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Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 59 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs during different anti-narcotics drives in the last 24 hours till 6:00am today (Tuesday). The Detective Branch...
Protesters have brought out a black flag rally, demanding justice for rapes and other forms of sexual violence. As they started a march towards the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the...
Incidents of child rape witnessed an alarming rise in September 2020 compared to the last eight months of the current calendar year, according to a report released by a child...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Tuesday said legal action will be taken soon against the criminals involved in torturing and sexually humiliating a woman in Noakhali. “The criminals await immediate...
Singapore’s prime minister testified in court on Tuesday in his defamation case against a blogger who shared an online article linking him to Malaysia’s 1MBD money-laundering scandal. As the head...
Voice of Business (VoB), a student-run business club and publication house at Dhaka University, has launched its signature branding competition. The event, called ‘IPDC presents BRANDrill 2020 powered by Eclectic...
China is in talks to have its locally-produced COVID-19 vaccines assessed by the World Health Organization, as a step toward making them available for international use, a WHO official said...
Stocks extended the losing streak for the two consecutive sessions on Tuesday as shaky investors continued their sell-offs on sector-wise issues. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange...
Bangladesh has witnessed deaths of 30 more people from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of casualties to 5,375 since the first case of the virus...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said the national economy has made a turnaround with its desired pace due to the government’s timely decision to give stimulus packages to various...
A US-Bangladesh meeting has underscored the need for implementing reforms for continued improvement of Bangladesh's investment climate for US-sourced foreign direct investment, including initiation of stakeholders' consultations on ongoing reforms....
Three Bangladeshi schools, all from BRAC, have been selected among 100 schools from across the globe to showcase their best practices and promote a higher and better standard of education...
Pragati Life Insurance Limited has signed group insurance contract with Chuti Resort. Md. Jalalul Azim, MD & CEO of Pragati Life Insurance Limited and Mostofa Mahmud Arifee, Chairman of Chuti...
SM Nurul Hoque, a senior business leader, has been re-elected as chairman of Research for Education and Management Academy (REMA) Trust. The REMA Trust has been running Chittagong Laboratory School,...
Guardian Life Insurance Ltd and Navana Group have recently signed a group insurance agreement under which all the employees (eight concerns) of Navana Group will enjoy life coverage benefits. M...
Three death-row convicts in the murder of Gopal Krishna Muhuri, the principal of Chattogram’s Nazirhat College, will now serve prison time until death, according to a new order issued by...
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a second six-month tranche of debt service relief for 28 low-income countries amid the Covid-19 pandemic. "Relief on debt...
Asian stock markets advanced to a more than two-week high on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump was discharged from hospital following treatment for Covid-19, and as prospects for a...
Police have arrested two more suspects, including a Union Parishad member, taking the number of arrests to six over sexual assault on a woman in Noakhali’s Begumganj. The latest arrestees...
Hundreds of thousands of people with mental health conditions are shackled around the world, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report. Men, women, and children, some as young as...
Singapore is offering a one-off payment to encourage people to have babies during the coronavirus pandemic. The worry is that citizens are putting off parenthood as they struggle with financial...
Veteran Bengali actor and Dada Saheb Phalke winner Soumitra Chattopadhyay tested positive for the novel coronavirus. He has been admitted to Bellevue Nursing Home in Kolkata. His Covid-positive report came...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX won a $149 million contract to build missile-tracking satellites for the Pentagon, the US Space Development Agency (SDA) said on Monday, in the company’s first government contract...
Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur has officially launched Turnitin plagiarism checker to raise the quality and standard of researches and articles, authored by the teachers of BRUR. Professor Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah,...
IPDC Finance Limited and The Daily Prothom Alo are jointly organizing ‘IPDC-Prothom Alo Priyo Shikkhok Shommanona 2020’. This initiative was first organized in 2019 to establish a stronger societal honor...
On the occasion of 'World Teachers' Day, Prime Bank officials takes this great opportunity to express their respect and gratitude to all the teachers of Bangladesh to go above and...
A six-month long education programme was inaugurated, along with a seminar “Teachers: Leadership in Crisis, New Thoughts for the Future” over a video conferencing platform. The programme was arranged on...
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday said Covid-19 can spread through virus lingering in the air, sometimes for hours, acknowledging concerns widely voiced by public health...
At least 10 shops and a jute warehouse were gutted in a fire at a market in Rajbari district town on Tuesday morning. Rabiul Islam, station officer of Rajbari Fire...
Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other on Monday of attacking civilian areas and said the death toll was rising from the deadliest fighting in the South Caucasus region for more...
Police on Monday night arrested a superintendent of a local madrasah from Mirpur upazila of Kushtia district for allegedly violating a female student. The arrestee was identified as Maulana Abdul...
The government has taken an initiative to profile successful entrepreneurs who began their businesses first from the BSCIC industrial estates. They said the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC)...
Transactions through mobile financial services (MFS) dropped by more than 34 per cent in August as people resumed normal banking despite the Covid-19 pandemic. The expiry of the tenure of...
US President Donald Trump told Americans “to get out there” and not fear Covid-19 as he returned to the White House on Monday (local time) after a three-night hospital stay...
The vegetable market in Jashore is volatile. Lower and middle class people are afraid to go to the market. Going to the vegetables market with taka two hundred seems to...
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) government will take back all the Bangladeshi workers, who got stranded after returning home due to Covid-related restrictions, provided they have valid work permits....
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday upheld five High Court orders which stayed the trial proceedings of five cases filed against Nobel Laureate Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus...
The securities regulator should ensure the safety of investors' money while combating cooked-up financials for the long term development of the capital market, experts said. They also said the authorities...
The prices of onion, especially imported variety, increased again notably on Monday. Traders attributed the hike in onion prices to supply crunch amid low import. Prices of imported onion rose...
Rights activists have demanded to pass a law ensuring the welfare and social protection of elderly citizens of the country. The demand was made at a webinar organised by Prabin...
The government will scrutinise further a BGMEA proposal for waiving the entire bank loan liabilities of as many as 131 readymade garments (RMG) units, a person familiar with the situation...
The central bank purchased US$ 2.63 billion from the commercial banks directly in the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal year (FY), aiming to keep the inter-bank foreign exchange...
A Noakhali court on Monday placed two accused on six-day remand each in two cases filed over torturing a housewife in Begumganj upazila of Noakhali district. Judge of the Noakhali...
Bangladesh has requested Kuwait to resume flights between the two countries as quickly as possible so that the Bangladeshi expatriates who got stuck here can return to their workplaces smoothly....
Nothing unexpected happened at the first presidential debate in Cleveland. Given President Trump's past records since his debates with his Democratic Party contestant Hilary Clinton in the run up to...
The curse of Dhaka's monsoon waterlogging has for some time been plaguing the smaller cities and towns as well. These cities include district and divisional headquarters. A lot of upazila...
The government initiative to develop eight 'Shanti Nibas' (peace abode) for elderly people under a modest project costing Tk 800 million is highly appreciated. What is novel about the project...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has barred seven suspects accused of supplying ‘low-quality’ N95 masks for health workers amid the coronavirus pandemic from travelling abroad. The move aims to stop suspects...
The head of Saudi Arabia’s Chambers of Commerce has called for a boycott of Turkish products amid merchants’ reports that animosity between Ankara and Riyadh is hindering the flow of...
Roughly 1 in 10 people may have been infected with the novel coronavirus, leaving the vast majority of the world’s population vulnerable to the related COVID-19 disease, the World Health...
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