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The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) dismissed any hopes of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) and Dhaka Premier League (DPL) being held without the vaccine of COVID-19 or the dramatic improvement...
The National Mourning Day was observed on Saturday across the country, marking the 45th martyrdom anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members. The...
India’s prime minister said Saturday his country has done well in containing the coronavirus pandemic and announced $1.46 trillion in infrastructure projects to boost the sagging economy, reports AP. The...
President Abdul Hamid on Saturday hosted a milad and doa mahfil at Darbar Hall of Bangabhaban marking the National Mourning Day and the 45th martyrdom anniversary of Father of the...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Saturday said the government is yet to know whereabouts of three of the fugitive killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur...
The economic outlook for the Bangladesh and other economies around the world is now being driven by the Covid-19 pandemic. The economic contraction caused by the pandemic is quite staggering....
Pressure is growing on the French government to require masks in all workplaces and everywhere in public as coronavirus infections resurge. Paris police stepped up mask patrols Saturday as the...
Marking National Mourning Day and the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first-ever virtual art, photography and multimedia exhibition on Bangabandhu, titled ‘BRAVE HEART’,...
The Maldives has received foreign aid amounting to 197 million US dollars amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, local media citing the President's Office reported here Saturday. Policy Secretary of the President's...
A plasma and blood donation centre set up by Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital in memory of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was opened on Saturday. Dr MA Khan, a professor of Dhaka...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) is set to resume its 12 more intercity train services and one commuter train service from Sunday with the target to complete resumption of rest 21 intercity...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaking on the 75th anniversary of Japan’s World War Two surrender, pledged never to repeat the tragedy of war and Emperor Naruhito expressed “deep remorse”...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Nepali counterpart KP Sharma Oli spoke on Saturday for the first time since a diplomatic spat over a map and a disputed area...
Deaths in floods rose to 217 in the country on Saturday while the country is struggling to fight deaths in Covid-19. Meanwhile, nearly 47,000 people have been infected with water...
President M Abdul Hamid said after the brutal assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the then military ruler Ziaur Rahman proposed him to become a minister....
Huawei has ranked 49th on the Fortune Global 500 list in 2020. This is the first time that the telecommunications giant breaks into the top 50, continuing a multi-year track...
India’s confirmed coronavirus cases have crossed 2.5 million with another biggest single-day spike of 65,002 in the past 24 hours, reports AP, UNB. India is behind the United States and...
The overall flood situation in the Ganges basin remained almost stable as the water level has slightly declined or went up at many of its river points during the past...
Speakers in a webinar underscored the need for adopting urban resilient approach, coordination among professionals and creating awareness among communities as Dhaka is highly vulnerable to earthquake, reports UNB. Dhaka...
BNP on Saturday arranged a doa and milad mahfil seeking early recovery and long life of its chairperson Khaleda Zia on her 76th birthday. Several hundred BNP leaders and activists...
After two and a half weeks of sultry weather, rains coupled with heavy winds have brought some coolness for the dwellers in Dhaka city today (Saturday). Though the Bangladesh Meteorological...
The death toll from the novel coronavirus infection in Bangladesh has climbed to 3,625 after 34 fatalities were registered over a 24-hour period. The government said 2,644 new infections were...
A spike in new coronavirus cases in South Korea has prompted authorities to reimpose tighter social distancing curbs in Seoul, but that didn’t stop thousands of demonstrators from protesting against...
One new dengue case was recorded in the last 24 hours until Saturday morning. The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said 16 patients are currently undergoing treatment at hospitals....
Russia has started manufacturing its new vaccine for Covid-19, the Interfax news agency reported on Saturday, citing the health ministry. Russia has said the vaccine, developed by Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute...
A prominent women’s rights advocate and member of the Afghan team tasked with negotiating with the Taliban sustained minor injuries in an attack in Kabul by unknown gunmen, officials said...
Sharks have more complex social lives than previously known, as shown by a study finding that gray reef sharks in the Pacific Ocean cultivate surprising social networks with one another...
The nation is observing the National Mourning Day today (Saturday) with paying rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on his 45th martyrdom anniversary. The self-confessed...
Forest department officials arrested seven members of a deer poaching gang from the Sundarbans in Kochikhali Pakhshir Cahr area of Sharankhola upazila in the Bagerhat district early Saturday. They also...
Three members of a family were burned to death as a fire broke out in a slum in Chattogram's A K Khan area on Friday night. The deceased were identified...
President Donald Trump ordered ByteDance on Friday to divest the US operations of its video-sharing app TikTok within 90 days, the latest effort to ramp up pressure on the Chinese...
Crime in South Africa dropped by up to 40 per cent during the first three months of its lockdown, official figures show. The police minister said most types of crimes...
India is ready to mass produce Covid-19 vaccines when scientists give the go-ahead, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his Independence Day speech on Saturday, also launching a national project...
The High Commission of India, Dhaka solemnly celebrated the 74th Independence Day of India on Saturday at the Chancery premises of the High Commission. High Commissioner Riva Ganguly Das unfurled...
Eminent artist Murtaja Baseer has died in hospital care after being diagnosed with the coronavirus infection at the age of 88. He passed away during treatment in Dhaka's Evercare Hospital...
Coronavirus cases in Latin America, the region of the world worst-affected by the pandemic, exceeded 6 million on Friday and continued to accelerate, according to a Reuters tally, as most...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman marking the National Mourning Day and the 45th anniversary of his martyrdom, BSS...
Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has launched dedicated and exclusive social media pages on Facebook and Instagram to connect closely with the international travellers of Bangladesh as well as to...
Ten most-traded stocks accounted for 24 per cent of the total transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) in the outgoing week while Beximco Pharmaceuticals topped the list for the...
The United States and China have delayed a review of their Phase 1 trade deal initially slated for Saturday, sources familiar with the plans told Reuters, citing scheduling conflicts and...
The UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay has paid glowing tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the eve of the National Mourning Day, remembering the struggle and...
The local market for medical or health safety products has come under tight monitoring as sales of such items and its demand have picked up significantly across the country amid...
Stocks witnessed yet another strong bullish week that ended on Thursday, extending the winning streak for the eight consecutive weeks. The enthusiastic investors put fresh stakes on large-cap stocks throughout...
The United States lost a bid on Friday to extend a UN arms embargo on Iran as Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a summit of world leaders to avoid “confrontation”...
Bangladesh's industrial growth slumped in the last fiscal year, mainly due to the COVID pandemic, the government data show. The sector recorded notable growth in the previous couple of years....
The Indian move to slap import duty will hit Bangladesh's apparel exports, thus widening further the ballooning bilateral trade gap, officials say. The duty imposition will also go against the...
"Friendship to all, malice to none" is what Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman articulated in the 1972 Constitution and it is still very much relevant and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is...
Despite outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic import of oils and fats in Bangladesh during the first 6 months of 2020 witnessed an upward trend by 4.82 per cent compared to...
In the dawn of August 15, 1975, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman made one of his final phone calls to his military secretary, the then Colonel Jamil Uddin Ahmad. He had...
In the midst of the current Covid-19 pandemic, policymakers around the world are undertaking fiscal stimulus-a combination of spending increases and tax reductions-to support their economies. Even before the present...
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