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HSBC is resuming a massive redundancy plan it had put on ice after the coronavirus outbreak, and will cut 35,000 jobs over the medium term, a memo seen by Reuters...
Australia is unlikely to reopen its border to international travellers until next year but will look to relax entry rules for students and other long-term visitors, Trade Minister Simon Birmingham...
KM Habib Ullah, chairperson of Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Foundation, died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in India on Wednesday. He breathed his last around 2:30 am while...
South Asia has recently become a new hotspot of the Covid-19 pandemic with a sharp surge in confirmed cases after a number of countries started to ease restrictions this month...
Bangladesh has suspended its visa-on-arrival services for nationals of all countries until further notice as the coronavirus outbreak in the country continued to intensify. However, the government has made an...
The World Health Organization (WHO) said it was moving to update its guidelines on treating people stricken with Covid-19 to reflect results of a clinical trial that showed a cheap,...
The Bangladesh Meteorological Department has asked maritime ports to hoist local cautionary signal No. 3 due to a deep convection over North Bay and adjoining coastal areas. It has advised...
New coronavirus infections hit record highs in six US states on Tuesday, marking a rising tide of cases for a second consecutive week as most states moved forward with reopening...
Ten physicians of different hospitals under Chattogram City Corporation have been suspended for refusing to provide treatment to Covid-19 patients. Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) issued a notice in this regard...
Stocks witnessed mixed trend in early trading on Wednesday with sluggish turnover as growing tension over the Covid-19 pandemic and floor price mechanism kept the investors almost stagnate. Within 30...
The government is considering exemption of all related duties excepting VAT on the import of raw materials for producing face shields locally. Officials said the initiative has been made to...
The illegal visa trading scam involving millions of dollars by Bangladeshi lawmaker Shahidul Islam Papul, ruffle feathers among Kuwaiti high ups prompting Anas Al Saleh, the deputy prime minister and...
Shrimp sector stakeholders and industry leaders have appealed to the government of Bangladesh to help the shrimp industry as it is sliding into a deep crisis due to the ongoing...
An allocation has been necessary to prevent the spread of coronavirus on the construction sites of major development projects including mega and fast-track ones aiming to keep the progress of...
The state-run Financial Reporting Council or FRC has signed deals with three global accounting and auditing standards-setting organisations. With the agreement, a well-regulated structure will be introduced to Bangladeshi corporate...
The International Business Forum of Bangladesh (IBFB) has termed the proposed budget as usual one at an unusual time. "We did not get a budget we expected during the corona...
An outsourced wardboy of a hospital tried to rape a 26-year-old corona patient at Khulna Corona Hospital. The wardboy Nazrul was discharged from his job on Monday. Khulna Sonadanga Model...
Rights activists have made an appeal to the government to protect women migrant workers from the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. During this time of the pandemic, women domestic workers...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday mostly stayed a High Court order that said if any government or private hospital or clinic shows any medical negligence to...
The board of directors of Jamuna Bank Ltd has recommended a 15 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2019. The board of directors of the...
A Dhaka court on Tuesday sent expelled Jubo League (JL) leader Khalid Mahmud Bhuiyan on a three-day remand in a money laundering case. Judge of the Metropolitan Magistrate Court in...
The Covid-19 situation is deteriorating fast in the country as almost three persons in a minute are being infected with the deadly viral strains, officials and physicians said. Bangladesh recorded...
Physicians in the country are pressing home their demand for a separate healthcare facility amid rising infections among frontline health workers. The demand for separate healthcare facility is getting louder...
Chattogram Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) called upon Finance Minister A H M Mostafa Kamal not to execute the amendment on fixation of submission of return on imported goods...
India’s army said on Tuesday 20 of its soldiers had been killed in clashes with Chinese troops at a disputed border site, in a major escalation of a weeks-long standoff...
The lack of coordination among authorities is delaying the execution of the zone-based lockdown for Dhaka aiming to contain contagion of deadly coronavirus, officials and experts said on Tuesday. They...
Private sector employees, who have received gratuity as retirement benefit in the outgoing fiscal year, may have to pay taxes on it. The National Board of Revenue or NBR has...
Several gangs are now actively involved in providing fake corona testing certificates to people, who need those for going abroad or getting admitted into hospitals. On Monday, a team of...
State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Tuesday said that usage of internet has increased by 50 per cent during the coronavirus pandemic. Besides, online marketing has increased to...
In the context of challenges in meeting the SDG targets by 2030 and forestalling the worst effects of climate change at the soonest, the costs of ignoring the relevant science...
Banks are now under severe stress due to financing for Covid-19-led stimulus packages. How much they would be able to fund within the atmosphere the Bangladesh Bank has created through...
Tens of millions of people have travelled back and forth between cities and villages in Bangladesh during the coronavirus pandemic, raising the risk of contagion amid a worsening coronavirus epidemic,...
'Money begets money' is an old proverb that we were taught during our school days to understand business of life. And 'word begets word' is its popular Bengali version (Kothay...
How quickly things change! Barely into two weeks following the government's announcement about the country's food security situation - set to receive a boost by good Boro harvest and plans...
Common sense dictates that the health sector should be a top priority one in the national budget, especially at a time when a lethal pandemic, the covid-19, has made the...
Two Hong Kong based credit rating companies have begun working in Bangladesh from Tuesday to provide assistance to banks, financial institutions and business houses for getting credit from abroad. Interlinkages...
A total of 384 workers from 162 factories in six industrial zones were infected with coronavirus while four of them died till Tuesday. Industrial Police prepared the data from information...
Local administration has put 15 areas of eight upazilas of Sunamganj district under complete lockdown from Tuesday. According to the Civil Surgeon's Office, 15 areas under eight upazilas of total...
A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus. The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against...
Local administration is going to put eight wards of Kushtia municipality, Hatosh Haripur union in Sadar upazila, seven wards of Bheramara municipality areas and Bahirchar and Chandgram union of the...
Gender Monitoring Network called upon the government to take urgent action for a gender-responsive Covid-19 relief and response to ensure access to necessary information, supports and resources. The civil society...
Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) has revoked the licenses of eight products of six companies due to the expiry of the license. The licenses have been cancelled in accordance...
Higher skilled migrant workers send more remittances home than the less-skilled ones as the experienced workers are employed in better jobs, an IOM study has found. The study also revealed...
The central bank of Bangladesh has issued a guideline allowing banks to issue international debit cards (IDCs) in favour of eligible persons against their annual travel entitlements. Under the provisions,...
A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed four persons on three days of remand each in a case lodged over making and supplying false coronavirus (COVID-19) infection certificates. The four accused...
Bhola district assistant primary education officer among two died with coronavirus symptoms on Tuesday morning, reports UNB. The deceased were identified as ABM Khalilur Rahman, education officer, and jewellery...
Prime Bank Ltd on Tuesday announced an alliance with Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) to finance micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) under the ICT sector. BASIS...
The High Court on Tuesday granted bail to suspended jailer of Chattogram Jail Sohel Rana in a graft case filed by Anti-corruption Commission. The virtual bench of Justice Md Nazrul...
Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows are forecast to decrease by up to 40 per cent in 2020, and further by 5 to 10 per cent in 2021, before recovering...
Singapore scientists testing a COVID-19 vaccine from US firm Arcturus Therapeutics plan to start human trials in August after promising initial responses in mice, reports Reuters. More than 100 vaccines...
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