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At least 700 Bangladeshi migrant workers were buried in Saudi Arabia in last three months due to travel ban and shortage of space at mortuaries there, officials said. Family members...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has suggested the government adopt time-bound action plan for four state-owned commercial banks (SoCBs) to meet their existing capital shortfalls and make them operationally sound, officials said....
Speakers at a webinar from Nepal and Bangladesh on Friday said the board of directors of banks must now exercise unique oversight responsibility, based on updated and regular information of...
The Covid-19 pandemic is creating profound panic, fear and anxiety among the human race. The situation is undoubtedly tragic and heart-breaking. Covid19 has taken and is still taking huge numbers...
Covid-19 has definitely shaken the humankind to its core. We have not seen or imagined anything like it and will probably not see anything like it in our lifetime. The...
Admittedly, non-performing loan (NPL) is a long-standing problem in the banking industry. Huge discourse on NPL has been going on. The contents include different options for recovery including formation of...
President Md Abdul Hamid will travel to his ancestral home in Kishoregganj’s Mithamoin for the burial of his younger brother Md Abdul Hye, who died from COVID-19 at a Dhaka...
Though Bangladesh is no stranger to natural calamities, yet this year is perhaps unlike any other in the past if only because so many disasters such as the Covid-19 pandemic,...
The G20 ministers of finance meet this week under the auspices of Saudi Arabia, which holds the group's presidency this year. But it is hard to imagine the G20 countries...
The Directorate of Registration under the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs has collected around Taka 5.30 billion as revenue in one month despite the coronavirus pandemic. From May...
Every day, thousands of people have to go to different branches of commercial banks in the country for withdrawal and deposit of cash for various purposes. The logistics and facilities...
Prof Emajuddin Ahmed, former vice chancellor of Dhaka University, was laid to eternal rest on Saturday at Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals Graveyard in the capital. He was buried beside his wife’s...
We might have misunderstood the term 'Social Distancing'. 'Physical Distancing' seems to be more appropriate for the message that we actually wanted to convey. I raised this issue once earlier...
Western countries have accused Russian hackers of trying to steal valuable private information about a coronavirus vaccine. Intelligence agencies in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada said the hacking...
Senior journalist and News Editor of The Financial Express, Abdullah M Hasan died of coronavirus at 6:41pm on Friday. He was 72 years old. Mr Hasan was undergoing treatment at...
The United States has deployed two aircraft carriers to the South China Sea for the second time in two weeks as China and the United States accuse each other of...
The leading manufacturer of N95 masks in the U.S. says it has investigated 4,000 reports of fraud, counterfeiting and price gouging in connection with the product and has filed 18...
Chinese researchers have published an analysis of a gel-like substance spotted by the country's Yutu-2 lunar rover in a crater on the far side of the moon last year. In...
The “queen of the skies” will no longer don the red, white and blue of the Union Jack after British Airways retired its fleet of Boeing 747s on Friday as...
Indian consumer appliance company, Orient Electric has launched a box-shaped sanitisation chamber at 160 US dollars that uses ultra-violet (UV-C) light to kill viruses including coronavirus, bacteria and fungi on...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he hoped Britain could return to normality before Christmas, setting out a phased removal of lockdown restrictions, but warned that while he was hoping...
The National Revenue Board has instructed banks to freeze the accounts held by Regent Hospital Chairman Mohammad Shahed and JKG Health Care Chairman Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury, who have been...
A lot of rural families dream of earning a bit extra in the coming festive times of the year on the occasion of eid-ul ajha. They do so by selling...
A Dhaka court has placed JKG Healthcare Chairman Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury on two-day fresh remand in a case lodged over issuing fake coronavirus test reports. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Masudur...
Russia’s death toll from the novel coronavirus passed 12,000 on Friday, as the country reported 186 new deaths in the past 24 hours. The country’s coronavirus crisis response centre registered...
With just over a million Covid-19 tests carried out since March, Bangladesh on Friday inched closer to 200,000 officially confirmed cases – which means nearly one in every five tests...
The government has decided to exempt the five per cent surcharge for late payment of electricity bills by residential customers for another month in light of the ongoing coronavirus crisis....
The Maldives has repatriated another 135 Bangladeshi nationals, from the southernmost part of the island country, the Maldivian media reports. The national airline, Maldivian, carried out the repatriation on Friday...
New York police on Thursday said they identified a “person of interest” in the murder of young tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh but the suspect was not in custody yet. NYPD...
Members of the Marley family, including Stephen, Cedella, and Skip Marley, have launched a reimagined version of the late Bob Marley’s iconic anthem One Love to support UNICEF’s work for...
A doctor, who was infected with Covid-19, died at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in Dhaka early Friday. The deceased was identified as Dr SM Nur Uddin Abu Al...
Death toll from the novel coronavirus has surged past 2,500-mark in Bangladesh as the country reported 51 more fatalities in the last 24 hours to 8:00am on Friday. With the...
A total of 1,776 people died with Covid-19 like symptoms in the country during the period between March 22 and July 11, according to a latest report. A project styled...
Heavy rains lashing India’s financial capital of Mumbai have caused the collapse of a multi-storey building, killing six people and injuring several, authorities said. The dilapidated six-storey structure in the...
Asian shares eked out gains and US stock futures bounced back on Friday as hopes of more government spending around the globe outweighed concerns about rising coronavirus infections and worsening...
The US Embassy in Bangladesh and the US Department of Justice’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (DOJ-OPDAT) launched a three-part webinar series entitled “Criminal Influences on the...
Four members of a family were found dead in Madhupur Upazila of Tangail. The dead have been identified as Gani Mia, his wife and their two children. Local residents informed...
The Philippines will allow the entry of foreign nationals with long-term visas into the country from August 1, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said on Friday. In a statement, Roque said...
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued a notification with a suggestion to keep movement from four districts to other areas restricted during Eid-ul-Azha holidays. “Movement from Dhaka, Narayanganj,...
President Md Abdul Hamid’s younger brother Md Abdul Hye has died in hospital care in Dhaka from novel coronavirus (Covid-19) infection at the age of 67. Hye, who was also...
The European Union seeks an “ambitious” free trade deal with India though “there is still a way to go”, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday. “But,...
India’s cases of novel coronavirus crossed the million mark, the health ministry data showed on Friday, as infections spread out into the smaller towns and the countryside following the lifting...
The securities regulator has formed a two-member committee to look into the unusual transactions of the shares of two listed pharmaceuticals companies. The companies are Beacon Pharmaceuticals and Central Pharmaceuticals....
Japan has expressed the interest to hold a coordination meeting to review projects under its funding in the road sector, which were hit badly due to the coronavirus pandemic. Japanese...
The United States shattered its daily record for coronavirus infections on Thursday, reporting more than 77,000 new cases as the number of deaths in a 24-hour period rose by nearly...
The securities regulator has imposed an aggregate amount of penalty worth Tk84 million on a listed company, a brokerage firm and some individuals for misuse of IPO fund and manipulating...
Automation of the state-run power sector entities has become necessary to bring about transparency and accountability, and check corruption, state minister for power, energy, and mineral resources Nasrul Hamid said...
Educationist Prof Emajuddin Ahmed, a former vice-chancellor of Dhaka University, has died in hospital care from brain haemorrhage at the age of 88. Ahmed fell sick at 2.30am and was...
The prices of green chilli increased further the last week in the city kitchen markets as it hit Tk 200-220 per kilogram (kg) on Thursday. Thursday's green chilli price was...
Export-oriented ready-made garment (RMG) sector is likely to get additional fund to pay their workers' wages for three more months beginning from July. Prime Minister's private sector industry and investment...
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