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An explosion shook parts of the Somali capital of Mogadishu early on Saturday as a suicide car bomber drove into a checkpoint just outside the port, witnesses said, but police...
North Korea does not feel the need to have talks with the United States, which would be nothing more than “a political tool” for Washington, a senior North Korean diplomat...
Khurshid Alam, joint secretary to the Ministry of Textiles and Jute, died from coronavirus (Covid-19) at a hospital in Dhaka on Saturday. Alam was undergoing treatment at Labaid Hospital in...
Almost 30 per cent of genome sequencing data from samples of the Covid-19 virus collected by the World Health Organization (WHO) have shown signs of mutation, but there is no...
The central Italian region of Lazio, fringing the capital Rome, has asked its large Bangladeshi community to undergo "blanket testing" for the coronavirus following a recent increase in the number...
Global coronavirus cases exceeded 11 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, marking another milestone in the spread of the disease that has killed more than half a million...
The Chittagong Customs House (CCH) has failed to achieve the target of collection of taxes in the just-ended fiscal year (2019-20). Last year, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) fixed...
The government promise that workers of the state jute mills being closed will get their jobs back once productions resume under public-private partnership has failed to allay fears among the...
The government has planned to sign free trade agreements, or FTAs,with some African countries, including Morocco,to boost the country's export earnings, officials said. They said the commerce ministry is expecting...
Stocks posted a modest gain in the outgoing week with turnover hitting nine years high thanks to huge block transactions of GlaxoSmithKline Bangladesh shares. Week-on-week, DSEX, the key index of...
The number of beneficiary owners' (BO) accounts dropped 9.10 per cent in the outgoing fiscal year (FY) 2019-20 due to non-payment of annual renewal fees, strict regulatory move and depressed...
A widely-apprehended post-Covid-19 job crisis at home, to be accompanied by moratorium on hiring foreign workers in many countries, may lead to rise in human trafficking from Bangladesh, according to...
The ferocity of the Gorai River erosion has reached a new high in recent time with its ever-devastating traits. The eroding Gorai that flows through Sreepur upazila of the district...
The government has formed a high-powered committee to run a mass awareness campaign about health guidelines, collection and preservation of sacrificial animals' rawhides in the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha during the ongoing...
When Covid pandemic has put a damper on most businesses, country's bicycle manufacturers are enjoying their heyday. Bicycle sales at home and abroad have gone up significantly in recent months....
The government's programme to train up butchers is not witnessing progress due to lack of interest among the persons whom it is meant for in the wake of the coronavirus...
The growth in container handling at the country's prime sea port of Chittagong slowed down to nearly 3.0 per cent in the just-concluded fiscal year due to poor shipment. This...
An outstanding poet of the country, first appearing on the literary scene in the decade of 1960s, Poet Mashuk Chowdhury (1947-2020) recently passed away to the other side of the...
The spread of Covid-19 has seriously disrupted the county's academic life. Millions of students in schools, colleges and universities have been suffering as there is a disruption in their regular...
The Soviet Union was fertile ground for political jokes, which featured as prominently in the culture as late-night comedy does in the United States. According to one popular story, a...
The latest news regarding 22 mills under the Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) has created mixed reactions in various quarters. While economists and financial analysts have long been expressing dismay...
Bangladesh has been steadily increasing its power generation capacity since 2009. Government reports suggest that almost 95-96 per cent population have access to electricity now. The government has encouraged setting...
When people around the world are preoccupied with confronting intractable Covid-19, the troops of India and China had a violent clash in Galwan valley, Ladakh in the Himalayas on June...
The world's tourism sector could lose at least $1.2 trillion, or 1.50 per cent of the global gross domestic product (GDP), having been placed at a standstill for nearly four...
The government has chalked out a series of programmes to enter a new era of taxation from FY 2020-21 in the run-up to achieving Vision 2041 and reaching the Sustainable...
The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Bangladesh has continued to plummet amid the coronavirus crisis after FDI dropped by over 50 per cent in 2019 from the previous...
Minhajul Abedin, the chief selector of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), said starting domestic cricket is the first priority of the board in the post-COVID-19 era. BCB said they have prepared...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) joined the Central Banks and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) as an observer on June 23. NGFS, launched at the Paris One...
Experts and activists across the globe, on the occasion of ‘International Plastic bag free day 2020, stated for execution of plastic bag ban regulation in order to have a plastic...
The residents of certain areas flagged as coronavirus red zones with high infection rates and deaths in Dhaka’s Wari are set to be locked down for 21 days from Saturday....
At least 19 pilgrims of Pakistan's minority Sikh community were killed when a train collided with a passenger van in eastern Pakistan on Friday, officials said. According to police, the...
Flood conditions have deteriorated further in the central regions while it remained same in the northern parts of the country on Friday. More fresh areas were inundated in Tangail, Munshiganj,...
A total of 11,302 members of Bangladesh Police were infected with Covid-19 across the country until Friday morning. Among the total cases, 7,327 policemen have made full recovery so far,...
Textiles and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi has blamed the Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) for the current malaise in the flagging jute sector. He blamed the organisation for costing...
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with its Bangkok Regional Hub, launched the Future of Work Lab in Bangladesh on Thursday aiming to facilitate and accelerate Bangladesh towards...
International Labour Organization (ILO) is going to hold an online quiz competition for technical and vocational educational and training (TVET) students marking the World Youth Skills Day (WYSD) on July...
Flood situation remained mostly steady following little ups and downs in water levels of major rivers during the last 24 hours ending at 9 am on Friday in seven northern...
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named Jean Castex as the country's new prime minister. Castex, who coordinated France's virus reopening strategy, will replace Edouard Philippe, who resigned earlier in...
Altogether 1,000 scientists and researchers from all over the world agreed on the need for more trials to test antivirals, immunomodulatory drugs and anti-thrombotic agents, as well as combination therapies,...
A total of 4,960 people secured bail after their petitions were heard by virtual courts across the country in three days from June 28 to July 2. Hearings on 10,866...
A 370-bed ‘Corona Centre’ will open at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) on Saturday for providing treatment to the coronavirus (COVID-19) patients. BSMMU Vice Chancellor Dr Kanak Kanti...
Bangladesh is now 8th country in the world in weekly increase in coronavirus cases, according to World Health Organization (WHO). The country ranked 8th with 26,598 new COVID-19 cases in...
Eleven Bangladeshis stranded in Vietnam were repatriated by a special plane of Viet Jet Airlines on Friday. Bangladesh Embassy in Hanoi said among the stranded Bangladeshis, two were working in...
Russia recorded 6,718 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its total to 667,883, the country's coronavirus response center said in a statement Friday. The death toll rose...
Poor Italians are significantly more likely to die of the coronavirus than higher-income groups, the country’s first significant study into the disease’s disproportionate social impact showed on Friday. Italy is...
The workers of 25 closed state-run jute mills will receive their wages for the month of June through their personal bank accounts by next week. Textiles and Jute Minister Golam...
A special cleanliness drive will be conducted in all the wards under Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) from Saturday to prevent dengue outbreak, said DNCC Mayor Atiqul Islam. Atiqul Islam...
She was on cloud nine when she secured a job at a private company after passing the higher secondary exam. Her contentment, however, was short-lived as Bobby, a transgender person,...
CHATTOGRAM: A section of importers are using bulk-head vessels instead of lighterage ships in carrying goods from mother vessels and big ships from the Outer Anchorage of Chittagong Port violating...
A total of 40 judges and 136 staff of subordinate courts and 45 employees of the Supreme Court were infected with Covid-19 until today (Friday). They were infected with the...
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