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A five-day fair began on the premises of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) headquarters at Motijheel in the city on Sunday. Some 60 small and cottage entrepreneurs are...
The government is in a hurry to amend the labour rules without considering the recommendations of workers' representatives, union leaders alleged on Monday. They also alleged the tripartite committee under...
SYLHET: Visitors in good numbers started gathering the tourist spots in Sylhet region while there is none to see the health related restrictions over Covid-19. Almost all the visitors were...
Time-consuming procedures in the VAT provisions are delaying VAT refund process to the United Nations (UN) agencies in Bangladesh. To avoid the hurdles in refund process, the UN office in...
Nearly one-third of garment workers suffered loss of earnings since the lockdown in late March this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study. Income loss forced the...
Bangladesh has sought funds worth US$1.50 billion from the World Bank (WB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Japan for procuring coronavirus vaccines, officials said on Monday. Earlier, the government...
Women-friendly public transport is still a dream in the country, particularly availing bus services in the city, due to lack of concept in developing a proper passenger-friendly transport system. Speakers...
An intelligence agency has identified a hoarding syndicate behind the rice price spiral and suggested taking stern actions against the hoarders, officials say. The agency said members of the auto...
Global smartphone brand Vivo launched a new flagship smartphone of V-series, the Vivo V20, in Bangladesh. Earlier on September 9, Vivo announced the launch of this new flagship phone. The...
Bangladesh’s premier financial English daily, The Financial Express, has initiated a series of dialogues to discuss critical issues of business and development and generate analyses that may offer solutions. The...
Bangladesh has sought enhanced cooperation with Sweden, Spain and Norway on trade and investment front. Three new Ambassadors of Sweden, Spain and Norway to Bangladesh met State Minister for Foreign...
Angry Thai youths seem to be in a defiant, determined mood despite the government's declaring a state of emergency slapping a ban on any assembly of more than five and...
The world is lately witnessing debates and smokescreens over the process of treating the Covid-19 pandemic. The clashes of ideas and theories raging for some time are feared to cause...
The announcement of this year's Nobel Prize laureates should remind us of the many contributions basic science has made to contemporary life. With Covid-19 ravaging much of humanity, and the...
Bangladesh has moved 13 notches up from last year's 88th position in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) ranking, says the 2020 GHI report. Which means among the 107 qualifying nations...
How can we distinguish between high quality and poor quality statistical data? Do quality standards exist for statistics? If so, who established them? At present, when users have practically unlimited...
At least half of India’s total 1.3 billion people are likely to have been infected with the new coronavirus by next February, helping slow the spread of the disease, a...
Unavoidably, there is no other alternative than huge borrowing to fulfill higher growth target and to cope with the COVID-19 impacts. Managing public debt with insight and prudence is also...
NASA has selected Nokia to build the first cellular network on the moon within 2022, as the US space agency plans for a future where humans return there and establish...
The Covid-19 crisis has devastated people's lives, jobs, and businesses. Governments have taken forceful measures to cushion the blow, totalling a staggering $12 trillion globally. These lifelines have saved lives...
As the Covid-19 crisis unfurls, turmoil's in domestic food supply chains, shocks in food production and loss of incomes and remittances, are creating strong tensions and food insecurity. Due to...
As Trump brags about rushing a Covid vaccine through testing, record numbers of Americans say they won't get it. Gee, I wonder why. Will researchers have cut corners that result...
More than half of COVID-19 patients discharged from hospital still experienced symptoms of breathlessness, fatigue, anxiety and depression for two to three months after their initial infection, according to the...
The state of media freedom during the pandemic will come up for discussion at a webinar to be hosted from Dhaka on Tuesday evening. PEN Bangladesh has organised the discussion...
The Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicles Importers and Dealers Association (BARVIDA) representatives Monday urged for an office space and port entry pass for its members in Mongla port. The association made the...
The Cabinet has approved the draft of an air services agreement to be signed with Austria for direct flight operations between Dhaka and Vienna. The approval came from the weekly...
A government report shows some 83 per cent of the cabinet decisions taken from January 2019 to September 2020 have so far been implemented. The report on the implementation progress...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 40 people in a regular anti-narcotics drive on the charges of selling and consuming illegal drugs. Different police stations under DMP conducted the drives...
The number of car registration in the country witnessed a drastic fall in the first nine months of the current calendar year, according to an official data provided by Bangladesh...
The High Court on Monday ordered the authorities concerned to complete investigations into three graft cases, which have been filed over allegations of graft in the housing project of Rooppur...
The World Bank (WB) has decided to lend Bangladesh a loan of $202 million to modernise and improve food storage facility in the country. To this end, the Washington-based lender...
Bangladesh has witnessed the advent of mobile phones and their swift rise in popularity among people for the last two decades. It is undoubtedly a versatile device which is said...
The Indian government has warned Amazon.com’s local unit and Walmart’s Flipkart that sellers on their platforms are not complying with a rule requiring that a product’s country of origin be...
The cut-off price of shares of Lub-rref (Bangladesh) Ltd, a local lubricant producer, has been fixed at Tk 30 each through electronic bidding by eligible investors. The eligible investors took...
An unit of Jamuna Bank Foundation Dialysis Centre was inaugurated in Laksam upazila of Cumilla recently. LGRD minister Tajul Islam inaugurated the dialysis centre during a programme as the chief...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the countrymen to follow health guidelines and use face-masks in public places and gatherings, aiming to prevent the possible second wave of the coronavirus...
The court ordered the state to explain in two weeks why Kajol will not be granted bail, reports bdnews24.com. A bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Mostafizur Rahman...
eGeneration, a leading system integration and software solutions company in Bangladesh, has recently signed an agreement with Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU), an agency under the Ministry of Planning. eGeneration...
Doctors’ groups have complained to the health minister about officials from administration cadre holding big positions in the government health agencies and ignoring the views of the officials who are...
The bidding for eligible investors (EIs) to explore the cut-off price of shares of Index Agro Industries Ltd will commence at 5:00pm from November 1. The company’s price bidding through...
Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League (DPDCL) will not resume this year, said Khaled Mahmud, chairman of the game development committee of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). DPDCL, which is also known...
Tens of thousands of opposition supporters rallied in Pakistan’s largest city of Karachi on Sunday as part of a campaign to oust Prime Minister Imran Khan, who they accuse of...
The Secretary General of the IndustriALL Bangladesh Council (IBC) Salauddin Shapon has resigned from the tripartite committee to review labour rules. Labour and employment ministry has formed the tripartite committee...
The 33nd span of the Padma Bridge was installed on Monday bringing a total of over 4.9 kilometres of the structure into view as the construction works of 6.15 kilometres...
China’s economic recovery accelerated in the third quarter as consumers shook off their coronavirus caution, although the weaker-than-expected headline growth suggested persistent risks for one of the few drivers of...
Bangladesh registered another 21 deaths from novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours to 8:00am on Monday, taking the total number of fatalities to 5,681 in the country, according to...
The Netherlands in a letter assured Bangladesh that it will help to ensure justice and accountability for atrocities committed against the Rohingya people by the Myanmar authorities through the International...
The wounds may have healed but the scars across their bodies are a harrowing reminder of a devastating event that upended their lives. Amzad and Mohammed Kenan have returned home...
The 17th Board Meeting of the Community Bank Bangladesh Ltd was held at the Police Headquarters in Dhaka on Sunday, 18 October 2020. The meeting was chaired by Inspector General...
The board of directors of ONE Bank Limited has elected Mr A.S.M. Shahidullah Khan as its chairman for a year from October 15, 2020. The board also re-elected Mr Asoke...
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