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Sportswear firm Nike has seen a huge rise in online sales as it bounces back from a coronavirus slump. The US company saw digital sales rocket 82 per cent during...
Experts at a webinar on Tuesday stressed the need for framing a comprehensive national logistics policy coupled with a dedicated authority to help facilitate cross-border trade. Besides establishment and optimum...
The Anti-Corruption Commission is looking into the sources of the ‘massive wealth’ gained by 45 government staffers who work under the Directorate General of Health Services. ACC Secretary Md Dilwar...
Saudi Arabia will allow pilgrims residing inside the country to undertake the umrah pilgrimage beginning on October 4, after a seven-month pause due to coronavirus concerns, state news agency SPA...
The Board of Directors of National Housing Finance and Investments Limited in its 219th meeting held recently elected Mahbubur Rahman as Chairman and Syed M. Altaf Hussain as vice chairman...
The government has incurred about Tk 120 million loss in customs revenue due to the suspension of trade through three Land Customs (LC) Stations in Sunamganj district frontiers due to...
The US coronavirus death toll has passed 200,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). More than 6.8 million people are known to have been infected in the US,...
US President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that China must be held accountable for having “unleashed” Covid-19 on the world, prompting Beijing to accuse him...
The chairman of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) on Monday said the appointments of Independent Directors in many companies in Bangladesh are made just from relatives, friends and they...
The fresh erosion by the Jamuna has taken a serious turn in different places of Tangail sadar, Bhuapur and Kalihati upazilas of the district devouring many crops land and houses...
The government will tackle second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, if it occurs in the country, by keeping the economy vibrant, Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam has said. Besides, the...
A vessel carrying nearly 1,000 containers, stuffed with Bangladeshi export goods, remained stuck in the mid-sea for days as the Singapore port authority did not permit it for berthing after...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has ruled in a verdict that all the semi government organisations, autonomous bodies, corporations, nationalised banks and financial institutions (FIs) should follow their...
Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has proposed spending Tk 1.2 million for installing traffic signs & signals on each kilometre of road for a regional highway widening project in Jamalpur,...
"Extraordinary easy financing' conditions may pose 'upside risks' in the case of price stability in the upcoming quarters, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) report for the last quarter (Q4) of the...
The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) is ready to permit as many flights as the Saudia Airlines wants to carry Bangladeshi migrant workers to the kingdom without missing the...
Bangladesh is unlikely to go for inking any agreement with India on water sharing of the Feni River leaving the Teesta deal pending, officials concerned said. "In recent times, India...
The new building of Al-Arafah Islamic International School & College and Tahfizul Quran Madrasha was inaugurated recently on its own premises of Al-Arafah Islami Bank Foundation Hazaribagh, Dhaka. Alhajj Abdus...
Currently, people are using cars so much that traffic is one of the major problems in many countries of the world. To solve this problem worldwide, every year on September...
BRAC Bank and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Feed the Future (FtF) Bangladesh Rice and Diversified Crops (RDC) Activity have entered into a partnership to support the farmers...
The state-run Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) has been limping for long. Makeshift arrangements to revamp the state-run transport agency have done nothing to either improve its services or maintain...
Many Bangladeshi women mostly from rural background go abroad as migrant workers, but they often return home traumatised and empty-handed. Recent reports of migrant women workers sent mainly to Gulf...
Not so much attention is paid to statistics even at the height of the financial crisis. The daily drip of epidemiological data related to Covid-19, and its terrible economic and...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged his countrymen to work from home where possible and ordered bars and restaurants to close early to tackle a fast-spreading second wave of...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday acquitted a man who was sentenced to death in a case over killing an eight-year-old girl in Laksham area of Cumilla...
A legal notice has been issued to the government asking it to take necessary steps to ensure equal rights to inherit property for Hindu and Buddhist women. Supreme Court Lawyer...
American politics has largely been a matter of curiosity for people beyond its frontiers. Take this matter of the way in which Americans elect their Presidents. There is the popular...
A senior pharmaceutical industry official said on Tuesday that a price range between 5 and 15 euros ($6 to $18) per dose was reasonable for COVID-19 vaccines, reports Reuters. A...
Russia is so confident in its COVID-19 vaccine that it will shoulder some of the legal liability should anything go wrong, rather than requiring buyers to take on the full...
A Dhaka court on Tuesday directed the authorities concerned to freeze two bank accounts of suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Prisons Bazlur Rashid in a graft case filed by...
The High Court (HC) on Tuesday issued a rule seeking explanation as to why former ward councillor Tarekuzzaman Razib should not be granted bail in a case filed by the...
Hospitals are supposed to be a place where patients are to be treated in a comfortable home atmosphere as it is done in many countries of the world, no matter...
Bangladesh on Tuesday sent medicine and other medical supplies to Nepal to help the South Asian nation combat the ongoing pandemic under the SAARC COVID-19 emergency fund as a gesture...
Bangladesh Chhatra Odhikar Parishad, a national student body, on Tuesday demanded the withdrawal of 'false case' filed against Dhaka University Central Student Union (Ducsu) former vice president (VP) Nurul Haque...
Some 30,000 people could die in air pollution in 30 years if the eight proposed coal-fired power plants in Matarbari and Maheshkhali in the Cox's Bazar are built, according to...
Myanmar plans to push ahead with a November general election despite calls from opposition parties to postpone it because of a surge in novel coronavirus cases, officials said. The Southeast...
ByteDance-owned short-video app TikTok said on Tuesday it removed over 104 million videos from its platform globally in the first half of the year for violating guidelines or terms of...
More countries will sign up to a global vaccination plan and some of the delays were due to procedural issues rather than doubts about the scheme, a World Health Organization...
Development of adequate, diverse logistics infrastructure including ports, multimodal sub-regional transport connectivity is important to improve our trade competitiveness and secure low-cost trade potentials with South and South East Asian...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved a project for development and management of hilsa resources involving Tk 2.46 billion. The approval was given at the...
The climate crisis and Covid-19 are crying out for international cooperation, writes Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in The Guardian. Here’s the republished article: One-third of my country was underwater last...
Government primary school assistant teachers will get their salaries in higher grade soon as the upgradation work of the ‘iBAS++’ software is at the final stage. “The Primary and Mass...
The country’s central bank has failed to play its role in controlling default loans in the banking sector, said Transparency International Bangladesh’s Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman on Tuesday. The Bangladesh Bank...
Stocks extended the losing streak for the fourth straight session Tuesday, with the key index of the major bourse dipping below 5,000-mark, as cautious investors preferred to book quick-profit on...
The coronavirus toll in the country has reached 5,007 with 28 people reported dead in 24 hours, according to government data released on Tuesday. Cases surged by 1,557 in the...
Russia is so confident in its Covid-19 vaccine that it will shoulder some of the legal liability y should anything go wrong, rather than requiring buyers to take on the...
Emirates has enhanced collaboration with Huawei, one of the world’s top smartphone brands, to promote the Emirates app to Huawei phone users. Since January 2020, Emirates passengers have been downloading...
Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) has signed 56.33 million US dollar new investment agreement with seven companies during Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Among them, five companies are foreign owned by...
A second lawsuit has been initiated against former DUCSU vice president Nurul Haque Nur and five others over the rape of a young woman under the Digital Security Act. The...
Heavily pregnant Taj Bibi prays for her fourth husband as the Afghan soldier sets off to battle the Taliban, hoping his fate won’t be the same as that of his...
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