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Maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra were advised to hoist lower signal as the weather condition has improved. Squally weather is unlikely over North Bay and adjoining...
President Abdul Hamid on Saturday stressed the need for taking a united effort to prevent religious extremism in the country. "Today, religious extremism is a threat to global peace. No...
September 23 last was marked by the 44th death anniversary of Nobel literature prize laureate Pablo Neruda. Born on July 12, 1904, he bade the world bye on this day...
Rohingya Muslim refugees wait in a line for aid in Cox’s Bazar recently. The Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar, has been being pushed out from their homeland for...
The Trump administration's promise to increase infrastructure spending should break the straightjacket the Republicans imposed on the Obama administration after capturing the US Congress in 2010. However, in proportionate terms,...
The picture of a small boy running in wild joy just at the moment he, for the first time in his life, has been able to play a tune on...
Workers of a readymade garments factory staged demonstration on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in MC Bazar area of Sreepur upazila of Gazipur on Saturday morning demanding their salaries and arrears. Delwar Hossain,...
The 'World Investors Week 2017' will be observed across the country during October 2-8 under the leadership of the securities regulator in an effort to create awareness on investment among...
The Dhaka bourse Thursday returned to green amid choppy trading after losing 157 points in its benchmark index in the last six consecutive sessions. According to International Leasing Securities, the...
LONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters): Oil prices rose on Thursday, spurred by rising tension around northern Iraq following the autonomous Kurdistan region's vote in favor of independence in a referendum.Brent crude...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 28: Rice price has been started declining gradually in the retail markets of all the eight districts of Rajshahi division as the district administration conducted frequent drives against...
MAGURA, Sept 28: The story is about a successful cattle fattener Monira Begum. Monira Begum is the wife of Moniruzzaman of Islampur area in Magura town. Now she is at...
GOPALGANJ, Sept 28: About 50,000 people of the district are earning their living by making bamboo-made household appliances.Sources said artisans make different types of fish-traps, hand-fans, baskets, rocking craddle and...
Asian shares were slightly higher Friday following a record high close on Wall Street, except for Japan, where a pause in the dollar’s strengthening dampened optimism about exporters. Japan’s benchmark...
The UN leadership in Myanmar tried to stop the Rohingya rights issue being raised with the government, sources in the UN and aid community told the BBC. One former UN...
To cut costs, Elon Musk’s SpaceX company has shrunk the size of the rocket ship it is developing to go to Mars, aiming to start construction on the first spaceship...
Violence in Myanmar has spiralled into the "the world's fastest-developing refugee emergency" and a "humanitarian nightmare", the UN chief has warned. Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on Myanmar to end...
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Thursday called on countries to suspend providing weapons to Myanmar over violence against Rohingya Muslims until the military puts sufficient accountability...
A stampede at a Mumbai railway station has left 22 people dead and injured about 30, Indian officials say. The incident at Elphinstone station, which connects two of the city's...
Gold traded little changed on Friday amid pressure from a stronger dollar, but was headed for its biggest monthly fall this year amid rising prospects of a US rate hike...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel arrested an alleged hundi trader along with Tk 0.30 million at Putkhali border point in Benapole area of Jessore district on Thursday. The arrestee was...
Britain’s economy grew at its slowest pace since 2013 in the 12 months after last year’s Brexit vote, data showed on Friday, painting a subdued picture as the Bank of...
Bangladesh has urged the United Nations Security Council to keep the Rohingya issue “alive” until a “logical conclusion” is reached over the crisis. Masud Bin Momen, Bangladesh's ambassador to the...
A sitar owned and played by George Harrison has been sold for $62,500 (£46,581) in the United States, reports BBC. The instrument, purchased from a shop on London's Oxford Street...
Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has been injured in a car crash in Amsterdam, hours after attending a concert. The Argentine, 29, was reported to be in a taxi on...
The diesel emissions cheating scandal will cost Volkswagen an extra $3bn (€2.5bn), because engines are proving "far more technically complex and time consuming" to adapt the company said, reports BBC....
The first span of the Padma bridge is going to be placed on pillars on Saturday. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader will witness the work at Zajira end...
Government's tax-revenue collection saw a 27.05 per cent growth in the first month of this fiscal largely for a surge in imports and steady growth in exports. Officials said domestic...
DEATH penalty is the ultimate penalty on a man whose culpability may often be relative. It denies the condemned man his natural right to live and a chance to make...
FLU killed 40 million people across the world in 1919. A doctor visited many farmers struck by flu. He wanted to see if he could be of help to the...
The government has waived the 15 per cent value-added tax (VAT) on LPG-cylinder import, prompting businesspeople to eye a boost in consumption and business of the gas. Through a recent...
Of all the great things that had been expected of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) chief Iqbal Mahmud, bringing an element of discipline to traffic wasn't at the top of the...
The world is shocked by the cruelty of the human crisis created out of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. To put the gruesome gravity in proper perspective, we can possibly glean...
As the gas crisis lingers on, acutely for industrial use in particular, the solution by way of generating captive power is also becoming unaffordable due to high-priced fuel of the...
The news that annual per capita medical expenses in Bangladesh are rising which is somewhat alarming given the fact that Bangladesh made significant strides in the health sector in terms...
No statesman has ever taken the rostrum of the United Nations to threaten a member of the world body of total destruction. President Donald Trump has broken this long-held tradition....
China Council for Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) launched "The Trade & Investment e-Platform", an important instrument of CCPIT aimed at eliminating the obstacles to SMEs' global strategy. The Platform...
The Kurdish people living along the border of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey are subjected to torture, humiliation and massacres for a long time. It is an irony to note...
First lady Melania Trump fired back Friday at a Massachusetts elementary school librarian who rejected her donation of Dr. Seuss books, claiming their illustrations are examples of “racist propaganda.” Stephanie...
The taxation and subsidy policies of the country are apparently skewed in favour of the better-off people at the expense of their poor compatriots. Cash subsidies of TK34000 million were...
The second consignment relief materials for the Rohingyas from the UK arrived at Chittagong Shah Amanat International Air port on Friday morning. A British aircraft carrying the relief materials weighing...
A plan to update the security around some of the net's core address books has been delayed, reports BBC. Net administrative body Icann put its plans on hold after it...
Precise "chemical surgery" has been performed on human embryos to remove disease in a world first, Chinese researchers have told the BBC. The team at Sun Yat-sen University used a...
A teenage worker was killed after air was pumped through his rectum by his co-worker in a factory in Birkedar area of Kahalu upazila of Bogra on Friday. The deceased...
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) would set up more than 1,300 new learning centres for Rohingya children who have fled from Myanmar to the country's Southeast part. The humanitarian...
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested on Friday the main accused in the case over the killing a teenage boy in Mymensingh. The arrestee, Akkas Ali, was arrested in a...
Three construction workers died at Badda rea of Dhaka when the lift they were using broke down on Friday. They were working to construct a multi-storied building at Badda when...
A man was killed and another went missing as 12 boats capsized in the Meghna river amid storm at Chargazaria in Ramgati upazila of Laxmipur district on Friday. The deceased...
Two people were killed when a covered van overturned on Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Jagurjhuli in Adorsho Sadar upazila of Comilla district on Friday. The deceased were identified as Amir Hossian,...
House prices in London fell by an annual 0.6 per cent in September, first time since 2009, mortgage lender Nationwide said on Friday. The prices across Britain overall rose at...
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