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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Paris for home on Wednesday night completing her three-day official visit to the French capital to attend the 'One Planet Summit'. An Emirates flight carrying...
A suicide bomber in police uniform blew himself up inside a police training camp in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Thursday, killing at least 13 police officers, officials said. Police spokesman...
Muslim leaders on Wednesday condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.They also called on the world to respond by recognizing East Jerusalem as the...
A criminal court in Ecuador on Wednesday sentenced the suspended vice-president, Jorge Glas, to six years in prison for illegal association in the bribery scheme of Brazilian construction firm, Odebrecht....
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has said it believes at least 6,700 Rohingyas were killed in the month after violence broke out in Myanmar in August. Based on surveys of refugees...
Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) opened a mixed trend Thursday amid a low turnover as investors remained cautious. Following the previous day’s marginal correction, the premier...
Sylhet town was freed on 15 December, just a day before the fall of the capital Dhaka after the 9-month long liberation war in 1971. The situation took a different...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday paid tributes to martyred intellectuals by placing a wreath at the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial at Mirpur in the city, marking the Martyred Intellectuals’ Day....
Police recovered the bodies of a couple from Bagha Upazila of Rajshahi. The housewife was found dead on the verandah of their home, while the husband’s body was found hanging...
Actress Salma Hayek has described Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein as a rage-fuelled "monster", alleging he sexually harassed and threatened her. Writing in the New York Times, Ms Hayek said Mr...
All French children under the age of 16 will have to seek parental approval to open an account on Facebook or any other social network under draft legislation presented on...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the present government is determined to resist any attack on the minority community. The incumbent government under the dynamic leadership of Prime...
Farmers are passing a busy time in preparing Boro seedbeds, particularly in the low-lying areas of Gopalganj this season. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) expects 90 tonnes of High...
The High Court on Thursday granted bail to the three owners of the Apan Jewellers-- Dildar Ahmed Selim, Gulzar Ahmed and Azad Ahmed-- in three cases out of five filed...
The United Nations has projected that Bangladesh economy will grow by 7.1 per cent in the current fiscal year (FY18). On top of it, the organisation also projected that the...
The High Court on Thursday directed the government to stop the production and also use of hydraulic horns of vehicles around school, college and hospital areas. The HC bench of...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved an additional $100 million for an existing microfinance risk participation and guarantee programme. The programme has been supporting growth and employment opportunities for over...
A development organisation of Netherlands is set to help in improving health and well-being of RMG workers in Bangladesh. To this end, partnership agreements were signed between SNV Netherlands Development...
Azam J. Chowdhury, Managing Director, MJL Bangladesh Limited, and Anis A. Khan, Managing Director & CEO, Mutual Trust Bank Limited, have been elected as the President and Vice-President (VP) respectively...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed has asked Ukraine to provide duty and quota free access of Bangladeshi products to their market. The minister made the request at a meeting with Ukrainian...
The total turnover of foreign trade in Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) almost doubled to Tk 12.53 billion in November. The amount is Tk 6.11 billion higher than the amount in...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has recommended eight steps, including investigation into illegal wealth of teachers, cancellation of the MCQ question pattern and formation of monitoring teams to stop coaching business....
Increasing financial irregularities in the banking sector are attributable to the lack of morals, reckon around 73 per cent bankers of the country. This is revealed at a workshop on...
Bangladesh accounted for 16.77 per cent of total tourist arrivals in India in November, topping the foreign tourists' arrival chart. The data showed the percentage share of Foreign Tourist Arrivals...
Chubb today (Thursday) announced two leadership appointments in the company's Asia Pacific business. Both appointments will be effective from February 01, 2018 and subject to regulatory approval, says a Media...
A group of 11 militiamen in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been jailed for life for raping about 40 children, including at least one baby. The girls they raped...
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday but left its rate outlook for the coming years unchanged even as policymakers projected a short-term jump in US economic growth from...
The Anti-Corruption Commission or ACC has recommended stopping question paper leaks, guidebooks, and private coaching centres in a report to the government. The commission recommended dropping multiple choice questions or...
Police arrested three operatives of militant outfit neo-JMB, including Abdus Samad alias Arif Mamu alias Ashique, one of its founders, in the city’s Mohakhali area of Dhaka on Wednesday night....
President Abdul Hamid paid homage to the martyred intellectuals by placing wreath at the Martyred Intellectuals' Mausoleum at Mirpur in the capital on Thursday morning. The President placed the wreath...
Facebook says its investigation into Russian attempts to influence the Brexit vote has determined the activity amounted to just three adverts. Twitter says its own inquiry has linked six ads...
The UK government has been narrowly defeated in a key vote on its Brexit bill after a rebellion by 11 Tory MPs. In a blow to Prime Minister Theresa May,...
Oil markets rose on Thursday, lifted by a fourth straight weekly fall in US crude inventories, though climbing output capped prices well below the 2015 highs reached earlier this week....
Amid growing concern over the contentious Jerusalem issue, Israel's Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz has invited Saudi Arabia's crown prince to visit Israel in an interview with a Saudi news outlet,...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday accused the Awami League (AL) of destroying the spirit of the Liberation War whenever they come to power by enfeebling freedom...
Two historically embattled spiritual cousins, Arabs and Jews, may be opening a new, more cordial chapter. Though driven by disparate factors, that ending has been privately progressing for quite some...
Nobel Laureate Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus has urged the global community towards building circular economy as a means to tackle the climate change challenges. He made these remarks during the...
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson appears to have been contradicted by the White House and his own department, after suggesting the US had softened its position on talks with...
The decision of President Donald Trump to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and shift the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem - the "Jerusalem decision" as it...
Science and Technology Minister Yafes Osman lauded Bangladeshi youths for their contribution to the IT and freelancing sector which grabbed developed world’s attention. The minister said it as a chief...
December 12, 2017 has been an auspicious day. It marked Kenya's independence from colonial rule in 1963. That was also Universal Health Coverage Day. It was the anniversary of the...
The country's ceramic industry, once best known for high quality tableware, thanks to few innovative entrepreneurs, has over the years witnessed a multi-dimensional growth. It has now developed to a...
So far as food security is concerned, 2017 must be a year of soul-searching for the country's planners. After years of self-sufficiency in food grains, Bangladesh had to drain out...
The global oil market will likely show a surplus in the first half of 2018, as rising US supply offsets OPEC's discipline in maintaining its production cuts for the whole...
Winter is now setting in. Vegetables associated with the cold season are coming to markets in plenty. There is a sufficient supply of vegetables from local business centres to retail...
Akayed Ullah, the man accused of setting off a bomb in a New York subway passage, last visited Bangladesh on September 8 and stayed for less than two months. His...
"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains" said Rousseau in the introduction to his treatise The Social Contract two and half centuries ago. Humans deprived of the...
The home ministry on Thursday promoted 96 Additional Superintendents of Police (Adi-SPs) to the rank of Superintendent of Police (SP). The promoted officers were upgraded to grade-5 from grade 6...
The Liberation War of 1971 is the most glorious chapter in the national history of Bangladesh. Every nook and cranny of the country still resonates with the heroic and courageous...
An Indian citizen has died of heart attack at the central jail of Jessore in Bangladesh. The deceased was identified as Domi Ram, 50, son of Santo Ram. Acting jailer...
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