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The public expenditure increased in the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal year (FY2020-21) but at its slowest pace in many years. Officials blamed the Covid-19 pandemic for the...
The interest rate spread in the country's banking system increased further in September 2020 as banks slashed rates on deposits more than those of lending. The weighted average spread between...
Two bus services from Dhaka to Jaflong and Bholaganj, popular tourist spots in Sylhet division, will start operating from November 2, with the aim to boost tourism in the country...
The prospect of meeting the just-announced procurement target for Aman this year remains somewhat clouded because of several factors. Notable among them are high prices of rice in the market,...
A multi-billion dollar fund is expected to' be established to pull in resources from various parties to set up a thriving economic belt connecting Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar. About...
Even many decades after people in the Indian sub-continent became acquainted with moving sound pictures on screen, i.e. cinema, the rural Bangladesh remained stuck in the culture of 'bioscope'. It...
Luis Arce won 55.1 per cent of the votes in the presidential election held on October 18 against six rival candidates including a former President. This election victory provided vindication...
A few days before the presidential election in the United States in November 1992, Bill Clinton enjoyed a good lead over President George H W Bush in every opinion poll....
In the midst of a global pandemic, it's hard to think of a policy that would improve people's wellbeing more than universal social protection. If people are to self-isolate to...
Tanzania’s two leading opposition parties said on Saturday they would not recognise the results of a presidential election that handed incumbent John Magufuli a second five-year term, reports Reuters. On...
Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said the government will sign a contract in the next 'two to four days' for getting the Covid-19 vaccine'. “We are keeping close contact with...
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...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said Bangladesh’s economy remains in a better position compared to all other neighbouring countries as the country has made a turnaround...
BNP standing committee member has said BNP did not get success in the movement against the government over the last 12 years only because of mental distance among the party...
Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim on Saturday said the government seeks to promote fish farming in cages, known as cage culture, in the country. "We're promoting fish farming...
The government is preparing to bring black money back to the country. News agency UNB has learnt that the government is planning to ink taxation agreements with as many as...
A Moroccan man was arrested in Barcelona for praising the beheading of a French schoolteacher outside Paris this month and inciting more attacks, police said on Saturday. The man, who...
After the recent proposal to raise the tax-free income ceiling and other reforms in the tax policy, it is the right time to ponder if Bangladesh has come to a...
Canada plans to bring in more than 1.2 million new immigrants over the next three years as the country tries to fill gaps in its labour market and boost the...
Rangpur Divisional Commissioner Abdul Wahab Bhuiyan has said there was a failure of local administration behind the incident of beating a man to death and burning the body by a...
Sir Sean Connery, the actor best known for his portrayal as James Bond, has died aged 90, Times of India reports citing the BBC on Saturday. The Scottish actor won...
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid said all studies till now show that local coal extraction for power generation is neither feasible nor cost-effective. He made...
Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), a national union of professional journalists, has placed a seven-point charter, including implementation of the ninth wage board for journalists. BFUJ leaders came up...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday called upon the country’s affluent section to extend cooperation to the destitute people in their respective villages for their better livelihood, saying a combined...
Border haats have immensely contributed towards socialisation and cultural exchanges between the people on both sides of the Bangladesh-India border, said Shirin Akhter, a member of parliament in Bangladesh. They...
The number of registered motorised vehicles in the country witnessed a drastic decline in the first nine months of the current calendar year, as per official data. A total of...
Bangladesh, home to tens of millions of poor people, has been quite successful over the last few decades in bringing children to school through various initiatives, including distribution of free...
Bangladesh has registered 1,320 new cases of the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 407,684, reports bdnews24.com. The death toll climbed to...
Police arrested 44 people with different types of contrabands drugs during drives in Dhaka in last 24 hours till 6:00am today (Saturday), an official release said. Around 2,722 pieces of...
The Bangladesh National Zoo in Mirpur is set to reopen its doors to visitors on Sunday under health protocols after nearly eight months of a shutdown due to the coronavirus...
Eleven new dengue cases were reported in the last 24 hours till Saturday morning, according to Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). A total of 37 dengue patients are currently...
HSBC has hit another milestone by successfully executing the first-ever crossborder Blockchain Letter-of-Credit (LC) transaction in Bangladesh. The transaction involved the import of 20,000MT of fuel oil by United Mymensingh...
Speakers at a recent programme stressed the importance of facilitating international investments in Bangladesh for fostering economic growth, creating employment, and tackling the potential fallout of the fourth industrial revolution. They...
Bangladesh has exceptionally denied the worldwide declining trend of remittance inflows in a pandemic-hit year, as, a World Bank projection says, the country may receive US$20 billion, or 8.0 per...
A woman was hacked to death allegedly by her husband over a family feud in Jamalganj upazila of Sunamganj district early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Samira Begum, daughter...
Rescue workers in western Turkish city of Izmir searched through rubble for survivors on Saturday after a powerful earthquake hit the Aegean Sea on Friday, as the death toll rose...
Some students at Thailand’s Thammasat University posed with cardboard cutouts of well-known critics of the monarchy on Saturday in a protest as King Maha Vajiralongkorn was to present degrees amid...
The Criminal Investigation Department or CID has arrested the head of Baitus Salat Jame Mosque's management committee in a case over the deadly air conditioner blasts that killed 34 people...
The waxwork museum Madame Tussauds in Berlin loaded its effigy of TV star-turned Republican President Donald Trump into a dumpster on Friday, a move apparently intended to reflect its expectations...
At least 70 shanties were gutted in a fire that broke out at Natunbazar slum in the capital's Kalyanpur on Friday night. Ershad Hossain, duty officer of Fire Service and...
The United States set a new all-time high for coronavirus cases confirmed in a single 24-hour period on Friday, reporting just over 0.1 million (100,000) new infections to surpass the...
Saudi Arabia plans to cancel a foreign worker sponsorship system, known as kafala, and replace it with a new form of contract between employers and employees, the financial newspaper Maaal...
France stepped up security nationwide on Friday to guard against Islamist attacks after the fatal stabbings at a church in Nice, while protests flared in parts of the Middle East,...
Paris St Germain's Brazil forward Neymar will be sidelined until after the international break in mid-November following his injury against Istanbul Basaksehir in the Champions League, the French club's coach...
A sign for a Covid-19 drive-thru testing site alongside US Highway 12 is seen as the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak continues in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US, October 23, 2020 --...
With four days remaining in the US presidential campaign, more than 85 million Americans have cast ballots, including 9 million in Texas, where the secretary of state’s office on Friday...
The bidding for eligible investors (EIs) to explore the cut-off price of Index Agro Industries shares will commence from tomorrow (Sunday) at 5:00pm. The company’s price bidding through electronic subscription...
The number of dengue cases has increased when it is supposed to drop ahead of winter as Bangladesh, like the other countries, continues to battle the novel coronavirus. Generally, cases...
Facebook Inc confirmed on Friday it was temporarily halting recommendations for all political groups and any new groups in the run-up to Tuesday’s US presidential election. Facebook’s Chief Executive Officer...
Retailers in Dhaka are selling newly arrived potatoes at Tk 150 a kilogram as the prices of old produce have crossed the fixed levels again after a brief drop. The...
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