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S M Amzad Hossain, Chairman, South Bangla Agriculture and Commerce (SBAC) Bank inaugurated a seven-day training workshop on 'Skills Development Program on Shariah Banking' on the Virtual Platform Zoom Conference...
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong named a largely-unchanged cabinet on Saturday following an election win this month, and flagged a possible delay, due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, of...
Dhaka-OIC Youth Capital 2020 to begin Monday Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the two-day celebration of ‘Dhaka-OIC Youth Capital 2020’ on Monday with 100 local and 150 youths from...
Brigadier General Md Shahidullah, who had been recently removed as the director of Central Medical Stores Depot (CMSD) amid an N95 mask scam, has died from the coronavirus infection. He...
The monitoring teams formed by the Ministry of Commerce will work from the Eid day to ensure the collection of rawhides of sacrificial animals across the country. On the occasion...
The United States has reopened a decades-old asylum case against MA Rashed Chowdhury, a convicted killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The country’s Attorney General William Barr reopened the case,...
Fair Technology Ltd has formed a strategic partnership with Hyundai Motor to act as the latter’s authorised distributor of passenger vehicles and after-sales service provider. Mutassim Daiaan, director of Fair...
Civil society organisations working on migration and development in Bangladesh demanded immediate release and protection of Bangladeshi migrant Rayhan Kabir who was arrested by Malaysian law enforcers on Friday for...
More than 5,000 people in the hill tracts district ‘Bandarban’ are getting safe drinking water through BAT Bangladesh's CSR program 'Probaho' – the safe drinking water project. This is...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) is set to receive 10 locomotives from India on grant through a ceremony at Darsana-Gede interchange point on Monday. BR officials from Pakshi railway division will receive...
The climate emergency generated by global warming, is exacerbating existing risks to international peace and security and also creating new ones, a senior UN official told the Security Council on...
Thousands of Filipinos were crammed into a baseball stadium in Manila on Saturday, breaking social distancing rules despite coronavirus risks, after people wanting to return to their home provinces flooded...
World Health Organization’s chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan on Friday said that 50 to 60 per cent of the population will need to be immune to the novel coronavirus to...
India has started its first human trials of a novel coronavirus vaccine candidate as the world’s second-most populous country recorded nearly 49,000 new cases. The All India Institute of Medical...
The US federal immigration officials on Friday announced that new foreign students will be barred from entering the United States if they plan to take their classes entirely online this...
A Dhaka court has granted police three days to grill Sharmin Jahan, the owner of Aparajita International, following her arrest for supplying fake masks to health workers at Bangabandhu Sheikh...
The United States will re-interpret a Cold War-era arms agreement between 34 nations to allow US defence contractors to sell more drones to allies, the White House said on Friday....
Police have arrested Mizanur Rahman, the managing director of Regent Hospital, for allegedly issuing fake COVID-19 test reports to 76 metro rail workers. Officers of Uttara West Police Station apprehended...
Malaysian authorities on Saturday said they will deport the Bangladeshi youth who was detained over a television documentary on immigrants. The country will deport Mohamad Rayhan Kabir, 25, for criticising...
Three suspected drug traders including two Rohinya youths were killed in separate gunfights in Cox’s Bazar and Kushtia on Friday night and early Saturday. In Cox’s Bazar, two suspected Yaba...
Four day labourers were killed and two others injured as a pickup van ran over them in Matidhali area of Bogura district town on Saturday morning. Three of the deceased...
Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival of the Muslims, is just around the corner but the coronavirus pandemic and floods have tightened the grip leaving thousands of people stranded and...
The number of confirmed coronavirus patients in Bangladesh surged to 221,178 on Saturday as the country registered 2,520 fresh cases in the last 24 hours. Besides, 38 more people died...
A four-year old minor girl who received burn injuries in a fire that broke out at a house in the city’s Bongshal area on Thursday died at Sheikh Hasina National...
Emirates customers can travel with confidence, as the airline will cover medical expenses of up to EUR 150,000 and quarantine costs of EUR 100 per day for 14 days, should...
The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) lifted the lockdown from Wari on Friday midnight, 21 days after it was enforced. Abu Naser, public relations officer of the DSCC, said the...
Abul Bashar Md Khurshid Alam, the new director-general of the health services directorate, has said everyone has to take responsibility for the corruption in the health sector. "We are all...
National Film Award winning Dallywood actress Sadika Parvin Popy has been infected with coronavirus. Popy got tested at PCR lab of Khulna Medical College Hospital several days ago as she...
The World Health Organization reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Friday, with the total rising by 284,196 in 24 hours. Deaths rose by 9,753, the biggest one-day...
The prolonged coronavirus pandemic has made the migrant workers' families in the country helpless, as many of them did not receive any remittance in the last three-four months. Such families...
A recent survey has found that only 35 per cent production capacity in the RMG industry has been booked, leaving the remaining 65 per cent empty for the consolidated period...
Malaysia has arrested Md Rayhan Kabir, the Bangladeshi national under fire for criticising Putrajaya’s handling of migrants during the Covid-19 pandemic in Al Jazeera’s documentary, Malay Mail reports. In a...
The food ministry is facing a dilemma over whether to resume special open market sale (OMS) of rice at Tk 10 per kg or continue with existing normal OMS service,...
Indian and Chinese diplomats agreed on Friday to a fast pull back of troops eyeballing each other across a disputed border in the western Himalayas where 20 Indian soldiers died...
The government has recently taken a fresh move to establish an institute for conserving the country's plant seeds or germplasm, both traditional and endangered ones. The Cabinet, the executive office...
The work of six Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects involving over US$ 3.0 billion investment has virtually come to a halt due to Covid-19 pandemic. Besides, the uncertainty looms large over...
Online payment of land related taxes is expected to begin from next month as part of the government's move to digitalise the country's land management system, according to land ministry...
Farida Begum served as a domestic help in three households in the city's Rampura area before the coronavirus pandemic arrived in Bangladesh. But two of her employers told her not...
CHATTOGRAM: Chattogram General Hospital has received a central oxygen plant equipped for treatment of the coronavirus patients. Uninterrupted oxygen supply to the hospital beds started on Friday with the completion...
Bangladesh has remained the worst performer in the region in tackling Covid-19 pandemic even after 139 days since the first case was reported. Higher rates of infections with lower recovery...
The government has so far provided 2.4 million poor people with a cash assistance of Tk 2,500 each to help them survive the hardship during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to...
In the wake of novel coronavirus, Bangladesh's economy may land in a dire situation in coming days. Economic activity is not being noticed to take place to a great extent....
The rural economy had been vibrating until recently, the standard of living in the rural areas improved, road communications including internal roads and other indicators also improved dramatically. Female education...
There are about 10 million micro, small and medium sized enterprises in Bangladesh, accounting for about one-fourth of the total output of the economy. In rural areas, the small businesses...
Not providing full or adequate information or providing confusing and misleading information to someone who seeks service at a public office or any related setup is a long practice in...
Death tolls don't lie. The most striking disparity in COVID-19 fatalities to date is between East Asian countries, where the total number of deaths per million inhabitants is consistently below...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said BNP leaders are now talking ridiculously after being boycotted by the people in elections and movements. “BNP is continuing its ill...
If any well-meaning effort towards post-pandemic recovery and rebuilding of the embattled readymade garment industry is at issue, the first thing that comes to mind is the need for the...
Recalling late Professor Emajuddin Ahmed’s contributions to nationalist politics, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said his works will inspire the nationalist forces in the struggle for the...
The European Union (EU) is not interested in buying potential COVID-19 vaccines through an initiative co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO) as it deems it slow and high-cost, two...
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