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East Asian factories owned by foreigners are expected to be relocated to other locations due to trade war. Bangladesh is a potential destination, it is found in recent news items....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has released commemorative postage stamps, first day covers and a data card on the occasion of the National Mourning Day and 45th martyrdom anniversary of Father...
Police believe the three teenage boys, who died at Jashore Juvenile Development Centre on Thursday, were beaten to death by the employees, not killed in clashes between themselves. The juveniles,...
August 15 has become a national mourning day of Bangladesh and it will remain so forever. This day will be solemnly observed across the country. Forty five years ago, a...
In the pre-dawn hours of 15 August 1975, sinister darkness descended on Bangladesh. Conspiracy felled the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and nearly his entire family. Bloody...
Internet services across the country was severely disrupted early in the last week due to damage of the country's second submarine cable connection. The damage took place when some workers,...
Innovation is the engine that drives contemporary economies. Living standards are determined by productivity growth, which in turn depends on the introduction and dissemination of new technologies that allow an...
Ever since the fearsome pandemic had begun to rage through one country after another, any reference to the term covid-19 wouldbeinvariably accompanied with some narratives on the many ways in...
The nation will observe the National Mourning Day on Saturday, marking the 45th martyrdom anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh...
A second group consisting 67 members of Bangladesh Navy has left Dhaka on Friday for South Sudan to join the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission under Force Marine Unit-6 of Bangladesh...
The coronavirus outbreak has left around 20,000 workers in Khulna city without a job over the last four months and forced the closure of 20 per cent business establishments. Another...
Prices of potatoes, brinjal and garlic witnessed a hike while farm egg prices showed a slight decline last week, said traders. Prices of stored potato of the cardinal, diamond and...
The World Health Organization said on Thursday it saw no evidence of coronavirus being spread by food or packaging and urged people not to be afraid of the virus entering...
Former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee is in a comatose state, but his vital parameters are stable, the Research and Referral (R&R) Hospital in India said on Thursday morning. Mukherjee’s condition...
Accusing the government of using the Digital Security Act as a weapon to hang onto power, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday demanded the withdrawal of all...
Militants attacked a police team in Kashmir on Friday, killing two officers and wounding one despite tight security in the disputed Muslim-majority region ahead of India's Independence Day. A group...
From 1961 to 1975, the famous Dhanmondi house witnessed every milestone in the journey of Bangladeshis toward independence. It was on the evening of August 15, 1975, a dark chapter...
Bangladesh has recorded 2,766 new cases of COVID-19 in a daily count, taking the tally of infections to 271,881. The death toll climbed to 3,591 after 34 fatalities were registered...
The Malaysian economy contracted 17.1 per cent year on year in the second quarter (Q2), the worst slump since the fourth quarter of 1998, official data showed Friday. Malaysian Central...
Vietnam has registered to buy a Russian COVID-19 vaccine, state television reported on Friday, as it fights a new outbreak after going several months with no local cases. Russia said...
Sumon Ali, the officer-in-charge of Baraigram Police Station in Natore, died of coronavirus at a hospital in Dhaka on Friday. Liton Kumar Saha, Superintendent of Natore Police, said Sumon had...
The Aspire to Innovate (a2i) Programme, Bangladesh and Glocal After School, Nepal have launched the South Asian Youth Festival 2020 on the occasion of International Youth Day 2020. They opened...
Mohammad Shahiduzzaman Khokon, the MP from Meherpur-2 constituency, and nine members of his family have tested positive for coronavirus. Civil Surgeon Dr Mohammad Nasir Uddin said according to the report...
India’s coronavirus death toll rose to 48,040 on Friday, currently the fourth-highest in the world. The country has overtaken the UK whose death tally stands at 46,791, according to the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday described the orphans as her “most near and dear ones” and vowed to build a beautiful future for them, BSS reports. “I want to...
Amazon.com on Friday launched an online pharmacy in India to serve the southern city of Bengaluru, the latest move by the e-commerce giant to widen its reach in a key...
The Afghan government has begun releasing the last Taliban prisoners from a final batch of 400 who the militants want freed before they agree to start peace negotiations, a security...
Bangladesh has assumed presidency of the Conference of Disarmament in the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva and reiterated its commitment to general and complete disarmament to preserve global peace and...
Noted artist Murtaza Bashir, an awardee of the Ekushey Padak, has been admitted to the medical intensive care unit of Evercare Hospital in Dhaka. He was admitted at around 1.30...
Israel talked of “history” and Palestinians of “betrayal” after Thursday’s surprise announcement of a deal to normalise relations between the Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates. In a nationwide...
The record inflow of remittance in the last two months should not give any sense of complacence for Bangladesh as the situation in overseas labour market remains fluid and the...
Three teenagers were killed in a clash at a juvenile correction centre in Jashore on Thursday evening. The deceased as - Naim Hossain, 15, son of Nannu Parmanik of Shibganj,...
Malaysia has decided to lift an earlier limit on the hiring of foreign workers meant to protect jobs for locals in most sectors, the Human Resources Ministry said late on...
Indonesia must use the pandemic to reboot Southeast Asia’s biggest economy, including by improving food and energy security, as well as processing more natural resources at home, President Joko Widodo...
India has appointed Vikram Kumar Doraiswami as the country’s new high commissioner to Bangladesh, one of New Delhi’s “closest allies”. Doraiswami, presently additional secretary at the Ministry of External Affairs,...
Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced on Thursday that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship, a move that reshapes the order of Middle East...
The SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), with support from the Institute for Adult Learning (IAL), jointly launched the Training and Adult Education (TAE) Industry Digital...
The government has disbursed around Tk 260 million as loans to the entrepreneurs of fisheries sector to help offset the financial losses due to the Covid-19 pandemic, an official said....
The 37th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of City Bank was held on Thursday on virtual platform. Aziz Al Kaiser, Chairman of the Bank, presided over the meeting, said a statement....
State-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has sought use of force majeure provision with the global oil suppliers to avoid the 'demurrage' due to cancellation or deferment of cargoes over the...
The securities regulator has taken a number of decisions including restructuring the boards of 'Z' category companies for bringing positive changes in their operations. The decisions were taken on Thursday...
The government has decided to provide the electronic fiscal device (EFD) free-of-cost to the businesses in order to encourage them to automate accounts. To this effect, the National Board of...
The newly appointed Administrator of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) Khorshed Alam Sujan has directed to renovate the Airport Road within August 20. He visited the damaged roads in the port...
Closure of Chattogram daily newspapers as a sequel to gherao of senior editor MA Malek's house by a section of protesting journalists has been viewed as an unprecedented incident by...
A new shipping service, connecting ports of Bangladesh, China and Vietnam, is expected to begin from August 22. The voyage is likely to quicken the country's clothing shipments, as it...
Vietnam surpassed Bangladesh in exporting readymade garments (RMG) during the first five months of the current calendar year, industry insiders said. Bangladesh, however, remained the second largest apparel exporter after...
The government started the new fiscal year with higher bank borrowing as July loans figure almost doubled as revenue collection fell, officials say. Its borrowing reached Tk 130.87 billion in...
Total exports of Bangladeshi products to Pakistan stood at US$50.54 million in the last fiscal year (FY20), according to Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) data. The amount was 10.30 per cent...
It is an old and, to a great extent, habitual aberration. Yet none has ever bothered to address the issue--- procurement of motor vehicles for development projects and their high...
The drowning of two students in the Sitalakhya during a turf war between two groups of Narayanganj Ispahani Ghat area is not only tragic but also most alarming. In just...
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