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The insurance regulator has issued no objection certificate (NOC) in favour of Rampal power plant project allowing it to buy insurance from abroad despite an objection made by Sadharan Bima...
Agencies concerned find some terms and conditions attached to the use of India's fresh US$4.5 billion Line of Credit (LoC) for Bangladesh tougher and suggest the government should arduously negotiate...
A few days ago, as I was writing down my cell phone number on a piece of paper at a shop close to my house for recharging, I noticed a...
MEDIA often carry news items and visuals on law-enforcers seizing Phensidyl or Yaba from drug peddlers. According to law-enforcement and narcotics authorities, at least 300 major drug peddlers sell cannabis...
The politics of desperation unlike the good old days when it was fashionable to judge the strength of an economy by the resilience of its currency, is beginning to make...
ONE day as I was buying banana from a roadside shop, the shopkeeper told me that his son had passed HSC with GPA5 this year from a reputed college of...
Schools in the country's rural areas can barely manage good times. Be it in the area of performance in public examinations or a congenial atmosphere of education, these schools are...
It has already been proved beyond doubt that what is going on in the Rakhine state of Myanmar is nothing but genocide. Myanmar is carrying out 'brutal security operation' against...
The players' draft programme for recruitment of local and overseas cricketers for the upcoming franchise-based T20 tournament Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) was held at hotel in Dhaka on Saturday. ...
As banks have appeased their appetite for risk and tightened their lending criterion , non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) are mounting up their SMEs bucket to capture quality portfolio. NBFIs supplement...
Almost 400,000 Rohingyas have now poured into Bangladesh following the latest Myanmar military attack on the Rohingyas in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. United Nation agencies estimate that the figure...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived Abu Dhabi on Saturday afternoon en route to New York to attend the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). A VVIP...
Police urged citizens of the country not to rent out houses to Rohingyas and asked transport operators not to carry them. Bangladesh Police issued a statement on Saturday in...
The body of eminent botanist and science writer Prof Dwijen Sharma, who died on Friday, will cremated on Sunday in Dhaka. "His body will be kept at Bangla Academy...
Construction of 14,000 additional temporary shelters for Rohingyas began Saturday at Kutupalang of Cox's Bazar. With the additional shelters, the total makeshift shelters could house 5,60,000 refugees. Officials said...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka on Saturday for New York to join the UN General Assembly. A special Biman Bangladesh flight carrying Hasina left Dhaka on Saturday afternoon...
Two people, including a girl, were killed and 10 other injured as a bus hit a truck at Faltita Bazar on the Khulna-Mawa highway under Fakirhat upazila of the district...
Police plans to set up twenty-seven check-posts in Chittagong division to prevent the spread of Rohingyas across the country. Deputy Inspector of General of Police (Chittagong range) SM Moniruzzaman...
A total of 48.16 tonnes of relief materials from Iran and Indonesia for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh arrived at Chittagong Shah Amanat International Air port on Friday. Deputy...
An unidentified youth was killed as a covered van rammed his bicycle on Jessore - Jhenidah road in Jessore district area on Saturday. Police said the youth, aged about...
JP Duminy, South Africa all-rounder, announced his retirement from Test cricket on Saturday. The 33-year-old, has played a total of 46 Tests since his debut in 2008 against Australia, scoring...
The admission test for the first year honours' courses of Dhaka University (DU) Cha-unit under the academic session 2017-2018 was held on Saturday. The one-hour test was held between...
According to the United Nations estimate, more than 400,000 persecuted Rohingya people have already sought refuge in Bangladesh over the past three weeks. The global communities including the civil society...
The head of the UK tax agency, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), has said Britain could need up to 5,000 extra staff to handle customs and border checks after...
One of China's biggest Bitcoin exchanges has said it will stop trading, after a government warning over virtual currencies. BTCC on Thursday said it would stop buying and selling...
Oil prices were lower on thin trading on Friday but on course for weekly gains, the third in a row in the case of Brent, as the clean-up after hurricanes...
The net foreign investment in the Dhaka bourse plunged 84 per cent month-on-month in August last as overseas investors preferred to book profits. Market insiders said the Dhaka Stock...
Naturalist Dwijen Sharma has passed away at a hospital in Dhaka. The revered science author died during treatment at Square Hospital around 4am Friday. He was 88 years old....
The rise in prices of coarse variety of rice surpassed all past records in the country on Thursday as it sold at Tk 55 a kg at the capital's retail...
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile across Japan, its second such provocative move in weeks. South Korea's military says the missile reached an estimated altitude of about 770km...
United States Senator from Kentucky Mitch McConnell says Myanmar's civilian leader is urging immediate and improved access for humanitarian assistance to the region amid a violent campaign against the country's...
The United Nations appealed on Thursday for massive help for nearly 400,000 Muslims from Myanmar who have fled to Bangladesh, with concern growing that the number could keep rising, unless...
Bangladesh and Indonesia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Friday to expand cooperation in the energy sector. The areas of cooperation include the possibility of Indonesia supplying liquefied...
Indonesia’s central bank expects economic growth to slightly improve in the third quarter and reach a range of 5.1-5.2 per cent, a senior official told reporters on Friday. The...
Heavily armed police rushed to an incident at a London underground station on Friday with local media reporting there had been an explosion on a train. A Reuters witness...
Finnish mobile games and animation studio Rovio Entertainment Ltd on Friday set the initial price range for its planned IPO which would value the company at around 1 billion dollars....
The National Board of Revenue has waived 15 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) on import of iron and steel-made Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders. To this effect, the...
Passengers are facing immense sufferings as they have to wait at Daulatdia and Patuaria ferry terminals for hours to cross the Padma River due to shortage of ferries. Around...
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Friday rejected petitions seeking a review of its July 28 ruling that disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from office. After an investigation into the Sharif...
At around $830 billion, Apple Inc’s stock market value on the day of its newest iPhone launch towers over its next-largest rival and has Wall Street asking: Will it be...
A manhunt is underway in London after an explosion of a bucket bomb on a subway train during rush hour Friday morning sent up a fireball and led to at...
US space agency NASA received the final signal from its Cassini spacecraft, which ended a groundbreaking 13-year Saturn mission on Friday with a meteor-like plunge into the planet’s atmosphere, transmitting...
Bangladesh has protested repeated violation of its airspace by Myanmar drones and helicopter, the foreign ministry in Dhaka says. Charge d Affaires of the Myanmar Embassy in Dhaka Aung...
Since the early 2000s, the term "financial inclusion" has gained importance as a result of findings about financial exclusion and its direct correlation to poverty. Micro credit as a concept...
Mazda Motor Corp plans to make all of its vehicles electric-based, including petrol hybrids, by the early 2030s, Japanese media reported on Friday, as more automakers shift strategies to meet...
RICE is our staple food and the importance of its availability in terms of price and quantity can hardly be overemphasised. Lately, price of rice has been galloping fast following...
OBESITY in children is increasing alarmingly not only in our country but also across the globe. One third of children in the U. S. is overweight or obese, and the...
TODAY when we talk about sound/noise pollution which is one of the worst forms of pollution hampering our day-to-day life, the thought that instantly crosses our minds is about hydraulic...
It makes a sad commentary on the state of affairs that a natural disaster striking the country every time lays bare the country's lack of preparedness. Massive flood recently engulfed...
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have shaken the Donald Trump administration. In a country like the US where latest technological innovations are aplenty, deaths and damages, although not huge, were significant....
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