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According to a new study, as climate change drives heat and humidity to new extremes, venturing outdoors may become deadly across the wide swathes of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan later...
The last vestige of Aung San Suu Kyi's integrity has now fallen apart. She claims rather shamelessly that 'terrorists' are misinforming the world about violence in Rakhine province. Her rhetoric...
Gold bars weighing around 3.8 kg were recovered from Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport in separate incidents on Thursday. Sources at the airport said Shakhwat Hossain, 39, a passenger of...
Opponents of the Cuban government are putting forward an unprecedented number of candidates for municipal elections in late October, the first step in a process to select a new president...
Scientists have reconstructed faces from people's DNA, an advance that challenges the idea that genetic databases can be anonymous, reports The Times of India. Research institutions regularly collect thousands...
Noted economist Professor Abul Barkat has brought out a book on 'economic thoughts'. The book is titled 'Poverty of Philosophy in Economics' (2017). It is a less discussed topic, and...
After playing havoc with vast swathes of the country's north and northeastern regions for more than three months, flood waters have started receding. However, spells of rain have not stopped...
How and why the US Democrat Party lost the June 20 congressional replacement election in Georgia ought to become a required Politics 101 reading for all electoral candidates anywhere: the...
In the decade since the financial crisis began in August 2007, the contours of global finance have shifted dramatically. The total value of cross-border capital flows has shrunk by 65...
Australia beat Bangladesh by seven wickets in the second and final test to level the series 1-1 at Chittagong's Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on Thursday. Chasing 86 for victory...
Every new Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) vehicle line launched from 2020 will be electric or hybrid, the company announced on Thursday. The carmaker said that the first of the...
Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), the central bank of Malaysia, has left its benchmark interest rate unchanged on Thursday as expected, as it sees the economy remaining on a solid growth....
The state-run Power Development Board or PDB needs a tax break to import oil for its power plants like private producers, says the state minister for power. A tax...
Facebook says it has discovered a Russian-funded campaign for promoting divisive social and political messages on its network. The company said $100,000 (£77,000) was spent on about 3,000 ads...
King Salman of Saudi Arabia plans to visit President Donald Trump at the White House early next year. The White House says the leaders agreed on Salman's visit when...
Steam is emitted from a oil refinery in Sodegaura, Japan. — Reuters SINGAPORE, Sept 5 (Reuters): US oil prices rose on Tuesday as the gradual restart of refineries in the...
FRANKFURT, Sept 5 (Reuters): The European Commission (EC) on Monday approved a German bridging loan for Air Berlin that will keep the insolvent airline's planes flying while it tries to...
German industrial orders fell unexpectedly in July on weak domestic demand while bookings from abroad remained flat, data showed on Wednesday. Factories registered a 0.7 per cent drop in orders...
LONDON, Sept 5 (Reuters): Euro zone government bond yields were little changed on Tuesday as attention shifted from tensions over North Korea to an approaching European Central Bank (ECB) meeting...
Chairman of Sylhet Sadar Ashfaq Ahmed distributed T-Aman seedlings among 60 flood-hit farmers. — FE Photo SYLHET, Sept 05: Farmers of the Sylhet division are facing acute shortage of T-Aman...
The patients craving for better treatment at Bagatipara Health Complex under Bagatipara of Natore district. — FE Photo NATORE, Sept 05: Patients of the 31-bed Bagatpara Health Complex of the...
A trader waits for customers beside the Bogra-Naogaon Highway under Dupchanchia upazila of Bogra on Tuesday. — FE Photo BOGRA, Sept 05: Sugarcane growers are getting good production and fair...
Bangladesh lags behind neighbouring India and Pakistan in attaining financial inclusion of people from various social strata, according to a survey. The country ranked 19th, scoring 66 in the...
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses saw upward trend in early hours of trading Wednesday as investors continued their buying binge on sector-wise stocks. After...
Myanmar has been laying landmines across a section of its border with Bangladesh, said two government sources in Dhaka, adding that the purpose may have been to prevent the return...
The Ashuganj Power Station Company Limited (APSCL) will build a 1320-megawatt (MW) capacity coal-fired power plant at Pyra port area as it will start developing land this year for the...
A price slump has created a crisis of rawhide supply to country's leather industry this high season as traders are reluctant to sell the sacrificial animal skins to avert losses. ...
The government is going to rebase and revise the GDP year to 2015-16 from the existing 2005-2006, incorporating many more emerging areas of economic activities into the calculation of economic...
University of Dhaka (DU) is the only university that gets the entry into the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2018 published on Tuesday. DU, however, ranked 1001-plus...
A prominent Indian journalist critical of Hindu nationalist politics has been shot dead in the south-western state of Karnataka, police say. Gauri Lankesh, 55, was found lying in a...
The 21st death anniversary of former Dhallywood actor Salman Shah will be observed today (Wednesday), reports UNB. The satellite TV channels will air various programmes to pay tribute to...
A road crash on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway has left five people dead and at least 15 others injured. A collision between a bus and a truck was reported around...
Index of Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) of Bangladeshi currency increased to 140.32 at the end of the past fiscal year (FY17) which was 138.33 at the end of FY16,...
Firefighters and law enforcers entered a suspected terror hideout in Dhaka's Mirpur on Wednesday morning, after overnight explosions ignited a fire in the building, which had been cordoned-off for almost...
The first session of the third day in the second and final test between Bangladesh and Australia has been washed out on Wednesday due to incessant rain. Australia, who...
U.S. actress Meghan Markle, the girlfriend of Britain’s Prince Harry, has said they are in love and happy together, in her first frank comments about their relationship since they became...
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday blamed "terrorists" for "a huge iceberg of misinformation" on the violence in Rakhine state but made no mention of the nearly 126,000 Rohingya...
Security forces found the charred bodies of three militant suspects inside a hideout in Dhaka's Mirpur on Wednesday, RAB has said. They raided the terror hideout after overnight blasts...
Some 0.16 million new motorcycles got registration in the country on January-July period of the current calendar year (2017). Statistics available with Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) showed that...
Bangladesh wants the United Nations’ intervention for sending back the Myanmar refugees, who fled the country in the wake of violence in Rakhine state. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directed the authorities concerned to take necessary steps to keep the extent of damages and loss of lives at a minimum level during any disaster. ...
Security forces found seven human bodies inside a 'hideout' at Mirpur area in Dhaka on Wednesday. “We found the skulls of militant Abdullah, his two wives, two children and...
Five people died after being electrocuted at a filling station in Narsingdi. The incident was reported on Wednesday in the central district of Narsingdi, some 50km northeast from capital...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday announced that his country will grant gratis visa to Myanmarese citizens wanting to visit the country, reports timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Modi made the announcement...
Businesses of all sizes continue to struggle to access sufficient credit, resulting in a global trade finance gap of $1.5 trillion in 2016, according to an Asian Development Bank (ADB)...
The leather industry in Bangladesh is the third largest sector contributing to export growth. It has huge potential. The sector combines traditional practices with advanced technologies. The leather industry...
The ninth BRICS -- an acronym for a grouping of five nations, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- concluded last Tuesday in Xiamen in East China's Fujian Province,...
A deepening slump in the prices has led to a crisis of supply of rawhides and skins to the country's leather industry during this peak season. Nervous traders are reluctant...
Turkey's First Lady Emine Erdogan will arrive in Dhaka early Thursday to meet Rohingya Muslims who fled persecution in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, reports bdnews24.com. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Hakan...
According to US scientists, a harmful virus that can cause devastating damage to the brains of developing fetuses could offer up a surprising new treatment for adult brain cancer. ...
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