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The main purpose of this article is to discuss how research findings can inform policies/strategies for Covid-19 containment in the context of a developing country like Bangladesh. Primarily, insights will...
Myanmar is gearing up for another parliamentary, state, and local elections. They are scheduled for November 8, 2020- a few days away. Their government has been trying to portray this...
US President Donald Trump's refrain that the US "is turning the corner" on the coronavirus pandemic just at a time when his country has started reporting a record number of...
Even three decades ago, the aerial view of the port city of Chattogram could be made out distinctively. The green undulating city interspersed with hills and hillocks, its sparsely populated...
A statistical mismatch is not an extraordinary issue. It does happen, in many cases. But when the gap in data compiled by different entities is very wide, there are genuine...
The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel seized smuggled goods and drugs, worth Tk 649.0 million from across the country last month. Besides, 363 people were arrested for smuggling goods and...
Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Sunday said discussions are underway with different countries for procuring coronavirus vaccines once they are available. “Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) will soon be signed with...
A Dhaka court on Sunday placed suspended DSCC councillor Irfan Selim and his bodyguard Zahidul Mollah on a two-day fresh remand in a case filed over assaulting a navy official....
At least two people were killed and five were wounded after being stabbed by a man wearing medieval clothes near the Parliament Hill area of Quebec City, Canada late on...
With two days to go, Democrat Joe Biden holds a commanding national lead over US President Donald Trump amid deep voter concerns about the coronavirus pandemic, but Trump is keeping...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) wants International broadcast for the upcoming Bangabandhu T20 tournament in a bid to make it a more gorgeous event. A total of 75 local cricketers...
The Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) has declared a three-month-long promotional programme to encourage more transactions in bulk and foreign windows. In a statement, the port-city bourse said its member brokers...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has further relaxed repayment of loans by allowing the borrowers to pay their dues to financial institutions in more instalments considering the effects of Covid-19 pandemic, reports...
Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury on Sunday said Bangladesh Digital Survey (BDS), to be launched soon in Patuakhali and Barguna, will be conducted in phases across the country. The updated record obtained...
The Bangladesh cricket lovers are eagerly waiting to see Shakib Al Hasan back on the field after the completion of his one-year ban imposed by ICC due to failing to...
Walton Electronics has launched a ‘Digital Campaign’ of TV with the declaration of guaranteed cash discounts up to 50 per cent on the purchase of its any model of LED...
Seven pro-democratic lawmakers were arrested in Hong Kong on Sunday on charges related to obstructing a legislative council meeting in May, they said on Facebook, a move that comes after...
Tourists have started to visit Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, from today (Sunday) after a seven-month-long closure because of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19). Earlier, the Forest...
State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam has rejected allegations made by some senators of the United States against the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), terming them propaganda against Bangladesh....
The central bank has extended the deadline for executing the stimulus package for the cottage, micro, small and medium enterprises (CMSMEs) further by one more month. As per decision the...
In the wake of the second wave of Covid-19 attack across Europe, the government has decided to take stricter screening measures at the airports and land ports. The decision was...
The United States has said it wants to help Bangladesh to diversify its private sector to move some of it away from the ready-made garment (RMG) industry into other high-value...
A staggering 74 per cent of Bangladeshi youth are not taking any initiative to upskill themselves for post-COVID-19 job market challenges, according to a survey. Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center (BYLC),...
Some 28 per cent youth aged above 18 left studies to support their families amid the Covid-19 pandemic in the country, according to an online survey conducted by Citizen’s Platform...
As the densely-populated Dhaka city braces for serious air pollution in the dry season like previous years, health experts warn that dirty air during this winter may help coronavirus turn...
Bangladesh has reported another 18 deaths and 1,568 new cases of novel coronavirus in last 24 hours. The death toll climbed to 5,941 while the number of infected people is...
Bangladesh shop owners have asked all customers to wear masks before entering any market, supershop and shopping mall, as fears of a second wave of the coronavirus linger in the...
A sexagenarian man was held on Saturday night for allegedly raping his domestic help in Boalkhali upazila of Chattogram. The arrestee was identified as Hazi Fazal Karim,65, a resident of...
Stocks ended higher on Sunday, the first trading day of November, as bargain hunters showed a buying spree on lucrative issues based on corporate declarations. DSEX, the key index of...
The question of whether it is the mind or the body that pulls the strings of the self is still inconclusive. At least for once in our lives, the question...
A Dhaka court on Sunday sentenced three men to death for killing North South University student Saidur Rahman Payel. Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 Judge Abu Zafar Mohammad Kamruzzaman handed down...
Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL) has won three awards from VISA for its performance in product innovation and cards business. The award ceremony was held at a Webinar recently, according to...
Several hundred students of different private medical and dental colleges have blocked the Shahbagh intersection demanding immediate restart of their classes and cutting of fees, UNB reports. They started the...
A tribunal in Kushtia on Sunday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping a woman in 2019. The convict was identified as Mohammad Jewel, 32, son of Billal Hossain...
An UK-Bangladesh joint venture company is going to invest 15.5 million US dollars at Adamjee Export Processing Zone in the port city of Narayanganj, Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA)...
A Greek Orthodox priest was shot and badly wounded on Saturday at a church in the French city of Lyon by an assailant who then fled, a police source and...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said in the wake of massive Covid-19 outbreak again across the globe, the time has come to reintroduce coronavirus tests for every inbound passenger...
The total cost of the 2020 US election, including presidential and congressional, will near 14 billion US dollars, a sum more than what was spent during the last two election...
A farmer in Chaugachha upazila of Jashore has made a fortune simultaneously growing dragon and plum fruits on the same land. Witnessing his overwhelming success, many other farmers of the...
Abul Hasnat, eminent litterateur and editor of Kali O Kalam, a literary monthly magazine, has passed away. He breathed his last at Anwar Khan Modern Medical College Hospital in Dhaka...
Berger Paints Bangladesh Ltd is going to invest Tk 914.8 million by Jenson & Nicholson (Bangladesh) Ltd for the establishment of a second unit of the subsidiary at Savar. The...
Stocks posted a marginal gain in early trading on Sunday as investors remained cautious amid the ongoing earnings and dividend declarations session. Following the previous week’s downturn, the Dhaka Stock...
Share trading of Zeal Bangla Sugar Mills resumes today (Sunday), after remaining suspended for the seven weeks due to abnormal price hike of its share price. The Bangladesh Securities and...
England faces a month of nationwide lockdown restrictions from Thursday after Boris Johnson detailed new plans in a bid to combat coronavirus. Pubs, restaurants, gyms and non-essential shops will close,...
A record 90 million Americans have voted early in the US presidential election, data on Saturday showed, as President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden campaigned across the...
A mother and three of her children were pulled to safety on Saturday after being trapped for almost 18 hours under a building in the western Turkish city of Izmir...
Amazon.com Inc has complained to India's market regulator that its local partner Future Retail Ltd misled shareholders by incorrectly saying it was complying with its contractual obligations to the US...
Shut for seven and a half months, all four major tourist spots in Sylhet division including the Lawachhara National Park, Satchhari National Park, Madhabkunda Eco Park and the Tilagar Eco...
Speakers during a webinar on Saturday said local government institutions receive only around 1.0 per cent of the total fiscal budget. They highly depend on grants and central government transfers,...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has called upon the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector lending window of the World Bank Group, to reduce the rate of interest on...
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