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Employment rate in BD exceeds global average: ILO

International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said the employment rate in Bangladesh and other countries in the region exceeded the global...

RHD faces shortage of 'qualified' contractors

Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has been facing a severe shortage of 'qualified' contractors in comparison with its projects for...

PM seeks more engagement of WHO for universal health services

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has laid importance on more engagement of the World Health Organization (WHO) to ensure universal health...

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BGB charges three including two killed in Thakurgaon clash

Two men, killed in Tuesday's clash with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Thakurgaon, were named...

Ambulance registration witnesses slight rise

Ambulance registration in Dhaka has witnessed a slight rise in 2018 compared to that in...

Jamaat leader Barrister Abdur Razzaq resigns

Barrister Abdur Razzaq has resigned from the Jamaat-e-Islami citing its failure to apologise for its...

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Bangladesh

Incentive pays off as exports to new mkts on upswing

The government's efforts to incentivise the exporters reaching out to new markets beyond the traditional export destinations are paying off, people familiar with the matter...

Export performance of many sectors falls short of expectations

Exports from many sectors in the economy...

Proposed KEZ set to get licence

The proposed Kishoreganj Economic Zone (KEZ), a...

Global

Trade tariffs cost US businesses $2.7b in Nov

US businesses paid an additional 2.7 billion US dollars in tariffs in November 2018, according to data released Thursday. This is the most recent monthly...

French jobless rate falls to near 10-year low

France’s unemployment rate fell unexpectedly at the...

US public debt reaches record high

The US public debt has reached a...

Stock

HR Textile to issue corporate bond

The board of directors of HR Textile Limited has decided...

Green Delta, InfoCorp join hands to facilitate...

Green Delta Insurance Company in partnership with Singapore-based InfoCorp Technologies...

SE Asian stocks mostly dip as trade...

Most Southeast Asian stock markets slipped on Friday awaiting developments...

Asian stocks fall after weak US data,...

Asian stocks fell on Friday after weak US retail sales...

Fortune Shoes tops turnover chart for third straight day

Stocks end nearly flat, turnover rises

European shares hit three-month highs

Asian shares edge down in cautious trading

Renata to set-up subsidiary in Ireland

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Visa, Mastercard to increase fees for US merchants

Visa Inc and Mastercard Inc, the two biggest US card networks, are preparing to increase certain fees levied on US merchants for processing transactions that will kick in this April. The Wall Street Journal gave the information in a report on Friday...

Tea output increases 57pc in northern districts

NBR picks legal expert for new VAT...

Egg price increases augmenting woes of consumers

Govt releases cash subsidy of Tk 11.25b for exporters

Production of A380 stops in 2021

First ever food and hospitality expo kicks off

Currency	Sell	Purchase
USD	81.70	80.70
GBP	104.0142	103.9739
EUR	96.2348	96.2186
Chinese Yuan	12.1496	12.1459
JPY	0.7379	0.7377
Singapore Dollar	59.5572	59.5133
AUD	64.0516	63.9709

Commodity	Price	Change
GOLD	1,315.80 (US$/oz)	+1.38%
SILVER	17.44 (US$/oz)	+2.32%
COPPER	3.07 (US$/oz)	+1.05%
CRUDE OIL	46.74 (US$/bbl.)	-2.36%
COTTON # 2	69.83 (USc/lb)	+2.47%
WHEAT (CBOT)	647.25 (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

‘Egg-plant bomb’ scare grips Chittagong University

Chittagong University students and authorities spent a sleepless night on Thursday as they mistook an egg-plant as a bomb. Witnesses...

Four-day Biswa Ijtema begins

Biswa Ijtema, one of the largest Muslim congregations in the world, began on the bank of the Turag River at...

Master plan on the anvil to protect five rivers initially

The government is drafting a master plan to initially protect the rivers Buriganga, Balu, Sitalakhya and Balu in Dhaka and...

Politics

BNP trying hard to make Dec-30 election questionable: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said BNP had...

Chhatra Dal enters Madhur Canteen after nine years

The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) student body...

Country

Two more devotees die at Ijtema venue

Two more devotees died of cardiac arrest at...

Fire guts Gazipur textile factory godown

A fire gutted raw materials of a textile...

Crime

RAB arrests man with arms in C’nawabganj

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a...

RAB nabs two Rohingyas with 14,000 yaba pills

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two...

World

Asia

India to cut Pakistan off international community

India has said it will ensure the "complete isolation" of Pakistan after a suicide bomber killed 46 soldiers in Indian-administered...

Hong Kong seizes rhino horns worth $1.0m

Hong Kong customs have seized a record 40kg of rhino...

Indian PM Modi warns Pakistan of strong response for Kashmir attack

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned Pakistan on Friday to...

Americas

US sends first families to Mexico to await asylum, rights groups sue

The United States began sending Central American families seeking asylum back to Mexico this week, a Mexican immigration source said...

Trump inches toward support for wall deal

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday edged toward backing a...

Colombia jails man for abusing 276 children

A Colombian man who admitted sexually abusing nearly 300 children...

Europe

Spanish PM to call snap election for April 28

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is expected to call a snap national election for April 28. The announcement would come...

Italy should clarify its plans on high-speed rail link with France: EU

The European Commission said on Friday that Italy should clarify...

EU adds S Arabia to dirty-money blacklist, upsets UK, US

BRUSSELS, Feb 14 (Reuters): The European Commission (EU) added Saudi...

Africa

'922 Madagascar children dead of measles since October'

At least 922 children and young adults have died of measles in Madagascar since October, despite a huge emergency vaccination...

IS claims responsibility for attack on Nigeria governor’s convoy

Islamic State claimed responsibility on Wednesday for an attack on...

Sudan security arrests professors as protests continue to grow

Security forces arrested 14 professors who were gathering to protest...

Editorial

Land-record digitisation project

That the government's project to digitise land records has run into a serious snag is bad news. In fact, ever since the government began to flag digitisation as one of its foremost objectives -- way back in its first term of office ten years back -- land registration figured as a top priority area for inclusion in the digitisation programme....

Drive against coaching centres

By February 12, as many as 35 coaching centres were sealed off by the mobile court for keeping those open in violation of the order of the ministry concerned. Also 37 people involved with coaching business were sentenced prison or fined for violation of the order. The drive has been launched according to the directive of the High Court and...