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The government is set to establish an authority for issuing health certificates for export of halal food items to meet the demand of importers of such Bangladeshi products, sources said....
The country's apparel makers are not in agreement with the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) over the payment of service charges to the latter for verification of documents under the registered...
The families of migrant workers are facing a shortage of nutritious food as they have brought in changes in their food intake for losing income during the coronavirus pandemic, according...
The National Technical Advisory Committee (NTAC) suggested the government on Thursday to conduct three types of tests - PCR, antigen and antibody - simultaneously for better containment of the Covid-19...
A major policy reform should be undertaken immediately to ensure an equal and safer healthcare for people of all income groups, medical scholars and practitioners say. They said the government...
Over the years, some policy supports, including reduced taxes, make motorcycles cheaper and easier to avail of. Now there is a move to cut the registration fee to drive the...
There was a time when the common complaint against the government in office was its failure to produce enough power to run factories, light the streets and homes. Setting up...
Capacity-wise, the existing power plants of the country can produce and supply more electricity than there is a demand for. The surplus power thus created, according to an estimate, is...
Water levels in most of the rivers and tributaries in Ganges and Brahmaputra basins recorded a rising trend again on Friday. Water level of Ganges basin began to swell owing...
In Bangladesh, during the nationwide general holiday (shutdown) period, the businesses in various sectors were forced to temporarily pull down their shutters to stem the spread of the deadly virus....
Buying a property in Bangladesh is considered a major achievement in life. Whenever somebody buys a flat, they are filled with joy and pride. However, the real estate industry in...
The US Commerce Department plans to issue an order Friday that will bar people in the United States from downloading Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok starting on...
In Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward's new book, Rage, he reports on interviews he did in February and March with US President Donald Trump about the coronavirus. Trump admitted that...
Prices of some essentials, besides onions, witnessed a 80-167 per cent rise in last few weeks affecting the purchasing capacity of commoners further. Prices of 16 kinds of vegetables witnessed...
United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB) has signed an MoU with EW Villa Medica, Bangladesh and DMFR Molecular Lab & Diagnostics Ltd at the premises of the bank recently. Under the...
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) health care facilities around the world employ about 60 million people and these employees face biological, chemical, physical, ergonomic, psychosocial, and electrical hazards...
PUBG MOBILE airdrops an unprecedented wardrobe of sleek new outfits and more in the highly-anticipated Royale Pass Season 15: “Beyond A.C.E.” Players can unlock eight brand-new costumes to customize...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of Amir of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh Allama Shah Ahmad Shafi. In a condolence message on Friday, the prime...
Shah Ahmed Shafi, chief of Hifazat-e Islam, has died in hospital care in Dhaka, a day after resigning from the Harhazari madrasa in Chattogram as its director general, according to...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam today urged traders to follow city corporation’s rules and regulations, saying, no illegal works would be allowed in the capital. “Whatever...
US President Donald Trump offered to pardon Julian Assange if the WikiLeaks founder provided the source for the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails before the 2016 U.S. presidential election,...
Hundreds of trucks carrying onion to Bangladesh are stranded at Indian ports after Indian government prohibited the export of all varieties of onion to control prices in his country's domestic...
Apple Inc will launch its first online store in India on Sept 23, the iPhone maker said on Friday, coinciding with the country’s holiday season that brings some of the...
The UK’s Export Credit Agency, UK Export Finance (UKEF), more than trippled the export credit for Bangladesh to £2.5 billion recently. The move will boost the trade partnership between the...
The United Nations is marking the first-ever International Equal Pay Day on Friday drawing attention to the gender pay gap and the systemic inequalities it is rooted in. Despite decades...
At least four people were killed and 19 others injured after two buses crashed into each other on the Dhaka-Khulna Highway in Mugi area of Magura Sadar upazila on Friday...
The government will pay an estimated Tk 2,256.7 billion as interest on loans in the next three fiscals including the current one. Out of the amount, Tk 638 billion will...
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said on Thursday that five more countries are seriously considering striking a normalisation deal with Israel after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain...
The South African government has told administrators of South African Airways (SAA) that there is a ‘clear cabinet commitment’ to provide the state airline with 10.5 billion rand ($650 million)...
Around 5.0 million British jobs remained on furlough at the end of July, down from a peak of just under 9.0 million but still leaving millions of workers facing uncertainty...
US President Donald Trump and his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, will both travel to the key Midwestern state of Minnesota on Friday, as early voting begins there ahead of November’s...
A woman, who gave birth at a clinic in Gaibandha, sold her baby for Tk 16,000 to pay medical bills. Amena Begum, wife of Shajahan Mia of Sholagari village in...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said it is committed to partnering with developing economies in Asia and the Pacific to achieve their recovery goals from the COVID-19 pandemic. “ADB...
The total number of internet subscribers in Bangladesh nearly doubled in the last five years thanks to the government’s commitment and push to digitise the country. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission's...
Bangladesh has registered 22 new fatalities from the novel coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the death toll to 4,881, reports bdnews24.com. The tally of infections climbed to 345,805...
Ramiz Uddin Talukder rushed his wife to Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital in Barishal from Patuakhali after she had suffered burns while cooking on a gas stove, bdnews24.com reports. But after...
Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) on Friday has forecast that rainfall activity will increase all over the country from Monday. Omar Faruk, a meteorologist, said rainfall will decrease to some extent...
Allama Shah Ahmed Shafi, the director general of Hathazari Madrasa, has stepped down. Shafi, also the ameer (chief) of Hefajat-e-Islam, announced to resign from his madrasa post after a meeting...
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam has been moved to the intensive care unit of Dhaka's Combined Military Hospital after his condition deteriorated during treatment. Alam was admitted to the hospital with...
Lack of cooperation in South Asia, including in water-sharing, has dangerous consequences for Bangladesh, says noted development economist Jeffrey Sachs. Regional cooperation is important because, he argues, most of the...
IPDC Finance Limited, the first private financial institution of Bangladesh established in 1981, conducted the fourth episode of 'OGROJ.' The episode, which was aired live on IPDC's official Facebook page, presented the narratives...
A Covid-19 test known as DnaNudge that gives results in just over an hour and which requires no laboratory was accurate in almost all cases, according to an academic review...
The chairmen of all education boards will meet on September 24 to find ways to run HSC and equivalent exams which were deferred due to the coronavirus pandemic. Md Abdus...
Four striking forces have been formed to ensure security of the Kashimpur Central Jail at the directive of the prison administration. Jail Super of Kashimpur Central Jail-1 Ratna Roy said...
Asian stocks inched up on Friday, despite Wall Street declines, but struggled to make deeper gains as worries about a faltering economic recovery kept investors to the sidelines or seeking...
Twitter on Thursday (US standard time) placed a warning label on a tweet by US President Donald Trump, saying his post included potentially misleading information regarding the process of mail-in...
Japan’s new prime minister will pursue economic structural reforms through a mixed bag of policies that target specific industries, rather than a grand strategy to reshape society and boost long-term...
Facebook will no longer show health groups in its recommendations to ensure that its users get health information from authoritative sources, the social media giant said on Thursday. The company...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will set up a 'regional hub' to facilitate achieving higher tax base in its member countries amid the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic when many...
Experts at a webinar on Thursday stressed the advantages of mediation over arbitration and litigation as a dispute resolution tool, especially in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has...
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