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The dollar inched higher against a basket of major currencies on Friday and was on track for its biggest weekly gain so far this year as investors pondered the Trump...
Oil prices were mixed on Friday, but both Brent and US crude were set to chalk up another weekly gain as investors bet that efforts to cut a global glut...
Cambodia and Bangladesh have finalised terms on a massive rice deal that could see up to 1 million tonnes of rice purchased from the Kingdom over the next five years,...
Japan’s core inflation accelerated in August, industrial output rose more than expected and demand for labour remained at its strongest in over 40 years in a further sign of solid...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who underwent a successful gallbladder surgery in the US capital of Washington on Monday, is now well and digitally cleared seven urgent files on Thursday. "The...
Scientists have detected hundreds of Japanese marine species on US coasts, swept across the Pacific by the deadly 2011 tsunami. Mussels, starfish and dozens of other creatures great and small...
COX'S BAZAR, Sept 27 (Agencies): The UN has drawn up a contingency plan to feed up to 700,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar after some 480,000 fled to Bangladesh over...
On September 23, 2017, Junior Chamber International (JCI) Bangladesh organised '2017 JCI Bangladesh Peace is Possible Awards' at Spectra Convention Centre in Gulshan 1 of Dhaka city. Junior Chamber International...
Voice of Business (VoB), the first ever and the largest student-run publication team in Bangladesh, has been relentlessly working for the students of the Faculty of Business Studies, University of...
An elderly woman was found dead in her house at Balidia village in Mohammadpur upazila on Wednesday night. Mohammadpur Police Station officer-in-charge Tarikul Islam said Nila Parvin, 50, daughter of...
Asian markets were mixed on Thursday as investors tried to gauge the impact from the sweeping tax reform plan unveiled by President Donald Trump. Japan’s Nikkei rose 0.3 per cent...
Corporiddlerz is one of the flagship events of Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) Business and Communication Club. It has now become a business strategy based tournament with two successful, consecutive...
Some farmers of the district are farming pomegranate on an experimental basis. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office source said the peasants planted some 2,000 pomegranate saplings at the...
RANGPUR, Sept 27: A good number of people are attaining financial solvency by growing banana in different areas of the district.Growers are bringing more lands under the farming of the...
The exchange rate of Bangladesh Taka (BDT) appreciated significantly against the US dollar on Wednesday for importers, as the central bank sold US$ 38 million to the banks, market operators...
Myanmar's government will manage the redevelopment of villages torched during violence in Rakhine state that has sent nearly half a million Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh, a minister was reported...
A proposal for raising power tariffs under Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) faced opposition from consumer rights activists, politicians and a trade body in the public hearing. Rather, they suggested...
The central bank has relaxed its loan provisioning policies further to facilitate disbursement of agriculture and micro-credits by the banks, officials said. Under the relaxations, the banks will have to...
Hugh Hefner, founder of the international adult magazine 'Playboy', has died at the age of 91. Playboy Enterprises Inc on Wednesday said he passed away peacefully at home, from natural...
A fire broke out at an office in city’s Gulshan area on Thursday. Ataur Rahman, duty officer of Fire Service Control room, said the fire broke out at the 4th...
A blood test that could rule out a heart attack in under 20 minutes should be used routinely, say UK researchers. A team from King's College London have tested it...
US President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have proposed on Wednesday the biggest US tax overhaul in three decades, the first major revamp of the nation’s tax code in a...
International aid groups in Myanmar have urged the government to allow free access to Rakhine State, where an army offensive has sent 480,000 people fleeing to Bangladesh but hundreds of...
An electrician was killed after a grinding machine blasted at his rented residence in Jamgora area of Ashulia on Wednesday evening. The deceased was identified as Salam alias Nayan, 25,...
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith on Thursday said that there will be no poor people in the country by 2024. “Bangladesh will be able to end poverty by 2024...
Tigers won the toss and elected to bowl first against host South Africa in the 1st match of their two-match Test series starting at Senwes Park in Potchefstroom on Thursday....
Air pollution has lately become a major global environmental risk to our health and food security. It is also a big threat to the children's health and wellbeing. Almost 300...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained a suspected drug trader along with 3.25 Kg heroin from a frontier village under Godagari Upazila in Rajshahi district last night. The arrestee...
US President Donald Trump has been sceptical of the conclusions of US intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in the election and has denied his campaign colluded with Moscow. Reuters...
Paris St Germain tore apart Bayern Munich to win 3-0 in the Champions League on Wednesday as the French club’s expensively-assembled attack made another devastating statement of their potency. Dani...
Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi is the latest in a long line of Nobel Peace Prize laureates to disappoint many of those who once applauded her, and probably won’t...
A US air strike against militants in the Afghan capital Kabul caused civilian casualties after a missile malfunctioned, officials said. The strike was in support of Afghan troops fighting insurgents...
South Africa were 298/1 at stumps on day 1 in their 1st innings of the first Test against Bangladesh at Senwes Park in Potchefstroom on Thursday. Sent in to bat...
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed comments made by Donald Trump that the site has always been against him. “Trump says Facebook is against him. Liberals say we helped Trump....
A German court will decide on Thursday whether the owner of a donkey which tried to snack on a sports car should pay for the damage. On 15 September last...
US stocks rose on Wednesday on hopes that President Donald Trump’s administration may be making progress on a tax plan.Trump proposed the biggest tax overhaul in three decades but offered...
The prices of finer varieties of rice continued to maintain their recent-peak levels Wednesday, but the coarse varieties showed a downward trend due to the recent cut in import duties...
Bangladesh has been known for ages for its kitchen markets --- especially those in the villages. These normally improvised trading centres have continued to expand with the passage of time...
The road from Siddhirganj to Adamjee Export Processing Zone (AEPZ) is really in a poor shape which is indeed surprising because the area is of huge importance as many export-oriented...
RECENTLY Dhaka Traffic Police went down hard on a number of vehicles that violated traffic rules. Many of the offending vehicles were found belonging to high officials of the government....
Myanmar’s de facto head of government Aung San Suu Kyi has assured UK state minister for foreign affairs Mark Field that Rohingyas will be taken back from Bangladesh, the British...
GAUTAM BUDDHA used to live in the eastern part of ancient India. He was a contemporary of Mahavira, the founder of Jainism in India. The Jains are believers of 'ahimsa'...
Yet another experiment is in the offing with the city's traffic signalling system. Surprise, surprise! Relevant agencies, together or individually, have developed a habit of doing such experimentation and waste...
Not many people are aware that the right to holidays has been given due recognition in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But recognition alone cannot provide momentum to a...
An Indian Naval ship carrying the third consignment of 700-tonne relief supply for Rohingya, who have fled persecution by Myanmar security forces and taken shelter in Bangladesh, reached Chittagong on...
With the beginning of public hearing on the proposed rise in power tariff, the diametrically opposed views of the Bangladesh Power Development Board (PDB) on the one side and the...
The number of millionaires in the world rose by nearly 8 per cent last year to an all-time high of around 16.5 million people, with record total wealth of $63.5...
Johann Galtung of Norway is not a household name, certainly not outside academia and specific peace groups. Even if he was selected as the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize-winner, many would...
Economic growth is always good for a country with the caveat that it doesn't become an addiction and results in unplanned growth. Bangladesh has enjoyed its rapid inclusion into the...
Fifteen years after George W. Bush declared that Iraq, Iran, and North Korea formed "an axis of evil," Donald Trump, in his maiden address to the United Nations, denounced Iran...
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