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A New York judge has ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2m (£1.6m) for misusing funds from his charity to finance his 2016 political campaign. The Donald J Trump Foundation...
With a target of attracting 1.5 million patients in 2020, Malaysian government launched 'Malaysia Year of Healthcare Travel 2020 or MyHT2020' in tandem with the country's tourism campaign 'Visit Malaysia...
The Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) will launch a joint index in cooperation with the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), comprising well performing companies, by the end of this year to increase...
Textiles and jute minister Golam Dastagir Gazi has said the government is considering increasing subsidies to boost export of jute goods. The entrepreneurs will also get raw materials at affordable...
Top executives of the private banks have urged the central bank to relax cash reserve ratio and statutory liquidity ratio requirements only for their offshore banking operations. Currently, the banks...
Coal import from Indonesia is expected to soar threefold to 60,000 tonnes this month as the installation of the 1,320-megawatt (MW) Payra coal-fired power plant is nearing completion. The import...
The pageant-filled atmosphere that characterised the recently held election of film artistes' assocition stood out in many ways. First, it has emerged as an episode as if it came from...
In a year when the global economy is headed south, that is, going berserk, old laments have woken up. Neo-liberalism is on the line, indeed, long poised to take the...
A working committee formed by the government few months back prepared a report titled 'Comprehensive framework on the development of bond market in Bangladesh.' Three dozens of recommendations were placed...
Bangladesh scored a meagre score of 153 for 6 wickets in the second T20i against India at Rajkot on Thursday. Earlier, after losing the toss and sent to bat, two...
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...
After keeping the people in suspense over implementation of the Road Transport Act 2018 for months, the declaration for its introduction came all on a sudden. However, the way it...
It is nothing surprising that more than 40 per cent of the country's 80 million old-age people do not receive any kind of pension benefit. In fact, relevant statistics, presented...
Some 96 Bangladeshi workers were deported from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) on Wednesday night. A Saudi Arabian Airlines flight SV804 carrying the deportees landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International...
Valiant freedom fighter and the last mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation Sadeque Hossain Khoka was laid to rest with state honour at his mother’s grave in Jurain graveyard in...
India has won the toss and sent Bangladesh to bat first in the second of the three-match Twenty20 International series in Rajkot. Both teams are unchanged for the match being...
Over 600 million children in South Asia suffer from the dire consequences of polluted and toxic air which is putting them at heath and neurological risk. UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta...
British universities are under criticism for political bias, losing prestige over more than one case of stripping honourary degrees of foreign politicians, Chinese experts said, referring to a recent withdrawal...
The housemaid accused of killing a businessman’s mother-in-law and a house help at their home in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi has made a confessional statement in court, police say. Surobhi Akter Nahida...
Two former employees of Twitter and a third man from Saudi Arabia face US charges of spying for the kingdom by digging up private user data and giving it to...
The United States has said it looks forward to continuing dialogue with both ‘focus countries and countries of concern’ to thwart transnational organised crime engaged in wildlife trafficking. The 2019...
In the first half of the 2019-20 financial year, Emirates’ net profit was $235 million, up by 282 per cent, compared to last year, according to a statement. The Emirates...
Four Points Dhaka, a luxury hotel by Sheraton, organised a fundraising-charity event of Thursday for the unprivileged children. The event was held at the Banquet hall of Four Points, according...
Car registration in the country stood at 14,291 in the first ten months of the current calendar year, according to an official data. Of the total, 12,827 cars got registration...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Thursday said the government has taken an initiative to deport around 11,000 foreigners staying in Bangladesh without valid documents. The minister came up with...
Country’s merchandise trade gap with the rest of the world declined slightly in the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal year (FY20). Updated statistics of the balance of payments...
The demolition of BGMEA Bhaban is once again mired in uncertainty after the contractor asked the authorities to revise the cost of the project. Manager Nasrullah Khan Rashed of Four...
In the last 24 hours until Thursday morning, 198 new dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country. Fifty-seven of them were hospitalised in Dhaka, the Directorate General...
People from all walks of life thronged the Central Shaheed Minar on Thursday to pay tribute to gallant freedom fighter Sadeque Hossain Khoka, the last mayor of undivided Dhaka City...
The ninth edition of the Dhaka Lit Fest (DLF) was inaugurated at Bangla Academy's Abdul Karim Shahitya Bisharad Auditorium in the capital on Thursday. Cultural Affairs Minister KM Khalid opened...
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Thursday that the country’s economy surged to 6.2 per cent in the third quarter of 2019, rose after two quarters of deceleration. PSA...
Sheikh Ashraful Haque, the former mayor of Satkhira municipality, passed away on Thursday at his Sultanpur residence in the district town at the age of 90. He breathed his last...
The government will take another week before starting implementing the new road transport act (RTA) 2018 for the sake of completing its necessary preparations and raising further awareness among the...
Coming down heavily on those demonstrators demanding the removal of the Vice Chancellor of Jahangirnagar University, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said they will have to face punishment if...
The namaz-e-janaza of former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation and BNP vice-chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka was held at the South Plaza of National Parliament on Thursday. Current and former...
The productivity of American workers in the third quarter fell for the first time in almost four years as the US economy slows, the Labor Department has reported. Nonfarm business...
A slowing domestic economy will prevent India’s rupee from recouping this year’s losses against the dollar in 2020, with optimism around an easing in the US-China trade dispute not enough...
A madrasa student, who was injured after being beaten by his teacher, died at the Madaripur Sadar hospital on Wednesday evening. The deceased was identified as Asif Matabbar, 12, a...
A suspected robber was killed and two others suffered gunshot wounds in a reported gunfight with police’s Detective Branch (DB) in Bhatara area of Dhaka city early Thursday. Mashiur Rahman,...
Bangladesh Meteorological Department has advised maritime ports maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra to keep hoisting distant warning signal number two. Cyclonic storm ‘Bulbul’ over the east-central...
Global business is changing today at such an alarming rate that professionals rarely get time to acclimatise to the new environment, new people and new operational requirements. The problems arise...
The day started with rain, but it hardly had any impact among the enthusiastic public relations (PR) and brand communications practitioners. Around two hundred new and seasoned PR professionals met...
A meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to sign a long-awaited interim trade deal could be delayed until December as discussions continue over terms and...
Economics Study Center (ESC), University of Dhaka organised the second Bangladesh Economics Summit under the theme "Inclusive growth and sustainable livelihood: In Bangladesh Perspective". The three-day event hosted multiple segments...
More than 40 per cent of the nearly eight million old-age people do not receive any pension. In contrast, only 10 per cent private sector employees receive some kind of...
Sadeque Hossain Khoka lost his battle with cancer on Monday at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. File photo The body of former mayor of undivided Dhaka...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) is facing a big challenge of setting up a multimodal transport hub in an entire area of Kamalapur Railway Station due to lack of coordination among different...
Freedom fighter and Member of Parliament Moinuddin Khan Badal passed away on Thursday morning. He was 67. The Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) leader was undergoing treatment at a hospital in...
COX'S BAZAR: A fisherman sold 81 pooa or croker fishes at Tk 4.0 million (Tk 40 lakh) in Cox's Bazar town on Wednesday. According to sources, Jamal Uddin (32), a...
The share trading on the spot market will remain closed on November 7 and 11 on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) took the decision...
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