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China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC), an international company of China has donated foodstuffs among 1,000 poor families at Roypur Union at Anwara Upazila in Chattogram, which was badly affected...
Some Lebanese called on Sunday for a sustained uprising to topple their leaders amid public fury over this week's devastating explosion in Beirut, and the country's top Christian Maronite cleric...
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has asked Bangladesh embassies of different countries to work to take advantage of post-Covid-19 export trade. “For this, the ambassadors posted in different countries have to...
National Award winning composer Alauddin Ali passed away at a city hospital on Sunday afternoon. He breathed his last around 5:30pm, according to media reports. He was kept on life...
Farmers have produced record 20.26 million tonnes of boro this year, said a government agency on Sunday. The Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) also said that the country might have...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) is set to resume all its intercity train services in phases by August 31 starting from August 16 with 13 trains. All train services of the state-owned...
Leader of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna party Mahinda Rajapaksa took his oath as the nation's new prime minister on Sunday after his party secured a landslide victory in the recently-concluded...
The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday marked its 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, with a call to the world leaders including their own to do more for...
A Cox's Bazar court on Sunday granted bail to Stamford University student Shipra Rani Devnath, one of the two companions of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed, in a case filed...
The operator of a Japanese bulk carrier which ran aground off Mauritius in the Indian Ocean apologised on Sunday for a major oil spill which officials and environmentalists say is...
The central bank has asked scheduled banks to introduce deposit accounts for non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) to encourage these people, who are working aboard, in saving their hard-earned money in Bangladesh....
A Dhaka court has set September 10 to submit probe report in the case lodged over Bangladesh Bank (BB) reserve heist that took place in 2016. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Baki...
The prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) crossed the 4,500-mark on Sunday, after more than five months amid soaring turnover, as enthusiastic investors put fresh stakes on stocks....
Internet users in Bangladesh are experiencing slow speed or outages due to a technical glitch in the second submarine cable. Managing Director of Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Ltd Moshiur Rahman...
The Philippines on Sunday recorded 61 more coronavirus deaths, the highest daily increase in fatalities reported since July 18, taking the country’s death tally to 2,270. A health ministry bulletin...
Australia’s second-most populous state, Victoria, reported its deadliest day of the Covid-19 outbreak on Sunday, with 17 people dying, as police thwarted a planned anti-mask rally in the capital of...
Afghanistan agreed on Sunday to release 400 “hard-core” Taliban prisoners, paving the way for the beginning of peace talks aimed at ending more than 19 years of war. Under election-year...
Lebanon’s Information Minister Manal Abdel Samad announced on Sunday her resignation, citing the failure of the government to carry out reforms and the catastrophic explosion that rocked Beirut on Tuesday.
The number of confirmed coronavirus patients in Bangladesh surged to 257,600 on Sunday as the country registered 2,487 fresh cases testing 10,759 samples in 85 labs in the last 24...
UN Secretary General António Guterres has underscored that the inclusion and participation of the world’s 476 million indigenous peoples must be ensured in the response to the Covid-19 pandemic and...
Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Baqher Ghalibaf has expressed his country’s desire to strengthen relations with Bangladesh on all fronts. "It is hoped that with our concerted efforts, our...
British radio host Sideman has quit the BBC over the corporation’s decision to include a racial slur in a news report about a racist attack. Sideman, who appeared on music...
Physical gold remained out of favour in most Asian hubs this week as a worsening pandemic kept retail buyers away with global benchmark spot prices at historic highs, while logistical...
Five people died at Comilla Medical College Hospital with Covid-19-like symptoms in the last 24 hours. A total of 126 patients, including 71 Covid-19 patients, are currently undergoing treatment at...
Floods have deteriorated in Faridpur district, destroying around 15,000 hectares of crops, including paddy, vegetables and jute, and thus affecting 63,425 farmers. Hazrat Ali, deputy director at the Department of...
Mexico’s health ministry on Saturday reported 6,495 new confirmed coronavirus infections and 695 additional fatalities, bringing the total in the country to 475,902 cases and 52,006 deaths. Officials have said...
The boards of directors of two more life insurers have recommended cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2019. The companies are National Life Insurance Company and Sandhani...
At least seven people died after a massive fire broke out at a hotel that was being used as a Covid-19 facility in India’s southern Andhra Pradesh state early on...
The suspension of government job postings due to the coronavirus pandemic has increased vacancies along with the number of jobseekers. As many as 387,338 government posts, or 21.27 per cent...
Stocks witnessed a sharp rise in the early trading on Sunday as optimistic investors were showing their buying spree on large-cap issues encouraged by the securities regulator’s tough action on...
The authorities of Kashimpur Central Jail has suspended two more jail guards on Saturday for their negligence after a prisoner was found missing in the jail. Besides, the three-member probe...
Twitter Inc has approached TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance to express interest in acquiring the US operations of the video-sharing app, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, as experts...
Bangladesh has sought a fund of US$ 2.5 billion from the World Bank (WB) to finance 15 different projects and programmes in the current fiscal year (FY 2020-21), officials said...
The United States set a record for coronavirus cases on Saturday, with more than 05 million people now infected, according to a Reuters tally, as the country’s top infectious diseases...
The banking sector is fully capable of implementing the government-declared financial stimulus packages despite its own pre-Covid-19 challenges, a top leader of the banking community has said. "Banking sector is...
The 'lethargic' approach by the government in building the country's second crude oil refinery has more than doubled the consultancy cost to around Tk 2.56 billion, it has been alleged....
Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has warned that they would suspend operation of the private hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres if their licences are not renewed by August 23...
Netrakona: Glimpses of delight are glimmering in the eyes of the Aus growers in Netrakona with the achievement of bumper production of the paddy variety in the district this season....
NAOGAON: Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) of the district has set a target of Aman paddy cultivation on some 1,97,500 hectares of land in all eleven upazilas this season. Most...
A Canadian buyer has asked a Bangladeshi supplier to refund the money it has paid against a work order for surgical masks, officials said. The buyer has alleged that the...
Dewan Ali Ahmed, a sexagenarian businessman, starts his workday through an online meeting platform named Zoom during the ongoing pandemic situation. In April, frustration gripped him as many employees of...
The securities regulator has stepped up its effort to combat the practice of submitting IPO (initial public offering) proposals with doctored financial statements. As part of the campaign, the Bangladesh...
Like the angst-filled nature of the Eid-ul-Azha held on August 01, its celebrations also were bound by many reservations. Those, in cases, could be termed self-restraints. But to the woes...
With poor prices raising huge outcry among the rawhide traders during the post Eid-ul Azha period, the tanners have started sourcing the basic raw materials of leather goods from the...
The developments involving the prices of rawhide and skins of sacrificial animals this year have been unprecedented and beyond any logic. It was more or less everybody's guess that during...
In the very early hours of Tuesday, July 21, 27 member countries of the European Union after four days of very acrimonious negotiations agreed to an economic rescue plan to...
As the six-month suspension of their party chief Khaleda Zia's sentences in two graft cases expires next month, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said her family...
The banking industry is a highly regulated sector all over the world. Since 1970s, banking regulations have been born not only in the country but also outside the country i.e.,...
Urban areas are ground zero of the Covid-19 pandemic, with 90.0 per cent of reported cases. Cities are bearing the brunt of the crisis - many with strained health systems,...
The remarkable growth of cities in recent decades has intensified a number of humanity's most pressing challenges. It has also presented many of our greatest opportunities to protect people, prosperity...
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