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A move is underway to introduce a certification system in the name of 'health certificate' for export of some food consignments especially halal food items to meet the demand of...
The 7th Annual General Meeting of South Bangla Agriculture and Commerce (SBAC) Bank Limited was held online on Tuesday, said a statement. S.M. Amzad Hossian, Chairman of SBAC Bank, presided...
India plans to raise its cotton export to Bangladesh aiming to reduce its bulging reserves following a decrease in demand from textile mills there. According to a Hindustan Times report...
A total of 105 doctors have died so far while rendering service as frontline warriors in the battle against novel coronavirus in the country. Of them, 94 physicians were confirmed...
A government move to improve water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities at educational institutions has hardly made any visible progress over the last five years. The education ministry issued a...
A large number of employed youth in Bangladesh stands to lose their jobs this year due to massive disruptions caused by the ongoing pandemic to the country's labour market, according...
All the Bangladesh school children cannot join online classes today despite widespread mobile and internet penetration. Over-capacity of power generation hasn't solved the issue of connection and supply of electricity...
The government is reportedly going to allow construction of effluent treatment plants (ETPs) by individual tanneries at the Savar tannery estate. For those who are aware of the government's commitment...
With rapid urbanisation, the pace of city-bound migration of rural people in search of work has seen a surge in recent times. Small wonder that the city slums which have...
Bangladeshi students having aspirations to study abroad are facing uncertainty to fulfill their dream due to the travel restrictions imposed over coronavirus outbreak. Usually, it is hard enough for students...
The High Court on Tuesday asked the government to explain why Laxmipur-2 independent MP Mohammad Shahid Islam should not be expelled and his seat declared vacant. Justice Obaidul Hassan and...
New research published this July in The Lancet forecasts that continued growth "through the century is no longer the most likely trajectory for the world's population." Rather, the global population...
The government has been considering to reduce power tariff for industrial consumers. Power Division of the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources has reviewed the current power consumption and...
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) Limited has sought low-cost fund as financial stimulus package to meet operational expenses of brokerage houses and merchant banks amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The...
On top of everything else, the Covid-19 pandemic has triggered a global education emergency. With more than one billion children out of school because of social-distancing and lockdown measures, the...
A total of 113 Bangladeshi nationals, who were stranded in Vietnam due to coronavirus lockdown, returned home on Tuesday on a special flight of US-Bangla Airlines. The flight landed at...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday called upon all to remain alert so that the country never witnesses the recurrence of incidents like August 15, 1975 carnage and...
Accusing the government of indulging in ‘bad politics by distorting history’, BNP on Tuesday urged it to come to the path of national unity to tackle coronavirus and its fallouts...
Some 11.8 million people in the country will soon face internal migration for various reasons, including climate change, a study has found. The migration could reach 21.3 million by 2041,...
Children in more than 100 countries are at risk of violence, exploitation and abuse due to the disruption of important violence prevention and response services during the Covid-19 pandemic. Children...
Dhaka is set to discuss the trial of Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine, millions of doses of which will be produced by India’s Serum Institute if successful in tests, in Bangladesh....
The High Court (HC) on Tuesday ordered authorities concerned to display the portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the session-room in Parliament. The virtual bench of Justice Tariq ul...
Former first lady Michelle Obama launched a blistering attack on President Donald Trump on Monday and urged Americans to elect Democrat Joe Biden in November to end the chaos she...
The High Court on Tuesday issued a contempt of court rule against health secretary and director general (DG) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Justice Mamnoon Rahman and...
Countries putting their own interests ahead of others in trying to ensure supplies of a possible coronavirus vaccine are making the pandemic worse, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus...
The Anti- Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday filed a case against chairman of Invent Clothing Limited and his wife for embezzling around 120 million from AB Bank. Assistant Director of...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday approved US$50 million loan to Bangladesh for bankrolling some public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects. The ADB financing will help implement the PPP infrastructure...
Classic Group came up with the world-famous brand Kenneth Cole New York's 6-layer anti-bacterial mask. The most striking feature of this mask is that the mask can be washed and...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday cut Roads and Highways Department (RHD)’s construction proposal of two rest houses costing some Tk 70 million as those are ‘unnecessary spending’ of the...
US streaming giant Netflix is ramping up its mobile-only subscription plans in Southeast Asia and expanding local content, senior executives told Reuters, just as arch-rival Disney arrives in the fast-growing...
Bangladesh has registered 46 new deaths from the novel coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the death toll to 3,740. The tally of infections surged to 282,344 after 3,200...
Stocks extended the losing spell for the two consecutive sessions on Tuesday as risk-averse investors continued their profit booking sell-offs on major sector shares. DSEX, the prime index of the...
Starbucks Corp’s South Korean unit is scrambling to curb the spread of coronavirus, cutting seating capacity in its cafes and delaying a promotional campaign after 50 cases were linked to...
Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit or BFIU froze the bank accounts of eight people allegedly involved in the killing of retired army major Sinha Md Rashed Khan in Cox’s Bazar. The...
Marks & Spencer will cut a further 7,000 jobs, it said on Tuesday, as the Covid-19 crisis deals another blow to Britain’s beleaguered retail sector. “It is clear that there has...
Wynand du Toit’s safari camp in South Africa’s Pilanesberg National Park lies abandoned, its tents ripped open by baboons and its survival in the balance after his insurer rejected his...
The coronavirus pandemic has created a situation of hidden hunger in Bangladesh, which can be detrimental to the physical and mental development of infants and children, according to a study...
China said on Tuesday it firmly opposes US suppression of Huawei Technologies Co, after the Trump administration announced it would further tighten restrictions on the company. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman...
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has registered two new dengue cases in the past 24 hours until Tuesday morning. Currently, 13 patients are undergoing treatment at hospitals in...
The US political convention, a presidential campaign ritual dating to the 1830s, is being reinvented on the fly after being short-circuited by the coronavirus pandemic - much like the campaign...
Social Islami Bank Limited (SIBL) has inaugurated an ATM Booth at Ittefaq Moor in Dhaka. Mohammad Forkanullah, SEVP & Manager was present at the inaugural ceremony on Monday, says a...
Malaysia's inflation, measured by consumer price index (CPI), declined 1.3 per cent year-on-year in July, official data showed Tuesday. The Malaysian Statistics Department said in a statement that the decrease...
Lebanese President Michel Aoun dismissed as “impossible” the chance that a vast explosion in Beirut’s port this month was caused by a blast from a deposit of Hezbollah arms, but...
Ramped-up US restrictions on Huawei are likely to cut off the Chinese smartphone maker’s access to even off-the-shelf chips and disrupt the global tech supply chain once again, executives and...
Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla arrived in Dhaka on a brief visit on Tuesday carrying a message from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Shringla will meet Prime Minister Sheikh...
The UAE has extended the amnesty period waiving the fines of residents whose visas expired before March 1. Bangladesh Embassy in Abu Dhabi shared this information on its facebook page,...
The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it was concerned that the novel coronavirus spread was being driven by people in their 20s, 30s and 40s, many of which were...
Egypt's unemployment rate rose to 9.6 per cent in the second quarter of 2020 from 7.7 per cent in the previous quarter of the year due to the coronavirus outbreak,...
Sayeeda Khanam, the first female professional photographer of Bangladesh, has died at the age of 83. She breathed her last at her Banani home at 3 am on Tuesday, her...
The Maldives has repatriated a total of 5,733 Bangladeshi nationals, 5,049 of whom are undocumented, since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Maldivian media. At the latest...
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