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Apple is the first US company to boast a market value of $2.0 trillion, just two years after it became the first to reach $1.0 trillion, reports AP. Apple shares...
Students around the nation prepare to return to campus amid the Covid-19 pandemic and are met with empty promises of safety: social distancing in the classroom, a hybrid education system...
Torrential rains in upstream regions in India continued to inflate waters in the Brahmaputra River amid expert fears it could be a prelude to a major flooding in the Bangladesh’s...
The pandemic of Coronavirus overwhelmed almost all countries in the world about the same time, taking them by storm. Having no parallel in terms of rapid spread, scope and severity,...
Millions of women and girls have been facing unintended pregnancies worldwide due to lack of access to contraceptives and abortion services because of the coronavirus pandemic, reports AP, UNB. Several...
The government has appointed Professor Tahmina Shirin as Director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research or IEDCR, reports bdnews24.com. Shirin is currently leading the virology department of...
As traditional banking is failing to include increased un-banked people into the banking network, there is a need for 'alternative' financial institutions for un-banked people, especially in rural areas. In...
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused the most severe disruptions to the global sporting calendar since the World War II. Sports events have been indiscriminately cancelled or postponed across the globe,...
Disposal of waste including the medical in a proper or hygienic manner is not a plus point of people in this part of the world. In case of the used...
The ninth session of the current parliament will begin on September 6 next after a 59-day recess as the budget session prorogued on July 9 last. President Abdul Hamid summoned...
The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase has approved three proposals including two separate ones for procuring a total of 150,000 metric tonnes of marine fuel. The approval came from the...
BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Wednesday urged the government to inform people about whether Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla came here for ‘mending friendship or for any...
Health misinformation on Facebook was viewed 3.8 billion times in the past year, peaking during the Covid-19 crisis, said a report of activist group Avaaz. Avaaz which conducted the research,...
Norway has decided to expel a Russian diplomat following the recent arrest in Oslo of a Norwegian citizen suspected of espionage. Norwegian police on Monday said the Norwegian man was...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wedbesday said BNP founder Ziaur Rahman was “just a footnote of history” and a footnote can never be a hero of the history,...
Lower humidity has a link with higher rates of COVID-19 transmission, claims a joint Australian-Chinese study released Tuesday. Drier air across several different regions of Sydney has been consistently linked...
Rich countries should not hoard a coronavirus vaccine and should only give pandemic-related bailouts to companies committed to protecting the environment, helping the most needy and the ‘common good’, Pope...
Bangladesh has registered 41 new fatalities from the novel coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the death toll to 3,781. The tally of infections surged to 285,091 after 2,747...
Britain is unlikely to follow France in ordering people to wear face coverings at work because its test and trace scheme shows most people catch COVID-19 in house-to-house transmission. "We...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said the expatriates have no reason to worry about the visa expiration date as their visas will be renewed automatically free of charge....
A Dhaka court today (Wednesday) took into cognizance the charge-sheet filed in an arms case lodged against Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed alias Shahed Karim. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge KM...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has decided to reduce the number of flights on the Dhaka-Abu Dhabi route after Bangladeshi migrant workers were denied entry to the capital of the United Arab...
Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Wednesday said India is now at an advanced stage of developing COVID-19 vaccine saying friends, partners and neighbours will get priority once it...
Four people died in 24 hours until Tuesday pushing the death toll to 226 in flood that set in during the last week of June. A daily bulletin of the...
A China-developed vaccine that protects pigs from African swine fever (ASF) will likely be used to vaccinate about 10,000 pigs in the expanded clinical and production trial stage, after previous...
Stocks rebounded strongly on Wednesday, after a two-day losing streak, as investors went on a buying spree on large-cap issues riding on a number of regulatory bold steps to restore...
World merchandise trade may decline to a historic low in the second quarter of 2020, according to the latest reading of the World Trade Organization (WTO) WTO’s Goods Trade Barometer,...
India's Supreme Court has directed the country's federal investigation agency to probe the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput. Rajput was found dead in his flat in Mumbai on...
The government has reduced coronavirus test fees by 50 per cent from Tk 200 to Tk 100 for state-run hospitals, reports bdnews24.com. Sample collection from home for the test will...
A motorcyclist was killed after a bus hit the motorbike from behind at Shanir Akhra in city’s Jatrabari area on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Masud Hossain, 40,...
An estimated Tk 13.23 billion worth of crops have been lost in the three waves of flooding that hit Bangladesh this year, according to Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque. Natural calamities...
About 99 per cent of potential migrants would choose to stay in the country, if there were better job opportunities in Bangladesh, according to a study of IOM. The findings...
Ice sheets covering three-quarters of Greenland, the world's largest island, are melting at such a pace that by the end of this century, sea levels could rise to as much...
Taiwan will further liberalise its economy and offer more financing products, aiming to become an Asian financial and asset management hub, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday, pitching the island...
A mobile court has fined Tk 20,000 to the principal of Ginnidevi Agrawal Women College at Ruhia in Thakurgaon district for holding examination violating the government's order. The mobile court...
PizzaExpress has decided to close 73 of its 449 UK restaurants due to coronavirus lockdowns and higher costs, a move that one of the country’s best known restaurant chains said...
Emirates will resume passenger services to Birmingham (1 September), Cebu (20 August), and Houston (23 August) bringing the airline’s network to 74 destinations, including 6 in US. Flights between Dubai...
The Supreme Court has decided to cancel its annual vacations this year in an attempt to make up for lost work due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. The decision was...
The demand for beverages has come down sharply in the country due to coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic despite the scorching hot. According to business insiders, the demand for beverages dropped immensely...
Technical glitch on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) new website hampering investors’ trading activities smoothly, some investors told the FE on Wednesday morning. Some investors complained that they could not open...
Asian shares jumped to a seven-month peak on Wednesday tracking the S&P 500, which scaled all-time highs driven by ever-expanding policy stimulus aimed at cushioning the blow to economies from...
Stocks witnessed a steep rise in early trading on Wednesday, after two-day correction, as enthusiastic investors are showing their buying spree on large-cap issues riding on regulator’s number of bold...
Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resigned on Tuesday and dissolved parliament hours after mutinying soldiers detained him at gunpoint, plunging a country already facing a jihadist insurgency and mass protests...
Former Officer-in-Charge of Teknaf Model Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das and 27 others have been accused in another case filed by a woman with a Cox's Bazar court on Tuesday. ...
In terms of both coverage and per head allocations, relief efforts of the government to mitigate the impact of ongoing flood fall short of the needs, according to an assessment...
Democrats formally nominated Joe Biden for president on Tuesday, vowing his election would repair a pandemic-battered America and put an end to the chaos that has defined Republican President Donald...
When people are struggling to earn enough to pay for basic needs like food and housing due to the coronavirus pandemic, sales of savings certificates have gone up in Bangladesh....
CHATTOGRAM: The production of tea in Chattogram zone in the last seven months has declined, compared to the same period last year, largely due to the coronavirus outbreak and lack...
Korea has shown interest in constructing another bridge over the River Meghna connecting Bhulta-Araihazar of Dhaka with Banchharampur of Chattogram under the modality of government-to-government public-private partnership. A proposal put...
The securities regulator has requested the central bank to freeze bank account of all directors, including managing directors, of two listed companies as they sold shares unlawfully. The Bangladesh Securities...
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