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The academic activities of Dhaka University (DU) will resume on Monday after a 12-day long vacation on the occasion of Holy Eid-ul-Azha. However, the administrative activities started on Sunday, said...
As I left Manila, tropical storm Isang passed the Batanes area in northern Philippines. When I flew to Guangzhou in southern China, the low-pressure area morphed into a tropical depression...
Twenty years ago in July a run on the Thai currency (Baht) triggered a financial crisis which quickly engulfed the entire region. Countries very severely affected were Thailand, Indonesia, South...
MOBILE (or cell) phones have brought about a revolution in our lifestyle and I sometimes wonder how could people live through centuries without cell phones! Mobile phones have made our...
ON most occasions, the market is flooded with fake products. Recently during Eid-ul-Azha we saw fake butter oil wrapped in packages of renowned companies. Fake cosmetics, medicines and other food...
PEOPLE of Bangladesh are now passing through a tormenting time in their history as they witness humanity wriggling under the feet of a cruel and murderous regime of Myanmar. Often...
Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya on Sunday informed that the government would arrange a single temporary accommodation for all the migrated Rohingyas at Thengar Char in...
The major price indices of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) reached a new high on Sunday on higher activities of some large cap securities. DSEX finished the day with 52.50 points...
Fuelling consumerism is a business strategy adopted by industries, manufacturing firms and corporate houses or commercial ventures. Products or gadgets unheard of by a generation are the most sought-after elements...
The game is, possibly, on once again. Indications are there that some small-time manipulators after a gap of few months have re-entered the bourses with the objective of making quick...
The dismal picture of gender inequality in Bangladesh, as painted by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), is not backed up by ground...
MAGURA, Aug 10: A novel initiative has been taken by the fishermen in Magura. Fishermen of five villages including Bashkutha under Magura sadar upazila have opened their leased waterbody for...
Tofa and Tohura, the conjoined twins who were successfully separated from each other at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), are ready to return home. Health Minister Mohammed Nasim held...
The 17th session of the 10th parliament will continue until September 14 next. The decision was taken at a meeting of the business advisory committee of the current parliament...
Cambridge University is seeking to scrap exams written with a pen and paper due to the deterioration of students’ handwriting. A growing reliance on laptops has led to students’...
President Md Abdul Hamid urged international community to form a UN-backed ‘safe zone’ near the border of Bangladesh to protect the Rohingya minority fleeing the military crackdown in Myanmar’s Rakhine...
With passing 7 bills out of the total 15 in 24 working days, the budget session of the 10th Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) was prorogued on Sunday. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin...
Myanmar on Sunday declared that it will not negotiate with terrorists, rejecting a ceasefire declared by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), a Rohingya insurgent group. Myanmar says its...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday renewed her call to the country’s people to exercise austerity in the use of electricity considering it as a national asset. "It's my...
Hurricane Irma is slamming southern Florida with calamitous force as the storm's eyewall reaches the Florida Keys Sunday morning, says a report on CNN.Irma packed winds of 130 mph as...
Cox’s Bazar district administration is building shelters at Balukhali to accommodate around 200,000 Rohingyas and bring them in one place, as per a report on bdnews24.com. “They have...
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit the refugee camps in the southeastern part of the country on Tuesday amid the influx of Rohingyas since fresh violence erupted in Myanmar's...
Police have rescued a two and a half years old boy from Narayanganj within a few hours of his abduction from a Dhaka hospital on Saturday. They also...
Twelve people of a family, including two women, drowned on Saturday after being swept away by strong waves at the Hawksbay beach in the Pakistani port city of Karachi. “Initially,...
Both Brazilian striker Gabriel Jesus and German winger Leroy Sane scored twice as Manchester City hammered Liverpool 5-0 in the Premier League at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday with the...
SIRAJGANJ, Sept 09: Floating seedbed is gaining popularity in the district. Hundreds of trained peasants of the flood prone area have set up seedbeds on some hectares of inundated lands...
Police recovered an unidentified body of a young man from Rampal river near Mongla-Ghoshiakhali channel in Rampal upazila of Bagerhat district on Friday night. Belayet Hossain, officer-in-charge of Rampal...
The Danish government has allocated Tk 256 million to United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) as relief efforts for the newly-arrived Rohingya refugees coming to Bangladesh from Myanmar. Ulla...
The death toll from one of the most powerful earthquakes recorded in Mexico has risen to at least 61 people. A huge rescue operation is under way in the...
BNP secretary general Mirza FakhrulIslam Alamgir demanded on Friday the government make effective diplomatic efforts to force Myanmar to resolve the Rohingya crisis, reports UNB. "Our demand is very clear...
At least 26 people were injured as a bus plunged into a roadside ditch after the driver lost control of the bus at Dhunda, an area in Narail Sadar upazila,...
The government sought funds from South Korea and Japan for building Paira seaport and Khanpur inland container terminal (ICT) in Narayanganj to lessen shipping pressure on Chittagong Port. Two...
Bangladesh has proposed creating "safe zones" run by aid groups for Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state to stop hundreds of thousands of refugees crossing into its territory following a...
The government will ask its development partners this week to realign their country strategies with enhanced funding provisions as it is looking to generate billions more in foreign aid for...
An estimated 270,000 Rohingyas have sought refuge in Bangladesh over the past two weeks, the UN refugee agency said on Friday, announcing a dramatic jump in numbers fleeing violence...
The Dhaka bourse passed an eventful week that ended Thursday, as the core index of the prime bourse exceeded 6,100-mark for the first time since its inception in January 2013....
BEPZA is contributing a lot to implement Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Vision 2021 and the Vision 2041. It is tremendously contributing in industrialisation through attracting investment, export enhancement, product...
Education sector received 38 per cent of the fund disbursed by the banks under their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the first half of the current calendar year. Latest...
eGeneration Ltd, one of the leading management consulting, technology services and outsourcing companies in Bangladesh and International Office Machines (IOM), a leading communication technology company and sole distributor of Toshiba,...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to pay special attention to the foreigners working in the country so that they cannot dodge tax payment. The directive came...
Many Bangladeshi workers who have gone to Saudi Arabia with individual visas or so-called free visas are now facing uncertainty as they fail to find jobs, sources said. Many...
A bus helper was killed in a road crash between a truck and bus at Sreepur Upazila of Gazipur District on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Sakhawat...
Myanmar has planted landmines along its border with Bangladesh posing a deadly threat to fleeing Rohingyas, says Amnesty International or AI. It said on Saturday that it has confirmed...
Bangladesh's crest wear business body wants to exercise its multi-storey office building, which was built in violation of the Wetlands Protection Act, for another year, reports bdnews24.com. Bangladesh Garment...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has once again visited the Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Memorial KPJ Specialized Hospital in Gazipur and had routine check-ups, in a gesture showing her trust to the...
US Country music singer Don Williams has passed away at 78 from a short illness on Friday, reports Fox News. Williams had 17 No. 1 hits before retiring in...
Lisbeth Salander, the stormy computer hacker and anti-heroine who many readers know as "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," is coming back for a fifth book — despite the fact...
An online petition signed by more than 386,000 people on Change.org is calling for Suu Kyi to be stripped of her Peace Prize over the persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim...
It is commonly believed that economically Bangladesh has done well. Over the last two decades most economic indices show improvement, be it in export, remittance, gross domestic product (GDP), infrastructure...
The inebriated hand that turned a straight line into squiggles did more than divide India; it tore apart hearts resulting in one of the worst, if not the worst displacement...
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