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The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) have called on the Myanmar authorities to immediately...
A three-day meet on sustainable finance with delegates from central banks of Ghana, Nepal and Nigeria began in Dhaka Wednesday to promote sound environmental and social practices by banks. Bangladesh...
A joint feasibility study on a bilateral free-trade area (FTA) between Bangladesh and China may begin shortly under a move to enhance the two-way trade. Officials said the first meeting...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) nabbed an alleged hundi trader along with US$22,500 from Benapole check-post on Wednesday. Lieutenant colonel Ariful Haq said, tipped off, a team of BGB-49...
The World Bank (WB) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with four Bangladeshi professional institutions to set up a Centre of Excellence for Urban Development (CEUD) to support cities...
Only about half of the cancer drugs approved by the European Medicines Agency in the last few years were later shown to help patients live longer or improved their lives,...
The UK Government’s Department for International Development (DfID) in collaboration with IOM, the UN Migration Agency, has organised a major airlift of relief items to help some of the more...
Catalonia will move on Monday to declare independence from Spain after holding a banned referendum, pushing the European Union nation toward a rupture that threatens the foundations of its young...
Australian shares edged up on Thursday, tracking Wall Street higher, with the gains fairly broad based, driven by material and consumer stocks. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 index was up 13.342 points,...
The foreign aid flow to Bangladesh during the first two months (July-August) of the current fiscal year (FY18) continued its encouraging trend as the aid disbursement during the period was...
English author Kazuo Ishiguro has been named winner of the 2017 Nobel prize for literature. The Swedish Academy praised Ishiguro for his “novels of great emotional force”, which it said...
An abiding truth in the United States is that all politics is local. Apparently, the same wisdom can be applied (to some extent) to the European Union, whose agenda ultimately...
Every country deserves 'fireworks' on its 50th birthday anniversary. Bangladesh's ready-made garments (RMG) sector plans to grace that occasion with a US$50-billion export target. Today the RMG export income is...
The process to retain a newer form of Euro-English as an 'official' language in the European Union (EU) institutions in the post-Brexit era carries potential for distress for the purists....
A mother in the US state of Michigan has been sentenced to seven days in jail after she refused a judge's order to have her son vaccinated. Rebecca Bredow would...
The National Museum in Bangladesh has removed its gallery of dolls to make way for glass exhibits. The setting-up of a new gallery at the expense of a permanent set-up...
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed upward trend in early trading on Thursday as investors continued their buying appetite on sector-specific stocks. Following the previous...
A construction worker died after being electrocuted at his workplace in Azimpur area in Dhaka Thursday morning. The deceased was identified as Anwar Hossain Moqaddes, aged around 40, son of...
Oil prices stabilised on Thursday on expectations that Saudi Arabia and Russia would extend production cuts, although record US exports dragged on the market. Brent crude futures LCOc1, the international...
The Border Security Force (BSF) of India has shot dead a Bangladeshi man at Baldia border of Bhurungamari Upazila in Kurigram. The BSF shot Jahangir Hossain, 32, from Monglarkuti village...
Former Glee actor Mark Salling has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Salling, 35, now faces between four and seven years in prison and has been ordered to pay...
Asian shares were a tad firmer on Thursday, taking their cues from strong US data although holiday-thinned trade and uncertainty about the impact of recent hurricanes on the US economy...
Three US soldiers have been killed and two others wounded in an ambush in Niger near the border with Mali, reports say. Several Nigerien soldiers are also said to have...
Walton has launched the first smartphone plant in Bangladesh aiming to produce up to three million handsets every year, reports bdnews24. “It’s a historic day for the country,” State Minister...
THE other day I was reading a news item about water pollution in China. According to the report, despite Chinese government spending a whopping US$850 million over the past five...
ROHINGYA children who have been entering Bangladesh along with their parents suffer from malnutrition, according to reports published in local newspapers. For obvious reasons these children do not get proper...
SHOMA works at a government hospital and goes to her office from her Arambag residence to TB gate regularly by public transport. She is pregnant although her pregnancy is at...
At long last, the tax revenue authority has decided to do something about the alleged tax evasion by foreign workers. The National Board of Revenue has reportedly asked a number...
Is small and medium enterprise (SME) credit discriminatory against women? Its gender biasness is reflected in the disbursement of such credit. Women entrepreneurs hardly get this type of loan according...
The debate over how long the government should be dishing out incentives, often in cash, to export-oriented sectors, is still on. Despite this, it is indisputable that the country's manufacturing...
Argentina coach Jorge Sampaoli believes it will be too risky to partner Lionel Messi with Paulo Dybala in their two remaining World Cup qualifiers, reports Daily Mail. The two-time World...
World food prices rose slightly in September from the month before, buoyed by higher valuations in the vegetable oil and dairy sectors, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday,...
President M Abdul Hamid sought enhanced trade ties with Sweden and Canada by availing existing potentials as newly appointed envoys of the two countries presented their respective credentials to him...
Bangladesh Cricket Board on Thursday announced a 15-member final squad for the three-match ODI series against South Africa. The match ODI series begins on October 15 at De Beers Diamond...
GUWAHATI: An export consignment carrying 2,283 metric tonnes of Gasoil (Diesel) was dispatched by Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) to Bangladesh. NRL plans to export 3 more rakes during October to...
Stocks extended the winning spell on Thursday, with key index of the major bourse crossing the 6,200-mark again, as investors continued their buying spree on banking issues. Brokers said the...
All Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh will eventually be moved to the Kutupalong refugee camp as the other camps are slowly closed, says Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury...
Bangladesh all rounder Shakib Al Hasan has received a place on the Melbourne Cricket Club’s prestigious World Cricket Committee. Established in 2006, the committee is composed of current and former...
New car registrations in Britain continue to fall for the fifth consecutive month this year, according to preliminary numbers from an industry body. The registrations fell 9.2 per cent in...
The Indian government is considering exemptions sought by Apple Inc for setting up a unit to assemble iPhones, Ramesh Abhishek, the top bureaucrat in the Department of Industrial Policy and...
A former army member was stabbed to death allegedly by some miscreants over land dispute on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Adityapur in Bahubal upazila on Thursday. Quoting local people, police said...
The girlfriend of the Las Vegas gunman who killed 58 people and himself in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history was questioned by the FBI on Wednesday and...
Customs Intelligence officials detained two people along with eight gold bars from Benapole check-post on Thursday. The arrestees have been identified as Sujon Mia (22), son of Akbar Ali of...
Asian shares were little changed on Thursday, with trading becalmed by public holidays in Shanghai, Hong Kong and South Korea. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index edged 0.1 per cent lower to...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two alleged criminals, including a death-row fugitive convict, along with arms from Alamnagar in Hemayetpur of Savar on Wednesday. The arrestees were identified...
Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley speaks at the public lecture on 'Macroeconomic Initiatives of the Government of India' at a Dhaka hotel on Wednesday. Bangladesh Finance Minister AMA Muhith, Policy...
The government Tuesday appointed Mohammed Muslim Chowdhury, an additional secretary who had pioneered some reforms, as secretary-in-charge of the Finance Division. He assumes office today (Wednesday), as his predecessor, Hedayetullah...
Asian shares were mixed in holiday-thinned trading on Wednesday as investors brushed off Wall Street’s latest advance into record territory. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index gave up early gains, slipping...
RANGPUR, Oct 3: Massive erosion in Jomuneshwari has rendered at least 200 families homeless in different villages of Lohanipara and Kutubpur unions under Badarganj upazila in the district over the...
DUBAI, Oct 3 (Reuters): A number of banks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are in talks with international counterparts to sell down their Qatar exposure as the Gulf's diplomatic...
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