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Annual mango production in the country is estimated to have dropped in the just-concluded calendar year. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations made the projection recently....
At least 36 people were killed in Peru on Tuesday when a bus collided with a truck and careened off a cliff along a sharply curving highway north of the...
The government plans to increase the share of Bangladesh flag vessels in overseas cargo carrying to 60 per cent from the existing 40 per cent. The plan will be implemented...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has brought a major change in cabinet in the final year of her government ahead of parliamentary election. A gazette notification, signed by Cabinet Secretary Mohammad...
The government now intends to build a bigger-sized LNG import terminal having the capacity of 7.5 million tonnes per year (Mtpa) instead of 5.5 Mtpa to meet the demand for...
By all accounts, the month-long Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF), held each year, has failed to do justice to its name. An international trade fair is something different from what...
The securities regulator has extended the timeframe till December 31, 2018 for keeping provision against unrealised losses in portfolios of merchant banks, stock dealers and their clients. The existing deadline...
The apex court of the country accepted the gazette notification on disciplinary rules for the lower court judges Wednesday. Led by acting Chief Justice Abdul Wahhab Miah, a five-member Appellate...
The securities regulator has approved Advent Pharma's IPO proposal to raise Tk 200 million from public. The approval came at a meeting held at the office of Bangladesh Securities and...
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) finally incorporated housing facility for the low-income people into its major apartment project in the capital's Uttara area. However, the prices of these flats are beyond...
Gaming addiction is to be listed as a mental health condition for the first time by the World Health Organisation. Its 11th International Classification of Diseases (ICD) will include the...
Asian stocks struck a decade peak on Wednesday as risk appetites were whetted by a bevy of upbeat manufacturing surveys that confirmed a synchronised upturn in world growth was well...
The United States has called on Myanmar to take further steps to ensure that everyone has full and equal access to the opportunities and the benefits of the latter's democratic...
A helicopter of Bangladesh Air Force made an emergency landing inside the camp of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Sreemangal on Wednesday morning. Four people, including the pilot and foreign...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday warned of what he calls the enemies' all-out efforts, including inciting unrest, to harm the Islamic republic. The enemy has been always...
Transcom electronics Limited will supply and install 226 ton Daikin brand VRV commercial air conditioner to Laila Styles Ltd, said a statement. Yeamin Sharif Chowdhury, Head of Business of Transcom...
Another worker has died from critical injuries sustained on Tuesday in a mudslide while extracting stones from a quarry in Sylhet, taking the death toll to five. Sadek Miah, 40,...
Stocks extended gaining streak for sixth consecutive session on Wednesday, as optimistic continued their buying appetite on large-cap stocks. Market insiders said the bourse maintained the upward trend as investors...
At least 25 houses were gutted in a fire at a workers' colony in the city's Bhogra area on Wednesday morning. Jakir Hossain, senior station officer of Gazipur Fire Service...
Beijing is planning to build a 13.8 billion yuan ($2.12 billion) artificial intelligence development park in the city’s west, the official Xinhua news agency reported, as China pushes ahead to...
Unidentified miscreants gunned down UPDF central leader Mithun Chakma in Khagracchari’s Sadar Upazila. He was shot in the sluice gate area around 12pm on Wednesday, said Sadar Police Station OC...
Pakistan's Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Maleeha Lodhi condemned the United States (US) administration's aggressive remarks against Pakistan and said that Islamabad could "review its cooperation if it is...
The film 'Putra’focusing on autism will be released on Friday across the country. Department of Film and Publication under the Information Ministry produced the film with Jazz Multimedia presenting it...
Khaleda Zia's defence lawyer Advocate AJ Mohammad Ali has said Investigation Officer (IO) of the case Harun-Ur- Rashid made fake document to fabricate the case and plaintiffs delivered ‘white lie’...
An activist of ruling Awami League was killed in a “bomb attack” by his rivals over enmity in Jhikargachha upazila of Jessore on Wednesday noon. The deceased was identified as...
The government has appointed former senior secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan as the chairman of the National Board of Revenue. The retired bureaucrat has been brought back on a two-year contract,...
The number of jobless people in Germany fell by 183,000 in December compared with a year earlier and the country finished the year with a record 44.3 million people in...
The government has decided to revive 13 textiles mills that were shutdown 25 years ago due to huge losses and run them under a public-private partnership (PPP) initiative. The Ministry...
The Anti-Corruption Commission arrested an official of Directorate of Narcotics Control (DNC) for allegedly taking bribe of Tk two lakh in Jessore on Wednesday afternoon. Tipped off, a nine-member special...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said that the next general election would be held under the Election Commission (EC), not under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. "Next polls will...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gave financial assistance for the treatment of two officers of Bangladesh Army. "The prime minister gave donation of Tk 5 million for the treatment of Major...
Another new year has dawned, and on a world facing serious disruption on many fronts. What are the trends and issues to watch out for in 2018? One obvious answer...
First six-lane flyover of the country will be opened to traffic at Feni's Mohipal today (Thursday) with an aim to ease traffic congestion and ensure better communications through Dhaka-Chittagong Highway....
Bangladesh Judicial Service Association (BJSA), a platform of lower court judges, has alleged that the country's six renowned lawyers are engaged in an evil attempt to politicise the Masdar Hossain...
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of a tourist and his guide from South Africa's Table Mountain following an accident that trapped hundreds of people at the top of the popular...
Ten crew members were missing after a cargo vessel collided with another vessel in Wusongkou anchorage at Shanghai, China’s state-owned Xinhua News Agency reported, citing the Shanghai Maritime Search and...
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed upward trend in early hour of trading Wednesday as investors are active on sector-wise large-cap stocks. Following the previous...
China stocks extended winning streak on Wednesday. At 04:02 GMT, the Shanghai Composite index was up 30.46 points or 0.91 per cent at 3,378.79. The blue-chip CSI300 index was up...
US President Donald Trump has said in tweets that the United States may withhold future aid payments to Palestinians, accusing them of being “no longer willing to talk peace” with...
Commercial banks are expected to get a latest directive for implementing the asset-liability management (ALM) guidelines strictly to duck possible liquidity pressure in an emerging lopsided-market scenario. Officials said the...
Nateshwar excavation area of Vikrampura Buddhist archaeological location has all the potentials to emerge as another world heritage site in Bangladesh. It has got a unique combination of religious and...
United Power Generation & Distribution Company Ltd dominated the Dhaka bourse turnover chart Tuesday while top 10 traded companies grabbed nearly 24 per cent of the total transaction. Market insiders...
A fiery motorway crash in northern Italy has taken the lives of six people, Italian news reports say. Five of the dead, including two children were travelling together in a...
Bangladesh Air Force officer Commodore Zulfikar Aziz has been appointed as the new chairman of Chittagong Port Authority (CPA). Aziz will replace Rear Admiral M Khalid Iqbal as the new...
Iran warned of a tough crackdown on Sunday against demonstrators posing one of the boldest challenges to its clerical leaders since nationwide unrest shook the Islamist theocracy in 2009. How...
A move is underway to extend the quota facility in the initial public offerings (IPOs) for the small investors, who were affected by the capital market debacle in 2010-11. Bangladesh...
The banking sector topped the annual turnover chart on the premier bourse in 2017 replacing engineering, power and textile sectors riding on increased participation by general investors and sponsor-directors as...
Against the backdrop of rising acceptance of bitcoin, an online based virtual or crypto currency, Bangladesh Bank has issued a cautionary notice asking all to refrain from transacting it. The...
The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinees will have to enter their respective centres half an hour before the tests begin. Otherwise they will not be allowed to sit for the...
Policymakers in Bangladesh perhaps forget that the country's banking system has been modelled on the British system, not on the American one. In our textbooks on banking, we learned that...
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