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Developing countries of Asia and the Pacific are experiencing unbalanced tolls of the Covid-19 pandemic. Grim milestones in infections and deaths have left countless devastated. Yet, we must look at...
Bangladesh could be plunged into a humanitarian crisis as it undergoes the most prolonged monsoon flooding in decades while it is still recovering from the effects of super-cyclone Amphan. Despite...
More than 11,000 hospital beds out of over 15,600 for COVID-19 patients have remained empty despite a continuous surge in coronavirus cases in Bangladesh. They include 306 intensive care unit...
Exporting of mangoes from Rajshahi to European markets has been continuing since July 13 last making many people happy in the region. “This time, the third consignment of ‘Fazly’ and...
Singapore will complete testing for COVID-19 cases among migrant workers living in dormitories by August 7, about four months after authorities started quarantining tens of thousands of workers in their...
Flood situation in several parts of the country continued to worsens taking death toll to 100 on Friday in the three and half week long flood that has marooned one...
Residents of Kalyanpur Bosti (slum) on Friday received food assistance through a new US government programme funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Ambassador Earl Miller, joined by...
US investment bank Goldman Sachs on Friday reached a $3.9 billion settlement with Malaysia over the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal that will see all criminal charges against the bank dropped. The...
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) suggested the government to give the cash allowance to some 65.32 million poor citizens amid the pandemic. UNDP also advocated for $24.85 per month...
Cipla Ltd has received Indian regulatory approval to sell anti-viral drug favipiravir to treat COVID-19, the drugmaker said on Friday, as coronavirus infections in the world's third worst-hit nation show...
Regulators that normally work within their own countries or regions will likely harmonise efforts on potential COVID-19 vaccines to speed up their approvals once they become available, said WHO chief...
Bangladesh Bank has ordered all banks to postpone recovery of loans from flood-hit farmers until the situation improves. The central bank has also ordered disbursement of new farm loans readjusting...
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has gone into quarantine after the head of his political office tested positive for coronavirus late on Thursday. Borissov, 61, whose first test for coronavirus...
India has excluded Bangladesh from its latest trade restrictions imposed on the businessmen of its neighbouring countries. The restrictions, mainly aimed at Chinese businessmen, was imposed through an amendment to...
The head of the World Health Organization said on Thursday that reported comments by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo questioning his independence were untrue and would not distract the...
The government is going to change the main macroeconomic structure of the 8th Five Year Plan to protect people amid the fast-changing scenario in Bangladesh economy due to COVID-19 crisis....
Thousands of Turks gathered near Hagia Sophia early on Friday for the first prayers there since Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan declared the monument, revered by Christians and Muslims for almost...
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) has filed a case against Aparajita Trade International accusing the company of supplying “fake” masks to the hospital. On Thursday, BSMMU Proctor Syed Mozaffor...
Russia has registered 5,811 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its total to 800,849, the country's COVID-19 response center said in a statement Friday. Meanwhile, 154 new...
The Mekong River has become a new front in US-China rivalry, environmentalists and officials say, with Beijing overtaking Washington in both spending and influence over downstream countries at the mercy...
Confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in Bangladesh reached 218,658 on Friday, a rise of 2,548 from the previous day, while related deaths increased by 35 to 2,836; according to data...
Four suspected drug peddlers have been killed in separate gunfights involving the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and the police in Bangladesh. The so-called shootouts took place in Dhaka and Cox's...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said stern action will be taken against allegations of negligence, unwillingness to provide services and disrespectful behaviour by anybody with service seekers in...
The headmaster of Maskata Government Primary School died of coronavirus at his residence at Maskata village in Fakirhat upazila of Bagerhat early Friday. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Abdul...
Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, filed a lawsuit in California on Thursday against unnamed paparazzi photographers for allegedly taking “illegal” photographs of their son, Archie. The lawsuit, filed...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued a directive to ban the Southeast Asian country’s wildlife trade with immediate effect in order to reduce the risk of new pandemics,...
Singapore Economic Development Board announced on Friday that the country's manufacturing output decreased 6.7 per cent year on year in June, compared to a revised 8.1 per cent decrease in...
China ordered the United States to close its consulate in the city of Chengdu on Friday, in a tit-for-tat response to being told to shut its consulate in Houston earlier...
Asian shares slipped from six-month peaks on Friday as Sino-US tensions soured what had been an upbeat week, while the euro held a 21-month top against an embattled dollar and...
Jewellers in Bangladesh have raised gold prices to a record high amid the coronavirus pandemic. They will sell the yellow metal of the best quality, 22 carat, at Tk 72,783...
The United States on Thursday recorded more than 1,100 deaths from Covid-19, marking the third straight day the nation passed that grim milestone as the pandemic escalates in southern and...
The number of confirmed coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in the United States surpassed the 4-million mark on Thursday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins...
Financial markets greeted Friday with a number of milestones as the euro celebrated a 21-month peak against an embattled dollar, while Asian equities paused short of a six-month top and...
Marico Bangladesh, a fast-moving consumer goods multinational company, has declared 300 per cent interim cash dividend for April-June, 2020 quarter. The board of directors of the company in a virtual...
LafargeHolcim Bangladesh posted a positive growth in earnings per share for H1, a 6.0 per cent up. The Company achieved profit after tax (PAT) of BDT 843 million, up from...
Nepal has allowed its energy authorities to trade electricity with Indian and Bangladesh, according to the Himalayan Times. The government recently gave the go-ahead to the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA)...
The revenue board has instructed taxmen to detect the companies, which evade VAT by declaring the supply of goods to local projects to be exports. A number of big companies...
The Dhaka University (DU) authorities have announced a Tk 8.6956 billion budget for the fiscal year (FY) 2020-21 at its resumed annual senate session, held at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury...
India on Thursday said bidders from bordering countries eyeing government contracts would need prior registration and security clearances, a move seen as New Delhi’s latest effort to counter China following...
The uncertainties over the Covid-19 pandemic have eroded the country's business confidence index (BCI) at a very low level in the fiscal year 2019-20, according to a study conducted by...
Despite a sharp rise in the number of active coronavirus cases, the number of patients in the Covid-19 dedicated hospitals has shrunk, officials say. Currently, almost 70 per cent of...
The central bank has approved a policy on Credit Guarantee Scheme (CGS) for the first time aiming to expedite financing in the country's cottage, micro and small (CMS) enterprises, officials...
The Covid-19 losses for Bangladesh's economy might have reached between US$9.0 billion and US$21 billion in the just-concluded fiscal year, an economist said on Thursday. However, the country can offset...
Gross irregularities in the health sector and public procurement that have surfaced lately must have pained many. Initial shock over, most people, however, tend to accept those as normal happenings...
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has had the ironic misfortune of suffering from ill health. Its illness has only been in sharp contrast to the robust financial benefits...
The government's announcement of the export target for the fiscal 2020-21 is no exception to the legacy of setting very high goals as in most of its macro level planning...
Roads and Highways Department (RHD) on Thursday signed its first contract since the outbreak of Covid-19 in Bangladesh worth Tk 6.50 billion, under a JICA-funded project to upgrade and replace...
Had the legendary explorers of the past been alive today, they would certainly have been attacked by prolonged bouts of depression - and also ennui. The state of today's amateur...
The Covid-19 pandemic poses a significant threat to the sustainability of financial institutions, particularly banks. It would be worse in developing and emerging economies, where financial systems are weak. Banks...
Prices of most of spices increased last week as the sacrificial festival Eid-ul-Azha approaches, said market insiders. However, prices of Hilsa witnessed a slight decline as the two -month long...
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