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Two meritorious students of the Institute of Health Economics of Dhaka University(DU) have got ‘Director’s Award’ for securing the highest CGPA in their BSS (Honours) and MSS examinations respectively. Awardees...
Bangladesh has expressed grave concern at the recent launching of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) by Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The government on Wednesday said by launching the missile,...
The government plans to drill 108 wells for gas exploration within June 2019. As part of this plan, Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Ltd (BAPEX) has decided to conduct...
The time for submission of tax returns by individual taxpayers is set to expire tomorrow (Thursday). The individual category taxpayers will have to pay 2.0 per cent monthly interest on...
The government of Bangladesh should agree to carry out new trials of BDR mutiny conforming to international standards, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. The trial must include members...
A Bosnian Croat wartime commander died after swallowing what he said was poison in a UN war crimes courtroom on Wednesday after losing an appeal against a 20-year prison sentence,...
British MP Tulip Siddiq has apologised for comments she made to a Channel 4 News producer about having a difficult childbirth. Tulip, a Labour MP for Hampstead and Kilburn, made...
Ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia route in the Padma River resumed after two hours of disruption caused by dense fog on Wednesday Morning. Assistant General Manager of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport...
Most of the shares are mixed in Asia following a broad rally on Wall Street that lifted US stocks to a milestone-shattering finish. Investors appeared to shrug off the latest...
Stocks on both bourses witnessed slow trend in early trading Wednesday as most of the investors followed cautious stance. Following the previous two days’ correction, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE)...
Police detained a member of Detective Branch (DB) of police along with 1,000 pieces of Yaba tablets. Police detained him from Moizzartek area in the port city on Tuesday evening....
The securities regulator has allowed AB Bank to raise Tk 4.0 billion by issuing non-convertible subordinated bonds to meet its tier-II capital requirement. The bonds will have a maturity period...
11 suspected militants have been killed by Egyptian security forces in a shootout near the Sinai, just days after more than 300 people were killed in an attack on a...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained a Bangladeshi national along with $ 32,000 from passenger terminal area of the Benapole Check post on Wednesday. The detainee is Awlad Hossain...
The government targets to launch 4G mobile network within January 2018 with the licence and guidelines for spectrum allocation at hand, Tarana Halim has said. On demands of telecom operators,...
A man accused of killing eight people and injuring 12 after driving a truck into pedestrians in New York in October has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and...
Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda on Wednesday said arrangement of snap election depends on the government decision. "It is government who decides over snap election. We'll find 90 days...
The United States threatened on Tuesday to take further action against the South Sudan government if it does not end violence and allow United Nations peacekeepers to do their job,...
Shahidul Islam alias Shahid, the convicted killer of Scholastica student Shazneen Tasnim Rahman,was hanged at Kashimpur High Security Central Jail Wednesday night. The verdict was executed around 9:45pm, said Senior...
Water transports including ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia route in the Padma River in Rajbari and Manikganj was disrupted due to dense fog on early Wednesday. Shafikul Islam, manager of Bangladesh...
AS elsewhere in the world Facebook has become very popular in our society as well and almost everyone in urban areas is found busy browsing Facebook and posting pictures, video,...
WHATEVER goes wrong in a country, common people are the worst sufferers. According to UN statistics, air pollution level (level of dust in the air) in Dhaka is one of...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has increased tariff value of aluminum rod, bar and profiles to US$3.5 from $2.2 per kilogram. NBR has taken the decision for increasing protective...
Archaeologists believe they may have revealed the first evidence of Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain in 54BC. The discovery of a defensive ditch and weapons led them to identify Pegwell...
The country's garments industry is still in transition. Following the Rana Plaza disaster, European Union (EU)-based retailer under the Accord and North American retailers under the Alliance inspected more than...
The idea of a water-sustainable city is integral to the sustainable development goals (SDGs). On the face of it, the concept may look like a fantasy but the essence of...
Behaviouralism in politics implies a search for realism based on a scientific outlook. It refers to a break from the dominant concern with law, ideology and governmental institutions into an...
There were high hopes after the settlements of maritime disputes with India and Myanmar to unlock the potential of the 'blue economy'. But the government has failed to make any...
China’s Kunming Iron & Steel Holding Company Ltd. will invest $2.3 billion for setting up a steel factory and a power plant in either Maheshkhali or Mirsarai economic zone. Bangladesh...
Price spiral in the economy was triggered this time by some government policies like increasing the prices of gas and electricity. There was no sufficient justification of raising these prices,...
The government has decided to scrap Section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act. Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu came up with the revelation at the secretariat on...
Since the formal launching of China's Belt and Road Forum in May this year in China at a glittering pageantry, its progress has been quite impressive. As many as 29...
While saving for retirement, people often forget that the goods that they will purchase years from now will not cost the same as it is now. Because of inflation and...
Policy making is both a process and a product, the continuum between the two ends depending on the nature, scope and time frame of policy. The beginning of the process...
The launching schedule of the country's first commercial satellite, Bangabandhu-1, has been deferred for three months. It will now be launched sometime in March next year instead of previousely set...
Around 14 million people around the world are diagnosed with cancer of many types, according to ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology). Some of the recent developments, which are expected...
About 71.5 per cent marginalised women went through different forms of violence last year, reveals a study. Out of 71.5 per cent, 1.56 per cent marginalised women fell victim to...
Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) has signed a contract with a Chinese company to construct the long-awaited Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway. The project will be completed on government-to-government basis. Bridge Division Senior...
Radiologists can use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve medical image analysis and speed up the reading of scans and X-rays, said experts at the on-going Radiological Society of North America...
Brain immaturity during adolescence could explain why some teenagers fail to respond to incentives such as cash rewards. Adults are good at putting maximum mental effort into the things that...
A court in Joypurhat has awarded the death penalty to a man for the murder of four people, including his 5-year-old son. The court of Joypurhat’s district and sessions judge...
BNP has supported Thursday’s general strike called by the left parties protesting the latest power price hike. “We consider this hartal to be rational for the sake of the people....
Stocks returned to green Wednesday, snapping a two-day losing spell, with turnover dipping below Tk 7.0 billion-mark as investors followed cautious stance. Market insiders said the market edged up as...
Six men died while sleeping apparently due to suffocation inside a huge container in city of New Delhi on Wednesday. "The men working with a caterer slept in a huge...
Partex Furniture Industries Limited, a sister concern of Partex Star Group, has recently opened a new showroom at Rampura area, in front of BTV Bhaban in the capital. K. M....
Standard Bank Limited organised the 285th meeting of the board of directors at its head office in the capital on Wednesday. Kazi Akram Uddin Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of...
Some 40 voluntary female organisations of the district got financial grant of Tk 0.80m from Bangladesh Mohila Kalyan Parishad. A function organised by the district office of department of women...
The students of the 13th Batch of the Pharmacy Department of World University of Bangladesh (WUB) have visited the Techno Drugs Limited Company at Gazipur to enhance their knowledge about...
Police recovered a body of a retired schoolteacher from a water body at Putia village in Kumarkhali upazila on Wednesday morning. Abdul Jabbar, 70, former teacher of JN High School...
EU governments will study a new proposal aimed at overcoming the deep splits over sharing responsibility for asylum-seekers that has soured relations in the bloc since the migrant crisis of...
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