Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has suspended share trading of five Islamic banks that are in the process of merging. The five banks are First Security Islami Bank, Social Islami Bank (SIBL), Exim Bank, Global Islami Bank and Union Bank, according to a DSE notice on Thursday. The country’s two stock exchanges informed the matter to investors this morning. The suspension ...

Attorney General (AG) Md Asaduzzamanon Wednesdaysaid that he will participate in the upcoming national election after resigning from his post. After ending today’s hearing of a petition on the annulment of caretaker government, Md Asaduzzaman came up with this announcement in a press briefing. ”I have sought nomination (BNP). I will contest the election and quit the post (AG) in ...

Jatiya Nagorik Party (NCP) will release the list of the candidates by November 15, said the party convener Nahid Islam on Wednesday. While visiting the family of late freedom fighter Gazi Salahuddin in Godnail, Narayangan, Nahis said, ”Any coalition would have to be based on ideological alignment. If any party supports our reform proposals under the July Charter, we may ...

Jamaat-e-Islami would seek an electoral understanding with like-minded parties, said the party Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman on Wednesday. ”We have not decided to form any alliance for the upcoming national elections.” Dr Shafiqur made the remarks while speaking to reporters at Sylhet Osmani International Airport this morning. “We will hold the elections in February 2026 with everyone, delays will create ...

Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, won the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday, capping a meteoric rise from a little-known state lawmaker to one of the country’s most visible Democratic figures. Mamdani will become the first Muslim mayor of the largest US city. He defeated Democratic former Governor Andrew Cuomo, 67, who ran as an independent after losing ...

Mir Mahbubur Rahman Snigdho, brother of Mir Mahfuzur Rahman Mugdho, who was killed during July uprising, has formally joined Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Sources from BNP confirmed the information on Tuesday evening. Snigdho submitted his membership form at BNP Chairperson’s office in Gulshan, around 9:00 PM on November 4. BNP’s acting chairman, Tarique Rahman, participated virtually from London during the ...

India’s Adani Power said on Monday it has opted for an international arbitration process to resolve disputes over Bangladesh’s power supply payments. The company led by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani has been at loggerheads with Bangladesh Power Development Board over pending payments for the electricity it supplies as part of a pact that both sides had signed in 2017, reports ...

It wasn’t about who returned to Anfield, but what did — the spirit that has long defined Liverpool on European nights. An in-form Real Madrid arrived brimming with confidence, but just like a year ago, they left defeated by the same man: Alexis Mac Allister. The Argentine midfielder, who opened the scoring in Liverpool’s 2-0 victory over Madrid last November, ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said she will make “necessary choices” in the Budget after the “world has thrown more challenges our way”. In an unusual pre-Budget speech in Downing Street, Reeves did not rule out a U-turn on Labour’s general election manifesto pledge not to hike income tax, VAT or National Insurance. When journalists explicitly asked if the government was ...

For the first time in Great Britain, there are more over-16s using vapes or e-cigarettes than smoking cigarettes, according to the Office for National Statistics. Some 5.4 million adults use vapes daily or occasionally, compared with 4.9 million using cigarettes, an ONS survey for 2024 suggests. Daily use of vapes is most common among 25-49 year olds, with rising use ...