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Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of JKG Healthcare Shafikul Islam on Sunday gave confessional statement before a Dhaka court in a case lodged over issuing fake coronavirus (Covid-19) test reports. Dhaka...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser and Bangabandhu’s grandson Sajeeb Wazed Joy is making his all-out strides from behind the scene...
Malaysian authorities launched a search on Sunday for 24 Rohingya refugees who went missing while trying to swim to shore from a boat off the resort island of Langkawi. Muslim-majority...
More than 16.06 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 643,811 have died, according to a Reuters tally. Infections have been reported in...
The first container train arrived from India on Sunday via Benapole-Petrapole rail link carrying FMCG cargo and fabrics loaded in 50 containers, which were handed over to Bangladesh. India has...
Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Sunday made party co-chairman Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu as its secretary general removing Moshiur Rahman Ranga from the post. GM Quader took the decision as...
Stocks soared on Sunday with key index of the prime bourse hitting nearly five months high as the investors showed their appetite on the expectation of improving economic activities. DSEX,...
Kenya’s national police service has arrested two police officers and opened an investigation after “a shooting incident” in the eastern county of Garissa, the police service said on Sunday. The...
Indian farmers have planted 79.9 million hectares with summer crops so far, according to the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, up 18.3 per cent from last year as robust...
A total of 6,822 people secured bail after their petitions were heard by virtual courts between July 19 and July 23. Hearing on 15,495 bail petitions were held during the...
Four people, including two siblings, were killed and 10 others injured when a truck hit a human hauler on the Cumilla-Sylhet Highway at Harindhara in Burichang upazila of Cumilla on...
British tourists flying home on Sunday from holidays in Spain reacted angrily to the UK government’s abrupt decision to impose a two-week coronavirus quarantine on everyone travelling from there. The...
The death toll from coronavirus (Covid-19) in Bangladesh crossed 2900 mark on Sunday, 141st day of the virus outbreak in the country. Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) reported 54...
People in the flood-affected areas in Kurigram are complaining of shortage of food and government assistance as they struggle to survive and worry over a bleak future, UNB reports. The...
Newly-appointed Chief of Naval Staff Mohammad Shaheen Iqbal was adorned with the rank badge of Vice-Admiral at a function in the presence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Ganabhaban this...
Venture Capital and Private Equity Association of Bangladesh (VCPEAB) hosted a virtual ceremony commemorating Fahim Saleh for the inspiration he has set for young founders through his contribution in Bangladesh...
Police have been granted 28 more days to grill Regent Hospital Chairman Mohammad Shahed in four cases carrying charges of fraud and embezzlement. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Choudhury issued the...
Malaysian former prime minister Najib Razak, fighting dozens of charges over a multi-billion-dollar graft scandal at state fund 1MDB, faces his first verdict on Tuesday in a landmark case that...
The United States recorded more than 1,000 deaths from coronavirus (Covid-19) for the fourth straight day on Friday but a top White House advisor on the pandemic said she saw...
Washington has dispatched a special envoy for Afghanistan to press for peace talks between the government and Taliban fighters, with the diplomat scheduled to visit Kabul on a trip with...
Forest Department officials in a drive seized 30kg deer meat, eight legs of deer and two heads from two boats at Charakhali canal in Sundarbans east zone in Mongla upazila...
The government has lowered the price of rawhide and skin of sacrificial animals to Tk 35-40 per square foot (sft) (salted) in the capital during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha. Last year,...
Rail links between Dhaka and Bangladesh's northern and southern regions have been restored nine hours after the derailment of a Kurigram Express train in Tangail. The train's engine and three...
Stocks witnessed a positive trend in early trading on Sunday as optimistic investors continued to buy shares on the expectation of improved economic activities. Within 30 minutes of trading, DSEX...
An Indian court has summoned Alibaba and its founder Jack Ma in a case in which a former employee in India says he was wrongfully fired after objecting to what...
Two more listed companies- Pragati Insurance and National Housing Finance, and Investments have recommended dividends for the year ended on December 31, 2019, according to official disclosures on Sunday. Pragati...
Five people suffering from fever and cold-related problems, died at Comilla Medical College Hospital in the last 24 hours till Sunday morning. A total of 111 patients, including 33 Covid-19...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared an emergency and a lockdown in a border town after a person suspected of being infected with the novel coronavirus returned from South...
The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) has reached a final decision to provide the farmers with 51,300 farm machines under its mechanization project. The farm mechanization project worth Tk 30.2 billion...
The share trading of Sonali Paper & Board Mills will resume today (Sunday) as the securities regulator has approved the company's re-listing with the stock exchanges. The company's share trading...
Almost 40 countries have reported record single-day increases in coronavirus infections over the past week, around double the number that did so the previous week, according to a Reuters tally...
The securities regulator is likely to approve the IPO (initial public offering) proposal of the country's second largest mobile operator Robi Axiata streamlining its demands in line with the existing...
Speakers at a dialogue have identified policy uncertainty and unpredictability as the key impediment to attracting increased foreign direct investments in the country. They said the lack of coordinated actions...
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) was the worst performer among the large government agencies in the last fiscal as it could spend less than 60 per cent of its total allocations,...
Fishermen returned to sea for fishing on Friday as a 65-day ban on sea fishing ended the previous day. More than 200 fishing trawlers, which remained docked since May 20...
Farmers in Jhenidah are bringing more land under paddy farming during the current T-Aman paddy season due to fair price of the staple crop, alongside favourable weather condition. Farmers said...
Hundreds of houses and mosques have been swallowed by the mighty Jamuna River in Sirajganj in a couple of days. Meanwhile, a good number of people have become homeless and...
Lower testing will provide a misleading picture of coronavirus transmission in the country while making it difficult to take proper control measures, health experts warn. Although more than 150 days...
The work orders for the country's struggling readymade garment (RMG) industry have started coming in, though not in a large amount, at heavy bargain prices. The price on average witnessed...
Bangladesh should defer the LDC graduation process considering the adverse impact of COVID-19 pandemic that has already turned the economy upside down, economists and business leaders said on Saturday. They...
After the over two-month-long shutdown has been lifted, most of the general people in the capital have resumed their day-to-day work. Residents in some areas, however, are under strict lockdowns....
Bangladesh is likely to get a bigger share of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the days to come as many foreign companies plan to relocate their factories to countries like...
Though belated the central bank has, for the first time, created a credit guarantee scheme (CGS) to encourage banks to expedite financial support to cottage, micro and small (CMS) enterprises...
European Union (EU) Leaders met in Brussels last week for four days (17-20 July) to discuss the recovery deal to respond to the Covid-19 crisis and a new long-term budget....
Mankind has witnessed many wars, crises and even pandemics but it has never ever faced anything of the kind and scale of the covid-19 pandemic. It has infected about 15...
On April 27, 2020 the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC completed its annual review of the Fund’s income position for the financial year ending...
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Jahurul Haque on Saturday said that standard telecom service for mobile users cannot be ensured without adequate spectrum. Bangladesh Mobile Phone Consumers Association organised...
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said coal power should have no place in any country’s post-coronavirus stimulus plan and economic recovery should align with global climate goals “There is...
The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has designated 256 places for Qurbani, sacrifice of animals, in the Eid-ul-Azha urging the citizens to slaughter sacrificial animals in those designated spots. “We...
Flood conditions in the country's several regions worsened further as half a million people marooned afresh in the last two days amid swelling of major rivers. About 11 people died...
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