At an eel restaurant near Tokyo, four friends sit down to eat a Japanese delicacy now the subject of a heated international debate as its numbers decline. The eel, hugely popular across Japan, is also endangered and will be discussed at a key global forum that regulates trade of threatened wildlife, starting聽in Uzbekistan on Monday.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh successfully organised the first-ever 鈥楢ccounting Day Run 2025鈥� at Hatirjheel, Dhaka, to mark International Accounting Day with the inspiring theme 鈥楩itness Meets Accounting.鈥�...
Hammered by surging energy costs and a flood of cut-price Chinese imports, Germany鈥檚 steel industry has been mired in deep crisis for several years. Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday was set to convene talks with key industry players in Berlin in an effort to help the sector. Here are some questions and answers on the subject:..
Atlas Bangladesh Limited, a state-owned enterprise of Bangladesh Steel and Engineering Corporation under the Ministry of Industries, launched its eco-friendly electric motorcycle brand, Atlas EV, on Wednesday...
Inner Wheel Club of Dhaka Nightingale celebrated its 6th foundation day at the Cadet College Club in Dhaka recently.
Every Friday, the streets around Motijheel Ideal School transforms into a vibrant marketplace that was first initiated as weekly market by the Dhaka South City Corporation in 2007.
Metro rail services were temporarily suspended on the Motijheel-Agargaon section of the capital鈥檚 Line-6 on Wednesday night due to jerking at the Farmgate point.
Metro rail services on the Motijheel-Shahbagh section resumed at 7:00 pm on Sunday, following a suspension of about seven hours.
Bangladesh鈥檚 steel industry, one of the key drivers of the country鈥檚 infrastructure-led economic growth is shifting its focus from capacity expansion to cost efficiency and technological modernisation as domestic demand has weakened in recent years due to...
BSRM Steel board of directors has recommended 50 per cent cash dividend for the year ended June 30, 2025. The date of AGM is December 24 and the record date is November 10, according to a DSE report...
Angry people seriously beat five men in Dhaka city on Wednesday, suspecting them as associated with some 鈥榙ope gang鈥�...
Torrential rains that triggered deadly landslides and floods in India鈥檚 Darjeeling region also destroyed swathes of premier tea estates, officials said Tuesday...
The European Union will take a page out of US president Donald Trump鈥檚 tariff playbook on Tuesday with a plan to hike levies and slash quotas for imported steel 鈥� to protect the bloc鈥檚 struggling industry from cheap Chinese competition...
The prices of mild steel rods reached a 4-year low amid lower demand, driven by reduced government spending and private construction, according to manufacturers and traders...
German industrial giant Thyssenkrupp and Czech tycoon Daniel Kretinsky said Thursday they had abandoned plans for a joint steel business, paving the way for a potential takeover by India鈥檚 Jindal Steel...
A rickshaw puller was killed in a road accident in front of Red Crescent at Hatirjheel in Dhaka city early Tuesday...
Green activists on Saturday renewed their demand for cancelling the FDC鈥揚lassey section of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway that runs over Panthakunja Park and Hatirjheel.
The High Court鈥檚 order to halt the construction of the elevated expressway extension through Panthakunja Park and Hatirjheel, while directing the government not to block public access to the vital urban spaces, is welcome. The ruling follows a writ petition filed by green activists, university teachers and Bangladesh Tree Protection Movement members. It reaffirms what...
China filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization over Canadian steel import restrictions on Friday, the commerce ministry said, escalating simmering trade tensions between Beijing and Ottawa...
Local government and rural development adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan on Thursday said that he often visited restaurants at Neela Market in the 300 Feet area at Rupganj of Narayanganj late at night to eat duck meat, and if the restaurants there were found closed, he sometimes went to the Westin Hotel in the capital Dhaka...
The Election Commission has published the draft voter list for 2025 -- after carrying out an extensive update -- disclosing a total of 12,61,70,900 registered voters nationwide as of June 30.
THE Film Development Corporation, once the heartbeat of cinematic culture, now stands as a hollowed-out relic of its past. Established in 1957 and revitalised after independence in 1971, the corporation had flourished for decades as the nation鈥檚 premier film production hub. Since the early 2000s, this state-run institution has, however, suffered gradual disuse, bureaucratic...
The Rapid Pass was introduced in the Hatirjheel circular bus service on Sunday, enabling the passengers to travel on these buses using the passes.聽..
Passengers from now on will be allowed to ride in the Hatirjheel circular buses using the Rapid Passes from today...
A Dhaka court on Monday sentenced Md Shukur Ali Sheikh, 35, to 10-year imprisonment in a case lodged over the attempted rape of a six-year-old child in the city鈥檚 Hatirjheel area in 2021...
US president Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday approving a partnership between US Steel and Nippon Steel after the companies reached agreement on US national security guarantees...
Dhallywood superstar Shakib Khan recently took his fans by surprise by expressing his support for fellow actor Arifin Shuvoo鈥檚 new Eid release 鈥楴eelchakra鈥�...
IN BANGLADESH, as across much of the globe, the rapid rise of short-form video content 鈥� those tightly-edited, punchy clips accompanied by music, challenges and original skits 鈥� has come to dominate how we consume entertainment and even how we relate to one another. Platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok have popularised these formats...
A people鈥檚 court on Friday ordered an immediate suspension of all activities related to the under-construction Dhaka Elevated Expressway link road through Hatirjheel and Panthakunja Park in the capital Dhaka.
Shares of steelmaker US Steel skyrocketed as much as 24 per cent on Friday after President Donald Trump announced his support for a 鈥榩artnership鈥� with Nippon Steel...
