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• Global stocks rise to record week amid Gulf tension

• 22 June 2019 21:06

Global stocks rose to near seven-week highs on Friday following a run spurred by optimism over monetary polic...

• Area-based education ‘becomes imperative in Dhaka, other cities’

• 22 June 2019 21:06

Working parents in Dhaka city typically start their day in a rush of activity enough to send anyone’s blood pr...

• Vitamin A plus campaign underway

• 22 June 2019 21:06

The national Vitamin A plus campaign is underway across the country on Saturday , aiming to feed Vitamin A-plu...

• South Asian countries can take huge advantage from BRI, says Nepali foreign minister

• 22 June 2019 21:06

Nepal's Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali on Thursday said that South Asian countries can tak...

• Look out, Buzz. There’s another good toy movie out

• 22 June 2019 21:06

There are two movies opening this weekend that feature iconic anthropomorphic dolls. Be very careful which one...

• Xi's DPRK visit writes new chapter of friendship, promotes peninsula stability

• 22 June 2019 21:06

Chinese President Xi Jinping's two-day state visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is a ma...

• Container congestion worsens at Ctg port

• 22 June 2019 21:06

A record number of import containers has remained stockpiled at the Chittagong Port meant for Dhaka Inland Con...

• Star Wars director JJ Abrams writing a Spiderman comic with his son

• 22 June 2019 21:06

After a four-day countdown, Marvel's mystery Spider-Man project has been revealed.

• New VAT law to help fetch an addl Tk 365b

• 22 June 2019 20:06

The government projects an additional tax revenue of Tk 365.22 billion in the next fiscal year (FY), following...

• Side of the moon you can’t see ‘is not dark, it’s just far’

• 22 June 2019 20:06

Despite the name of Pink Floyd’s best-selling album, the side of the moon you can’t see isn’t always dark. But...

• Two brothers die in ‘gunfight’ with RAB

• 22 June 2019 20:06

Two brothers were killed in an alleged gunfight with the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Saran union in Banshk...

• Judiciary fully independent: Law Minister

• 22 June 2019 20:06

Law Minister Anisul Huq on Friday said that the country’s judiciary has been fully independent during the tenu...

• Spl banks, FIs pay scant attention to written-off loans

• 22 June 2019 20:06

The state-owned specialised banks and financial institutions (FIs) are making little effort to recover their w...

• Trump says he aborted retaliatory strike to spare Iranian lives

• 22 June 2019 20:06

US President Donald Trump said on Friday he aborted a military strike on Iran because it could have killed 150...

• ePassport distribution likely to start from July

• 22 June 2019 20:06

The Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP) is ready to begin distribution of digital passports, also kn...

• Cumilla Railway Station going through numerous problems

• 22 June 2019 20:06

Cumilla Railway Station, one of the most important and busiest stations in the country, is operating its activ...

• Bangladesh, China plan to boost bilateral ties

• 22 June 2019 20:06

Bangladesh and China plan to take their ‘strategic partnership’ to a new height when Prime Minister Sheikh Has...

• Financial Blackholes

• 22 June 2019 20:06

The Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) incurred the highest loss of Tk 10,271.58 crore among 49 state-o...

• Sri Lanka upsets England at Cricket World Cup

• 22 June 2019 20:06

Top-ranked England lost for the second time when Sri Lanka secured a stunning 20-run victory at Headingley.

• Bangladesh achieves fastest growth among 45 Asia-Pacific countries

• 20 June 2019 23:06

Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said that Bangladesh achieved the fastest growth in the Asia-Pacific economie...