-- 2019-04-18 22:06:09
If remittances to low- and middle-income countries reached a record high in 2018, Bangladesh had also received its fair share. According to the latest report (April,8 last) prepared on the basis of th...
-- 2019-04-18 12:32:34
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said they have no information about BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's release on parole. The minister came up with the remark while replying to a reporter's query o...
-- 2019-04-17 21:23:26
The revelation made by a recent study that 60 million people, representing more than 38 per cent of the country's population, still do not get the recommended daily dose of iodine would surely prompt...
-- 2019-04-17 17:12:12
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday regretted that the incidents of killing, rape and reprisal growing as politicians have failed to build a safe and beautiful Bangladesh....
-- 2019-04-16 22:08:32
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) early this month floated the idea of greater access for the women entrepreneurs to collateral-free loan. In a pre-budget meeting with the Bangladesh Women Chamber o...
-- 2019-04-16 19:07:46
Jatiya Party (JaPa) senior co-chairman Raushon Ershad on Tuesday said their party's future leadership will be decided through nation council. "The date of the council will be fixed very soon through...
-- 2019-04-16 18:25:02
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday termed 'baseless' different media reports on their chairperson Khaleda Zia's release on parole saying that there has been no decision yet i...
-- 2019-04-15 22:08:10
Textile manufacturers losing domestic market has been a subject of worry for quite some time. Recent reports published in local dailies make it clear that the situation has assumed an alarming proport...
-- 2019-04-15 16:39:32
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said it is up to their chairperson Khaleda Zia and her family whether she will apply for parole or not, reports UNB. "We didn't have any co...
-- 2019-04-14 20:07:01
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday alleged that their Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s health condition has not improved that much at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical Universit...
-- 2019-04-13 22:06:44
This Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the Bengali New Year of 1426 BS, is coming against the backdrop of some good news about the economy of the country. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has taken th...
-- 2019-04-13 16:29:33
The Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) has formed human chains from Ganabhaban to Bangabhaban in Dhaka to protest the killing of Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi. The party also called for res...
-- 2019-04-13 13:14:05
The Awami League (AL) has expelled a local leader in Feni for his alleged involvement in the murder of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi. The ruling party’s Sonagazi upazila unit General Secret...
-- 2019-04-12 22:05:06
Much as domestic tourism has registered a rise in the country, arrivals of international tourists in Bangladesh keep well below even the regional average. India received 10.04 million foreign tourists...
-- 2019-04-11 22:19:33
With a couple of industrial product fairs held in the capital recently, the issue of market compliance got highlighted as integral to manufacturing products for export. Although fulfilling compliance...
-- 2019-04-10 21:31:57
Diabetes is a silent disease. In a country of 160 million people, 10 million suffer from this polygenic disease. This means one in every 16 people is diabetic. Moreover, another 0.1 million are develo...
-- 2019-04-09 22:09:45
These past few days have seen Bangladesh being the focus of a number of auspicious news items about its economy, especially about the growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).These include being the...
-- 2019-04-09 20:28:44
Mirza Faisal Amin, younger brother of BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Thakurgaon municipality mayor, has hailed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for implementing a development projec...
-- 2019-04-09 14:31:09
A Dhaka court on Tuesday deferred the date of hearing on charge-framing in Barapukuria coal mine graft case to May 2 as the prison authorities failed to produce prime accused Khaleda Zia before the co...
-- 2019-04-08 22:07:38
That the growth of wealth tax is not commensurate with the rise in the number of the super rich or the rich was subject of speculation. But now a report carried on wealth tax collected mainly from the...
-- 2019-04-07 22:03:06
Leaving work sites in a disorderly state upon completion of repair works on public thoroughfares is a common practice in Dhaka city. A similar picture is also seen in the aftermath of digging works fo...
-- 2019-04-07 17:47:33
Ruling out the possibility of releasing BNP chief Khaleda Zia's on parole, Awami League joint general secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif on Sunday said she does not fall under any category to be allowed fo...
-- 2019-04-07 12:53:05
The Appellate Division of Supreme Court has upheld a High Court order that granted BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia a six-month interim bail in a murder case filed over the death of eight people in an arso...
-- 2019-04-07 12:20:24
BNP has started a six-hour token hunger strike in the capital demanding its chairperson Khaleda Zia's release from jail and her proper treatment. The programme began at the auditorium of Institution...
-- 2019-04-06 21:16:43
The central bank's latest move to ensure digital disbursement of yields and principal amount of the national savings certificates (NSCs) has been long overdue. The facility that was basically designed...
-- 2019-04-06 18:17:17
In another dramatic move, Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Saturday reinstated his younger brother GM Quader as party chairman in his absence. He took the decision just two days after Quader was al...
-- 2019-04-06 17:34:33
The government will consider releasing BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on parole if she files an application and cites specific reasons, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said Saturday. "We haven't received...
-- 2019-04-05 21:40:17
Rescuing the state-owned sugar mills from what many think inevitable collapse has, so far, remained a matter of discussion only. Loss making sugar mills have been a burden for the government for long....
-- 2019-04-05 18:34:21
BNP senior leader Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan on Friday said their party is getting ready to wage a movement together with people to free their chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail, reports UNB. "We must free...
-- 2019-04-04 22:13:34
Farmers in Bangladesh today are better off than they were before. It is because they produce more cereals - paddy in particular - courtesy of the high-yielding variety and modern cultivation technolog...
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