The European Central Bank has launched its new stimulus program aimed at boosting lending to businesses and getting a slack economy moving. The uptake for the loans to banks, however, was less than expected. The central bank for the 18-country...
China's central bank so far has failed to lift the world's second-largest economy out of its doldrums, and that is in part because of businesspeople like Li Jun. Li runs a fish-farming business in eastern China's Jiangsu province. The People's...
Leading mobile phone operator Robi Axiata Limited on Thursday signed a corporate deal with Exim Bank. Robi Chief Operating Officer Mahtab Uddin Ahmed and Exim Bank Managing Director Dr Mohammed Haider Ali Miah signed the agreement of behalf of their...
The European Parliament (EP) in a resolution on Thursday urged the Bangladeshi authorities to put an end to RAB's impunity. The Members of European Parliament (MEPs) also said human rights violations by members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), an...
The SME Foundation will hold countrywide SME fairs in the current fiscal, aiming to create new small and medium entrepreneurs (SMEs) and expand the SME product market. As part of the plan, a weeklong SME fair will be held in...
Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States (US) Mohammad Ziauddin has said the US government should consider reinstating GSP for Bangladesh at the soonest possible time. The diplomat said Bangladesh is working hard to comply with the US Actions Plan over...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the country's land needs to be used and its management system should be maintained in a planned way considering Bangladesh’s geographical area and huge population. “For any kind of development initiative and making...
Shaheed Dr Fazle Rabbi Hall of Dhaka Medical College was declared closed sine die on Thursday evening following a clash between two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) that left 11 people injured. Campus sources said the followers of dormitory...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 17 (BSS): Speakers at a participatory discussion stressed the need for ensuring good governance in the local government institutions (LGIs) to make those fully functional, democratic and transparent entities. They viewed that most of the grassroots people are...
JOYPURHAT, Sept 17 (UNB): A court here on Tuesday convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his wife for dowry in 1999. The condemned convict was identified as Mokarram Hossain, son of Afzal Hossain, a resident of...
FARIDPUR, Sept 17 (BSS): A four-day tax fair, as a part of the country wide program to motivate the citizens for paying taxes has begun here this morning at a local community center. The fair was inaugurated by Faridpur Sadar...
BARGUNA, Sept 17 (BSS): A total of 36 new doctors have joined their services at six upazilas of the district recently to provide medical services to the inhabitants of the areas, Health Department sources said. Each upazila got six doctors....
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PABNA, Sept 17: The government has taken initiative to repair the ancestral house of legendary actress Suchitra Sen located at the Gopalpur area of the district headquarter. To make an estimate for repairing the house a high official technical team...
SIRAJGANJ, Sept 17 (UNB): One person was killed and 17 others were injured in a clash between two groups over lifting sand from the Jamuna river at Dorcha village in Sadar upazila on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as...
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TANGAIL, Sept 17: Milk price is high in Tangail due to its short supply in the local markets causing sufferings to the common people. The consumers said that one kg of milk was being sold at Tk 35 to Tk...
BENAPOLE, Sept 17 (UNB): A man, who sustained injuries from falling from a tree at Kayemkola village in Jhikargachha upazila on Tuesday, died at Jessore Medical College Hospital on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Abdul Wahab, 55, son...
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KHULNA, Sept 17: An acute crisis of urea fertiliser has been prevailing in nine Upazilas of Khulna district in the peak season of Aman cultivation. The district administration has issued a letter to the concerned department for allocation of one...
RANGPUR, Sept 17 (BSS): Comprehensive efforts of all and social awareness could prevent child marriage for normal growth and flourishing talent of female children to ensure their brighter future, speakers at an advocacy workshop said on Tuesday. They stressed for...
MAGURA, Sept 17 (UNB): A housewife sustained severe burn injuries in an acid attack allegedly by her husband for dowry at Chittabisrampur village in Mahammadpur upazila on Tuesday. The victim was identified as Kabita Begum,22, wife of Sumon Miah, a...
Lightning strike kills youth A young man was killed by a lightning strike at Goahari village in Bishwanath Upazila in Sylhet on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Layes Ali,22, son of late Kalamdar Ali of the same village. Witnesses...
The three-day 2nd Global Tiger Stocktaking Conference held at a hotel in the city has awfully exposed the country's inadequacy in putting in place measures for tiger conservation. Bangladesh was host to the conference but it failed even to provide...
AHMEDABAD, Sept 17 (AFP): India's new prime minister rolled out the red carpet for Xi Jinping in his home town Wednesday, as the Chinese president began a maiden visit with both sides seeking to reset the relationship between Asia's rival...
DONETSK, Sept 17 (agencies): Fierce gunbattles erupted around the Ukrainian rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Wednesday, with two civilians killed just a day after lawmakers in Kiev held out an offer of self-rule to the pro-Russian separatists. Heavy shelling has...
SCONE, Sept 17 (AFP): Few places are as important in Scottish history as Scone, where no less than 42 of the country's kings were crowned. But like the rest of Scotland, this quiet corner of rural Perthshire, north of Edinburgh,...
BAGHDAD, Sept 17 (AFP): Elite Iraqi troops backed by US jets battled jihadists just south of Baghdad Wednesday as Washington devised a strategy for expanded operations against the Islamic State group. President Barack Obama prepared to meet with US commanders...
ISLAMABAD, Sept 17 (Reuters): Hafiz Saeed, widely considered one of South Asia's most dangerous militants, has no doubt who is to blame for devastating floods that have submerged swathes of Pakistani countryside and claimed hundreds of lives. "India irrigates its...
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