Staff at London Zoo have helped the leader of a squirrel monkey family keep his seven partners happy ahead of Valentine’s Day with some special treats: heart-themed hessian bags filled...
Supporters of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi clashed with police on Friday as hundreds of thousands joined nationwide pro-democracy demonstrations in defiance of the military junta’s call to...
প্রাণঘাতী করোনাভাইরাসের সংক্রমণ ঠেকাতে বিশ্বজুড়ে প্রাপ্তবয়স্কদের টিকা দেওয়া শুরু হলেও শিশুদের টিকার বিষয়ে এখনও কোনো ঘোষণা আসেনি। শিশু সন্তানদের নিয়ে বাবা-মায়ের দুশ্চিন্তার অবসানে তাদের জন্য টিকার বিষয়ে কাজ চলছে বলে...
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday issued new guidance for US schools to reopen, recommending universal mask-wearing and physical distancing as key Covid-19 mitigation strategies to...
L’Oreal, the world’s biggest cosmetics group, forecast a strong rebound in makeup sales when the Covid-19 pandemic gives way to a “roaring 20s” when people get dressed up and go...
Water levels in the Mekong River have fallen to a “worrying level” in part due to outflow restrictions from Chinese hydropower dams upstream, the Mekong River Commission (MRC) said on...
US President Joe Biden’s administration told allies on Friday it was re-engaging with them to help steer the global economy out of its worst slump since the Great Depression, a...
Alphabet’s Google has agreed to pay $76 million over three years to a group of 121 French news publishers to end a more than year-long copyright spat, documents seen by...
All hypotheses are still open in the World Health Organization’s search for the origins of COVID-19, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing on Friday. A WHO-led mission in...
A group of 50 businesses in Myanmar on Friday criticised new cyber laws proposed by the junta, saying they would contravene human rights, violate data privacy and curtail innovation. Some...
Donald Trump’s lawyers said on Friday Democrats had provided no evidence the former president incited last month’s deadly US Capitol riot and had used his second impeachment trial to settle...
CHATTOGRAM: The trade and business of commercial hub Chattogram is suffering a lot, as the local businesses cannot supply the imported goods to other parts of the country smoothly due...
The government plans to import or buy locally around 0.143 million tonnes of key essential items to face any crisis or price spiral in future especially during the holy month...
Probashi Kallyan Bank (PKB) would increase the ceiling of income generation loans for migrant workers to Tk 5.0 million from existing Tk 1.0 million, official sources said. The products are...
The IPO subscription of Desh General Insurance will open tomorrow (Sunday), aiming to raise Tk 160 million under the fixed price method. The general insurer's initial public offering (IPO) subscription...
Mr Uzzal Dhar and Chinese citizen Mr Peter, now in their mid-30s, had planned to start a business in 2014 at a time when they were studying at Buckinghamshire New...
The government received a price quotation from the bidder concerned to purchase liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the spot market for early March delivery after two months of delay. Singapore-based...
The Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) mulls establishing a separate specialised bank to help grow the country's cottage, micro, small and medium enterprises (CMSMEs) sector. The BSCIC has...
চলতি অর্থবছরেরর প্রথমার্ধে বহির্বিশ্বের সঙ্গে বাংলাদেশের সেবাখাতের বাণিজ্য কমেছে ৩ দশমিক ৮৪ শতাংশ। বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংকের হালনাগাদ করা লেনদেনের ভারসাম্য সারণি থেকে এ তথ্য মিলেছে। তবে এই তথ্য সাময়িক ও সংশোধনযোগ্য।...
A strong earthquake struck Tajikistan on Friday and the tremors were felt as far away as north India and Pakistan, witnesses said. Many residents ran out of their homes, but...
The country's floriculture industry is struggling even in February this year, the peak trading month for cut flower and foliage trade, as the Covid-19 pandemic has squeezed the number of...
The government has decided to keep the domestic resource allocation in the annual development programme (ADP) for the current financial year unchanged. The budget for the FY2021 is now undergoing...
This winter is definitely a reminiscence of those bone-chilling ones down the memory lane. Yet it must be admitted that it is not like any of the ones experienced 50-60...
Information Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Friday said that the government will take action against Al Jazeera if the High Court directs the government...
Price volatility of essential commodities is a perennially vexing issue for the common consumers of Bangladesh. Especially, before major religious festivals the prices skyrocket. The government often resorts to fixing...
After day two of Dhaka Test against the West Indies, Tigers are trailing by 304 runs. They clearly lost control of the game, but Tamim Iqbal, believes they need some...
National Industrial Policy 2016 is going to be replaced by its upcoming version National Industrial Policy 2021. Before that, we had National Industrial Policy 2010, 2005 etc. A policy comes...
Worldwide sea levels will continue rising beyond 2100, even if greenhouse gas emissions are halted today. The current scientific consensus projects at least a one-meter-rise this century. New evidence on...
বাজার নিয়ন্ত্রণে প্রায় এক মাস আগে ভারত থেকে বেসরকারি উদ্যোগে চাল আমদানি শুরু হয়েছিল; তবে তাতে কমেনি চালের দাম। এর কারণ হিসেবে ব্যবসায়ীরা বলছেন, দাম কিছুটা কমার জন্য চালের যে...
The holy Shab-e-Meraj will be observed on the night of March 11 (Thursday) as the moon of Hijri month of Rajab (1442 Hijri) was not sighted anywhere across the country...
As many as 14 people were killed and more than 36 others injured in a major explosion at a firecracker factory in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on...
In their second attempt to impeach former US president Donald Trump, the Democrats have presented before the Senate more vivid pictures with graphic details of the insurrectionist attack of January...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) again starts collecting the information of house owners and tenants living in Dhaka. In different areas, the police have asked the residents to submit their...
China's decision to ban imports of most scrap plastics and other waste materials in 2018 sent shockwaves across the globe. The Asian giant had imported about 45.0 per cent of...
A record $58.1 billion poured into global equity funds over the past week as investors pulled money out of cash funds and had a lighter exposure to bonds, BofA’s weekly...
Rescuers used heavy machinery to remove slush clogging a tunnel in the Indian Himalayas on Friday in a search for 35 people missing since a Feb 7 flash flood, though...
ছোট–বড় সব মিথ্যাই আমাদের সমাজকে হুমকিতে ফেলে দিয়েছে। দৈনন্দিন জীবন যাপনকে দুর্বিসহ করে ফেলেছে। পরিতাপের কথা, সত্য এখন আর অপরাধ ও দুর্নীতি মোকাবিলার সম্মিলিত প্রতিরোধক ঢাল হিসেবে সর্বজনস্বীকৃত নয়। সত্যকে...
As many as 11 people were killed and 36 others injured in an explosion at a firecracker factory in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Friday, officials said....
All of the prisons of the country are currently holding inmates nearly double the capacity, according to official data The number of prisoners as of February 12 this year stood...
Capitalising on Bangladesh’s poor batting show, West Indies went atop in the second and final Test, at the end of the day two, at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka...
A government health panel on Friday night approved Japan's first COVID-19 vaccine, made by Pfizer Inc, NHK national television reported, as the country races to control the third wave of...
The United States on Friday called for other UN member states to join it in holding Myanmar coup leaders to account, including through targeted sanctions such as those it imposed...
Britain's coronavirus-ravaged economy suffered its biggest crash in output in more than 300 years in 2020 when it slumped by 9.9 per cent, but it avoided heading back towards recession...
Supporters of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi clashed with police on Friday as hundreds of thousands joined nationwide pro-democracy demonstrations in defiance of the junta's call to halt...
The Rohingya, now living in Bhasan Char, are gradually getting involved in economic activities and informal education which, the authorities say, will help the refugee community stay away from committing...
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) on Thursday said it is immediately redirecting $42.2 million of assistance away from work that would have benefited Myanmar's government after conducting a...
নয় মাস পর দেশে ফিরেই অপহরণ ও হত্যার হুমকির মামলায় গ্রেপ্তার সিকদার গ্রুপের ব্যবস্থাপনা পরিচালক রন হক সিকদারকে জামিন দিয়েছে আদালত। রনকে শুক্রবার দুপুরে ঢাকার মহানগর হাকিম আদালতে হাজির করা...
Ron Haque Sikder, the managing director of Sikder Group, has been granted bail after he was arrested on charges of abducting and threatening to murder a top executive of Exim...
Bangladesh has registered five new deaths from the coronavirus, the lowest daily count in over nine months, to take the death toll to 8,253. The caseload climbed to 539,975 after...
ঢাকা টেস্টে বাংলাদেশের বিপক্ষে প্রথম ইনিংসে ৪০৯ রানে অলআউট হয়েছে সফরকারী ওয়েস্ট ইন্ডিজ। ১৪২ দশমিক ২ ওভার ব্যাট করে ক্যারিবীয়রা। মিরপুর শেরে বাংলা জাতীয় ক্রিকেট স্টেডিয়ামে অনুষ্ঠিত ম্যাচের প্রথম দিন...
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