
Indian batting maestro Virat Kohli got out cheaply in the first innings of the first Test against South Africa that upset many, but one of his fans took things way too...
About 100 Rohingya children are stranded in Myanmar without their parents after military operations drove 655,000 people into Bangladesh since August, the United Nations said. Another 60,000 Rohingya children are...
The High Court on Wednesday directed the Anti-Corruption Commission to conduct inquiry into the properties of former managing director of BASIC Bank Kazi Fakhrul Islam and former deputy managing director...
Bangladesh Export Promotion Bureau (BEPB) has updated country's export earning on an upbeat note. It has a clear pattern to it rather than a patchy score-card of spurts here and...
In Islamic banks, depositors who deposit for sharing profit or loss with banks are known as IAHs (investment account holders). The IAHs typically expect their funds to be managed and...
A four-day fair related to garment accessories and packaging products, known as 'GAPEXPO' will begin on January 24 in the city's International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB). The Bangladesh Garments Accessories...
Weather and climate-related disasters cost the United States a record $306 billion in 2017, the third-warmest year on record, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Monday. The...
Top 10 companies grabbed 33 per cent of the total turnover featured by Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Tuesday. The premier bourse DSE featured a turnover of above Tk 4.48...
The securities regulator Tuesday approved the draft prospectus of Credence First Shariah Unit Fund. The initial size of the fund will be Tk 100 million. The approval came at a...
China’s producer prices rose at their slowest pace in 13 months in December, as the government’s war against winter smog dented factory demand for raw materials in a sign the...
The stricken Iranian oil tanker in the East China Sea could burn for as long as one month, South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries told Reuters on Wednesday, as...
Singing could help mothers recover from post-natal depression more quickly, a study suggests. Researchers found that women who took part in group singing sessions with their babies experienced a much...
Comparing his situation with the revolt of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the recently ousted prime minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif has said his country pushed Bangladesh to break away. Speaking...
Two Reuters journalists detained in Myanmar are due to appear in court today (Wednesday), when prosecutors could request that charges be filed against them over an accusation they broke the...
Mudslides, boulders and tons of debris killed at least 13 people on Tuesday in communities along California’s scenic coastline ravaged by a series of intense wildfires that burned off protective...
Shares of Eastman Kodak Co (KODK.N) more than doubled on Tuesday after the one-time leader in photography became the latest company to jump on the cryptocurrency bandwagon. The storied Rochester,...
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