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The Indian economy’s medium-term outlook remains uncertain even though the country has started re-opening after over two months of a nationwide lockdown, the central bank governor has said. According to...
Bangladesh's coronavirus deaths have surpassed 2,300 and cases reached 181,129, as the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) reported 30 deaths and 2,686 cases on Saturday. The new deaths bring...
Russia on Saturday reported 6,611 new coronavirus cases, taking its nationwide tally of infections to 720,547. The country’s coronavirus crisis response centre said 188 people had died from the virus...
The Namaz-e-Janaza of former Home Minister and Awami League presidium member Advocate Sahara Khatun was held at a mosque in Agargaon area in Dhaka on Saturday morning. A special flight...
A couple was killed and four people were injured in a road crash on Cumilla-Sylhet highway in Kalikapur area in Debidwar upazila of Cumilla on Friday night. The deceased were...
Some areas of Dhaka area will face a suspension in gas supply for 12 hours from 8:00am tomorrow (Sunday) due to pipeline relocation work. The areas that are under the...
Md Aminul Islam, director general of Bogura Rural Development Academy (RDA), died from coronavirus at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on Saturday morning. Aminul Islam, additional secretary of BCS administration (Batch-8),...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that it will launch an initiative to help 1.3 billion tobacco-users worldwide kick the habit during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The Access Initiative...
Heavy rains triggered flash floods and landslides that killed at least 23 people and displaced thousands in western Nepal, officials said on Saturday. Nine people were killed and more than...
A Delhi court has granted bail to 82 Bangladeshi nationals who were recently chargesheeted on charges that they had attended Tablighi Jamaat violating visa conditions, indulged in missionary activities illegally...
Bengali actress Koel Mallick and her entire family have tested positive for coronavirus (Covid-19). Koel revealed in a post on Twitter that she along with her father and veteran Bengali...
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has brought about many changes to people’s normal lives with a growing dependence on virtual platforms as physical distancing is advised by health experts to limit...
Speakers at a webinar on Friday stressed the need for extending services to women migrant workers by embassies to ensure their protection. They also demanded ensuring access to justice for...
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed a clash among medical experts over disease transmission that stretches back nearly a century - to the very origins of germ theory. The Geneva-based World...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday grilled the director of a company over alleged graft in mask and PPE procurement for the health ministry to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. An...
The government has decided to suspend fund release for implementation of low-priority projects under the Annual Development Programme (ADP) of this fiscal year (FY), 2020-21. The decision has been taken...
Speakers at a webinar identified lack of diversification in investment as a key challenge in boosting foreign direct investment (FDI) in the country. The speakers stressed on the need for...
The Bangladesh Solar and Renewable Energy Association (BSREA) has identified nine key areas where the government needs to provide heightened importance to help rehabilitate the local solar sector which has...
New cases of Covid-19 rose by nearly 69,000 across the United States on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, setting a record for the third consecutive day as Walt Disney...
The share price of Paramount Insurance Company is soaring without having any undisclosed price sensitive information. Within a week, the company's share price jumped more than 53 per cent or...
Some 151 Bangladeshi nationals were sent back home from Italy on Friday on their arrival as a significant number of passengers tested coronavirus positive at Rome airport earlier, according to...
Stocks extended the winning streak for the third straight week that ended on Thursday as investors showed their appetite following the ultimatum for complying with minimum shareholding by the stock...
SYLHET: The extent of damage to the roads in Sunamganj district, by the last week's flood has been estimated to be over Tk 800 million, official sources informed. A number...
Coronavirus pandemic has not faded away smile of mango growers in Magura. This year a bumper production of mango has been achieved in the district. Price of mango is high...
The number of people seeking Covid-19 tests has declined following the government decision to impose fees, officials said. However, knowledgeable circles attribute the decline in number of tests, partially, to...
The lockdowns and economic slowdown, caused by the coronavirus in different countries, have robbed Rohingyas of their livelihood opportunities and pushed them into an abyss of hunger and malnutrition, rights...
As many as 110-million children in Asia remain hungry as their family income has fallen drastically for an economic depression amid coronavirus, reveals a latest World Vision survey. Another 85-million...
Several foreign companies have recently shown interest to invest in joint venture projects in the state-owned sugar mills, offering an opportunity for the BSFIC to revive the ailing mills. A...
The yields on treasury bills slid in June last over the same period of a year earlier, according to Bangladesh Bank data. The falling trend of the same was also...
The slow progress in Indo-Bangla power project in southwestern Rampal threatens to undermine the government's "fast-track" initiative, people familiar with the situation said on Friday. The controversial 1,320-megawatt thermal power...
Startups are often considered as the change agents that inspire markets to evolve. And with their resourceful and resilient ability to quickly adapt, many are looking to this sector to...
The ready-made garment (RMG) industry in Bangladesh is the home of the second-largest apparel seller in the world. RMG is the primary export-oriented industrial sector of Bangladesh and it looks...
Bangladesh boasts of a number of globally reputed digital financial service (DFS) providers. Some banks in Bangladesh have progressively developed alternative digital channels for financial inclusion. Agent network is considered...
Although fundamentally being considered as a global health crisis, the Coronavirus Pandemic is supposed to lead towards a massive economic downturn which according to many experts can overshadow most of...
Despite being an expensive and inefficient solution to terrible traffic in Dhaka, the policymakers of the country approved the introduction of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system almost a decade ago....
The ongoing standoff between Chinese and Indian forces along the two countries' disputed Himalayan border recently resulted in the first troop casualties there in decades, with some Indian soldiers killed...
How deeply the covid-19 pandemic has impacted life and society is evidenced by the endless stream of debates, studies, discussions and writings pouring out regularly on the subject. Not surprisingly,...
Although the train services remained suspended for over two months as part of lockdown enforced due to Covid-19 pandemic, at least 113 people were killed in 105 railway accidents across...
A total of 157 Bangladeshi nationals, who had been stranded in the Maldives due to the shutdown over coronavirus pandemic, returned home by a special flight on Friday. The special...
During the past decade, growth in world trade has been sluggish, with the feeble economic performance of the Eurozone, slowed economic growth in China, lower commodity prices, increasing protectionist measures,...
The government has declared Tapentadol as narcotic substances and ordered a halt to the production of this painkiller pharma drug. The authorities have labelled the drug, an opiate analgesics, as...
Global average trend indicates that corporate shareholding tends to increasingly get concentrated disowning the legal rights of the general public. Hopefully, Bangladesh seems not yet so infected with that corporate...
The government has issued directives to authorities concerned to urgently open up all educational institutions in flood prone areas to use those as temporary shelter centres, reports BSS. The Directorate...
The Covid-19 outbreak has disrupted the academic year, cancelled classes and examinations of students across the globe. Thus the educational institutions moved classes online encouraging students to attend lectures via...
"If I fail to sell my cattle this Eid, I'm going to suffer a devastating loss. I've already invested so much in this business. It's going to be hard for...
The silver fish hilsa is much pricier in the city kitchen markets despite abundant supply and price drops in the fishing hubs, said insiders. July to August is the peak...
The World Population Day 2020 will be celebrated across the country as elsewhere of the world on Saturday with an aim to draw global attention on the importance of population...
Narayankhola Dakshin Primary School, an old school in Nakla upazila of Sherpur, is being gobbled up by Mrigi River as river erosion has taken a severe turn in the area....
As the race to find a vaccine or cure for the novel coronavirus drags on, convalescent plasma therapy has gained a lot of traction after showing early promise in the...
Rural economy of the country is going to be under pressure as a significant number of people from urban areas are returning to their respective villages losing the sources of...
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