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Govt plans to set up special 'cell’ to combat dengue

The government plans to set up a special 'cell’ to combat dengue and other vector-borne diseases in the wake of...

Bangladesh to get highest assistance from WB: Finance minister

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has expressed his hope that Bangladesh would get its highest loan assistance from the World...

Govt to replace diesel-run irrigation pumps with solar-powered ones

The government has initiated a move to draw a roadmap for replacing diesel-run irrigation pumps with solar-powered ones across the...

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Brexit: Commons set for knife-edge votes on deal

MPs are debating the PM's Brexit deal, amid uncertainty about whether the decisive vote on...

Benapole port: Traffic chaos takes its toll on trade

Poor infrastructures and traffic congestions are among the problems that are severely affecting trade through...

Govt unblocks online game PUBG shortly after blocking

The Bangladesh authorities have unblocked online multiplayer game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds or PUBG shortly after blocking...

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Bangladesh

Act promptly to fix banking ills: IMF

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has put forwarded a six-point recipe for Bangladesh to address its banking sector weaknesses. The recommendations include strong corporate governance,...

BEZA to launch One-Stop Service on Oct 21

Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) is set...

NBR cuts taxes on MS products, cement sheet

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has...

Global

World finance officials facing host of problems

The leaders of the 189-nation International Monetary Fund and its sister organisation, the World Bank, are laying out their visions for the future, hoping to...

EU leaders approve Lagarde’s ECB appointment

European Union leaders have approved the appointment...

China's GDP grows 6.2 pc in first three quarters

China's GDP expanded 6.2 per cent year...

Stock

Weekly review: Stocks continue to bleed

Stocks extended the losing streak for the third straight week...

BSEC panel to have names of both...

The securities regulator on Thursday decided to include the names...

Netflix shares jump as subscribers grow ahead...

Netflix Inc added slightly more paying subscribers than Wall Street...

Apple's stock sets new all-time high

Apple shares are currently trading above the $234 mark on...

National Tubes tops turnover chart

Stocks keep losing amid confidence crisis

Silva Pharma recommends 11pc dividend

PBOC drains 30b yuan from market

Asian shares follow Wall Street higher on trade optimism

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Returns from livestock high: Study

Returns from livestock are high, but overall extent of households rearing livestock has been falling, according to a study. The study, conducted by Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, revealed that inadequate livestock services, high costs...

Huawei generates $86b revenue in nine months

EBL partners with BASIS to launch co-branded...

Sonali Bag gets ready for commercial production

Huawei in talks with US firms to license 5G platform

DFQF access to UK market to continue

Railway to procure 200 broad-gauge coaches

Currency	Sell	Purchase

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

EC plans to go to four countries for expat voters’ registration

The Election Commission (EC) has planned to send its teams to four countries -- Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, the United Arab...

BD urges Germany to take 'effective steps' for Rohingya repatriation

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has urged his German counterpart Heiko Maas to exert pressure on Myanmar to create a...

Two die in Habiganj road accident

Two people were killed in a head-on collision between two trucks at Mouchak area on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Bahubal...

Politics

Oikyafront wants to hold public rally on October 22

Jatiya Oikyafront, led by Dr Kamal Hossain, has...

UZ polls in C’nawabganj: Voting underway

Balloting was underway in the Sadar Upazila Parishad...

Country

Woman ‘kills self’ to escape ‘torture for dowry’ in Magura

A housewife allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself...

Nearly one million rats eliminated in Rangpur

The farmers, filed level agriculture officials, teachers, students...

Crime

Man accused of killing toddler son in Faridpur

A man has been accused of killing his...

Eight Rohingyas held in Goalanda

Police arrested eight Rohingyas from Goalanda Bus Terminal...

World

Asia

Bus crash kills 35 in Saudi, BD people feared among victims

The 35 people were killed on Friday in a bus crash in Saudi Arabia may include some Bangladeshis, the Bangladesh...

Afghan mosque blast leaves at least 62 dead

Multiple explosions at a mosque in eastern Afghanistan collapsed the...

Inner Mongolia to lift all poor counties out of poverty by year end

Northern China's inner Mongolia autonomous region will lift all of...

Americas

Chile President declares emergency as riots rock capital

Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera declared a state of emergency in the capital Santiago early on Saturday, as the city of...

Mexico deports over 300 Indian migrants

Mexico has deported over 300 Indians to New Delhi, the...

US cop faces murder charges after killing black woman in her home

A white Fort Worth, Texas, police officer was jailed on...

Europe

Protests paralyse Catalonia

Spain's northeastern Catalonia region and its riot-swept regional capital, Barcelona, were paralysed Friday by a mix of strikes and marches...

Britain will lose out from exiting single market: Merkel

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Britain would become a competitor...

Turkey, US agree on Syria ceasefire

Turkey has agreed to a five-day ceasefire in northeast Syria...

Africa

Huge moment for Ethiopia as Abiy Ahmed wins Nobel Peace prize

Ethiopia found itself in the global spotlight for all the right reasons after Abiy Ahmed, its young, dynamic prime minister....

10 Kenyan cops killed by bomb near Somali border

At least ten Kenyan police were killed when their vehicle...

Rwanda kills 19 assailants after deadly national park attack

Rwandan security forces have killed 19 people who were part...

Editorial

Welcome boost to SMEs

The launching of the first ever Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) toolkit pilot project by the United Nations Global Contact (UNGC) in partnership with local banks and other development partners could not have been timelier and more to the point. The UN body partnered with international bodies like the ILO and UNICEF and local partners like the BRAC Bank, Global...

Impediment to NBR revenue collection

Tax collection fell short of the target by Tk 93.18 billion during the July-August period of the current fiscal recording a paltry 3.35 per cent growth. All the three wings of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) -- value added tax, customs, and income tax -- experienced a shortfall by Tk 53.54 billion, Tk 38.58 billion and Tk 1.06 billion...

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Boosting the low productivity in agriculture sector in Bangladesh

There is no denying that augmentation of agriculture is imperative for the sustained development of an economy. The sector plays a strategic role in the...