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The Bangladesh Jewellers Samity has hiked gold prices, to be effective from Sunday, as the winter season approaches. During the winter season, the wedding season in the country, demand for...
Disasters cause both direct and indirect damages: direct damages, by destroying immovable assets and stocks, partially or totally; and indirect losses, by affecting the flows of goods and services, including...
The Deputy Executive Director of UN Women and Assistant Secretary-General of the UN Lakshmi Puri tells Tharanga Yakupitiyage that violence against women and girls is such a widespread and ever-present...
The agenda for President Donald Trump's 12-day visit to Asia included North Korea and trade issues. Of course, he at the same time made it clear that he was also...
Train communications between Khulna and rest of the country resumed on Saturday afternoon after a suspension of over nine hours. The rail link was snapped following a collision between two...
Lionel Messi has signed his new contract with Barcelona, the Camp Nou side have confirmed. Messi's new deal will run until 2021 and has a release clause of €700 million,...
Stanford researchers have found that global warming and certain land use practices such as farming may increase greenhouse gas emissions released into atmosphere, according to journal Nature Communications. A new...
The second tea auction centre of Bangladesh will be opened at Sreemangal of Moulvibazar from next month. The government has already approved the tea auction centre in the district. Currently...
Saudi Arabia has decided to ease the immigration process for Bangladeshi pilgrims, said a high official at the Ministry of Religious Affairs. The new immigration process will be effective for...
A new mobile app based ride service is set to be launched in Dhaka from the beginning of next month. The app EZZYR, downloadable from Google play store, has a...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged all to remain alert so that history manipulators can never return to power. Sheikh Hasina said the anti-liberation forces not only killed the...
The European Union has given UK Prime Minister Theresa May a 10-day “absolute deadline” to improve Brexit divorce offer. Otherwise the country would face failure in persuade EU leaders to...
Law enforcers arrested a youth on Friday night in connection with blogger and writer Avijit Roy murder case. A team of Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) and Detective Branch members...
A three-member High Court (HC) division bench will pronounce its judgement tomorrow on death reference and jail appeals in BDR carnage case, keeping the matter on its cause list as...
A Beijing nursery is accused of giving injections and feeding drugs to toddlers, in a case that has sparked outrage in China. Authorities are now investigating the nursery, which is...
The Sri Lankan government on Saturday vehemently condemned the terrorist attack at a mosque in the Sinai region of Egypt which killed at least 235 people. The foreign ministry in...
Lifestyle brand MIB Spirit – Made in Bangladesh has organised the Winter Meet-Up 2017 in Dhaka recently. The MIB Spirit celebrates each seasons as their flagship event. The brand extends...
An unidentified assailant killed a 12-year-old girl and raped her two young sisters in their home in the northern Mexico border city of Ciudad Juarez. The prosecutor's office in Chihuahua...
ONE Bank Limited has opened its 90st branch at Muradpur area in Chittagong recently. Sayeed H Chowdhury, Chairman of ONE Bank Limited, formally inaugurated the branch, according to a press...
Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has ordered private television channels of the country to go off air on Saturday during a police and paramilitary crackdown on Islamist protesters. The...
A Canadian accused by the United States of helping Russian intelligence agents break into email accounts as part of a massive 2014 breach of Yahoo accounts is expected to plead...
Pakistani police used tear gas and watercannon, and fought running battles with stone-throwing Islamist activists, as they moved to a protest by the religious hard-liners. The clashes began on Saturday...
The king of Morocco called for all mosques in the country to pray for rain on Friday, amid a shortage threatening the country's agriculture. King Mohammed VI had issued a...
Former Professor of Pali Department of Chittagong University Jyotish Barua passed away at his Betari Goli residence in Kotwali of Chittagong. He was 71. Professor Barua died of old-age complications...
President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Friday said the government has failed to deliver on all fronts and implement its election pledges. He said while speaking...
Karnaphuli Insurance Company Limited has opened its 28th branch in Pabna recently. Nasir Uddin ahmed, Vice-Chairman of the company, inaugurated the branch, according to a media statement. Chief Executive Officer,...
U.S. President Donald Trump said that he would call Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to discuss Friday's terrorist attack at a mosque in North Sinai that left more than 230...
A third grader student died after a CNG-run auto rickshaw knocked him down while he was crossing a road at Charmohona area in Raipur upazila of Lakhmipur district on Saturday...
Mexico’s government has created a marine park the size of Illinois in the Pacific, the largest ocean reserve in North America for the conservation of giant rays, whales and turtles,...
Indian Khasias gunned down a Bangladeshi national along Sonarhat border in Gowainghat upazila on Friday afternoon.The deceased wa Faruk Miah, 35, son of Jalfu Miah of Laxmanchhara in the upazila.Gowainghat...
Technology stocks led the S&P 500 and Nasdaq to record closing highs on Friday, with the S&P ending above 2,600 points for the first time. The S&P 500 and the...
Mitsubishi Materials, a division of one of Japan's biggest conglomerates, saw shares fall by as much 11 per cent on Friday after admitting to a quality scandal. Three of its...
Marks and Spencer (M&S) will scale up its sourcing from Bangladesh, a top official of the British retailer said. The company, which has doubled its sourcing in the last couple...
Euro zone business growth is roaring ahead as the year draws to a close, surveys showed on Thursday, supporting the European Central Bank's move last month to announce a throttling...
OPEC's most powerful internal alliance, bringing together the oil producer group's Gulf members, is disintegrating fast. As a six-month-old spat between Saudi Arabia and Qatar deepens, the organisation's Gulf ministers...
Rajshahi Kings continue to keep their fingers crossed over the return of Mustafizur Rahman, who has missed all matches of the ongoing Bangladesh Premier League owing to injury, reports...
South Korea’s consumer confidence rose hit the highest in almost seven years amid eased geopolitical risks on the Korean Peninsula, central bank data showed Friday. The composite consumer sentiment index...
British consumer confidence slipped after last year’s Brexit vote, partly because of this month’s interest rate hike and further signs of a slowdown in the housing market, a survey showed on...
Eminent folk singer, composer, and flute player Bari Siddiqui died at a city hospital early Friday. He was 63. He breathed his last at Square Hospitals around 2:30am, Shabbir Siddiqui,...
Asian shares hovered below their 10-year peak on Friday while investors viewed Chinese shares with caution after their big fall the previous day. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside...
An assistant train driver was killed and 50 passengers were injured as a train hit a truck at Bokterpur level-crossing on Dhaka-Rajshahi route in Kaliakoir upazila early Friday. The deceased...
The number of daily train passengers will increase to 500,000 from 250,000 in two years if the ongoing projects are completed within the stipulated time, according to sources at the...
More than 3,000 new human haulers got registration across the country in the first 10 months of the ongoing calendar year. During January-October period of 2017, Bangladesh Road Transport Authority...
U.S. President Donald Trump gave a bullish Thanksgiving address to troops overseas on Thursday, hailing progress in Afghanistan and against ISIS, and telling them they were fighting for “something real,”...
A suspected member of a robber gang was killed in an alleged gunfight with police in Dhaka city's Khilgaon area early Friday. He could not be identified immediately. After the...
Singapore's manufacturing output rose 14.6 per cent in October compared to a year ago, driven by growth in electronics output, data from the Singapore Economic Development Board showed on Friday....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed deep shock at the death of eminent folksinger, lyricist and flautist Bari Siddiqui. In a condolence message, the prime minister on Friday recalled the...
Southeast Asian stock markets mostly lower on Friday, with the Philippines declining the most, as investors avoided riskier assets following a steep drop in Chinese shares in the previous session....
Bangladesh and Myanmar have discussed ways to further strengthen cooperation in the areas of trade, energy and connectivity under Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) initiative. The discussion took place during a meeting between...
Ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies will partner with automaker Mahindra & Mahindra to add electric vehicles on its platform in India, the two companies said on Friday. Uber will deploy hundreds...
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