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Slow internet speed may continue till Saturday as repair works on the first submarine cable of the country has not finished yet. "The work has not ended yet. We hope...
Top seed Roger Federer needed less than an hour to dispatch Benoit Paire 6-1 6-3 and reach the quarter-finals of the Swiss Indoors tournament on Thursday -- treating his home...
Never in the history of the United States has the incumbent president, in less than ten months in office, unleashed so much of chaos and instability as President Trump. Since...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has found a serious mismatch between actual imports and import orders of capital machinery and machinery for miscellaneous industries in the first two months of the...
Trade is more contentious now than it has been for decades. Since their heyday during the 1980s and 1990s - which saw the creation of the WTO, the birth of...
The Catalan parliament’s declaration of independence on Friday has changed for the European Union (EU), said the group’s chief. The President of the European Council Donald Tusk also stated the...
Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's 24-hour-long official visit was undertaken ostensibly for the meeting of the India-Bangladesh Joint Consultative Committee with her counterpart, the Bangladesh Foreign Minister AH Mahmud...
Donald Trump's view of a new order was laid down in bits and pieces during the Presidential campaign. Some of it, such as cutting US expenses in funding the United...
Some leaders and activists of the ruling Awami League engaged in a scuffle over seats on stage at the inaugural ceremony of Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover, reports bdnews24.com Dhaka South Mayor Sayeed...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader alleged that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia told lies about Awami League and Sheikh Hasina before the court. "Her speeches will create confusion in the...
Macroeconomic data from the world's advanced economies can be mystifying when viewed in isolation. But when analysed collectively, the data reveal a troubling truth: without changes to how wealth is...
Chittagong Education Board (CEB) has completed all out preparations to conduct the Junior Secondary Certificate (JSC) examination beginning from November 1 in a peaceful manner. Over 1,83,600 students will sit...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken part in major military drills of nuclear forces of the country. Putin personally directed the test-firing of four intercontinental ballistic missiles as part of...
Pregnant Rohingya women are at high risk of getting infected by hepatitis C virus, said a leading physician on Friday. Secretary General National Liver Foundation of Bangladesh, Prof. Mohammad Ali,...
Burundi has become the first country to pull out from the International Criminal Court on Friday. However, according to officials, the court's prosecutor will move ahead with an examination of...
The US economy grew at a solid annual rate of 3 per cent in the third quarter. It marks the first time in three years that growth has hit at...
The government has suspended three engineers of for their alleged irregularities in tree felling at Uttara Ganabhaban in Natore. A letter, signed by Housing and Public Works secretary Shahid Ullah...
Malaysia expects domestic demand and still-buoyant exports to help drive 5.0 to 5.5 per cent growth in 2018. Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is under attack in connection with a...
Oil prices steadied on Friday, with benchmark Brent crude trading just below $60 a barrel, buoyed by comments from Saudi Arabia’s crown prince backing the extension of OPEC-led output cuts....
Gold prices inched down on Friday to hit their lowest in nearly three weeks, with the dollar gaining against the euro after the European Central Bank extended its bond-buying programme....
European shares hit a five-month high on Friday as one the biggest weekly drops in the euro this year buoyed investors’ moods. Stocks gains were also underpinned by strong earnings...
Indian shares traded flat on Friday, after hitting record highs earlier in the session, as Yes Bank Ltd slumped on concerns over bad loans, while investors booked profits in recent...
South Korean shares rallied to end at another all-time high on Friday, as signs of an improvement in ties between Beijing and Seoul helped to brighten market sentiment. Market participants...
Japan’s Nikkei share average surged more than 1.0 per cent to a fresh 21-year high on Friday, led by banking shares as US yields remained high and by tech shares....
China’s blue-chip index is poised to hit a fresh two-year high on Friday, capping a week in which President Xi Jinping consolidated power at a key Party Congress, pledging to...
Hong Kong stocks ended the week on a firmer footing, after an encouraging slew of earnings from US tech giants buoyed Wall Street and the European Central Bank extended its...
US President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the unveiling of 2,800 documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy but yielded to pressure from the FBI and...
New Zealand shares were slightly higher on Friday, set its first weekly loss in six. The S&P/NZX 50 index rose 20.75 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 8,107.49 at 0033...
Australian shares rose to a near six-month high on Friday, boosted by Macquarie Group’s jump to record levels, while material and energy stocks further supported the index. Macquarie, the country’s...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to visit the Rohingyas who have taken shelter in Cox’s Bazar in the face of persecution in their own country, Myanmar. She is...
GOPALGANJ, Oct 25: Harvest of short-duration BINA Dhan-16 begins at Mahayashpur under Kasiani upazila in the district. According to the sub-center of the Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA) Gopinathpur...
China’s blue-chip index powered to a 28-month high on Thursday as stellar earnings reports from companies lifted sentiment, despite further rises in bond yields signalling tighter liquidity. The blue-chip CSI300...
The board of directors of Titas Gas Transmission & Distribution Company Limited has recommended 22 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2017, said an official...
Sat in his hillside grocery shop in a Bangladesh refugee camp, Rohingya Muslim Momtaz-ul-Hoque takes a break to listen to an audio recording on his mobile phone, while children and...
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed upward trend in early trading on Thursday as optimistic investors took position on selective issues amid ongoing earnings and...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a woman along with 290 pieces of Yaba tablets from Majhgram in Bagmara upazila of Rajshahi district on Wednesday. The detainee was identified...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has opened the Kakrail-Malibagh, Rajarbagh-Mouchak, Rampura-Mouchak and Mouchak-Eskaton portions of the much-awaited Moghbazar-Mouchak Flyover. A local agency report said the PM opened the flyover through a...
Four people were killed and several injured when a train crashed into an army truck during a military exercise in southern Finland on Thursday, police and defense forces said. Three...
Seven commercial banks have appealed to the central bank's board of directors to waive the financial penalty imposed on them for violating the rules relating to share-market investment. Their petitions...
New security measures including stricter passenger screening take effect on Thursday on all US-bound flights to comply with government requirements aimed at responding to threats of hidden explosives, airlines said....
Revenue board's value-added tax (VAT) wing served demand notices on 37 large taxpayers to realise VAT arrears worth Tk 6.93 billion, against the backdrop of its target shortfalls. Officials said...
An ambulance driver and a cancer patient were killed and four others sustained injuries in a road accident in Boro Darogar Haat area on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in Sitakunda upazila of...
The remaining parts of the much-awaited Maghbazar-Mouchak Flyover will open to traffic today (Thursday), bringing an end to the sufferings of the commuters and the residents of the area. They...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith underscored on Wednesday the need for championing the principles for effective development cooperation among the global community to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), reports BSS. "To...
Scientists in India have discovered a 152 million-year-old fossil of an ichthyosaur - an extinct marine reptile - in the western state of Gujarat. This is the first time an...
A move is underway to raise dealers' commission on open market sale (OMS) of rice and wheat to help curb malpractices in sales by authorised traders, sources said. The food...
Members of Detective Branch of police arrested three members of a gold smuggling gang along with 9.33 kilograms of gold from the Airport road in Dhaka on Wednesday night. The...
Bangladesh and Myanmar will form a joint working group within November 30 and the Terms of Reference(ToR) of the group will determine repatriation of the Rohingyas refugees. "Earlier, the two...
US oil prices extended declines on Thursday after government data showed a surprise climb in US crude inventories. NYMEX crude for December delivery was down 2 cents at $52.16 a...
A Pakistani judge has issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after he failed to appear in court to face corruption charges. Judge Mohammad Bashir on Thursday...
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