Japan’s Nikkei share edged up up on Wednesday, with a rally in crude prices supporting oil-related shares. The Nikkei was 0.09 per cent higher at 22,912.43, according to Reuters. With...
JHENIDAH, Dec 26: The repair work of Tikary Bridge on the Narkelbaria-Tikary Road over the Sanchai river is yet to start though 18 months have already passed since it has...
Oil prices were stable on Tuesday, with Brent crude lingering near 2015 highs on the back of an outlook for healthy demand amid ongoing production cuts led by OPEC and...
BRAC Bank Limited held a Branch Managers Convention recently at Grand Sultan Tea Resort in Sreemangal. The two-day convention focused on branch banking strategy for capitalising market opportunities and providing...
Australian police are looking for the owner of a small crocodile found wandering the streets of Melbourne on Christmas Day. Locals taking an evening stroll stumbled across the reptile outside...
Stocks on both bourses witnessed upward trend in early hour of trading Wednesday as optimistic investors are showing their buying appetite on selective large-cap issues, especially Lafarge Surma Cement. Lafarge...
In the coming years, China shall aim at high-quality development, while seeking to forestall financial and international risks. The recent Central Economic Work Conference marked a historical point in China's...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) inaugurated its 16th agent banking outlet at Suhilpur Bazar in sadar upazila of Brahmanbaria district on Friday. Razwanur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner of Brahmanbaria district, was...
Roberto Firmino scored twice as Liverpool eased to a 5-0 win over bottom club Swansea City to remain fourth in the Premier League table. Juergen Klopp named Philippe Coutinho as...
The energy regulator asked the power board to gather information about international oil prices before making payment to private importers to check alleged price-fixing and money laundering. Sources said the...
Overall import orders almost doubled in the first five months of this fiscal year as opening letters of credit (LC) for bulk purchase for Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) gave...
Morocco and Niger signed 16 cooperation agreements to bolster bilateral ties, according to the Moroccan Foreign Ministry's website. These agreements were signed on Tuesday during the 4th Morocco-Niger joint bilateral...
Four people including a woman have been killed and at least 11 others wounded after a Kurigram-bound bus in which they were travelling, crashed into a roadside tree on the...
A court in Myanmar agreed on Wednesday to remand two Reuters journalists in custody for a second 14-day period as authorities continued a probe into allegations that they breached the...
Detective Branch (DB) of police discovered a yaba production factory at Double Mooring area in Chittagong city on Wednesday. Nearly 250,000 pieces of yaba tablets were found at the factory,...
The United Nations’ budget is set to shrink by over $285 million next year — a 5 per cent cut that the US government says it negotiated. The UN General...
The central bank has issued a cautionary notification over the transactions of virtual currencies like Bitcoin in the country. Saying that there is no legal framework of the crypto currencies...
Vroom Services Limited (Vroom) have launched Vroom Membership Card for all vehicle related services through mobile app (Vroom App) and 24/7 Vroom Call Center. The service is the first of...
The Business Club of Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT) has organised a seminar on ‘Why We Fail?’ at the permanent campus of the university, recently. The business club...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the Bangladesh Army is now quite different from the one a decade back in terms of infrastructure, strategy and technology. "The present army is...
Sri Lanka’s central bank is expected to keep its key interest rates unchanged this week to support the country’s economic growth. Economists predicted the central bank would keep its standing...
Alif Industries Limited will commence its share trading in the main market from Thursday staging a comeback from over-the-counter (OTC) market. Earlier, the company fulfilled all the requirements in this...
A Chinese consortium has started the construction of Bangladesh's first eco-friendly thermal power plant with ultra modern clean coal technology. The plant is being constructed near sea port in Payra town in Patuakhali...
South Korea’s government said on Wednesday it expects the economic recovery to continue in 2018 amid the slower economic growth. The government projected economic growth of about 3.0 per cent...
Nutrition screening of a good number of babies in Balukhali, Jamtoli and Thangkhali refugee camps in coastal Cox’s Bazar district have revealed that 11 per cent children there are suffering...
Cordis, Hong Kong introduces a package, titled Heavenly Deal room, with luxurious accommodation in Presidential Suite or Chairman Suite, a relaxing couple's spa treatment at the award-winning Chuan Spa. The...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has refused to play in the upcoming Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Emerging Teams Cup scheduled to be held in Pakistan. Before the BCB, the Board of...
Tea prices in the country edged higher at weekly auction on strong demand for quality leaves amid a lower volume on offer. Bangladeshi tea fetched an average price of 236.76...
The government will conduct a survey on agriculture and rural statistics aiming to determine the household based socio-economic conditions of the country’s rural areas and collect information on women's empowerment....
Two training aircrafts of the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) crashed in Maheshkhali of Cox's Bazar on Wednesday after a collision in midair. Sources said two planes caught fire soon after...
Awami League central executive committee will sit at Ganabhaban, the official residence of the Prime Minister on January 6. The meeting, with AL President Sheikh Hasina, also the Prime Minister,...
If the country did not have a bookstore of the order of a super store, it is going to have one soon. Next Friday, December 29 is expected to be...
Expelled Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader of Shariatpur Arif Hawladar has confessed that he raped six women, took video clips of the nefarious acts and released those on the internet....
At least 12 shops were gutted as a fire broke out at Baniakhali Bazar in Dumuria upazila of Khulna on Tuesday night. Locals said the fire originated from electric short...
Credit Rating Information and Services (CRISL) has informed that the Rating Committee of CRISL has assigned the rating to Square Pharmaceuticals Ltd. as “AAA” in the long term. The rating...
The government has reconstituted 14 teams that will monitor the price movements and prevent abnormal situation in the city markets, officials said. But the drives carried out by the monitoring...
Medical evacuations have begun from the Syrian rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta to Damascus, the International Committee of the Red Cross in Syria said early on Wednesday. Almost 400,000 people...
An electricity bill for more than $284 billion left a woman in the US state of Pennsylvania stunned... until she found out the amount was wrong. Mary Horomanski from Erie...
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has claimed his party will be a factor in the next national election. The former President on Wednesday also said they are yet to decide...
Apple Inc defrauded iPhone users by slowing devices without warning to compensate for poor battery performance, according to eight lawsuits filed in various federal courts in the week since the...
The heavyweight banking sector dominated the Dhaka bourse's transaction chart Tuesday while top 10 traded companies accounted for 28 per cent of the total turnover. Four banks made their way...
Yeakin Polymer has reduced 75 per cent production capacity as the company will change the total factory machinery layout plan for installation of the new capital machinery. "The company needs...
The government's revenue authority has instructed its tax offices to ensure representation of the tax lawyers in dealing with tax files following their allegations against involvement of supporting staff of...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will grill former chairman of AB Bank M Wahidul Haque and its managing director M Fazlur Rahman. The ACC sent notices on Wednesday to them face...
The country’s first ever garments unit in jail and Jamdani factory to be operated by prison inmates have been opened in Narayanganj. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal inaugurated the facilities...
Egg prices have hit nine-year low, putting the poultry farms especially smaller ones into doldrums. The situation has worsened further as the production cost of poultry farms have gone up...
Bangladesh will import 1.4 million tonnes of crude oil from Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi for the current fiscal year (2017-18) to meet the domestic requirement. Cabinet Committee on Public...
BANGLADESH has a bright future in the tourism sector as we have plenty of interesting sites to visit and places with uninterrupted natural beauty. But unfortunately this has yet to...
PREPARATIONS for New Year night celebrations are already on. It is the whole-hearted desire of the citizenry that the New Year be celebrated amid unmixed joy and festivity and peace...
A casual look at the import policy may give one an impression that sample import is very easy. But entrepreneurs actually encounter a lot of difficulties in importing samples for...
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