All Time holds dealer conference

Country’s popular bakery brand ‘All Time’ on Tuesday evening organized its dealers’ conference at a hotel in the capital’s Gulshan...

BNP demands re-election of Dhaka city corporations

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has demanded a re-election of Dhaka North and South City Corporations. He also demanded cancellation of the election results and said the public could not give their votes. Fakhrul came up with the demand while addressing a press conference held...

Reckless microbus kills 2 school students

Two students were killed and another was injured when a speedy bus ran over them at Godagari upazila in Rajshahi on Wednesday...

Gazette of Dhaka cities’ polls results published

The Election Commission has published a gazette notification on the results of Dhaka North and Dhaka South city corporations’ polls. The gazette was published on Tuesday but the commission didn’t publish it on their website yet...

None can pull Bangladesh backward any more: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh has attained an ability to advance further by competing any nation of the world and asserted that none can pull the country backward any more. Awami League Italy Chapter accorded the reception to the prime minister at Parco dei Principi Grand Hotel & Spa...

Chinese hospitals discharge 892 cured patients of coronavirus infection

A total of 892 patients infected with the novel coronavirus had been discharged from hospital after recovery by the end of Tuesday, Chinese health authorities announced Wednesday...

3 killed in truck-covered van collision in Ctg

Three people were killed in a collision between a truck and a covered van in Chattogram early Wednesday. The incident took place on Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Dakkhin Banshbaria area in Sitakunda upazila...

PM reaches Rome

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached here this afternoon on a four-day official visit to Italy at the invitation of her Italian counterpart Giuseppe Conte...

China deaths rise to 490, Japan confirms 10 cases on ship

Deaths from a new virus rose to 490 in mainland China on Wednesday while new cases on a Japanese cruise ship, in Hong Kong and in Thailand showed the increasing spread of the outbreak and renewed attention toward containing it...

Bangladesh has ‘15 lakh’ cancer patients, ‘1.5 lakh’ die each year

There are around 15 lakh cancer patients in Bangladesh with 1.5 lakh of them dying each year, said an expert here on Tuesday...

Coronavirus cases top 20,600; May hurt US export growth

A “export boom” from the US trade deal with China will be delayed because of the coronavirus outbreak, said White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow...

BSF shoots and injures Bangladeshi; drags him away to India

Members of Border Security Force (BSF) reportedly dragged a Bangladesh young man away to India after shooting him along Salimerchar border in Doulatpur upazila on Tuesday...

The racism at the heart of Trump’s ‘travel ban’

Transaction thru' mobile banking crosses Tk 40,000cr

Every day the number of mobile nanking accounts is increasing and alongside amount of transaction through the channel is on rise...

Belgium confirms its 1st case of virus

Belgium has reported its first case of a new virus in a person who was repatriated from the Chinese epicenter of the outbreak...

Voters’ apathy not good for democracy: Quader

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said the apathy of voters during the recently held Dhaka city elections is not good for Bangladesh democracy...

Air India to suspend flights to Hong Kong from Feb 8

Air India today said that it is suspending flights to Hong Kong from February 8, hours after the authorities there confirmed the death of a patient with the new Coronavirus...

Coronavirus: India cancels all visas of Chinese nationals

"It is clarified that existing visas are no longer valid. Intending visitors may contact Embassy in Beijing or the Consulates in Shanghai and Guangzhou to apply afresh for an Indian visa," the Indian embassy in Beijing tweeted...

Greece offers baby bonus to boost birthrate

As the new year dawned, Maria Pardalakis was in the throes of labour. The clock had barely struck midnight when she delivered a healthy boy in a clinic on Crete...

Cancer rate to rise by 60% in next 2 decades

Driven by persistently high rates of HPV, hepatitis and smoking - especially in low-income countries - the world could see 60 percent more cancer cases in the next 20 years, WHO warned....