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Noting that the pandemic has forced "unprecedented lockdowns, travel suspensions and limited movement across borders, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the Group of 20 (G20) countries to...
The Law Ministry says it has opined that the suspension of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s sentences in two graft cases can be extended for another six months based on some...
Denied a Twenty20 World Cup this year because of the coronavirus outbreak, cricket fans might have the next best thing in the upcoming days. A series between England and Australia....
Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, who has consistently downplayed the severity of the coronavirus outbreak, reiterated on Thursday that Covid-19 vaccinations will not be obligatory when they become available. “Many...
The construction work of the country’s first ever metro rail is progressing in full swing maintaining health guidelines amid Covid-19 pandemic with completion of its overall 49.15 per cent construction,...
The quaint, sugarcane-growing village of Rajewadi in India’s west did not have a single confirmed coronavirus case until mid-August. Now one in every four people there is positive for the...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and police in a joint drive arrested two men, including a local Jubo League leader, in connection with the attack on Ghoraghat UNO Wahida...
The risk of modern slavery in Asian manufacturing hubs has surged and is set to worsen with the economic impact of the new coronavirus, increased labour rights violations and poor...
Malaysian prosecutors on Friday withdrew criminal charges against three Goldman Sachs units accused of misleading investors over $6.5 billion in bond sales they helped organize for a state fund, the...
Vegetable prices have gone up at the kitchen markets of flood-hit Kurigram district, taking it out of the reach of poor people. Traders said the prices of vegetables have gone...
CHATTOGRAM: Though tourist spots and amusement parks in greater Chattogram reopened last week of August after long five months, tourism business has yet to gain momentum due to poor presence...
The election to the mayoral post of Chandpur municipality, which was postponed following the death of BNP mayoral candidate Shafiqur Rahman Bhuiyan, will now be held on October 10. The...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and police in a joint drive arrested the prime suspect of the attack on Ghoraghat Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Wahida Khanam from Kaliganj in...
The stock market regulator has fined three stockbrokers and the chairman and a director of Fareast Finance & Investment for breaching securities rules. The securities regulator has also banned RN...
The government's revenue earnings from the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) surged 31 per cent month on month in August, with the trading volume on the premier bourse rising on the...
Speakers at a virtual discussion on Thursday suggested incorporating the perspectives of fourth industrial revolution (4IR) in the upcoming national industrial policy for the benefit of the country. They also...
The country's merchandise shipments during the first two months of fiscal year 2020-21 grew by 2.17 per cent to US$6.87 billion over that of the same period last fiscal. The...
US public health officials and Pfizer said a Covid-19 vaccine could be ready for distribution as soon as late October, just ahead of the November election in which the coronavirus...
Professor Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed of Accounting & Information Systems Department of Dhaka University (DU) has been appointed as treasurer of the university. According to the act, 14 (1), 1973, DU...
A Dhaka Court on Thursday granted bail to 'Kishor Alo' Editor Anisul Hoque and four others accused in a case filed in connection with the death of Residential Model College...
Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Thursday voiced his frustration over poor foreign direct investments in the country, which he called "unfortunate." He said the total size of global gross...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Thursday said textile mills and buying houses will require mandatory registration with the authorities concerned under the Textile Act 2018. The BB's Banking Regulation and...
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to switch of profession in a number of sectors, forcing the unemployed workforces to opt for alternative ways of earning their living. The self-employed people...
The insurance regulator has reshuffled its surveillance teams in order to launch a clampdown on giving high agent commission illegally by non-life insurers for procuring business. In July 2019, the...
Bangladesh Manabadhikar Bastabayan Sangstha (BMBS) on Thursday demanded release of detained Vietnam returnee migrant workers and ensure their normal lives. Terming such arrest human rights violation, BMBS said it is...
A total of ten winners of ‘Dettol Handwash Challenge’, received cheques on Wednesday. The ‘Dettol Handwash Challenge’, an initiative to create awareness across all walks of life in curbing the...
German police have found the bodies of five children in an apartment in the western town of Solingen, mass-selling newspaper Bild reported in its online edition on Thursday, citing the...
When the government started announcing the multiple relief packages for various Covid-hit sectors of the economy from March last, there was a strong fear that small and marginal operators would...
That hundreds of vehicles in long queues are waiting to be ferried on both sides of the two ferry channels of the Padma is nothing new. What is remarkable is...
The development journey of Bangladesh reached a new height when the country became formally eligible to leave the Least Developed Country (LDC) league in 2018. Three years back in 2015,...
The government's move to extend support to small and struggling garment factories -- particularly those hit hardest by the pandemic -- through cash incentive is most welcome. Not only a...
Beijing on Thursday cited Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and yoga’s popularity in China to criticise India banning 118 Chinese apps and subtly warned New Delhi not to join the US’s...
The nearly silent exit of novelist Rahat Khan (1940-2020) from this colourful world which he loved so much is baffling. He belonged to that group of persons who would like...
In an U-turn, Dhaka University has taken back its statement in which it called rag days “inhumane, cruel and unethical”, reports bdnews24.com. In a “corrected” statement on Thursday, the university...
Most of the companies that floated their stocks through book building methods in the past decade have experienced a significant decline in the post-IPO operating performance and seriously underperformed both...
Wahida Khanam, upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) of Ghoraghat, Dinajpur, who suffered serious injuries in an attack by miscreants, was airlifted from Rangpur to Dhaka by a Bangladesh Air Force MI-171SH...
The government has appointed M. Shahidul Islam, currently serving as the Secretary General of BIMSTEC, as the next Ambassador of Bangladesh to the United States of America. Shahidul is a...
The law ministry has recommended a six-month extension of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s prison term suspension in two cases over corruption. The ministry also recommended keeping the conditions for the...
Malaysia on Thursday added at least nine more countries, including the United States, Britain and France, to its list of long-term immigration pass holders to be barred from the country,...
By-elections to two parliamentary constituencies – Dhaka-5 and Naogaon-6-- will be held on October 17, according to a schedule declared by the Election Commission (EC) on Thursday. As per the...
Some 379 people were killed and 368 others injured in road accidents in August last across the country. During the period, a total of 302 road accidents took place where...
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has urged the country’s university teachers to ensure quality and standard education on online to meet the goal of higher education and national demand. In...
Experts and stakeholders at a function said long-term policy, modernisation of education and curriculum system, infrastructure development, industry-academia collaboration and skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling are priority for adopting the advantages...
Facebook has banned T Raja Singh, a BJP leader at the core of allegations that the social media giant did not apply hate speech rules on members of the ruling...
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, predicts that the potential of millions of young refugees living in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities will be further threatened unless immediate and...
Chief of Naval Staff Vice-Admiral Mohammad Shaheen Iqbal was adorned with the rank badge of Admiral at a function in the presence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Ganobhaban on...
Britain's Prince Harry and his American-born wife Meghan have signed an exclusive multiyear production deal with Netflix Inc, a major step in their plan to make a living for themselves...
Police have been granted permission to grill Dr Sabrina Sharmin, also known as Sabrina Arif Chaudhury, who is currently behind bars over the JKG Healthcare test scam after the Election...
Bangladesh has counted 32 new fatalities from the coronavirus infection in a day, raising the death toll to 4,383, reports bdnews24.com. The caseload jumped to 319,686 after 2,158 people tested...
Prothom Alo's Associate Editor Anisul Hoque and five others have secured bail in a case over the death of Dhaka Residential Model College student Nayeemul Abrar Rahat, who was electrocuted...
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