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CHATTOGRAM: Both foreign and local ships are now procuring eco-friendly low sulphur fuels from Chittagong Port as the government has taken steps to supply fuels containing 0.5 per cent sulphur...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has moved to explore ways to lure foreign investors into relocating their factories to Bangladesh with offering them incentives. To this effect, the revenue...
The government has ordered its line ministries to take action plans in advance to cope with the possible second wave of Covid-19 pandemic in winter, officials said. The cabinet division...
The government has declared 282 jute products as diversified items to expand the export basket and increase both local and overseas sales. Officials concerned said textiles and jute ministry on...
The government has released Tk 2.14 billion as operating loan to pay workers' arrears of closed state-owned Platinum Jubilee Jute Mills Ltd, officials said. Fifty per cent of total arrears...
The Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) has taken a move to construct another long bridge, named Bhola Bridge, along with elevated road for establishing direct link with the southern district under...
Experts in a webinar on Wednesday put thrust on digitising the stock market trading for the greater interest of the investors. They said technology is important for three reasons: it...
The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination has just got cancelled by the government owing to the COVID-19 pandemic as confirmed by Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni. Around 1.4 million students...
Exploration of export baskets, proactive stance of government agencies and proper coordination among the regulatory bodies can improve the country’s financial ecosystem, suggested speakers. They came up with the suggestions...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) now forecasts a 9.20 per cent decline in the volume of world merchandise trade for 2020, followed by a 7.20 per cent rise in 2021...
More than 165,658 workers returned home from 29 countries between April 01 and September 30 this year due to various reasons. According to a report, such hapless expatriates were forced...
With structural changes in production coupled with technological progresses, over time there has been a significant shift in modes of production as well as in patterns of employment. Such a...
Governments around the world are taking extraordinary measures to respond to the Covid-19 crisis. While maintaining the focus on addressing the health emergency and providing lifelines for households and businesses,...
Republicans are mobilising thousands of volunteers to watch early voting sites and ballot drop boxes leading up to November’s election, part of an effort to find evidence to back up...
At a time when the majority of the people's hardship has increased manifold under the influence of coronavirus regime, the utility services are playing the proverbial Sword of Democles. First,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for ensuring $ 100 billion a year for developing countries to mitigate the adverse impacts of climate change. She also sought prompt actions to...
Venture Capital and Private Equity Association of Bangladesh (VCPEAB) and Capital Market Journalists’ Forum (CMJF) expressed their heartfelt sorrow by hosting a virtual ceremony commemorating Wali-Ul-Maroof Matin. He was the...
The United Nations (UN) has strongly recommended an urgent reform of the criminal justice system to support and protect victims and witnesses, and to speed up the slow trial process...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday said Bangladeshi lawmaker Shahidul Islam Papul is being tried as a local resident in Kuwait. Responding to a query, the minister said...
The cabinet has approved in principle a draft of the ‘Iodised Salt Act, 2020’ keeping provisions of one to three years of imprisonment or fine of Taka 50,000 to 1.5...
Saudi Arabia has further extended the tenure of visa and work permit of Bangladeshi workers stranded here from October 18 to October 30. Foreign Minister Dr A K Momen said...
Three public and private companies on Wednesday contributed a total of TK 74 million as part of their respective profits to the Bangladesh Workers’ Welfare Foundation Fund. Karnaphuli Fertilizer Company...
Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam on Wednesday said the government has allocated an amount of Tk 6.0 billion under a project to procure the Covid-19 vaccine at the earliest possible...
More companies from Japan will be investing in Bangladesh, if the bottlenecks to investments are removed, a Japanese trade diplomat told newsmen in Dhaka on Wednesday. Around 50 companies are...
Police arrested a man on Tuesday for allegedly raping his teenage cousin in captivity for three days in Gujaria Bazar area of Karimganj in Kishoreganj. The arrestee was identified as...
The government is making a new push to hold university admissions tests in clusters for the next academic session after cancelling the HSC and equivalent examinations due to the coronavirus...
The Cabinet on Wednesday declared March 7 as ‘Historic Day’ instead of the ‘National Historic Day’ in a bid to observe the day nationally and internationally, commemorating the historic speech...
LankaBangla Finance Ltd (LBFL) recently signed MOU with Grand Palace Hotel & Resort for its customer privilege, according to a press release. Khurshed Alam, head of Retail Business of LBF...
Kuwait’s new ruler on Wednesday named veteran security chief Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad as crown prince, retaining power firmly within the ruling family’s oldest ranks and signalling the OPEC member state...
Reminding about the possible uncertainty in the region, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday sought support from big countries to find a durable solution to the Rohingya crisis....
Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan on Wednesday said the construction of a railway-cum-road bridge over the Karnaphuli River at Kalurghat in Chattogram will begin early next year. The minister...
Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing, the award-giving body said on Wednesday. “Emmanuelle Charpentier...
India reported 72,049 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, dropping from the daily highs of last month in a sign infections were peaking for now, officials and experts said, reports...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate the Itna-Mithamoin-Astagram all-weather road in Kishoreganj on Thursday. She will inaugurate it through a videoconference on Thursday morning, said Executive Engineer of...
Bangladesh witnessed 35 more deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours to 8:00am on Wednesday, pushing the death count to 5,440 in the country since the first virus death...
Stocks posted a modest gain on Wednesday, snapping a two-day losing streak, as bargain hunters went on buying binge on lucrative issues. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock...
Despite significant progress in recent years, Bangladesh has the highest prevalence of child marriage in South Asia and ranks among 10 countries in the world with the highest levels, according...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday sought a durable solution to the Rohingya crisis through their peaceful repatriation and termed the killings at Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar...
The country’s share market stakeholders have demanded making a compulsory provision for multinational companies (MNCs) to be listed with stock exchanges for doing business in Bangladesh. At a virtual discussion,...
Associated Oxygen will allocate 15 million ordinary shares among the successful applicants as the company held IPO lottery draw on Wednesday. The lottery draw was held at 10:30am at Crystal...
Bata, in collaboration with UCEP Bangladesh, has started a donation programme recently. Under the programme, every time a pair is sold above a certain value at any Bata store in...
The government has decided not to hold the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Education Minister Dipu Moni announced at a...
Emirates has announced it will resume flights to Budapest (from 21 October), Bologna (1st November), Dusseldorf (1st November), Hamburg (1st November) and Lyon (4th November), expanding its European network to...
Some of the world’s biggest commodities and energy players on Wednesday launched an initiative to cut and track emissions from the ships they charter as efforts intensify to reduce the...
Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) has proposed introducing a 5.0 per cent incentive on digital payments with the aim of promoting digital transaction amid the Covid-19 pandemic....
Eddie Van Halen, the pioneering guitar player whose hard-rocking band emerged from the Sunset Strip music scene in Los Angeles in the early 1970s to stand at the top of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has unveiled the Braille version of the autobiography of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman-- “Oshomapto Atmojiboni” (The Unfinished Memoirs). She unveiled the cover...
BDCSO Process, a process forum of around 700 local CSOs/NGOs, has started its second annual conference virtually. The title of the first-day session was ‘Building civil societies, complementarity, and leadership...
Drugmakers and research centres around the world are working on Covid-19 vaccines, with large global trials of several of the candidates involving tens of thousands of participants well underway. As...
Detectives on Wednesday arrested two more suspects in connection with the torture of a housewife in Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila. The arrestees were identified as Shohagh, son of Pora Munshi and Nur...
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