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-- 2019-11-14 22:16:48
The third Bangladesh Leather Footwear & Leathergoods International Sourcing Show (BLISS) held recently in the capital has brought to the fore the prospect of good export potential of the country's...
-- 2019-11-14 13:45:28
Britain is threatening to deport European Union citizens if they fail to apply on time for a new immigration status after Brexit and will only grant leniency in exceptional circumstances, according to...
-- 2019-11-13 20:28:56
Bulbul, the cyclonic storm, has wrought large-scale devastation in the coastal districts but mercifully spared a tragedy of cataclysmic proportions, as feared. Indeed, it had all the makings of a natu...
-- 2019-11-12 22:02:05
The issue of proposed rules under the Road Transport Act 2018 has come under renewed focus and scrutiny of late. The Financial Express among others mentioned last Friday that no case under the above-m...
-- 2019-11-11 22:08:49
Like on various occasions in the past, a regional body and a Bangladeshi rights group have focused on a critical issue involving the perennially deprived women of the country. The area of discussion w...
-- 2019-11-11 14:13:35
Haze shrouded India’s capital city again on Monday, with residents braving dangerous air quality to return to work after a weekend of clearer air and better weather. The air quality index of th...
-- 2019-11-10 12:55:30
Shaheed Nur Hossain Day, a red-letter day to restore democracy in the country, is being observed today with due solemnity, reports BSS. On this day in 1987, Awami Juba League (AJL) leader Nur Hossain...
-- 2019-11-09 22:02:25
Many people who are genuinely concerned about the country's narrow export base might find the projection about agro-processing highly reassuring. A recent USAID report said the agro-processing exports...
-- 2019-11-09 13:26:58
The Qulkhwani of former Dhaka City Corporation mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka will take place on November 15 instead of Sunday at Brothers Union Club grounds in Gopibagh of the city after Asr prayers....
-- 2019-11-08 20:22:37
Mr Ragnar Gudmundsson, the Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Dhaka has raised quite a number of issues in a column of The Financial Express last Wednesday. IMF being...
-- 2019-11-07 21:18:18
Presence of arsenic in almost all regions of the country is no recent find. It is more than two decades ago when arsenic in alarmingly high levels -well above the nationally accepted (50 ppb) limit --...
-- 2019-11-06 20:17:24
Now that Malaysia is opening up its labour market once again to workers from Bangladesh, it is expected that the concern over the stalled recruitment process would be fairly addressed. To go by a repo...
-- 2019-11-06 13:23:27
Former foreign minister M Morshed Khan has resigned from the BNP citing personal reasons. The vice-chairman of BNP handed in his resignation to the party's Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamg...
-- 2019-11-06 12:32:04
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the 10th national council of Bangladesh Krishak League, an associate body of the ruling Awami League (AL), amid fanfare and festivity. The premier on Wedn...
-- 2019-11-05 22:15:16
The recent announcement by the Bangladesh Commerce Minister regarding the strong desire of India's north eastern states to utilise the Chittagong port for their international trade is worth special at...
-- 2019-11-04 22:16:45
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her government's resolve to change the living standard of rural people for the better. Earlier she and a few of her cabinet colleagues have gone so far as t...
-- 2019-11-03 22:04:36
Vegetables, especially those grown during winter, have hit the country's city-based kitchen markets. As has been routinely observed every year, the season's early variety of vegetables sells at formid...
-- 2019-11-02 21:56:56
The finding of a sample survey that institutional loans are still eluding small women entrepreneurs is truly disappointing. The survey carried out recently by the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Manageme...
-- 2019-11-02 18:04:04
Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque on Saturday said the Awami League leaders who are involved in any kind of crime or corrupt act are being relieved of the party and not given any post...
-- 2019-11-01 22:11:32
As things could not have been anticipated in a worse manner, Bangladesh's cricketing virtuoso Sakib Al Hasan has faced the strike of the cudgel of the cricket lords. The sole charge against Sakib is f...
-- 2019-10-31 22:13:51
The government reportedly is at the final stage of formulating the country's first ever SME (Small and medium enterprise) policy. No doubt an inspiring move, it might still cause a sense of unease to...
-- 2019-10-30 21:24:09
One major policy of the government is to create facilities for countries to set up exclusive economic zones here by way of robustly attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) to the country. Banglades...
-- 2019-10-30 12:34:25
The Appellate Division on Wednesday upheld a High Court Division order granting six-month interim bail to BNP MP Harunur Rashid in a case filed over abusing duty-free import facilities. A four-member...
-- 2019-10-29 22:08:43
When most of the industries and manufacturing units in the public sector have either been closed down or are running at losses, the Bangladesh Steel and Engineering Corporation (BSEC) stood as a notab...
-- 2019-10-29 13:43:57
A section of students of Dhaka University on Tuesday staged sit-in in front of the Vice-Chancellor’s (VC) residence, demanding an end to the accommodation crisis in the residential halls. The p...
-- 2019-10-29 11:23:43
Boris Johnson is to try again for a 12 December general election on Tuesday - despite MPs rejecting his plan. The prime minister will publish a bill that would only need a simple majority to succeed...
-- 2019-10-28 22:00:16
Bangladesh currently boasts of three seaports, of which Chattogram Port alone caters to around 92 per cent of the country's trade cargo via the Bay of Bengal. The two other seaports, namely Mongla and...
-- 2019-10-28 20:54:54
The Awami League has inducted former Feni lawmaker Joynal Abedin Hazari into its advisory council, reports bdnews24.com. The ruling party's General Secretary Obaidul Quader handed the controversial l...
-- 2019-10-28 20:49:58
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday said Awami League will expel its lawmakers if the allegations brought against them are proved to be correct and they are convicted. The Aw...
UNB 2019-10-28 20:39:18
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday alleged that the government is trying to improve its image by arresting only a few ‘small fry’ in the current anti-corruption dr...
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