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Import of textiles from the global market by Bangladesh declined by around 6.80 per cent in the last year, according to the latest statistics of the World Trade Organization (WTO)....
CHATTOGRAM: Vehicles cannot ply most of the roads in the port city for their worst condition due to heavy rainfall in the current rainy season. Major roads and alleys here...
Hot weather persisted for another day in the city on Friday amid maximum humidity in the air this monsoon, said officials. A light rain of 7.00 mm was recorded on...
Bangladesh has got confirmation of another US$970 million loan from China to be used for strengthening its electricity grid. This loan will be provided to the state-run Power grid Company...
Erosion by the Madhumati is continuing its onslaughts in a more ferocious way in Alfadanga upazila of Faridpur district with the river in a full spate in various parts. During...
A total of 1,984 people died with Covid-19 like symptoms in the country in a span of 132 days from March 22 to August 1, according to a latest report....
The ocean-going ships' call at the Chattogram port recorded a notable rise in July last, indicating a pickup in the country's economic activities. The economy had slowed down to a...
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is felt not just by the national economy, but also by the household economy of millions of Bangladeshis, especially the low income ones. Daily...
The ongoing flood in the country claimed eight more lives in the last 24 hours taking the death toll to 169 on Friday. A total of 160 upazilas across the...
For close to a decade, Bangladesh's 2011 National Skills Development Policy (NSDP) has been the cornerstone of the comprehensive TVET and skills reforms taking place across the country. The Policy...
The success of Bangladesh in managing and handling natural disasters is remarkable. Nevertheless, it is a never-ending challenge. Be it cyclone or floods, every time it brings a new challenge...
Many white Christian evangelicals in the United States have long believed that America has a God-given mission to save the world. Under the influence of this crusading mentality, US foreign...
There is no denying that official procedures, if those are complex, tardy and burdened with too much paper shuffling, tend to slow down business. Aware of these long-standing difficulties, the...
A landslide caused by torrential rains killed at least 15 tea garden workers in Kerala, a state on India's tropical Malabar Coast, on Friday. Rescue workers are searching for more...
Veteran Malaysian politician Mahathir Mohamad has announced to form a new party to champion the interests of the country’s ethnic majority Malays, six months after the coalition he headed lost...
The second phase of the individual training programme of the cricketers is all set to kick off Saturday. In this phase, more cricketers are joining as the new schedule of...
Hot weather persisted for another day in the city on Friday amid having maximum humidity in the air considering this monsoon, said officials. A light rain of 7.00 mm was...
The marginalised and vulnerable people of the country are still in "dire need of policy support" amid the ongoing pandemic although the government has announced a number of stimulus incentives,...
Vegetables prices in kitchen markets continued to remain high like last week raising woes of the commoners. Traders attributed the high price of vegetables to the ongoing heavy rain and...
Nearly 50,000 workers returned back home from different countries in the last four months by specially-arranged flights of the government, according to data of Expatriates’ Welfare Desk at Hazrat Shahjalal...
Celebrated actor couple Ramendu Majumdar and Ferdausi Majumdar have tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The legendary theatre activists of Bangladesh are in isolation...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said an evil force is spreading rumours and propaganda on various issues against the government but there would have no benefit...
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has said the decision to fully reopen government offices will only contribute in worsening the coronavirus situation of the country. “All have...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Friday said the government is working to bring back convicted killers of Bangabandhu, at least one more in this Mujib Year, to execute...
BRAC will assist 50,000 severely flood-affected families with Tk 100 million with each family receiving BDT 2,000 as cash assistance. The assistance will be given to families in 15 worst-flood...
The government is going to form a special fund, 'Bangladesh Delta Fund', for implementing its long-term integrated master plan, ‘Delta Plan 2100’, to harness the huge potentials of Bangladesh through...
Hong Kong will offer free voluntary coronavirus testing for residents, leader Carrie Lam said on Friday, as the global financial hub races to contain a resurgence of the virus over...
The 90th birth anniversary of Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, wife of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is being observed across the country today (Saturday), BSS reports. Born...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said it would be in the interest of richer nations to ensure that any vaccines eventually produced to protect against the new coronavirus were...
Reshma Nahar Ratna, a teacher who was also a mountaineer, has died after being run over by a microbus while cycling in Dhaka, reports bdnews24.com. The incident took place on...
Bangladesh is one of the hotspots of series of floods in the world, a latest study says, noting that 250 million coastal dwellers will face rising floods globally. The study...
Police have recovered the body of a real estate businessman, presumed murdered, from a construction site in Bashundhara Residential Area of Dhaka. The victim was identified as Abul Khair, the...
Police have recovered the body of a real estate businessman, presumed murdered, from a construction site in Dhaka's Bashundhara Residential Area. The victim was identified as Abul Khair, the owner...
Indian customs authorities have seized a container with 740 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, the chemical that caused this week’s deadly blast in Lebanon’s capital. Nearly 150 people were killed and...
The officially confirmed coronavirus (Covid-19) cases surpassed 19 million, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. With the global case count reaching 19,007,938,...
Sri Lanka’s parliamentary elections handed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother an overwhelming majority, results showed on Friday, giving the family power to enact sweeping changes to the constitution of...
Shafiul Alam Tarafdar, a professor of mathematics at Chittagong University, died of Covid-19 at a hospital on Thursday. He was 55. The CU professor, hailing from Khulna, breathed his last around 9:30pm at the ICU...
Confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in Bangladesh reached 252,502 on Friday, a rise of 2,851 from the previous day, while related deaths increased by 27 to 3,333; according to data...
The Maldives has so far repatriated 4,582 Bangladeshi workers amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Maldivian media. They were ‘undocumented’, said the Maldivian news portal rajjee.mv citing the...
The total number of internet subscribers in the country stood at 103.476 million as of June 2020, the statistics of the telecom regulator showed. Of the total subscribers, according to...
Secondary trading of the marketable fixed-income government securities jumped by around three times in the last fiscal year (FY20). Statistics available with the Bangladesh Bank showed that the value of...
The seismic blasts which rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut have delivered another calamitous blow to a country already in the throes of an unprecedented economic crisis. Two huge explosions...
The chemicals that went up in flames in Beirut’s deadliest peace-time explosion arrived in the Lebanese capital seven years ago on a leaky Russian-leased cargo ship that, according to its...
As many as 161 people have lost their lives to the ongoing floods in Bangladesh, mostly from drowning, according to government data. Water levels in most rivers are receding, but...
India's coronavirus (Covid-19) tally crossed 2.0 million mark on Friday, reaching 2,027,074, the federal health ministry said. As many as 62,538 new cases were detected in the country in the...
India’s cricket board has suspended its Indian Premier League title sponsorship deal with Chinese mobile phone company Vivo for the 2020 tournament. The decision comes as Indian troops are in...
Oil prices slipped on Friday, adding to losses in the previous session, on worries that fuel demand growth will drop amid a resurgence of coronavirus cases and as talks have...
RAB and NSI have teamed together to arrest a Libyan citizen for his alleged involvement with human trafficking. Sameer Ahmed Omar Faraz, 45, took Tk 400,000 from each of the...
The securities regulator has approved the proposal of determining cut-off price of the shares of Energypac Power Generation Limited (EPGL) as part of the process of offloading shares under book...
State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury said on Thursday that the first phase work of Tk 177 billion Matarbari Port development project will end by 2026. "We expect the...
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