Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Tuesday said a business council will be formed soon with Ambassadors from European counties to Bangladesh and related chamber leaders in it. The proposed council, styled ‘European Union Business Council’, will work for the expansion...
The information ministry has ordered private television station ‘Channel 16’ off the air in Bangladesh. Reportedly owned by Insight Telecast Company Limited, the channel aired programmes from abroad through a downlink. However, government permission to air programmes ended on November...
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) and Gambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for exploring trade and investment between the two chambers. DCCI secretary AHM Rezaul Kabir and Chief Executive...
Bhola Tank-Lorry Owner-Worker Association on Tuesday went on an indefinite strike in the district protesting an attack on a lorry driver by human hauler drivers, according to a news agency.
Dhaka has urged New Delhi to give additional 100 MW of electricity to Bangladesh from Palatana Power Plant in northeastern Indian state of Tripura, according to a news agency.
India will export petroleum products to Bangladesh through its (India's) first cross-country pipeline, an Indian daily reported on Tuesday. Daily Business Standard said Assam-based Numaligarh Refineries Limited (NRL), a subsidiary of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), will shortly begin work...
Malaysia has shown interest to construction low-cost flats under housing projects at Kamrangirchar to provide flats to the poor at an affordable cost. Special Envoy of the Malaysian PM on Southeast Asian Affairs, Seri Samy Vellu, showed the interest as...
Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club have made history by beating Pune FC to lift the King’s Cup trophy, becoming the first Bangladeshi outfit to win the competition. Yasin Khan scored the winner in the final in Bhutan as Sheikh Jamal edged...
The Lebanese army detained a wife and daughter of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as they crossed from Syria nine days ago, security officials said on Tuesday. The officials declined to give the name or nationality of the woman...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has replaced his interior minister and police chief following a massacre by Islamist group al-Shabab. The president asked Kenyans to unite, and said: "We will not flinch in war against terrorists." Kenya's police chief David Kimayo...
Prof Stephen Hawking, one of Britain's pre-eminent scientists, has said that efforts to create thinking machines pose a threat to our very existence. He told the BBC:"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."...
Reckless driving has claimed another life of a private university student in the city. Sadi Morshed, 20, a BBA second year student of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), was killed as a bus crashed into his motorcycle in the city’s Merul...
The Russian government has warned the economy will fall into recession next year as Western sanctions, in response to its role in eastern Ukraine, and falling oil prices begin to bite. Russia's economic development ministry estimates the economy will contract...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines Ltd on Tuesday launched a short message service (SMS) for its passengers. From now on, passengers of the national flag carrier will be informed about all related information, including a possible change in flight schedule, through SMS...
The inflow of remittance marked 14.70 per cent rise in November with the country receiving $1168.85 million compared to $1019.03 million in October. The monthly inward remittance also registered more than 10.0 per cent rise over November 2013, according to...
About 72 per cent textbooks which will be distributed free of cost among the primary and secondary-level students have already reached the upazilas (UZs) and the rest will reach all the upazials across the country by December 25, sources of...
Chief Justice M Muzammel Hossain on Tuesday asked the heads of various tiers of the lower judiciary to take effective steps to check corruption. “I take serious note of it the information relating to corruption of any judicial officer or...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian car manufacturer "Proton" will open its plant in Bangladesh soon, creating employment opportunity for many Bangladeshis. Newly appointed chairman of Proton and former Malaysian prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, said this at a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh...
Bangladesh’s top appeals judges will begin hearing Wednesday Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed’s appeal against his death sentence for war crimes case. The case is on the top of the Appellate Division’s business agenda for the day, which...
A fire which broke out at a multi-storey building in Mitford Hospital area in the city’s Chawkbazar has been tamed. ‘Eight fire-fighting units brought the blaze under control after about three hours of hectic efforts with the help of police...
War crimes convict Delawar Hossain Sayedee has been shifted to Dhaka Central Jail from a prison ward of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BMSSU). Sayedee, Nayeb-e-Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, was taken to the Central Jail in Old Dhaka from the MSMMU...
Bangladesh were 121 for five wickets in 21.1 overs against Zimbabwe in the fifth and last ODI in Dhaka’s Mirpur on Monday evening. Zimbabwe had set Bangladesh a winning target of 129 in the afternoon at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. At...
Bangladesh defeated Zimbabwe by five wickets in the fifth and last one-day international (ODI) in Dhaka’s Mirpur on Monday evening. Zimbabwe had set Bangladesh a winning target of 129 in the afternoon at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. At one stage, Bangladesh...
A Narayanganj court on Monday sentenced three people to death and two others to life term imprisonment for killing a minor in 2011. The condemned convicts are Wasim, Sadek and Salam. They were tried in absentia. The lifers are Swapan...
The High Court (HC) on Monday rejected a petition challenging the legality of axed telecoms minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui's membership in the Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament). The bench of justices Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman passed order...
Twenty-four accused in the sensational 7-murder case were produced before a Narayanganj court on Monday. The accused, including former Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) officers Tareque Sayeed Mohammad, Arif Hossain and MM Rana, were brought to the court of Senior Judicial...
The government has taken ‘administrative actions’ against the officials and employees responsible for the missing of some 600 blank passports from the Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur, said Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque on Monday, according to a news...
At least 13 paramilitary troops were killed in an attack by Maoist rebels in central India on Monday, police said, according to a news agency.
Bhutan Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay is due in Dhaka on December 6 on a three-day official visit. Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Monday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had invited him after he expressed his willingness to visit...
A joint meeting of BNP will be held on Tuesday to discuss the country’s latest political situation and chalk our programmes to mark various historical events, including the Victory Day. The meeting will be held at BNP's Nayapaltan central office...
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