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Although the online sales of health products and daily essentials were booming due to COVID-19, the ongoing pandemic has taken its heavy toll on the online retailers of fashion, cosmetics,...
The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed a case against former Officer-in-Charge of Teknaf Model Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das and his wife for amassing wealth worth Tk 40 million from unknown...
As many as 298 children were raped and 153 others murdered between January amd July 2020, says a report released by a child rights organisation. Last year some 1,005 children...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday upheld the High Court Division’s order that had stayed the trial proceedings in four more arson and vandalism cases against BNP...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will implement a food value chain development project at a cost of about Taka 8.82 billion to process agricultural products and expand agribusiness in...
Nearly two dozen massive wildfires continued to ravage parts of California on Saturday, fueled by high temperatures and ongoing lightning strikes, including 100 that hit on Friday, the California Department...
Bangladesh Meteorological Department on Sunday forecast light to moderate rain across the country in the next 24 hours starting from 6:00am today (Sunday). “Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied...
As many as 298 children were raped and 153 others murdered during the period between January to July 2020, says a report released by a child rights organisation. Last year...
The economic crisis caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic is the "most synchronized" in history and its prospects of recovery is quite uncertain, Colombian economist Jose Antonio Ocampo said on...
Bangladesh has registered 34 new fatalities from COVID-19 in a daily count, taking the death toll to 3,941. The tally of infections climbed to 294,598 after 1,973 people tested positive...
Cancellation of the institutional quarantine facility has put the life of the frontline health workers and their families in danger in the country amid pandemic, experts said, urging the government...
Abdus Shahid, joint chief news editor of private television channel NTV, died at a city hospital on Sunday after a long battle with coronavirus. He was 63. Shahid breathed his...
Stocks ended another flat session on Sunday amid a choppy trading as late hours sell-offs wiped out all the early gains. DSEX, the key index of the DSE, saw a...
The government should immediately withdraw the 60 per cent extra bus fare imposed during this coronavirus pandemic as bus operators are no more carrying passengers at a half capacity maintaining...
A Dhaka court will record witness testimonies in an illegal arms case against expelled Jubo Mahila League leader Shamima Noor Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman alias Sumon Chowdhury from...
Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) has set a target of disbursing agricultural loans worth Taka 28.50 billion in the country’s northwest (NW) region during the current 2020-2021 fiscal year to...
For a road that opened to the public during this coronavirus pandemic, the Itna-Mithamoin-Astagram highway is making a huge impression on people in more ways than one, UNB reports. As...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday renewed her allegations that Khaleda Zia was involved in the August 21 grenade attack and her husband Ziaur Rahman was behind the August 15,...
The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) of the United Stated has approved Prime Bank to participate in Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102) of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for smooth...
The new coronavirus is circulating four times more among people under 40 in France than over among 65-year-olds. However, he warned that contamination was on the rise among the elderly...
Prices of almost all rice varieties have increased by up to Tk 3 per kg in Dhaka in a space of 20 days amid floods and the coronavirus pandemic. Mill...
Religious Affairs Secretary Md Nurul Islam and his wife have tested positive for coronavirus. They have been undergoing treatment at Dhaka Central Police Hospital since Saturday, said Anwar Hossain, the...
The global death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 800,000 on Saturday, according to a Reuters tally, with the United States, Brazil and India leading the rise in fatalities. Nearly 5,900...
Malaysia has deported a Bangladeshi worker who criticised the government's treatment of migrants in a documentary made by broadcaster Al Jazeera, the country's director general of immigration confirmed on Saturday....
Hoteliers have been trying to reopen their establishments on a limited scale across the country by following health guidelines except for Dhaka as these are mostly dependent on foreign business...
Wholesale traders and importers of essentials in commodity hubs Khatunganj and Chaktai in Chattogram suffered heavy losses as their stocks got damaged due to waterlogging. The port city's business pivots...
State minister for industries Kamal Ahmed Majumder said on Saturday the government is actively considering providing necessary support to the light engineering sector for having enormous potential. Support will be...
The US buyers are shifting their apparel sourcing base from China, offering an opportunity for the countries like Bangladesh to further develop their apparel industry especially in the manmade fibre...
The securities regulator has adopted a policy of clearing the quality IPO (initial public offering) proposals within shortest possible timeframe to facilitate timely implementation of issuer's business expansion plans. "No...
A VAT intelligence team has seized four containers with import-restricted products from Mongla port after detecting irregularities in its investigation. It has also locked Business Identification Number (BIN) of those...
The country's coronavirus tally reached 292,625 on Saturday, overtaking that of Pakistan, the Asian hotspot for Covid-19 infections, official data showed. As a result, Bangladesh became the second worst-affected country...
TikTok said on Saturday it plans to file a lawsuit on Monday against President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting transactions with the popular short video app and its Chinese parent...
Disparity between local and foreign investors, a lack of improved business environment and corruption, among others, are key barriers to attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). Speakers, stretching from ambassadors to...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to conduct this year internal survey involving different government agencies to net in new taxpayers, instead of the door-to-door survey carried out...
All the financial sub-sectors recorded decline in their growth rates in the immediate past fiscal year (FY 2019-20). The sub-sector (monetary intermediation) had the worst time in many years. Overall...
Nearly a month after reopening the Kuakata beach in Patuakhali district, two more beaches were declared open last week. Those are located in Cox's Bazar district and Patenga in Chittagong...
There has been considerable fall in the sales of apartments and lands in the capital city and elsewhere due to covid-19 pandamic in recent times. Flat sales dropped by 40...
Land acquisition, traditionally, has been a money-spinning component for the dishonest section of the officials and relevant others involved in the execution of development projects. The size of the country's...
Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has said the grenade attack on August 21 was not an accident, but rather planned state terrorism. He said this while addressing a memorial...
Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain on Saturday alleged that the law-and-order situation in the country has completely ‘collapsed’ as some police personnel have turned monsters for being ‘used in unethical’...
China has approved human testing for a potential coronavirus vaccine cultivated within insect cells, local government in the southwestern city of Chengdu said on Saturday. China is in a global...
In early March 2020, when Bangladesh took Covid-19 as a serious threat to public health, many thought the virus would wreak havoc on the millions of slum dwellers of Bangladesh....
Although political leaders have closed borders in response to Covid-19, scientists are collaborating like never before. But the coronavirus is novel - and we don't yet have all the facts...
The United States (US) has coped with Covid-19 far worse than any other country on the globe. Though much, much of this catastrophe of over 170,000 dead can be laid...
Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP) has started enrolment of e-passport and MRP (new and re-issue) on limited scale, after five months off due to Covid-19 pandemic. DIP issued a...
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused the global economy its worst contraction in almost a century. Current forecasts portray a very gloomy picture for 2020 with a 13 to 32 per...
The sequence of garment factory fires and building collapses provoked widespread calls domestically and internationally to improve workplace health and safety conditions in Bangladesh which is a key destination country...
Cancelation of the institutional quarantine facility has put the life of the frontline health workers in danger in the country amid pandemic, experts said, urging the government to immediately restore...
BNP on Saturday termed 'irresponsible, fabricated and politically motivated' Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's comment that Khaleda Zia tried to kill her through the August-21 grenade attack. In a statement, party...
A total of 2,110 people died with Covid-19 like symptoms in the country in last five months from March 22 to August 15, according to a latest report. A project...
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