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SYLHET, Oct 23: Senior agriculture scientists at a workshop on Sunday laid emphasis on raising farming area and yield of short-duration paddy varieties to recoup the massive crop loss in...
The dollar rose to a three-month high against the yen on Monday, with an emphatic election victory for Japan’s ruling party keeping yen-weakening stimulus measures at the heart of government...
More patients should be told to go home and rest rather than be given antibiotics, according to health officials. Public Health England (PHE) says up to a fifth of antibiotic...
The hanging body of a madrasa student was recovered in Faridganj upazila of Chandpur district on Sunday afternoon. The deceased, Khadiza Akhter, a class V student of Kasiada Mahila Madrasa,...
The corporate world was enjoying, not so long ago, unfettered freedom in running the affairs of its organisations. Government interference was inconceivable. Rather the government was to some extent considered...
All sea life will be affected because carbon dioxide emissions from modern society are making the oceans more acidic, a major new report will say. The eight-year study from more...
Asian shares were mostly higher Monday, with Japan’s benchmark rising on the back of an election victory by the prime minister’s ruling party, which had promised stability and growth. Japan’s...
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has very recently released a preliminary report on Household Income and Expenditure Survey-2016 (henceforth, HIES 2016). Based on a representative national survey of approximately 46...
The arrest of two students of the University of Dhaka, who happen to be office-bearers of the students' front of the ruling party, and an admission seeker dismisses the earlier...
Two people have died and more than 10 injured after a typhoon struck Japan. Typhoon Lan made landfall at Shizuoka, 175km (110 miles) south-west of Tokyo, at about 03:00 local...
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) became the twelfth member of Chartered Accountants Worldwide (CAW), global professional accounting body. ICAB is the seventh chartered accountancy body to be...
MARAWI CITY/CLARK, Philippines, Oct 23 (Reuters): The Philippines on Monday announced the end of five months of military operations in a southern city held by pro-Islamic State rebels, after a...
SINGAPORE, Oct 23 (Reuters): Struggling commodities trader Noble Group agreed to sell its Americas-focused oil trading business to Vitol for about $580 million as part of a debt-cutting strategy, and...
Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL) held its 9th Annual General Meeting on Saturday in Kuakata of Patuakhali.
Prime Minister's ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy Monday urged people to have faith in the ruling party in restoring democracy. "Awami League reestablished democracy in the country overcoming all sorts...
The international community has this time pledged an additional USD 340 million, in addition to the $116 million raised since the beginning of the Rohingya crisis, to meet the needs...
The 63rd conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) is set to begin in Dhaka from November 1. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the main conference on the South...
Human rights activists are stepping up efforts to expose Israel's long and covert history of supplying weapons and military training to regimes while they actively commit massacres, ethnic cleansing and...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said only the people can ‘restore’ democracy in the country, not any other ‘third country’. The BNP leader came up with...
Danish Minister for Development Cooperation Ulla Tørnæs on Monday announced that Denmark would provide an additional 32 million DKK (Taka 400 million) to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)...
Incidents of fraudulent mortgages can hardly be prevented although there are many stages of collateral security including legal opinion, physical verification of property by bankers and registered mortgage deed. Duplicate...
Shifting of tanneries to Savar from Hazaribagh is still going on. After disconnecting gas and power at Hazaribagh, 92 tanneries out of 154 have started their operation at Savar. Most...
In the dystopian fantasy Blade Runner 2049, Los Angeles 32 years from now looks a lot like China's megacities today: grey, polluted, and dominated by tall towers emblazoned with flashing...
China's entry into a new era is of great significance to the world, which can be evidenced by a series of interactive global stories ahead of the ongoing 19th National...
Dhaka Bank Limited achieved the milestone of US$2.0 billion (both import and export) in foreign trade business. In this connection, Central Processing Center (CPC) of the Bank celebrated the occasion...
The pain and anger of more than a million people who tweeted #MeToo in the last week have crowded social media with personal stories of sexual harassment or assault. This...
Theresa May was an unlikely candidate to be UK's Prime Minister and yet the stars catapulted her in to the hot seat, steering her country to a future she had...
Startup is our hope for creating a path-breaking opportunity of wealth creation. The success of Silicon Valley is a story of cumulative successes of innumerable startups. The early years of...
BRAC Bank Limited has awarded the top scorers of a “Banking Foundation Course” that took place during April–August, 2017. Selim R. F. Hussain, Managing Director & CEO, BRAC...
Catalan authorities will not follow orders from the Spanish government if Madrid moves to reassert control over the region, a senior official says. Foreign affairs spokesman Raul Romeva said the...
For the 4th consecutive year, Green Delta Insurance Company Limited has achieved AAA rating from Credit Rating Agency of Bangladesh (CRAB). Green Delta Insurance is the only non life Insurance Company in...
The Cabinet gave final approval to ‘The Sheikh Hasina National Youth Development Institute Bill, 2017’ draft aimed at creating efficient manpower through giving necessary training and education to the youth....
A media launching of Asian Restaurant and Takeaway Award (ARTA) has recently taken place in London Docklands Royal Victoria Dock of UK last week. Restaurateurs from around Britain, leaders of...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has left Dhaka for Myanmar to discuss about Rohingya crisis. A 12-member delegation led by the minister left Dhaka through a Bangladesh Biman flight around 12:45pm...
Net inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from India registered 8.42 per cent growth in the past fiscal year (FY17) compared to the previous fiscal (FY16). Latest statistics of the...
The School of Environmental Science and Management of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) has organised a seminar on `Climate Change Funding Policy’ at its campus in Dhaka. Dr Md Saifur Rahman,...
Gold price hit its lowest in over two weeks on Monday, as the dollar climbed to a more than three-month high versus the yen after Japan's ruling bloc scored a...
Global oil prices were stable on Monday, supported by supply concerns in the Middle East and declining US drilling activity. Brent crude futures LCOc1 were at $57.75 at 0710 GMT,...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) will assist Bangladesh in boosting exports from many newer priority sectors other than apparel to enhance the country's manufacturing competitiveness worldwide. Stimulating export-led growth is...
Three minor siblings were killed when a wall collapsed on them in Pagla area of Fatullah upazila of Narayanganj district on Monday morning. The deceased were identified as Lamia (12),...
Real Madrid moved back into third place in La Liga with a comfortable win over struggling Eibar. The defending champions led 2-0 after half an hour, with Paulo Oliveira heading...
PARIS, Oct 22 (Reuters): Airbus's coup in buying a $6.0 billion Canadian jetliner project stunned investors and took the spotlight off a growing ethics row last week, but internal disarray...
SYDNEY, Oct 22 (Reuters): Women coming into Australia's workforce provide the answer to an economic puzzle that analysts and policymakers alike have been struggling to solve this year. While the...
A California judge on Friday threw out a $417 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson in a lawsuit by a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer after using its...
RAJSHAHI, Oct 22 (BSS): The State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Narayan Chandra Chanda asked the field level officials and other dairy and poultry farmers to boost the livestock sector...
Mirza Salman Ispahani and Shahjada Mahmud Chaudhuri have been declared elected uncontested directors of the port city bourse as two candidates withdrew their nominations. The election committee of the Chittagong...
The Dhaka bourse Sunday ended flat in green as banking issues witnessed price correction. The other major sectors, however, rose marginally amid day-long volatility observed by the Dhaka Stock Exchange...
RAJSHAHI, Oct 22: Saffron, the costliest spice in the world, is being experimentally cultivated in Rajshahi. Though the spice is being experimentally cultivated in the country for last seventeen-year, this...
JHENIDAH, Oct 22: A total of 25 public auditoriums in Jhenidah established by the Department of Social Services (DSS) for training of rural women have been left abandoned for over...
The US government issued a rare public warning that sophisticated hackers are targeting energy and industrial firms, the latest sign that cyber attacks present an increasing threat to the power...
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