Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested an alleged drug pedlar along with 144 bottles of Phensedyl from Bohorom Tantipara village of Sadar upazila on Sunday night....
After dipping to No. 2 last weekend, “It” has regained control of the North American box office in its fourth weekend in theaters. The movie beat out the new Tom...
Social media giant Facebook is expected to provide Congress on Monday with more than 3,000 ads that ran around the time of the 2016 presidential election and are linked to...
Myanmar has proposed the repatriation of Rohingya refugees accepting Bangladesh's proposal to form a joint working group soon to start the overall process bilaterally. Foreign minister Mahmood Ali disclosed this...
The government allocated 500 solar power driven street lights and 2,000 home system panels for 12 Rohingya camps. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader came up with the information...
Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha is going on a one-month leave from Monday on health grounds. “The Chief Justice went on the leave from today (Monday) due to his illness...
Bangladesh skipper Mushfiqur Rahim apologised to the countrymen for his team's humiliating loss to South Africa on Monday. He said he knew the Potchefstroom Test would be impossible to win...
Speakers at a discussion have said skilled human resources can enhance productivity in every sector to attain sustainable development goals (SDGs) for building a middle income nation by 2021 and...
A young man was chopped to death by some miscreants at Khaspara village in Sadar upazila of Chuadanga district on Monday. Tozammel Hossain, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said acting...
Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont says the Spanish region has won the right to statehood following a contentious referendum that was marred by violence. He said the door had been opened...
Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed to form a joint working group to start the repatriation process of all the Rohingyas living in Bangladesh. Officials of the two countries met in...
Two people died and at least four were injured after a pickup and a truck collided head-on in Rangpur, police have said. The accident occurred in Mithapukur Upazila’s Jaigirhat Bus...
The World Food Program (WFP) appealed on Sunday for 75 million dollars in emergency aid over the next six months to help alleviate the suffering of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Monday called on investors in the stock market to know, understand and analyse the market before investing money. He made the call while inaugurating the...
A policeman was stabbed dead by a group of muggers on Dhaka-Sylhet highway under Syed Nazrul Islam Bridge in Bhairab upazila of Kishoreganj district on Sunday night. The deceased was...
Argentina coach Jorge Sampaoli's search for an ideal attacking partner for Lionel Messi has earned Fernando Gago a first recall in two years as they seek victory in Thursday's crucial...
LYNCHING has become almost a common occurrence in our country. Precisely, it is a sign of common people losing their trust in law and resorting to informally punish an alleged...
NOTICEABLE progress has been achieved in our education sector particularly in technical and professional fields. The country, however, is lagging behind in technically skilled workforce. Number of graduates in general...
ARMY in any country is deployed to combat a natural or a man-made crisis. Bangladesh army being no exception has been given by the government the task of registering the...
The government has taken a number of initiatives for bringing down the price of rice and the traders have made promises to act accordingly. Although the price has declined at...
The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for Las Vegas massacre, the deadliest mass shooting in American history. A statement published by the group's Amaq propaganda agency claimed the attacker...
The socio-economic impacts of ultra-poor progarmmes - such as those initiated in Bangladesh and elsewhere - are available in empirical tests. The innovative scheme, as many readers are aware, is...
The reported move of the ministry of commerce (MoC) to provide additional cash incentive to export of products, beyond readymade garments (RMG), to the non-traditional markets has been long overdue....
Each year, the electronics industry generates up to 41 million tonnes of e-waste, but as the number of consumers rises, and the lifespan of devices shrinks in response to demand...
More than 32 million people, mostly unbanked and living in rural areas, are making formal transactions through mobile financial services (MFS) or, what we call, in general, mobile banking. They...
For the fourth time, the Republican Senators have failed to deliver to President Donald Trump something he wanted desperately to fulfill a promise he had made to his base of...
With Germany's election over, Europe has reached the end of a season of continuous political upsets. It is now time for actions that adequately respond to the upheavals created by...
Germany does not necessarily speak for Europe, though at this 2017 juncture that may very well be true. Nor too does West Europe speak for Germany. That may also be...
The Food Ministry has set Oct 30 as the deadline for rice and wheat traders to obtain licenses from the authorities. Food Minister Qamrul Islam has ordered district controllers (DC...
Two mobile courts in Bhola Monday fined 10 fishermen for catching hilsa in Meghna and Tetulia rivers defying the ongoing ban. Two separate mobile teams conducted the drives at different...
Juventus dropped points for the first time in Serie A this season after Atalanta came from two goals down to draw a thrilling game at the Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia....
The World Food Programme or WFP appealed on Sunday for $75 million in emergency aid over the next six months to help alleviate the suffering of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh,...
Switzerland will provide 1.8 million Swiss francs in emergency assistance for the Rohingya refugess, fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh. The country is also mobilising additional funds as the number of...
Indian Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley will pay a 3-day official visit from Tuesday. He will be visiting Bangladesh at the invitation of Finance Minister Abul Maal...
Spain is facing a political and constitutional crisis after Catalans voted in favour of independence in a contested referendum that descended into chaos when police launched a widespread and violent...
US-born scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling our biological clocks. The mechanisms...
Nissan Motor Co Ltd on Monday said it planned to recall 1.21 million vehicles in Japan that did not meet domestic requirements for final inspections, expanding the number of cars...
Google announced on Sunday that subscription news websites would no longer have to provide users three free articles per day or face less prominence in search results, relaxing its rules...
A man was crushed under the wheels of a bus on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Bhanudeb village under Nabiganj upazila in Habiganj district of Sylhet on Monday morning. The deceased, identified...
BRAC University (BRACU) recently signed a contract with BUCG-ABC Joint Venture at a ceremony in BRACU to build its new permanent campus facility in Merul Badda, Dhaka. BRAC...
A strong solar blast hit Mars earlier this month, leading to a global aurora on Mars that was 25 times brighter than any that had been previously recorded, NASA...
A 29-year-old bank teller stole more than $185,000 from a homeless customer who tried to deposit a garbage bag full of cash at a Wells Fargo branch in...
Women in Bangladesh spend more time than men in unpaid works, according to a recent research. The findings say women spend around eight hours on an average per day in...
Google plans on upgrading its two-factor authentication tool with an improved, physical security measure aimed at protecting high-profile users from politically motivated cyberattacks, according to a report published in www.theverge.com....
22-day ban on hilsa fishing begins in Chandpur Sunday. The government every year takes the move to increase the production of the popular fish species. The government has imposed...
Bangladesh were needing 375 more runs with 7 wickets in hands to win the first cricket Test against South Africa at Potchefstroom, South Africa on Sunday. The Tigers made 49...
Jannatul Nayeem Avril, a motorcycling aspirant from the port city of Chittagong, has been adjudged as Miss World Bangladesh 2017, report agencies. However, the pageantry has not been held without...
The United States has said it is directly communicating with Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on its nuclear and missile programmes. But Washington also said on Saturday that Pyongyang...
Manchester City stayed ahead of age-old local rivals Manchester United at the top of the Premier League on Saturday with a deserved 1-0 win away to champions Chelsea. After Jose...
President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have paid tributes to Hazrat Imam Hossain (RA) and other martyrs of Karbala. Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH)’s grandson Hazrat Imam Hossain,...
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