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MAGURA, Sept 12: About 200 women in Nanduali under Magura Sadar have improved their livelihood by preparing cattle manure as a fuel.One Shabana Khatun of the village said cattle manure...
Stocks witnessed upward trend at midday, after first two hours of trading Wednesday, as investors are taking position on large-cap banks issues. Following the previous two days’ mild correction,...
Pointing to the ashes of a destroyed village that was once home to dozens of Rohingya Muslim families, the abbot of a nearby Buddhist monastery insisted he knew who had...
At least 18 policemen have been killed in an attack on a convoy in Egypt's Sinai peninsula claimed by so-called Islamic State, security sources say. Militants detonated a roadside...
Oil prices edged down on Tuesday, as traders weighed up the dampening effect on demand of Hurricane Irma versus refinery restarts in the wake of Hurricane Harvey that should lead...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested two fake officials of Crime Investigation Department (CID) from Bhutipukur border area in Tentulia upazila on Monday afternoon. The arrestees were identified as...
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will lay the foundation stone for India’s first bullet train in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state Gujarat this week, in a tightening of ties...
The United Nations Security Council unanimously stepped up sanctions against North Korea on Monday over the country’s sixth and most powerful nuclear test conducted on Sept. 3, imposing a ban...
The central bank has decided to strengthen monitoring of commercial banks' exposure to share market with a view to avoiding recurrence of an unwanted situation, officials said. Under the...
Bangladesh needs to expand its tax network instead of overburdening the existing tax base, if the country wants to increase its revenue generation capacity, speakers opined at a seminar in...
Cultivation of Aman paddy is facing setback in different flood affected areas under Rangpur division due to acute crisis of seedlings. Although flood water has begun to recede from...
About 6.5 million homes and businesses in Florida, two-thirds of the total, are without power after Hurricane Irma cut a deadly path through the state, officials said on Monday. ...
Asian shares hit a 10-year peak on Tuesday with investors breathing a sigh of relief as North Korean fears eased slightly and the worst-case scenario from Hurricane Irma looked to...
Bangladesh has called on Myanmar to end violence against Rohingyas as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visits refugee camps in the southeastern part of the country. “We urge the Myanmar...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has left for Cox’s Bazar to distribute aid among Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar. Hasina left Dhaka on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight around...
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed a positive trend in the first hour of trading Tuesday amid volatility as some investors were active on sector-wise...
A fish farm owner was killed by a lightning strike at Assasuni upazila in Satkhira on Tuesday morning. The deceased has been identified as Jahangir Hossain, 45, son of...
There is "surprisingly limited" evidence that light drinking during pregnancy poses any risk to the baby, say UK researchers. They reviewed all the available studies done on the topic...
At least 20 people have sustained injuries as a bus carrying 50 passengers plunged into a ditch skidding off Harinakunda-Jhenaidah road near the Circuit House in Jhenaidah Sadar Upazila on...
Pakistan has tightened its security for the T20 series, first big international cricketing event on home soil for eight years, between Pakistan and a World XI in Lahore. International...
The government's decision to deduct scores of aspirants taking the medical and dental colleges' entrance test for a second time has been stayed. On Tuesday, the High Court froze...
China's auto sales continued to increase in August, evidence of the steady growth of the world's largest car market, data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) showed Monday....
Bangladesh Bank (BB) will give remittance award to the highest remittance senders and the highest remittance receiving institutions for encouraging Non Residence Bangladeshis (NRBs) to send money through legal channels,...
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Tuesday said pre-orders for its Galaxy Note 8 premium smartphone have hit the highest-ever for the Note series, beating its predecessor Note 7 over five...
Violence in Myanmar prompted 370,000 Rohingya people to flee to Bangladesh since August 25, up from a previous estimate of 313,000. The UN International Organization for Migration revealed the...
The very name of the venue evokes a feeling of not only ordinariness but also of a non-event. Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the town with 15000 population, that has been hosting...
Community-Led Total Sanitation might be the greatest Bangladeshi export. In countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America, a consensus has emerged that the best approach is Community-Led Total Sanitation, which...
All languages are sweet to their patrons, but none can be sweeter than one's own mother tongue. The language children learn since birth is derived from their surroundings, especially from...
In an article titled "East overtakes West" published on September 7, 2017 the Economist, a reputed British weekly, puts Bangladesh ahead of Pakistan in terms of GDP per capita and ...
Bangladesh will become a middle income country before 2021, says the planning minister. “We are hopeful that our dream of becoming a middle income country will be fulfilled before 2021,”...
JJ Abrams, who launched the new era of Star Wars films with The Force Awakens in 2015, is returning to the series as writer and director of Star Wars: Episode...
Tech giant Google has lodged an appeal against the 2.4billion euro fine (£2b / $2.8b) which was ordered to pay by the European Commission in June. The regulator had...
A move is under way to organise a platform styled Financial Inclusion Network-Bangladesh (FIN-B) for developing, sharing and disseminating knowledge and expertise in financial inclusion. Its main objective will...
Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus has called upon Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to take “immediate steps” to halt the Rakhine State violence and stem the flow...
Taxpayers have expressed their resentment over a penal measure that deprives them of tax-exemption benefit of certain incomes. According to the current income-tax provision, tax-exempted income or income entitled...
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) sought emergency funding for reproductive health and gender-based violence response for Rohingya women and girls arriving from Myanmar. The UN population agency said...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday directed the all authorities concerned to work in a coordinated manner while dealing with the Myanmar refugees staying in Bangladesh. She asked the...
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday appreciated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for visiting Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar. But he strongly criticised her government for not...
HEAVY rain this year has taken its toll on the roads of our capital as most of them go under water with a little bit of rain. Commuters are harassed...
THIS refers to your thought-provoking article titled "The Rohingya horror story continues" published on September 12. The Rohingya are an ethnic group, largely comprising Muslims, who predominantly live in the...
THE ROHINGYA people of Myanmar are being subjected to inhuman torture and persecution. As a result they are compelled to leave their homeland and seek refuge in Bangladesh. They are...
How does one react to the finding that one third of the country's state owned banks' bad loans is in the grip of only 20 defaulted borrowers? This, no doubt,...
The move, though belated, to transfer the control over academic affairs of private medical colleges from the Dhaka University to some other institution will be considered a step in the...
La Almunia de Doña Godina, a small town situated in the fertile plains of Valdejalón in northwestern Spain, was buzzing with unusual activity one late afternoon a few weeks ago,...
A couple of years ago when the report on Libor manipulation came out, I wrote an article wherein my suggestion was for our banks and financial institutions to do some...
Populists such as US President Donald Trump and de facto Polish leader Jarosław Kaczyński, and authoritarians such as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin, do not...
Two chartered aircraft of the UNHCR with emergency relief supplies for 25,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) Tuesday. "The two aircrafts, one is...
Egypt’s defence minister, on a visit to Seoul, announced that his country has cut military ties with North Korea. There was no immediate confirmation from the Egyptian government, says...
Secretary to the Education Ministry’s Secondary and Higher Secondary Division Sohrab Hossain suggested the withdrawal of the MCQ method from the secondary and higher secondary level examinations. He came...
Most Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, who managed to flee Myanmar in the past six days, are children, says Bangladesh Chief of UNICEF’s Child Protection Jean Lieby. “60 per cent...
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