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With the detection of 70 new coronavirus patients, the number of confirmed cases rose to 9,369 in the Sylhet division on Monday. Among the new cases, 49 were detected in...
India is planning to start air transport bubbles with Bangladesh in order to get around land travel restrictions triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, Indian media reports. Air travel bubbles are...
South Korea warned on Monday of a looming novel coronavirus crisis as new outbreaks flared, including one linked to a church where more than 300 members of the congregation have...
Police recovered the body of a doctor of Melandah upazila health complex from the residential quarter of the hospital in jamalpur district on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh recovered the bullet-hit body of a young man along Shingnagar border in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Sumon,...
Chevron’s Bangladesh companies have implemented a multi-phase relief distribution effort to help communities living around Chevron’s gas fields in Bangladesh. Between May and July, Chevron planned and distributed 5,500 relief...
Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 1,200-year-old olive oil-soap making workshop in southern Israel, the oldest one found in the country, Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said Sunday. It was exposed at...
Asian 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 extend and...
A mobile court run by Dhaka Metropolitan Police has slapped a Tk 250,000 fine on an online shop for not delivering products after taking orders. Police raided the company’s office...
Emirates customers now can experience the luxury services of the airline’s Airbus A380, while travelling to Toronto. The airline resumed its A380 operations to city on 16 August. Toronto is...
Head of Lebanese Order of Physicians Charaf Abou Charaf said Sunday that 2,000 physicians were impacted by the explosions that rocked Beirut on Aug. 4, the National News Agency reported....
Singapore's non-oil domestic exports (NODX) grew by 6.0 per cent year on year in July, after the revised 13.9 per cent increase in the previous month, Enterprise Singapore, a government...
Stocks witnessed downward trend in early trading on Monday as risk-averse investors are booking profit on sector-wise issues after sharp recent upsurge. After hitting the DSE key index 10 months...
India’s main opposition Congress party called on Sunday for a parliamentary panel to investigate what it said was favourable treatment by Facebook’s India team towards the country’s ruling party. Citing...
New Zealand’s prime minister postponed the country’s general election on Monday by a month to Oct. 17 as the city of Auckland remains in lockdown due to a new outbreak...
Korea Tourism Organization (KTO), in association with TravTalk, will host an exclusive webinar for the Bangladesh travel trade on Tuesday. This first-ever webinar by KTO for the Bangladesh trade will...
The United States surpassed 170,000 coronavirus deaths on Sunday, according to a Reuters tally, as health officials express concerns over Covid-19 complicating the fall flu season. Deaths rose by 483...
Recent arrests and police operations indicate that militants are trying to reorganise after smarting from the crackdown in the aftermath of the Holey Artisan Bakery terror attack four years ago....
The country’s receipt from exports in goods to China dropped heavily in the last fiscal year (FY20) compared to the decline in exports to India during the same period. Statistics...
Five crew members of a lighterage vessel that sank in the Bay of Bengal on Saturday evening were rescued at around Sunday noon. Sources said the ship named MV Akter...
On-demand ride-sharing platforms have seen a dramatic rise since 2016 as a means of living for many and a support for a faster commuting across the capital until Covid-19 pandemic...
Japan was hit by its biggest economic contraction on record in the second quarter as the coronavirus pandemic crushed consumption and exports, keeping policymakers under pressure for bolder action to...
Militants stormed a high-end seaside hotel in Mogadishu on Sunday, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 20 as they detonated a car bomb then opened fire with...
The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) authorities demolished on Sunday over fifty makeshift structures illegally built on the footpaths. Restaurants, tea stalls and rickshaw garages were among the temporary structures...
The High Court on Sunday issued a rule asking the respondents to explain in four weeks why the government steps in refraining the 27 candidates of 37th BCS examination from...
The government is considering treating all treatments provided to the patients at dedicated Covid-19 hospitals for around four months as free of cost, sources said. To this effect, a proposal...
The Supreme Court administration released 43 people, 35 clerks of lawyers and eight outsiders, after issuing warnings to them on Sunday afternoon after a drive against irregularities. Earlier, the clerks...
The central bank is set to ask the banks and non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) for faster implementation of the stimulus packages particularly the one for the CMSMEs to speed up...
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) on Sunday expressed reservations about the government's provisional estimate of real GDP growth rate for the fiscal year (FY) 2019-20, arguing it does not...
Bangladesh is pushing Malaysia for starting formal negotiations on signing a free trade area or FTA agreement as both had earlier agreed on such a deal to boost bilateral trade,...
Leveraging the growing demand for men’s grooming products in the personal care category, Marico has launched the brand-new Studio X Clean and Fresh Men’s Soap under its complete male grooming...
The United Arab Emirates has summoned Iran's charge d'affaires in Abu Dhabi in response to a speech by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that the foreign ministry described as "unacceptable", state...
Noted health experts have said they do not find any logic and scientific basis behind health minister’s comment that coronavirus will ‘leave Bangladesh by itself’. They warned that there is...
India has sent technical equipment and a team of specialists to Mauritius to help local authorities deal with an environmental crisis after an oil spill from a Japanese ship, a...
The education ministry's decision to open government polytechnic institutions and colleges to adult people of any age for admission has angered diploma engineers. At a view-exchange meeting held at the...
Building on the foundation of low wage rate, our RMG sector has been labeled by foreign buyers as a low cost hub for high volume product sourcing. This is quite...
Our social media, print as well as the electronic media have all been awash over the last three weeks with coverage, including photographs, displaying the utter helplessness of the 17...
Some weeks back, the issue of colour-based zoning of Dhaka and Chattogram cities to help tackle the spread of COVID-19 got national attention. The zoning was seen as necessary to...
Fake diagnostic centres appear to have joined a mad race to demonstrate the level of their unassailability in the country. The educated and conscious sections of people have long been...
Sea beaches, tourist spots and hotels-motels in Cox’s Bazar will reopen on a limited scale for tourists from Monday after about a five-month closure due to COVID-19 pandemic. “Tourism and...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday vowed to bring smile to the faces of the distressed people of the country as dreamt by Father of Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman...
Some 59 policemen of Bogura, who have recovered from coronavirus, will be donating their plasma for the treatment of the disease in other patients. Among them, 40 police personnel are...
The Bangladesh Jute Traders Association (BJMC) has announced plans to protest against the Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation over the Tk 2.65 billion they are owed for the supply of raw...
The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) on Sunday found Aedes mosquito larvae at 67 houses and establishments on the sixth day of its combing operation to protect city dwellers from...
Interested potential global liquefied natural gas (LNG) suppliers will have to submit their bids by Monday to supply first spot LNG cargo to Bangladesh. State-run Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company Ltd...
Telephone lines between the United Arab Emirates and Israel were open on Sunday in a development the Israeli communications minister hailed as important for normalising ties between the countries. Israel...
Thirteen pairs of passenger trains resumed operation from Sunday on different routes to make services more functional amid Covid-19 pandemic. “We’ve asked the authorities concerned to ensure train movement after...
Hot weather persisted in the city on Sunday as well amid moderate rain with steady wind. The Met Office recorded 32mm rainfall between 6.00 am and 6.00 pm with a...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines will reissue tickets to all the passengers who had brought return tickets on Dhaka-Dubai and Dhaka-Abu Dhabi routes but could not travel due to COVID-19 pandemic. “Biman...
Mosques, madrasas, orphanages and individual stakeholders had initially been aghast at the money they got for the rawhides of cattle sacrificed during Eid-ul-Azha. But their qualms were eventually allayed as...
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