A college student reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself with ceiling fan at his own residence in Uttar Bogra Road area of Barisal on Sunday. The deceased Nayan Sarkar (18)...
Hearing of Zia Orphanage graft case will be held in the same court, says a top court order. A five-member bench led by acting Chief Justice M Wahab Miah passed...
A ninth-grader girl was saved from the curse of untimely wedlock by the intervention of Brahmanbaria’s Bancharampur upazila administration. Parvin Akhter, a student of Ruposdi Brindabon School was getting ready...
A private university student has died after he came under an attack by a group of his acquaintances at Madhya Badda in the capital Dhaka on Monday morning. Twenty-four-year-old Nasim...
Wage Earners Welfare Board (WEWB) has recently introduced a comprehensive ERP system, the first of its kind by a government organisation in the country. The commissioning ceremony of the ERP...
A teenage boy was stabbed to death in Jinjira Namabari area of Keraniganj upazila of Dhaka on Sunday night. The deceased was Md Omar Faruk (16), son of Md Khalil,...
Southeast Asian stock markets edged higher on Monday, in tandem with Wall Street which gained on Friday on healthy corporate earnings. Wall Street was boosted by Apple Inc's shares that...
During the first half of the current calendar year, some 163 Bangladeshi citizens availed the long-term residency in Malaysia under the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme. Statistics released by...
Bangladesh government will seek support from the Asian Development Bank, as also from other international donors, in tackling the Rohingya refugee crisis, said Finance Minister AMA Muhith. “We will of...
Clashes between Congolese troops and supporters of a renegade colonel in Congo’s eastern city of Bukavu killed seven people on Sunday before he surrendered and turned himself in to UN...
A bestselling author has recalled 20,000 copies of her new book, which used the term "mongolism" to describe Down's syndrome. Celebrity nutritionist Libby Weaver apologised and said she was "mortified...
Economic growth measures the performance of an economy. But to what extent do the available data on commercial activities genuinely represent a nation's performance? Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the...
Everton is still looking for a new manager who can guide the team to produce better results, following their disastrous start to the season's (English Premier League) EPL and Europa...
The government plans to give a legal shape to the wage earners' board to ensure the welfare of Bangladeshi citizens living abroad. The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of...
Two buses in Senegal collided – thereby killing at least 25 people and injuring at least a dozen, including many who were heading to an annual pilgrimage. Senegal radio station...
The central bank has asked the mobile banking customers not to keep more than Tk 300,000 in their accounts with effect from January next year. The Bangladesh Bank fixed the...
The cabinet on Monday approved 22 public holidays for the year 2018. The approval was given in the weekly meeting of the cabinet held at Prime Minister's office with Prime...
A teenager allegedly addicted to online game "Blue Whale" committed suicide in Kashiani upazila in Gopalganj on Monday. The victim is identified as Rafiqul Islam Partha, 15, son of Abul...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia had separate meetings with USA and Canadian delegations on Monday. During the talks with a Canadian parliamentary delegation, they told the BNP chief that their country...
Commonwealth parliamentarians will focus on Rohingya issue at the general assembly of the 63rd Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) today (Tuesday). Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Mia, also the Head of Bangladesh...
Stocks witnessed positive trend in early trading on Monday as investors are active on newly listed stock. Oimex Electrode, which made its shares trading debut today, attracted the investors most...
Trading of Oimex Electrode Limited made its debut on the two bourses of the country Monday. Trading code of the company is ‘OIMEX’ while the code for the company is...
Disney-Marvel’s “Thor: Ragnarok” is heading for a stellar opening weekend with $121 million at 4,080 North American locations -- the fourth best launch of 2017. The third Thor movie is...
The board of directors of Ambee Pharmaceuticals has recommended 30 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2017, said an official disclosure on Monday. The final approval...
Real Madrid restored order after two straight losses with a comfortable 3-0 win over Las Palmas in the Spanish league on Sunday. Goals by Casemiro in the first half, and...
For the second year running, Bridge Alliance emerged top as one of the best-placed enterprise mobility and IoT solutions providers in Asia-Pacific. This is on the back of Bridge Alliance's...
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam reiterated that it is highly unlikely for Chief Justice SK Sinha to rejoin office as the other Appellate Division judges refused to sit with him. "I'd...
Police arrested one with a double-barrel shooter gun and one bullet from Mohiskura Bazar in Sharsha upazila on Monday night. The arrested was identified as Ikramul Haque, 25, son of...
Ousted Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and four close separatist allies regained their freedom at the end of a tumultuous Sunday that started when they surrendered in Brussels to face possible...
NEW DELHI, Nov 6 (Reuters): India's steel and rail ministries are at loggerheads over the state-run network's proposal to buy much-needed rails from overseas, a move that would undermine Prime...
Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) moves to borrow US$ 700 million from International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) to import fuel oils for the calendar year 2018, officials said. The state-owned...
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a common condition, affecting five per cent to 10 per cent of women globally, in which elevated male hormone levels can cause a range of...
News from the food front is disconcerting. At a time when this year's Global Nutrition Report paints a grim picture of nutritional deficiencies for a vast majority of the 140...
A recent Netflix email scam has been targeting subscribers of the popular streaming service telling them that their account is about to be cancelled. The well-designed, individualised fake email convinces...
This year is set to be the second hottest year on record and one of the three hottest years till date, with many high-impact events, including catastrophic hurricanes and floods,...
FOR over a month, we, the residents of Malibagh Chowdury Para area of Dhaka city, have been experiencing supply of stinking and dirty water by Dhaka WASA. The problem might...
THIS is in reference to the write-up on carbon tax measures, published in a local daily on November 5. To encourage and support all alternative energy proposals, this writer would...
TOKYO, Nov 6 (Reuters: Japan's Subaru Corp on Monday reported a disappointing operating profit for the second quarter, and cut its full-year forecast as it expects to sell less cars...
UN Climate Change Conference for 2017 kicked off in Bonn, Germany on Monday with unified calls to hold to the path of the Paris Climate Change Agreement. The opening of...
SIRAJGANJ, Nov 6: The ultra-poor radish growers of the district are happy over the fair market prices this season. Sources said radish is being sold at Tk 40 to Tk...
Professor Muhammad Yunus was given the honorary citizenship of the French capital as the annual Global Social Business Summit (GSBS) kicked off in Paris on Monday. Paris Mayor Ms Anne...
President Emmanuel Macron's election in France and the likely continuation of Angela Merkel's chancellorship in Germany are dramatically at odds with developments in the rest of Europe, which has become...
Accordingly to the report of the Advisory Commission on the Rakhine state popularly known as Kofi Annan report, some ten per cent of the world's stateless people live in Myanmar...
The famous regal displeasure at events and activities has done the rounds of royal courts for centuries. That is till the spit in the air falls on royal faces. If...
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic was sacked on Monday with the team in the Premier League drops to relegation zone. Bilic's last game in charge was Saturday's 4-1 defeat by...
Hong Kong's Kingboard Chemical Holdings on Monday said it had agreed to sell its 9.6 per cent stake in Cathay Pacific Airways to Middle Eastern carrier Qatar Airways for HK$5.16...
Bangladesh conceded the first defeat in their 3rd match of the five-team Group B of the AFC Under-19 Championship Qualifiers losing to physically and technically superior Uzbekistan by 0-1 goal...
The causal connection between food availability and food security or food availability and nutritional improvement is documented in various research papers. The historically mooted perception appears to be that availability...
Uprooted people get the worst from both sides: those evicting them, and those whom they have no option but to turn to for safety. That predicament increasingly bears down upon...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines' move to have a partner for ground handling activities at the country's airports is yet to see any tangible progress although nearly two years have already elapsed....
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