Every time we log into our Facebook account or google the Game of Thrones or tweet about the Rohingya crisis, we leave a trail, the digital trail. While we browse...
One of the founding chapters of JCI Bangladesh, JCI Dhaka West, held its general assembly at Hotel Westin, Dhaka on October 27, 2017. During the general assembly, JCI Dhaka West's...
If you think you are good with numbers and ready to take up the challenges of investment management, then gear up for one of the exciting events of the year--Finwitz...
A man in a remote tribal village in the eastern Indian state of Orissa woke up to find an unexpected guest in his courtyard - a 3m (12ft) long crocodile....
The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday extended for five more weeks the stay on the High Court (HC) order that declared illegal running mobile courts by executive magistrates. A four-member...
Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) has offered a motivating knowledge sharing excursion at Malaysia for the CEO or high officials of its top ten performing TREC holders. The projected time schedule...
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses saw upward trend in early trading Wednesday as investors are showing their buying appetite on sector-wise issues. Brokers said investors...
Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Tuesday said the travel time of the Maitree Express on the Dhaka-Kolkata-Dhaka route will be cut down to six hours from...
Climbing on Uluru, one of Australia's top tourist destinations, will be banned from October 2019, local authorities have confirmed. The board of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park voted unanimously...
A man driving a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists on a bike path alongside the Hudson River in New York City on Tuesday, killing eight people and...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) Tuesday requested the Bangladesh Bank (BB) to freeze the current account of Premier Bank Limited as a strategy to realise taxes worth Tk 201...
Facebook, Twitter and Google lawyers on Tuesday defended themselves to US lawmakers probing whether Russia used social media to influence the 2016 election. The three firms faced hard questions at...
Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations began across the country on Wednesday. About 2.4 million students started, over half of whom are girls, started sitting for...
The Supreme Court has upheld the High Court verdict that sentenced a man to death and three others to life term imprisonment in the murder of Saudi Arabian embassy official...
A man was killed as a truck hit his bike in Fukra Bazaar area in Kashiani upazila of Gopalgabnj district on Tuesday evening.Imran Hossain, 45, an accountant of Kashiani-Gopalganj Railway...
Spain's High Court on Tuesday summoned sacked Catalan leader Carles Puidgemont and 13 other members of his dismissed government to appear later this week. It also gave them three days...
Two examinees of Junior School Certificate (JSC) exam died, three went missing and 10 more sustained injuries as a boat carrying them sank in the Pagla River in Nabinagar upazila...
Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company (BAPEX) has confirmed existence of high-pressured extractable natural gas three kilometres off Shahbazpur Gas Field in Bhola. BAPEX’s Deputy General Manager Meherul Hasan said...
Most of the mutual funds in Bangladesh stock market have a lower trading price against their Net Asset Values (NAVs). According to the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), there are 36...
Stocks ended higher Wednesday amid increase in trading activities as optimistic investors appeared to be interested in selective large-cap stocks. Brokers said the optimistic investors showed their buying appetite on...
Myanmar has blamed Bangladesh for delaying the start of a repatriation process for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees, saying it feared Dhaka could be stalling until it receives...
Ganajagaran Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarker has secured bail in a defamation case filed over his alleged derogatory remarks on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Metropolitan Magistrate’s...
A pro-Awami League lawyer has accused BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia of sedition for allegedly holding a ‘secret meeting’ with Pakistani’s Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, during her three-month stay in the...
The Consumer Association of Bangladesh (CAB) will arrange a meeting to discuss on Proposal of Reducing Electricity Tariff at 10:30 am on 02 November 2017 in the capital. Nasrul Hamid,...
The weeklong Income Tax Fair-2017 has begun in the capital as elsewhere across the country with a revenue collection target of more than Tk 30 billion. The fair began to...
President Md Abdul Hamid visited the Rajshahi Central Jail on Wednesday, where he was a political prisoner in 1977. The President became emotional recalling his memories of movement and jail...
Traffic congestions at the end of different exit ramps of Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover will be reduced further within a month as the authorities are working with the traffic department in this...
Bangladesh has so far implemented around 41 per cent of the 31 common global trade facilitation (TF) measures to reduce trade cost. The revelation was made public on Wednesday in...
A court in Dhaka granted a seven-day remand to interrogate detained pilot of Biman Bangladesh Airlines in a case filed under the Explosive Substances Act. Three alleged members of Jama’atul...
Nazmul Hasan Papon has been elected as the President of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) unopposed in a meeting of the BCB Board of Directors at Mirpur on Wednesday afternoon....
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that his party does not want to announce any aggressive programme right now. "We hope good sense will prevail upon the...
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) will hand over mobile number portability (MNP) service to the winning company ‘Infozillion BD Teletech Consortium Limited’ on November 7. The MNP service is likely...
The law-enforcers in the capital city have unearthed an incident of double murder. Police said a woman and her son were found dead on Wednesday evening at an apartment opposite...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has cut the interest rate for the Long Term Financing Facility (LTFF) under the Financial Sector Support Project (FSSP). Under the FSSP fund for long-term financing, the...
At least 16 people were killed and dozens more injured in an explosion Wednesday at a thermal power plant in northern India, officials said. Sanjay Khatri, the area's top administrative...
A suspected airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels in Yemen killed at least 29 people, including children, in the country's north, a Yemeni health official said Wednesday. Abdellah...
European Union (EU) Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides has said EU wants safe and dignified return of Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar. "Of course, I...
Five hundred years ago this week, a little-known priest and university lecturer in theology did something unremarkable for his time: he nailed a petition to a door, demanding an academic...
Many financial experts wished to see a vibrant bond market in Bangladesh. They feel disappointed when they find it has not yet taken off. This writer, however, thinks that under...
A man was killed and three others injured in a clash between a gang of ‘gamblers’ and local people at Rajendrapur in Gazipur district on Tuesday. The deceased was identified...
The board of directors of Regent Textile Mills Limited has recommended 10 per cent cash dividend for the general shareholders only (excluding Sponsors/Directors) for the year ended on June 30,...
Countries responsible for global carbon emissions should provide sufficient financial and technical support to the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), including Bangladesh, to tackle the adverse impacts of climate change. Despite...
Sophisticated entrepreneurship and its sustainability depend on technology. As a source of instant help bridging communication gaps, it reduces time to gather information considered the number one raw material for...
Asian shares were higher Wednesday on optimism about global economic growth following gains on Wall Street. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 added 1.4 per cent in morning trading to 22,324.64. Australia’s...
Dhaka, the city we live in, have grown with, and still build our hopes on, is the nerve-centre of an unstoppably advancing economy. It is the emotional resort to which...
Early in the 1980s, the whole nation was under a national context of material scarcity and undeveloped logistics. The principal contradiction was previously described as one between the ever-growing material...
Kingsley Coman and Javi Martinez fired Bayern Munich into the knockout stages of the Champions League, netting a goal each as they defeat Celtic 2-1 in their Group B clash...
Dhaka city is gradually becoming unliveable due to lack of proper planning and policies. In an unprecedented event, 2.0 million people moved into the city in the last five years...
The move to turn the railway repair workshop at Syedpur into a full-fledged carriage-making plant is an indication of greater focus on the country's railway neglected so far. An efficient...
Mexico’s economy likely shrank for the first time in more than four years during the third quarter (Q3), after the country was battered by earthquakes and hurricanes in September. Gross...
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