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The number of registered auto-rickshaws in the country nearly tripled over the past decade, thanks to people’s growing purchasing power as well as the soaring economy, according to official data....
India reported 75,083 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to federal health data released on Tuesday, the lowest daily tally in almost a month....
Floods and landslides have struck Indonesia's capital of Jakarta and its surrounding areas, leaving two people dead, one missing and 20 others injured, officials said on Tuesday. A river overflowed...
Some 25 people were killed and 1,025 injured in 98 incidents of political violence across the country in the first eight months of the current calendar year, according to a...
Beijing is unlikely to approve an “unfair” deal Oracle and Walmart said they have struck with ByteDance over the future of video-streaming app TikTok, state-backed newspaper Global Times said in...
At least a third of 270 whales stranded off Tasmania have died and more are feared to be dying, rescuers in Australia say. However, crews were able to save 25...
The death toll from Narayanganj mosque blast rose to 34 after another victim died at Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute on Tuesday morning. Sifat, 18, who was...
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 27 coffins at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, a burial ground that is also home to one of the world’s oldest pyramids, the ministry of...
A group of Bangladeshi migrant workers demonstrated at Karwan Bazar on Tuesday morning demanding tickets to Saudi Arabia so that they can join their workplaces. Saudi Arabia is set to...
US federal debt is projected to reach nearly twice the size of the economy in 2050, driven by the massive fiscal response to the COVID-19-induced recession, the Congressional Budget Office...
China is pushing growing numbers of Tibetan rural labourers off the land and into recently built military-style training centres where they are turned into factory workers, mirroring a programme in...
Intel Corp has received a licence from US authorities to continue supplying certain products to Huawei Technologies, a company spokesman said on Tuesday. This week the state-backed China Securities Journal said...
The Afghan government and Taliban militants remain far apart on even the most basic issues a week into talks meant to end two decades of war that has killed tens...
The Board of Directors of Apex Footwear Limited has recommended 25 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2020. The board of directors has also recommended...
Some 156 nations have joined a global scheme for fair distribution of future vaccines against Covid-19, an alliance led by the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, but superpowers...
Mexico surpassed 700,000 confirmed coronavirus cases on Monday even as health authorities cited what they described as nearly two months of slowing infection rates. On Monday, the Health Ministry reported...
After what would be almost exactly 7 months of shutdown since March 18, the movie theatres in Bangladesh are set to welcome moviegoers again from October 16, Information Minister Dr...
US President Donald Trump speaks to the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, before his departure on campaign travel to Fayetteville, North Carolina, US, September...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday called for not allowing geopolitical rivalries to weaken the United Nations (UN) as the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has shown that both developed and developing...
Former DUCSU vice president Nurul Haque Nur has been released hours after being detained by the police during a protest over a rape case against him and six others in...
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) on Monday issued an order revising the margin loan ratio. As per the revised ratio, margin loan will be distributed at a ratio...
The government has sent six teams to seven districts and three land-ports of the country to monitor the price of onion, its stock, supply, import and production there, officials said....
The High Court on Monday issued a rule over the release of 83 Bangladeshis who had been sent to jail after returning from abroad during the coronavirus pandemic. In the...
Discrepancies in wealth distribution are wide and inherent in Bangladesh, planning minister MA Mannan told a webinar on Monday. "National wealth has increased manifold in recent years which is a...
Execution of a modern road transport project, designed to ease traffic movement between Gazipur and Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA), within the deadline---December 2022--- is highly unlikely. Food dragging by...
Bangladesh has lately strengthened its efforts to secure permission to use the Indian territory for the purpose of transporting goods to Nepal and Bhutan by its own vehicles. The signing...
Mr. MA Razzak Khan Raj, Chairman, Minister-MyOne Group, and Director, FBCCI, handed over a cheque and 1 lakh pieces of Minister surgical masks to the Prime Minister's Relief and Welfare...
The Covid-19 pandemic seems to have curtailed globalisation in ways that the current US administration could scarcely have dreamed up even a year ago. But, viewed in a broader context,...
Police arrested seven people including Vice-President of Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) Nurul Haque Nur from a procession in the city's Matshaya Bhaban area on Monday. Bangladesh Chhatra Odhikar...
The kitchen staple, onion, has again taken the centre stage. As its price doubled at the India's, or rather Asia's largest wholesale market for onion at Lasalgaon in the Nasik...
Around two decades ago, ecologists presented a weird picture of the earth following several phases of extinctions of cataclysmic proportions. The planet they visualised would be devoid of humans. Amid...
If the country goes for car manufacture locally, the number one casualty is likely to be the importers of reconditioned cars. So the importers of reconditioned cars may have reasons...
The Covid-19 pandemic is the mother of all stress tests for the global economy, and not least for emerging markets and developing economies. Early on, there were hopes that the...
Asif Ali (name changed) and his wife live with three children in a rural township bordering India and Bangladesh. Asif lost his job as a mechanic when the Covid-19 lockdown...
A Narayanganj court on Monday granted bail to eight suspended officials of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd in a case over the blasts at a mosque in Nayaranganj...
A court has sentenced a man to death and jailed another person for life for murdering Abdul Aziz Chaklader, a glass trader of Old Dhaka’s Lalbagh, reports bdnews24.com. Chaklader was...
Bangladesh has sought immediate steps on Myanmar by the UN Security Council asking Myanmar to refrain from escalating the situation and targeting the Rohingya minorities in the pretext of security...
The government plans to import 4.98 million metric tonnes (MT) of petroleum fuel in the 2021 calendar year. According to an official document of the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has relaxed the foreign exchange transactions rules for onion traders by allowing them to open Letters of Credit (LCs) for imports of spice on 90 days deferred...
The country’s raw jute exporters on Monday demanded for not imposing ban and duty on raw jute exports to protect the interests of the sector. The leaders of Bangladesh Jute...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday directed the administration to take preparations in advance to face the field-level situation if the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic hits the country in...
LafargeHolcim joins the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) “Business Ambition for 1.5°C,” becoming the first global building materials company to sign the pledge with intermediate targets for 2030, validated by...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi defended new laws aimed at lifting restrictions on farmers on Friday after protests by opposition parties, some farming bodies and even an ally of his...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday said there has been a positive progress in the talks of sharing water of common rivers with India including Teesta. Quader...
Beximco Pharmaceuticals Limited on Monday announces it has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for Flecainide Acetate (50, 100 and 150 mg tablets), an antiarrythmic drug used for...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 72 people in the city in a regular anti-narcotics drive on the charges of selling and consuming illegal drugs. Different police stations under DMP...
A Dhaka court today (Monday) placed Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) driver Abdul Malek alias Badal on a 14-day remand in two cases lodged over recovery of illegal weapon...
A total of 53 prisoners died in different jails across the country in the first eight months from January to August of this year, according to an independent rights body....
A schoolgirl was hacked to death allegedly by a stalker in Bank Colony area of Savar on Sunday night after she had rejected his advances. The deceased, 14-year-old Nila Roy,...
Bangladesh's coronavirus caseload has surpassed 350,000, hitting another grim milestone in the pandemic. The tally of infections surged to 350,621 as it added 1,705 new cases in the 24 hours...
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