Stocks maintained sluggish trading activities on the both bourses-Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE)-due to selling pressure on Sunday, first day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), lost 61.42 points or…
BNP leaders Asaduzzaman Ripon and Tabith Awal and three others have picked up application forms for the BNP nomination in the upcoming race for Dhaka North City Corporation mayor. The BNP began selling the forms at its offices in Naya…
BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed on Friday said there is no alternative to staging a mass upsurge to force the government to hold the next general election under a non-party neutral administration. “This government doesn’t believe in a peaceful negotiation…
Bangladesh and Myanmar are likely to finalise an agreement on the ‘physical arrangement’ on Monday to start the repatriation of Rohingyas from Bangladesh to Myanmar. A 14-member Bangladesh delegation, led by Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque, will leave here for…
Making it clear that the next general election will be held as per the Constitution, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday expressed her high optimism that all the parties registered with the Election Commission will take part in the polls…
Japanese’s foreign minister on Friday urged Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to guarantee the safe and voluntary return of Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in troubled Rakhine state. While Foreign Minister Taro Kono is visiting Myanmar, the…
India launched a rocket carrying dozens of satellites from India and six other countries Friday from its island space center. A. S. Kiran Kumar, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, said the satellites successfully reached orbit after the polar…
With a track record of six underground nuclear tests between 2006 and 2017, North Korea is desperately yearning to be recognized as the world’s ninth nuclear power – trailing behind the US, UK, France, China, Russia, India, Pakistan and Israel.…
President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they discussed protecting immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to several people briefed on the meeting. “Why are…
Addressing the changes and the fracture in the relationship between the citizen and society has been a matter of great importance for me throughout my Presidency. It is a relationship that was fraying long before the onset of the Global…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged all concerned to create awareness among the people about the projects and programmes under taken by the government for their welfare and also encourage them to participate in the implementation process. “Participation and cooperation…
Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (BAPEX) has undertaken initiative to develop 108 wells for increasing supply of natural gas aimed at ensuring energy security and its production. “Of the wells, the BAPEX would search 53 wells, dig 35…
Accusing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of making ‘false’ comments in parliament about its chairperson’s assets abroad to mislead people, BNP on Thursday said such an act is ‘tantamount to treason’. “There’s no existence of the assets the Prime Minister talked…
Some 58 percent of news consumers have their doubts on reliability of news dished out to them every day while 24 percent put their trust on the news carried by media in Bangladesh partially and another 14 percent completely. A…
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Thursday said top scholar of Indian Tabligh Jamaat Maulana Saad Kandhalvi will not join the 53rd Biswa Ijtema, beginning on Friday. He disclosed the decision while talking to reporters after a meeting with the Sura…
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu told Parliament that 2,018 online newspapers from across the country have so far applied seeking registration with the Press Information Department. The minister came up with the statistics while replying to an unstarred question from…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s lawyer on Thursday said that Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has failed to prove any allegations of graft against his client while placing the defence argument in Zia orphanage graft case. Khaleda’s lawyer Zamir Uddin Sarkar concluded his…
There seems to be no end in sight for the Bitcoin bubble. This comes close to the great bubble developments that we have known in history, including the tulip bulb bubble in sixteenth century Holland, the South Sea bubble in…
Traffic resumed on Dhaka Airport Road as a faction of Tabligh Jamaat followers withdrew their barricade after four-and-a-half-hour demonstration in protest against the arrival of a top leader of the organisation from India. A good number of Tabligh Jamaat men…
The World Bank (WB) in a report today upgraded its forecast for the Bangladesh economy, attributing the progress to the supportive fiscal policy, stable political situation and effective development initiatives. The WB in its Global Economic Prospects, released in Washington,…
Nope, that’s not just really white sand. Residents of Ain Sefra, an Algerian town on the northwest edge of the Sahara desert, witnessed a stunning sight on Sunday: snow blanketing the sandy hills of one of Earth’s most arid regions.…
The historic Homecoming Day of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was observed on Wednesday. On January 10 in 1972, Bangabandhu returned to independent and sovereign Bangladesh after over nine and half months of captivity in a Pakistan…
A storm that slammed a California coastal community is over. The search for its victims is not. Authorities in Santa Barbara County were still trying to reach new areas and dig into the destruction to find dead, injured or trapped…
French actress Catherine Deneuve has said that men should be “free to hit on” women. She is one of 100 French women who wrote an open letter, warning about a new “puritanism” sparked by recent sexual harassment scandals. It deplores…
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake has struck in the Caribbean Sea north of Honduras.There are no early reports of damage on land, but the U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center warns of tsunami dangers in Puerto Rico, Jamaica, other islands and the…
Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was not a rebel, but was made into one. Sharif came up with the remark while talking to a group of lawyers gathered at Punjab House, Islamabad on Tuesday,…
The historic Homecoming Day of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be observed on Wednesday. On January 10 in 1972, Bangabandhu returned to independent and sovereign Bangladesh after over nine and half months of captivity in a…
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Md. Assaduzzaman Mia on Tuesday said that there are imbalances and inconsistencies in the organogram of police force. “As a result, overall supervision including maintaining domestic discipline, law and order and intensive supervision is being hampered,…
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Additional Commissioner, Mizanur Rahman, was withdrawn from the DMP headquarters and attached to Police headquarters on Tuesday over allegation of his forcefully marrying a woman and torturing her. Assistant Inspector General (media) of police Soheli Ferdaus…
Hours after the announcement of its schedule, BNP on Tuesday demanded the deployment of army a week before the by-polls to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) meyoral post. Talking to reporters, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir also said…