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The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday summoned Advocate Syed Mamun Mahbub to appear before it on August 20 for posting a derogatory status about Chief Justice Syed...
Half of the capacity of the ready-made garment (RMG) factories that are not affiliated with either BGMEA or BKMEA remained unutilised in June amid the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a...
Local lawmakers are getting involved while being more attentive to planning and implementing infrastructure projects with block allocation in their constituencies, a latest TIB report said. The Transparency International Bangladesh...
Banks and non-bank lenders could disburse only Tk 15 billion of the stimulus package until July 30 for smaller firms. The disbursed amount is just 7.50 per cent of total...
An increasing number of businesses in Asia are turning to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Autonomous Database to gain benefit from the advantages the company’s autonomous technology brings. These include lower costs, better security...
The regular activities of the High Court division of the Supreme Court resumed on Wednesday after five months of suspension due to Covid-19 outbreak. Judges, lawyers and court staffers were...
A businessman has filed a case against Md Belayet Hossain, Superintendent of Police (SP) of Rajshahi range, on charge of extortion. The businessman, Golam Mostofa, 29, filed the case with...
Joe Biden’s selection of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate provides a brand-new target for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign that has struggled to find an effective line of...
The Bangladesh National Football team’s remaining four Group E Joint Qualifications matches of the FIFA World Cup Qatar' 2022 and AFC Asian Cup China 2023, have been postponed till 2021...
Environment, Forests and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin has tested positive for coronavirus. The minister underwent Covid-19 test and received the test report on Wednesday, said Dipangkar Bor, senior...
President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday urged the multinational organisations and developed nations to come forward so that both rich and poor people get coronavirus vaccine equally. He made the call...
The government has not taken final decision over the Junior School Certificate (JSC) and the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations. The Ministry of Education issued a press release on Wednesday...
Tourism in Asia and the Pacific has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. International tourist arrivals fell by over 90.0 per cent in many countries, compared to last year-and...
Bangladesh's stride towards graduation from Least Developed Country (LDC) list is a great pride for the nation. Bangladesh was the first country which meets all the three criteria i.e., national...
No one in his right sense will dispute the fact that overhead wires and cables, those too jumbled together at some points, of various service providers - both public and...
Technical and vocational education and training or TVET is considered a critical tool for promoting socioeconomic equity-cum-inclusion as well as sustainable development. The education minister has recently announced lifting of...
As widespread corruption and mismanagement in the health sector and relief distribution are reported to be in progress, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) chairman said the national anti-graft agency will intensify...
Hot weather continued in the city on Wednesday amid high temperature and lack of rain. For partly cloudy sky with a humidity ranged between 76 and 71 per cent in...
A city in China's eastern Anhui province found the novel coronavirus on the packaging of shrimps from Ecuador in the latest instance of the virus being detected on imported products....
Bangladesh is in no hurry to start a late-stage human trial of a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd, according to the country's top health...
Ms Nathalie Chuard, newly appointed Ambassador of Switzerland to Bangladesh, presented her credentials to President Md Abdul Hamid on Wednesday, said a spokesperson of the Swiss Embassy. “The two countries...
Daraz Bangladesh, a leading e-commerce company in the country, has signed a partnership agreement with international sports brand PUMA. As a result of the partnership, PUMA gave up to 30...
A Bangladeshi worker was killed in road accident during doing repairing works on a bridge in Temburong district in Brunei on Saturday last. The worker has been identified as Rezaul...
Awami League leader Obaidul Quader has urged the health directorate to hold at least two online briefings a week on the COVID-19 situation in Bangladesh instead of completely discontinuing the...
Some 126,000 people die in Bangladesh every year because of diseases sprouting due to tobacco use, said anti-tobacco organisation PROGGA on Wednesday. It stressed the need for protecting the young...
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) on Wednesday said it helped train 163,287 livestock farmers, including 143,577 women, over the past five years. With a share of 13.46 percent...
Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko has said that the first batch of the coronavirus vaccine will be produced and ready for use in just two weeks. "Today, quality control tests...
US-Bangla Airlines is set to resume flight services on the Dhaka-Kuala Lumpur route on Aug 16 following a five-month hiatus caused by coronavirus pandemic, reports bdnews24.com. The private airline will...
Three people were killed in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru in India after violence erupted between police and protesters over a reported derogatory Facebook post about the Prophet Mohammad...
Dhaka Inter-bank Offered Rate (DIBOR) on overnight basis declined slightly to 4.15 per cent on Wednesday from 4.45 per cent on Monday. Tuesday was a government holiday. Bangladesh Foreign Exchange...
Japan on Wednesday confirmed largest ever loan package of US$ 3.15 billion for Bangladesh to bankroll seven development projects in the country, officials said. Under the 41st Official Development Assistance...
Stocks rebounded strongly on Wednesday, after a single-day break, amid growing investors’ confidence following the securities regulator’s hard stance on the mandatory shareholding issue. Following the previous session’s mild correction,...
A Cox's Bazar court has granted permission to the Rapid Action Battalion to interrogate in custody seven people, including four policemen, over the murder of retired major Sinha Md Rashed...
Nearly 70 per cent of surveyed migrants who returned to Bangladesh between February and June remained unemployed, according to a study covering 12 districts. The findings are presented in the...
One of the challenges that we face while teaching our students is that some of them struggle or are reluctant to read. While students acquire knowledge at different paces, it...
Police recovered a powerful bomb and materials used to make bomb from the house of suspected Neo-JMB member Sanaul Islam Sadi in Sylhet city’s Jalalabad residential area on Tuesday night....
US businesses are not leaving the Chinese market despite "an unprecedented downturn" in US-China relations during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an annual member survey released Tuesday by the US-China...
When the police knocked on the door as 15-year-old Muskaan prepared to head to the temple in their village in northern India, the bride-to-be was distraught. With a sick father...
Abul Kalam Azad, the former DG of health services, has been interrogated by the Anti-Corruption Commission as part of an investigation into the allegations of graft levelled at the agency....
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday picked Senator Kamala Harris as his choice for vice president, making her the first Black woman on a major-party US presidential ticket and...
The UK economy suffered its biggest slump on record between April and June as coronavirus lockdown measures pushed the country officially into recession. The economy shrank 20.4 per cent compared...
Country’s total investment in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased modestly in the last fiscal year (FY20) ended on June 30, 2020. The provisional estimate of GDP, released by...
Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) on Wednesday formally launched three new services to its virtual One Stop Service (OSS) portal to help facilitate investment procedure in the country. The new...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on leaders and adults everywhere to do everything possible to enable the youth to enjoy lives of safety, dignity and opportunity and contribute to...
Highlighting the severe flooding in Asia, including Bangladesh and India, the United Nations has expressed its willingness to help. In Bangladesh, people are experiencing the worst and longest monsoon flooding...
Coronavirus cases in France have nearly doubled in the past 24 hours as Prime Minister Jean Castex warned that the country had been going "the wrong way" for two weeks....
Life of Jannatul Ferdous had never been easy. It was full of difficulties and numerous challenges. It seemed life was unnecessarily punishing her. Jannatul, mother of two children, has hearing...
Renowned Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt has reportedly been diagnosed with lung cancer. He had announced a short break from work on Tuesday for ‘medical treatment’, reports UNB citing Hindustan Times....
The Covid-19 pandemic is having a devastating effect on the education and training of young people, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has warned. Since the outset of the crisis, over 70...
President Donald Trump’s executive order banning China’s TikTok could prevent US app stores from offering the popular short-video app and make advertising on the platform illegal, according to a White...
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