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Strangely, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has not treated 'right to food' as one of its articles. However, the first article is 'right to life'. One may, therefore, argue...
Sweden will invest $ 1.0 billion to introduce new technology and digitalise the power grid for making the system more reliable and efficient in Bangladesh. State Minister for Power, Energy...
Janet Yellen's term is ending at the Federal Reserve. With new appointments, President Trump can indirectly shape US monetary policy for years to come - for better or worse. Serving...
The United States remains “extraordinarily concerned” by what was happening to Myanmar’s Rohingya minority. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made the remarks on Wednesday. He also thinks that Myanmar’s...
The ongoing three-month long digital campaign of Walton has turned into a festive mood as a good number of people across the country are thronging brand outlets to buy appliances...
Police arrested two suspected muggers in connection with Daffodil International University (DIU) student Talha murder case. The arrestees are Milon (20), and Sabuj (19), a news agency reported. Tipped off,...
Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday won the reversal of a $72 million verdict in favour of the family of a woman whose death from ovarian cancer they claimed stemmed from...
Chinese President Xi Jinping opened a critical Communist Party Congress on Wednesday with a pledge to build a “modern socialist country” that will never copy the political systems of others...
A drug-based therapy appears to restore breathing in rats paralysed from the neck down by a spinal injury, according to scientists. They hope their "exciting but early" findings could ultimately...
Mitsubishi Motors Corp on Wednesday said it planned to boost revenue and annual car sales by 30 percent in the next three years and crank up R&D investment as the...
Six members from a family, mostly children, were killed Tuesday night in an airstrike carried out by Saudi-led coalition in Yemen’s northeastern province of Jawf, a local security official told...
Amazon Studios says it has accepted the resignation of its top executive, Roy Price, following sexual harassment allegations made by a producer on the Amazon series “Man in the High...
The revenue board found its online system for submission of income-tax returns largely forlorn and went on a mass campaign for teaching taxpayers how to do it. Sources said less...
Islamic University (IU) authorities will first ever enroll foreign students in different academic programmes under its current 2017-18 academic session, a news agency reported. A total of 50 students will...
A Kenyan electoral commissioner has announced her resignation and says the presidential vote just eight days away cannot credibly proceed as planned. Roselyne Akombe spoke Wednesday from New York but...
Required facilities including roads and warehouses are still inadequate at the Benapole-Petrapole land-ports to handle growing volume of export cargo between Bangladesh and India. Keeping this in view, a study...
Former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday the war of words between Pyongyang and Washington have benefited North Korea, but not the United States. “There is no need...
Income inequality in Bangladesh has widened further despite decline in the rate of poverty, dropping to 24.3 per cent last year from 31.5 per cent six years back. Official findings...
Sustainable finance approach in Bangladesh has primarily been driven by regulatory policies. The involvement of Bangladesh Bank (BB) promoted inclusive growth for attaining developmental goals and poverty reduction objectives of...
The Dhaka city commuters had to suffer traffic gridlock on Wednesday as hundreds of BNP leaders and activists gathered in airport area to welcome their chairperson Khaleda Zia. Khaleda Zia...
Long queues in front of the compressed natural gas (CNG) filling stations amply demonstrate how severe the gas shortage is. Gas supply shortage coupled with low pressure is seriously affecting...
Belying the hope that the scope of the people to investment in the stock market would be widened over time, the same seems to have shrunk. One may think that,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina attended a milad and doa mahfil marking 54th birthday of Sheikh Russell, the youngest son of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The programme...
BRAC Bank Limited donated Tk 50 million to the Prime Minister’s Relief and Welfare Fund to help the Rohingya refugees. The bank made the donation under the initiative of Bangladesh...
There is a saying, "A healthy insurance market must have a base and a growing volume of business." In our present market, only a few types of general insurance businesses...
All the Rohingya refugee camps were brought under the electricity coverage as a fresh nine-km line of electricity and streetlamps and floodlights were installed in the camp areas. Disaster Management...
Foreign analysts and media look to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for clues about China's future. It is no secret that President Xi Jinping,...
South Asian economies are suffering from infrastructure deficit in areas of natural resources, water, energy, roads and rail networks. Infrastructure investment builds the bridge that connects the old growth engine...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) decided to file six cases against 16 graft suspects for allegedly grabbing a forest land. The ACC took the decision its regular meeting on Wednesday, ACC...
Ford Motor Co said on Wednesday it would recall about 1.3 million vehicles in North America to add a water shield to side door latches. Affected vehicles include certain 2015-17...
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tehran would stick to its 2015 nuclear accord with world powers as long as the other signatories respected it, but would “shred” the...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia returned home from the United Kingdom on Wednesday afternoon after over a three-month stay there. She reached Hazrat Shahjajal International Airport by an Emirates Airlines flight...
Awami League wants using electronic voting machines (EVMs) for holding the next general election. The ruling party proposed an 11-point proposal, including using EVMs, during a dialogue with the Election...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed deep shock at the death of AM Nurul Islam Onu, the private secretary (PS) to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. In...
US President Donald Trump's latest bid to impose travel restrictions on citizens from eight countries entering the US has suffered a court defeat. A federal judge slapped a temporary restraining...
A six-member Bangladeshi delegation, led by State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam, reached Istanbul on Wednesday to attend the 9th Summit of the D-8, an organisation for economic...
China will deepen economic and financial reforms and further open its markets to foreign investors as it looks to move from high-speed to high-quality growth, President Xi Jinping said on...
Nine US senators have sent a letter thanking Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her ‘strong leadership and compassion’ on the Rohingya crisis. The letter praised Bangladesh’s decision to keep the...
An explosion overnight in the southern Swedish town of Helsingborg caused extensive damage to the entrance of a police station, authorities said on Wednesday. Nobody was injured in the explosion,...
The board of directors of Quasem Drycells Limited (QDL) has recommended 18 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2017, said an official disclosure on Wednesday....
GENEVA, Oct 17 (Agencies): Some 582,000 Rohingya refugees have fled their homes in Myanmar and arrived in Bangladesh since late August, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning that thousands more...
SEOUL, Oct 17 (Reuters): The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has a compliance rate with their output cut pledges of about 86 per cent, Fatih Birol, the executive director...
Baraka Power Ltd, a joint collaboration of local and a group of non-resident Bangladeshi (NRB) entrepreneurs, aims to expand its businesses further in power as well as other potential sectors...
United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB) Tuesday launched a state of the art digital banking platform for both consumer and corporate customers named Upay. "Upay aims to promote cashless and universal,...
Chairman and CEO of Transcom Group Latifur Rahman has been given the UKBCCI Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contribution in industrial development. The prize giving ceremony of the UKBCCI...
NEW DELHI, Oct 17 (Reuters): India is likely to stick to its fiscal deficit target of 3.2 per cent of GDP, and may accelerate sales of government stakes in lenders...
Bangladesh will take on hosts South Africa in the second match of the three-match ODI series at Boland Park in Paarl today (Wednesday), reports UNB. The battle will begin at...
MADRID, Oct 17 (AP): Iago Aspas got his first goals of the season in a hat trick in Celta Vigo's 5-2 win over struggling Las Palmas in the Spanish league...
Senior leaders from the ruling Awami League have met the Election Commission, or EC, as part of its consultations with the registered political parties. A 21-strong delegation led by the...
IDLC Finance has posted 18.35 per cent growth in earnings for the period January-September, 2017 compared to same period of the previous year. The company's managing director Arif Khan Tuesday...
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