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Chattogram Branch Council of The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) on Sunday organised a webinar CPD on ‘Impact of Covid-19 and the Bangladesh Economy going forward’....
The leader of India’s main opposition Congress party offered to resign on Monday, domestic media said, after almost two dozen top leaders called for better decision-making in the party, which...
Bangladesh has registered 42 new fatalities from Covid-19 in a daily count, taking the death toll to 3,983. The tally of infections climbed to 297,083 after 2,485 people tested positive...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is reportedly in a coma and his sister Kim Yo-jong will be exercising de facto control over national and international matters, several media outlets said...
Three years are on since hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas fled violence and persecution in Myanmar; Rohingya refugee children and families in Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh are now facing...
The US embassy in Dhaka has provided health safety gears to the Diplomatic Security Division (DSD) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) as a gesture of support amid the coronavirus pandemic....
Australian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Jeremy Bruer has said Bangladesh and Australia need to redouble their efforts to ensure that the two countries can take advantage of new opportunities in...
Fish farmers in Bagerhat district have counted a loss of around Tk 100 million (10 crore) as 5,274 fish and shrimp enclosures in nine upazilas were submerged by floodwater caused...
Malaysia's leading index grew at a faster pace in June, rising 4.5 per cent year on year, signaling an economic recovery in the second half, said its statistics department Monday....
No government employees will be allowed to speak to the media or publish statements, opinions or articles online without the permission of the head of the relevant department, bdnews24.com reports....
The government has decided to appoint Mr Md. Shameem Ahsan, ndc, currently serving as the high commissioner of Bangladesh to Nigeria, as the next ambassador of Bangladesh to Italy, the...
A white supremacist who killed 51 people at two mosques in New Zealand last year watched without emotion on Monday as relatives of his victims recounted the horror of a...
As a major boost to Bangladesh's microenterprise sector, Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF), an apex development agency of the country, has floated a new project titled ‘Rural Microenterprise Transformation Project (RMTP)’....
Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) and Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Sunday for integration of services with BIDA's One Stop Services...
Myanmar has failed to ensure that nearly one million Rohingya refugees can safely return home three years since fleeing the Myanmar military’s crimes against humanity and possible genocide, the Human...
The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) on Sunday said it authorised the use of blood plasma from patients who have recovered from Covid-19 as a treatment for the disease,...
A Panama flag carrier ship loaded with containers tilted to its one side at jetty number 11 of Chittagong sea port this morning. No injury has been reported. Port sources...
Bangladesh's deep sea has turned 'idle' again in terms of hydrocarbon exploration as the maiden deal with South Korean Posco International has become void. With the exit of Posco from...
The demand for building materials has recently started picking up after a virtually standstill due to the covid-19 pandemic. Sector insiders attributed the good sign to resumption of construction activities...
Myanmar has not taken a single Rohingya back home till date although the crisis enters the fourth year within a couple of days amid "lack of conducive conditions" in Rakhine...
Around 12,000 private hospitals and testing laboratories applied for renewing their licences until the deadline on Sunday last. On August 08, the state-run Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) warned...
Dabirul Islam, an MP from Thakurgaon-2 constituency, has been infected with coronavirus (Covid-19). According to the latest reports received on Sunday evening, 16 more people have diagnosed in the district...
The board of directors of Uttara Finance and Investments Ltd has recommended 15 per cent cash and 5.0 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2019....
Stocks witnessed a downward trend in early trading on Monday as risk-averse investors are booking quick-gain on sector-wise issues. Following the previous two days’ flat ending, the Dhaka Stock Exchange...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited a Tokyo hospital on Monday for a second time within days, stoking concern about his ability to stay on as leader due to health...
Bayern Munich were crowned European champions for the sixth time after beating Paris St Germain 1-0 thanks to a second-half header from former PSG youth academy graduate Kingsley Coman in...
Regular health checkup of a vast majority of people has remained pending as both patients and doctors do not want to risk contracting the deadly coronavirus. Except for emergencies, people...
The Bangladesh Association of Publicly Listed Companies (BAPLC) has urged the securities regulator to revise some corporate governance codes, including the appointment of managing director (MD) or chief executive officer...
The government has drafted a policy aiming to create about 30 million fresh jobs by 2030, officials say. The policy, first of its kind, has put emphasis on employment based...
Mr. MA Razzak Khan Raj, a candidate of the ruling Awami League in the Dhaka-18 by-election, has collected and submitted nominations. He is a former BCL leader, chairman of the...
Rohingya rights groups accused the social media platform, Facebook, that it had a role in the violence in Myanmar that forced the minority Muslims to move to Bangladesh. Some four...
India's economy has been a leader among developing nations, with gross domestic product (GDP) growing at 6.9 per cent between financial year (FY) 2012 and FY 2018. Energy and electricity...
On the Bangla calendar, this is early Autumn with the first of the two months -Bhadra and Aswin -heralding the season of clear blue sky dotted with patches of white...
The government, during the 'surprise' visit of the Indian foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla last week, offered to conduct the phase-three trial of the vaccine being developed by the giant...
A note of gloom underlies the recently published ILO-ADB report on the present youth job situation in the Asia and Pacific region. While dwelling on Bangladesh, along with 12 other...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called it "the most urgent shared endeavour of our lifetimes". But away from the high-tech science of finding a winning formula, what about the logistics...
The election commission will hold the by-polls on September 26 to Pabna-4 parliamentary constituency where voting had remained suspended due to the coronavirus outbreak. The commission in a meeting on...
It has become increasingly clear that the problem of food insecurity needs special attention when addressing the impact of Covid-19. The suspension of public transportation, disrupted local and international food...
The World Health Organization (WHO) said children aged 12 and above should wear masks to help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic under the same conditions as adults, while children between six...
Bangladesh began FY21 with a drop in inflation and a researcher believes low consumption due to the coronavirus pandemic pushed the key indicator down. Point-to-point general inflation fell to 5.53...
The 16th death anniversary of Ivy Rahman, former women affairs secretary of Awami League and wife of late President M Zillur Rahman, will be observed tomorrow (Monday) in a befitting...
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi on Sunday urged the authorities concerned to take necessary initiatives to increase tea export after meeting its domestic demand. “The demand for tea is increasing in...
A Dhaka Court on Sunday sent Regent Hospital chairman Mohammad Shahed to jail in a case filed for misappropriating Tk 27.1 million from Farmers Bank. Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge...
The government is hopeful of reopening schools in December if the coronavirus outbreak abates by that time, said Akram-Al-Hossain, the secretary to the primary and mass education ministry, on Sunday....
The suspected white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers last year, a massacre that prompted a global campaign to stamp out online hate, arrived in Christchurch on Sunday ahead of...
The number of coronavirus infections in India crossed the 3.0 million mark with 69,239 new cases reported on Sunday even as the country opened up various sectors from a lockdown...
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will implement a food value chain development project at a cost of about Tk 8.82b to expand agricultural processing and agribusiness in Bangladesh. Under this...
The government on Sunday inaugurated a new mobile based app aiming to promote wheat and maize production in the country further. The "Gom O Bhutta Totho Vandar" (wheat and maize...
US-Bangla Airlines, one of the largest private airlines in Bangladesh, is introducing an extra flight on Dhaka-Kuala Lumpur route from September 1, reports UNB. “A total of three flights will...
A Dhaka court on Sunday issued arrest warrant against suspended acting principal of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College Naznin Ferdous and another teacher in a case filed over the suicide...
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