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ADB provides $400m loan for Ctg-Cox’s Bazar rail link

Bangladesh signed a deal with Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday for a $400 million loan to connect Chattogram and...

India's PM Modi wins historic general election victory

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist party scored a historic victory in India’s general election, his foreign minister said on Thursday,...

HC summons BFSA chairman over substandard food

The High Court (HC) on Thursday summoned the chairman of the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) to appear before it...

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BFSA chairman summoned over substandard food

The High Court on Thursday summoned the chairman of the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA)...

BD for stable government in India

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday said Bangladesh wants a stable government in...

'Maintain discipline on roads during Eid'

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday urged the transport owners and workers...

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Bangladesh

Govt revises down tax collection target

The government has revised the tax collection target downward to Tk 2.80 trillion for the current fiscal year following lacklustre trend in receipts, people familiar...

Tax holiday creates 29,000 jobs in 46 yrs

The existing tax holiday facility is inadequate...

Call to earmark Tk 7.0b for ICT business in upcoming budget

The ICT businesses called upon the government...

Global

Myanmar attracts $2.4b foreign investments in 7 months of FY 2018-19

Myanmar has attracted over 2.41 billion US dollar foreign investments in the first seven months of the present fiscal year 2018-2019, according to the DICA....

Russian economy to grow 1.3pc in 2019, says minister

Russian economy will grow by 1.3 per...

Australia central bank signals rate cut in June

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), the...

Stock

Stocks end nearly flat after bumpy ride

Stocks ended flat on Thursday after volatile trading as investors...

EBL approves 30pc dividend at 27th AGM

The board of directors of Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) has...

European shares fall amid trade worries

European shares fell sharply on Thursday, as investors grappled with...

Asia shares hit four-month low on risk...

Asian shares broke support and caved to a four-month low...

DSE gains, CSE slides in early trading

Stakeholders decide to give list to BSEC

Midas Financing recommends 2.50pc stock dividend

SE Asian stocks inch up; Singapore falls

Asian stocks mixed on trade anxiety

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Mashrafe becomes Walton brand ambassador

Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, the captain of Bangladesh Cricket team, has been appointed as the brand ambassador of Walton. The popular cricketer will be involved in various promotional activities of the electronics, electrical, IOT and home appliances man...

Lenovo Q4 profit surges more than three-fold

Panasonic says on its China website it...

Padma Bank signs deal with Jordan’s Alawneh Exchange

Honda recalling 137,000 SUVs over faulty air bag

BHTPA to set up IT park at CU

EBL reappoints managing director

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

PM greets Modi on his polls victory

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called Indian Premier Narendra Modi and extended heartiest congratulations to him on his party’s...

Severe action for corruption, irregularities: ACC

Anti- Corruption Commissioner (ACC) Commissioner on Thursday warned of stern actions against corruption and any other wrongdoing by the government...

Politics

Lack of policy behind paddy price fall: Dr Kamal

Gono Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain on Wednesday...

BNP standing committee demands Khaleda's medical treatment

BNP's standing committee member Barrister Jamiruddin Sircar on...

Country

Coast Guard seizes 5,000kg Jatka in Chattogram

The Coast Guard seized nearly 5,000 kilograms of...

Narsingdi road crash kills two

Two people were killed and five others injured...

Crime

Four get death penalty for killing businessman

A court in Dhaka on Thursday sentenced four...

Police arrest teen for ‘raping 100-year-old woman’ in Tangail

Police have arrested a teenage boy for allegedly...

World

Asia

Rahul Gandhi faces backlash over polls defeat

Honest, intelligent and open to new ideas is how officials of India's main opposition Congress describe their leader, Rahul Gandhi,...

Ruling coalition promises to boost India's economy

India’s ruling coalition has promised to rev up growth, double...

Taiwan navy holds drill amid China tensions

Taiwan's navy has held a major live-firing exercise off the...

Americas

‘American Taliban’ Lindh being released from prison

The California man who became known as the ‘American Taliban’ after his capture on an Afghanistan battlefield in late 2001,...

‘Violent tornado’ hits Missouri

A ‘violent tornado’ touched down in Jefferson City, Missouri in...

US mulls deploying thousands more troops to Middle East

The US Department of Defense is considering a US military...

Europe

May under fire over new Brexit plan

British prime minister Theresa May will make the case for her new Brexit plan in Parliament later, amid signs that...

Turkey to arrest 249 foreign ministry personnel over Gulen links

Turkish authorities ordered the arrest of 249 foreign ministry personnel...

Manchester Airport grounds flights due to power issue

A "power issue" that affected fuel supply caused dozens of...

Africa

Egyptian security forces kill 12 suspected militants after bus bombing

Egyptian security forces have killed 12 suspected Islamist militants in Cairo, the Interior Ministry said on Monday, a day after...

Facebook bans fake accounts targeting Africa

Facebook has removed hundreds of social media accounts and banned...

One officer, three protesters die in Sudan gunfire

One officer and three protesters were killed and many protesters...

Editorial

Recycled unfit vehicles and vessels!

If a picture expresses what thousands of words cannot, there were a few such select ones carried in quite a few newspapers published from the capital city. In one such picture, workers were applying finishing touches of paint to a couple of buses after repair and renovation. The new coat of paint is explicitly meant to pass the vehicles, long...

Ban on fishing in the Bay

The demand for withdrawal of a 65-day ban the government imposes on marine fishing in the Bay of Bengal every year should be brought under closer scrutiny. Obviously, the rationale behind such a ban is to allow breeding of different species of fish in the exclusive economic zone of the Bay. Now the area on which the ban is imposed...