The result of 'F' unit admission test ('F' unit) of Islamic University (IU) was published on Saturday morning. Unit coordinator Prof Dr M Asaduzzaman handed over the result over university...
Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, known as Shantu Larma, has warned the government that the hill regions would be be engulfed in unrest. Unrest will take place unless it fully honours the...
Russian lawmakers are to discuss a proposal to bar representatives of US media organisations from accessing the lower house of parliament, RIA news agency quoted the chair of one of...
Chelsea manager Antonio Conte has been charged by the Football Association with misconduct following his dismissal against Swansea City. The Blues boss was sent to the stands in the 43rd...
NARSINGDI, Nov 30 (UNB): Bean cultivation has been gaining popularity in the district after a large number of farmers have involved themselves in bean farming considering good profit in low...
GOPALGANJ, Nov 30: Malta cultivation has recently started on commercial basis in Chandradighalia village under Gopalganj Sadar. Mafizur Rahman, a grower of the village, has started farming BARI-1 malta on...
CHITTAGONG, Nov 30 (UNB): Comilla Victorians topped the points table of the 5th Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) after the end of the Chittagong phase as they handed a 12-run defeat...
Prices of fish and onion increased again last week, compounding woes of the consumers already hit hard by a surge in the prices of essentials. Prices of fish, especially those...
Asian share markets were marginally higher Friday, after an overnight recovery of technology stocks on Wall Street. Japan's Nikkei 225 was flat at 22,724.11 while South Korea's Kospi rose 0.2...
Japan’s Nikkei share average edged down on Friday morning, trimming earlier gains in choppy trade and led lower by real estate stocks. Sharp Corp soared more than 8.0 per cent...
At least eight people were killed in coastal Tamil Nadu and Kerala in southern Indian, following cyclonic storm. Officials said on Friday. Over 100 fishermen are reported missing in the...
Tributes pour in for Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq, who died at a London hospital around 4.23 pm (London time) Thursday. He was 65. Annisul was kept on...
Pope Francis celebrated an open-air Mass in Suhrawardy Udyan on the second day of his visit to Bangladesh. The pope presided over a sacramental ceremony in which several Catholics were...
A skyscraper fire in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin killed 10 and injured five early on Friday, state media reported. The fire broke out around 4 a.m. on...
The first three-day 'Ceramic Expo Bangladesh-2017' began in the city aiming to create an avenue for both local ceramic makers and global stakeholders for further promotion of the sector. Commerce...
Country's exclusive public cardiac hospital NICVD itself needs cure for debilitating problems, principally overcrowding by patients and irregularities. The backhander or influential reference for getting seats or other services and...
The half-brother of North Korea's leader was carrying bottles of the antidote to the toxin used when he was killed earlier this year, reports say. Kim Jong-nam died in February...
Speakers at a roundtable recommended Thursday the government to offer uniform incentives, including the bonded warehouse facility, to the non-readymade garment sector to help diversify export items. They said that...
The World Bank (WB) would assist in rebuilding the system of government cash transfers under the social-safety-net programme (SSNP), introducing direct delivery by banks to recipients to end irregularities. Government...
Many goldsmiths and artisans are leaving their job or migrating to India as the demand for gold ornaments falls and the wages decline. The mass opt-out of the goldsmiths and...
The suspected mastermind of the attacks on the Hindu community in Nasirnagar upazila last year was released on bail on Thursday afternoon after serving five months and a 10 days...
Aromatic rice cultivators of Rangpur district are in joyous mood as they have been witnessing a congenial weather condition this year. They are optimistic about attaining a plentiful yield of...
Bitcoin slid to as low as $9,000 in volatile trade on Thursday, having lost more than a fifth of its value since hitting an all-time high of $11,395 on Wednesday....
Emperor Akihito will step down on April 30, 2019 - the first abdication by a Japanese monarch in about two centuries. He has spent much of his nearly three decades...
Anuradha starts her day washing dishes, cups and cutlery in Sarita Vihar, one of New Delhi’s more affluent neighbourhoods. It is one of six apartments that she cleans every day....
Pope Francis used the word ‘Rohingya’ for the first time to refer to refugees who have fled violence in Myanmar during his current trip to Asia. “The presence of God...
The core consumer prices in Japan rose in October from a year earlier, marking the 10th straight month of gains, but a narrower measure that excludes energy showed inflation has...
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has provided treatment for 84 survivors of sexual violence at MSF’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Unit in Kutupalong. More than 90 per cent of the survivors...
Consumer packaged goods also known as CPG are the type of goods that are consumed every day by the average consumer. These goods in this category need to be frequently...
Police have rescued priest and school teacher Father Walter William Rozario from Kadamtoly Bus Terminal in Sylhet, five days after he went missing from Natore. "Father Walter William Rozario, who...
Indian entrepreneurs can further invest in the industrial sector of Bangladesh for enhanced co-operation of both countries, hopes Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu. "There exists an investment-friendly environment in Bangladesh....
Innovation has become a buzzword in discourse among business, academic, development and media communities. It has many connotations. One of them is: taking ideas to market at profit. At the...
Neighbours Spain and Portugal will meet at next year's Fifa World Cup after being drawn in the same group during Friday's draw in Moscow. Champions Germany are in Group F...
Hong Kong stocks little changed on Friday, the sub-index of the Hang Seng index tracking energy shares rose 0.1 per cent while the IT sector fell 1.8 per cent. The...
China stocks slipped on Friday, after a private survey showed the country’s manufacturing activity grew at the weakest pace in five months in November. At 04:03 GMT, the Shanghai Composite...
Police arrested 32 persons including seven drug traders from the district in the last 12-hour. Police conducted a special drives from different areas of the district in the last 12-hour...
Amazon.com Inc this week announced a flurry of new machine learning features for its Amazon Web Services cloud computing business, raising its challenge to Silicon Valley’s biggest tech firms for...
The Argentine navy says it has abandoned attempts to rescue 44 crew members on board a submarine that disappeared two weeks ago. "Despite the magnitude of the efforts made, it...
Wall Street indexes rallied on Thursday on increasing indications the Republican party’s push for a US tax overhaul may get enough support to pass, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average...
Oil futures rose on Friday after OPEC and other major producers agreed to extend their production curbs in a widely expected move aimed at ending a persistent glut in global...
Per capita income of Bangladesh was US$1466 last year and the government hopes during the current fiscal the GDP growth rate will rise to 7.12 per cent and per capita...
It is good to see that a citizen's platform has been created to see that SDGs in Bangladesh context succeeds, and succeeds well. The importance of the platform lies in...
The decision to establish an international research centre for herbal medicine in Dhaka is most welcome. People all over the globe are being increasingly drawn to medicinal plants and herbal...
A strong quake of magnitude 6.0 struck southeastern Iran near the city of Kerman on Friday, the US Geological Survey said. The quake, initially reported as a magnitude 6.3, was...
The world's largest lithium ion battery has begun dispensing power into an electricity grid in South Australia. The 100-megawatt battery, built by Tesla, was officially activated on Friday. It had...
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are essentially long-term contracts, underwritten by government guarantees, with which the private sector builds (and sometimes runs) major infrastructure projects or services traditionally provided by the state,...
Journalism and mass media in today's world are defined by dichotomies - reality versus post-reality, information versus alternative information, news versus fake news and traditional media versus new media. Conventional...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said the government is emphasising more on the development of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) than other parts of the country as this area...
Friends of Germany and Europe around the world have been breathing a sigh of relief at the newfound willingness of Germany's Christian Democrats and Social Democrats (SPD) to discuss reprising...
On opposite poles, Emmerson Mnangagwa's departure from his country was as understated as was the spectacularity of the swing from the depths of exile to the Presidency of Zimbabwe. It...
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