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University Grants Commission (UGC) has called on the private universities to step forward to update the syllabus of their ongoing academic programmes. UGC made the call on Monday in an...
[As 15 nations on Sunday signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, one of the world's largest trade and investment pacts, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)...
The report on the 'Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Bill, 2020', seeking death penalty for rape, was submitted to the parliament on Monday. Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee...
The government has approved a draft guideline on emergency responses to face any nuclear or radioactive disaster. The cabinet approved the National Nuclear and Radioactive Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan...
Moderna Inc said on Monday its experimental vaccine was 94.5 per cent effective in preventing COVID-19 based on interim data from a late-stage clinical trial, becoming the second US company...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government said on Monday it had captured another town in the northern Tigray region after nearly two weeks of fighting in a conflict already spilling...
India on Sunday denied allegations by its arch-rival Pakistan that New Delhi had helped fund militant groups on Pakistani soil, with a foreign ministry spokesman dismissing them as "fabricated" and...
Speakers at a discussion on Monday urged the government to repeal the use of Digital Security Act to stop oppressing voices of journalists and citizens, and thus ensure the right...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered a tightening of state emergency anti-coronavirus systems in the face of the worldwide pandemic, as he presided over a meeting of the politburo...
Women in the coastal fishery families are still lagging behind in terms of empowerment and facing socio-economic disparity, according to a study. All the women workers surveyed involved in fish...
Rebecca Brosnan has been appointed in the City Bank Board as nominated Director of IFC (International Finance Corporation). IFC, a member of World Bank Group, is holding 5% share of...
A second-year student of journalism at Dhaka University, Lameesha (single name), had a knack for baking. Her cousins and peers appreciated her skills, sometimes even telling her that she could...
Bangladesh has confirmed 21 new deaths from the COVID-19 illness in a day, raising the toll to 6,215. The country also reported 2,139 news Coronavirus cases in the 24 hours...
Britain and the European Union have a week to 10 days to find a way to unlock trade talks, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said on Monday, after both sides...
FE ONLINE REPORT Stocks ended slightly higher on Monday after a volatile trading as investors mostly followed a cautious stance ahead of the biggest-ever IPO subscription – Robi Axiata. DSEX,...
Cyber Support Centre for Women, a cell of Bangladesh Police, has been launched with a view to extending help and support to the female victims of cybercrimes in the country....
JCI Bangladesh has recognised ten youths of Bangladesh for their contribution to society through an event titled “Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) 2020” to inspire young leaders for their achievements....
The government is deploying mobile courts in Dhaka to ensure that mask rules are followed by all amid the pandemic outbreak. The law-enforcement agencies have been instructed to make sure...
A group led by privacy activist Max Schrems on Monday filed complaints with German and Spanish data protection authorities over Apple’s online tracking tool, alleging that it allows iPhones to...
Netrakona: A number of families at tribal-dominated Nayapara cluster village in Kullagarh union of Durgapur upazila of Netrakona district are trying to change their days by raising rabbits. According to...
Japan will work towards the early repatriation of Rohingya people communicating with Myanmar to this end, said Japan ambassador to Bangladesh ITO Naoki. The Ambassador said that it is important...
JOYPURHAT: Potato farmers of the district are expecting a windfall profit this season as they plan to harvest early-winter potato from the first week of December. A good number of...
US Ambassador Earl Miller has said Bangladesh and the United States are now enjoying the best ever cooperation, ranging from economic ties to development and health care cooperation, compared to...
Stakeholders at a programme here on Sunday called for stopping encroachment of Chaktai canal and taking measures to dredge it on a regular basis in order to save the Chaktai-Khatunganj...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) handed over 11 touchstone statues, seized during drives in different parts of Naogaon district, to the Archaeology Department in the district. Sector Commander of...
Johnson & Johnson launched a new large-scale late-stage trial on Monday to test a two-dose regimen of its experimental Covid-19 vaccine and evaluate potential incremental benefits for the duration of protection...
That pearls can be produced in ponds is what one Abul Hossein Khan in Magura has made possible. As the government enforced a lockdown across the country in efforts to...
Former Deputy Speaker Shawkat Ali, one of the accused in the Agartala Conspiracy Case, has passed away at 84. He breathed his last while on life support at the Combined...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is self-isolating after meeting an MP who later tested positive for Covid-19. Johnson, who was admitted to intensive care in a London hospital earlier this...
Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station on Sunday, NASA’s first full-fledged mission sending a crew into orbit aboard a privately...
Asian stocks hit a record high on Monday as vaccine optimism and strong economic data from China and Japan outshone worries about rising coronavirus cases, lifting just about every sector....
Bangladesh's households bear some 93 per cent of the total cost of illness for senior citizens as out-of-pocket payment, highest in South Asia, a new study finds. The study, conducted...
Over 54 million coronavirus (Covid-19) cases have been confirmed around the world while the global death toll surged to 1,316,502 on Monday. According to the data compiled by Johns Hopkins...
Darkness under the lampposts on the Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover in Dhaka has prevailed for three years as the authorities have failed to repair the lights, leading to a rise in nighttime...
The government will demolish bridges that hamper movement of water vessels on the rivers surrounding Dhaka city, said Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives Minister Md Tajul Islam on Sunday...
China-led Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement is likely to boost foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Asia-Oceania region during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. United Nations Conference on Trade and...
Businesses will be able to obtain VAT refund through purchasing raw materials on credit from now on. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) issued a clarification on November 11 by...
Bangladesh does not want to tag the citizenship rights issue with the repatriation of Rohingya refugees. Several Rohingya community leaders and rights groups have been vocal about ensuring citizenship rights...
Robi, the country's second-largest mobile phone operator, is set to launch the initial public offering (IPO) tomorrow (Tuesday). The IPO, being the largest one, will dwarf the one floated by...
With sixty-one per cent of small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the Asia Pacific reporting a fall in sales during the months of lockdown, and further waves and phased re-openings...
She is not held in high esteem but she does not care. Hers is what society considers a lowly vocation ---hawking newspaper. But the elderly woman named Dil Afroz Khuki...
'Only 1.0 per cent of the population pay tax', screamed the headline of a news report published in a vernacular daily the other day. This was no revelation. Reports having...
Media footage and photographs of sea-based fishing communities spreading their netted catch in the sun are common spectacles these days. The sights this year began appearing in early November and...
After several anxiety-filled rollercoaster days following the recent US presidential election, it is now all but certain that Joe Biden will become America's next president on January 20, 2021. Whether...
Small and medium businesses contribute more to the global economy than what is visible on the surface. They play a vital role everywhere and are estimated by Facebook/OECD/World Bank (2020),...
The United States, through the US Embassy in Dhaka and the US Agency for International Development (USAID), has delivered 100 state-of-the-art ventilators to Bangladesh that it had pledged earlier to...
Air passengers returning home must show Covid-19 negative certificates at the airport, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Sunday, reports UNB. Otherwise they will have to go into quarantine for...
People all over the world have been glued for the last two months to the evolving dynamics related to the race to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington where the US...
"Hasina: A Daughter's Tale", a documentary on the life of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was screened at the residence of the High Commissioner of Bangladesh in the capital of Brunei,...
The members of Reporters against Corruption (RAC) elected its new president and general secretary on Friday. Mohiuddin Ahmed and Ahammad Foyez have been elected president and general secretary of RAC...
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