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Addressing challenges related to impacts on SMEs due to COVID-19 pandemic would require an innovative and holistic approach that tackles regulatory issues, enables easier access to finance and recognises the...
Jobike, an on-demand bicycle renting service, will launch in the city’s Gulshan, Banani, Baridhara and Niketan area on Wednesday aiming to provide a safe, affordable and environment-friendly ride. More...
Prof ANM Nazrul Islam, a freedom fighter and former lawmaker, has died at the age of 80, his family said. Islam breathed his last at his home in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur...
The COVID-19 pandemic is unravelling decades of health, education and other advances for children across South Asia, and governments must take urgent action to prevent millions of families from slipping...
Nineteen Indian sailors returned home on a special flight of Novoair, bdnews.com reported quoting a statement sent by the airline. The sailors, who were stranded in Bangladesh by the coronavirus outbreak,...
A total of 12 video conference sessions have been conducted among Chinese medical expert team and departments of Bangladesh government, its medical institutions, designated hospitals and relevant United Nations organizations...
Sheikh Fazle Fahim, President of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI), has urged Indian stakeholders to consider extending the deferred LC payment facilities from Indian banks for...
Two new dengue cases were reported in the last 24 hours until 8am on Tuesday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Currently, four dengue patients are being...
The coronavirus crisis and natural disasters had raised concerns among lychee farmers over turning profits this season. But various government efforts have allayed their worries and farmers and traders have...
Consumers in Asia Pacific are rapidly going digital with purchases of everything from groceries to movies in a shift that looks set to become a permanent habit after the...
The Saudi government has officially conveyed its decision to hold a ‘very limited’ Hajj this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic while Bangladesh finds the decision ‘wise’. Prince Faisal bin...
The global death toll from Covid-19 reached 471,640 on Tuesday morning, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University. Besides, the number of confirmed cases...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) said they have postponed the home series against New Zeland which was scheduled to take place in August-September this year. The decision was taken after...
French drugmaker Sanofi SA said on Tuesday it expects to get approval for the potential COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline Plc by the first half of next...
Indian daily Anandabazar Patrika has sought unconditional apology for using the word "khairati" in a recent report after China had granted more Bangladeshi products duty free access to its market....
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Tuesday that he has advised President Halimah Yacob to dissolve the parliament and issue the Writ of Election. He made the remarks...
Bangladesh Medical Association President Dr Mustafa Jalal Mohiuddin has been diagnosed with Covid-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus. The former MP from Dhaka tested positive for the...
The World Trade Organization said on Tuesday that global merchandise trade would likely fall by less than its worst case scenario this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but an...
Stocks witnessed yet another flat session on Tuesday as growing virus fears and the ‘floor price’ system kept the investors mostly on the sidelines. DSEX, the key index of the...
The number of confirmed coronavirus patients in Bangladesh surged to 119,198 on Tuesday as the country registered 3,412 fresh cases in the last 24 hours. Besides, 43 more people died...
The US economy is expected to grow more slowly than people had hoped months ago as the country cannot stop the community spread of Covid-19, a senior US Federal Reserve...
A total of 26 judges and 71 staff of lower courts and 26 employees of the Supreme Court were infected with Covid-19 until Tuesday (June 23). They were infected with...
A 72-year-old man died in Hong Kong from coronavirus on Tuesday, taking the death toll from Covid-19 in the city to six, local television Cable TV said. Hong Kong has...
Two more staff members of President Donald Trump’s campaign who were in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for his rally on Saturday have tested positive for the coronavirus, a Trump campaign spokesman said...
Indian and Chinese military commanders have agreed to disengage troops from a heavily disputed stretch of their border where a clash last week left 20 Indian soldiers dead, an Indian...
The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2020 was placed in Parliament on Tuesday to empower the BERC to make any change in tariff more than one time per financial...
US President Donald Trump said late on Monday that the US-China trade deal is fully intact. "The China Trade Deal is fully intact. Hopefully they will continue to live up...
Bangladesh Awami League, the country's oldest political party which led the nation in the Liberation War in 1971, is celebrating its 71st founding anniversary today amid a different reality due...
Two bills were placed in Parliament on Tuesday for setting up a science and technology university in Chandpur and an agriculture one in Habiganj. Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni placed...
Assailants killed 15 inhabitants of an indigenous village in southern Mexico that has been plagued by local disputes, authorities said on Monday, in one of the most brutal attacks to...
Two businessmen and a salesman have died after a gas cylinder explosion sparked a fire in a fuel shop in Hatiya upazila of Noakhali district. The dead were identified as...
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) on Monday adopted a resolution urging the repatriation of the Rohingya people in Myanmar. The Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to Geneva has said...
Budgetary allocations for health, agriculture, social protection and education have not been sufficient and visionary in view of the Covid-19 crisis, the Centre on Budget and Policy (CBP), University of...
Coronavirus cases are soaring in several major countries at the same time, with “worrying increases” in Latin America, especially Brazil, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. The world...
Stocks witnessed mixed trend in early trading on Tuesday amid sluggish turnover as growing tension over the Covid-19 pandemic and floor price mechanism kept the investors on the sidelines. Within...
Global cases of the novel coronavirus surpassed 9 million on Monday, as Brazil and India grappled with a surge in infections, and the United States, China and other hard-hit countries...
More than 1,600 workers at Alphabet Inc are petitioning its Google unit to stop selling email and other services to police departments, a source familiar with the matter said on...
CHATTOGRAM: The work on the second unit of Eastern Refinery Limited (ERL) has started again after the end of coronavirus-related general holidays. Sources said Tecnip of France, the company responsible...
Omera has started exporting LPG cylinders. The renowned LPG giant manufactured and exported the first consignment of its world-class LPG cylinders to a few companies based in Africa recently, said...
The City Bank Ltd has recommended 15 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2019. The board of directors of the bank in a virtual meeting...
The board of directors of Bangladesh National Insurance Company Ltd has recommended 12 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2019. The board of directors of...
The central bank has relaxed regulations, allowing banks to discount usance export bills in foreign exchange with their own source of funds, to facilitate exporters. Under the relaxations, the authorised...
The metro rail authorities are facing a big challenge in checking the spread of coronovirus along its 20-kilometre open space construction site after detection of Covid-19 infection cases in one...
The National Board of Revenue's (NBR) Customs Wing is eyeing an additional Tk 20 billion import duty with the withdrawal of fiscal incentives on furnace oil import. In the Finance...
The Dhaka University (DU) authorities will resume conducting coronavirus (Covid-19) tests at its own laboratory from today (Tuesday). Prof Sharif Akhterruzzaman, convener of DU coronavirus response technical committee, confirmed the...
Saudi Arabia says it will bar arrivals from abroad to attend the hajj this year due to the coronavirus, allowing only a limited number of Saudi citizens and residents to...
Bangladesh needs massive administrative reforms and provisions for increased incentives to leverage the shifting global supply chain, which is likely to move out of China. Since many top multinational companies...
The government on Monday reiterated its call on garment factory owners to refrain from terminating any workers amid the coronavirus pandemic. Some 80 factories, mostly garment, had terminated around 25,000...
The central bank has recommended the Ministry of Finance (MoF) not to impose the proposed source tax on the government securities, whose trading is set to start in the stock...
A major change is underway in Bangladesh's banking sector. Such was the view expressed by experts at a recent webinar. According to them, a chain of events will compel banks...
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