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US stocks ended 2017 as their best year since 2013 on a down note on Friday, with losses in technology and financial stocks keeping equities in negative territory for the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday formally launched the distribution of free textbooks among students up to the secondary level for the academic year 2018. She handed over textbooks to...
Turkey has finalised a deal with Moscow for the purchase of Russia's S-400 anti-missile system, Turkish defense officials announced Friday, despite concerns voiced by some of the NATO member's allies....
Transaction on the over-the-counter (OTC) market of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) jumped 17-fold in the outgoing calendar year 2017 compared to the previous year. The shares of the companies, which...
A Thai court has sentenced a fraudster to more than 13,000 years in prison. Pudit Kittithradilok, 34, admitted running a Ponzi scheme whereby he promised investors artificially high financial returns....
A 3-year-old boy playing with the burners on a kitchen stove started a fire in a New York City apartment building leaving 12 people dead, including four children on Friday....
The education sector was blighted by a series of question paper leaks in the year 2017 when papers from Primary Education Completion to Junior School Certificate examinations were made available...
Demonstrators chanted anti-government slogans in several cities across Iran, Iranian news agencies and social media reports said, as price protests turned into the largest wave of demonstrations since nationwide pro-reform...
Winter in this country appears nowadays with a few distinctive features every year. They are prominently visible and atmospheric, sensory to be precise. The visually prominent features include making and...
Finance Minister A M A Muhith has recently emphasised the need for taking 'fast action' by all concerned to ease congestion at the Chittagong Port. This will help lower the...
The good news is that the water quality of the much abused Buriganga River has improved to some extent but the bad news is that the sources of pollution are...
Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) will set up three new grid-substations in different parts of the country. The state-owned company will also carry out extension works in 5 existing...
Some major economic-financial indicators performed well below par in the outgoing calendar year, casting their adverse impacts on Bangladesh's economic health, experts said. The underperformances are: a negative overall balance...
A man believed to be strapped with explosives has taken nine adults and two children hostage in a post office in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Regional police said on...
At least 25 people were injured as a bus plunged into a roadside ditch at Kadirpur Jamadarni intersection in Godagari upazila of Rajshahi on Saturday afternoon. Hipzur Alam Munsi, officer-in-charge...
For years after the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers congratulated themselves for having averted a second Great Depression. They had responded to the global recession with the kind of Keynesian fiscal...
Two local Awami League (AL) leaders were arrested along with 10 kilograms of venison from Bakultala village in Sarankhola upazila of Bagerhat on Saturday. The arrestees were identified as Jafar...
Transactions of all banks will remain closed on Sunday (tomorrow) as it is the last day of 2017. "Banking transactions will be closed. But we will perform our official activities,"...
This Christmas, America's gift to the world was a $285 million cut in the United Nations' regular budget. Technically, the UN regular budget reflects a consensus decision of the body's...
"If we really all support the WTO, if we really do, we have to bear in mind that multilateralism doesn't mean that we get what we want. It means we...
Russian Supreme Court has upheld the ban against country's opposition leader Alexei Navalny from next year’s presidential election. The court on Saturday dismissed an appeal by Alexei Navalny against a...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday expressed his optimism and confidence about returning to power through the 11th parliamentary polls. "We've been on a movement, and will...
Some 6,000 Swiss car owners has sought damages from German Volkswagen and local car dealer AMAG over emissions scandal. Country's consumer protection organisation SKS has filed a claim with the...
Three people have died in a landslide while removing slope soil from a hill in Rangunia upazila of Chittagong on Saturday afternoon. The incident took place around 2.30pm at Dakkhin...
A Cairo criminal court sentenced former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and 19 others to three years in prison on Saturday on charges of insulting the judiciary. The court also fined...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the authorities concerned to give special attention to academic activities in their educational institutions. "Our students are talented ones. We're giving them all sorts...
Walton has introduced its latest invention ‘Big Screen Multi-touch Compo-TV’, the first of its kind in Bangladesh. A consumer can control all functions of the television by just touching its...
Thousands of marginal farmers in Sylhet division are passing a busy time in farming various kinds of winter vegetables during the current season. An increase in demand has caused them...
President M Abdul Hamid called upon the social and professional organisations to work together with the government to ensure the country’s local development. A joint-effort is a must to do...
Employers dictate the terms in recruitment tests for the physically-challenged people as the existing policy is fraught with flaws and complexities. Despite completing higher education, the physically-challenged people get a...
A man was killed and 14 people were injured in a collision between a truck and a human hauler on Magura-Jessore highway in Shimulia area of Sadar upazila of Magura...
Myanmar on Friday freed two journalists working for Turkey’s state broadcaster, their local interpreter and a driver after they completed a two-month jail sentence for violating an aircraft law by...
Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) has arranged its 46th Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Dhaka. Jamal Ahmed Choudhury FCMA, President of the Institute, presided over the...
Unidentified miscreants hacked a local activist of Jubo League to death in Ghoshpara Beel area of Shyamnagar upazila on Friday night. The deceased was Asadur Rahman, 35, son of Abdul...
A fish enclosure owner was stabbed to death by some miscreants in Goshpara bil area of Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Asadur Rahman...
Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL) has launched country’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based banking chatbot titled ‘EBL DIA’ (EBL Digital Interactive Agent) - where anyone can interact with EBL through chatting with...
A Bangladeshi national was gunned down by the members of Border Security Force (BSF) of India along Daikhawa border in Hatibandha upazila early Saturday. The deceased was Shafikul Islam, 22,...
Australia's bid for an Ashes whitewash is over but they escaped with a draw in the fourth Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), thanks to yet another Steve Smith...
The first ever NRB Conclave, organised by Bangladesh Brand Forum (BBF) began today (Saturday) at a city hotel. "This initiative explores models and approaches to engage the Non Resident Bangladeshis...
China’s central bank has decided to raise the reserve funds ratio of third-party payment firms to 50 per cent by April 2018 from a current rate of 20 per cent,...
The flight operations that were disrupted for nine hours at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka resumed on Friday morning. Rezaul Karim, public relation officer at Civil Aviation Authority of...
Two construction workers died in separate accidents at their working places in Chittagong city on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Jamsher Ali, 55, son of Mohammad Bachchu of Shantipur...
Apple and Amazon are in licensing discussions with Riyadh on investing in Saudi Arabia, two sources told Reuters, part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's push to give the conservative...
SYLHET, Dec 28: The much-talked about move to shift the 200-year old Sylhet Central Jail to its new location, suburban Badaghat, area has failed again. Delayed construction of different buildings...
American Airlines has apologised to two professional basketball players who were kicked off a flight after being wrongly accused of theft. Marquis Teague and Trahson Burrell boarded a plane on...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel nabbed 13 people while illegally entering Bangladesh from India along Borochhara border in Jessore on Thursday noon. The arrestees were identified as Zafar Sheikh, 40,...
At least 11 ferries, which were stranded mid-river of Padma, have been rescued after about three hours. Ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia route were disrupted due to dense fog on Friday...
Twelve people were killed, including an infant, and four were critically injured on Thursday in a fire in an apartment building in New York City’s borough of the Bronx, said...
Despite a significant rise in the country's outbound jobs, the growth of remittances is set to decline in the outgoing year 2017, said a RMMRU report on Thursday. Refugee and...
Manchester City moved 15 points clear at the top of the English Premier League as it extended its winning run to 18 games at Newcastle on Wednesday, reports AP. Raheem...
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