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India’s coronavirus infections surged past 4.2 million on Monday as it overtook Brazil to become the country with the second-highest number of cases. With 4,204,613 infections, India is nearly 70,000...
A petulant swipe at the ball after having his serve broken brought a sensational end to Novak Djokovic’s US Open on Sunday after the world number one was disqualified for...
Prices of most of the shares on the bourses witnessed an upward trend on Monday as optimistic investors continued their buying binge buoyed by investors’ optimism amid gradual economic rebound....
The number of fatalities from the mosque air-conditioner explosions in Narayanganj has jumped to 26 after five more victims died from their injuries on Sunday. Another 11 people are battling...
The securities regulator has issued a new directive on financial reporting and disclosure of mutual funds (MFs) and asset managers to enhance transparency in disclosure for the interest of investors...
The central bank has revised the upward limit of fund transfer through internet banking significantly to promote touchless transaction, amid pandemic. In a circular issued on Sunday, the institutional digital...
CHATTOGRAM: A total of five metric tonnes (MT) of date-expired hazardous chemicals which remained stored at P-Shade of the Chittagong Port for one decade will be destroyed to make the...
The government is trying to address two big contradictions in the economy - low tax-to-GDP ratio and stock market capitalisation-to- GDP ratio, advisor to the Prime Minister on private industry...
The form of Covid-19 is changing much faster in Bangladesh than any other country in the world. The rate of its change in the world is 7.23 per cent, while...
Bangladesh's apparel exports to its single largest destination - the US - declined by 18.54 per cent during the first seven months of 2020 calendar year, compared to the same...
The government is set to allow all banks to carry out treasury activities in places in an attempt to expand such services in the countryside, officials say. If and when...
The state-owned commercial banks (SOCBs) had Tk 410.58 billion in bad debt combined in the last year, the bulk of which went to beneficiaries of Janata Bank. Finance Minister AHM...
At a time when human hearts have been numbed or deadened by outrageous figures of daily global casualties from Covid-19, even unwarranted and tragic deaths reduce into just numbers. Yet...
The government, to a great extent, does have a laissez-faire attitude when it comes to fixing consultation fees by doctors both at private hospitals and their own chambers. The same...
The elderly people can still remember the sylvan, green look of Dhaka. The spectacle was in place just 60/70 years ago. Today's younger generation will, in all likelihood, accept the...
The government has amended the ride-sharing policy allowing a single vehicle to get enlisted with more than one company. According to the amended policy, car owners will have to pay...
In this disjointed, globalised scenario, both Biden and Trump have entered the final stretch of deliberations related to the US Presidential election to be held on November 3 this year....
Strategic studies are made by countries on various subjects and for different purposes. Of these the most common and important are the studies on the geo-political security of a country...
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday again issued a letter to Kuwait-Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital seeking its detailed record of expenses, including bills and vouchers, to investigate graft allegations in accommodation...
Onion market started to become volatile as of Sunday as prices witnessed a further significant hike over the past two days. Local onion was selling at Tk 60-68 per kilogramme...
International trade and investment have always relied on the cross-border mobility of individuals. Transporting goods across borders involves humans, and will do so for the foreseeable future despite important technological...
Four suspended policemen have been taken on a second phase of four-day remand by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a case filed over the murder of Major (retd) Sinha Md...
Shaheena Shaheen, a talk show host at Pakistan’s state-owned broadcaster Pakistan Television and editor of a local magazine, was shot dead at her home in Balochistan on Saturday evening. Police...
Saied Muhammad Zareef Saleh, 13, has become the youngest jury member of the International Art Contest ‘The Future We Want’. Perception Change Project of UN Geneva on the occasion of...
The Chinese Embassy in Dhaka has expressed apology for sending gifts to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on her ‘fake birthday’, mentioning that it was a ‘mistake’ on their part, an...
Saied Muhammad Zareef Saleh, who is only 13-years-old, has become the youngest jury member of the International Art Contest ‘The Future We Want’. Perception Change Project of UN Geneva on...
China National Biotec Group (CNBG) and Sinovac Biotech Ltd said on Saturday they have each found two more countries to run late-stage clinical tests of their coronavirus vaccine candidates, as...
China is planning a more than 1 trillion yuan ($146 billion) push to accelerate infrastructure investment in Tibet, including new and previously announced projects, three sources familiar with the matter...
The website of the 29th New York Bangla Book Fair, dedicated to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of his birth centenary, will be launched on Monday. State Minister...
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has demanded a judicial inquiry into what it described as barbaric attack on Wahida Khanam, UpazilaNirbahi Officer (UNO) of Ghoraghat, Dinajpur, and her father....
State Minister for Industries Kamal Ahmed Mojumder has given strict instructions not to set up any kind of establishments other than industrial factories in the industrial cities of Bangladesh Small...
The ninth session of the 11th parliament has begun amid the coronavirus pandemic. The session, presided over by Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, started at 11:00 am on Sunday, reports bdnews24.com....
Nagad, the state-owned mobile financial service, on Sunday gave Tk 11,215,576 to the postal department as part of the earnings. Tanvir Ahmed Mishuk, managing director of Nagad, handed over a...
One man was killed and seven people were injured, two of them seriously, in a series of stabbings in the city of Birmingham, central England, early on Sunday, police said,...
Primary schools students will be promoted to the next grade without taking any examination if schools and educational institutions across Bangladesh cannot be reopened by November, Primary and Mass Education...
The natural methods of pests’ management like perching and light trap are gaining popularity among farmers while farming Transplanted Aman rice in Rangpur agriculture region. The farmers are applying live...
The Chinese Embassy and Australian High Commission in Dhaka expressed deep shock at the loss of lives in explosions at a mosque in Narayanganj. "We are deeply shocked to have...
Government primary schools will admit students from kindergartens that may be forced to shut down due to financial troubles amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The government has ordered the authorities...
At least 183 journalists fell victim to harassment in January-July 2020, according to a report by an independent rights body. Of them, 20 received death threats over phones during the...
Bangladesh has recorded 1,592 fresh cases of Covid-19 in a daily count, raising the tally of infections to 325,157. The death toll jumped to 4,479 after 32 new fatalities were...
Describing the Narayanganj mosque blast as a very tragic incident, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said it is essential to oversee whether mosques are constructed in the country maintaining...
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury has nominated a five-member panel of chairmen for the ninth session of the 11th Jatiya Sangsad (parliament). She nominated the panel at a meeting before...
Emirates has resumed its passenger services to Lagos (7 September) and Abuja (9 September) in Nigeria.The resumption of flights to both Nigerian cities takes Emirates’ African network to 13 destinations...
Stocks extended the gaining streak on Sunday as enthusiastic investors continued their buying binge on sector-wise issues riding on regulatory moves to restore discipline in the country’s capital market. DSEX,...
The bidding for eligible investors (EIs) to discover the cut-off price of shares of Energypac Power Generation Ltd will commence from September 21 at 5:00pm. The power generation company’s share...
UNICEF has been procuring lifesaving supplies – including personal protective equipment (PPE) and other medical equipment – for a value of $12.28 million US dollar over the last six months...
The Philippines has so far secured a total of 8.83 billion US dollars in borrowings, loans and grant assistance for the government's coronavirus disease (Covid-19) response efforts from its development...
Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Sunday said there is no need to send Ghoraghat UNO Wahida Khanam abroad for better treatment at this moment but a decision in this regard...
More than 200,000 people have been ordered to evacuate areas of Japan threatened by an approaching storm. Typhoon Haishen is expected to intensify on Sunday, bringing heavy rain, storm surges...
A Bangladeshi youth was shot to death allegedly by the members of Indian Security Force (BSF) at Telkupi frontier in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj district on Saturday night. The deceased...
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