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• Insurers call for raising cash transaction limit

• 04 September 2019 22:09

Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (IDRA) in its circular issued sometime in July stated that cash...

• 5.0pc AIT goes on import of edibles

• 04 September 2019 21:09

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has withdrawn a 5.0-per cent advance income tax (AIT) on the import of edi...

• Beauty parlour business growing fast sans regulation, monitoring

• 04 September 2019 21:09

As the services have become popular, many new entrepreneurs are entering the businesses without enough skills....

• BTRC to prepare guideline for 5G network by January

• 04 September 2019 21:09

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has decided to formulate a guideline for 5G (fifth g...

• NPL buildup, high cost of fund remain major potential risks: Study

• 04 September 2019 21:09

The Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) disseminated findings of the study - 'Competition, Concentr...

• Future lies in building tech, knowledge-based society: BIDA EC

• 04 September 2019 21:09

Mr Islam was talking to the media at his office in the capital on Tuesday, the last day of his tenure in the g...

• Myanmar forces Rohingya to accept cards that preclude citizenship, rights group says

• 04 September 2019 21:09

Myanmar authorities are forcing members of the Rohingya Muslim minority at gunpoint to accept identity cards t...

• ‘3 more die of dengue’; new infection rate falls slightly

• 04 September 2019 21:09

In Jashore, an elderly man died of dengue at a private hospital in the morning. Shajahan Ali, 70, was a reside...

• HC sends back bail petition of ACC official

• 04 September 2019 21:09

The bench of Justice Farid Ahmed and Justice ASM Abdul Mobin sent back the petition after a hearing. 

• Bangladesh, Maldives discuss cooperation on maritime issues

• 04 September 2019 21:09

The need for exchanging of intelligence for combating terrorism was also discussed, said the Ministry of Forei...

• Schoolboy ‘kills himself’ in Khulna

• 04 September 2019 21:09

A schoolboy reportedly took his own life by hanging himself at his house in Tajpur village of Phultala upazila...

• Woman killed in Satkhira road crash

• 04 September 2019 21:09

The deceased, Fatima Khatun, 30, was the wife of Dr Azizur Rahman of the upazila.

• The curious case of three bridges in Kurigram

• 04 September 2019 20:09

Locals alleged that the bridges constructed as part of rural infrastructure development do not benefit them as...

• Ecnec clears project to set up axle loads on highways

• 04 September 2019 02:09

The approval came at the Ecnec weekly meeting held at the NEC conference room with Ecnec Chairperson and Prime...

• Pakistan won't start war or use nukes first against India, says Imran

• 04 September 2019 00:09

We both are nuclear-armed countries. If these tensions increase, the world could be in danger," Khan said whil...

• Banashua railway bridge in Cumilla looks to be a death trap

• 04 September 2019 00:09

Four people were crushed to death by trains on Banashua Bridge in Sadar upazila in a span of four days from Au...

• Remittances top $3.0b in August

• 03 September 2019 23:09

Money sent home by expatriate Bangladeshis amounted to over US$3.0 billion in the two months to August, booste...

• JERA to acquire 49pc of Reliance’s power project in Bangladesh

• 03 September 2019 23:09

Japan’s JERA has agreed to acquire stakes in a power project in Bangladesh now under development by Reliance P...

• British PM faces Brexit rebellion, threatens election

• 03 September 2019 23:09

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces a rebellion by his own lawmakers on Tuesday over his Brexit strateg...

• Number of dengue patients become half by one month

• 03 September 2019 23:09

The number of patients being infected with the deadly virus ‘dengue’ is falling down gradually and the figure...