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Hackers from North Korea are reported to have stolen a large cache of military documents from South Korea, including a plan to assassinate North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, reports BBC....
An Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) disease in Ethiopia's second largest city Dire Dawa, 446 kms east of Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, has infected 127 people in September, an Ethiopian official...
Admission test for first year honours classes for 2017-18 academic session of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) will be held on November 17. To this end, online application...
Government has allocated Tk 13.70 million (1.37 crore) as incentive for flood hit small and marginal farmers to cultivate five types of crops in Jamalpur district. Department of Agriculture Extension...
With Argentina and Lionel Messi on the brink of missing the World Cup, they are not receiving any sympathy from archrival Brazil. Five-time champion Brazil qualified six months ago for...
China will have no problem meeting its economic growth target of around 6.5 per cent this year, and may even beat it, the head of the Statistics Bureau said on...
OPEC’s Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo on Tuesday called on US shale oil producers to help curtail global oil supply, warning extraordinary measures might be needed next year to sustain the...
The board of directors of Simtex Industries Limited has recommended 2.0 per cent cash and 10 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2017, said an...
As many as 100,000 more people may be waiting to cross into Cox's Bazar from North Rakhine's Buthidaung Township, IOM says quoting observers, report agencies. An estimated 2,000 Rohingyas are...
Minister for Law, Justice & Parliamentary Affairs Anisul Huq, MP, Governor of Bangladesh Bank Fazle Kabir, Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) Executive Chairman Kazi M. Aminul Islam, BIAC Chairman Mahbubur...
Bangladesh counted a US$1.81 billion worth of merchandise trade gap with the rest of the world in the very first two months of this fiscal, for hugely higher import payments...
Top 10 traded companies, including six banks, captured nearly 34 per cent transaction of the Dhaka bourse on Sunday while Islami Bank Bangladesh dominated the chart. The total turnover on...
The board of directors of The Peninsula Chittagong Limited has recommended 5.0 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2017, said an official disclosure on Sunday....
Rohingya refugees look through a fence as they wait outside of aid distribution premises at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh October 8, 2017. Reuters The European Union and...
New York-based pizzeria Sbarro recently launched 8 new branches with a gala event at The Westin. The event was graced by the presence of Minister for Food Qamrul Islam and...
The government should rethink merits of the existing VAT law 1991, including multiple rates and package VAT and tariff value, before the pending switch. Business leaders and economists came up...
Prices of vegetables have been soaring in the local kitchen markets of the district for the last couple of weeks due to supply shortage. Sub-assistance agri-officer of the Department of...
More than 60 per cent of holidaymakers left overseas when Monarch Airlines collapsed have now flown back to the UK, the Civil Aviation Authority says. The CAA stepped in after...
The country's earnings from shipment of merchandise products declined by 9.83 per cent to US$ 2.03 billion in September 2017 over the corresponding month of 2016. The earnings in the...
The central bank fined seven commercial banks for their recent share-market activities by violating the legal sanction, officials said. "We've imposed the fines with substantial amount of money on the...
At least 12 Rohingya Muslim refugees, mainly children, drowned when their boats capsized on the way to Bangladesh, police said on Monday, the latest victims of violence in Myanmar that...
The government revenue earnings from the Dhaka bourse marked a 174 per cent rise in first quarter (Q1) for July-September period of the current fiscal year compared to the same...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) during a drive arrested a suspected drug peddler along with 5 kilograms of heroin worth Tk 50 million (five crore) from Sarengour area of...
Growth in China’s services sector fell to the lowest level for 21 months in September as the pace of new business cooled, a private survey showed. The survey was in...
Sudan will extend a unilateral ceasefire with rebels until the end of December, state news agency SUNA reported on Sunday, just days after the United States lifted 20-year-old sanctions tied...
Police have surrounded a suspected militant hideout in the district town of Jessore. The operation began early Monday after police received a tip-off on the house in Ghop Naoapara Road...
An animal keeper at a national park in southern India has been attacked and killed by two rare young white tigers, officials say. The keeper, 40, was mauled to death...
US economist Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel Economics Prize for his contributions in the field of behavioural economics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday made the...
Samsung Electronics Bangladesh has launched ‘Samsung Grand October Fest’ to give the customers an unique experience of buying refrigerators throughout the whole month of October. Samsung is giving a cash-back...
Stocks suffered a sharp fall on Monday as investors went on panic sale after Bangladesh Bank (BB) fined seven banks for violating securities rules on share investment. Brokers said the...
Bangladesh wants a peaceful solution to Rohingya crisis through diplomatic efforts and it will not take any ‘suicidal’ decision like getting involved in any war. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali...
Online payment system PayPal will start its journey in Bangladesh from Oct 19, ending a long wait of the country’s freelancers and ICT entrepreneurs. Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb...
Deeply rooted, credible, accountable, and effective institutions have long been deemed crucial for a society's lasting wellbeing and prosperity. They shield countries from frequent and unsettling volatility, be it economic,...
A potential new drug might protect infants from whooping cough in their first few months of life, before they can be vaccinated, early research suggests. In a new study, researchers...
Detectives arrested Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Maqbul Ahmad and eight other leaders and activists of the party at Uttara in Dhaka on Monday night, according to an online newspaper. Detective Branch...
The influx of more than half a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar since August is having a huge effect on Bangladesh, including on its economy. Many university groups in Bangladesh...
Turkey and the US have become embroiled in a consular row, mutually suspending most visa services. The Turkish embassy in Washington said it needed to "reassess" the US government's commitment...
China says it is willing to set the stage for mediation between Myanmar and Bangladesh to resolve the Rohingya crisis. China has backed its longtime ally Myanmar in the military...
A truck driver was killed and three others were injured in a road accident at Jhalmolia on Dhaka-Rajshahi highway in Putia upazila of Rajshahi district on Sunday night. The deceased,...
The media fraternity of India observed an unusual Gandhi Jayanti this time as scores of scribes across the country organised demonstrations in different locations with the sole demand for ensuring...
We need only an ID card or passport copy, one copy of passport-size photo and a mobile phone to open a mobile account. Mobile banking is becoming very popular in...
Now almost all buses are seating services although most of the buses do not have minimum facilities for the passengers, particularly those of Gazipur Paribahan that travel from Motijheel to...
Despite assurance from the Myanmar government we see no stopping of the fresh exodus of Rohingyas. Members of the minority group continue to stream towards Bangladesh fleeing from brutal and...
Before this scribe had signed up to it, youngsters had suggested Facebook wasn't for the elderly. Harrumph! Rude as that may have seemed, it was typical of the casual frankness...
A group of researchers from the Dhaka office of the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - Akhter Ahmed, Latiful Haque, Aminul Islam, Farha Sufian, and Salauddin Tauseef -...
That the ban on catching hilsa fish, effective from October 1 until October 22, is making an impact is quite evident. The authorities have been enforcing the ban over the...
The Las Vegas massacre and its aftermath are pure Americana. A deranged person lugs nearly two dozen high-tech assault weapons to a 32nd-floor hotel room to spray death upon concertgoers...
It has become a regular newspaper item: another Bangladeshi woman (and just as often, women) being abused by a Saudi household patron, fleeing through a labyrinthine, unnecessarily expensive escape route,...
Undernutrition is an important and sensitive marker for poverty. It is caused by a variety of factors, with inadequate and unbalanced food intake being one. The vicious cycle of undernutrition...
President M Abdul Hamid Monday urged all irrespective of party affiliations and opinions, to prioritise national interest to speed up development and progress. "All have to give attention that no...
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