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Bangladesh is ready to host the eight-nation Hero 10th Men's Asia Cup Hockey 2017, a quadrennial prestigious event of Asia, beginning at the Maulana Bhashani National Hockey Stadium in the...
Bangladesh is set to import a total of 250,000 tonnes of rice from Thailand and India in intergovernmental deals to shore up depleted stocks of the staple, head of the...
The government backtracked on its decision to supply Electronic Cash Register (ECR) to businesses to avert an after-sales obligation, officials said. On an afterthought, the authorities found out that after-sales...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Monday Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has been directed to investigate the suicidal game "Blue Whale," reports UNB. Talking to reporters at his office,...
The country's conomy faces some downside risks in the near term predominantly for an upturn in inflation, says a quarterly review by the central bank. The latest Bangladesh Bank Quarterly...
The government is going to pilot a “Poverty Environment Accounts (PEA)” system to get coherent quantification and practical link between the poverty and environment aimed at formulating policies and planning...
The country's capital market has become mostly dependent on the banking sector in recent times mainly due to increased participation in transactions of banks' shares by the sponsor-directors, according to...
Bangladesh's employment growth almost halved in 2010- 2016 compared to the preceding period since 2003, according to the World Bank (WB) that indicated job-scant economic growth as a major reason....
The Supreme Court on Monday deferred till November 21 the hearing of convicted three war criminals against its verdict for their crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971....
Stocks witnessed downward trend in early trading on Tuesday as market reacted negatively to the central bank’s action against the overexposed banks. The capital market has become mostly dependent on...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) during a drive detained two members of the banned militant outfit Neo-JMB from Narayanganj on Tuesday. The arrestees were identified as Samrat Miah (21)...
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammed Nasim has said the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals would be fed with Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) from today (Tuesday). "We will start a week-long...
The Supreme Court (SC) has extended for three more weeks the stay on the High Court (HC) order that declared illegal running mobile courts by executive magistrates. A five-member bench...
Nine more bodies of Rohingya people, including four children, were recovered from Naf River in Teknaf upazila on Tuesday morning. Following the recovery, the death toll from Sunday’s boat capsize...
A listed top terrorist was found dead on Comilla- Sylhet highway in Gazaria area of Sadar upazila of Brahmanbaria district on Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified as Linkon (40),...
At least four rebels and an army soldier were killed in three gunbattles in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said Tuesday. Police said that three rebels were killed overnight as fighting broke...
Experts on Tuesday suggested mobilisation of school children along with others to lead an anti-rat campaign saying the notorious pest alone eat up nearly four per cent of the country's...
New fossil evidence has pushed back a key step in the evolution of bird flight by millions of years. Skeletal changes that helped birds take to the air happened 120...
With a view to increasing production of crops and bringing agriculture inputs to the purchasing capacity of farmers, the government has invested Tk 603.8 billion in the last eight years....
Prime Minister's International Affairs Adviser Professor Dr Gowher Rizvi on Tuesday called for coordinated actions from Bangladesh and India over the Rohingya issue. "We need to coordinate our actions together...
Ivanka Trump is lobbying on Capitol Hill to make sure an expansion of the current $1,000 child tax credit stays in the tax plan and that it's big enough to...
The government plans a new prisons law amending the existing act with an aim of transforming the prisons into correction and rehabilitation centres. The proposed law would be called 'Correctional...
Capital market deals with long-term funds where risks are constant companions of general and institutional investors. To guard against risks we take many active and passive measures through diversification and...
Between 2000 and 2014, Africa grew at a strong clip, fuelling belief in the narrative of an "Africa rising." But, since 2015, growth across Sub-Saharan Africa has weakened, and the...
Despite opposition, President Duterte's Anti-Corruption Commission is vital in light of Philippine history and international experience. To be effective, the anti-corruption agency must be independent. On October 04, President Duterte...
Pro-independence Catalans gathered on the streets of Barcelona Tuesday ahead of a hotly anticipated speech by the region's leader on the status of the restive province. Carles Puigdemont, the President...
Google has found evidence that Russian agents spent tens of thousands of dollars on adverts in a bid to sway the 2016 US election, media reports say. Sources quoted by...
Gold prices inched up to their highest in more than a week on Tuesday, drawing support from geopolitical tensions and a softer dollar. Spot gold was up 0.2 per cent...
The Appellate Division has ordered a re-hearing of the appeal in the murder case of Saudi Embassy official Khalaf Al-Ali. Though the verdict was set to be delivered on Tuesday,...
Parts of California's wine region are being ravaged by fast-spreading fires that have killed at least 10 people. Mass evacuations have taken place and at least 1,500 properties have been...
Asian shares rose on Tuesday, shrugging off modest losses on Wall Street, while expectations of another US interest rate increase this year continued to underpin the dollar. MSCI’s broadest index...
An elderly woman was crushed under the wheels of a bus on Dhaka-Khulna highway in Chapta area of Kashiani upazila in Gopalganj district on Monday night. The deceased was identified...
LIVESTOCK sector of any country is a major contributor to sound public health. It is difficult to develop our country if this sector is not developed. Seven universities of the...
YOUTUBE, the world's largest video sharing platform, is no longer limited to entertainment. We still watch a lot of videos on Youtube for entertainment, but as the number of Youtube...
IT is a matter of great regret that Khondoker Abu Talha from Comilla and a student of CSE department of Daffodil International University (DIU) died as some unknown muggers stabbed...
COMMON people across the country have been experiencing exorbitant prices of essentials for the past couple of months. Prices of all varieties of rice went up recently while prices of...
Affordability, convenience, welfare and lifestyle issues were packaged on Monday's "Y Factor" programme of the BBC. Although it confines itself to small housing spaces people live in as individuals/ families...
The correlation between and among trade, technology and jobs has been a subject of discussion for long. Another issue gaining increasing prominence is inequality. That is to say, although trade...
The influx of persecuted Rohingyas continues unabated with little signs of any improvement in the overall crisis. Until now around 700,000 Myanmar citizens have entered Bangladesh for shelter since 1978....
Kenyan main opposition leader Raila Odinga will not participate in October's presidential election re-run. Odinga said his withdrawal would give the electoral commission enough time to introduce reforms that...
Stephen Hawking has come up with a big question -- are we alone in this universe? No one knows how long it's going to take to get the answer if...
Sylvester Stallone has announced that he will direct and produce “Creed 2” as a sequel to the 2015 boxing drama starring Stallone and Michael B. Jordan, reports variety.com. On Monday,...
A Dhaka court put nine top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami on a 10-day remand each on Tuesday in two cases filed against them with Kadamtali Police Station. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court...
The head of Iran's nuclear agency warned the United States on Tuesday against undermining the 2015 nuclear deal, saying international nonproliferation efforts as well as Washington's international standing would suffer...
Iceland has qualified for the World Cup for the first time after beating Kosovo 2-0 at home, becoming the smallest nation to ever reach football's biggest international tournament, reports ABC...
The Primary Education Department issued a directive to ensure that students only carry government-approved books and materials in their school bags. “The primary school-level books approved by the National Curriculum...
The High Court declared illegal the special senate meeting, held on July 29, and the vice-chancellor panel approved by the meeting for appointing a new VC. The HC bench of...
More than 11,000 Rohingya refugees crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar on Monday, the United Nations refugee agency said quoting Border Guard Bangladesh. "We're back in a situation of full alert...
One of nature's smelliest secrets may have been revealed, thanks to a dedicated team of durian-loving scientists in Singapore. Researchers have found an odour gene which gives the thorny fruit...
Myanmar will have to play key role in resolving Rohingya issue taking back its nationals from Bangladesh. "To that end, the international community must continue mounting pressure on Myanmar (to...
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