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The eighteen wards newly added to the Dhaka North City Corporation will be included in the upcoming mayoral bypolls, said Former Election Commissioner Mohammad Abdul Mobarak . As a gazette...
Japan’s economy was expected to expand slightly faster in the third quarter than first estimated, a Reuters poll found. Strong capital spending and showing robust exports and business investment supported...
Former Barcelona defender Jeremy Mathieu scored an own goal against his old club as Sporting Lisbon's hopes of advancing from Group D ended. Sporting needed to win and hope Juventus...
Wind-driven fires tore through California communities Tuesday for the second time in two months, leaving hundreds of homes feared lost and uprooting tens of thousands of people. The most damaging...
Shanghai stocks fell to three-month lows on Wednesday, amid rising expectations that central banks will tighten liquidity, pushing interest rates higher. At 04:20 GMT, the Shanghai Composite index was down...
Japan’s Nikkei share average slipped on Wednesday, falling below its 25-day moving average almost for the first time since September, as materials, shippers and other cyclical shares came under pressure....
Six people have been injured in a train crash near the German city of Düsseldorf, emergency services say. A passenger train collided with a freight train in the town of...
President Donald Trump on Wednesday will recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and set in motion the relocation of the US Embassy to the ancient city, senior US officials said, a...
The United Nations political affairs chief begins a rare four-day visit to Pyongyang on Tuesday, reports BBC. The trip by Jeffrey Feltman is the first by a senior UN official...
Radish price has fallen sharply across the district. Sources said rate of the winter delicacy has dropped due to massive supply. Market sources said radish is being sold at Tk...
Bilateral transit between Bangladesh and Bhutan looks way off as they couldn't agree on terms of bank guarantee and validity of the treaty in their latest meeting, officials said. A...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday inaugurated the four-day Digital World, at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre here with the slogan ‘Ready for Thursday’. ICT Division in collaboration with Bangladesh Association...
The government is expecting to get necessary fund from two development partners for implementing another metro rail line (Hemayetpur-Gabtoli-Notun Bazar route) in the city. A mission from Asian Development Bank...
The Metropolitan Police said that two men arrested last week had been charged with terrorism offenses and would appear in Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday. The Metropolitan Police said in...
Police and the officials of Narcotics Control Department in several drives have arrested three suspected drug pedlars along with hemp, Yaba tablets and Phensidyl syrup from Jessore district. The arrestees...
A 4.9-magnitude earthquake rocked the central Philippines on Wednesday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. The epicenter of the earthquake was recorded 14 kilometers southwest of Salcedo,...
The UN Refugee Agency, in a resolution, has condemned the alleged systematic and gross violations of human rights and abuses committed against Rohingya Muslim community and other minorities in Myanmar....
Probashi Kallyan Bank (PKB) is set to go into operation as a scheduled bank by January as the Wage Earners' Welfare Fund (WEWF) has resolved fund-related complexities, sources said. The...
Over 1500 farmers are in much trouble in cultivating Boro paddy this season due to water crisis. Many of them from the five villages of unions under Jogonnathpur upazila in...
The central bank has launched a special inspection of the problem-ridden Farmers Bank Limited (FBL) to assess its real financial health, after heads rolled over a crisis of the trouble-hit...
Transfast, BRAC Bank and bKash, one of the world’s leading mobile financial service (MFS) providers recently launched a unique, international remittance receiving service in Bangladesh. The new service enables bKash’s registered...
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses saw positive trend in early trading Wednesday, penultimate trading day of the week, as investors continued their buying appetite on...
Roknoor Holdings Limited has expressed its intention to buy more than 3.64 million shares of the Premier Cement at prevailing market price through stock exchange within next 30 working days....
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has resumed the interrogation of former BASIC Bank Chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bachchu over a Tk 35 billion loan fraud accusation. The second day of Bachchu’s...
M2M Group arranged a roadshow of their products in The Westin Hotel Dhaka recently. Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed, MP, was the chief guest while Hosne Ara Begum, ndc, Managing Director,...
Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday that the country will create more opportunities and make a greater contribution for the world. Xi came up with the remarks in a...
Johnny Hallyday, France’s biggest rock star for more than half a century and an icon who packed sports stadiums and all but lit up the Eiffel Tower with his pumping...
France midfielder Corentin Tolisso scored twice on Tuesday to earn Bayern Munich victory but Paris St-Germain advance to the Champions League last-16 draw as Group B winners. Bayern needed to...
A raft of Chinese data in coming weeks is expected to show the world’s second-largest economy came under growing pressure in November as the government intensified crackdowns on polluting industries...
Chinese authorities have shut down an institute that was teaching women to be obedient and subordinate to men. The education bureau said the institute, which claimed it taught "traditional virtues",...
Asian powerhouse China has suggested that the international community should encourage Bangladesh and Myanmar to work together to facilitate the repatriation of refugees. The common ally of both the countries,...
The central bank has removed NRB Commercial Bank’s Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dewan Mujibur Rahman on charges of violating rules and regulations in sanctioning loans. Following...
Stocks slipped into the red Wednesday as risk-averse investors opted for booking profit on bank and telecom stocks. Dealers said investors were mostly inactive and not confident enough to put...
Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said the next parliamentary election will be held in the scheduled time. He also ruled out the possibility of snap poll. Quader...
The country's apparel export to USA declined by 4.93 per cent to $4.35 billion during January to October period of 2017 calendar year. Bangladesh fetched $ 4.58 billion from apparel...
The Exim Bank has launched app-based eWallet Banking Service to generate more transactions to reduce customers’ time and energy. Through the app, titled Apps Banking, the Exim Bank customers can...
Different donor countries have pledged to give an initial US$857 million for some 67 million displaced or stateless people worldwide in 2018 The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, will provide assistance...
The government has decided to import soon a total of 0.2 million tonnes of non-basmati boiled rice and wheat from India and Korea. The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP)...
Taxpayers can obtain electronic Taxpayer’s Identification Number (eTIN) and Value Added Tax (VAT) registration number from the four-day digital expo in city titled ‘Digital World-2017’ (DW17). The exposition kicked off...
Next week the world will observe a tense meeting in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. Trade ministers and policymakers of 164 countries of the world will gather there. They...
The journey of Human Resource Information System (HRIS) can be traced back to the 1950s and 1960s when the first automated payroll system was introduced (Martinsons, 1997). Back then, with...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith's proposal to raise the age limit from 60 to 65 for senior citizens does otherwise look innocuous. But its import may not be so innocent. Its...
Creator of humanoid robot Sophia Dr David Hanson has said Bangladeshi innovators can build their own robots to help society. He also appreciated the people of Bangladesh for taking interest...
A rare public spat in the technology industry escalated on Tuesday when Google said it would block its video streaming application YouTube from two Amazon.com Inc devices. It also criticized...
Carmaker Nissan plans to test self-driving taxis on Japanese roads from March next year. The company is partnering with Japanese software company DeNA, which operates online services for the gaming,...
The cultivators of the district are passing busy time in farming varieties of spicy crops this current season as a congenial weather condition has been prevailing in the region. Sources...
United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB) signed an agreement with Chittagong Metropolitan Police recently on “E-traffic Prosecution and Fine Payment System”. As per the agreement, payment of traffic case fine of...
The tax authority Tuesday inspected another company as part of its ongoing drive to find out incidences of non-compliance in payment of pay-roll tax by the foreign employees working in...
Asian stocks slipped on Wednesday, dragged by losses on Wall Street as the technology sector stuttered yet again after a brief rebound, while the dollar sagged on lower long-term US...
The US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Novo Nordisk A/S’s diabetes drug Ozempic, setting the stage for a heated battle with Eli Lilly & Co’s Trulicity. Ozempic, known...
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