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A suspected robber leader was killed in a reported gunfight with detective branch (DB) of police at Kanchan bridge area in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj on Thursday. The deceased was...
Exercising twice a week may improve memory and thinking ability in people with mild cognitive impairment, according to a guideline released Wednesday by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN). The...
US President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has been accused by a singer of slapping her buttocks without her consent at a party in November. Joy Villa, a...
Japan’s industrial production rose 0.60 percent in November from a month earlier, trade ministry data showed on Thursday. The industrial output rises more than expected as robust overseas demand continues...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said the overall progress of the much expected Padma Bridge rose to more than 50 per cent, reports BSS. "The main construction work...
Peru's culture minister, Salvador del Solar, has resigned amid continuing controversy over the president's decision to pardon the country's former leader, Alberto Fujimori. Fujimori was jailed for corruption and human...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) in a mobile court drive on Thursday evicted some 200 illegal establishments and removed over 1000 banners, festoons, signboards and billboards from Farmgate area of...
Japanese share edged up on Thursday, although wider gains in industrial-related stocks were offset by weakness in banking shares as activity waned heading into the year-end. The Nikkei was up...
The central bank issued a show-cause notice against a leading private commercial bank (PCB) on Wednesday for allegedly providing misleading information on foreign exchange rate, particularly for exporters. The PCB,...
Wall Street eked out a slight gain on Wednesday, as advances in some major technology stocks offset losses in energy and helped keep major indexes just above the unchanged mark....
It took thousands of years after humans started hunting and eating animal meat before they could learn how to tame some animals. This strange love for wild animals later developed...
At least 10 people have been injured after an explosion at a supermarket in the Russian city of St Petersburg. One person is said to be in serious condition following...
The proverb 'It is better late than never' must have worked this time in the case of the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC). The energy regulator has asked the Bangladesh...
There seems to be a collective suicidal attempt -- one that corresponds to the Japanese word harakiri -- to destroy the country's education system. Question leak in public examinations at...
Mother Nature struck with a vengeance during 2017. It was less a year of calamity-specific records being broken, though there was a case or two of that, as it was...
As they celebrate Christmas, Germans are also remembering the dead from last year's attack on a Berlin Christmas market by a migrant who had been denied asylum. That incident fanned...
In global trade arena, the tariff protection mechanism practised by the importing countries are losing its attraction due to bilateral, regional and plurilateral trade liberalising agreements. Due to World Trade...
The top 10 traded companies, including four banks, captured nearly 44 per cent transaction of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) Wednesday while Lafarge Surma Cement accounted for more than 20...
Although BNP had a plan to stage a comeback in politics reorganising it at the grassroots level, the outgoing year - 2017 - apparently turned into another bad year for...
Dhaka remained active in various global forums strengthening bilateral ties, particularly in terms of economic cooperation, in 2017 – but has not succeeded in using its geopolitical and geostrategic importance...
A man and his daughter died in a road accident on Thursday. The accident took place when a bus rammed their motorcycle at Bypass road in Kandivita area of Natore...
The size and expenditure of the annual development programme (ADP) has marked a significant increase over the past few years. In the current fiscal year (FY) 18, the ADP has...
Income tax collection witnessed a robust growth of 15.60 percent during the July-November period of the current fiscal year (FY18). The income tax collection during the five-month period (July-November) of...
Transactions in the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) increased by 82.08 per cent year-on-year with a total turnover of Tk 2.17 trillion in 2017 and a daily average turnover of Tk...
The country’s industrial units in the Economic Zones (EZs) will need around 270,000 employees in total within next five years. A study conducted by the Access to Information (a2i) programme...
A roadside mine killed six children in the Afghan’s Northern Province of Balkh on Thursday. "A group of children were playing near a school in Dawlat Abad district Wednesday evening,...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said that punitive action would be taken against any party man involved in nomination infighting centering the election to the Dhaka South City...
Nearly 437,700 email accounts with addresses ending with ".vn" (Vietnam) have been leaked with personal information and passwords. The mass exposed happened through foreign social networks and online services. Of...
A 98-year-old Indian citizen, Raj Kumar Vaishya, has passed the MA (economics) examination from Patna's Nalanda Open University (NOU) with a second division. Graduated in 1938, Mr Vaishya expressed his...
The country’s telecommunication and information technology sectors, buoyed by robust growth that took place in last few years, have generated diversified employment opportunities for the countrymen – especially among the...
Flight operations remained halted for more than five hours at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Thursday. The air service disruption continued from 5:00am to 10:15am in the morning....
The US embassy in Dhaka, including the American Center, will remain closed on Monday on the occasion of New Year's Day, an American holiday. The embassy, including the Consular Section...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has criticised the government physicians for their lack of willingness to stay at workplaces across the country’s remote areas. “When we appoint new doctors, and give...
Chairman of University Grants Commission Prof Abdul Mannan has said that the public universities will get Tk 40 million every year for research quality improvement. He said the government allocated...
The Union Government of Myanmar will provide K20 billion for fencing along the Myanmar-Bangladesh border.It has taken as a first phase to quickly implement the project. The Ministry of Home...
Bangladesh is currently facing the world’s worst case of mass arsenic poisoning. According to survey data collected between 2000 and 2010, approximately 35 to 77 million people in Bangladesh have...
Myanmar “feels sad” over a US decision to sanction a military general, a government spokesman said. Washington linked the commander last week to abuses against the Rohingya Muslim minority. of...
Agriculture experts are expecting bumper production of groundnut as farmers have exceeded the fixed farming target of the cash crop by 36.72 percent during the current Rabi season in Rangpur...
Google is making its voice assistant sound more like humans than robots. The company is working on a new text-to-speech system called Tacotron 2 which is essentially a neural network...
A suicide attack on an office of the Afghan Voice news agency and a neighboring cultural center in the capital Kabul killed dozens on Thursday, officials and witnesses said, with...
A three-day regional Ijtema has begun in Jessore district. Mufti Abdul Bareq, Kakrail Mosque Imam, delivered the opening speech at the congregation, kicked off on Thursday morning. Thousands of Muslim...
NRB Bank Limited opened its 36th branch at Kazirhat area in Zajira upazila of Shariatpur on Tuesday. BM Muzammel Haque, MP, Shariatpur-1, was present in the programme as the chief...
The country's local garment factories those meet mainly domestic demand are running without rules and regulations, often violating workers' rights severely, according to a new study. More than half of...
Bangladesh is one of the bottom-ranked countries in Asia in terms of processing agricultural produces that makes a strong bite on the country's export earnings from farm sector, according to...
Border Security Force (BSF) of India picked up a Bangladesh national from Burimari border point in Lalmonirhat district on Thursday. The detainee was identified as Abdul Latif, 25, son of...
Australian shares ticked up to a near 10-year closing high on Thursday, driven by financials while materials rode higher on stronger commodities prices. The S&P/ASX 200 index rose 0.3 per...
United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB) has opened its 176th branch at Anowara upazila of Chittagong district. Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, MP, State Minister, Ministry of Land, inaugurated the branch on Tuesday, says...
SINGAPORE (S&P Global Ratings) Dec. 27--S&P Global Ratings Tuesday published its "Banking Industry Country Risk Assessment: India." "We classify the banking sector of India in group '5' under our...
Asian shares were mixed on Wednesday in quiet holiday trading after oil prices erased some of its recent gains and the region generally shrugged off the dip in technology stocks...
The government is working to adopt the revised Detailed Area Plan (DAP) for Dhaka for the 2016-2035 period, updating the existing database, amid doubts from the experts and environment activists...
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