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EVERY community has an aspiration for social development. If a community functions well, people lead a healthy and dignified life. Peoples' well-being is always considered important by the donor countries...
The High Court reduced death sentences of three people to life term in a rape case of a health worker of BRAC in 2005. Justice Bhabani Prasad Singha and Justice...
A full time sports channel is the need of our time as games and sports are a popular form of entertainment. We all know that 'Kabaddi' was once known as...
Almost everyone wanted the banks to make available more loans to the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that are seen as key drivers of the country's economy. But the current...
Agricultural innovation will play an effective role to wipe off poverty from the country, said LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain "Rural Development Academy can play a leading role...
While painting troubling challenges for governments and societies over cross-cutting issues of malnutrition, this year's Global Nutrition Report sounded both warnings and sign-posted ways forward as well. Stepped-up targeted funding...
Although trade and development are believed to complement each other, there are questions about the role of trade in cutting poverty globally. This is so, because of the widening gap...
Facts are facts, and one of them is that while everybody talks about the growing forced movement of people -be they migrants or refugees-decision-makers haven't seriously acted on the root...
Lakehead Grammar School has been shut down on Tuesday on charges of harbouring militancy and inspiring extremism. Magistrate Ilias Mehedi, who led the drive to close down the school's branches...
Since President Donald Trump has assumed presidency of the United States of America in January this year, US foreign has been derailed, indeed. There is no consistency in the formulation...
Customs intelligence has arrested a security guard of Biman Bangladesh Airlines over alleged involvement in gold smuggling. The Biman official, Zakaria and a passenger of flight BG 040 were caught...
The Election Commission (EC) plans to use Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in upcoming Rangpur city polls. Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) designed the EVM in 2010. But use...
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has accused Iran of an act of "direct military aggression" by supplying missiles to rebels in Yemen. This "may be considered an act...
The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) has urged the international community to take immediate steps to solve the Rohingya crisis. The organisation made the call through adopting a consensus during concluding...
A faction of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) has vandalised the academic building of Chittagong University and the vice-chancellor's office, demanding suspension of a university teacher. The untoward incident occurred on...
A year after his election, US President Donald Trump is making his first official visit to Asia. The 12-day tour of five countries - Trump's longest foreign trip so far...
A day-long workshop on ‘Applied Research on Energy and Power’ was held at an auditorium at Dhaka University (DU) today (Tuesday), said a press release. The Institute of Energy (IE)...
The High Court has granted six months of interim bail to Sayedul Islam Sikder, the brother of prime suspect Kamrul Islam Shikder alias Musa in the murder of police officer’s...
The prosecution in its arguments in the sensational August 21 grenade attack case has referred to 13 confessional statements that were given by 12 accused at different times accepting their...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved the 'Smaller water resources development (2nd phase)' project, aiming to boost agricultural production and thus increase the income...
Stocks ended higher for the second day in a row Tuesday, with turnover hitting nearly one month high on the major bourse, as investors continued to show their buying appetite...
Stamford University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Lanzhou Jiaotong University, in collaboration with Bangladesh China Institute of Technology (BCIT), to start a 4-year undergraduate Power Engineering degree in...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive detained two alleged drug traders with 664 bottles of contraband Indian Phensedyl from a house at Housenagar village in Shibganj upazila...
People with malaria give off a distinctive "breath-print" that could be used as a test for the disease, according to American scientists. They had already tried out a crude prototype...
Two children, backed by the Clean Air Council environmental group, sued US President Donald Trump and two of his Cabinet members on Monday to try to stop them from scrapping...
Police recovered the dead body of a man from an abandoned house at Chupua village in Nangalkot upazila of Comilla on early Tuesday five days after he had gone missing....
A top leader of a pirate gang was killed in a gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Chunkuri Khal in Sundarbans under Satkhira range on Tuesday morning....
Bangladesh has expressed deep concern at the reported ballistic missile attack by the Houthi rebels targeting the King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh which was successfully intercepted by the Saudi...
Detective branch of police rescued Hanif Palwan (35), son of late Riaz Uddin, near Bypail-Abdullahpur highway in Savar’s Ashulia Market area on Tuesday morning three months after his abduction. The...
The global toll of chronic kidney disease (CKD) attributable to air pollution has reached more than 10 million each year, a new study revealed. The study was presented by the...
South Korea’s stock fell on Monday, while the Korean won rose slightly. At 06:30 GMT, the KOSPI was down 8.56 points or 0.33 per cent at 2,549.41, reports Reuters. The...
Japan’s Nikkei share average touched a 21-year high on Monday as strong gains in the mining sector and shares such as clothing company Fast Retailing Co offset banking sector weakness....
The Danish company Novozymes, the world leader in biological solutions for wet processing, awarded textile manufacturers contributing to sustainable production in Bangladesh, said a statement. The winning companies are Four...
The death toll from the typhoon that struck Vietnam at the weekend has risen to at least 49, the government said on Monday. After Typhoon Damrey’s winds tore off roofs,...
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 5 (Xinhua): As the 25th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting is to be held in Vietnam later this month, experts in Malaysia hope that the...
SHANGHAI, Nov 5 (Reuters): China's aviation safety regulator expects a recently signed aircraft certification agreement with the United States (US) to boost US market access for Chinese-made planes and aircraft...
BRUSSELS, Nov 5 (Reuters): The European Commission (EC) is proposing to extend EU internal energy market rules to cover offshore gas pipelines, an EU document shows, its latest attempt to...
China’s stock market, which is less sensitive to global capital flows, was calmer on Monday. The CSI300 index was unchanged at 3,991.14 points at the end of the morning session,...
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, Nov 5 (Reuters): Sprint Corp and T-Mobile US Inc said on Saturday they have called off merger talks to create a stronger US wireless company to rival...
A three-day 'Bangladesh Leather Footwear and Leathergoods International Sourcing Show-2017' will begin in the capital on November 16. The first-ever exposition of this kind will showcase a wide array of...
Hong Kong stocks fell sharply on Monday morning as negative news flows at the weekend - including a corruption crackdown in Saudi Arabia and a call for tougher regulation in...
Police in separate drives from Sunday night to this morning, nabbed 16 persons including 14 warranted accused from different areas of the district. The accused were picked up from different...
New Zealand shares slipped slightly on Monday, while Australian shares edged lower as financial stocks offset gains in other sectors, after Westpac Banking Corp posted a weaker-than-expected net profit. The...
Two people were killed and four others were wounded when a Sonapur-bound Himachal Paribahan bus from Dhaka hit them while area they were crossing the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Comilla’s Daudkandi...
Australian shares were flat on Monday, as financial stocks offset gains in other sectors, after Westpac Banking Corp posted a weaker-than-expected net profit and flagged challenging conditions ahead. The S&P/ASX...
A gunman dressed in black tactical gear massacred at least 26 worshipers and wounded 20 others at a white-steepled church in Texas on Sunday, carrying out the latest in a...
Government's revenue authority served Sunday five demand notices on telecom-operator Robi Axiata Limited for realising Tk 9.24 billion in unpaid VAT. Officials said the Value Added Tax (VAT) authority issued...
A huge new leak of financial documents has revealed how the powerful and ultra-wealthy, including the Queen's private estate, secretly invest vast amounts of cash in offshore tax havens. Donald...
Capital market investors can now buy and sell government securities through the Dhaka Stock Exchange in a development that is expected to make the country's bond market active. The decision...
A Saudi prince has been killed when the helicopter he was travelling in crashed near the border with Yemen, state television reported. Prince Mansour bin Muqrin, the deputy governor of...
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