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A mechanism is underway to ease the mounting debt burden on the country's cold storage owners, officials and industry insiders said. According to the Bangladesh Bank, 108 cold storages are...
Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL) has opened its fourth agent banking outlet at Maijdee, Noakhali. M Khorshed Anowar, head of Retail & SME Banking of EBL, formally inaugurated the outlet at...
At least 30 people including three policemen sustained injuries during a clash between two factions of Awami League at Aditmari upazila headquarters in Lalmonirhat on Sunday centering the nomination of...
India has redesigned a navigation lock at Farakka Barrage over the Ganges to ensure smooth and safe migration of the hilsa fish during the three-month spawning season. It will ensure...
The ruling Awami League has announced the names of chairman candidates for the second phase of upazila parishad elections in 122 of the 129 upazilas scheduled to be held on...
Dhaka School of Economics’ (DScE) Entrepreneurial Economists Club arranged a round table conference on ‘Internationalization of Entrepreneurship for Employment’. Dr Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, Chairman, Governing Council, DScE was the chief...
The Duke of Edinburgh is to voluntarily give up his driving licence, Buckingham Palace has said. It comes after the 97-year-old duke apologised over a car crash near the Sandringham...
British prime minister is to urge MPs to give her more time to secure changes to her Brexit deal. Theresa May is expected to pledge in the Commons this week...
A new film about a father-daughter relationship in a world without women was shaped by Casey Affleck’s own struggles with becoming a single parent, the Oscar-winning actor said at the...
Three college students have died as a bus rammed a motorcycle on which they were riding at Etahata area in Gazipur city on Sunday morning. The deceased have been identified...
Country’s digital service provider Robi has recently signed a corporate agreement with TMSS (Thengamara Mohila Sabuj Sangha). Under the agreement, TMSS will enjoy Robi’s post-paid connections, different types of IoT...
Russia plans the country's first manned mission to the moon in 2031, RIA Novosti news agency reported Saturday, citing a document by the Russian Central Research Institute of Machine Building....
Real Madrid barged their way back into the Spanish La Liga title race with a 3-1 victory over Atletico Madrid in a feisty derby at the Wanda Metropolitano on Saturday....
Measles cases in Europe tripled between 2017 and 2018 to 82,596 - the highest number recorded this decade, data from the World Health Organization shows. While vaccination rates are improving,...
The Election Commission on Sunday allocated symbols among the candidates vying for the posts of mayor for the by-polls to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). Atiqul Islam of Awami League...
District and Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP) arrested 75 people in separate drives in Khulna conducted from Saturday morning to Sunday morning. Md Anisur Rahman, additional superintendent of district police, said...
Eastern University welcomed its new undergraduate students of Spring 2019 Semester through an orientation ceremony on Saturday at the university’s permanent campus premises at Ashulia Model Town in Savar. Minister...
Three people were killed and 11 others wounded in a fire that broke out early Saturday in an apartment in Longueuil, Quebec Province, Canada, according to CTV. The fire broke...
Bobby Hajjaj pulled himself out of the race for the next mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). The Nationalist Democratic Movement chairman withdrew his candidacy in the mayoral by-polls...
A Tunisian court jailed seven people for life on Saturday for their involvement in two deadly militant attacks in 2015, one on a museum in Tunis and the other on...
Prominent poet Al Mahmud is currently undergoing treatment at the Ibn Sina Hospital in Dhaka city's Dhanmondi area after he fell sick on Saturday night. Al Mahmud has been kept...
A speech-impaired girl was reportedly raped by the driver of Shyamnagar Upazila Nirbahi Officer in the government quarter premises in upazila headquarters of Satkhira on Saturday. Police arrested driver Abdul...
A young man was stabbed to death by his rivals in Jashore district town's Jorapukur area on Saturday evening. Police identified the victim as Mamun, 25, son of Abdur Rauf...
Saraswati Puja, worshiping the goddess of knowledge, wisdom and culture and one of the main religious festivals of the Hindu community, is being celebrated across the country on Sunday amid...
The Awami League has named two more candidates for seats reserved for women in parliament. Pabna’s Nadia Yasmin and Natore’s Ratna Ahmed are the ruling party’s latest nominees. The decision...
Turkey has called on China to close its detention camps following the reported death of a renowned musician from the ethnic Uighur minority. Abdurehim Heyit is thought to have been...
Premier Bank Ltd., a leading third generation private sector bank, looks to expand its credit portfolio in the Cottage, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (CMSMEs) sector to 50 per cent...
The respondents of a survey have expressed mixed views on the capital market performance in 2018. A significant number of respondents feel that the securities regulator has capacity constraint as...
Various health benefits are being offset by global shifts to unhealthy diets that are high in calories and heavily-processed and animal source foods, according to a recent report released by...
US Senator Elizabeth Warren, struggling to move past criticism over her claims of Native American heritage, aimed for a fresh start on Saturday with the formal launch of her 2020...
The Dhaka-Sylhet four-lane project has once again been left hanging in the balance over the complexity of arrangement of funds for constructing the country's important highway that will serve as...
Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA is telling customers of its joint ventures to deposit oil sales proceeds in an account recently opened at Russia’s Gazprombank AO, according to sources and...
The government is going to install a 400-koilovolt (KV) high-voltage power transmission line in the country's northern region in order to import electricity from India, Nepal and Bhutan, officials said...
Despite having the lion's share of the domestic market, local pharmaceutical industry lags behind reproducing products, a leading industrialist has warned. "While India is quite ahead in terms of reverse...
The city of Dhaka these days is used to seeing foreigners moving about in the areas hosting cultural events. The foreigners are also participants. This scenario has been recurring in...
Each and every bank of the country is expected to come under a kind of special auditing system. Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has recently announced the decision of the...
Few realised even one-and-half decades back that the waste generated by electronic goods was set to emerge as a potent threat to public health. But in 2019, it has assumed...
Some 218 new books were introduced at Amar Ekushey Grantha Mela on Saturday. A total of 263 books were released the day before, said a Bangla Academy press release. Like...
GOPALGANJ, Feb 09: Farmers of Gopalpur union under Tungipara upazila in the district are getting good benefit from "Lora Broccoli" cultivation in the recent years. According to Tungipara Upazila Agriculture...
RANGPUR, Feb 09: Despite various steps taken by the authority concerned to increase fish production in Rangpur district, scarcity of fish has been prevailing across the region in recent years.According...
New Zealand opener Martin Guptill is set to return from a back injury for the upcoming one-day international series against Bangladesh, selectors said on Saturday.Colin Munro has been dropped from...
Green activists on Saturday said around 90 per cent dwellers in Dhaka city are affected by serious dust pollution and urged the authorities concerned to take effective steps to check...
Bangladesh has met all the three criteria for graduating from the Least Developed Country (LDC) status and if everything goes right, will finally be graduated in 2024. After graduation, the...
The United States and China wrapped up a new round of high-level trade negotiations on January 31 in Washington DC overshadowed by rising tensions in other fronts. On the eve...
In the age of social media, big data and artificial intelligence (AI) which continue to evolve at a rapid pace, businesses are embracing these technologies to move towards a model...
As life members of an association of the aged, it has become a specific responsibility for people like us to relate the present with the past and look to the...
The 24th Dhaka International Trade Fair has drawn about Tk 2.0 billion in export orders this year. Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi revealed the information at the closing ceremony of the...
The party that nominated a Thai princess to run for prime minister has said it will comply with the king's wishes after he opposed the move. Thai Raksa Chart is...
Awami League (AL) said the posts of vice-chairman in the first phase of the Upazila Parishad (UP) elections in 87 upazilas will be open for all. The party announced it...
Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said BNP is getting weaker day by day due to banking on negative politics. “Strong opposition...
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