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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a US$200 million financing package with Reliance Bangladesh LNG and Power Limited (RBLPL) to build and operate a 718-megawatt (MW) combined-cycle gas-fired power...
Saudi Arabia’s 84-year-old ruler, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, tweeted Eid al-Adha greetings early on Friday, shortly after leaving hospital. The Saudi King, custodian of Islam’s holiest sites, left King Faisal...
Three people, including the headmaster of a government primary school, died after inhaling toxic gas in a septic tank at Puijala village in Ashashuni upazila of Satkhira on Friday. The...
Flood situation in Rajbari district has remained unchanged with the water of the Padma River flowing over the danger level at all points. In the last 24 hours, the water...
Spain recorded a historic fall in GDP in the second quarter of the year, with the 18.5 per cent drop wiping out all the post-financial crisis recovery of the last...
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ruled out negotiations with the United States over Tehran’s ballistic missile and nuclear programmes on Friday and urged Iranians to resist US pressure. “America’s...
Confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in Bangladesh reached 237,661 on Friday, a rise of 2,772 from the previous day, while related deaths increased by 28 to 3,111; according to data...
Urmi Group is introducing a three-layer antiviral and anti-microbial face mask – “Turag Protex”. HeiQ Viroblock, a Swiss product was applied to manufacture this mask which is capable of killing...
The coronavirus pandemic has made little difference in the pre-Eid home rush picture as a 20km long tailback led to the Paturia Ferry Ghat in Manikganj this morning (Friday) ahead...
Three suspected yaba peddlers were killed in a reported gunfight with police on Dhaka-Cox’s Bazar Highway at Amtoli Garjan orchard in Chakaria upazila of the district on Friday. The identities...
Australia will force US tech giants Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google to pay Australian media outlets for news content in a landmark move to protect independent journalism that will be watched around...
Police arrested a female teacher of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) and her husband on Thursday night for allegedly torturing their domestic help. The arrestees were identified as...
Police have recovered the bodies of three members of a family from a house in Mathbaria upazila of Pirojpur district. The dead were identified as Ainul Hoque Hawlader, 35, his...
The month of mourning begins tomorrow for the nation to recall once again the most brutal assassination in its history and renew the pledge to safeguard perpetually the country’s independence...
A man has been killed in a so-called shootout with the Rapid Action Battalion in Pallabi area of Dhaka. The dead man was identified as Mohammed Mohsin, 35. He was...
Italy has lost 600,000 jobs in June compared to February -- before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the country into a national lockdown that drove its economy to a halt, according...
Facebook beat analysts’ estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday and forecast similar growth ahead, as businesses tapped its digital ads tools despite an unprecedented boycott and the economic upheaval of the...
Five people were killed and another was injured after a bus hit a private car on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Boraya Chanpur in Osmaninagar upazila early Friday. The identities of the...
Mexico's gross domestic product (GDP) plunged a record 18.9 per cent in the second quarter of 2020, compared to the same period last year, the National Institute of Statistics and...
The world economic outlook has dimmed again, with still-rising coronavirus infections and the risk of renewed lockdowns increasing the chances that any rebound will reverse course, according to Reuters polls...
China warned on Thursday that a “forced decoupling” of its economy with India, following a Himalayan border clash last month that killed 20 Indian soldiers, would hurt both countries. The...
AP Moller - Maersk, a global shipping service leader, has recently launched 'Twill', a digital logistics solution, in Bangladesh to make trade less complex, faster, cost-effective and accessible for small...
The number of initial jobless claims in the United States rose to 1.43 million last week amid a resurgence in COVID-19 cases, following an increase in the previous week, the...
CHATTOGRAM: With Eid-ul-Azha only a couple of days away, small businesses, including roadside vendors and makeshift shop owners, are looking for buyers as the ordinary customers either have insufficient budget...
With only one day remaining before this Eid-ul-Azha, poor sales of slaughtering tools and accessories due to lower-than-usual demand amid the ongoing pandemic are frustrating traders of these items. The...
Swelling river and strong current in the River Padma have stopped span installation work of Padma Bridge for an indefinite period, sources said. Since the last span was installed on...
The World Bank (WB) is likely to provide US$500 million worth of loan for the development of Bangladesh's technical education including health education following the Covid-19 outbreak, officials said on...
The 37th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Pubali Bank Limited was held at the bank's board room of the head office through digital platform on Thursday. M. Azizul Huq, Chairman...
The securities regulator has cancelled the IPO (initial public offering) proposal of JMI Hospital Requisite Manufacturing Ltd after finding a number of non-compliances including overstating the profit. Under the book...
Business transactions in the city's cattle markets finally increased on Thursday after a sluggish trend for the past couple of days. But cattle traders expressed dissatisfactions over this year's 'lower'...
Imported goods under the SAFTA rules could be released through furnishing online Certificate of Origin (CoO) until December 31 this year. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has extended the...
Bangladesh's liquefied natural gas (LNG) import increased significantly by 64.61 per cent in last fiscal year (FY), 2019-20, to 4.164 million tonnes to meet the mounting domestic gas demand. The...
Speakers at a webinar stressed the need for reforming existing social protection programmes to reach the "missing middle" and vulnerable people after the Covid-19 pandemic that pushed millions back into...
Money multiplier decreased in the last fiscal year as people are holding cash after the coronavirus pandemic, according to statistics prepared by the central bank. The data show that the...
The Sadarghat launch terminal witnessed increased rush of homebound passengers on Thursday as a large number of people left the city for their respective village homes to celebrate the holy...
The 2nd anniversary of death of iconic business journalist and founder editor of The Financial Express (FE) A.H.M. Moazzem Hossain will be observed tomorrow (Saturday). On August 01, 2018 he...
The central bank has announced a guideline for attracting non-listed private infrastructure companies, in which commercial banks have equity exposure, to the capital market to help lower risks. Under the...
An online get-together will be hosted for former students of HSC batch-1991 of Government Azizul Haque College, Bogura, says a press release. The initiative has been taken with the intent...
Wearing masks remains at the top of the must-do safeguards, suggested by the World Health Organisation (WHO), against the most-dreaded novel coronavirus. Some governments have been rather defiant as far...
Belying the apprehension of virologists, epidemiologists and public health experts, the slums in the capital seem to have defied coronavirus quite well. Other major cities also have not reported any...
The Muslims' second most important religious festival, the Eid-ul-Azha, is taking place on August 01 (Saturday). Since the pandemic situation is still raging, the devotees will be required to celebrate...
After the incidents of unrest for a few years, mainly for wage hike for the 4.4 million workers, the garment sector witnessed a peaceful and stable environment in the year...
For Dhaka dwellers, the two Eids --- Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Azha, have been the two widely participated festivities over the last four centuries. Researchers have traced the roots of Eid celebrations...
The government is set to release the list of online news portals that have been selected for getting registered after a rigorous verification process, reports UNB. Information Minister Dr Hasan...
US President Donald Trump on Thursday raised the possibility of delaying the nation's Nov 3 presidential election despite its date being enshrined in the US Constitution, drawing immediate objections from...
A devastating fire that broke out at the city’s Bhasantek slum on Thursday evening was brought under control by the fire fighters. Some 10 units of Bangladesh Fire Service and...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the HSBC have launched a programme to support up to $1.2 billion a year in trade by companies in Asia and the Pacific producing...
NASA has launched its new Mars rover, Perseverance, on a six-month journey to the Red Planet as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples...
All overhead cables on Gulshan Avenue will be put underground by October 1, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam said Thursday. No price will be increased at the...
53 per cent of the industrial units including those of readymade garment (RMG) did not pay their workers wages for the month of July till Thursday despite the government’s instruction...
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