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BOGRA, Nov 16: A good number of peasants of all the twelve upazilas of the district cultivate the water spinach (Kolmi Shak) round the year due to a high market...
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakkha (RAJUK) and Malaysian BNG Global Holdings SDN BHD and Consortium have signed an agreement for constructing 13,920 apartments in Jhilmil residential area. RAJUK Chairman Abdur Rahman and...
The 41st death anniversary of Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani, a great national leader, will be observed on Friday with due respect. Bhasani, popularly known as 'Majlum Jananeta'- the Leader...
A Dhaka court has asked BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to appear before it on November 23 to place her self-defence statements in Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust graft...
Haruyuki Sano travelled 1 ½ hours for a taste of the same cheeseburger US President Donald Trump ate with Japan’s Prime Minister during his visit last week, says an Associated...
A research centre on small and medium enterprises (SME) is essential to further develop the sector among the D-8 member countries. Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu opined this on Thursday...
The High Court has directed the officer-in-charge of Baufal police station in Patuakhali to arrest fake physician Razan Das who left gauze inside a woman's abdomen during her cesarean surgery...
A special team of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has caught an education official of Sirajganj red-handed while taking bribe. ACC Pabna district office’s special team arrested office assistant of Chauhali...
The government is steadfast to make land management transparent and corruption free, said Land Minister Shamsur Rahman Sherif. "The government is working to ensure people's desired services in the land...
The government has decided to build an opera house in the capital’s popular recreational spot Hatirjheel. The theatre will boast all modern facilities. "The design of the project titled "Dhaka...
Untimely floods in Bangladesh have caused food production to drop by 943,000 tonnes in fiscal 2016-17, says the government. The figures by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics were revealed at a...
European shares rebounded on Thursday to longest losing streak since October 2016 as the cyclical sectors which had driven a market-wide sell-off made a comeback. The German share price index,...
Gold edged lower on Thursday as upbeat US economic data bolstered the possibility of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates next month and beyond. Spot gold was down 0.1 per...
Global oil markets edged up on Thursday as expectations that OPEC will extend production cuts at a meeting at the end of this month outweighed rising US crude production and...
The World University of Bangladesh (WUB) is organising the 6th ‘WUB-National ComTech Festival’ at its Panthapath campus on Friday. Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the WUB will organise...
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Thursday said the government is going to formulate the Digital Security Act to ensure common people's digital security, not to harass journalists. "We're going...
China’s non-financial outbound direct investment from January to October fell 40.9 per cent year-on-year to $86.31 billion, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday. Outbound investment in October fell 29.6...
Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said on Wednesday claims he had worked as a consultant for Brazilian construction company Odebrecht SA [ODBES.UL], which is embroiled in an international bribery scandal,...
France’s unemployment rate rose to 9.7 per cent in the third quarter, from 9.5 per cent in the previous quarter, data published by the INSEE national statistics office on Thursday....
A Doha-bound flight carrying 134 passengers and seven crew members suffered a bird hit early Thursday immediately after take-off from southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, officials said. Following the...
Nearly nine out of 10 Indians hold a favourable opinion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and more than two-thirds are satisfied with the direction he is taking the country, a...
An Australian diplomat has died after falling from a New York City balcony while socialising with friends. Julian Simpson, 30, accidentally slipped from a seventh-floor ledge of his Manhattan building...
Voice of Business (VoB), the first ever and the largest student-run publication in Bangladesh, is run by the students of nine departments of Faculty of Business Studies, University of Dhaka....
Police in a drive arrested the prime accused in the killing case of Manarat International University student Nasim Ahmed from Comilla district early Wednesday. Officer-in-charge of Badda Police Station Quazi...
Two members of a pirate gang, "Abbas Bahini" were killed during a 'gunfight' with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Katlar Khal of Baleshwar River under Swarankhola range of...
An earthquake measuring magnitude 5.5 has hit off the South Korea's southeastern coast, news agency AP reported Wednesday citing local media sources. Yonhap news agency says the quake was detected...
HABIGANJ, Nov 14: Cultivation of summer season vegetables by using modern methods has been gaining popularity among the farmers of Sylhet region. Chairman of Horticulture Department of Sylhet Agricultural University...
BOGRA, Nov 14: Hundreds of char people of the mighty Jamuna in Sarikandi, Sonatola and Dhunot upazilas of the district has attained financial self-reliance by cultivating cucumber. Cucumber was cultivated...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the BNP's stance over participating the upcoming national election is contradictory. The Road Transport and Bridges Minister alleged that BNP's one leader...
A gunman carrying a semi-automatic weapon and two handguns opened fire at multiple locations across a small Northern California community on Tuesday, killing four people before he was slain by...
Zimbabwe’s military seized power early on Wednesday targeting “criminals” around President Robert Mugabe but gave assurances on national television that the 93-year-old leader and his family were “safe and sound”.Soldiers...
Home Minster Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said there might be conspiracy behind recent arson attacks on the Hindu community in Rangpur. "The Rangpur incident is the recurrence of Brahmanbaria's Nasirnagar one....
A move has been initiated to raise the minimum monthly wages of the workers of the country's ready-made garment sector in line with a provision of the labour law. This,...
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda on Wednesday said the Commission is not ready to use electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the 11 parliamentary elections.“The Commission has no preparation...
Barbie, decades ago was created by the toy company Mattel Inc. It has been inspiring thousands of young girls to dream for ages. However, their dreams have been restricted to...
It is cheaper for Sri Lanka to trade with Brazil than Nepal which is geographically much more closer. High trade cost due to lack of better connectivity bars Sri Lanka...
Dainik Purbokone editor Taslim Uddin Chowdhury has passed away. He was 63. Mohammad Ali, a senor journalist of the daily published from Chittagong, said the editor breathed his last at...
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed upward trend in early trading on Wednesday as optimistic investors remained active on sector-wise issues. After hitting record high...
People who overdose on paracetamol could be helped by a blood test that shows immediately if they are going to suffer liver damage. Researchers in Edinburgh and Liverpool said the...
A new facial recognition app from British start-up Yoti could be trialled in two supermarkets, following a deal with self-service till maker NCR. It would enable shops to check the...
The publication of the special anniversary issue today is a happy occasion for us, in The Financial Express (FE). It is a commemorative event, not a drum-beating one. That this...
Some 85 per cent of the required safety flaws has been fixed in factories inspected by the engineers of Alliance. Out of the percentage, 80 per cent are high priority...
Taylor Swift’s new album “Reputation” has sold more than one million copies in its first four days, Nielsen Music said on Tuesday, but the U.S. pop star failed to beat...
Jatiya Nabanna Utsab Udjapan Parshad inaugurated the 20th ‘Nabanna Utsab’ at Bakultala, Faculty of Fine Arts of Dhaka University on Wednesday. Vice-Chancellor of the university Prof Dr Akhtaruzzman inaugurated the...
The recent incidents of murders and disappearances don’t demonstrate any slide in the law and order situation of the country, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal. “I don’t think some...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will appear before a special court here on Thursday and deliver her self-defence statement further in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. According to a UNB...
A court in Rangpur has remanded a Hindu man for his social media post allegedly hurting religious sentiments and sparking attacks on Hindu homes in a village near the district...
Bangladesh is now in unprecedented crisis over providing humanitarian assistance to tens of thousands of Rohingyas and repatriating them to their own country. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made the remarks...
Astronomers have found an Earth-sized planet with mild temperatures that's also relatively close to our Solar System. The properties of this newly discovered planet - called Ross 128 b -...
The High Court (HC) has rejected the bail prayer of the owner of Rana Plaza Sohel Rana, but accepted the appeal against a verdict that had awarded him three-year imprisonment...
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