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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects that the government of Bangladesh will carry out an audit of Covid-19-related expenditures within 12 months of the end of the crisis. The global...
The VAT intelligence wing has filed a case against advertising firm Adcomm Limited for allegedly evading taxes worth Tk 57.6 million. In an investigation, the VAT audit, inspection and intelligence...
Japanese investments in two economic zones are unlikely to take place in next two years as those zones are not ready. According to insiders, the Japanese special economic zone on...
The sales of reconditioned cars in the country slumped by over 60 per cent during the Covid-19 pandemic, sector insiders have said. They said the sector is also suffering from...
The country's apparel exports to the non-traditional markets are still facing hurdles. Shipments to those destinations maintained negative growth during the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal year (FY),...
Bangladesh would seek funds worth US$5.0 billion from the World Bank's (WB's) IDA-19 package for the next three years to bankroll its socio-economic development activities, officials said on Tuesday. In...
Primary teachers of government primary schools will get salary under grade 13 on the national pay scale regardless of their educational qualification. The primary and mass education ministry ordered the...
Today, we're living in a world where most people have started calling everything as the new normal. Running after time to meet daily needs, losing social adda (rendezvous), falling prey...
The spread of plastic in our lives is perhaps unlike any other manufactured products. Globally, plastic predominates as an indispensable item, despite the many harms it often causes to the...
The government is learnt to have drafted the long-awaited guideline to provide jobless workers of export-oriented industries with cash support through its social safety net programme. According to the plan,...
The government has urged all concerned to refrain from spreading all kinds of propaganda through social media to protect the image of the country. “Action will be taken against those,...
Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo has tested positive for COVID-19, Portugal's Football Federation said in a statement on its website on Tuesday. The 35-year-old Portuguese international will miss Wednesday's UEFA Nations...
The High Court on Tuesday issued a rule asking the authorities concerned why directives would not be issued to form a Health Regulatory Commission to monitor patients' complaints about mismanagement...
A man was hacked to death allegedly by his sons at Hazaribagh in the capital on Tuesday over land related dispute. The deceased was identified as Lal Miah, 50, a...
The case of a man in the United States infected twice with COVID-19 shows there is much yet to learn about immune responses and also raises questions over vaccination, scientists...
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police has rescued two minor siblings from Bhatara area in the city after a 48-hour long drive. Mahia Akter Pinki, 12, and Biplob Bepari,...
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday said forecasts for the global economy were “somewhat less dire” as wealthy countries and China rebounded more quickly than expected from coronavirus lockdowns but...
The Election Commission (EC) has handed over a data entry operator to police for his alleged involvement in NID anomalies. Data entry operator SM Azam Ali was handed over to...
Despite the rising salience of "fake news" in the U.S., propaganda, misinformation, and conspiracy theories are hardly new phenomena. In the 1950s, The historian Richard Hofstadter famously wrote in The...
The World Food Programme (WFP), a specialised agency of the United Nations, has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. Berit Reiss-Anderson, President of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, announced it...
Mark Martin’s family restaurant weathered two world wars, the Dust Bowl, and the Great Depression, serving up heaping plates of hand-battered fried chicken, mashed potatoes and creamed corn to a...
Eight officials of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) have been diagnosed with Covid-19. They are – Chief Executive Officer Md Selim Reza, Chief Property Officer Md Mozammel Haque, Chief Health...
Forty-four people in Turkey have died from bootleg alcohol poisoning over the past week, state media reported on Tuesday, as more Turks opt for cheaper options after sharp rises in...
The board of directors of GPH Ispat Ltd has decided to enter into a contract for export of 25,000 metric tonnes MS billet to China. The contract value of the...
Law Minister Anisul Huq has said the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and economic downturn have increased the risk of human trafficking. He also said that human trafficking is a rapidly-evolving crime...
World oil demand will rebound more slowly in 2021 than previously thought as coronavirus cases rise, OPEC said on Tuesday, adding to headwinds faced by the group and its allies...
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi was admitted to Labaid Specialized Hospital in the capital on Tuesday as he suffered a heart attack. Rizvi complained of chest pain...
US voters have cast more than 10 million votes for the November 3 presidential election, significantly outpacing the early vote in 2016 and suggesting a large turnout, according to data...
US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen E. Biegun will arrive in the city on Wednesday afternoon to discuss Bangladesh-US cooperation on Covid-19 response, recovery efforts and sustainable economic development. He...
Expressing grave concern over the failure in taking proper actions against bribery in foreign trade, the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the government, foreign trade partner countries and other...
After a gap of 11 years, the Joint River Commission (JRC) between Bangladesh and India will sit by December this year. The disclosure was made by Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Masud...
In the wake of heat waves, global warming, forest fires, storms, droughts and a rising number of hurricanes, the UN weather agency is warning that the number of people who...
Ulpur village, just eight kilometres from the district headquarters of Gopalganj, is home to the Ulpur Zamindar House, a symbol of aristocracy from ancient Bengal. The zamindar house is one...
Bollywood’s top producers have filed a lawsuit against two television news channels for allegedly painting the film industry as ‘a den of drugs and crime’ following the death of a...
A slow economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic threatens to delay a full rebound in world energy demand to 2025, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday. In its central...
The Country Representative of Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) Yuji Ando met Major General SM Salahuddin Islam, executive chairman of BEPZA at the latter’s office on Tuesday, says a press...
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Tuesday said he has presented documents to the king on his ‘strong and convincing’ parliamentary support to oust incumbent Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin. He...
President Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail on Monday for the first time since he announced his COVID-19 diagnosis, touting his management of the pandemic as opinion polls showed...
A Dhaka court today (Tuesday) set October 27 to hold hearing on charge framing in a case lodged over the death of Dhaka Residential Model College student Naimul Abrar Rahat,...
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has turned down a herd immunity response to Covid-19 pandemic, reports the BBC. Herd immunity occurs when a large portion of a...
Planning Minister MA Mannan has been infected with Coronavirus. Shahed Rahman, public relations officer of the Planning Ministry, said the minister was admitted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka...
Stocks returned to the green on Tuesday, after remaining down in the past three trading sessions, as optimistic investors showed their buying appetite on sector-specific issues. DSEX, the prime index...
Bangladesh registered another 22 deaths from novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours to 8:00am on Tuesday, taking the total number of fatalities to 5,577 in the country since the...
Asian stock markets steadied on Tuesday after Chinese trade data underscored the country’s economic recovery, while fresh optimism about US stimulus is likely to keep global investor sentiment elevated. MSCI's...
The National University authorities have suspended the studentship of four over the gang-rape incident at MC College in Sylhet. The decision was taken at the 210th syndicate meeting of National...
Ethnic Armenian officials in Nagorno-Karabakh said 17 more servicemen had been killed in fighting with Azerbaijan, bringing its total military death toll to 542 since fighting broke out on September...
Describing rapists as 'beasts', Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said the government has to induct the death sentence in the relevant law to save girls from these beasts. "The...
Nearly 40 people have died in Vietnam and Cambodia and scores more were missing, including rescuers, due to prolonged heavy rain and flash flooding as tropical storm Nangka edged towards...
Asia-Pacific countries including Singapore, Australia, Japan and Thailand are gradually easing some international travel restrictions as coronavirus cases slow, in hopes of helping to revive their economies. International travel in...
Noted writer Rashid Haider, known for his work in war memoirs and collections of prose, has died at the age of 80, his family said. Haider breathed his last on...
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