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An Indian apex trade organisation has chalked out a plan to organise product promotion events in Dhaka and Sylhet in the first week of ensuing December. The organisation called Agricultural...
Stocks extended the losing streak for the second straight week that ended Thursday as cautious investors continued their selling binge amid mixed earnings and dividend declarations. Brokers said small investors...
At least 10 people were killed and 12 others injured Saturday after a goods truck carrying tiles overturned in western Indian state of Maharashtra, police said. The accident took place...
US stocks closed modestly higher, lifting the S&P 500 index to its fifth record close in a row. The Dow Jones industrial average, which crossed past the 23,000 mark for...
A Japanese software company is suing Apple Inc in a U.S. court over the trademark for the term “animoji”, alleging the U.S. technology company stole the name to use on...
The optimism of forging closer relations between Japan and Bangladesh expressed by the newly appointed Japanese ambassador to this country transcends the level of customary bonhomie exuded on the occasion...
The death toll from last Saturday's huge truck bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 358, the information minister says. Some 56 people are also still missing, Abdirahman...
Offshore blocks could become the lifeline for development of Bangladesh as it has limited natural resources. The settlement of maritime boundary disputes with neighbouring countries has offered the country huge...
Release of nearly US$ 1.64 billion worth of pledged Japanese ODA loans for Bangladesh's six projects is being delayed due to complexity arisen over the payment of bank commission, officials...
Cox’s Bazar has been witnessing widespread tree and hill cutting with the recent influx of Rohingya people in droves. Local sources say Rohingyas, who entered the district afresh, are constructing...
Police in Brazil say they have arrested 108 people in the biggest operation ever against paedophiles in Latin America. Suspects were arrested in 24 states and the capital, Brasilia. Justice...
The government-imposed ban on catching, transporting, marketing and selling of hilsa fish comes to an end on Monday. The ban was imposed from October 12 in 27 districts to boost...
Media polls indicate Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling coalition is going to win the general election to be held on Sunday. The coalition may keep its two-thirds majority in...
The Harvey Weinstein sexual assault scandal shows no sign of winding down. Just the opposite: police in the United Kingdom are now investigating several allegations involving the Oscar-winning film producer....
Media reports say that Bangladesh Bank (BB) is in the process of developing a database for collateral securities retained by banks against granting loans and advances. The purpose of developing...
All rounder Nasir Hossain and top order batsman Mominul Haque have got the call in 14-member T20 squad for the two-match series against hosts South Africa. Bangladesh Cricket Board on...
Since the latest round of genocidal attacks on the Rohingyas began on August 25 resulting in half a million Rohingyas already crossing border over to Bangladesh, there has been a...
US President Donald Trump intends to allow the release of classified government documents about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy "subject to the receipt of further information." Trump's tweet...
The ongoing 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is getting the attention of global media, with more than 1,800 foreign correspondents in China to report the...
Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu confirmed on Saturday the club wishes to continue playing in La Liga even if Catalonia is granted independence from Spain. The Spanish government is holding...
Star of It and Stranger Things Finn Wolfhard has parted ways with his agent Tyler Grasham after a former client alleged sexual abuse. 14-year-old Finn has left APA agency and...
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Saturday announced plans to fire Catalonia’s president and his entire government under special powers available to the government under Spain’s constitution. Speaking after a...
Dhaka University authorities directed for ending all types of activities at its Teacher-Student Centre (TSC) by 8pm every day. Acting TSC Director AMM Mohiuzzaman Chowdhury said on Saturday said the...
Several people are injured following a knife attack at an underground station in Munich, says a report on Metro UK. The attacker is on the run after stabbing multiple people...
At least 55 policemen, including 20 officers and 34 conscripts, were killed in a shootout during a raid on a militant hideout near in Cairo of Egypt. The officials said...
City Bank sponsored the renovation of teachers’ lounge at Faculty of Business Studies of Dhaka University recently. DU Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dr. Md. Akhtaruzzaman inaugurated the lounge at a event recently,...
National Bank Limited recently organised a training programme on ways to stop or minimise money laundering. ‘Prevention of Money Laundering & Combating the Financing of Terrorism,’ by the initiative of...
The Mercantile Bank Limited organised a get together with the start-up level entrepreneurs under its new product titled ‘UDAYAN’ recently. The progamme was held at bank’s Training Institute in Dhaka...
The Bangladesh Meteorological Department forecasts a decrease in rainfall in the next 72 hours as a depression over the Bay of Bengal weakens and moves north-northeast. Most areas of Rajshahi,...
PABNA, Oct 19: Miniature fish species are being massively threatened due to set up of nets and bamboo-made enclosures at different points of Chalan Beel after receding water from last...
Industries minister Amir Hossain Amu suggested Thursday the state-run standards watchdog should play an active role in building a smarter city. "The BSTI (Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution) should act...
The first 'Housing Finance Fair-2017' kicked off Thursday in the city to showcase home loan products, flats and apartments. The state-run Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation (BHBFC), which has organised...
Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) has requested BSTI to take legal action against a number of mango drinks makers for producing mango drinks that contained mango pulp lower than the...
Agricultural mechanisation is important to ensure food security in Bangladesh, discussants have said at an opinion meeting in Dhaka. They observed that the country's population is increasing and agro-based labourers...
Sharp growth in mobile payments led PayPal Holdings Inc to report a better-than-expected third-quarter profit on Thursday and lift its guidance for earnings through the rest of the year. The...
A six-year-old child has been raped in Savar. She has not been able to identify the attacker, said Savar Model Police Station OC Mohsinul Qadir on Friday. The child had...
The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) barred small vessels from leaving terminals amid squally weather caused by a depression over the Bay of Bengal. The BIWTA issued the order...
COX'S BAZAR, Oct 19: At least 30,000 Rohingyas who fled persecution in Myanmar's Rakhine state have gathered in the no man's land near the Anjumanpara border point of Ukhia upazila...
Pollution has been linked to nine million deaths worldwide in 2015, a report in The Lancet has found. Almost all of these deaths occurred in low- and middle-income countries, where...
Nearly 340,000 Rohingya children are living in squalid conditions in Bangladesh camps where they lack enough food, clean water and health care, the United Nations Children's Fund or UNICEF said...
Asian shares shrugged off early sluggishness and gained on Friday, and the dollar rose after the US Senate approved a budget blueprint for the 2018 fiscal year that will pave...
Police recovered the hanging body of Nakla Upazila chairman from his residence at Kursha in Nakla Upazila headquarters in Sherpur on Friday. The deceased Mahbub Ali alias Manir, aged 65,...
Everton boss Ronald Koeman said the 2-1 Europa League defeat at home to Lyon on Thursday puts his job under greater scrutiny. The Toffees remain bottom of Group E, without...
Pound skidded to a two-week low on Friday amid doubts over the outlook for Bank of England interest rate moves and concerns over Brexit, when the dollar climbed, as investors...
Former US Presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush expressed concern about the current political climate in the country, in comments seen as a veiled rebuke of Donald Trump's leadership....
Temporary workers and foreign students previously drawn to New Zealand on the promise of gaining residency will start leaving en masse, migration agents say, as the incoming coalition government promises...
More than 700,000 people over the age of one year have been administered oral cholera vaccine in the first phase of a campaign here to protect the newly arrived Rohingya...
Moderate to heavy rainfall, triggered by land depression in the Bay, is continuing throughout the country on Friday, disrupting the normal life. Residents of Khulna, Barisal and Dhaka divisions witnessed...
Bangladesh's Mushfiqur Rahim has gained five places in the ICC ODI rankings after the latest ranking updates were carried out on Friday, reports BSS. The Bangladesh Test captain Mushfiq, who...
Exporters will be allowed to get duty drawback without physical inspection of goods as the National Board of Revenue (NBR) relaxed a mandatory provision of a law in this regard...
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