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Minister urges Brazil to slash 35pc import duty

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi requested the Brazilian government to reduce the existing 35 per cent import duty, so that Bangladeshi...

Myanmar should convince Rohingyas to return home: Momen

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said Myanmar should convince Rohingya people, who fled ‘ethnic cleansing’ in the Rakhine State...

Dengue: Over 1,400 hospitalised in 24 hours

As many as 1,446 new dengue patients have been hospitalised in the last 24 hours until 8:00am on Friday, taking...

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NAP chief Prof Muzaffar Ahmad dies

National Awami Party (NAP) President Professor Muzaffar Ahmad, a member of the advisory council of...

53 people lynched in Jan-July

53 people were killed by mob beating across the country in the seven months of...

China to impose additional tariffs on US imports worth $75.0b

China will impose additional tariffs on US imports worth about $75.0 billion in response to...

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Bangladesh

Govt borrows Tk 230b from banks in 35 days

The government borrowed nearly Tk 230 billion from the country’s banking system in the first 35 days of the current fiscal year (FY), 2019-20, to...

Inflation inches up in July

The country's point-to-point inflation was recorded at...

FY'19 trade gap narrows

The country's merchandise trade deficit with the...

Global

German employment up 1.0pc in Q2

The number of people in employment in Germany grew year-on-year by 1.0 per cent in the second quarter of 2019 to a total of 45.2...

Wall Street flashes recession warning as trade war backfires on US economy

The Wall Street has sent warning signs...

Zimbabwe to borrow $1.9b from G7 countries to repay its debt

Zimbabwe plans to borrow 1.9 billion US...

Stock

Stocks rebound following single-day break

Stocks rebounded on Thursday, after a single-day break, as some...

Shasha gets BB nod to remit acquired...

The Shasha Denims has received the Bangladesh Bank’s permission to...

Asian shares mixed amid US-China trade worries

Asian shares were mixed Friday as turbulence continued on global...

Tokyo stocks end sharply lower

Tokyo stocks ended sharply lower Thursday, with the benchmark Nikkei...

Tenure of six more MFs extended for another 10 yrs

DSE, CSE witness upward trend in early trading

Stocks slip into red after choppy session

PBOC continues to boost liquidity into capital market

Asia shares tumble on Hong Kong unrest

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Huawei representative calls on Europe to resist US pressure

On eve of the G7 meeting, Huawei's chief representative to the European Union Institutions said Friday that Huawei will continue to strengthen its cooperation with governments, mobile operators and local industrial partners in Europe, despite the att...

IBBL Barishal Zone organizes biz dev confce

SBAC Bank holds strategic business review meeting

Three telecos spent Tk 87.4b for Google, FB ads in five years

Hilsa price remains high despite increased supply

Walton looks to go global thru' Amazon

Over 7,000 trucks registered in Jan-July: BRTA

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

BD hopes US, Canada to send back Bangabandhu’s killers

Bangladesh expects the United States and Canada to make a “difference” by sending back killers of Father of the Nation...

‘Enemies of Hindus are enemies of the nation’

Awami League’s General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said the enemies of the Hindu community are also the enemies of...

Snakebites kill snake-charmer couple in Satkhira

A man and his wife, both snake handlers, died after being bitten by snakes in Satkhira on Friday. The snake...

Politics

BNP forms forum to support victims of rape, repression

Amid the growing incidents of rape and violence...

Mizanur Rahman Shelley dies at 76

Mizanur Rahman Shelley, a former minister of HM...

Country

Lightning claims nine lives in four districts

Nine people, including a couple, were killed in...

Murder suspect killed in Mymensingh ‘gunfight’

The main suspect in the murder of an...

Crime

Police arrest rape accused in Jhenaidah

A man, accused of raping a seventh grader,...

RAB detains four ‘militants’ in city

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-3) arrested four...

World

Asia

India increases restrictions in Kashmir amid fear of protests

Authorities in the main city of Indian Kashmir tightened security ahead of Friday prayers after separatists called for a protest...

US told to immediately stop Taiwan arms sales

A spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State...

‘Talks are useless’ in dealing with US, Rouhani says

Iran’s president struck a muscular tone on dealings with the...

Americas

US billionaire businessman David Koch dies

American billionaire industrialist David Koch, a driving force behind conglomerate Koch Industries who as one of the world’s richest people...

Brazil lacks resources to fight Amazon fires: Bolsonaro

The Brazilian government lacks the resources to fight a record...

US says will enforce sanctions over Iran tanker

The United States will aggressively enforce its sanctions to prevent...

Europe

Ukraine, EU oppose Russia readmission to G7

Ukraine's president backed leading European powers on Thursday in opposing the readmission of Russia to the Group of Seven advanced...

Greece says won’t help Iranian tanker to reach Syria

Greece will not facilitate an Iranian tanker sailing in the...

Trump’s idea of selling Greenland to US is absurd, says Danish PM

Greenland is not for sale and the idea of selling...

Africa

Militants kill 10 Burkina Faso soldiers

Unidentified militants killed at least 10 soldiers and wounded many others in an attack on a military unit in northern...

Fuel truck explosion leaves 10 dead in Uganda

At least 10 people were killed when a fuel truck...

Car bomb kills three UN staff in Libya

A bomb-laden vehicle exploded Saturday outside a shopping mall in...

Editorial

Tackling an 'inverse pyramid'

The pyramid shape of modern bureaucracy is an accepted, even an essential norm. Very recently an analytical report in the front page of our newspaper brought to the fore the bulge around the apex of the administrative structure. Only below the secretary proper level, whose number has somehow been kept within rules, almost the whole body consists of additional secretaries,...

Casualties from road accidents during festival

The numbers of road accidents and casualties from those during the Eid-ul-Azha vacation have been fewer than those during the Eid-ul-Fitr this year. Against 232 road accidents over a period of 12 days during Eid-ul-Fitr holidays, there were 146 road accidents during the same period between August 6 and 17. The Eid-ul-Fitr accidents claimed 273 lives whereas the number of...

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The threat of premature deindustrialisation

Industrial economy has always been integral to the high per capita income in advanced countries. Because of this, having little or no access to either...