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A court in Dhaka on Monday sent JKG Healthcare's Chairman Dr Sabrina Sharmin Hussain to jail in a case filed over issuing fake Covid-19 certificates. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Atiqul Islam...
Experts put thrust on working on innovation in teaching, digital transformation, international standards, the gap between academic & industry expectations, entrepreneurship, and different education policies as the ongoing pandemic has...
Although the health authorities in Bangladesh on Monday confirmed the recovery of 1,914 more patients raising the recovery rate to 54.74 per cent, it is still lower than neighbouring India...
The US embassy in Dhaka has issued a fresh travel alert for its citizens amid the outbreak of coronavirus Covid-19. “The Government of Bangladesh on July 18, 2020 announced that...
The current account surplus of the 19 countries sharing the euro narrowed to 7.95 billion euros in May from 14.27 billion euros in April on a big outflow of secondary...
The High Court has rejected the bail appeals from Ron Haque Sikder and his brother Dipu Haque Sikder, both accused of threatening to murder the managing director of Exim Bank....
Signs emerged that leaders of northern European Union countries were willing to compromise on a 1.8 trillion euro ($2.0 trillion) coronavirus stimulus plan on Monday as talks in Brussels extended...
Stocks broke a five-day losing streak on Monday as buoyant investors showed a buying binge at the lowest possible prices amid the floor price system. The market started on a...
Britain has signed deals to secure 90 million doses of two possible Covid-19 vaccines from an alliance of Pfizer and BioNTech, and French group Valneva, the business ministry said on Monday....
Russia reported 5,940 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Monday, pushing its total infection tally to 777,486, the fourth largest in the world. In a daily readout, officials said...
Bangladesh registered 50 coronavirus deaths and 2,928 cases in the 24 hours to 8:00am on Monday, the 135th day of the outbreak in the country The new deaths and cases...
Bangladesh Meteorological Department has asked the maritime ports to hoist the local cautionary signal No. 3 as it forecasts stormy weather in the coastal areas of the country, bdnews24.com reports....
Intense rain and floods in the Indian state of Assam have killed at least 84 people and displaced more than 2.75 million since May, authorities said on Monday, as they...
A man accused in 25 cases of narcotics and illegal firearms has died in a gunfight with the detective police in Dhaka’s Khilgaon. The detective police said he was the...
Farida Akhter, a homemaker living in Dhaka's Basabo, bought a 'Paribarik Sanchayapatra', a savings instrument, worth Tk 1.0 million two years ago. She used to draw Tk 8,640 a month...
Torrential monsoon rain from Sunday midnight to Monday morning has swamped many parts of the capital, disrupting people’s movement and triggering traffic chaos. According to Bangladesh Meteorological Department, 63mm of...
Britain will on Monday suspend its extradition treaty with Hong Kong in a further escalation of its dispute with China over the introduction of a security law in the former...
Mamun Mia, a key suspect in the murder of an assistant sub-inspector in Brahmanbaria, has died in a ‘shootout’ with the Rapid Action Battalion. The shootout took place at Chandpur...
Sweet smells of Bangladeshi mangoes has reached Switzerland with the export of first package mangoes to the country on July 14. The country's popular variety ‘Amropali Mangoes’ are now selling...
Asian shares were downbeat on Monday with oil and copper also soft, as a spike in global coronavirus cases hung over markets awaiting efforts from the euro zone and United...
Police arrested three people including two teachers from Farakkabad College campus on Sunday in a case filed under the Digital Security Act for their ‘derogatory facebook posts against education minister,...
Mosaics depicting Christian figures in Istanbul’s ancient Hagia Sophia will be covered with curtains during Muslim prayers, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Sunday, as work to prepare the...
At least one person was killed and eight others were injured in a shooting incident Sunday in Washington, DC, police said. The shooting occurred at 14th Street and Spring Road...
China's cinemas are reopening after being closed for six months to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. The China Film Administration said screens in "low-risk" areas could open their...
To address the growing need for home office and remote working solutions, Grameenphone has introduced a new LTE pocket router (MF927U) that enables 4G LTE mobile data access for homes,...
The country's ready-made garment (RMG) export earnings in the first 18 days of July stood at US$1.57 billion despite the Covid-19 pandemic, which local manufacturers consider as a good sign...
EU leaders stood at an impasse on Monday after three days of haggling over a plan to revive economies throttled by the Covid-19 pandemic, but the chairman of their near-record-length...
The US-Bangla Airlines will resume flight operation on the Dhaka-Rajshahi domestic route on July 21 (Tuesday), after disruption of four months. Kamrul Islam, director general (PR) of the private airline,...
Mr. Anis A Khan- former Managing Director and CEO of Mutual Trust Bank Ltd ( MTBL) and Mr. Md Mazadul Hoque - economic analyst and officer of Social Islami Bank...
Science and Technology Minister Architect Yeafesh Osman expressed his optimism over the Covid-19) research that is being carried out at the world class modern laboratory of Bangladesh Council of Scientific...
The government has suspended routine tours under the operation and development budgets as part of austerity measures during the Covid-19 pandemic. In a notification issued on Sunday, the ministry of...
Saudi Arabia’s 84-year-old ruler, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, has been admitted to hospital in the capital Riyadh, suffering from inflammation of the gall bladder, state news agency SPA said on...
Benchmark indices of both the bourses witnessed moderate correction against the sharp losses observed by some of the indices of south Asian stock exchanges amid Covid-19 pandemic. The market insiders...
The number of people calling the government hotlines to get health tips or related inquiries has come down significantly in very recent days, official data showed. It is giving an...
The government has taken an initiative to set up three state-of-the-art technology centres (TCs) and one specialised design and technology centre (DTC) with a view to boosting industrial productivity, said...
The Power Division under the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, or MPEMR, has implemented 94.40 per cent of project work under the Annual Development Programme, or ADP, in...
Floods have hit more than 280-kilometre road in several parts of Bangladesh, also snapping rail communication between Sarishabari and Jamalpur, officials said. Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has estimated a...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has revived its plan to identify barriers that constrain making the online income tax returns user-friendly. The income tax wing of the board has...
Interest rate spread in the country's banking system improved slightly in May as banks slashed interest rates on deposits more than on lending. The spread defined as the gap between...
Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has asked all lower courts concerned across the country to hear and dispose of urgent civil and succession cases. The chief justice took the decision...
The Asian Development Bank or ADB has reshuffled the current year's projects, pushed back a few and included some fresh programmes with the objective of offsetting the impact of the...
Prime Bank Limited has earned international recognition as Asia’s one of the best in its proactive response to COVID-19 pandemic. London-based reputed media publication, Euromoney, has conferred 'Excellence in Leadership...
Newspaper delivery in the morning has not been as punctual and regular as before ever since the corona virus made its appearance in the country on March 8 last. A...
Life and livelihood are in deep trouble because of the COVID pandemic. All fronts of the economy, banking included, are hit hard. The banking sector, without any iota of doubt,...
It is a welcome development that the country's securities regulator that hitherto, to a large extent, has been docile and toothless, has started biting. Late last week, the regulator imposed...
As the digital revolution unfolds, more products are leaving their physical carriers and being traded online. For example, movies and music are being traded digitally rather than through CDs, CD-ROMs...
Employment generation has been a problem for the past decade. Employment elasticity of growth has been declining and remained low. If we look at the sectoral allocation of labour in...
Police have quizzed JKG Heath Care’s doctor Sabrina in the presence of Mohammad Shahed, the chairman of Regent Hospital, both arrested on charges of duping patients with fake COVID-19 test...
The evolving dynamics pertaining to Myanmar leaves a lot to be desired. Over the last few weeks, nearly every day has revealed fresh international concern about events taking place in...
A legal notice has been sent on Sunday to the concerned government bodies asking them to give Tk 1.0 million as compensation to each of the families which have been victimised...
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