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Slum dwellers are going to get flats on low rental basis as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated such a project at Mirpur in Dhaka city. She unveiled the foundation...
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) President Miroslav Lajcak said Rohingya issue has appeared as a top priority concern for the organisation. He also stated that Dhaka's suggestions as a key...
Up to 300,000 people with long-term mental health problems have to leave their jobs each year, a report says. It also claims poor mental health costs the UK economy up...
Gold prices gained amid a weaker dollar and a firmer euro on Thursday, with the market expecting the European Central Bank to taper monetary stimulus at a meeting later in...
Liverpool-bound midfielder Naby Keita was sent off for the third time in seven games as Bayern Munich beat RB Leipzig on penalties in the German Cup. Keita, 22, has agreed...
A Swiss couple have been attacked at Fatehpur Sikri, a popular monument near the Taj Mahal, Indian police say. A senior police officer told BBC Hindi that four men attacked...
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda on Thursday defended his remarks that Ziaur Rahman, the founder of BNP, reestablished multiparty democracy in the country. "Yes, I still own it....
Stocks extended the gaining streak Thursday as some listed companies declared hefty dividend which prompted investors to take fresh stake. Dealers said the market stayed positive amid increasing turnover as...
The number of deaths has risen to 47 from Thursday's blast at a fireworks factory on the outskirts of Indonesia's capital of Jakarta, with 46 injured, police spokesman Argo Yuwono...
Indian Foreign Secretary Dr. S Jaishankar has said a ‘constructive approach’ is required to send back Rohingyas who crossed into Bangladesh to flee persecution in their home state of Rakhine in...
The Supreme Court on Thursday set October 30 to deliver its order on a petition filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking stay on the trial proceedings and recording testimonies...
A Minister in Japan has said that he is returning two months of his salary after a government-backed lender reported USD 2.3 billion in shady loans. Hiroshige Seko, who heads...
The Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU), under the Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) of the Ministry of Planning, launched a new project, said a press relase. Finance Minister AMA...
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has voiced concern over the World Bank's (WB) loan offer to Bangladesh to deal with the challenges emerged after Rohingyas took shelter here amid persecution in...
Jelena Ostapenko was in fine form as she claimed her first WTA Finals victory, inflicting White Group winner Karolina Pliskova's first defeat of the competition by prevailing 6-3 6-1. Ostapenko...
An emotional BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday claimed herself innocent in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. She also termed it a 'fake' one as, what she said, the...
At the Millennium Summit in 2000, the global community - the heads of Governments from193 countries - committed to achieve sustainable changes on a massive scale for millions of people...
Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli has been ranked above the Argentinean and Barcelona football legend Lionel Messi as one of the most valuable brands among sports athletes by Forbes....
India's issuance of visas to the people of Bangladesh has marked a sharp rise in recent months as the two neighbouring countries are considering people-to-people contacts as the biggest strength...
High officials of Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) today has said the joint exercise of the two neighbouring forces would reduce cross border crimes. They...
Buddhists in Myanmar have blocked aid workers from visiting a camp for displaced Muslims in the central part of Rakhine State, where the United Nations fears the spread of violence...
This year’s Taipei International Electronics Industry Exhibition TAITRONICS successfully ended in Taipei, Taiwan The exhibition was organised to create a platform for great set of innovations around AIoT, Artificial Intelligence...
New Zealand shares fell to a one-week low on Thursday, benchmark S&P/NZX 50 index fell 23.74 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 8,098.93 at 0115 GMT. Construction firm Fletcher Building...
The board of directors of Marico Bangladesh Limited has recommended 250 per cent interim cash dividend for the period ended on September 30, 2017 based on 6 months financials for...
Australian shares slumped on Thursday, hit by a drop in Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd after its annual net profit came in slightly lower than estimates. ANZ, the...
An explosion in Kiev on Wednesday killed a bodyguard and wounded three people including Ukrainian lawmaker Ihor Mosiychuk, Ukrainian officials said, describing the incident as a deliberate attack. Mosiychuk, a...
The board of directors of Gemini Sea Food Limited has recommended 125 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2017, said an official disclosure on Thursday. The...
Leicester City have appointed ex-Southampton boss Claude Puel as their new manager on a three-year deal. Puel becomes the Foxes' third manager this year, replacing Craig Shakespeare who succeeded Premier...
South Korea’s economy clocked its fastest growth in seven years last quarter, as global demand for the country’s electronics more than offset the impact of regional geopolitical strains on trade....
It has been more of a common practice on the part of most government agencies to delay execution of development projects, leading to two to threefold hike in their costs....
It is no mean achievement to register poverty reduction to 24.3 per cent in 2016 from 31.5 per cent in 2010. The decline in extreme poverty from 17.6 to 12.9...
Kenyans vote on Thursday in a presidential election re-run overshadowed by an opposition boycott that will almost certainly hand victory to President Uhuru Kenyatta, but with a mandate compromised by...
The move by the government to increase tea production as well as improve the conditions of the tea gardens is quite timely and, thus, most welcome. Tea industry, apparently a...
India’s foreign minister defended the country’s ties with North Korea and Iran during talks on Wednesday with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson aimed at building robust relations between the two...
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping to congratulate him on a new leadership line-up unveiled at the Communist Party Congress in Beijing....
US oil major Chevron is not leaving Bangladesh; rather, it will invest $400 million in the country's gas sector. State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid came up with...
The High Court (HC) on Thursday imposed a ban on building infrastructures in Dhaka metropolitan city’s 58 canals and water bodies. A HC division bench comprising Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque...
A district unit leader of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of ruling party Awami League, was expelled on Wednesday for violating party discipline. A UNB report said...
Thanks to the Brazilian government's reinstatement of its earlier order of a ban, the new batches of miners will miss the opportunity for now to search for minerals in the...
Introducing interoperability of Digital Financing Service (DFS) will increase client benefits and facilitate competition-based product innovation and diversification. State Minister for Finance and Planning MA Mannan shared came up with...
'Damned if Bangladesh does, damned if Bangladesh does not' may explain the country's current predicament. Capitalising on having one of the world's largest low-wage ready-made garments (RMG) sector, Bangladesh refuses...
The dreadful sufferings of Rohingya Muslim population in Myanmar have set a 'textbook example' of 'Ethnic Cleansing'. The world has not seen such large-scale exodus of people (more than 0.5...
Now this is official. Inequality has increased in the country as economic growth is moving upward. On one hand, the growth rate of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) surged to 7.11...
Indian High Commissioner Harsh Vardhan Shringla has said that India will supply another 500MW power to neighbouring Bangladesh through the Bheramara-Bherampur inter-connection by July next year. According to him, discussions...
A man was stabbed to death allegedly by his wife and children over family feud at Charbaria in the suburb area of Barisal district town on Thursday. The deceased was...
A Dhaka court has issued an arrest warrant for Ganajagaran Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarker in a case relating to allegedly defaming the prime minister during a protest in Dhaka...
Sterling climbed to a 9-day high on Thursday as strong growth data boosted expectations the Bank of England would raise interest rates next week. Wednesday’s gross domestic product growth for...
Indian shares traded flat on Thursday, faltering a bit after having touched record highs in the previous session as investors booked profits in recent outperformers such as State Bank of...
To play a blind woman for her latest film role, Blake Lively took no short cuts into the darkness. The 30-year-old actress learned to use a walking cane, wore opaque...
Heads up to all the young marketers of the nation, one of the favourite platforms to showcase one's marketing and ad-making skills is coming back. Bangladesh University of Professionals Business...
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