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The world’s first-ever Robot citizen Sophia has surprised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina saying how much she knows about Bangladesh. The humanoid robot met her on Wednesday at the Digital World...
Jimmy Anderson continued his pink-ball masterclass but England must make history if they're to reel in an imposing target of 354 at Adelaide Oval, where Australia were rolled for 138...
Japan’s Nikkei share average dropped on Tuesday with semiconductor equipment manufacturers’ stocks hit by weakness in US tech shares overnight, undercutting gains for banks and brokerages. The Nikkei ended 0.4...
The United States and South Korea have begun large-scale military exercises south of the capital, Seoul, on Monday, involving hundreds of aircraft and thousands of soldiers, reports Al Jazeera. The...
A rainbow may be a wondrous sight but for most people it’s also a fairly fleeting one. But last week, professors and students of the Chinese Culture University in Taipei’s...
Farmers of eight districts under Rangpur division are apprehensive as sale of low quality and spurious Boro paddy seed is going on unabated at the beginning of seed sowing season....
The board of directors of Social Islami Bank Limited (SIBL) has decided to issue ‘SIBL 3rd Mudaraba Subordinated Redeemable Bond’ of Tk 5.0 billion for 7 years, said an official...
The board of directors of City Bank Limited has decided to issue subordinated debt (bond) worth Tk 7.0 billion, said an official disclosure on Tuesday. “The bank will issue the...
The eyes of the sporting world will be on the International Olympic Committee's headquarters in Lausanne on Tuesday evening when President Thomas Bach announces whether he and his board have...
The state-owned Petro-bangla has sought over Tk 26 billion from the government for paying the outstanding value added tax (VAT) and supplementary duty (SD) to the National Board of Revenue...
As of 2016, the country's banks' stressed advances -- the summation of non-performing, restructured and rescheduled loans -- stood at 17 per cent of their total outstanding loans, according a...
A Pakistani man has been arrested in the city of Haripur for writing "Long live India" on a wall. Police said the 20-year-old match factory worker had admitted writing the...
Any tangible task is yet to start on a planned tunnel under the river Jamuna as confusion over whether to do feasibility or pre-feasibility study clouds the way, sources said....
The US Supreme Court has ruled President Donald Trump's travel ban on six mainly Muslim countries can go into full effect, pending legal challenges. The decision is a boost for...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has got bail after surrendering to court over the Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Welfare Trust graft cases. The BNP chief has also been allowed to...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday stressed the importance of increasing connectivity and cooperation among Asian nations in the interest of the people of this region. The Prime Minister came...
French President Emmanuel Macron has told Donald Trump he is "concerned" the US leader could unilaterally recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Any decision on the contested city's status must be...
A software fix Apple released to close a serious Mac security bug may not have fixed the problem on some machines. The bug meant anyone with physical access to a...
Overall interest rate spread in the country's banking sector fell slightly in October as the commercial banks slashed their interest rates more on lending than that of deposits, officials said....
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed Education ministry to form managing committee within seven days to run the Lakehead Grammar Schoo in the capital. A five-member bench of the Appellate...
Credit prospects are better for Asia-Pacific economies given that market fears that were prominent a year agohave largely abated. That's according to S&P Global Ratings in a reportpublished recently, titled,...
The final vote count in Honduras' presidential election left the incumbent President with a narrow lead on Monday. But the main opposition candidate called the tally a fraud and urged...
A mobile court sentenced former Lakshmipur acting Civil Surgeon Salah Uddin Sharif to three months in jail for ‘mistreating’ Lakshmipur Additional Deputy Commissioner Shaikh Murshidul Islam. The court issued the...
A giant 709-carat diamond unearthed in Sierra Leone has sold at auction in New York for $6.5m (£4.8m). Laurence Graff, chairman of Graff Diamonds, won the precious stone - nicknamed...
Miscreants gunned down a former union parishad member in Boghachhari union of Naniarchar upazila on Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified as Anadi Ranjan Chakma, former UP member of Naniarchar...
The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors in Manila has approved debt financing and partial risk guarantees totaling $583 million to develop the Reliance Bangladesh Liquified Natural Gas (LNG)...
Islamic University (IU) published the admission test results of 'A' unit under Theology and Islamic Studies Faculty and 'H' unit under Law and Shariah Faculty for session 2017-18 on Monday....
Wrapping up her three-day official visit to Cambodia, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh for home on Tuesday afternoon. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines...
New car registrations in Britain fell by around 11 per cent in November, the eighth consecutive month that sales have declined, according to preliminary numbers from an industry body. The...
A court granted bail to ex- civil surgeon of Laxmipur, who was sentenced to three months jail following a brawl between him and the district's additional deputy commissioner (general) The...
Discovery Communications Inc said on Monday it had raised its stake in its joint venture with TV mogul Oprah Winfrey to more than 70 percent. Discovery paid $70 million to...
Zonta Club of greater Dhaka on Monday has taken an initiative at an RMG factory in Rajendrapur to raise awareness on personal safety and employee rights of female workers. Led...
Saudi Arabia’s non-oil private sector grew at its fastest pace in two years in November, amid the sweeping crackdown on corruption, a survey showed on Tuesday. The survey indicated that...
The board of directors of Legacy Footwear Limited has extended more than one month time to complete the remaining unfinished work to resume production. The company’s production had been suspended...
BRAC University (BRACU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Grameenphone at GP-HOUSE, Bashundhara recently to promote university-industry collaboration. BRACU Pro-Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Ansar Ahmed and Grameenphone Chief...
All mobile users must contact operators and disable any SIMs or RIMs registered to them above the maximum limit of 15 by Dec 31, said The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission....
A Spanish judge has withdrawn a European arrest warrant for ousted Catalan President Carles Puigdemont and four other ministers. They fled to Belgium a month ago after declaring unilateral independence...
Police arrested BNP's Sports Affairs Secretary, former national footballer, Aminul Islam and 14 others after a clash at Secretariat area on Tuesday afternoon. BNP leaders and activists engaged in a...
World's first robot citizen with artificial intelligence, Sophia, has arrived in Dhaka to attend the Digital World 2017. A Dragon Airlines flight carrying Sophia from Hong Kong landed at Hazrat...
Former Bangladesh national team coach Richard Pybus has arrived in Dhaka on Tuesday night for a possible second stink at the job. Pybus, expected to replace Hathurusinghe, will face an...
The High Court on Tuesday summoned an Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) and Upazila Nirbahi Officer working in Lakshmipur over sentencing former civil surgeon through mobile court. A two-member HC bench...
Conditions of the congested makeshift refugee settlements in Cox's Bazar are extremely dire. Although it’s already over 100 days since the Rohingyas started to arrive fleeing violence in Myanmar's Northern...
Turkey's president has warned Monday it could dissolve ties with Israel if the US recognises Jerusalem as its capital. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said such a move would cross a ‘red...
SHANGHAI, CHINA - December 5, 2017 - DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist of Deutsche Post DHL Group, has introduced a new Online Freight Quotation & Booking...
The World Health Organization hopes to review safety data on Sanofi’s dengue vaccine this month, while the Philippines ordered an investigation of its now suspended massive immunization program after the...
Bangladesh’s stocks witnessed upward trend in early hour of trading on Tuesday as some optimistic investors are taking position on sector-wise stocks. Among the listed multinational companies, share price of...
The government's revenue earnings from the prime bourse marked a whopping 112 per cent rise in the first five months of the current fiscal year (FY) compared to the same...
A new financial institution- Alliance Leasing and Finance Company Limited (ALFCL)- with multinational collaboration in Bangladesh recently began its journey. The major sponsor of the company is People’s Leasing &...
Spain’s Supreme Court refused bail for two Catalan pro-independence leaders accused of sedition ahead of regional elections that Madrid hopes will defuse the nation’s worst political crisis in four decades....
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 1,140 bottles of phensidyl and 28 kg of hemp worth Tk 6 lakh from Roghunathpur border village of Benapole on Monday night. On...
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