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The first-ever Y-shaped bridge of the country, which is being built over the Titas River in three upazilas of Comilla and Brahmanbaria, is now waiting to be inaugurated and has...
Customs officials have recovered dozens of gold biscuits hidden underneath an airplane seat at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital Dhaka. They, however, could not arrest anybody in...
Protesting persecution on Rohingya in Myanmar, the Buddhist community in Bangladesh will not fly fanush during their Probarona festival, the second largest religious festival, to be held on October 5. ...
A Magnitude 5.1 earthquake shook US state Alaska about 135 miles (217 kilometres) northwest of its capital city Juneau. Coincidentally, the City and Borough of Juneau's Disaster Preparedness Expo was...
Bangladesh has finalised the deal on procuring rice from Myanmar in a bid to bring down prices in local markets. Bangladesh will buy 100,000 tonnes of white rice at...
Asian Development Bank (ADB) is set to loan Bangladesh $200 million for a project to strengthen urban governance, improve urban infrastructures and service delivery in municipalities across the country. ...
A 14 member delegation of ICC Bangladesh started off for Sydney on Sunday to attend ICC’s World Chambers Congress. The delegation led by ICCB President Mahbubur Rahman will attend...
Dhaka ranks among the 10 most stressful cities in the world, according to a global study. Of the 150 cities covered in the study by UK-based dry-cleaning and laundry service...
Admittedly, Bangladesh's economic performance is laudable if not stellar. But the performance is uneven, exclusive and often discriminatory. From this point of view, any initiative to include people from all...
A recent roundtable on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its prospect in Bangladesh rightly highlighted its importance in our progress in digital economy. The keynote speakers portrayed the...
At least nine bodies were recovered after three to four boats capsized in stormy conditions during a race on the Sabang river in Assam state of India. The boats...
At least eight civilians and one soldier have been killed in a clash that began with gunmen dressed in camouflage ambushing an army patrol in Mexican state of Guerrero, officials...
Oil markets were firm on Monday as the number of US rigs drilling for new production fell and refineries continued to start up after getting knocked out by Hurricane Harvey....
Social media platform Snapchat has blocked access to Al Jazeera content in Saudi Arabia. Snapchat on Sunday said it was asked by the Saudi authorities to remove the Qatari-backed...
Asian stock markets rose Monday as investors looked ahead to a US Federal Reserve policy meeting and President Donald Trump's speech at the United Nations. The Shanghai Composite Index...
A joint Indo-Bangla group has decided to launch a new passenger train service from November 16 next, a second step after eight years of establishing the railway communication between the...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has issued a new guideline titled “Prudential Guidelines for Agent Banking Operation in Bangladesh” aimed at taking the banking services to the doorsteps of the people. The...
Open market sale (OMS) of rice launched by the government across the country on Sunday could hardly attract any large number of buyers in the capital mainly due to supply...
THERE has been a ten-fold increase in the population of Gulshan over the last few decades. Obviously the number of motorised vehicles also registered a sharp rise and traffic movement...
BANGLADESH has been maintaining a healthy foreign exchange reserve over the last decade. Although the reserve plummeted in 2010 and 2011, it recovered immediately. The reserve reached its peak in...
Rohingya Muslims, the world's largest community rendered 'stateless', lives in Buddhist-dominated Myanmar. They in large numbers are being forced out from their homes by the Myanmar military. And they are...
Bangladesh is among the first nations to sign and ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). And we have had many achievements since then-100 per...
Improvement in nutritional status of people has always been at the heart of our national policies, but not in actions. Debates are galore as to who is to ensure nutritional...
There are four imperative layers in our biosphere: troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere. Out of these four, stratosphere is a very important zone as it carries ozone (O3). Ozone, a...
Based on the realities and experiences on the ground in South Asian countries, the actions that can be taken by individual or small groups of citizens to transform societies for...
In mid-August, President Trump asked US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, a veteran Reagan administration trade hawk, to open an investigation into China's intellectual property (IP) practices. The first public hearing...
Labelling centuries/eras understandably carries a western bias, since the west has dominated the arts, philosophies, professions, power, and science/technology throughout modern history. The 17th Century saw the state (Louis XIV's...
BBC recently reported that 'India is resisting the push towards driverless cars in order to protect jobs.' Instead of preparing to welcome driverless cars, India has been setting up additional...
Bangladesh beat India 4-3 in the inaugural match of SAFF U-18 football in Bhutanese capital Thimphu on Monday. Bangladesh came back from 0-3 down to beat the favourites at the...
The government is going to frame a long-term policy to fix the price of natural gas after its blend with imported LNG so that industries can take long-term investment plans....
Progressive Democratic Party and Bangladesh National Awami Party (Bangladesh NAP) on Monday proposed the Election Commission to deploy army and restore ‘no vote’ provision in the parliamentary elections. The...
Thirteen people, including 12 Tanzanian nationals, were killed in a motor accident on a highway in central Uganda, police said Monday. Most of the victims were travelling in a...
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Monday said Bangladesh will continue its efforts to put pressure on Myanmar diplomatically to solve the Rohingya crisis. “The only solution to the...
The government is setting up eight free kitchens to serve meals to Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar. The kitchens will operate in the camps at Balukhali and Kutupalong from...
Asian markets posted healthy gains on Monday following another record finish on Wall Street, as the focus shifts to the Federal Reserve's policy meeting later in the week. Investors...
Finland's Rovio, creator of the hugely popular smartphone game "Angry Birds", launched its initial public offering (IPO) on the Helsinki stock exchange on Monday, valuing the company at almost 900...
Met office on Monday advised maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Pyra to hoist local cautionary signal number three as deep convection is taking place over North Bay....
Transport owners and workers of Kushtia district have withdrawn their indefinite strike following assurance of district administration. The decision came out after a fruitful meeting with district administration on...
Over 200 Rohingyas were sent back to refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar after being stopped from moving to various parts of Bangladesh. Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque...
Police arrested 103 Rohingya refugees from different parts of Patiya upazila in Chittagong from Sunday night till Monday morning. Acting on information that some Rohingyas were staying in different...
Two Rohingyas were killed after wild elephants attacked a temporary encampment set up in the hills of Cox’s Bazar. The attack occurred in Ukhiya Upazila early on Monday morning,...
Stocks witnessed a marginal correction on Monday, snapping a three-day sharp rally as cautious investors booked profit on quick-gaining stocks. However, the daily trade turnover on Dhaka Stock Exchange...
The humanitarian crisis has worsened in catastrophic drought-stricken Ethiopia, where clashes have displaced around 50,000 people. The clashes, along the border of Ethiopia’s Oromiya and Somali regions, have also...
China and India may have defused a potential border conflict but the stand-off seems to have led to dispute over another contentious issue: water. Delhi says it has not...
Police during a drive arrested a suspected robber along with arms and bullet from Bhatiyalpur area of Ramganj upazila in Lakshmipur Monday morning. The arrestee, Md Nasir is a...
Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports surged in August from a year earlier at the strongest pace in six months, led by solid shipments of electronics and robust sales to China. ...
Asian shares hit decade highs on Monday and the dollar gained on the yen early in a week in which the US Federal Reserve is likely to wrestle with its...
A woman was killed and another injured as a thunderbolt hit a tin-shed house at Koralia village in Hatia upazila early Sunday, reports UNB. Police said the tin-shed house...
The district administration on Sunday slapped section 144 in Khagrachhari municipality area from morning to evening to ward off any untoward incident centring a protest programme seeking cancellation of the...
Brazil midfielder Paulinho scored a late winner on Saturday as Barcelona maintained their 100 per cent record in La Liga by coming from behind to beat Getafe. Paulinho came...
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