Stocks closed marginally higher Monday, the first session of April, as optimistic investors showed their buying appetite on sector-wise shares. Market analysts said some investors were active in the market...
Pope Francis said that political leaders who want walls and other barriers to keep migrants out “will end up becoming prisoners of the walls they build”. The pope made his...
In a major boost to power sector, the country is going to have 13,266 megawatts power more between 2020 and 2026 as setting up of some 53 power stations is...
Union Bank Limited celebrated its 7th founding anniversary on Monday. A celebrating program was held in its Head Office at Gulshan in Dhaka. Omar Farooque, Managing Director of Union Bank,...
New Zealand Cricket have cancelled their under-19 team’s scheduled tour of Bangladesh in the wake of last month’s mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch. The decision had been reached...
Liverpool secured a last-gasp 2-1 win over Tottenham Hotspur thanks to an own goal by visiting defender Toby Alderweireld to maintain their lead at the top of the Premier League....
A Bangladeshi-born British professor has been awarded Britain's highest neurosurgery honour. Tipu Aziz, from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS), was awarded the Medal of the Society of British...
Japan’s Nikkei rose on Monday, the first day of the new fiscal year, on US-Sino trade talk hopes and as brisk Chinese manufacturing surveys lifted China-related stocks, which offset weak...
Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) approved the appointment of Mr. S. M. Abu Tayyab as Independent Director of Chittagong Stock Exchange Ltd. Mr.Tayyab is Managing Director of Independent Apparels...
The Appellate Division has upheld the High Court order that granted bail to former Awami League (AL) MP from Tangail-3 (Ghatail) Amanur Rahman Khan Rana in a case filed over...
The 22ndAnnual General Meeting of LankaBangla Finance Limited was held recently at MIDAS Center. Chairman of the company Mr. Mohammad A. Moyeen, presided over the meeting and welcomed the shareholders...
Los Angeles rapper Nipsey Hussle has been shot dead outside his clothing shop, US media report. The 33-year-old was shot a number of times, and was pronounced dead on arrival...
The 37th Annual General Meeting and 15th Extra-Ordinary General Meeting of IPDC Finance Limited was held on Sunday at Gulshan in Dhaka. The AGM approved 8.0 per cent stock and...
China will be able to build six to eight nuclear reactors a year once the approval process gets back to normal in the near future, the chairman of the state-owned...
The board of directors of Premier Bank Limited has recommended 15.50 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2018. The final approval of dividend will come...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been taken to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) for her treatment. A black jeep carrying Khaleda reached the hospital at 12:35 pm on Monday....
At least 20 people were killed and eight injured when the double-decker bus they were traveling in caught on fire in the Peruvian capital Lima on Sunday, a spokesman for...
A Vietnamese woman accused of killing Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korea's leader, has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of causing hurt by potentially deadly means. A Malaysian...
Asian shares surged Monday after the release over the weekend of encouraging manufacturing data in China that suggest government stimulus efforts may be yielding results. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index added...
At least eight people were killed as a storm coupled with thundershowers lashed Dhaka, uprooting trees, sinking two boats, blowing away bricks from buildings, and causing a wall to collapse...
Roger Federer defeated a hobbling John Isner 6-1 6-4 for his 101th career title at the Miami Open on Sunday. Holder Isner struggled to continue late in the second set,...
At least four Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces in Lassipora area of Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. Three Army personnel and...
The board of directors of Marico Bangladesh Limited has recommended 200 per cent (Third) interim cash dividend on the basis of audited financial statements for 11 months period for the...
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed upward trend in early trading on Monday, the first day of April, as investors are showing their buying appetite...
Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan suffered a severe setback as his ruling AK Party lost control of the capital Ankara for the first time in a local election and he appeared to...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang called on New Zealand on Monday to ensure a fair investment environment, as he meet Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern whose country has rejected a bid by...
The Bangladesh and Indian customs intelligence began the first-ever Director General (DG)-level talks in Dhaka on Sunday, focusing on building an institutional framework to check illegal trade, exchange more information...
A total of 418 children were killed across the country in 2018 which is 23.30 per cent higher than the figure in the previous year. During the period, 571 children...
South Bangla Agriculture and Commerce (SBAC) Bank, a fourth generation private commercial bank, has taken initiative to go public under the fixed price method. As part of offloading shares, the...
Two young men died as a trawler capsized in Buriganga river near Keraniganj on Sunday night. The deceased were identified as Sabbir Hossain, 18, son of Shahidul Islam and Tuhin,...
Share price of state-run Eastern Lubricants was soaring despite having no price sensitive information (PSI). Despite the country's capital market passing a bearish trend throughout the month amid low trading...
Most ten-traded firms grabbed more than 36 per cent transaction on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) Sunday while United Power dominated the chart for the second day in a raw....
The 31st Annual General Meeting of Reliance Insurance Limited was held on Sunday at the Hotel Lake Shore, Gulshan-2, Dhaka. Mr. Shamsur Rahman, Chairman of the Board of Directors, presided...
The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations of 2019 began on Monday with participation of 13, 51,505 examinees from 9,081 educational institutions across the country. The 1st day's...
Over two dozen people were killed in a severe thunderstorm that swept through parts of southern Nepal late on Sunday and hundreds more were injured, police and officials said. Nepal’s...
The government has initiated a move to bring about necessary changes in the existing labour rules aiming to make them time-befitting in line with the amended labour law, officials said....
At least six people have been killed as a nor'wester, locally known as Kalbaishakhi, lashed Dhaka, uprooting trees, sinking a boat, blowing away bricks from buildings, and causing a wall...
Around the dawn of the 21st century, the world is gradually getting used to a new set of tech terminologies, starting from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones), big data,...
Income tax accounts for 27 per cent of the total revenue of the country. In the budget speech of FY18, the Finance Minister contemplated on raising this share to 50...
The Orwellian dystopia is being staged in the capital of Bangladesh with ruthless intensity and much too often. Human beings have been reduced to mere numbers and turned lives as...
Nothing appears to be working as far as buoying up the country's stock market, a vital economic indicator, is concerned. Since its collapse in December 2010, if not others, the...
Finding the total number of the country's rivers now at around 400 in place of the previous over 700 carries elements of a puzzle. Apart from mainstream flows, these rivers...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said Sunday the essential commodities will be exempted from value added tax (VAT) when the new relevant law comes into effect in July. He said...
Budget 2019/20 will be the first budget of the new government; and for the Finance Minister as well. As such, the budget is likely to attract a wide attention from...
Other countries take particular interest in a country when it moves up the economic ladder with its evolving dynamics. They monitor the different facets of development and try to understand...
In a contentious foreign policy move and violating UN mandates, US President Donald Trump formally recognised Israel's sovereignty over the illegally occupied Golan Heights on March 25, 2019. Trump's action...
Turkish citizens voted on Sunday in local elections which President Tayyip Erdogan has described as a matter of survival for Turkey and which were tarnished by violence that left two...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday that he welcomed efforts towards a peaceful and democratic transition in Algeria, where weeks of protests have pushed for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to...
China’s State Council said on Sunday that the country would continue to suspend additional tariffs on US vehicles and auto parts after April 1, in a goodwill gesture following a...
A storm in the capital left two persons dead on Sunday evening as gusty winds felled trees, uprooted utility poles and blown away billboards. A tea seller died after being...
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