Uncertain business climate raises BB dollar purchase
An uncertain business environment has pushed the Bangladesh Bank to purchase more US dollars from the local banks, which are facing lack of demand of the US banknotes…
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BASIC Bank seeks more money
Scam ridden BASIC Bank, facing capital crunch earlier this month requested the government to bail it out for the third timer since 2014, finance ministry officials said…
India claims ‘surgical strike’ on Pak target
India said on Thursday it had conducted ‘surgical strikes’ on suspected militants preparing to infiltrate from Pakistan-ruled Kashmir, making its first direct military response to an attack on an army base it blames on Pakistan and raising the risk of escalation…
ADB to lend $8b
The Asian Development Bank said on Thursday that it would increase public and private sector lending to Bangladesh to $8 billion in 2016-20…
England arrive today sans pace duo
England cricket team arrives here today amid unprecedented security for a one-month long tour that comprises a two-Test and three-match one-day international series but without their key pacers James Anderson and Mark Wood for injury…
Arrest warrant issued for Tarique in sedition case
A Dhaka court on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman and a former chief correspondent of ETV, Mahathir Farooki Parash, in a sedition case…
Boycotts cast shadow on SAARC summit
The 19th SAARC summit scheduled for November 9-10 in Islamabad is set to be postponed as Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Bhutan and India pulled out of participation in the summit, according to diplomatic sources in Dhaka and Kathmandu…
DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES: No oversight ruins capital
The high-powered Urban Development Committee created a decade back to oversee the capital’s development activities has been crippled by inactivity…
Afghanistan stun Tigers to level series
Bangladesh paid the price of poor batting to suffer a shock two-wicket loss to Afghanistan in the second one-day international on Wednesday, which kept them waiting for final match on October 1 to wrap-up the series…
SINGLE POINT MOORING WITHOUT BIDDING: Officials to go abroad to evaluate contractor’s capability
The energy and mineral resources division will send a team of its officials Angola and Abu Dhabi to evaluate the capabilities of the contractor appointed for the implementation of Single Point Mooring project and the cost of similar job…
Tributes of love showered on Syed Haq
People from all walks of life poured their heartfelt love and respect at Central Shaheed Minar on Wednesday as the mortal remains of celebrated writer Syed Shamsul Haq, who died Tuesday, was kept there…
ADB okays $1.5b loan for railway linking Cox’s Bazar
The Asian Development Bank will provide US$ 1.5 billion to Bangladesh to build a dual-gauge railway line between Dohazari and Cox’s Bazar, the Manila-based multilateral lending agency on Wednesday said…
Awarding projects sans bidding rises
Awarding projects without bidding rose sharply in the past one year creating scopes for an increase in project costs in the absence of competition…
Syed Shamsul Haq dies
Independence Day award-winning poet-playwright Syed Shamsul Haq died at the capital’s United Hospital on Tuesday evening. He was 80.
He had been suffering from lung cancer…
Clinton, Trump clash in fiery first debate
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump traded insults and sparred over temperament, stamina and judgement Monday, in a fiery US presidential debate that often saw the Republican on the back foot…
Tigers hunt 100th win, series
Bangladesh will look to earn their 100-th win in one-day internationals when they take on Afghanistan in the second ODI of the three-match series at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium today…
SAARC summit uncertain as Delhi pulls out
The 19th SAARC summit scheduled for November in Islamabad has become uncertain as India has already pulled out of participation in the summit…
15-year old boy cries for justice
15-year school boy Sabbir Shikdar on Tuesday broke down before a High Court Division bench while narrating the repeated tortures he was subjected to during three days of confinement..
Hannan Shah dies
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member ASM Hannan Shah died at a hospital in Singapore early Tuesday.
He was 75.
His body would be brought to Dhaka from Singapore today, said a BNP release…
No let-up in city traffic chaos
Successive costly but unrealistic initiatives failed to improve the capital’s chaotic traffic over the last 11 years.
In no other city of the world traffic management is as chaotic as in the Bangladesh capital….
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