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• Buddha Purnima today

• 18 May 2019 20:05

Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, is being celebrated across the count...

• Kim Kardashian West reveals Psalm as new baby's name

• 18 May 2019 20:05

To messages of support and puzzlement, Kim Kardashian West has, seemingly, revealed her newborn's name: Psalm...

• Latest concessions to loan defaulters draw mixed reactions

• 18 May 2019 20:05

The Bangladesh Bank's (BB) decision to offer concessions to loan defaulters and good borrowers to reduce the s...

• Red-hot Tigers beat West Indies to win maiden title in tri-nation tournament

• 18 May 2019 20:05

It was the seventh time lucky for the Tigers who had failed in their six previous tries to win a tournament.

• World Bank under fire for development plan in Rakhine

• 18 May 2019 20:05

Aid groups and human rights advocates have warned the World Bank that a $100 million development project it is...

• Export to India soars 53pc to $1.07b

• 18 May 2019 19:05

The country's overall export to India reached US$1.07 billion during July-April period of the current fiscal (...

• Minimum Fitra fixed at Tk 70

• 16 May 2019 22:05

 This year, the minimum Fitra has been fixed at Tk 70 per person.

• US blacklists China's Huawei as trade dispute clouds global outlook

• 16 May 2019 21:05

The Trump administration hit Chinese telecoms giant Huawei with severe sanctions on Wednesday, adding another...

• President reaches London for health checkup

• 16 May 2019 21:05

President M Abdul Hamid, who is on an 11-day visit to London and Germany for health checkup and treatment of e...

• Migrants take perilous voyage as employment at home scarce

• 16 May 2019 21:05

Limited employment opportunities at home are forcing Bangladeshi fortune-seekers to opt for risky migration to...

• Café attack drives up construction costs of three bridges by Tk 780m

• 16 May 2019 21:05

The militant attack on Holey Artisan Bakery in the capital back in July, 2016 has escalated costs of building...

• Cracks develop in 192km in two yrs

• 16 May 2019 21:05

The country's prime Dhaka-Chattogram highway has turned bad cracks developed in almost 192 kilometres within t...

• Shortage of skilled manpower impedes Islamic banking

• 16 May 2019 21:05

Speakers at a programme in the capital on Wednesday emphasised the need for creating a sizeable manpower capab...

• Pause in approval to new power plants likely

• 15 May 2019 20:05

The government is likely to stop giving permission to set up new power plants for now, considering that the ex...

• 'NBR, FBCCI have no objection over new VAT law'

• 15 May 2019 20:05

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) and the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FBCC...

• Food Safety Authority seeks BSTI report before moving against 52 'substandard' products

• 14 May 2019 22:05

The High Court's orders to take 52 food products off the shelves has left retailers in a quandary as the Bangl...

• Trump and Xi to meet after defiant China hits US with new tariffs

• 14 May 2019 21:05

US President Donald Trump said on Monday he would meet Chinese President Xi Jinping next month as the trade wa...

• Construction of Khulna’s Sheikh Russel Eco-Park halfway through

• 14 May 2019 21:05

More than half of the infrastructural work of ‘Sheikh Russel Eco-Park’, the largest tourism centre in Banglade...

• Bangladesh storm into tri-series final in emphatic fashion

• 14 May 2019 21:05

Mashrafe Bin Mortaza and Mustafizur Rahman paved the way of the effortless victory, sharing seven wickets betw...

• PPPA to float tenders next month for developing tourism projects

• 14 May 2019 21:05

The PPP Authority is set to start by next month searching private investors for developing its tourism sector...