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Depression over northwest Bay and adjoining west-central Bay is set to bring heavy rainfall at many parts of the country in 48 hours from Thursday night till Saturday, said met...
France extended curfews to around two thirds of its population on Thursday and Belgium's foreign minister was taken into intensive care with COVID-19, as the second wave of the pandemic...
Beijing has assured Dhaka that it would take initiatives to arrange the second round of foreign ministerial level ‘tripartite talks’ among Bangladesh, China and Myanmar over Rohingya repatriation after next...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the United Nations (UN) to play a more decisive and robust role in resolving existing global challenges, including the Rohingya crisis. “There are still...
The mobile financial service (MFS) providers of Bangladesh will introduce interoperable transactions as part of efforts to encourage cash-free dealings. Money can be transferred between bKash, Nagad, Rocket, and other...
Thai street food sellers have earned the nickname "CIA" for the intelligence that helps them reach protests not only before police, but before many protesters too. Selling everything from fishballs...
Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque on Friday said that no one in the country is facing starvation amid the coronavirus pandemic thanks to the agriculture-friendly policy of the prime minister. He...
Hackers allegedly sponsored by Russia have been trying to break into US state and local government computer networks and in two instances were successful, US government agencies said on Thursday...
A defining moment in Thailand's growing protest movement started with the unannounced arrival of a champagne-coloured Rolls Royce stretch limousine on a Bangkok street. When Queen Suthida's motorcade slowed as...
Shilpakala Academy is set to provisionally reopen after a seven-month hiatus amid the coronavirus pandemic. Three theatre troupes will stage plays at the academy's National Theatre, Experimental Theatre Hall and...
Bangladesh registered another 14 deaths from coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the past 24 hours to 8:00 am on Friday, taking the total number of fatalities to 5,761 in the country,...
Libya’s warring sides signed an agreement for “a permanent ceasefire in all areas of Libya”, the United Nations Libya mission said in a Facebook post on Friday, showing live video...
Vietnam's economy is expected to grow by 3.0 per cent in 2020, with rising consumption on improving sentiments and faster manufacturing driving the growth in the last quarter of this...
Bangladesh’s cybersecurity platform BGD e-GOV CIRT has said it on Thursday organised the country’s first ever cyber drill. A total of 35 teams from different types of organisations, including banks...
A total of 2,198 people died with Covid-19 symptoms in the last seven months from March 22 to October 17 across the country, according to a latest report. Of them,...
Seventy years after Chinese troops entered the Korean War to fight against US troops, President Xi Jinping said on Friday that China will never allow its sovereignty, security and development...
Britain and Japan formally signed a trade agreement on Friday, marking Britain’s first big post-Brexit deal on trade, as it continues to struggle to agree on a deal with its...
The term of the Seventh Five-Year Plan ended in June, but the government failed to finalise a new plan by then as the coronavirus pandemic gripped Bangladesh, bdnews24.com reports. The...
The Met Office has advised maritime ports to hoist local cautionary signal number 4 and warned that low-lying coastal areas could be inundated by tidal surges. In a special bulletin...
Europe’s reported coronavirus cases more than doubled in 10 days, crossing 200,000 daily infections for the first time on Thursday, according to a Reuters tally, with many Southern European countries...
The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Gilead Sciences Inc’s antiviral drug remdesivir for treating patients hospitalised with Covid-19, making it the first and only drug approved for...
Launch services on Barishal’s internal routes were suspended on Friday morning due to inclement weather. Traffic Inspector Md Kabir of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) said the launch services...
The Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority (BHTPA) formally added nine more services to its virtual One Stop Service (OSS) platform on Thursday to facilitate more investment for the businesses. With the...
US President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden offered sharply contrasting views on the still-raging coronavirus pandemic at Thursday’s final presidential debate, seeking to persuade the few remaining undecided...
Thousands of families on the banks of the Jamuna River are spending their days in panic and anxiety as various places of arrow protection work has collapseddue to the erosionin...
This year has taught us a lot of things, but here is one major 2020 lesson: Tech skills are a virtual necessity. With much of the workforce cooped up at...
In line with the government's desire, the country's cold storage owners want to suspend potato exports until December to stabilise the price of widely-consumed vegetables in the market. The Bangladesh...
The country's export earnings from leather and leather goods contracted during the first quarter of current fiscal year. Bangladesh fetched US$ 225.15 million from leather and leather goods exports during...
Bangladesh needs to focus more on the supply-side policies to make the economy more efficient through augmenting a favourable business climate, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said. It also suggested...
Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) has rejected the Bangladesh Railway's (BR) revised design of height clearance between approach roads and elevated rail tracks of Padma bridge. Sources said the BBA considered...
Agriculture loan disbursement grew by nearly 32 per cent or Tk 11.30 billion in the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal year (FY), 2020-21, following implementing stimulus packages along...
The use of credit cards of the commercial banks and financial institutions (FIs) in Bangladesh has gone up sharply, as their month-on-month transactions boosted by 50 per cent within a...
Synesis IT, a leading company in the domestic information & technology sector, is going to bring a world-class video conferencing platform. The R & D wing of the company is...
International donors pledged nearly $600 million to support displaced Rohingya on Thursday, succeeding in bridging a huge gap in funding for hundreds of thousands of refugees. Britain, the United States...
After rice, the potato prices have turned out to be the latest headache for the government. The prices of vegetables are also abnormally high, but the reasons are known. As...
In a break-away from centuries-old custom and tradition, Durga puja pandals in West Bengal are going to be no-entry zones for visitors this year. If the directive issued by the...
A news item published a few days back about the government's announcement of 282 jute products as diversified items to help expand the export basket and local sales seems to...
Germany warned on Thursday against travel to neighbouring countries, Belgium's foreign minister went into intensive care and Spain said COVID-19 was "out of control" in many areas, as governments across...
India on Thursday allowed the entry of international visitors by relaxing the visa restrictions, imposed in March due to the Covid-19 pandemic, for all foreigners except tourists. In a statement,...
Concerned at the Rohingya children’s deprivation of education, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the international donor community to ensure formal learning facilities for younger generations of Myanmar’s displaced people...
Bangladesh on Thursday told the international community that the United Nations has failed to put pressure on Myanmar to resolve the Rohingya issue. The observation was made at the international...
Cinema halls occupied the largest segment of the recreational outlets in the Dhaka of early 1960s. By the time this writer mustered enough courage to watch movies with school friends...
Policy makers of the most developing countries have been very active in promoting some forms of sustainable banking activities. Likewise, policy makers and banks in Bangladesh have been pursuing sustainable...
Six months have elapsed since `holiday' (euphemism for lockdown) was announced at the outbreak of covid-19 in March. During the 'holiday' all sectors of the economy except agriculture, pharmaceuticals industries,...
The Bangladesh Meteorological Department has advised maritime ports to hoist local cautionary signal No. 4 as a trough of low over the Bay of Bengal intensified and turned into a...
International Finance Corporation (IFC) is helping to preserve thousands of jobs in Bangladesh through an investment in Prime Bank Limited to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and companies affected...
The government has transferred Commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan Police or SMP Golam Kibria and 18 other officials of the unit. The home ministry announced the development in a notice issued...
Bangladesh Water Transport Workers Federation has called off their strike saying that the owners have agreed to meet their demand for food allowance, reports bdnews24.com. Shah Alam, the president of...
A Dhaka court on Thursday framed charges against suspended DIG Prisons Bazlur Rashid for illegally amassing wealth worth Tk 31.4 million. Judge Md Iqbal Hossain of the Dhaka Special Judge...
Spain became the first Western European country to exceed 1 million COVID-19 infections on Wednesday, doubling its tally in just six weeks despite a series of increasingly stringent measures to...
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