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Dhaka bourse displayed an enthusiastic start on Sunday as gainers took control over the losers following investors' participation in sector-specific stocks. Of the listed securities, insurers dominated the trading board...
The progress the country has made in reducing child marriage and girls’ education over the decades may be reversed due to effects of the Covid-19 on the poor and rural...
Global coronavirus cases rose by more than 0.4 million (400,000) for the first time late on Friday, a record one-day increase as much of Europe enacts new restrictions to curb...
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has approved 966 million US dollars worth of loans under a relief programme for coronavirus (Covid-19) affected businesses, local media reported on Sunday....
Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested four people from Narail for catching hilsa during the 22-day ban on fishing. The drive was conducted from Jamrildanga to Baroipara in Kalia upazila...
A Bangladeshi national was reportedly gunned down by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along the Thakurpur border in Damurhuda upazila of Chuadanga early Sunday. The deceased was identified as...
Padma Beel, or the lake of lotus, in Khulna is now full of pink flowers, pulling in hundreds of visitors every day. On holidays, the visitors to the lake –...
A landslide early on Sunday left at least 22 soldiers missing in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri, the government said, as the Southeast Asian country battles the worst flooding...
The government has planned to frame a new guideline for preferential and free trade agreements to get prepared for the post-graduation period. Bangladesh is set to graduate from the least-developed...
Experts have suggested that mobile financial service (MFS) providers cut cash-out charges to a single-digit as high transaction costs are keeping marginal people as well as more micro and small...
More than 77-per cent hypertension patients receive treatment at private facilities while 14 per cent at public units, making disease controls difficult in Bangladesh, a study has found. It shows...
The securities regulator has imposed a two-year lock-in on Robi Axiata's shares which will be allotted to its employees. The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has mentioned the lock-in...
Bangladesh's expenditure in social protection is the lowest in South and Southwest Asia and this poor safeguard system is hampering the resilience to Covid-19, according to a new report. The...
Awami League candidate Md Kazi Monirul Islam was unofficially elected in Dhaka-5 by-polls held using EVMs amid the low turnout of the voters on Saturday. Kazi Monirul Islam won the...
The news of the passing away of author Rashid Haidar greeted his readers, admirers, and even his contemporaries, with both surprise and sadness. The sense of surprise stemmed from the...
Bangladesh's per capita GDP (gross domestic product) has been on the rise with its economy growing almost uninterruptedly in recent years. Many at home and abroad have found the pace...
Late-stage trials of Russia's COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V will be conducted in India, confirmed an official source at the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) on Saturday. An adaptive phase...
Producers of two African-made films premiering on Netflix this month believe their work will show there’s subscriber appetite for movies that go deeper than the Hollywood stereotypes that often make...
The Appellate Division and the High Court Division of the Supreme Court will remain closed from October 25 to 28 on the occasion of the Durga Puja, the biggest religious...
As economies around the world are struggling to shake off the devastating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on lives and livelihood, worries are growing that the recovery could look like...
Presently the world is facing a difficult time because of coronavirus. The virus first broke out in China and then spread across the world like a rapid fire. A large...
Bangladesh, like many other countries across the globe, is facing an unprecedented challenge brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. This coronavirus pandemic has hit the Bangladesh society and economy hard,...
To combat the novel coronavirus, many countries, including Bangladesh, imposed country-wide lockdown. The economy of Bangladesh was under the lockdown from late March to May 2020, when most economic activities...
The holy Eid-e-Miladunnabi (SM), marking the anniversary of birth and demise of Prophet Muhammad (SM), will be observed in the country on October 30 with due religious solemnity. The decision...
India’s coronavirus infections rose by another 62,212 cases over the previous day and a local media report said on Saturday that the government had begun identifying about 300 million people...
Bangladesh’s internet service providers and cable TV service operators have postponed the decision to halt 3-hour internet shutdown scheduled from Sunday. In protest against the Dhaka South City Corporation’s (DSCC’s)...
Experts have suggested bringing down the cash-out charge of mobile financial service (MFS) providers to a single-digit as high transaction cost is keeping marginal people as well as more micro...
The United States has sought an equal role from all neighbours of Myanmar with "broad and unified voice" so that the Rohingya can get the confidence back to return to...
The law-enforcing agencies seized illegal fishing nets (current nets) worth Tk 91.3 million in the first three days through mobile courts led by the Department of Fisheries under its Mother...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said Bangladesh will be able to prevent the further spread of the Covid-19 in the coming days. "So far, we’re lucky that both the...
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's centre-left Labour Party won a landslide victory in New Zealand's general election on Saturday as voters rewarded her for a decisive response to COVID-19, reports Reuters....
A US tech entrepreneur at the centre of allegations of misconduct involving British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told a newspaper they did have an affair when he was mayor...
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) of the United Kingdom has fined British Airways £20m ($26m), its biggest such penalty to date, for a data breach which affected more than 400,000...
Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg has tested positive for the coronavirus and might have caught it at a meeting with his European Union counterparts on Monday, a spokeswoman for his...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Canada’s suspension of the export of some drone technology was not in line with the spirit of alliance, Erdogan’s...
The Bangladesh Puja Udjapon Parishad has announced that there will be no programmes to celebrate Kumari Puja in Dhaka due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “The Kumari Puja festivities will...
Defying the government's fixed rate of Tk 30 per kg, traders are selling potatoes at twice the rate in the kitchen markets of the capital, pinching the pockets of customers....
Police arrested a young man from Swarsati village in Golapganj upazila of Sylhet on Friday midnight for violating a girl. The arrestee is Zabaul Islam, 31, son of Abdul Latif...
Hundreds of Thais chanted at protests that popped up across Bangkok on Saturday in defiance of a crackdown on three months of demonstrations aimed at the government and the powerful...
French police were questioning nine people in custody on Saturday after a suspected Islamist sympathiser beheaded a school teacher in broad daylight on the street in a Paris suburb, police...
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday accused the country’s army chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa of toppling his government, pressuring the judiciary, and installing the current government of...
Bangladesh has registered 23 new fatalities from the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally so far to 5,646. The caseload climbed to 387,295 after 1,209 people tested...
A group of anti-rape protesters have been attacked during a rally in Feni, organised by leftist student groups as part of a 'long march' from Dhaka to Noakhali to press...
The by-election to Dhaka-5 constituency has been progressing with a low turnout of voters. The FE correspondents have visited a number of polling stations under the constituency since the morning....
Bangladesh’s internet service providers and cable operators will halt their services for three hours every day from Sunday (October 18) in protest against the Dhaka South City Corporation’s (DSCC’s) recent...
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party held a big early lead in New Zealand’s general election on Saturday, initial tallies showed after a campaign dominated by her handling of Covid-19....
US President Donald Trump was outraised by Democrat Joe Biden in September and is being outgunned financially by his rival with just weeks to go until Election Day. Trump’s campaign,...
Information Minister Hasan Mahmud has been hospitalised after testing positive for the novel coronavirus infection. He checked into Dhaka’s Square Hospital with high temperature on Friday night. “I received a...
The constituents of Dhaka-5 and Naogaon-6 have begun to cast their ballots to elect their new representatives in parliament. Voting has been taking place without any untoward incident so far...
CHATTOGRAM: The two-day sampan festival opened on the Karnaphuli river on Friday morning as part of celebrating Mujib Year. Chattogram city Awami League (AL) has arranged the programme with intent...
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