BCG, Navy rescue 21 from traffickers
The Bangladesh Coast Guard and the Bangladesh Navy rescued 21 people, including women and children, conducting a joint operation in the hills of Baharchhara under Teknaf in Cox鈥檚 Bazar on Wednesday night.
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Sunamganj land office SUV kills college employee in Moulvibazar
An executive magistrate鈥檚 motor vehicle ran over and killed a college employee on Wednesday at Rajnagar upazila in Moulvibazar...
Meeting set with candidates, students on CUCSU polls
The Election Commission has decided to hold a meeting with candidates and interested students to discuss issues concerning the upcoming Chattogram University Central Student Union elections...
US firings 鈥榠mminent鈥� as plan to reopen govt collapses
Efforts to swiftly end the US government shutdown collapsed Wednesday as Democrats in Congress went home without resolving a funding stand-off with President Donald Trump and the White House threatened public sector jobs...
EU points finger at Chinese customs fraud networks
The EU鈥檚 chief public prosecutor on Thursday warned that criminal gangs, notably Chinese, were committing widespread customs and VAT fraud across the European Union...
Language hero Ahmed Rafiq dies
Language movement hero and writer Ahmed Rafiq died while undergoing treatment at a hospital in the capital Dhaka on Thursday...
Atmabiswas to get insurance services from MetLife
Atmabiswas, a non-governmental organisation, has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with MetLife to provide insurance coverage for its employees...
Markets surge on US rate hopes, tech fired by chip deal
Equities jumped Thursday after data showing job losses in the US private sector fanned optimism for more interest rate cuts and overshadowed a partial shutdown of the country鈥檚 government...
UK supermarket Tesco lifts profit outlook on competitive prices
Britain鈥檚 largest retailer Tesco on Thursday raised its 2025/2026 profit guidance as the supermarket chain won customers with competitive prices...
Promises born out of failures
A UNIVERSITY for students of the seven colleges earlier affiliated to the University of Dhaka raises its head, born out of government failures but with promises. A full sight is still forthcoming. The seven colleges, placed under the National University, founded in 1992, from the custody of the University of Dhaka, placed back under the University of Dhaka in 2017...
Vinicius, Rodrygo back in Ancelotti's Brazil squad
Real Madrid duo Vinicius Junior and Rodrygo were recalled to the Brazil squad by coach Carlo Ancelotti on Wednesday for upcoming friendlies against South Korea and Japan.
AIIB, NDB jointly lend $75m to City Bank PLC
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the New Development Bank, two global multilateral development banks, have jointly signed an agreement with City Bank PLC to provide a total of $75 million in long-term financing.
ADB, Envoy Textiles sign sustainability-linked loan facility deal
The Asian Development Bank signed a $30 million sustainability-linked loan facility agreement with Envoy Textiles Limited in Bangladesh...
Cinematographer Rashed Zaman explores visual storytelling at NSU
Cinematographer Rashed Zaman delivered a talk on the intricate relationship between architecture and film at North South University in Dhaka on Thursday...
Locals block Dhaka-Aricha Highway over water stagnation at Savar
Savar residents blocked the Dhaka-Aricha highway on Wednesday, demanding long-term solutions to water stagnation in two neighbourhoods that local people said regularly went under after rainfall...
IT education essential for students: NU VC
Vice-chancellor of the National University Professor ASM Amanullah at a workshop in Dhaka on Tuesday said that to survive in the competition for employment, science, especially IT education, was essential for students...
Ansar-VDP DG visits Uttara Temple
Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence聽 Party director general Major General Abdul Motaleb Sazzad Mahmud visited Uttara Sarbajanin Temple in the capital on Wednesday...
Five-day Durga Puja to end today with immersion of idols
The five-day Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindus community, will conclude today with the immersion of idols of goddess Durga across the country, amid due religious fervor and solemnity...
Banglar Math Team Championship 2025 held at SEU
The Banglar Math Team Championship 2025 was held at the Southeast University in Dhaka, said a press release on Wednesday...
More ingredients for life discovered in ocean on Saturn moon
The ocean hidden under the icy shell of Saturn鈥檚 moon Enceladus harbours complex organic molecules, a study said Wednesday, offering further evidence that the small world could have all the right ingredients to host extraterrestrial life...
Separate debt management office planned
The finance ministry has planned to establish a debt management office to address the challenges of institutional disintegration that has hampered the government loan management, said its officials...
Harvard to run trade schools under upcoming deal: Trump
President Donald Trump said Tuesday his administration was close to reaching a $500 million financial settlement with Harvard under which the elite academic institution would operate trade schools...
Japan insists 鈥榥o discrepancies鈥� with US on investments
Japan鈥檚 tariff envoy said Wednesday there were 鈥榥o discrepancies鈥� with the United States on the $550 billion of mooted investments by Tokyo as part of their recent trade agreement...
France鈥檚 Sanofi probed by EU over vaccines business practices
French pharmaceutical group Sanofi announced on Tuesday that it is being investigated by the EU as part of a probe into its practices in the hugely-competitive flu vaccine sector...
PBIL, ShareTrip launch digital innovation for travellers
Prime Bank Investment PLC and ShareTrip Limited have entered into a strategic partnership to bridge the worlds of investment and travel, making investing easier, smarter, and more aligned with the lifestyle goals of modern consumers...
Sheltech鈥檚 month-long fair begins
Sheltech (Pvt) Ltd has launched a month-long 鈥楽heltech Abashon Mela 2025鈥�, with special offers up to Tk聽25 lakh on apartments, commercial spaces and food courts...
Shahjalal Islami Bank holds 89th meeting of Shari鈥檃h Supervisory Committee
Shahjalal Islami Bank PLC held the 89th meeting of its Shari鈥檃h Supervisory Committee at the bank鈥檚 Corporate Head Office on September 24...
Trust Islami Life gives 5pc cash dividend
The 11th annual general meeting of Trust Islami Life Insurance Limited was held at Dhaka Boat Club under the chairmanship of the company鈥檚 chairman on a hybrid platform on Tuesday...
Genex Infosys placed in 鈥楤鈥� category
Genex Infosys Limited will be placed in 鈥楤鈥� category from existing 鈥榋鈥� category with effect from September 29 as the company has reported disbursement of 3 per cent cash dividend for the year ended June 30, 2024...
CVO gives 11pc cash, 9pc stock dividends
CVO Petrochemical Refinery board of directors has recommended 11 per cent Cash and 9 per cent Stock Dividend for the year ended June 30, 2025. The date of AGM is December 10 and the record date is October 30, said a DSE report...
