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The chief of staff of the Yemeni army has been injured by a land mine that went off while he was visiting the northern al-Jouf province, where heavy fighting between...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will quiz six more members of AB Bank on Sunday over alleged laundering of Tk 1.65 billion to UAE. The directors of AB Bank are -...
World University of Bangladesh (WUB) has organised students’ orientation programme of spring semester-2018 at its auditorium. The WUB arranged the programme for the Faculty of Science & Engineering, Faculty of...
Street crews are digging out snow-clogged roads across the US east coast after a powerful “bomb cyclone” winter storm, with temperatures set to plunge further during the brutal cold spell...
Author Shawkat Ali has been put on life support around 5:30am on Saturday, his son Asif Shawkat Kallol told. He is 81. Doctors will brief the family on his condition...
Hundreds of farmers in Panchagarh are showing interest in cultivating different varieties of pluses due to their lucrative market price. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office sources,...
Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro said that they would issue 100 million units of its new oil-backed cryptocurrency in coming days. He announced to issue the cryptocurrency when the OPEC member...
Virgil van Dijk made a dream start to his Anfield career, scoring the winning goal on his debut for Liverpool, as they beat city rivals Everton 2-1 in a pulsating...
Temperature in Rajshahi and Chuadanga has fallen to 5.8 degrees Celsius as a cold wave continues to sweep across the country in the first week of 2018. Khulna, Rangpur and...
Four police officials have been killed after the rebels fighting against Indian rule in disputed Kashmir detonated a bomb in the northwestern town of Sopore, police say. Police say the...
At least 20 Islamic state militants including two commanders were killed as the government forces planes targeted the hardliner group's hideouts in Afghanistan’s eastern Laghman province on Friday night, an...
Police recovered 181 bottles of Phensidyl syrup from a truck at Ramnagar on Dhaka-Magura road in sadar upazila on Thursday night. Police waylaid a Dhaka-bound truck, fully loaded with vegetables,...
South Korean stock index rose on Friday, while the Korean won edged up and bond yields rose. The benchmark index rebounded after slipping due to heavy profit-taking by local institutions...
Police recovered the body of an unidentified woman from Keraniganj, at the outskirts of the city. Police found the body, with a scarf wrapped around the neck, on Thursday after...
Most Southeast Asian stock markets rose on Friday as Asian equities drew heart from record-setting gains on Wall Street overnight. Philippine shares rose more than 1.0 per cent. SM Investments...
Hong Kong shares mostly rose on Friday, tracking the energy shares. The sub-index of the Hang Seng index rose 0.8 per cent while the IT sector fell 0.1 per cent....
Some big hitting by the lower order helped England reach 346 and a competitive first-innings total at lunch on the second day of the fifth Ashes test. Despite losing their...
Game of Thrones viewers will have to wait until next year to see how the HBO drama will come to an end. While it's been speculated the final season of...
BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed on Friday said BNP must not take part in the upcoming election under the incumbent government. Moudud made the remarks while addressing a...
Prices of fish and some vegetables increased last week raising the woes of consumers already buffeted by the jump in prices of essentials. Fish prices, especially those of indigenous, witnessed...
Despite having higher allocation in Annual Development Programme (ADP), Bangladesh Railway (BR) could spend only 10 per cent in the first half of the current fiscal year due to mainly...
The country's export earnings grew by 7.15 per cent to over US$ 17.91 billion in the first half of the current fiscal year comparing to the corresponding period of last...
Uber Technologies Inc co-founder Travis Kalanick, who was ousted as chief executive in June, will sell nearly a third of his shares in the ride-services company for about $1.4 billion,...
The United States said on Thursday it was suspending an undisclosed amount of security assistance to Pakistan, which two officials said was worth more than $255 million, until Islamabad takes...
Apple has said that all iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers are affected by two major flaws in computer chips. It emerged this week that tech companies have been racing to...
Asian shares inched closer to a record high on Friday as US jobs data pointed to firm economic growth although the greenback was soft as the spectre of benign inflation...
Former world number one Serena Williams has withdrawn from this month's Australian Open in Melbourne. The 36-year-old American last week played her first match since giving birth in September, the...
BNP will stage demonstrations in all wards of Dhaka city on Saturday protesting denial of permission to it for holding rally at Suhrawardy Udyan marking what it calls “Democracy Killing...
The ongoing cold wave across the country may last for a day or two across the country sending the temperature to as low as 6.5 degrees Celsius on Thursday. According...
Former local Awami League leader Torab Ali, who was acquitted in the Peelkhana massacre trial, has died. He was among the 12 people acquitted from the charges by the High...
The death toll from the previous night's suicide attack in Kabul has jumped to 20, with another 27 policemen wounded, said Afghan police. The attack took place on Thursday night...
India has cancelled an order to buy Spike anti-tank guided missiles from Israel’s state-owned defence contractor Rafael, the company said on Wednesday. The deal was worth about $500 million and...
Taking lessons from the flight hiccups during 2017’s Hajj season, the national flag carrier does not want to take any risk this year. Biman has decided to induct four aircraft...
Former caretaker government adviser Dhiraj Kumar Nath died on Friday at the of 73. Family sources said the retired bureaucrat breathed his last at 5:55pm at Labaid Hospital in Dhaka,...
The human rights body of the OIC has said the situation of Rohingyas bears the characteristics of an organised campaign of ethnic cleansing. Rohingya pogrom is a crime against humanity...
China stocks extended their New Year rally on Friday, underpinned by robust gains in real estate firms. At 04:02 GMT, the Shanghai Composite index was up 7.95 points or 0.23...
Japan’s Nikkei share average extended the previous session’s gains on Friday, probing 26-year highs as banking and brokerage shares rose. Toshiba shares firmed on news of a buyer for its...
Fourteen Bangladeshis including five children, returned home through Benapole check-post on Thursday night after serving jail term for one and a half years in India. Tarikul Islam, officer-in-charge of Benapole...
New Zealand shares index drew back from record highs on Friday hit in the previous session. The benchmark S&P/NZX 50 fell 0.3 per cent, its biggest intraday percentage drop since...
Australian shares hit a fresh 10-year high on Friday and were set to finish the first week of 2018 in the black, as financials and mining stocks rallied on strong...
US stocks extended the New Year’s rally on Thursday, while the Dow industrials broke above the 25,000 level for the first time. The 30-member blue-chip index crossed five 1,000-point marks...
Real Madrid are on the verge of reaching the Copa del Rey quarter-finals after winning 3-0 at Numancia on Thursday while holders Barcelona still have work to do after being...
North and South Korea will hold official talks next week for the first time in more than two years after Pyongyang accepted Seoul’s offer for dialogue, just hours after the...
Neymar has threatened to quit PSG if they sign Cristiano Ronaldo. According to Spanish outlet Don Balon, Neymar will do all in his power to stop that happening. The report...
Ferry services on the Paturia-Daulatdia route in the Padma River disrupted since early Thursday due to heavy fog. The authorities of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) suspended the ferry...
A police constable went missing as a trawler of River Police capsized in the Meghna River after being hit by a sand-laden bulkhead near Char Abdullah in sadar upazila. Constable...
Fuel & power sector dominated the Dhaka bourse transaction chart Thursday led by United Power Generation & Distribution Company while top 10 traded companies captured 27 per cent of the...
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) is set to bring all public places under free WiFi coverage from the next month, allowing residents to get uninterrupted internet access, officials said. To...
Eight listed companies were downgraded to 'Z' category, a trading platform for worst-performing companies, from the best and medium performing status in 2017 as two of them were not in...
Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) has finalised a standard for the paint manufacturing industry, setting the limit of harmful lead content for household paint at maximum 90ppm (parts per...
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