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US President Donald Trump is testing how far he can go in using the trappings of presidential power to undermine confidence in this week’s election against Joe Biden, as the...
When a garbage collector came to Ghina Ghaliya’s house in the Indonesian capital and asked if she had an old mobile phone his children could use to access the internet,...
The US Federal Reserve has kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at the record-low level of near zero amid uncertainty about the final result of the presidential election. "Economic activity...
China successfully sent 13 satellites into orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in north China's Shanxi Province on Friday. The satellites, including 10 commercial remote sensing satellites developed by...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday urged world leaders to formulate a well-coordinated roadmap to face the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. "The Covid-19 pandemic has created a multifaceted...
US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden pulled ahead in the battleground state of Georgia by 917 votes as the tallying of votes continues in the state. Biden is locked in...
Coronavirus cases in the United States surged by at least 120,276 on Thursday, according to a Reuters tally, the second consecutive daily record rise as the outbreak spreads in every...
The health authorities reported 12 new dengue cases in Dhaka in the last 24 hours until Friday morning. No new cases of the mosquito-borne disease were reported from outside the...
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden gained more ground on President Donald Trump in the battleground states of Georgia and Pennsylvania on Friday, edging closer to the White House hours after...
The 36th span of the Padma Bridge has been installed this morning five days after setting up the previous one, making a 5400-metre or 5.4-km stretch of the main structure...
A fire that broke out at a light factory warehouse at Konapara of Matuail in Demra area of Dhaka on Thursday afternoon, was put out on Friday morning. The fire...
A total of 2,201 people died with Covid-19 symptoms in the last seven months from March 22 to October 31 across the country, according to a latest report. Of them,...
Slights and barbs have marred relations between France’s Emmanuel Macron and Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan for years, but the row over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad has dragged them to a...
A girl was raped in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat district on Wednesday evening at her sister’s house, her family said Thursday. The victim filed a case at Patgram Police station...
Japan will open an English-speaking support office for foreign asset management firms seeking to do business in the country in January, Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Friday, as it...
The World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday announced that the planned annual meetings scheduled to take place in Morocco in October 2021 will be postponed...
With his re-election chances fading as more votes are counted in a handful of battleground states, US President Donald Trump launched an extraordinary assault on the country’s democratic process from...
The farming of a China-origin edible oil seed, SAU Perilla-1, has primarily yielded a remarkable success in Khulna district. Two farmers Mehedi Hasan Bablu and Sheikh Monjur, hailing from Chugnagar...
Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp will start its payments service in India on Friday, the messaging app said in a blog post, after it received approval from the country’s leading payments processor...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is holding month-long mini-tax fairs in the field-level tax offices across the country to help taxpayers submit their tax returns without any hassle. All...
Fishermen resumed catching hilsa from Thursday as a 22-day ban on the same ended the previous day. The government imposed a ban on catching hilsa during the period from October...
A move to develop a nationwide expressway network for access controls on highways has remained halted for the past two years due to the authorities' inaction. The Roads and Highways...
The government has decided to convert the operations of Nagad into a subsidiary company instead of the existing joint-venture aiming to comply with mobile financial services rule and regulations properly....
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is likely to introduce the electronic payment system of VAT from November 20, 2020. The VAT payers would then be able to pay the...
Bangladesh is likely to lose US$7.0 billion worth of export earnings annually after graduation to a developing nation status in 2024, a government report estimates. The report said the country...
Different areas of the city will undergo serial blackouts for eight hours from 8am to 4pm as Dhaka Electric Supply Company Limited (Desco) will conduct annual maintenance works in power...
The securities regulator has got the right issue -- diversion of the fund by the listed companies at the cost of their shareholders. It is, however, one of many financial...
The power of information technology is stupendous. It has brought not just the global population but in a way the universe closer. Not only has the world become a global...
Reports say Covid-19 vaccines are soon likely to be announced as having successfully passed all trials and are set to hit the market. Leading pharmaceutical companies around the globe have...
A devastating fire broke out in a multi-storied building at Konapara under Demra in the capital on Thursday evening. The fire originated on the sixth floor of the 11-storey building...
Anti-quota movement leader Nazmul Hasan Shohag has been arrested in Dhaka on rape charges brought by a Dhaka University student. The 28-year old close associate of former DUCSU vice-president Nurul...
The 10th Bangladesh Chemistry Olympiad will be held on Friday. Bangladesh Chemical Society is going to arrange the event in the country virtually. A total of 2,268 students of eleven...
Few will believe that in his 75-year life, Abul Hasnat had led eventful phases since his early youth up to the weeks before his death on November 1. Fewer will...
The impressive GDP growth over the last decade, thanks to a significant industrial expansion during this period, has raised energy demand in Bangladesh. To address this increasing demand, Bangladesh has...
Given the very large size of population, increasing health awareness, and growing purchase capacity, Bangladesh is supposed to be a major consumer of pharmaceutical products in the world. The high...
Bangladeshi cable operators have taken Star Group television channels off air after failing to resolve their dispute with pay channel provider Jadoo Vision Ltd. The Cable Operators Association of Bangladesh...
The government has formulated four Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to improve labour inspections and thus ensuring decent working conditions in all workplaces The Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments...
The Dhaka University authorities have chalked out elaborate programmes on the occasion of the university’s founding centenary and golden juvenile of the county’s great Liberation War. With the theme “Achieving...
Indian air carrier Vistara has launched its flight operations to Bangladesh under the air bubble agreement between the neighbouring amid the coronavirus pandemic. State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism...
Only 8.0 per cent of the country’s total employment has been covered by various stimulus packages worth Tk 1.13 trillion announced by the government to help offset the economic fallout...
Four Bangladeshi workers were killed and dozens injured in a road accident in the Pail area near Port Louise on Thursday morning. Identities of the deceased could not be known...
Democrat Joe Biden moved closer to victory in the US presidential race on Thursday as election officials tallied votes in the handful of states that will determine the outcome and...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the government has been working to build a vibrant blue economy by utilising marine resources for Bangladesh's economic prosperity. "We not only want...
A study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests the eye's cornea can resist infection from the novel coronavirus. Prior research in human and mouse...
"Remember, remember! The fifth of November, The gunpowder treason and plot; I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot!" This is what a traditional old...
While the lion's share of mitigation funding for climate change in Bangladesh comes from international sources, only 8. 0 per cent of it is spent on mitigation activities, a latest...
Bangladesh has recorded 17 deaths and 1,842 new cases of the novel coronavirus in las 24 hours. The death toll reaches 6,021 while the tally of infections so far 416,006,...
The bilateral trade between Bangladesh and Pakistan reached US$543.90 million in the fiscal year 2019-20. Of the total trade, Bangladesh’s export to Pakistan stood at US$50.54 million while the country’s...
Paris will be placed under more restrictions to curb the worsening Covid-19 pandemic, including a requirement for more shops to close in the evening, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo told BFM...
An Indian government-backed COVID-19 vaccine could be launched as early as February - months earlier than expected - as last-stage trials begin this month and studies have so far shown...
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