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Yunus seeks robust KSA investment

Chief adviser Muhammad Yunus on Monday urged the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to invest more in Bangladesh as he sought enhanced energy and economic cooperation to boost ties between the two friendly nations...

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Six dead as truck rams into auto-rickshaw

At least six people, including two women, were killed in a head-on collision between a cement-laden truck and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Shibpur in Narsingdi on Saturday.

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National Crime Agency, UK, delegation meets CTTC chief

A delegation of the national law enforcement agency of the United Kingdom, National Crime Agency on Wednesday paid a courtesy call on Bangladesh’s Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime chief Md Masud Karim at his office in Dhaka...

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British actress Maggie Smith dies at 89

Britain’s Maggie Smith, the double Oscar-winner who shone on stage and screen for more than seven decades, has died in a hospital in London, her sons announced Friday, prompting a flood of tributes...

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Data tweak plagues BBS credibility

In July 2017, then planning minister Mustafa Kamal introduced the quarterly release of inflation data replacing the traditional and the best international practice of monthly update.

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Remittance from KSA halves in 3 years: BB

Remittance inflow from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has halved in three years despite the country being largest overseas labour market for Bangladeshi workers...

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Govt seeks UK assistance to investigate overseas assets of Hasina, allies

The interim government of Bangladesh has sought assistance from the United Kingdom to investigate the overseas wealth of allies of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, as the new administration intensifies its crackdown on members of her ousted regime, according to a report by The Financial Times on Wednesday...

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ACC seeks info on 38 officials of 10 Bangladesh embassies

The Anti-Corruption Commission has sent a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs seeking information about 38 officials and employees of Bangladesh embassies in 10 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, over allegations of abuse of power and embezzlement of public money...

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Narsingdi clash leaves 6 killed, 50 injured

Six people were killed and at least 50 others injured by being shot or stabbed as two local rival groups clashed over establishing supremacy at Charanchal Srinagar of Narsingdi’s Raipur upazila.

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NBR chairman for boosting tax-to-GDP ratio

National Board of Revenue chairman Md Abdur Rahman Khan on Sunday underscored the importance of increasing Bangladesh’s tax-to-GDP ratio, which he described as critically low compared to neighbouring countries....

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UK minister Tulip facing question over living in £2m house

Tulip Siddiq, a senior Labour minister of the United Kingdom and niece of Bangladesh’s deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, was facing urgent questions Saturday night after it emerged that she is living in a £2 million house owned by a close political ally of her aunt, London-based the Daily Mail reported on Sunday...

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Anti-racism protesters rally across United Kingdom

Thousands of anti-racism demonstrators rallied across the UK on Saturday to protest recent rioting blamed on the far-right in the wake of the Southport knife attack that killed three children.

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