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Microsoft has told staff that they will have the option of working from home permanently with manager approval. The move mimics the US tech giant's rivals Facebook and Twitter, which...
A new report estimates that 29 million women and girls are victims of modern slavery, exploited by practices including forced labour, forced marriage, debt-bondage and domestic servitude. Grace Forrest, co-founder...
A Dhaka University student, who levelled allegations of rape at a quota movement leader, has fallen ill during a hunger strike to demand that perpetrators of rape and sexual violence...
A physically-challenged woman, who had to sell her newborn due to poverty, got back the baby with the help of the Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari Upazial Nirbahi Officer (UNO) on Friday. UNO...
They are not cures and it is not likely that everyone will be able to get them as President Donald Trump has suggested but experimental antibody drugs like the one...
A general indifference towards health directives has triggered a spike in COVID-19 infections in Chattogram after a dip over the last three months. The onset of winter is likely to...
Nine people were arrested over the alleged gang-rapes of a housewife in Chattogram and a teenager in Lalmonirhat on Friday. In Chattogram, a housewife was kidnapped as she was returning...
Covid-19 has had a major impact on the global economy. Bangladesh is no exception. An official document now suggests that the pandemic is going to have a massive influence on...
Law enforcers arrested 75 persons and seized different types of contrabands narcotics from their possession during anti-drug drives in the capital in last 24 hours as of 6:00am today (Saturday),...
Malaysia’s maritime authorities said on Saturday they had detained 60 Chinese nationals and six Chinese-registered fishing vessels they said were trespassing into the Southeast Asian country’s waters, reports Reuters. Malaysia...
A 100-year-old man of Bangladeshi origin, who raised thousands for COVID-19 relief while fasting during Ramadan, has been made an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in the Queen’s Birthday...
The decision of cancelling the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination announced by Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni was unanticipated by most of the students who were set to appear this...
Different socio-cultural organisations in Dhaka city on Saturday continued protests against rapes and assaults of women in the country. Two of the organisations, Bhasani Onushari Parishad and Bangladesh Shikkhok Somonnoy...
Bangladesh's coronavirus death toll has reached 5,500 after 23 new fatalities from the disease were registered in the latest daily count. The caseload jumped to 377,073 after 1,203 people tested...
Almost 90 per cent of the country’s mental health patients are not getting proper healthcare services, according to the director of National Institute of Mental Health and Hospital (NIMH). Professor...
An international investment outreach event was held recently to promote Bangladesh as the next FDI frontier of Asia to global investors based out of Singapore. Thursday’s event, jointly organised by...
Russia’s coronavirus cases rose by 12,846 on Saturday, a new daily record since the start of the outbreak early this year, pushing the overall total number of infections to 1,285,084....
One week after Republican President Donald Trump announced he had Covid-19, Democrats in Congress on Friday proposed creating a commission to help decide whether to transfer a future US president’s...
Students of CSE Department of Eastern University have successfully completed 120 hours training course on Information Technology Engineers Examination (ITEE) under the full finance of ‘The Project for Skills Development...
North Korea held a military parade early on Saturday to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of its ruling Workers’ Party in a rare predawn event, South Korea’s military...
More than 70 million migrants living across international borders in the region of the Americas are set to receive health support under an agreement signed by IOM and PAHO. Carissa...
Veteran actor Soumitra Chatterjee has been shifted to intensive care in a private hospital where he is undergoing treatment for Covid-19 after his health condition worsened, a senior doctor at...
Twitter said on Friday (US standard time) it will remove tweets calling for people to interfere with the US election process or implementation of election results, including through violence, as...
Four people were killed and several more were wounded when a fuel tank exploded in a Beirut building on Friday, the Lebanese Red Cross said. The explosion caused a large...
Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to a ceasefire starting on Saturday to exchange prisoners and bodies of those killed in the conflict between Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces over the Nagorno-Karabakh...
US President Donald Trump will resume in-person campaigning on Saturday after being sidelined by a case of Covid-19, but a debate next week against his presidential election opponent Joe Biden...
The global Covid-19 cases have reached 36,802,708 on Sunday with 1,067,101 deaths worldwide, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The US,...
You can’t miss the green 1969 Volkswagen Beetle parked at the corner, orchids and ferns crowding its open bonnet, sunflowers sticking out of windows, potted plants on the roof. Turning...
A 10-day online shopping festival kicked off in Dhaka city on Friday with an eye to expanding e-commerce business and increasing its popularity in Bangladesh. Fourteen local e-commerce entities are...
The country's steel rod manufacturing sector is going through a tough time due to lower demand for the key construction materials and soaring raw material prices in the global market...
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is forcing many children and youths to go for excessive use of screen time, which could cause an adverse impact on their mental and physical health...
A possible cyclonic storm named 'Gati' might hit the country this month which could intensify the flood woes in several districts further. Two low pressures are set to form in...
The government's debt soared in the first half of the current calendar year, fuelled by a sharp rise in its borrowing, an American consultancy has found. The government borrowing shot...
The leftist student groups have raised a nine-point charter of demand, including the resignation of Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, at a rally in Dhaka’s Shahbagh against a streak of...
Bangladesh's Sundarbans forest is remote and well known to the world for big cats' presence in the wild. It is also the world's largest mangrove forest. Every year, thousands of...
In the midst of an unprecedented change during Covid-19, youth unemployment will be a major problem for Bangladesh over the next few years because of disrupted economic activities caused by...
The frequency of gang rapes seems to have increased to epidemic proportions in recent weeks in Bangladesh and India. Circumstances of each of such organised sexual attack on women may...
As the pandemic struck Bangladesh in March, gloomy predictions were being made about its possible negative impacts on the economy and the employment situation. The situation was no doubt dicey,...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Friday said that the World Bank’s latest growth projection is inconsistent with the current economic recovery of Bangladesh. “World Bank is a global financial...
US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen E. Biegun will visit Bangladesh on October 14-16, a spokesperson of the State Department said on Friday. During his visit, Biegun will meet...
Police have responded to questions over their failure to make any arrests in the rape case against former DUCSU vice-president Nurul Haque Nur and five other anti-quota movement leaders. They...
President Trump exhibited all plausible symptoms of Covid-19 infections early in the last week, but he dismissed the advice of his health advisors and carried on business as usual. On...
Work to build the Mongla Economic Zone is going in full swing as the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) and the developer of the zone laid foundation stones of different...
Early lockdowns in an epidemic can substantially reduce infections, and policymakers should be wary of lifting them to jumpstart their economies when infections remain high, the International Monetary Fund said...
Pakistan on Friday blocked social media app TikTok for failing to filter out ‘immoral and indecent’ content, the country’s telecommunication authority said in a statement. “In view of number of...
The Covid-19 pandemic strikingly illustrates the intersection of politics, economics, and other considerations. Public health experts have long warned that the world was likely to face a major pandemic and...
BNP on Friday picked SM Jahangir and Selim Reza as its candidates to contest the upcoming Dhaka-18 and Sirajganj-1 by-elections. BNP Secretary General slam Alamgir announced the names of the...
Coronavirus border closures and restrictions have stranded nearly 3 million migrants around the world who want to return home but cannot, the UN migration agency said on Friday, adding some...
The two cases filed over molestation and torture of a housewife in Begumganj upazila of Noakhali have been transferred to Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) on Thursday. Earlier police headquarters...
A female student of Dhaka University (DU) started a fast-unto-death on Thursday night demanding the arrest of former Ducsu vice-president Nurul Haque Nur and five others in a rape case....
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