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Edible oil prices hiked defying Bangladesh government’s decision

Refiners raised edible oil prices last week defying the government decision as branded soybean oil price hit Tk163-168 a litre...

All exports from Bangladesh to pass through port scanning

All exports from Bangladesh will now pass through port scanning in compliance with international shipment security standards and so the...

UNICEF urges governments worldwide to keep schools open

UNICEF has urged governments across the globe to keep schools open averting a learning catastrophe and putting children back on...

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101 university students committed suicide in 2021, says report

At least 101 university students committed suicide in 2021 showing a growing number of suicidal...

Goldman Sachs raises CEO Solomon's pay to $35m

Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Officer David Solomon's total compensation for 2021 will be $35 million,...

Ilias Kanchan elected new president of film artistes' body

Veteran actor Ilias Kanchan has been elected as the new president of the Bangladesh Film...

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Bangladesh

Japanese Economic Zone to go into production next year

Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Ito Naoki has said factories in Araihazar Economic zone, dedicated for Japanese entrepreneurs, will start production in 2023. Ito Naoki shared...

16km road building at Safari Park sees 300pc cost overrun

Four years have elapsed, but forest department...

Global

Argentina strikes breakthrough deal with IMF in $45b debt talks

Argentina has struck an agreement in principle with the International Monetary Fund over a new $44.5 billion standby deal, both sides said on Friday, a...

High inflation to haunt global economy this year: Reuters poll

Persistently high inflation will haunt the world...

Pakistan passes law for central bank autonomy

Pakistan's upper house of parliament put the...

ভয়ডরহীন ক্রিকেটের প্রত্যয়ে ভারতের সামনে বাংলাদেশের যুবারা

মনের অলিন্দে ভয়ের চোরাস্রোত বয়ে যেতে পারে বটে। এই ভারতের কাছে সবশেষ দেখায় হেরেছে বাংলাদেশ। এবার বিশ্বকাপে ভারতীয় দলে কোভিডের হানার পরও তারা ছুটছে অপ্রতিরোধ্য...

শিল্পী সমিতি: সভাপতি ইলিয়াস কাঞ্চন, জায়েদ খানের হ্যাটট্রিক

মাঘের শীতে কাবু বিস্তীর্ণ জনপদ

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কোভিড টিকা কেনার ঋণ বাড়াল বিদেশি অর্থছাড়

চিকিৎসার টাকা সিইসি নূরুল হুদা নিজেও নিয়েছেন, আমিও নিয়েছি: মাহবুব তালুকদার

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Stock

DSE opens complete digital system

The chairman of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) Md. Eunusur Rahman...

Stocks end flat after volatile trading

Stocks ended flat in the red on Wednesday after volatile...

European stocks slump again

European stocks fell heavily again on Friday as worries about...

Asia shares plunge, fearing hawkish Fed move, war in Ukraine

Asian shares slipped on Monday as investors braced for a...

Stocks post modest gain after two days of slump

Marico Bangladesh declares 200pc interim cash dividend based on nine-month performance

Paramount Textile to issue 150m preference shares

Crisis-hit Evergrande suspends shares in Hong Kong

India's market regulator tightens stock market listing rules

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Big-budget transport sector seeks more funds

The big-budget transport sector seeks higher funds in the upcoming revised development budget for the current fiscal year, officials say, as reappraisals of the outlays are underway. They said Friday the sector had sought Tk 379.71 billion worth of...

Nepal urges Bangladesh to lift ban on...

Beximco Pharma, Acme Lab log robust profit...

China Unicom loses authorisation to operate in United States

Woodside Petroleum joins Chevron, TotalEnergies in plans to exit Myanmar

Toyota remains world's biggest car seller

AmCham re-elects Ershad president, Kamal vice president

Currency	Sell	Purchase

Commodity	Price	Change
GOLD	2,034.80 (US$/oz)	+1.38%
SILVER	28.32 (US$/oz)	+2.32%
COPPER	6,437.00 (US$/oz)	+1.05%
CRUDE OIL	42.19 (US$/bbl.)	-2.36%
COTTON # 2	0.62 (USc/lb)	+2.47%
WHEAT (CBOT)	210.09 (USD/bu)	-0.1%
PALM OIL	823.96 (USD/MTon)	3.4%
Soybean OIL	35.04 (USc/lb)	+0.26%
Sugar # 11	14.31 (USc/lb)	+2.00%

National

Mild to moderate cold wave sweeping over parts of country

A mild to moderate cold wave is sweeping over eight districts and four divisions which may continue until Sunday, according...

36pc Bangladeshi banks still go banking manually

Bangladesh's 36 per cent of banks still go banking on manual-documentation process in this digital era while another 46 per...

Police complaint filed against 44 students over KUET professor’s death

A police complaint has been filed against 44 students of Khulna University of Science and Technology (KUET) over the unusual...

Politics

BNP fears about its political future, Hasan Mahmud says

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud on Friday...

BNP, Jamaat hired eight lobbyists in US to spread misinformation: Momen

The government has appointed a public relations firm...

Country

70-year-old woman dies in fire in Chandpur

A 70-year-old woman died on Thursday night in...

About 96pc brick kilns run illegally in Naogaon

NAOGAON: Around 96 per cent brick kilns in...

Crime

Khulna man gets life term for raping, killing minor

A court in Khulna on Friday sentenced a...

Five get death for 2002 murder of Radha Rani in Madaripur

A Madaripur court has sentenced five people to...

World

Asia

UN labour group says 1.6m jobs lost in Myanmar in 2021

The International Labor Organization (ILO) says about 1.6 million jobs were lost in Myanmar in 2021, with women suffering the...

Delhi lifts weekend curfew as Covid cases drop

India's capital Delhi lifted a weekend curfew and allowed restaurants...

Air India officially handed over to Tata Group

India's salt-to-software conglomerate Tata Group on Thursday formally took over...

Americas

US provides 400m COVID vaccine doses to 112 nations

"Today, we will hit a major milestone in our global effort: 400 million vaccine doses shipped to 112 countries ......

Biden to appoint a liberal Supreme Court judge as Justice Breyer retires shortly

Liberal US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer plans to retire,...

US funding to WHO fell by 25pc during pandemic

US financial contributions to the World Health Organization (WHO) have...

Europe

Fake news, disinformation on Covid-19 human rights violation, says Pope Francis

Pope Francis said on Friday that spreading fake news and disinformation on Covid-19 and vaccines, including by Catholic media, is...

Russia says it won’t start war as Ukraine tensions mount

Russia's top diplomat said Friday that Moscow will not start...

Britain warns big businesses of possible Russian cyber-attacks

Britain warned big businesses on Friday to bolster defences against...

Africa

40pc people in Ethiopia's Tigray lack adequate food, finds WFP

Nearly 40 per cent of people in Ethiopia's Tigray region do not have adequate food after 15 months of conflict,...

Death toll from Storm Ana rises to 86, another storm brews in Africa's east

Tropical Storm Ana has killed at least 86 people across...

Ghana explosion leaves survivors with cuts and questions

Nancy Nyarko was preparing porridge at her roadside stall near...

Editorial

Protecting jute from illicit syndicate

Despite many constraints it encountered for years, the jute sector, finally, in the past one decade appears to have been looking up. However, it is still dogged by some age-old issues including hoarding of raw jute by some unscrupulous jute traders resulting in the golden fibre's artificial scarcity in the market and its attendant price hike. Desperate to get around...

Undesirable CPI rating

Bangladesh's static position in the Berlin-based Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for the past four years does not particularly make the country proud. It fares only better than Afghanistan, a war ravaged country and in unrelenting turmoil, among the South Asian countries. But here is a country that has been doing far better than any of those countries in...

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The confusion about self-sufficiency in food grains

Since the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent country the principal objective of its agricultural policy has been the attainment of self-sufficiency in food production....