A meeting of the executive committee of the National Economic Council on Sunday approved a dozen projects involving Tk聽8,149.38 crore, but sent back a proposal on a housing project for the July martyrs鈥� families for further scrutiny...
National consensus commission vice-chairman Professor Ali Riaz on Sunday said the preliminary draft of the much-cherished 鈥楯uly Charter鈥� has been prepared.
Cameron Green hit an unbeaten 55 and Josh Inglis added 51 to lift Australia to a three wicket win over the West Indies on Saturday in the fourth match of their Twenty20 International series.
Russia on Saturday said it had wrested two villages in Ukraine, including one in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, marking a fresh advance into an area largely spared seizures of land since Moscow launched its offensive in 2022...
PRAN-RFL Group selected 40 students from different universities across the country as NextGen Campus Ambassadors at a ceremony at the auditorium of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Dhaka on Saturday...
Religious affairs adviser AFM Khalid Hossain at a programme in Dhaka on Saturday said that all the waqf estates would be brought under digitisation to ensure their proper and smooth management.
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen and US President Donald Trump said Friday they would meet in Scotland this weekend in a decisive push to resolve a months-long transatlantic trade standoff...
Three years after it was declared ready for entrepreneurs, the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation Industrial Estate鈥�2 in Rajshahi鈥檚 Paba upazila is struggling to attract investment due to the high price of plots and the absence of utility services...
South Korea鈥檚 deputy prime minister will meet with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent next week, ahead of Washington鈥檚 deadline to reach a trade deal, Seoul鈥檚 presidential office said Saturday...
American Airlines shares tumbled Thursday as the carrier projected a third-quarter loss due to lingering weakness in the US leisure market...
Intel on Thursday posted quarterly revenue that topped market expectations, saying it has cut about 15 per cent of its workforce to be 鈥榤ore agile.鈥�...
A group of political leaders, emerging from a meeting with chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Saturday, said that the interim government chief assured them that a specific date and timeline for the next national election would be announced...
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq finished at fresh all-time records Friday amid optimism over US trade deals, concluding a winning week on a positive note...
Wall Street stock indices ended at fresh records Friday as US investors bet on additional trade deals following this week鈥檚 breakthrough with Japan...
To promote financial literacy and inspire youth engagement in the banking sector, Prime Bank PLC, in collaboration with the SUST Career Club, organised a seminar titled 鈥楩inancial Inclusion: Engaging and Inspiring Youth in Banking鈥� at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST)...
IFIC Bank PLC, a large bank in the country with 1,414 branches and sub-branches, held its Half-Yearly Business Conference 2025 on Saturday at the Multipurpose Hall of IFIC Tower at Purana Paltan in Dhaka...
THE continuation of extrajudicial killing and custodial death during the tenure of the interim government, which was installed after a political changeover that promised meaningful changes in governance, is worrying. Right group Odhikar in its latest report, published on July 24, says that at least 29 people were extrajudicially killed between August 9, 2024 and this June 30...
Former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque and economist professor Abul Barkat have been sharing same building as division 1 inmates of the Dhaka Central Jail at Keraniganj, on the outskirts of the capital...
Tim David bashed a 37-ball century and Australia defeated the West Indies by six wickets on Friday to clinch an overall victory in their Twenty20 international series.
Venus Williams鈥� return to tennis came to an abrupt end in the last 16 of the ATP/WTA DC Open on Thursday, with the veteran American losing to Poland鈥檚 Magdalena Frech in straight sets.
Russia鈥檚 central bank on Friday lowered interest rates to 18 per cent from 20 per cent earlier, its steepest cut since 2022 as the economy slows down faster than expected.
Donald Trump and US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell appeared together for a tense meeting Thursday as the president toured the central bank after ramping up his attacks on its management of the economy.
Small business owners used the festive backdrop of Comic-Con on Thursday to discuss a sobering topic: the negative impact that US president Donald Trump鈥檚 proposed tariffs are having on the toy industry.
SpaceX chief Elon Musk鈥檚 Starlink satellite internet service experienced an hours-long global network outage Thursday, which executives attributed to a key software issue.
A Russian rocket put an Iranian communications satellite into space on Friday, Iranian state media reported, the latest achievement for an aerospace programme that has long concerned Western governments.
Cypriot authorities said Friday they had contained a devastating wildfire that claimed two lives and destroyed scores of homes on the Mediterranean island.
The Border Security Force of India pushed at least 26 more people, including 11 children, into Bangladesh through two border points in Sherpur and Moulvibazar districts on Friday.
Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Thursday said that he would say nothing about the 鈥榥on-disclosure agreement鈥� with the United States as the negotiations were in progress over the proposed US reciprocal tariff.
Students of the Rabindra University, Bangladesh held a press conference, demanding the construction of permanent campus of the university, at Shahzadpur in Sirajganj on Thursday...
Bangladesh is awaiting a response from the United States regarding a letter it sent requesting a reduction in the recently imposed tariff on Bangladeshi products, Commerce Adviser Sk Bashir Uddin said on Thursday...