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City Bank has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with PrimaDollar to facilitate the exporters of the bank involved in foreign trade on deferred sales contract terms. PrimaDollar is a...
The government on Tuesday in Dhaka endorsed eight development projects at a combined cost of Tk 101.02 billion. Presided over by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the Executive Committee of...
Renowned businessman Arshad Jamal has recently been appointed as an independent director of Trust Bank Ltd. He will also be a member of Audit Committee and that of Risk Management...
The incessant rains in India's northeastern state of Assam has worsened the flood situation there as water has inundated new areas, officials said Tuesday. According to officials around 2.2 million...
A third of company audits by Britain’s leading accounting firms failed a quality test, the country’s accounting watchdog said on Tuesday, piling further pressure on a sector already being questioned...
Iran has executed a former defence ministry worker who sold information to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Iranian judiciary said on Tuesday. Reza Asgari had linked up with...
Stocks extended the losing streak for the second day in a row on Tuesday as risk-averse investors opted for quick-profit on selective issues amid ongoing virus fears. DSEX, the key...
Dr Emdadul Haque, an official of the Department of Livestock Services, died from coronavirus infection at a private hospital in the capital on Tuesday. He was 57. Dr Haque passed...
The Detective Branch (DB) of Police is investigating the COVID-19 test scam involving Sabrina A Chaudhury, a government doctor with ties to JKG Health Care. A Dhaka court granted the...
Online marketplaces for cattle ahead of Eid-ul-Azha have gained some traction in Bangladesh, but high prices are turning away the potential customers, bdnews24.com reports. For many, the joy of buying...
Millions of small businesses around the globe struggle to survive during the Covid-19 pandemic. More than three months had dragged by since the coronavirus forced Chandan Shekhar to shut down...
The number of confirmed coronavirus patients in Bangladesh surged to 190,057 on Tuesday as the country registered 3,163 fresh cases in the last 24 hours. Besides, 33 more people died from...
Politicians and public health leaders have publicly committed to equitably sharing any coronavirus vaccine that works, but the top global initiative to make that happen may allow rich countries to...
The Committee to Protect Journalists named prominent Bangladeshi photo journalist Shahidul Alam and three others from Iran, Nigeria, and Russia for the 2020 International Press Freedom Awards, UNB reports. “All...
Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia launched on Tuesday software which enables mobile operators to upgrade their 4G radio stations to new 5G technology without visiting the site or replacing equipment....
Russia on Tuesday reported 6,248 new cases of the novel coronavirus, pushing its confirmed national tally to 739,947, the fourth largest in the world. Officials said 175 people had died...
He left the chalk and duster and held the handles of a motorbike. As the coronavirus pandemic upended the entire world, the founder and teacher of a kindergarten in Dhaka's...
China's Huawei reported a sharp slowdown in revenue growth on Monday, ahead of Britain's expected decision to ban the company from its 5G telecom networks - a move likely to...
Britain’s economy took a first step on the long road to recovery from the Covid-19 crisis in May, as activity began to pick up after lockdown restrictions began to ease....
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 232 to 198,963, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Tuesday. The reported death toll...
Singapore’s economy suffered a record contraction in the second quarter, tipping it into recession and putting the trade-reliant city-state on course for its worst ever slump this year as the...
Australian states tightened borders and restricted pub visits on Tuesday, while Disney prepared to close its Hong Kong theme park and Japan stepped up tracing as a jump in novel...
Coronavirus-infected Vice Chancellor of Patuakhali Science and Technology University Prof Dr Harun-Or-Rashid and his wife Kanika Mahfuz are being airlifted to Dhaka for better treatment. “A helicopter of...
Stocks witnessed positive trends in early trading on Tuesday as a section of investors showed their buying binge on selective large-cap issues. Within 30 minutes of trading, DSEX advanced more...
More than 930 employees of private contractors running US immigration detention centres have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, according to congressional testimony given by company executives on Monday. The...
International students have already been denied entry to the United States under new Trump administration rules that bar them from the country if their schools hold all classes online amid...
Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has moved to review the performances of its staffs from top to bottom in the context of their respective salaries and benefits to ensure an efficient...
The High Court on Monday upheld a Bangladesh Bank letter that fined One Bank Tk 1.0 million on charges of violating Section 15(4) of the Bank Company Act 1991 and...
China has imposed a ban on import of live mud crab and eel fish from Bangladesh as health hazardous bacteria were found in some consignments along with forged salubrity certificates...
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has downgraded Pakistan’s air safety rating after the agency raised concerns about pilot certifications. The decision, disclosed on an FAA spreadsheet dated July 15...
Emirates National Oil Company, or ENOC, has submitted the best bid to supply the initial consignments of cleaner marine fuel to Bangladesh. State-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation, or BPC, received a...
A total of 38 tigers died in the last 20 years in Bangladesh part of the Sundarbans. Within a gap of five months, the Forest Department found two dead tigers...
Experts at a event in Dhaka have deplored that the information technology is not being utilised adequately to rein in the incidence of covid-19 in the country. They opined that...
The number of coronavirus infections around the world hit 13 million on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, climbing by a million in just five days. The pandemic has now...
In its clampdown, the VAT intelligence team has lodged 43 cases against some businesses in the city after detecting different types of irregularities. In four separate inspections, the VAT audit,...
France would provide a concessional loan worth 150 million euros to help Bangladesh overcome the adverse socio-economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Ambassador of France to Bangladesh Jean-Marin SCHUH on...
Bangladesh Telecommu-nication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Jahurul Haque on Monday said its 5G auction, scheduled to be held in next January, will be deferred due to the Covid-19 pandemic. "We're...
A government shipping office has issued a directive for the protection of the Bangladesh-flagged vessels, much to the frustration of foreign shipping liners. Transportation of goods to and from Bangladesh...
Netrakona, Jul 13: Flood situation in Netrakona has taken an alarming turn as the Magra and Dhanu rivers are flowing above their danger levels. The rain-fed rivers associated with the...
The Covid deaths in Dhaka have showed a falling trend over the last five weeks compared to the total fatalities across the country. An FE analysis has found that the...
The government is working on securing about $2.0 billion budgetary support from bilateral and multilateral development partners in the current fiscal year (FY), finance ministry officials said. In the just-concluded...
The finance ministry has been instructed to explore how the government of Bangladesh could borrow from the country's bulging foreign currency reserves. Foreign exchange (forex) reserves of a country mainly...
The globally operating media outlets appear to be fixated with the Covid-19 pandemic. They have been so since the start of the scourge's worldwide spread. Beginning with the BBC, CNN...
Before the first leg of floods could have dissipated, comes the second spate with the prospect of its prolongation. The first visitation of floods had 14 districts under its furious...
MP Ekramul Karim Chowdhury’s son Shabab Chowdhury, accused of killing a man in Dhaka in a hit-and-run two years ago, has driven his car into a police bus in Chattogram....
One of the major developments in the world economy over the past three decades or so has been the rapidly growing share of the developing countries. Indeed, the rise of...
Social realities are taking newer, darker shades of meaning in the country. The coronavirus pandemic has been creating havoc in individual and family economies. Tens of thousands of people, mostly...
Jatiya Party will observe the first death anniversary of its founder HM Ershad on Tuesday. The party has worked out elaborate programmes to mark the death anniversary with due respect....
Azam Khan, kingpin of a gang, which trafficked more than a thousand Bangladeshi girls and women to Dubai and forced them to prostitution there, gave confessional statement along with an...
American actress Kelly Preston who has appeared in films including “Jerry Maguire” and “Twins”, has died aged 57 after battling breast cancer for nearly two years, her husband, John Travolta,...
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