The pausing of a United States-funded air quality monitoring programme has weakened access to critical AQ data in 44 countries, including Bangladesh, according to an article by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, a Finland-based think tank...
Bangladesh鈥檚 export earnings increased by 10.63 per cent to $37.19 billion in the first nine months or July-March period of the current financial year 2024-25 compared with those of $33.61 billion in the same period of FY24, according to Export Promotion Bureau data...
Shahman Moishan, an associate professor at the department of Theatre and Performance Studies at Dhaka University, won the Study UK Alumni Awards in the Culture and Creativity category on Tuesday at British Council in Dhaka...
The Korean Export Processing Zone has finally obtained its mutation documents from the government, paving the path for increased foreign investment...
A SIMPLE trip to the grocery store feels like a budgeting nightmare for the middle class. The recent increase in value-added tax and supplementary duty on over 100 items has triggered frustration and raised questions about whether the government is balancing its books at the expense of ordinary citizens...
Shanto-Mariam University of Creative Technology and SAE University College, Australia signed a credit transfer arrangement agreement virtually on Thursday...
Northern farmers on Wednesday staged a protest by dumping tomatoes on the Rajshahi-Dhaka Highway in Natore, demanding withdrawal of the increased value added tax and duty imposed on tomato and mango pulp...
Left-leaning political leaders, student leaders and activists on Thursday demanded that the interim government cancel the recently increased value-added tax and supplementary duty on more than 100 products and services...
The veterinary faculty students of Sylhet Agricultural University staged demonstrations for the second day on Wednesday boycotting academic activities to press home their five-point demand, including enhancement of an intern鈥檚 monthly allowance to Tk 20,000 from Tk 9,000...
Students of the Sylhet Agricultural University鈥檚 veterinary faculty on Tuesday staged demonstrations after boycotting academic activities for 5-point demands, including enhancement of an intern鈥檚 monthly allowance to Tk 20,000 from Tk 9,000...
THE government鈥檚 having increased value-added tax and supplementary duty on more than a hundred products and services by way of two ordinances, promulgated on January 9, has rightly raised the call for the government to walk back the decision. The products and services that have become dearer include mobile talk time, internet usage, biscuit...
The National Board of Revenue has increased income tax on industries making motorcycle, freezer, refrigerator and air conditioner in a move to increase revenue generation from direct tax...
Diploma Instant Full Cream Milk Powder earned recognition as the top brand in the 鈥楩ull Cream Milk Powder鈥� category at the Best Brand Award 2024...
Speakers including journalists, content creators and media activists at a seminar on Saturday said that contents should be inspiring and that they aimed to entertain audiences instead of mimicking different cultural values...
Leaders of Gonoforum on Thursday called on the political parties of the country to forge national unity to foil the conspiracies of creating anarchies in Bangladesh...
Human-driven warming of ocean temperatures increased the maximum wind speeds of every Atlantic hurricane in 2024, according to a new analysis released Wednesday, highlighting how climate change is amplifying the destructive power of storms...
Unidentified miscreants murdered an auto-rickshaw driver before stealing his vehicle at Sirajdikhan upazila of Munshiganj district on Saturday...
Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission has increased the prices of Liquefied Petroleum Gas by Tk聽2.88 per kilogram and auto gas by Tk聽1.58 per litre for the month of October...
The police on Monday afternoon lobbed tear gas shells and baton-charged the protesters who blocked the interim government chief adviser Muhammad Yunus鈥檚 official residence...
Three people, including a 35-year-old woman and her nine-year-old son, were killed by miscreants at Boro Ghagutia village in Homna upazila of Cumilla Wednesday night...
The interim government has decreased the prices of diesel, kerosene, petrol and octane at the retail level with effect from September 1.
Miscreants stormed into the Sherpur district jail, allowing 500 inmates to flee...
Inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun on Wednesday said that law enforcement agencies would bring the miscreants to book wherever they were for their misdeeds...
A terrorist group or quarter with vested interest was involved in the violence and arson attacks on state-owned establishments in an attempt to topple the government, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Tuesday...
Frank Duckworth, one half of the team who pioneered the Duckworth-Lewis method for calculating target scores in limited-overs cricket hit by bad weather, has died at the age of 84...
Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Thursday proposed extending tax facilities to some sectors and withdrawing facilities from some other sectors...
AT A discussion panel with other TEDx speakers several months back, the subject of creativity came up. One of the panellists said that creativity happens when he鈥檚 bored. I turned to the man next to me, a popular actor and YouTuber, in surprise...