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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the government will be able to provide electricity to every house during the announced 'Mujib Year', which will be celebrated from March 2020...
The government has taken a move to set up a separate department under the labour ministry mainly to generate skilled manpower and provide them with employment, officials said. The Ministry...
The securities regulator has asked a broker of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) to pay the dues of its client within 30 days. As per the instruction, Ali Securities, a TREC...
The 29th annual general meeting (AGM) of Apex Footwear Limited was held on Tuesday at Gulshan's Lakeshore Hotel in the capital. Mr Syed Manzur Elahi, chairperson of the company, presided...
Two people were killed after a pick-up van plunged into a roadside ditch on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway at Korpai in Burichang upazila of Cumilla on early Wednesday. One of the deceased...
The countrywide tax fair is going to start from tomorrow (Thursday). In the fair, taxpayers will be able to pay their tax using the mobile financial services (MFS) for the...
The country can save millions by preventing the possible leakages in the social security schemes with proper implementation of the digitised G2P (government to person) payment system, speakers said at...
The number of foreign taxpayers has remained the same during the last three years, despite the government's efforts to trace the illegal aliens. The National Board of Revenue, or NBR,...
The government's delay in launching fresh bidding for hydrocarbon exploration is pushing Bangladesh to rely heavily on energy imports, thus putting mounting pressure on economy, industry insiders said. Petrobangla has...
"POMAC 1.0" was an annual policy making competition organised by Bangladesh University of Professionals Economics Club (BUPEC). The competition was a challenge to prove one's ability to find out the...
The rapid evolution of technology is posing a big challenge to the academic institutions to pace up with the need of ever changing market need. VLSI is one such domain...
BizMaetros 2019, the tenth edition of the flagship business contest arranged by Unilever Bangladesh Limited, just concluded with Team Nox from Bangladesh University of Professional (BUP) winning the championship. Unilever...
The authorities have released a list identifying all 16 who have died in a head-on collision between two trains in Brahmanbaria’s Kasba. The bodies had been handed to their families,...
A minister of military ruler HM Ershad's cabinet once told this author that there was a discussion in powerful quarters in the 1980s as to why Dhaka University should not...
Treating the country's pharmaceutical industry in the light of export performance alone is inappropriate given its capacity to meet huge domestic demand almost to the point of self-sufficiency. However, there...
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...
One of the common barriers in bringing more initial public offerings (IPOs) in the market is the inordinate delay in processing new issues. It is learnt that on an average...
Quality refers to a set of characteristics of a product or service that defines its ability to consistently meet or exceed customer expectation at an affordable cost -- for the...
For the first time, socialist programmes have figured prominently in election campaigns of America and Britain almost simultaneously, in recent weeks. The snap election called by British Prime Minister Boris...
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong stole the limelight at the 35th Summit of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). Both of...
The High Court has ordered a judicial investigation into the causes that the authorities to “fail’ to control the outbreak of mosquito-borne diseases dengue and chikungunya fevers. A two-member committee...
Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun on Tuesday claimed that the onion price, which had skyrocketed, is now under control. “I believe the onion market that had gone beyond control...
Roula Khalaf will replace Lionel Barber as editor of the Financial Times in January, the first woman to lead the salmon-pink newspaper in its 131-year history. Barber will step down...
The first conference of the Jahangirnagar University BCS Officers’ Forum will be held on January 31, 2020 in Dhaka, according to a media release sent by its president Monowar Ahmed,...
Chinese scientists have constructed a prototype of planar sodium-ion microcapacitors (NIMCs) with high power density, superior thermal stability and excellent mechanical flexibility. The prototype was co-developed by two research groups...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday stressed the need for making the railway staff better prepared and alert to prevent train accidents, particularly during winter. “I don’t know exactly why...
Rail services have been restored to the Dhaka-Chattogram and Chattogram-Sylhet routes eight hours after a collision between two trains in Brahmanbaria’s Kasba, reports bdnews24.com. The damaged bogeys were removed from...
Chinese and Korean netizens are calling on Japan to deal with dozens of cracks discovered in facilities containing radiation at the Fukushima nuclear plant as soon as possible. According to...
A Dhaka court on Tuesday set January 15 to hold hearing on charge framing in Barapukuria coalmine graft case against BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and others. Today (Tuesday) was...
Some 157 new dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours till Tuesday morning. Fifty-eight of them were hospitalised in Dhaka, the Directorate...
Stocks faced a mild correction on Tuesday, snapping a four-day rally, as risk-averse investors opted for quick-profit on sector specific shares. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange...
Registration of sport-utility vehicles (SUV) in hard/soft category stood at 4,703 in January to October 2019, according to official reports. Of the total, the number of SUV registration in Dhaka...
Innovation Design and Entrepreneurship Academy (iDEA) project of Bangladesh Computer Council under the ICT Division is set to achieve international recognition through ASOCIO Award in the category of ICT Education....
Chinese researchers have developed a genetically modified purple tomato rich in anthocyanins, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Anthocyanins are a group of antioxidant-boosting pigments that also provide the...
Locals in the Kashmiri village where five Indian migrant labourers were killed by gunmen last week say they are living in fear of militant groups as well as the subsequent...
The loco master of Turna Nishitha train and two other staff of Bangladesh Railway have been suspended after the fatal train crash at Mandbagh of Brahmanbaria that left 16 people...
The government has estimated crop losses from Cyclone Bulbul at Tk 2.63 billion, says Agriculture Muhammad Abdur Razzaque. “At least 72,212 tonnes of crops have been destroyed and 289,006 hectares...
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies said on Tuesday it will hand out 2 billion yuan ($286 million) in cash rewards to staff working to help it weather a US trade...
Emirates’ on Monday inaugurated its first remote check-in terminal - outside of the airport - to provide seamless connections for cruise passengers. Located at Port Rashid in Dubai, the Emirates...
Amari Dhaka is bringing the festive tastes of Thailand for Dhaka city dwellers and food enthusiasts. Authentic dishes of Thailand prepared by Thai culinary maestro and Amari’s newly appointed new...
Twelve of the 16 condemned convicts in Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder case were shifted to Cumilla central jail from Feni distirct jail on Tuesday. They were shifted to Cumilla as...
5th Non Fiction Book Fair 2019’, sponsored by First Security Islami Bank Ltd. was inaugurated at University of Dhaka on November 12. The 5th Non Fiction Book Fair 2019 is...
President Abdul Hamid left Dhaka for Kathmandu on Tuesday on a four-day visit to Nepal at the invitation of Nepalese President Bidhya Devi Bhandari. A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines...
The loco master of Dhaka-bound Turna Nishita from Chattogram was responsible for the accident in Brahmanbaria in the early hours of Monday, railways minister Nurul Islam Sujan has said. It...
Unidentified miscreants have stolen 19.38 kg gold from Benapole customs house after breaking its vault. “When the office reopened after Eid-Miladunnabi vacation, the authorities found the vault broken on Monday...
Fifty-one children and three teachers were injured after a man sprayed a corrosive chemical in a kindergarten in southwest China's Yunnan Province, local authorities said Tuesday. The incident happened in...
A Chinese and Bangladeshi joint venture has signed a deal with the Bangladeshi government to implement a mega water project in Dhaka's mega Purbachal new township under the country's Public...
Poland's prime minister has written a letter to the streaming company Netflix insisting on changes to a documentary about the Nazi death camps. Mateusz Morawiecki said a map shown in...
The bodies of nine fishermen, who went missing in a trawler capsize in the Meghna River in Charfasson upazila of Bhola on Sunday, were recovered from the Machhkata River in...
The board of directors of Bashundhara Paper Mills has recommended 15 per cent cash dividend for general shareholders (other than the sponsors-directors) for the year ended on June 30, 2019,...
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