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The issue of inequality occupies a dominant place in development discourse and debate pervading across the globe. Reportedly, the economy of Bangladesh is infected by inequality malaise. Not only critics...
Police arrested a local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), student wing of ruling Awami League, from Uttara area of the capital on Friday in a money laundering case. The...
A New Zealand court will begin hearings on Monday on the sentencing of a suspected white supremacist accused of killing 51 Muslim worshippers in a massacre that shocked the world...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested the councillor of Godagari Municipality in Rajshahi along with heroin worth Tk 10 million from Mohishalbari area on Friday, reports UNB. The arrestee...
Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the perpetrators of August 21, 2004 grenade attack, including Tarique Rahman, would be brought back home...
Researchers in Singapore have discovered a new variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus that causes milder infections, according to a study published in The Lancet medical journal this week. The study...
China's Sinovac Biotech has committed to provide up to 40 million coronavirus vaccine doses to Indonesia's government between November and March, a minister said, as the Southeast Asian nation seeks...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said the past BNP government planted the “poisonous tree of corruption” and Bangladesh is now bearing its brunt. “The meaning of power to the...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan reconverted the historic Chora church, one of Istanbul's most celebrated Byzantine buildings, into a mosque on Friday, a month after opening the famed Hagia Sophia to...
The asphalt was strewn with bodies and body parts, with shoes and blood spattered all around. The silence of a late afternoon was pierced only by the agonising groans of...
Myanmar has locked down the capital of conflict-torn Rakhine State after an outbreak of a novel coronavirus strain that officials said was more infectious than that previously seen in the...
The worldwide disruption to services of Google, especially outage of Gmail, on Thursday has exposed the vulnerability of clients and nations to any accident or possible monopolistic practice by tech...
Tour operators from Bangladesh and South Korea at a webinar have discussed ways to explore tourism opportunities, highlighting the scopes that South Korea offers. Korea Tourism Organisation (KTO), in association...
American journalist Lawrence Lifschultz has said the ‘connection’ between Ziaur Rahman and the United States behind the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman should be investigated. Lifschultz, who was the...
Bangladesh has reported 2,401 fresh cases of COVID-19 over a 24-hour period, taking the tally of infections to 290,360. The death toll climbed to 3,861 after 39 new fatalities were...
Vietnam has provided Bangladesh with medical equipment in the form of gifts to help it fight the lingering Covid-19 outbreak. The gifts – 66 boxes of personal protection equipment (full...
Bangladeshi singer and music director Shuvo Rahman has already sung more than two dozen notable original songs. This time, another new song titled ‘Tokei Bhalobesechi’ has been added to his...
India and Bangladesh will set up a new mechanism to regularly review the progress of bilateral development projects, with five such ventures, including an oil pipeline and three cross-border rail...
At least five people were killed and over 30 civilians and firefighters have reportedly been injured in dozens of wildfires raging throughout Northern California. The death of a resident in...
On the third anniversary of a mass exodus of Rohingyas to Bangladesh, prospects look bleak for about 1.0 million members of the Muslim minority from Myanmar living in bamboo and...
Recalling the barbaric carnage, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said it was not possible to carry out an attack like that of August 21, 2004 had there been no direct...
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has been arrested and pleaded not guilty after he was charged with defrauding donors in a scheme to help build the president’s signature wall along...
The Maldives has extended its ban on recruiting Bangladeshi workers for a year, just as the year-long restriction's September 18 deadline draws close, according to the Maldivian media. The Ministry...
Joe Biden vowed to heal a country battered by a deadly pandemic and an economic catastrophe by uniting all Americans, while warning that President Donald Trump would go on stoking...
The government and private offices as well as the commercial establishments, including markets and malls are already reopened in Sylhet region while health related restrictions had been eased for days....
The 37th annual general meeting (AGM) of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited was held online on Thursday, said a statement. Professor Md. Nazmul Hassan, Ph.D, Chairman of the bank, presided over...
The securities regulator has allowed Lub-rref (Bangladesh) Ltd to determine its cut-off price required to raise funds from the capital market under the book building method. The approval was given...
The 16th anniversary of the gruesome grenade attack on an Awami League (AL) anti-terrorism rally in Dhaka on August 21, 2004 is being observed today with heavy hearts, BSS reports....
The High Court (HC) on Thursday directed the trial court concerned to dispose of two money laundering cases involving Tk 42 billion against Destiny Group Managing Director Rafiqul Amin within...
The High Court on Thursday issued a rule over the bail of former vice-president (VP) of Dhaka Bank and its Dhanmondi branch in-charge Md Aminul Islam in a case filed...
Chattogram seaport is worried over the imported hazardous chemicals after the Beirut port devastation on August 04. The port never handled privately-imported explosive items, hazardous and inflammable chemicals. It only...
Russia has shipped the first reactor vessel and steam generator for the first unit of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant having the capacity to generate around 1,200 MW of electricity. "It's...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) is likely to resume operation of all trains by September with 14 more intercity trains on August 27. Officials said the state-owned train operator is set to...
Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has exhorted both public and private banks to use digital financial inclusion to take services to customers' doorsteps through an easy and safer mode. "I'm...
The Central Intelligence Cell (CIC) has set up a task force (TF) to curb submission of fake audit reports by corporate taxpayers to taxmen. The team of intelligence officials will...
Roads and Highways Department (RHD) would spend Tk 22.30 billion only on land acquisition to widen a 55-kilometre road in the country's southern region, insiders said on Wednesday. They said...
Foreign investors and non-resident Bangladeshis can now invest in 'open-ended mutual fund' through Non-resident Investors Taka Account (NITA), according to a circular issued by the Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Thursday....
Banks' excess liquidity hit the all-time high of around Tk 1.40 trillion in June, fuelled by the government's higher borrowing from the country's banking system to partly meet its budget...
What is the Covid-19 situation in Bangladesh? Statistics dished out by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) show that there has been no let-up either in the rate of...
Export proceeds received till the end of the last fiscal year (2019-20) offers a sense of 'feel-good'. Due to the pandemic-induced difficulties from March onwards, one of the likely areas...
Throughout the world, Covid-19 has emerged as more than a health problem; it has also created devastating social, economic and other crises that are leaving deep scars in society and...
Many Indians in particular and South Asians in general are quite enthused by Joe Biden's vice presidential pick in the United States. The child of Jamaican and Indian parents, Senator...
Income erosion and lack of livelihood options triggered by prolonged general holiday -globally called shutdown -have forced people to leave Dhaka city for ancestral homes. Families settled in this capital...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday described the current government as a ‘hybrid’ one since it has ‘usurped’ power through a ‘controlled’ election, reports UNB. “It’s a...
Mercury declined in the city on Thursday amid drizzling with a steady wind. Though rainfall was recorded as only 2.00 mm until 6:00 pm on the day, a 15-21 kph...
Late artist Murtaja Baseer (1932-2020) passed an eventful creative life. Few artists are fortunate enough to be able to lead their lives in a dignified freedom like that of Baseer....
Mass testing of Russia's first potential COVID-19 vaccine to get domestic regulatory approval will involve more than 40,000 people and will be overseen by a foreign research body when it...
After about five months of flight suspension due to coronavirus pandemic, the US-Bangla Airlines announced resumption of operations on Dhaka-Doha route from August 31, reports UNB. It will operate flights...
Bangladesh Civil Society for Migrants (BCSM) on Thursday demanded unconditional and immediate release of 255 detained migrant workers. The platform of 19 organisations said recently 255 Bangladeshi labour migrants were...
Iran seized a United Arab Emirates-registered ship violating its territorial waters this week, Iran's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, adding that UAE coastguards killed two Iranian fishermen on the same...
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