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Bangladesh is recording an increasing number of dengue cases over the past weeks with 21 patients hospitalised in the last 24 hours until Saturday morning. 19 of these new cases...
The 6.15km-long Padma Bridge is expected to be visible completely by December as preparation is underway to install the four remaining spans soon. “We are hopeful about setting up the...
Thousands of people protested in Bangkok on Saturday in the latest in months of anti-government demonstrations that have also called for reforms to Thailand’s powerful monarchy. A few kilometres away,...
Speakers at a workshop on Saturday called for simplifying value-added tax (VAT) for the sake of a better business regime for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The Dhaka Chamber of...
Vietnam was bracing for Typhoon Vamco to make landfall in the country’s central coast early on Sunday, as the death toll in the Philippines rose to 53 from that country’s...
US President Donald Trump skipped a summit with his Southeast Asian counterparts for the third year in a row on Saturday, with rival China set to expand its influence with...
On November 13 in 1970, a young air force officer from the coastal hills of Syria launched a bloodless coup. It was the latest in a succession of military takeovers...
Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen will visit India in the second week of December to get engaged in consultation with India ahead of the virtual summit of Prime Minister Sheikh...
Two airports in Ethiopia’s Amhara state which neighbours Tigray where federal troops are fighting local forces were targeted by rocket fire late on Friday, the government said, reports Reuters. One...
Recovering from the Covid-19 crisis, restaurant sales have recently bounced back in Bangladesh. Ever since the coronavirus pandemic hit the country, the restaurant industry has been battling to survive against...
A daily pill combining four cholesterol and blood pressure medicines taken with low-dose aspirin cut the risk of heart attacks, strokes and heart-related deaths by nearly one third in a...
The ‘Bangabandhu Pierre Trudeau Agricultural Research Center’ is going to be set up in Bangladesh to conduct research in the field of agriculture for ensuring food security system tolerant of...
Farming of a variety of vegetables has changed the life of forty-year-old divorcee Achia Khatun, an inhabitant of Brahmaputra char under Chilmari area of Kurigram district. Achia started farming of...
Police arrested three people, including a woman, in Feni over the rape of a girl, recording the act on video, and then using it to blackmail the victim to claim...
Amid the number of people with diabetes surge, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres stressed need for strengthening health system as many diabetic patients are at “increased risk of severe disease...
Swiss companies will no longer be able to deduct bribes paid to private individuals from their taxes, Switzerland’s government has said, according to an update of tax laws due to...
The government has confirmed 14 new deaths from the COVID-19 illness in a day, raising the toll to 6,173. Coronavirus cases surged by 1,531 in the 24 hours to 8...
Thailand is expected to produce some 4.9 million tonnes of natural rubber throughout this year, said Rubber Authority of Thailand (RAOT) Governor Nakorn Tangavirapat on Saturday. Of the total natural...
The fourth edition of Joy Bangla Youth Award (JBYA), organised by Young Bangla, one of the largest youth platforms of the country, is set for November 17. The award is...
Iran on Saturday denied a New York Times report that al Qaeda’s second-in-command was killed in Iran in August by Israeli operatives at the behest of the United States. Iran’s...
Western Union said on Friday it was suspending US money transfers to Cuba in 10 days due to the Trump administration’s latest sanction on the Communist-run island, in a blow...
A total of 32 people were arrested in 14 separate cases until Saturday noon in connection with the arson attacks on buses in Dhaka on Thursday. Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP)...
Naquib Khan, renowned singer-composer-songwriter and founding frontman of pop-rock band Renaissance, has tested positive for Covid-19. "Naquib Khan has been tested positive for COVID-19. Please keep him in prayers," lyricist...
A suspected Yaba trader was killed in a reported gunfight with members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) at Sluice Gate in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar district early Saturday. The...
US President Donald Trump’s supporters will take to the streets on Saturday (local time) to back his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud as he pushes ahead with a flurry of...
A teenager in Bangladesh, Sadat Rahman, has won this year's International Children’s Peace Prize for his efforts to stop cyberbullying. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai presented the award during...
At least 10 civilians and five security personnel were killed in cross-border shelling between India and Pakistan on Friday, in one of this year’s deadliest days along the heavily militarised...
Two explosions went off in two different cities in Ethiopia’s Amhara state, which neighbours the northern state of Tigray where federal troops are fighting local forces. The explosions were reported...
Bangladesh’s maize production reached 5.4 million metric tonnes showing a sharp rise in the last one decade. However, the annual demand for maize still stands at 6.5 million to 7.0...
Italy has added more regions to its coronavirus high-risk "red zones" as cases across the country hit a new daily record. Campania and Tuscany will join other regions placed under...
The number of confirmed coronavirus (Covid-19) cases exceeded 53 million globally, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University. The confirmed Covid-19 cases reached 53, 284,867 with over 1,301,021...
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” This is what Chinese philosopher Confucius said of beauty in a diversified way, thousand years ago. This idea is still relevant if...
Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, accused of helping to mastermind the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran in August by Israeli operatives acting at the behest...
Stocks slipped into the red in the outgoing week that ended on Thursday as shaky investors opted for booking profit on sector-wise issues based on the latest corporate declarations. Week-on-week,...
The government will not provide new piped natural gas connections to industries to be located outside the country's designated economic zones, or EZs, after March 2021. The Energy and Mineral...
China has requested Bangladesh to reconsider its decision on putting off the jute sector modernisation project, which was supposed to be implemented with Chinese funds. But the government has shut...
Shippers using the Chittagong port are getting delayed delivery of containers, as the vessels need to wait nearly five days to get berthing. The congestions at the hub ports in...
Bangladesh is among top five economies recovering faster as a result of Chinese growth, according to an international publication. The five economies that are dodging bullets of COVID-19 are: China,...
Bangladesh's mobile financial service (MFS) has got a boost as its total transaction volume ballooned more than two and half times in four years, bankers and experts said on Friday....
Some leading listed pharmaceuticals companies saw a notable rise in their net profits during the third quarter (July-September) of the current calendar year, thanks to higher expenses of people on...
The slump in global trade, triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, hit the least developed countries (LDCs), including Bangladesh, as combined merchandise exports of these countries dropped by 16 per cent...
"Once upon a Time, there was no Time (watch) but there was Accounting". When a professor stated this statement in accounting class of our undergraduate program in University of Dhaka...
Since August 2017 over 700,000 Rohingya refugees arrived in Cox's Bazar from Myanmar's Rakhine State and settled in refugee camps. More than a half of them are women and girls,...
At the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, participants promised to advance the rights of women and girls everywhere. Part of that promise, set out in the...
Scholars across the world including those in Bangladesh ponder on the way public servants can be made more accountable, and their actions can be made realistic, complementary to development discourse,...
Job seekers have once again demanded an increase in the maximum age limit for government jobs to 35 years and a reduction of application fee. More than 50 job seekers...
Most of the streets in different neighbourhoods in Dhaka are not friendly to mobility of people. Even where the streets are quite wide, people do not enjoy the optimal benefit...
The Covid-19 pandemic caught the world unawares. The speed with which the pandemic virus spread was astounding. The world's health system proved inadequate to meet the challenge thrown by the...
With the entire humanity faced with a common mortal enemy, the covid-19 pandemic, the expectation was that the world would fight it as one. It turns out that things have...
A dominant attacking display has helped Bangladesh cruise past a depleted Nepal with a 2-0 win as international action returned to the country. After Nabib Newaz gave the hosts the...
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