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Inspectors from the UN’s atomic watchdog have confirmed Iran has started building an underground centrifuge assembly plant after its previous one exploded in what Tehran called a sabotage attack over...
US Republican President Donald Trump questioned the integrity of the national election again on Tuesday, saying it would be “inappropriate” to take extra time to count the tens of millions...
Md. Sajedul Islam, managing director of Shyamol Equity Management Ltd, has been made vice-president of DSE Brokers Association (DBA). He also served as director of the DBA, according to a...
Four separate cases were filed against Irfan Selim, the suspended Councilor of Ward no 30 of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), and his bodyguard Zahid under the Arms Act and...
The board of directors of Marico Bangladesh Ltd, one of the leading listed multinational companies, has declared a 200 per cent interim cash dividend based on six months financials for...
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY: The Rajshahi University (RU) authorities have decided to hold admission tests in person to enrol first-year honours students for the academic session of 2020-21 despite the prevailing pandemic...
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a US government request to drop Donald Trump as a defendant in a defamation lawsuit by a writer who said the president falsely denied...
The board of directors of Olympic Industries Ltd has recommended a 52 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2020. The annual general meeting (AGM) will...
Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu resigned from the club on Tuesday ahead of a vote of no confidence that was due to be held next month after some 20,000 fans...
In the wake of the second wave of Covid pandemic in Europe, Bangladesh is going to take some precautionary measures, although the country has no plan so far to shut...
The country's plastic and packaging industry is projected to grow at a rate of 15 per cent annually, and generate fresh employment for around 0.5 million people by 2026, sources...
Renata has recommended 130 per cent cash and 10 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2020. The company's board of directors has made the recommendation...
The parliamentary watchdog on commerce ministry has recommended creating a comprehensive database of key essentials like potato and onion to prevent price spiral in the future. The database will have...
The government has released a sum of over Tk 18.31 billion in favour of the Bangladesh Bank for the payment of cash incentives to local exporters, officials said. It is...
The commerce ministry has sought necessary steps from the finance ministry to extend the existing loan repayment tenure to six years with one-year grace period. The country's apparel owners took...
The country's overall Balance of Payments (BoP) posted a surplus at over US$ 3.0 billion in the July-September period, according to the central bank of Bangladesh. Many economists believe the...
The Department of Environment has suspended the operations of 22 illegal garment washing factories and liquid waste treatment plants in Keraniganj, on the outskirts of the capital, for not having...
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Tuesday said Bangladesh has regained 40 per cent of readymade garment (RMG) export orders, which were cancelled by different countries amid COVID-19, due to...
A Dhaka court on Tuesday framed charges against Jamaat-e-Islami chief Shafikur Rahman and 185 others in a sabotage case. The charges were framed in the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan...
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has tested positive for Covid-19, global soccer's governing body said on Tuesday. Infantino, who is 50 years old, has reported mild symptoms and is in self-isolation...
Professor Yusuf Mahbubul Islam, one of the pioneering scholars in computer science education and research in Bangladesh, has been appointed dean of School of Engineering, Technology and Science (SETS) at...
Chairman of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) Shibli Rubayat-Ul-Islam has said investment in mutual funds is much more profitable than the fixed deposits in banks. “The clients can...
After the unprecedented hit to economic activity in emerging market economies from the Covid-19 pandemic, their economic output is projected to shrink by 3.30 per cent in 2020. Central banks...
Buffeted for six decades by the United States (US) economic blockade and recently having had to cope with restrictions on daily life and work due to Covid-19, Cuba's already shaky...
The government is going to amend its existing labour laws to accommodate some suggestions on labour right issues from the European Union (EU) and International Labour Organisation (ILO). The aim...
No doubt, things did not turn out as bad as many had predicted soon after the pandemic struck the country. The countrywide 'holidays' (a better coining for lockdown) also looked...
Surveys conducted in the past two decades suggested that most entrepreneurs complained about malpractice, harassment and red-tapism in any kind of service delivery in the country. Corruption, as it does,...
The ferocity of the 2020 presidential election in the United States is not about Donald Trump per se, but about what he represents: the racist structures of power that have...
The Committee for Development Policy (CDP) of the United Nation's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is going for the second triennial review of Bangladesh's performance for LDC graduation during February...
The government has suspended Irfan Selim, the councillor of Ward No. 30 under Dhaka South City Corporation, from his post as a mobile court sentenced him to one year in...
France has warned its citizens living or travelling in Bangladesh and several Muslim-majority countries to take extra security precautions as anger surged over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). The...
Anzar Mustaeen Ali, a six-year-old from Bangladesh, has won a special prize of $1,000 for his beautiful artwork. Indian High Commissioner Vikram K Doraiswami handed over the cheque to him...
Tata-SIA joint venture airline Vistara on Tuesday said it will launch flight services to Bangladesh from India, starting November 5, under the recently signed air bubble agreement between the two...
The following article appeared on theparliamentmagazine.eu on October 27, 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the world economy hard. In many countries, the second wave has arrived bringing new restrictions....
Spicejet has announced eight new flights between India and Bangladesh. The low-cost carrier will operate these flights under the air bubble arrangement between the two countries. SpiceJet will operate non-stop...
Bank Asia Limited and Bangladesh Institute for ICT Development (BIID) have signed an agreement aiming to foster entrepreneurship among women and rural youths through Business Incubation facility under B-Lab initiative,...
The voters of Monroe County, Michigan, may have expected an economic windfall when they flipped from supporting Democrat Barack Obama to help put Donald Trump in the White House in...
President M Abdul Hamid returned home on Tuesday morning after a health check-up at a hospital in Dubai of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). “A special VVIP aircraft (BG-148) of...
The government has approved a Tk 3.19 billion project to improve road safety, including traffic infrastructures development, as well as reducing traffic congestion in the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC)...
Hollywood star Johnny Depp will find out on Nov 2 the outcome of his libel action against a British newspaper which labelled him a "wife beater", a ruling which could...
Antibodies against the novel coronavirus declined rapidly in the British population during the summer, a study found on Tuesday, suggesting protection after infection may not be long lasting and raising...
Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) has launched a one-stop service centre for EBL cards called EBL SKYCARE at Banani Safura Tower on October 22, 2020. The centre is providing safe, fast,...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that international cooperation is the only way to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate emergency. "International cooperation is the only way to...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with CloudWell Limited on utility bill payment recently, said a press release. Md Omar Faruk Khan and Md Mosharraf...
The UN human rights body has expressed serious concerns over the human rights situation and called on the government of Myanmar to take measures to ensure that the right to...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam has recovered from Covid-19. Farid Uddin, APS of the mayor, confirmed the matter today, reports BSS citing a release. Earlier on...
Some 225,582 expatriate Bangladeshis from 29 countries returned home in last seven months till October 24 due to various reasons including lack of jobs amid global epidemic and expiration of...
Saimur Rahaman, 45, has emerged himself as a prospective fish farming entrepreneur since his engagement in fish rearing and farming business for the last decade. Rahman, a resident of Seroil...
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) on Tuesday to work jointly for research. DCCI President Shams...
Japan's cabinet approved a plan on Tuesday to use public funds to provide novel coronavirus vaccines to the public for free, reports Reuters. The plan also calls for the government...
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