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China said on Wednesday that the United States should stop its unprovoked attacks and accusations against China, accusing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of maliciously creating political confrontation and...
India’s tally of coronavirus infections stood at 6.76 million on Wednesday, rising by 72,049 cases in the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed, while the death toll was up...
Asian stock markets edged higher on Wednesday, brushing off Wall Street’s weaker finish, which came after US President Donald Trump abruptly broke off economic stimulus negotiations with lawmakers. Trump cancelled...
Kyrgyzstan's prime minister has resigned after widespread post-election protests which plunged the country into political chaos. Kubatbek Boronov has now been replaced by Sadyr Japarov, who protesters released from jail...
Locals handed over a young man to police after he raped a madrasa girl at Charpattania area in Sadar upazila of Barishal district on Tuesday. The man, Monir Hosain Jibon,...
When Jill Biden noticed her husband standing too close to journalists for her comfort while taking questions on Monday, she walked up and pulled the 77-year-old US presidential candidate back....
The government has moved to set up a quality council to ensure standards of products and services as well as coordination among the existing organisations concerned, officials said. Once the...
Facebook and Twitter took action on posts from US President Donald Trump on Tuesday for violating their rules against coronavirus misinformation by suggesting that Covid-19 was just like the flu....
Dhaka's mayors have expressed their utter dismay at no headway yet in the process of bus route rationalisation (BRR) even after a lapse of five long years. They said only...
The World Bank (WB) will help Bangladesh develop content for online education during Covid-19 and recover from its impact in the post-pandemic period, officials said on Monday. The Washington-based lender...
The submission of online income-tax returns has come to a halt this year due to a technical glitch. Officials said revival of the electronic system is uncertain this tax year,...
The central bank has extended its policy supports for the businesses by another six months to help offset the adverse impact of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, officials said. Under the...
Mr. Mustafa Osman Turan, the Ambassador of Turkey visited the FBCCI's newly-renovated Icon Tower in the capital's Motijheel on Monday, in response to FBCCI President Sheikh Fazle Fahim’s invitation; where...
Four Rohingyas were killed and 20 others injured in a turf war at a camp in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya on Tuesday night, reports UNB. Additional Superintendent of Police Rafikul Islam...
Saiful Islam, a farmer from Kumargacha Village in Pabna’s Chatmohor Upazila, is aroused by the high price of jute amidst the doom and gloom of the coronavirus crisis. Saiful planted...
Education Minister Dipu Moni on Tuesday said all scholarship activities under the ministry will be digitalised to ease the process for the students. She made the remarks while inaugurating an...
A Noakhali court on Tuesday placed main accused Badal Mia on a seven-day remand in a case filed over the torture of a housewife in Begumganj upazila of the district....
The world's most dynamic economy is governed by a communist party, whereas its previous capitalist stronghold is under the misrule of a man whose companies have gone bankrupt six times....
The economic growth of Bangladesh, to a great extent, depends on the export of apparels which account for approximately 80 per cent of the country's total export earnings. It also...
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Americans were learning to live with COVID-19, a day after returning from hospital to the White House where he will receive intensive treatment...
Why the developed countries don't always find charismatic leaders of their own for industries and national governance may be deemed a mystery in the underdeveloped world. Answer may lie in...
That the country's light engineering sector has the potential to grow to boundless level can hardly be disputed. In fact, no one has ever disputed but it is far from...
Bangladesh has so far proved many downbeat forecasts about the performance of its pandemic-affected economy wrong. For instance, the two chief sources of the country's hard currency income, the readymade...
Nari O Shishu Odhikar Forum, a platform of BNP, on Tuesday announced a three-day programme in protest against violence against women and children, including inhuman repression of a woman in...
The Ministry of Religious Affairs has requested all to refrain from making any transaction with anyone before a formal announcement of the government. The ministry made the request as some...
As the recent spate of rape and sexual harassment of women rocked the country, experts called for ensuring exemplary punishment of the culprits and their abettors through prompt trials since...
Director-General of World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday said a vaccine against COVID-19 may be ready by year-end. However, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus did not give elaborate information in...
The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the...
Bangladesh has sought South Korea’s cooperation to ease the visa process so that the workers and students, who came back to Bangladesh at the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic, could return...
Unlike tens of millions of people around the world who have contracted Covid-19 because of their poverty, bad luck, vulnerability as essential workers, or poor decisions by policymakers, US President...
The telecom regulator has begun taking down the video of a sexual assault on a woman in Noakhali’s Begumganj from the internet following a High Court order. The Bangladesh Telecommunication...
Expatriates’ welfare ministry will create a databank of returned and stranded migrant workers whose work permits and visas have expired and cannot rejoin their works. The ministry has taken the...
Americans are rushing to cast ballots ahead of the November 3 election at an unprecedented pace, early voting numbers show, indicating a possible record turnout for the showdown between President...
The world’s largest surviving marsupial carnivore, the Tasmanian Devil, has been returned to the wild on Australia’s mainland for the first time in 3,000 years, reports Reuters. Actor couple Chris...
Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) forecast light to moderate rain or thundershowers at many parts of the country in the next 24 hours commencing at 9:00am today (Tuesday). “Light to moderate...
The global economy is looking “less dire” than it did in June and the International Monetary Fund will make a “small” upward revision to its 2020 global output forecast, IMF...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday launched an operation against Abul Kalam Majumder, an accounting officer at the Chattogram Regional Accounts Center under the Water Development Board, on charges of...
The South Asian Regional Center of Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA) in Dhaka will play a role in scaling up and accelerating the action of adaptation in the region as...
As people have resorted to do daily activities online due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a student run business club and publication house of University of Dhaka - "Voice of...
Kuwait's new emir has asked the Gulf state's cabinet to carry on its duties and prepare for parliamentary elections due this year after the prime minister handed in his government's...
The government has approved the first revision of the multi-sector project to address Rohingya crisis on emergency basis with an additional cost of Taka 9.30 billion to ensure various facilities...
At a time when the global economy is in turmoil due to the coronavirus epidemic, most of the major indicators in Bangladesh offer cause for optimism over the country's economic...
The production of natural gas from the newly discovered Srikail East-1 onshore structure is expected to start from December this year. State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Ltd (Bapex)...
Price of onions will come down in the coming days as adequate import and supply of the item has increased in the country, according to a statement issued by the...
Alongside protests on the streets, netizens, especially women, have resorted to digital protests to raise their voices against sexual assault, harassment and torture of women. Many FB female users have...
Forty-seven Bangladeshi workers, who were sent to jail after returning from Vietnam, were released from Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur on Tuesday following the court's directive, reports UNB. The authorities...
Britain has rationed its supplies of the antiviral drug remdesivir and is prioritising COVID-19 patients who need it most in the face of rising demand, Britain’s health ministry said on...
Bangladesh’s unemployment rate swelled to 22.39 per cent in July from 2.3 per cent in March due to the impact of ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, said Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS)...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Tuesday cleared a new project involving Tk 1.23 billion to create self-employment opportunities by expanding the activities of Bangladesh Industrial...
Britain’s Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel of Germany and US scientist Andrea Ghez won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discoveries about one of the most exotic phenomena in...
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