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Around 72 per cent of the firms surveyed are yet to receive any stimulus package, according to a survey of South Asian Network of Economic Modeling (SANEM). The major challenges...
After years of delays caused by red tape, cutbacks and opposition from religious and political factions, the first government-funded mosque in Athens since 1833 opened its doors to worshippers on...
Fifteen more people were diagnosed with dengue fever in the past 24 hours until early Saturday. All of the new patients were from Dhaka, and the 52 people who are...
A shortage of foreign funds has affected the uncertain lives of the Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh, with only a little over half the required funds received this year amid...
As President Donald Trump fumes over the unfolding US presidential election results, some of his Republican fellows in Congress have hinted that he ought to tone down his rhetoric. Three...
The United Arab Emirates announced on Saturday a major overhaul of the country’s Islamic personal laws, allowing unmarried couples to cohabitate, loosening alcohol restrictions and criminalising so-called “honour killings.” The...
Ivory Coast opposition leader and former prime minister Pascal Affi N’Guessan was under arrest on Saturday for creating a rival government after President Alassane Ouattara’s election victory, his wife and...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan fired central bank governor Murat Uysal on Saturday and replaced him with ex-finance minister Naci Agbal, after a 30 per cent plunge in the lira currency’s...
Prices for steel scrap into Bangladesh continued to move up during the week to Thursday November 5 amid supply-side tightness and high freight costs, sources told Fastmarkets. But steel demand...
A thick quilt of smog lingered over the Indian capital and its suburbs on Friday, fed by smoke from raging agricultural fires that health experts worry could worsen the city’s...
All Bangladeshi expatriates would eventually be able to cast their votes in general elections from overseas as the Election Commission (EC) plans to issue National Identity (NID) cards to Bangladeshi...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called on the rich countries and international development banks and institutions to help the least developed and developing countries secure free COVID-19 vaccines. She made...
Detectives in a drive arrested the prime accused in a case over the lynching of a young man for ‘disrespecting Quran’ in Burimari of Lalmonirhat, from Kuril Biswa Road in...
The deadly Nipah virus kills nearly 75 per cent of the people it infects, but the circumstances under which the bat species, known as the Indian flying fox, transmits the...
Bangladesh has confirmed 13 new deaths from the Covid-19 in a day, raising the toll to 6,049. Virus cases surged by 1,289 in the 24 hours to 8:00am Saturday to...
Hundreds of Hindus, Buddhists and Christians on Saturday staged protests against recent attacks on them in the country. They staged the protests under the banner of Bangladesh Hindu Bouddha Christian...
Lankan Alliance Finance Limited (LAFL), a subsidiary of Peoples’ Bank - the largest state owned bank of Sri Lanka, recently signed a loan agreement with Padakhep Manabik Unnayan Kendra (Padakhep)...
Mr Noor Mohammed was appointed as the Deputy Managing Director of Jamuna Bank Limited (JBL) on November 1, 2020. Prior to joining JBL, he worked for United Commercial Bank Limited...
Ethiopian jets bombed the Tigray region on Friday and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed pledged more air strikes in the escalating conflict, as reports emerged that Tigrayan forces had seized control...
Drugmakers and research centres around the world are working on Covid-19 vaccines, with large global trials of several of the candidates involving tens of thousands of participants well underway. Some...
The state of Georgia is playing an unusual power-broker role in the knife-edge balance-of-power struggle playing out between Democrats and Republicans over the US Senate following Tuesday’s elections. Georgia’s two...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said there will be no poverty in Bangladesh if multidimensional rural cooperatives can be established. "It’s proven…if we can build multidimensional rural cooperatives, there’ll...
France has recorded 60,486 coronavirus cases in one day, its highest one-day total since the pandemic began. The new figures bring the number of confirmed cases in the country to...
A former leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League allegedly committed suicide by taking poison at Harishchandrakathi village in Tala upazila in Satkhira on Friday. The deceased was identified as Riad Hossain...
Child killings in Bangladesh witnessed a drastic increase in the first 10 months of this year compared to the same period of the previous year, according to a local rights...
A man was killed and several others were injured when a train hit a bus at Sonakhali level crossing in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur early Saturday. Rail communication between Dhaka...
Democrat Joe Biden said Friday that he was going to win the US presidency as his lead grew over President Donald Trump in battleground states, although television networks held off...
Republicans are trying to raise at least $60 million to fund legal challenges brought by President Donald Trump over the US presidential election’s results, three sources familiar with the matter...
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who has frequently appeared at public events without wearing a mask, has been diagnosed with Covid-19, a source familiar with the situation told...
The earnings per share (EPS) of most of the listed non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) fell in the nine months to September this year compared to that of the corresponding period...
The government is considering converting the existing dollar bonds into multi-currency investment tools to attract more non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) to the state-run investment scheme, officials said. In a recent meeting,...
The insurance regulator wants to popularise insurance in the country and ensure good governance in the companies in order to make the industry stable, accountable and transparent. Dr M Mosharraf...
Democrat Joe Biden moved closer to winning the White House on Friday as he expanded his lead over President Donald Trump in battleground states, but television networks held off from...
The World Bank (WB) has agreed to finance the country's western economic corroder with a view to facilitating a smart connectivity there, an official said on Friday. The Washington-based lender...
Bangladesh has been ranked the third worst-performing country in the world in terms of attracting green-field foreign direct investment (FDI), according to a global ranking. "Greenfield" investment is a type...
A government agency has suggested retaliation by issuing similar harsh rules unless India agrees to withdraw its newly-enacted customs rules, which are likely to make it tough for Bangladesh to...
Democrat Joe Biden was on the cusp of winning the presidency on Friday as he opened up narrow leads over President Donald Trump in the critical battlegrounds of Georgia and...
The Covid-19 pandemic has wrecked havoc throughout this world and Bangladesh has not been spared either. All the sectors including health, communication, and economy have been affected by this deadly...
The global Covid-19 pandemic plunged all kinds of businesses into a severe economic downturn. It is very normal that if there is an epidemic, there will be an economic recession....
The concept of agent banking seeks inclusion of unbanked groups to banking channel and expansion of payment and transactional services by reducing costs and increasing efficiency. Agent banking models are...
The Western civilisation since Industrial Revolution two and a half centuries ago has been thriving on fossil fuel-powered machines. And commercial production of electricity with coal-fired generators began around one...
In the pre-pandemic days, all discussions about e-commerce were largely centred on promoting it as a way of doing business. With the physical movements severely curtailed during the pandemic-induced shutdowns,...
Border haat is 'a rough-and-ready market' allowing 'local people to trade in locally-grown agricultural and manufactured' items along the border. The core idea behind the border haat is to provide...
Former Vice President Joe Biden has taken the lead in his birth state of Pennsylvania as the number of outstanding ballots has dwindled, putting the Democrat within striking distance of...
Four members of a family were killed and four others injured in a collision between a truck, a CNG-run auto-rickshaw and a private car on the Cumilla-Sylhet highway in Syedabad...
Whatever the ultimate costs to nations and its duration, Covid-19 will leave planet earth one day, hopefully soon. But when it does, it will not be with a whimper but...
The government has asked Shah Makhdum Medical College (SMMC) in Rajshahi to shut its operations due to violation of the Private Medical College Installation and Operating rules and regulations. Simultaneously,...
A religious charity has opened the first school in Bangladesh for hijras, a transgender community whose members face widespread discrimination in the mostly conservative Muslim society and often live in...
Two days later, an uneasy United States is still waiting to hear who will be its next president. With Democrat Joe Biden pushing closer to the 270 Electoral College votes...
Both the number of cases lodged and the amount of fine witnessed a significant rise in the ninth month of the current calendar year compared to any previous months as...
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