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Asian countries like Bangladesh and Malaysia are struggling to secure supplies of onions after the world's biggest exporter India restricted overseas sales amid limited availability in the global market, reports...
Global oil prices fell on Monday after US shale drillers added two rigs last week, bringing the total count up to 749, highest since September. The prices still held close...
CHINAPLAS, the largest trade fair for plastics and rubber in Asia, will be held in the National Exhibition and Convention Center (NECC), Hongqiao, Shanghai from April 24 to April 27...
IDLC Finance Limited, the largest non-banking financial institution inaugurated its 38th branch in Barisal recently. “Barisal has always been a significant region of the country considering its economic contribution and...
A man was slaughtered by miscreants in Shishubagan para of Meherpur district town on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Abdur Razzak, son of freedom fighter Omar Ali, a...
SYDNEY- Media OutReach - Taste Ireland, Australia's largest distributor of Irish and UK foods, will raise the freshness and availability of Ireland's iconic food brands in Australia with a new...
Credit Rating Information and Services Limited (CRISL) has assigned the rating of The ACME Laboratories as “AA-” in the long-term, said an official disclosure on Monday”. The rating agency also...
A man and his daughter were killed and three other family members sustained injuries when the microbus in which they were travelling, overturned and plunged into a ditch at Morelganj...
Seven candidates, three from the major political parties, will vie for mayoral post in Rangpur City Corporation polls to take place in December 1. The three political affiliated candidates are...
The United Nations has raised only 34 per cent of the $434 million needed to aid 1.2 million people, including those overstretched while hosting many of them in Cox's Bazar,...
Bangladesh's lone neurology hospital is seen as a boon, but it has to make do with limited capacity to treat a growing number of patients from across the country. The...
Nine banks, four owned by the government, had an aggregate capital shortfall worth over Tk 177 billion at end of the third quarter (Q3) of the current calendar year as...
Jordan's foreign minister has warned the US of "dangerous consequences" if it recognises Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Ayman Safadi said he had told US Secretary of State Rex...
Brexit may affect the cost of medicines and hit UK pharmaceutical investment, a Commons committee head has warned. Rachel Reeves, who chairs the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) committee,...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro looked to the world of digital currency to circumvent US-led financial sanctions, announcing on Sunday the launch of the “petro” backed by oil reserves to shore...
Second-placed Valencia lost for the first time in La Liga this season as Getafe beat them to leave Barcelona five points clear at the top. The hosts, who move up...
Disney-Pixar’s animated comedy 'Coco' easily repeated as the winner of the North American box office with a solid $26.1 million at 3,987 locations during a moderate weekend. The third weekend...
10 Syrian migrants were killed and 9 others injured when the minibus smuggling them illegally from Syria to Turkey, hit a truck on the Turkish side of the border, according...
A senior minister has said that the government is mulling to acknowledge people as senior citizens when they attain 65 years of age. At present, people aged 60 years or...
The process of selection of entrepreneurs for Union Digital Centres (UDCs) lacks transparency due to absence of necessary guidelines, according to a study conducted by the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB)....
Bangladesh and Cambodia have signed nine memoranda of understanding (MoU) and an agreement to enhance tourism, agriculture, civil aviation, ICT and technical education between the two countries. The Federation of...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday directed Jatiya Party lawmaker Shawkat Chowdhury to pay Tk 5 crore to Bangladesh Commerce Bank Ltd (BCBL) within 60 days in...
US President Donald Trump lashed out at the FBI, issuing a fresh denial that he asked former director James Comey to drop an investigation into the conduct of one of...
Country’s weather may remain dry on Monday with temporary partly cloudy sky as the well marked low over South Andaman Sea and adjoining area now lies over Southeast Bay and...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday sought support from Cambodia for a durable solution to the Rohingya crisis as it threatens the peace and stability of this region. "As we...
Bangabandhu Hi-tech Park will create 14,000 new jobs in Rajshahi. State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak said this while he was distributing rehabilitation bank cheques...
bKash has launched a travel scheme for its customers offering discounts up to 60 per cent on selected hotels, resorts and online air tickets. The country’s largest mobile financial service...
With the winter setting in, more than 400 people of 200 families have found solvency in piping hot cake business in Bogra. “I earn more than Tk 600 at the...
A gang of muggers snatched away around Tk one million stabbing a ‘bKash’ agent in Khitibaria rail crossing area of Sadar upazila of Jessore district on Sunday. Quoting the victims,...
Police have detained a woman on suspicion of arson after a fire at an apartment block in a western German city killed four people. Police said Monday the 37-year-old was...
Former BASIC Bank Chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bachchu has said he does not consider himself guilty of a Tk 35 billion loan fraud. He made the remark as the Anti-Corruption...
Leading forecaster Zenith lowered its prediction for global advertising expenditure growth in 2018 to 4.1 per cent to reach $578 billion by the end of the year, with marginal downgrades...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said investment policy of Bangladesh is the most liberal in South Asia. “It (the policy) includes protection of foreign investment by law, generous tax holiday,...
The Office of the Pro-Vice Chancellor at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) has organised a Guest Lecture entitled “Ensuring Quality in Learning and Teaching” recently at IUB campus in Bashundhara, Dhaka....
Bangladesh will reiterate its demands for implementing previous decisions in the next WTO Ministerial Conference to be held in Argentina this month. The previous decisions include duty free, quota free...
A two-day session titled 'NSUers Meet Corporate Icons' (NMCI) has started in the city. The event aims to unify corporate leaders with the students of North South University, the country's...
The auction for issuing licence of the fourth generation (4G) mobile phone services in the country will be held on February 13. Interested operators can submit their applications till January...
Yemen's ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed in Sanaa, the radio station of the Houthi-controlled interior ministry said. There has been no independent confirmation of Saleh's death, reports Al...
Delhi's smog did not halt play as it did on Sunday but Sri Lanka batsman Angelo Mathews said the air remained as bad as his team battled for survival against...
Bangladeshi movie superstar Shakib Khan has issued a divorce notice to his actress wife Apu Biswas. The couple has a son, Abraham Khan Joy, born in September last year. Sources...
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has addressed his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina as a sister. Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque came up with the statement after bilateral talks between the...
A total of 865 people in the country were infected with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) in last one year. With the new count, the total number of HIV infected people...
Facebook is launching a new version of its chat app targeting children under 13 with strict parental controls including contact approvals. The free app, called Messenger Kids, is expected to...
Grooming local talent for mid-management positions in the readymade garment industry can help save $6 billion a year, as these positions are mostly held by foreign workers, BGMEA president Siddiqur...
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) witnessed positive trend while the port city’s bourse saw negative trend in early trading on Monday as investors mostly followed cautious stance. Within first 15...
A hospital in the Indian capital Delhi has fired two doctors for mistakenly declaring a newborn dead. The doctors at the privately run Max Hospital had pronounced the baby dead...
Asian stock markets were mostly higher on Monday, after the US Senate approved a tax overhaul bill early Saturday. Japan’s Nikkei 225 dipped 0.2 per cent to 22,774.38 while South...
Australia’s competition regulator said on Monday it would investigate whether US online giants Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google has disrupted the news media market to the detriment of publishers and...
Japan’s Nikkei share average edged lower on Monday with weakness in large-cap stocks such as Fanuc and SoftBank taking a toll, offsetting gains in retail stocks which rose on strong...
Viral hepatitis infection is the leading cause of liver cancer and liver failure. Each year, 1.5 lakh people in India die of hepatitis, which affects 60 million persons. More than...
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