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• India's ex-Finance Minister Arun Jaitley dies at 66

• 25 August 2019 00:08

Arun Jaitley, India's former finance minister and a key member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first-term Ca...

• PM pays tributes to NAP president Muzaffar Ahmed

• 25 August 2019 00:08

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina today (Saturday) paid rich tributes to one of the political luminaries of the cou...

• Hosts in Cox's Bazar losing patience with Rohingya refugees

• 25 August 2019 00:08

Some were also hitting the makeshift shanties of the refugees at Jadimura in Teknaf.

• 18 new dengue patients admitted to Cumilla hospitals in 24 hours

• 25 August 2019 00:08

At least 18 new patients were admitted with dengue to Cumilla Medical College Hospital and other hospitals her...

• Walton teams up with Amazon to export products to America

• 24 August 2019 23:08

From now on, electronics and ICT products of Walton will be available in America.

• Farm credit disbursement falls 15 per cent in July

• 24 August 2019 22:08

Farm credit disbursement dropped by over 15 per cent in July, the first month of the current fiscal year (FY),...

• Shipbuilding policy soon to tap export potential

• 24 August 2019 22:08

The government has drafted the shipbuilding industry development policy-2019 with an eye to developing the sec...

• Kashmir protesters defy restrictions, clash with security forces

• 24 August 2019 22:08

This was the first such call by separatists seeking Kashmir's secession from India

• Cox’s Bazar Jubo League leader murder: 2 suspects killed in ‘gunfight’

• 24 August 2019 21:08

Two Rohingya youths, suspects in the murder of Jubo League Leader Omar Faruk, were killed in a ‘gunfight’ with...

• Police favour e-sealing for goods containers

• 24 August 2019 21:08

Law enforcement agencies favour application of the digital lock rules, but businesses oppose the system fearin...

• Weekly market review: Stocks ride four-week winning streak

• 24 August 2019 21:08

Stocks maintained their gaining streak for the fourth straight week that ended on Thursday, with investors sho...

• United Power lights up weekly turnover chart

• 24 August 2019 21:08

Ten most traded companies accounted for 29 per cent of transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) in the o...

• Trump heaps another 5.0 per cent tariff on Chinese goods in latest tit-for-tat escalation

• 24 August 2019 21:08

US President Donald Trump on Friday lashed back at a new round of Chinese tariffs by heaping an additional 5.0...

• Sri Lanka ends emergency rule imposed after Easter bombings

• 24 August 2019 20:08

Sri Lanka has ended four months of emergency rule imposed after Easter Sunday suicide attacks killed more than...

• Former Iraq PM warns Israel of 'strong response'

• 24 August 2019 20:08

The Latest on the situation in Iraq, after U.S. officials confirmed Israel last month bombed a weapons depot b...

• Youth stabbed dead for resisting rape bid in Chuadana; Criminal lynched

• 24 August 2019 20:08

A criminal was beaten to death by angry mob after he reportedly stabbed dead a youth who resisted  a rape atte...

• Bangladesh now counts on cattle; large-scale meat export planned

• 24 August 2019 20:08

Once highly dependent on Indian cattle for meeting the huge demand of sacrificial animals during Eid-ul-Azha,...

• Cotton import from USA: BD sticks to its decision on fumigation checks

• 22 August 2019 21:08

Bangladesh sticks to its decision to continue carrying out fumigation checks on import of cotton from the USA.

• Top 10 corporate taxpayers pay Tk 58b in FY '19

• 22 August 2019 21:08

Led by network operator GrameenPhone, taxes paid by top 10 corporate bodies grew by 18 per cent to Tk 58.43 bi...

• Govt borrows Tk 230b from banks in 35 days

• 22 August 2019 21:08

The government borrowed nearly Tk 230 billion from the country’s banking system in the first 35 days of the cu...