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Rights shares subscription of Pragati Life Insurance is set to begin September 24, aiming to raise Tk 230.27 million through rights issuance. The subscription period for the life insurer will...
Stocks witnessed an upward trend in early trading on Tuesday as optimistic investors showed their buying spree on sector-wise issues amid high expectations. Following the previous day’s major correction, the...
Eight people, including children, have died after a microbus veered out of control and plunged into a pond in Phulpur Upazila of Mymensingh, bdnews24.com reports citing local police. The incident...
An increasingly common mutation of the novel coronavirus found in Europe, North America and parts of Asia may be more infectious but appears less deadly, according to a prominent infectious...
India’s Covid-19 deaths topped 50,000 on Monday, five months after the country reported its first such fatality, as migrant workers poured back into major cities in hopes of regaining work...
Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves have crossed US$38 billion mark for the first time amid the coronavirus pandemic. The central bank's foreign reserves reached the milestone on Monday thanks to a...
Malaysia’s palm oil producers are embarking on a rare recruitment drive to hire locals and accelerating industry mechanisation as they grapple with a severe shortage of foreign labour due to...
CHATTOGRAM: Work on the long-awaited dream deep-sea port project at Matarbari in Cox's Bazar is going on in full swing. To this effect, the government has already appointed a project...
The government has made an initiative to build a dormitory for migrant workers in Dhaka city, according to officials concerned. The workers who have no suitable living place in the...
CHATTOGRAM: Incessant rains that continued for last two days have triggered fear of landslides in Chattogram. Sources said with heavy rainfall forecast in Chattogram division, the Met Office has warned...
The ministries concerned pointed fingers at each other over the incident of 68 Bangladeshi migrant workers' forced return from Abu Dhabi airport. The Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment...
River erosion and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic have made work on the long-awaited Padma bridge uncertain for an indefinite period, sources said. The project office predicts that the June 2021...
Bangladesh's export earnings from the service sector stood at US$6.13 billion registering a 5.56 per cent negative growth in the just-concluded fiscal year 2019-20, the official data showed. The country...
Speakers at an online discussion said alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanism can help save the banking industry from risk profiling during the Covid-19 pandemic. They also stressed the need for...
Active participation of high net worth individuals has given boost to the capital market in recent days, according to market insiders and experts. Other factors such as lower returns on...
The government is trying to receive $250 million budget support the World Bank pledged to offer, helping the country lower its fiscal deficit in the current financial year, officials said...
Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, the director-general of the Rapid Battalion Action (RAB), has said the inquiry into the shooting death of retired army major Sinha Md Rashed Khan is being...
Bangladesh Bank has recently published its annual monetary policy statement (MPS). One reads into the language a misplaced belief in a quick rebound (V-shaped recovery) of the economy from the...
The higher dropout rate of primary school girls had for decades been the common scenario in Bangladesh. Thanks to scores of socio-economic factors, girls forced to not attend school had...
Farmers of Bangladesh and seven other Asian and Sub-Sahara African countries--- Afghanistan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Nepal, Nigeria, Palestine and Rwanda --- will receive emergency livelihood support under IFAD’s RPSF programme. These...
After its outstanding run last year, Tencent Games and PUBG Corp. are all set to bring PUBG MOBILE Bangladesh Challenge 2020, the second edition of their biggest, open-to-all flagship tournament...
The death of three boys allegedly due to torture at a correction centre in Jashore only exposes glaringly both systemic weakness and placement of wrong people in charge of such...
Over the past decade, growth rate of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been at the centre of attention of economic policy discourse in Bangladesh. However, Centre for Policy Dialogue...
The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has affected the working lives of just about everyone, but early evidence shows it has hit women the hardest. There is opportunity in the mix of...
Shipra Debnath, an associate of retired army major Sinha Md Rashed Khan who was shot dead by the police in Cox’s Bazar more than two weeks ago, will sue those...
The government has decided to form an inquiry committee to find out the reason behind forced deportation of 68 Bangladeshi migrant workers from Abu Dhabi airport. The decision was taken...
Dismissing recent statement of Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) on the country’s GDP growth, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Monday said the CPD acts on assumptions, whereas the Bangladesh...
Bangladesh has seen an increase in the remittance sent from the United States, the biggest economy in the world, along with an upward trend in investment in NRB savings bonds....
Pakistan’s army chief was visiting Saudi Arabia on Monday in an effort to ease a row between the two countries over policy towards the disputed region of Kashmir. The argument,...
The government has yet to finalise its plans for this year's HSC, JSC and JDC examinations, which were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Students will be given two weeks'...
The government has taken a plan to increase allocation for the transport and communications sector to Tk 773.65 billion in 2022-23 fiscal year, with an average 14.65 per cent increase...
Alphabet Inc’s Google on Monday said a proposed antitrust law in Australia forcing tech firms to pay for news that appears on their social media websites would adversely impact individual...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Monday has extended the deadline for execution of the stimulus package for the cottage, micro, small and medium enterprises (CMSMEs) by two months. As per decision,...
National Intellectual Property Administration has granted the China's first patent for a COVID-19 vaccine. The patent was jointly applied for by a research team with the Academy of Military Sciences...
The government has decided to appoint Md Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan as the next Ambassador of Bangladesh to Germany. Mr Bhuiyan is a former senior secretary. Before his retirement on January...
A Malaysian court on Monday jailed a teenager for killing 23 people in a fire that he started at a religious boarding school in 2017, national news agency Bernama reported,...
Two minor children have been raped by a young man at Thanapara in Charghat upazila of Rajshahi, police said. Police on Monday arrested Pranto, 20, son of Abu Ali of...
Eleven prisoners were shot dead while 33 others remained absconding following a mass jailbreak in Papua New Guinea's (PNG) second largest city, Lae. One prisoner was recaptured by the jail...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday upheld the High Court Division order that stayed trial proceedings in four sabotage cases against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. A five-member...
Two siblings died from electrocution at Palpara under Chapainawabganj Sadar upazila in Chapainawabganj on Monday. The deceased were identified as Partho Pal, 10, and Prattay Pal, 5, sons of Parimal...
Investigators have begun interrogating three policemen over their alleged involvement in the killing of retired army major Sinha Md Rashed Khan in Cox’s Bazar. The four-strong probe panel led by...
A student of Dhaka University (DU) reportedly took his own life at his room in Barishal town on Monday. The deceased was Imam Hossain, a second-year student of Institute of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has donated Tk 10.0 million to the Buddhist community for celebrating their religious festival in a befitting manner. She gave the money to Buddha Dhormio Kalyan...
Bangladesh has registered 37 new fatalities from the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the death toll to 3,694. The tally of infections surged to 279,144 after 2,595 people...
Shares crept back toward recent peaks on Monday as Chinese markets swung higher, while investors waited to see if the recent sell-off in longer-dated US Treasuries would be extended and...
Thailand’s economy suffered its biggest annual contraction since the Asian financial crisis in the second quarter due to the fallout of the coronavirus, prompting the government to slash its GDP...
Until late March, Ashish Kumar was helping to make plastic boxes for Ferrero Rocher praline chocolates and the plastic spoons tucked inside Kinder Joy eggs to scoop out the milky...
Stocks broke the three-day sharp rally on Monday as risk-averse investors went for short-term profit booking on sector-specific shares. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange, went down...
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has registered two new dengue cases in the past 24 hours until Monday morning. Currently, 16 patients are undergoing treatment at hospitals in...
Revenue for state coffers through Nakugaon, in the northern bordering district of Sherpur, has been badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, with international trading activities at the land port still...
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