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BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday alleged that Bangladesh is now at the risk of losing overseas labour market due to the ‘indifference and negligence’ of...
A giant, yellow ‘Black Lives Matter’ mural was painted Thursday on New York City's Fifth Avenue right in front of Trump Tower, a skyscraper that serves as the headquarters for...
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmood has said the national anti-graft agency will intensify its drive to bring to justice those involved in corruption in the health sector and relief...
The government is thinking about resuming sport activities taking strict health safety measures under the ‘guidance of the health ministry’. State Minister for Youth and Sports Zahid Ahsan Russell hinted...
Two World Health Organization experts were heading to the Chinese capital on Friday to lay the groundwork for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. An animal health...
Khulna city mayor Talukder Abdul Khaleque has said disinfection tunnels to be set up in Khulna cattle markets to prevent community transmission of COVID-19. “The cattle exuviate to be set...
A Dhaka court has placed Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed’s main associate Tarikul Islam alias Tarek Shibli on five-day remand in a fraud case. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Morshed Al Mamun...
India reported a record 26,506 new coronavirus cases on Friday as authorities re-imposed lockdowns in its most populous state and in an industrial hub, home to automakers, drug factories and...
Brazil's government announced on Thursday it planned to ban setting fires in the Amazon for 120 days, in a meeting with global investors to address their rising concerns over destruction...
Faridpur Zila Parishad Chairman and Awami League district unit vice-president Md Lokman Hossain Mridha died from coronavirus at a city hospital in Dhaka on Friday. He was 77. Hossain breathed...
Local administration has put Agrani Bank Kumarkhali branch in Kushtia district under lockdown as five employees of the bank tested positive for coronavirus recently. Rajibul Islam Khan, Kumarkhali Upazila Nirbahi...
Md Rezaul Islam, a 30-year-old native of Singair in Manikganj, went to Saudi Arabia in 2008 for work by borrowing about Tk 250,000 from relatives, bdnews24.com reports. He worked there...
The US Department of Transportation said it has revoked permission for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to conduct charter flights to the United States, citing Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) concerns over...
Bangladesh on Friday registered 37 more fatalities from the novel coronavirus, the health directorate said, pushing the total death count to 2,275. Authorities also confirmed 2,949 fresh cases in the...
Health experts have expressed apprehension that the Covid-19 infection rate may take an upward trend sharply after the upcoming Eid-ul Azha as tens of millions of people get directly engaged...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought explanation about how Regent Hospital was able to issue fake Covid-19 test reports amid the pandemic, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said, bdnews24.com reports. The...
The number of initial jobless claims in the United States continued to drop last week, as some states paused or partially reversed reopening efforts amid resurgence in Covid-19 cases. In...
International Monetary Fund Chief Economist Gita Gopinath urged governments to shift to “equity-like” support from one focused on loans as the coronavirus pandemic inflicts prolonged damage on companies. Gopinath said...
Park Won-soon, mayor of South Korea's capital Seoul, was found dead around midnight in Bugaksan mountain in northern Seoul, hours after his daughter filed a missing report to police on...
Vikas Dubey, the gangster who organised the massacre of eight policemen, has been killed in a purported encounter with law enforcers in Kanpur. The encounter between Dubey and the Uttar...
The Bangladesh government deeply appreciates the Malaysian government’s initiatives to find a positive solution to the problems faced by its migrant workers in the country, said its High Commission in...
People will get more delicious hilsa on their plates this year thanks to drop in river pollution due to the suspension of river transport movement for several months over the...
News broadcaster Al Jazeera has rejected allegations by Malaysian authorities that a documentary it aired last week about the arrest of undocumented migrants during the coronavirus pandemic was inaccurate, misleading...
The Internet Service Providers Association of Bangladesh (ISPAB) would go for a legal battle over imposition of a double-layer VAT on their services if no solution comes from the NBR...
Asian shares and US stock futures fell on Friday as record-breaking new coronavirus cases in several US states stoked concerns that new lockdowns could derail an economic recovery, while investors...
The World Health Organization on Thursday released new guidelines on the transmission of the novel coronavirus that acknowledge some reports of airborne transmission of the virus that causes Covid-19, but...
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday it was setting up an independent panel to review its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and the response by governments. The announcement...
The securities regulator and the premier bourse have strengthened monitoring over the brokerage firms' market operations to ensure the protection of investors' funds and shares. As part of the move,...
Bangladesh called on International Labour Organisation (ILO) on Thursday to put pressure on global buyers for not cancelling work orders during the Covid-19 pandemic and for abiding by the existing...
The Chinese contractor of the Padma bridge rail link project has raised complain about its difficulties to transport building materials at the construction site as national highways have remained blocked...
Entry into Italy for any passengers traveling from Bangladesh has been declared forbidden till October 5 this year. The health ministry of Italy announced the decision on Wednesday. Referring to...
The COVID pandemichas laid barethe health sector's horrible record, underscoring the ministry's worst performance in executing development projects in the last decade, officials said on Wednesday. An FE analysis has...
The government has slashed furnace oil price in local market by 19 per cent to Tk 34.03 per litre from the previous price of Tk 42 per litre. The price...
Fund crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic forced the government to block allocation of Tk 24.47 billion funds of different road infrastructure projects in last fiscal year (FY), 2019-2020. As...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has reinstated the VAT exemption for the international oil companies on local production and supply of gas, condensate and other petroleum products. Although their...
Former home minister and Awami League presidium member Sahara Khatun has died at a Bangkok hospital. The 77-year-old breathed her last at 11:25pm BdST on Thursday, her aide Mohammad Anis...
Huawei Bangladesh has partnered with Bijoy Digital to provide digital solutions to T&T High schools across Bangladesh to facilitate distance learning. ‘Bridging the Digital Education Divide to Reduce the Gap’...
The Directorate General of Health Services, under fire over a series of scams, has blacklisted 14 contractors for their alleged involvement with corruption in the purchase of machinery for medical...
The SDG framework identifies inequality as a key barrier in ensuring truly inclusive development to drive human progress towards sustainability and universal wellbeing. The Gini coefficient for Bangladesh fluctuates around...
Within a period of less than four months of the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic in Bangladesh, the economy has seriously been affected by a sharp decline in external demand, shocks...
It is all about connections, political or otherwise. The individual who owns the now infamous Regent Hospital has proved himself to be highly crafty in exploiting the same. None is...
The High Court on Thursday started hearing on a writ petition filed by One Bank challenging a Bangladesh Bank letter that fined One Bank Tk 1.0 million on charge of...
The University of Dhaka's non-inclusion in most of the lists over the last three/four decades containing the names of the world's major universities may not be that unusual. To these...
Making human misery capital for building undue and outrageous fortunes is nothing unusual in this country. If acceptance of bribe or sharing of a certain percentage of the speed money...
The decision of the government to close all the state-owned jute mills under the Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) and run them under Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement did come...
The lockdowns and economic slowdown in different countries have robbed Rohingyas of their livelihood opportunities and pushed them into an abyss of hunger and malnutrition, according to rights activists. They...
The government aims to revamp the state-owned jute mills facing shutdown by using modern technology and engage those with experience in the upgraded plants, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said,...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has asked all scheduled banks and non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) to freeze accounts of Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed and his family members for 30 days....
A total of 1,667 people across the country died with Covid 19-like symptoms from March 22 to July 4, according to a report. A project titled the ‘Bangladesh Peace Observatory...
Green chilli, potato and some vegetables became pricier last week raising woes of consumers. Chilli prices were between Tk 150 to Tk 180 per kg on Thursday at retail markets...
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