Bangladesh Employers鈥� Federation convened an interactive session with representatives from the diplomatic community and representatives of principal export markets on Monday at its office in the capital.
German unemployment topped three million in August for the first time in over a decade, official data showed Friday, in another blow to Europe鈥檚 struggling top economy.
Former Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union leaders on Wednesday expressed grave concerns about the university鈥檚 decision to deploy the army during the DUCSU elections scheduled for September 9...
Denmark summoned the US charge d鈥檃ffaires Wednesday after reports of attempted interference in Greenland, a Danish autonomous territory which US president Donald Trump wants to take over...
A TEACHER from Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology recently said that his high school headmaster had stopped talking to him after his admission into a polytechnic institute in the 1980s. The headmaster started talking to him only after he was admitted into a bachelor鈥檚 engineering programme at DUET...
THE images remain vivid: Narendra Modi clasping Donald Trump鈥檚 hand before a roaring crowd of Indian Americans in Houston in 2019; the 鈥楴amaste Trump鈥� rally in Ahmedabad the following year, replete with pageantry, promises and mutual admiration. For many in New Delhi, these spectacles signalled the arrival of a new era 鈥� an India finally embraced as...
ABOUT a month ago, a military training aircraft crashed onto Milestone School in Dhaka, killing 30 people, including many children, in a fiery explosion. When I saw the news, I fell into silence. But strangely, I noticed something: I didn鈥檛 feel the same deep shock I once would have. A few years ago, such a tragedy would have devastated me 鈥� I鈥檇 have spent the day in...
A suspected robber was killed on Saturday when a cocktail exploded in his hand during an attempted robbery on engine-run trawlers on the River Meghna at Gazaria upazila of Munshiganj...
Berger Paints Bangladesh Limited has been named Asia鈥檚 Best Employer Brand 2025 by the World HRD Congress for its commitment to nurturing talent, fostering innovation, and shaping a brighter future together...
A South African court has refused environmental authorisation for offshore drilling in a venture led by French energy giant TotalEnergies near the foot of Africa, in a ruling seen by AFP Thursday...
Three Anti-Corruption Commission officials on Wednesday testified as plaintiffs against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, Rehana鈥檚 daughters Tulip Siddiq and Azmina Siddiq and son Radwan Mujib Siddiq and others in three cases over corruption in Purbachal plot scam...
Thailand鈥檚 Constitutional Court announced Wednesday that it will rule this month on a case seeking to oust prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra over her handling of a diplomatic spat with Cambodia...
Britain鈥檚 unemployment rate remained at a four-year high, official data showed Tuesday, as job vacancies shrank during a period that included a UK tax hike and US tariffs kicking in.
At least 10 people, including a boy and an adolescent, were injured on Tuesday in Dhaka city when a fire broke out from the explosion of a gas balloon during the celebration of the first anniversary of the July uprising on Manik Mia Avenue...
IN A world of escalating trade tensions and transactional diplomacy, tariffs have re-emerged as pivotal instruments for recalibrating national economies. At their core, tariffs are not merely financial levers; they are strategic tools for what one might call economic homeostasis 鈥� a term borrowed from physiology, which refers to maintaining equilibrium across key...
The interim government has checked to some extent macroeconomic headwinds it inherited from the ousted Awami League regime, but failed to infuse enough dynamism into the economy to overcome sluggish private sector investment and unemployment over...
Law adviser Asif Nazrul on Monday in the city said that Bangladesh did not have any dignity to other countries in the 15 years of the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina, who fled the country on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday filed a case against eight people, including former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque, over allegation of corruption and irregularities in allotment of a plot of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha in Purbachal New Town project...
The much awaited plot allocation program for 鈥楤SCIC Industrial Park, Sirajganj鈥� was inaugurated on Wednesday as some 72 individuals were allotted plots...
A couple sustained burn injuries in a gas cylinder blast at Gohail Bari in Ashulia of Savar, on the outskirts of the capital on Sunday night...
US president Donald Trump landed in Scotland on Friday for a five-day visit set to mix diplomacy, business and leisure, as a huge UK security operation swung into place amid planned protests near his family-owned golf resorts...
The interim government council of advisers in a meeting on Thursday formed a new pay commission for fixing pay hikes for public servants under the national pay scale.
In a stunning development that shook North American trade diplomacy, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that the United States is 鈥榯erminating ALL discussions on trade with Canada鈥� in retaliation for Ottawa鈥檚 implementation of a digital services tax, DST, targeting US tech firms. Trump, known for his aggressive trade posturing, condemned Canada鈥檚...
BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday urged the people of the country and political parties to stay alert and watch closely whether any group, with the support of a section of the interim government, was trying to create a planned situation to derail the upcoming election...
Three people died Friday in an explosion at a police training facility in Los Angeles, in what one local official called an accident...
At least one person was killed and 20 others were injured in an explosion at a filling station in Rangpur city on Saturday...
A seminar on film on Saturday highlighted exploration of content for making films for the future generation and discussed how the film industry would shape over time in the context of rapidly changing scape of audio-visual media...
Canada鈥檚 unemployment rate fell slightly to 6.9 percent in June thanks to robust hiring in the wholesale and retail sector, manufacturing and health care, the government said Friday...
Five members of a family, including two children, suffered critical burn injuries in a gas explosion at their residence in Dhaka鈥檚 Sutrapur area early Friday.
