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Bangladesh has registered another 20 deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours till 8:00am on Tuesday, taking the death toll to 5,838 in the country. Besides, some 1,335 fresh...
A month-long ‘Heritage Handloom Festival-2020’ will kick off on Wednesday in Dhaka aimed at promoting local handloom products and protecting the extinction of traditional items. However, considering the coronavirus (Covid-19)...
The Australian High Commission is pleased to announce the release of Australia’s coronavirus (Covid-19) Development Response Plan for Bangladesh for 2020 to 2021. The plan will guide Australia’s whole-of-government response...
Dhaka Stock Exchange on Tuesday closed marginally lower amid choppy trading throughout the whole session. On the day, major sectors such as bank, financial institutions and pharmaceuticals witnessed price correction....
HSBC Holdings on Tuesday signalled it would embark on a pandemic-induced overhaul of its business model, seeking to flip its main source of income from interest rates to fee-based businesses....
The United States, Russia, France and many other countries are setting records for coronavirus infections as a tidal wave of cases washes over parts of the Northern Hemisphere, forcing some...
A Barguna court has jailed 11 adolescents and acquitted three others in the daylight murder of Refat Shorif in the district town. Among those convicted by the court on Tuesday,...
Hundreds of Thousands angry protesters have staged demonstration in Dhaka in protest against depicting Prophet Muhammad in France. Islami Andolan Bangladesh, an Islamic political party in the country, organised the...
China’s foreign ministry said the country will take necessary measures to uphold its sovereignty and security interests, after the United States approved a further $2.4 billion in potential arms sales...
After seven months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, Bangladesh Forest Department is expected to reopen the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest and a UNESCO World Heritage Site,...
Guardian Life Insurance Ltd and Thyssenkrupp Elevator (BD) Private Ltd have recently signed a group insurance agreement. Under the agreement, all the employees of Thyssenkrupp Elevator (BD) Private Limited will...
Irfan Selim, son of MP Haji Selim, will be sacked from the post of councilor as he was jailed by a Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) mobile court for the unlawful...
Emirates will introduce scheduled Airbus A380 services to Amman as part of its expanded schedule of 10 weekly services. The iconic A380 will begin serving travellers to and from Amman...
Inflows of global foreign direct investment (FDI) fell 49.0 per cent in the first half (H1) of the current year ‘due to the economic fallout from Covid-19’. The latest Global...
The United States and China must work together to confront the threat posed by China to security and freedom, US Secretary Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday as he prepared for...
Detectives arrested another associate of Irfan Selim from Tangail district early Tuesday in a case filed in connection with the assault on an official of Bangladesh Navy in the capital...
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned cartoons offending the Prophet Muhammad and any attempts to link Islam with terrorism but did not echo calls by other Muslim states for action against...
A bomb blast at a religious seminary in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday killed at least seven people, including children, and wounded dozens, police and hospital officials said....
Holiday shoppers braving the coronavirus pandemic to buy gifts in person are checking which stores are naughty or nice in terms of public health, a worldwide survey released on Monday...
Illegal occupation and pollution have threatened the existence of the old Gomti river in Cumilla city. Influential people continue to occupy parts of the river banks and build shops and...
Rajbari Fort in Kendua upazila of Netrakona district is one of the historical sites under the ancient rulers of Bengal. The fort bears witness to many historical events. The ground...
Democratic presidential challenger Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by a solid margin in Wisconsin and maintains a narrower advantage in Pennsylvania with just over a week until Election Day,...
Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan has asked his compatriots to stop buying French goods in the latest expression of anger in the Muslim world over images being displayed in France of...
India will sign a military agreement with the United States for sharing of sensitive satellite data, the defence ministry said on Monday, as the two sides began a top-level security...
Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has sought 40 per cent higher funds and 40 more months to complete the widening work of a 190-km Elenga-Rangpur four-lane highway, insiders said on...
The Chittagong-Cox's Bazar Railway Project will introduce use of sensor system to detect the presence of elephants near rail-tracks to avoid accidents, according to a publication of the Asian Development...
Installation of solar irrigation pumps is facing severe obstruction due to non-availability of grant fund, officials have sad. The Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL) did not approve any new applications...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) has finally accepted a proposal put forward by Dhaka Metro Rail Company to link its under-construction mass rapid transit line-6 (MRT-6) with Kamalapur station. The state-owned train...
Country's banks are reluctant to establish direct transaction links with the Russian banks amid the fear of possible US sanction, officials said. The fear was expressed in a position paper...
Bangladesh has ranked 133rd for mobile internet speed and 98th in the index for fixed broadband speed in September, according to Ookla's Speedtest Global Index. In terms of cellular speed,...
The state-run Petrobangla has extended the tenure of contract with India's oil and gas exploration company -- ONGC Videsh Ltd -- by two more years until February 2023. The deal...
The City Bank, one of the leading commercial banks in Bangladesh, has adopted Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to help it modenise the key applications underpinning its business as it seeks to...
Education officials will begin assessing the academic progress of secondary school students on Nov 01 after the government decided to cancel this year's annual examinations amid the coronavirus pandemic, reports...
To the people in the low and middle income brackets what matter most in their daily lives are the prices of kitchen market items. These we popularly term 'daily essentials',...
To stand by people during their bad times is a major human instinct. Many in the richer segments in society can remain aloof when short or long-term sufferings overwhelm humanity....
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged Monday for Turks to boycott French goods and urged European Union leaders to halt French leader Emmanuel Macron's "anti-Islam" agenda, reports Reuters. For a third...
The busting of two counterfeiting dens in the capital's Mohammadpur area by the detective branch (DB) police within a week confirms increasing activities of counterfeiters, as observed by a member...
Sharadiya Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, ended on Monday with the immersion of idols of goddess Durga and her children on the fifth day of...
European leaders warned of a bleak winter as resurgent COVID-19 infections forced countries to impose new restrictions to try to curb a second wave of the pandemic, with the United...
Covid-19 has hit Latin America and the Caribbean harder than other parts of the world, both in human and economic terms. The relatively large human toll is evident: with only...
The sweetest memory of most kids of 90s is coming back home from a game of cricket in the afternoon and sitting in front of the television for the latest...
Don Beit in his article "The Coming Storm" published in the June 2011 National Geographic Magazine suggested that "Rather than pitying Bangladesh, we may end up learning from her example"....
The fight for top six places in the English Premier League is now more competitive than ever with teams like Leicester City entering the equation to aim for European qualifications....
A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has sentenced Irfan Selim, son of lawmaker Haji Selim, and his bodyguard Mohammed Jahid to a year in jail for the unlawful...
The Rapid Action Battalion has seized illegal firearms, ammunition and liquor during a raid on the home of Irfan Selim, son of Awami League MP Haji Mohammad Selim, in Dhaka,...
Mobile financial service (MFS) providers are going to launch interoperable transactions from Tuesday on a pilot basis. The service will enable fund transfer between MFS accounts and regular bank accounts,...
A fire broke out at a footwear factory at Temgra Bazar in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur on Monday. Senior station officer of Sreepur Fire Service, Mia Raz, said the fire...
Iran extended COVID-19 curbs in Tehran and across the country on Monday as health authorities said they were recording a death from the virus every four minutes. Some hospitals had...
China will impose sanctions on some US companies for their reported involvement in selling arms to Taiwan Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on Monday said that China was acting...
The University Grants Commission will soon sit with the vice-chancellors of universities to take the final decision on holding online admission tests of public universities. The University Council, a platform...
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