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Air pollution in Bangkok and neighbouring Thai provinces spiked past safe levels on Thursday, prompting authorities to urge people to stay indoors and avoid strenuous outdoor activity. The concentration of...
অস্ট্রেলিয়ার নতুন ৫ ডলারের মুদ্রায় রাজা তৃতীয় চার্লসের ছবি থাকছে না বলে জানিয়েছে দেশটির কেন্দ্রীয় ব্যাংক। নতুন নকশায় ‘আদিবাসী অস্ট্রেলীয়দের ইতিহাস ও সংস্কৃতির’ প্রতি শ্রদ্ধা জানানো হবে, ঘোষণায় বলেছে রিজার্ভ...
Stories about Batman and his assassin son, a new Superman tale and Swamp Thing are set to hit the big screen as part of an ambitious 10-year plan to reinvigorate...
Bangladesh managed to bring in more than 5.0 billion US dollars in export receipts for a third consecutive month in January, beating the expectations of businesses. Exports increased 5.89 per...
প্রচুর পরিমাণে দুধ দেয় এমন উন্নত জাতের গরুর তিনটি বাচ্চা ক্লোনিংয়ের মাধ্যমে জন্ম দিয়েছেন চীনের বিজ্ঞানিরা; বিদেশ থেকে আমদানি করা জাতের ওপর নির্ভরতা কমাতে এ অর্জনকে চীনের ডেইরি শিল্পের জন্য...
সরকারি গ্যাসের সঙ্গে পাল্লা দিয়ে ফেব্রুয়ারি মাসের জন্য সিলিন্ডারে বিক্রি হওয়া তরল প্রাকৃতিক গ্যাস এলপিজির দামও ২১ দশমিক ৫৭ শতাংশ বাড়ানো হল। তাতে প্রতি কেজি এলপিজির দাম ১০২ টাকা ৭০...
Privately-run Hajj travel agencies have set the minimum price for this year’s pilgrimage package at Tk 672,618 per person, nearly Tk 150,000 up from the previous year. The decision was...
Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) today (Feb 2) said that mild cold wave is sweeping over the districts of Nilphamari, Pabna, Dinajpur and Kurigram and it may continue in the next 24...
Mercantile Bank Limited recently organised a virtual training on ‘Internal Credit Risk Rating System with Highlights on CIB Online Reporting’ at its training institute in Dhaka. A total of 98...
North Korea's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that drills by the United States and its allies have pushed the situation to an "extreme red-line" and threaten to turn the peninsula...
Pakistani police have identified the suicide bomber who attacked a mosque in Peshawar this week, the provincial police chief said on Thursday, adding that the attacker had breached security by...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the construction work of the first subway in Bangladesh a month after the country rolled out its first metro rail system. The prime minister inaugurated...
Bangladeshi shooter Kamrun Nahar Koly made history in the ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol held in Jakarta, Indonesia, this year by getting placed eighth in the competition. This feat was unprecedented...
দেশের প্রথম মেট্রোরেল চালুর এক মাসের মাথায় শুরু হল দেশের প্রথম পাতাল রেলের নির্মাণ কাজ। প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনা বৃহস্পতিবার পূর্বাচল ৪ নম্বর সেক্টরে ম্যাস র্যাপিড ট্রানজিট (এমআরটি) লাইন-১ এর নির্মাণকাজের...
MetLife reported a 33 per cent drop in fourth-quarter adjusted profit on Wednesday as a global market rout hurt the US insurer's investment returns, reports Reuters. Lower private equity returns sent...
New Zealand's government on Thursday announced NZ$700,000 ($450,000) in additional funding to help rebuild flood-ravaged Auckland and other areas in the upper north island as residents of the country's second-largest...
United Commercial Bank PLC recently signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with Asset Developments & Holdings Limited, says a press release Thursday. As per the payroll agreement, employees of Asset...
Myanmar's junta extended the country's state of emergency by another six months, the acting president said at a leadership meeting broadcast on state TV on Wednesday, as protesters marked the...
Honda is expanding the use of hydrogen to include trucks and construction equipment, electricity for buildings and even outer space, not just cars on the roads. Honda Motor Co. plans...
Stocks opened marginally higher on Thursday as investors showed their buying interest in sector-specific issues whose financial performance was not affected by recent macroeconomic challenges. Turnover, another important indicator of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (Feb 1) told Parliament that the country has received US$ 10,493 million remittances till December of the current fiscal year, BSS reports. "Till December of the...
Elena, a Romanian tourist, has always wanted to travel the world on a bike. She has so far visited 29 countries. Elena came to Satkhira on Monday from India and...
Evercare Hospital Chattogram is proud to announce the successful completion of the first autologous bone marrow transplant (BMT) in Chattogram. The procedure was performed on a multiple myeloma patient on...
FedEx Corp on Wednesday said it would cut its officer and director ranks by more than 10 per cent as part of a broad cost-reduction effort that has reduced staffing at...
A former commander of Russia's Wagner mercenary group who fled to Norway told Reuters he wanted to apologise for fighting in Ukraine and was speaking out to bring the perpetrators...
US investors including the investment arms of Intel Corp and Qualcomm Inc accounted for nearly a fifth of investments in Chinese artificial intelligence companies from 2015 to 2021, a report...
A 64-year-old trader was found dead at Jashurgaon in Srinagar upazila of Munshiganj district on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Sattaranjan Datta. Aminul Islam, officer-in-charge of Srinagar Police...
The Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) has said that the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) loan is a respite for Bangladesh's current economy. The IMF approved a credit facility...
State-owned Palli Sanchay Bank (PSB), a low-cost lender for micro and small farms, has sought a special government allocation of Tk 100 billion to meet its liquidity shortfall, ensure smooth...
Dhaka's air quality is in the 'unhealthy' zone this morning. With an air quality index (AQI) score of 155 at 9:04 am, the capital of Bangladesh ranked 16th on the...
IFAD Autos saw a steep 75.9 per cent year-on-year fall in profit for the second quarter of the FY23, hit hard by revenue fall coupled with escalating foreign exchange loss....
Renata Limited's profit dropped below Tk 1 billion in October-December 2022 for the first time in 10 quarters due to a spike in the prices of raw materials driven by...
Al-Madina Pharmaceuticals will raise a capital worth Tk 50 million through Qualified Investor Offer (QIO). The company will utilise the fund for expanding business and repaying loans along with catering...
Physical work on the country's first underground metro rail will be inaugurated at a programme in Purbachal New Town Project area on today (Thursday). Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) imposed an embargo on the non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) to collect credit from short-term funding sources, like inter-bank transaction. The central bank imposed the restriction by...
The net sales of government's savings tools have registered a negative growth in the first half of the current fiscal year (2022-23) due to different factors including making tax return...
Crunch-induced import restrictions come to the rescue as Bangladesh's current-account deficit (CAD) decreased over 36 per cent in six months to December from corresponding period a year before. Bangladesh Bank's...
Bangladesh sees ballooning debt buildup with the amount increasing by over Tk 2.0 trillion to Tk 13.44 trillion at the end of past fiscal year, further feeding into fiscal deficit....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said discussions are on to produce hydrogen electricity from sea water. Referring to the new concept of hydrogen power generation from sea water, she...
Remittance rebound, after recent recession, is on stream as Bangladesh received around 16-percent higher foreign funds in January from remitters from previous month's amount. Officials concerned sound upbeat as they...
অমর একুশে বইমেলায় প্রকাশ হয়েছে রাষ্ট্রপতি মো. আবদুল হামিদের আত্মজীবনী। ‘আমার জীবননীতি আমার রাজনীতি’ শিরোনামে প্রকাশিত ২৪৪ পৃষ্ঠার বইটির বিক্রয় মূল্য ৪০০ টাকা। বইমেলায় ২৫ শতাংশ কমিশনে বিক্রি হচ্ছে বইটি।...
Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said democracy has once again won in the country with free and fair by-elections to six constituencies left by Bangladesh Nationalist...
Strongly protesting the fresh hike in power tariffs, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said people are repeatedly paying the prices of the government's limitless irregularities and...
Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today said many people think that Bangladesh's position on Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) has been downgraded one step on the prescription of the...
The Department of Environment has fined the contractors of Bus Rapid Transit or BRT and bypass projects in Dhaka Tk 50,000 each for air pollution. The drive on Wednesday was...
India's market regulator is examining a rout in the shares of billionaire Gautam Adani's companies, a source with direct knowledge told Reuters, as the losses triggered by a scathing US...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid a courtesy call on President M Abdul Hamid at his office in the parliament complex in Dhaka on Wednesday evening. “During the meeting, the prime...
The government of Bangladesh has resumed importing LNG (liquefied natural gas) from the international spot market after a pause of seven months. According to official sources, the Cabinet Committee on...
Barely a month could pass before the government forces another round of rise in power tariff with immediate effect. There is no knowing if this will be the last such...
Obituaries are in essence a most illuminating form of literature. In a larger sense, they are chapters enriching the historical narrative. They are more than a simple recapitulation of the...
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