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A total of 164 Bangladeshi migrants, including nine who escaped a massacre of foreign workers in Libya, have returned home, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Bangladesh office said on...
Awami League presidium member Jahangir Kabir Nanak has tested positive for coronavirus, his family sources say. The fomer State Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives tested positive for...
More than three million people in Madrid have had new restrictions imposed on their lives as Spain tries to control the most serious second wave of Covid-19 infections in Europe....
Democratic US presidential nominee Joe Biden said on Friday (local time) that President Donald Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis shows the importance of taking the pandemic seriously, telling Americans that wearing masks...
The United States is opening an investigation into whether Vietnam has been undervaluing its currency and harming US commerce, the US Trade Representative’s office said in a statement on Friday....
Bangladesh has urged the global community re-commit to use their scare resources for realising sustainable development goals (SDGs), and making this world safe and livable for present and future generations....
CHATTOGRAM: Bangladesh Railway (BR) is going to start the digital system for signalling at 85 railway stations under its Eastern Zone. The digital system has been introduced at 12 stations...
India’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rose past 100,000 on Saturday, only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the United States and Brazil,...
Stocks rebounded in the outgoing week, after a single-week break, as the investors went on bargain hunting for selective large-cap issues with high expectations. Week-on-week, DSEX, the prime index of...
Bangladeshi lone coronavirus vaccine candidate Globe Biotech has achieved another much-needed milestone, as a globally recognised journal has certified its 'BANCOVID' scientifically okay for human trial. With the achievement, Globe...
Though the country's movie theatres are going to reopen on October 16 after almost six-month closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there are fears that many of them will not...
The prices of vegetables shot up further last week, raising woes of the commoners who are already battered with skyrocketing prices of rice and other essentials. The department of agricultural...
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he had tested positive for Covid-19 and was going into isolation. Trump has mild symptoms, according to White House Chief of Staff...
Nine out of the top-ten green or environment-friendly ready-made garment (RMG) factories are located in Bangladesh, sources said. However, the first one among such top-rated factories is situated in Indonesia....
US President Donald Trump moved to a military hospital for treatment on Friday after being diagnosed with Covid-19 as his administration and re-election campaign scrambled to adjust to an extraordinary...
The picture of the overseas employment sector in Bangladesh is bleak with thousands of migrants in the dark about their jobs due to coronavirus pandemic. Jobless workers' homecoming continues. Again,...
Bangladesh's poverty rate spiked to 29.4 per cent amid the Covid-19 pandemic from 18.8 per cent estimated before the outbreak of the viral disease, a government report has revealed. The...
The leading digital services provider of the country, Robi Axiata Limited has been again recognized as the best socially devoted brand in the world for the second quarter (Q2’20) of...
The government has set out to create 12,607 permanent posts at the technical schools and colleges and polytechnic institutes in order to expand vocational education in Bangladesh. These will include...
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his wife Jill have tested negative for coronavirus, their doctor said in a statement on Friday. “Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden...
It is not for long that someone's curriculum vitae (CV) or bio-data has started including travel as a hobby. No one in our country would have thought that travel or...
Myanmar's upcoming general election scheduled for November 2020 does not hold much hope for the displaced Rohingya people now sheltered in Cox's Bazar camps in Bangladesh. Neither will have it...
About 25 to 35 per cent of the foodstuffs produced globally get lost, so goes a report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Such wastage is unfortunate when one...
A general increase in the economic activity of a country may lead to the spring up of industries. However, a well-developed system is needed to raise funds for economic growth....
Almost all socio-economic impact assessments of COVID 19 used the economy-wide modelling approach (such SAM and CGE supplemented with employment matrix and poverty module) to examine effects on: (i) Gross...
Saudia and Biman Bangladesh Airlines have restored order in Dhaka to sale of air tickets to Saudi Arabia, but the migrant workers now grapple with an information black hole as...
Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Kashyap on Friday claimed that the rape allegations against him were "outright lie" as he was in Sri Lanka at the time, a day after he was...
BCL leader Arjun Lashkar, the fourth accused in the MC gang-rape case, made a confession statement under section 164 in the court on Friday. His statement was recorded in the...
The ferry services on the Shimulia-Kathalbari route resumed on Friday, 28 hours after the suspension due to poor navigability, reports UNB. "Closed five times for 17 days in the last...
Head coach of Bangladesh national cricket team Russell Domingo has emphasised playing domestic cricket when there is no assignment in the international circuit. Domingo said this when he joined a...
Three accused in Sylhet MC College gang rape case were produced before the court on Friday after their five-day remand. Saifur Rahman, Robiul and Arjun were produced before the court...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has extended the deadline for paying holding tax and renewing trade license respectively without paying 10 per cent surcharge till October 31. “If the city...
Icddr,b has been selected as one of the five laboratories across the globe to work together as part of centralised network to reliably assess and compare immunological responses generated by...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines is all set to start operating direct flights from Sylhet to London this year. A press briefing is scheduled to take place on Sunday at Sylhet Osmani...
The government has created cadre posts for the technical institutions for the first time as part of its move to promote technical education for creating skilled manpower to meet its...
US stock futures and European stocks fell on Friday after US President Donald Trump said he and his wife had tested positive for the coronavirus. Futures on the S&P 500...
The Spanish region of Catalonia will hold an election on Feb 14 if regional lawmakers don't elect a candidate to replace ousted president Quim Torra, parliamentary speaker Roger Torrent announced...
The government has allocated 10,566.84 tonnes of VGF rice for fishermen during the upcoming hilsa fishing ban from Oct 14 to Nov 4, reports UNB. The food aid is being...
Bangladesh has recorded 1,396 new cases of the novel coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the tally to 366,383, bdnews24.com reports. The death toll jumped to 5,305 after 33...
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk indicated on Friday that the US electric carmaker will make a foray into India in 2021. “Next year for sure,” Musk said on Twitter in...
Some 90 per cent of business software is pirated in Bangladesh as it has limited resources to devote to intellectual property rights (IPR) protection, a United States government report has...
Like two US presidents before him, Donald Trump could temporarily hand over power to his vice president should he become incapacitated, for example while undergoing a medical procedure as treatment...
Chinese multinational technology company Vivo is going...
Merchant Bay is going to organize "Digital Trade Week" for the first time in Bangladesh. "Digital Trade Week" will be a 7 days programme starting from October 15 to October...
US President Donald Trump, in quarantine on Friday after being tested positive for Covid-19, has underplayed the pandemic for months, eschewing masks, criticising others who wear them and holding large...
US companies would take advantage of the competitiveness of Bangladesh and invest in the country in much greater volume particularly in the areas of ICT, energy, and pharmaceuticals. The...
The female Bangladeshi peacekeepers have been given the task of ensuring security at DR Congo Airport (MUNUSCO), run by the UN Peacekeeping Mission. Bangladesh female police members of BANFPU-1 (Rotation-14)...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal left Dhaka for UAE for medical checkup on Friday. A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the minister took off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in...
US personal income decreased 2.7 per cent in August, following the expiration of extra unemployment benefits provided by the federal government, the Labor Department said Thursday. "Federal economic recovery payments...
A major non-profit health emergencies group has set up a global laboratory network to assess data from potential Covid-19 vaccines, allowing scientists and drugmakers to compare them and speed up...
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