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The board of directors of Agrani Insurance Company Limited has recommended 10 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2019. The final approval will come during...
Boring of one part of Karnaphuli tunnel has been completed establishing underwater tube from Chattogram city's Patenga to Anwara upazila, officials said. They said with the installation of ring of...
A directory of 14 Business Support Organisations (BSO) has been launched with a view to fostering women entrepreneurship in the country. The directory is expected to help women entrepreneurs get...
Share prices of general insurance companies are soaring without having any undisclosed price sensitive information while three companies share price doubled in a month. Of the 35 general insurance companies...
More than 3.0 million pieces of salted rawhide of both cattle and goats have been stored in different warehouses across the country, official figures show. Of them, over 2.4 million...
Work on the Dhaka metro rail is expected to get back its momentum with the arrival of foreign consultants and experts, officials said. All the Thai experts and workers engaged...
The government is strengthening the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) to make it is more sophisticated and investment-friendly. As part of reinforcing the investment promotion agency, the government is amending...
Farmers in the greater Sylhet region are busy in cultivation of Transplanted Aman (T Aman) paddy with a target to achieve the centrally set programme for yielding highest, officials and...
Unholy practices by ill-equipped private laboratories escalate the cost of pathological tests in Bangladesh, forcing people to conduct multiple tests only to get reports of dubious quality. Such diagnostic outlets...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines incurs additional losses during the coronavirus pandemic due to lack of planning. After three months of suspension of regular flight operations, the government permitted resumption of international...
Two trade associations involved in garment business are wrangling over the authority of buying houses, sources said. The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) is pressing the government to...
The country's capital market has so far received poor response in terms of investment from the banks under a special initiative of the central bank to help stimulate the ailing...
The banks which have disbursed working capital to industrial and service sector units under the government's Covid-19 recovery package have sought over Tk 18 million as interest subsidy in the...
Leather, now-a-days, is the second largest export sector of Bangladesh. Since pre-liberation period to the early 90s, leather sector had been successfully occupying the third position in the list of...
On September 21, 2020, the United Nations will mark its 75th anniversary with a negotiated declaration to be endorsed at a high-level meeting the same month. The UN's member countries...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has expressed his satisfaction at the 5.24 per cent GDP growth rate and $2,064 per capita income attained by the country in the last fiscal...
The Primary and Mass Education Ministry will send a proposal to the Prime Minister over cancellation of the Primary Education Completion (PEC) examination due to the coronavirus pandemic, said State...
Right on schedule, when the death rate started to rise again, the Trump regime put the kibosh on any further CDC Covid reporting. In the weeks before this death-rate spike,...
Securing certificates of graduation even with good grades does no longer guarantee suitable jobs in our country. One's entry into a corporate office or public service doesn't either assure the...
Reducing production cost in agriculture and increasing the yield are sometimes seen as separate ventures, which experts disagree holding the view that mechanisation can help achieve both. The government's agri-mechanisation...
While the covid-19 pandemic now occupies the centre stage when it comes to the issue of global health concern, fresh light has been shed on an old health issue, the...
The Plasma and Blood Donation Centre set up by Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital in memory of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be opened on August 15. Dr MA Khan, a professor...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and Russian health authorities are discussing the process for possible WHO prequalification for its newly approved COVID-19 vaccine, a WHO spokesman said on Tuesday, reports...
Russia has named its first approved COVID-19 vaccine 'Sputnik V' for foreign markets, a reference to the world's first satellite and what Moscow sees as its success at becoming the...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam on Tuesday said the construction of 10 U-loop from Uttara to Tejgaon will be completed within this year, significantly cutting down...
Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka, Riva Ganguly Das on Tuesday, said the excellent state of India- Bangladesh bilateral relations and the recent connectivity initiatives taken by both the countries in...
At least 229 people were killed and 318 others injured in road accidents across the country during Eid-ul Azha holidays, according to a report released by Road Safety Foundation (RSF)...
Sufferings of the city dwellers increased further on Tuesday amid rise in mercury with low rain. The maximum temperature of Dhaka city was recorded as 34.5 degrees Celsius on the...
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested three men who were named as witnesses in a case started by police after the incident of killing of retired army major Sinha...
Fishermen started fishing in Kaptai Lake in Rangamati district on Tuesday after the end of a three-month ban, imposed by the local administration to boost fish production. Manager of Bangladesh...
In the murky story of how a cache of highly explosive ammonium nitrate ended up on the Beirut waterfront, one thing is clear — no one has ever publicly come...
The GDP growth rate of Bangladesh has reached 5.24 per cent in the last fiscal year (FY20) despite the impact of coronavirus pandemic while the per capita income increased to...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said Bangladesh is a shining example of communal harmony in the contemporary world, reports BSS. “For thousands of years, followers of different...
Pakistanis flocked to gyms, salons and restaurants that opened on Monday for the first time in five months after being shut to stop the spread of the coronavirus, reports Reuters....
Along with the Sangsad Bangladesh Television, the state-run radio Bangladesh Betar is set to broadcast class lectures for the students at primary level to continue their studies as educational institutions...
Overall consumption spending in the country increased by 9.56 per cent in the last fiscal year (FY20), according to the provisional estimate of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). The growth...
The head of a UN investigative body on Myanmar said Facebook has not released evidence of “serious international crimes”, despite vowing to work with investigators looking into abuses in the...
The European Union is providing 1.65 million euro in humanitarian aid funding in response to severe flooding that have affected South Asia — most notably Bangladesh, India and Nepal. The...
Angry Lebanese said the government’s resignation on Monday did not come near to addressing the tragedy of last week’s Beirut explosion and demanded the removal of what they see as...
The bodies of two young men were retrieved from a waterbody (beel) at Beraid Daspara area of Bongaon union of Savar upazila of Dhaka on Tuesday morning 16 hours after...
President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had become the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval to a Covid-19 vaccine after less than two months of...
Emirates has rolled out a brand new, state-of-the-art online gateway to serve its travel trade partners around the world. Tailored for each market, and personalised for each partner to cater...
Nine per cent of the population within the jurisdictions of Dhaka's bifurcated city corporations have been infected with Covid-19, a study has found, bdnews24.com reports. The survey, which ran from...
The health authorities announced detection of four new dengue cases in the last 24 hours until Tuesday morning. In a regular update, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said...
The number of confirmed coronavirus patients in Bangladesh surged to 263,503 on Tuesday as the country registered 2,996 fresh cases testing 14,820 samples in 86 labs in the last 24...
Former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee was put on ventilator support after undergoing surgery having contracted Covid-19, local media reported on Tuesday, quoting unidentified sources at the military hospital in New...
Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) on Tuesday forecast light to moderate rain or thundershowers for different parts of the country. Most places in Chattogram and Rangpur divisions and many areas of...
The number of people in work in Britain fell by the most since 2009 in the three months through June as the coronavirus crisis took a heavy toll on the...
The government is planning to cancel the completion examinations for fifth and eighth graders schools and educational institutions across Bangladesh remained shut due to the coronavirus pandemic. The primary and...
Bangladesh has reported 5.24 per cent GDP growth in FY 2019-20 with the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the economy for at least a third of the financial year. The size of...
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