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Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque has been infected with the novel coronavirus. His wife Laila Arjumand Banu and private secretary Habibur Rahman have also tested positive, the ministry...
During the period of an unprecedented pandemic of Covid-19, it is not desirable that the new national budget will provide a lofty package of commitment to extraordinary development. Instead, the...
It is frequently said that Bangladesh earns a lot through IT-enabled freelancing services provided to nonresident customers abroad. But the platform for repatriation of payment is not so smooth since...
Farming is the lifeblood; how can you live without it? Farming again is time-bound. You cannot grow the crops of summer in the winter, and in the monsoon, we have...
With the COVID-19 catastrophe having laid bare the vulnerabilities inherent in a hyper-connected, just-in-time global economy, a retreat from globalization increasingly seems inevitable. To some extent, this may be desirable....
Covid-19 has shocked the world by the speed of its spread, but it is also bringing about another global change in the balance of power in politics of the world....
There is literally a mixed bag of reactions, not in the ordinary sense of the phrase, to the just-announced national budget for 2020-21 fiscal. Apparently criticism has outweighed praise. But...
A group of Rohingya cyclists, facilitated by International Organization for Migration (IOM), are working to create awareness among Rohingya people, who have fled persecution in Myanmar's Rakhine State and took...
Garment accessories makers have urged the government to provide them with equal budgetary facilities as proposed for the readymade garment (RMG) sector. Bangladesh Garments Accessories and Packaging Manufacturers and Exporters...
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Friday urged the government to withdraw the initiative of whitening of black money in the proposed national budget for the financial year (FY) 2020-21. Terming...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said the government did not think about the source of funds for the FY21 budget because saving lives was the top priority amid the...
Welcoming budget proposal for the fiscal year 2020-21, women entrepreneurs recommended some measures to make it women friendly. In separate statements on Friday, Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industries...
Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Minister Md Tajul Islam on Friday instructed the local committees of the ministry to become active after government’s announcement of zone-based lockdown to fight...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) on Friday found Aedes larvae in 147 houses and establishments and fined Tk 307,000 on the seventh day of its combing operation. Earlier, DNCC launched...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said the budget proposed for 2020-21 fiscal year is a balanced one to recover the country’s economy hit by COVID-19 pandemic. He...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said the proposed national budget for next fiscal year will inflict further sufferings on people at this time of coronavirus pandemic....
Bangladesh Myanmar Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BMCCI) on Friday urged the government to focus heavily on healthcare development and to take a long term policy for the improvement of...
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday offered to help neighbouring India disburse cash to the public during the coronavirus lockdown, citing a report Indians were struggling to make ends...
The Private Secretary (PS) of Nasrul Hamid, State Minister for the Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, tested positive for Coronavirus in Jinjira area of Keraniganj on Friday. The test report...
The International Criminal Court, which sits in The Hague of Netherlands, has said US President Donald Trump's authorisation of economic and travel sanctions against ICC employees amounted to threats and...
Mega projects, including the fast track projects, are likely to face slow progress during upcoming fiscal year 2020-21 as the implementing ministries and agencies were proposed to get lower allocation...
A second wave of the coronavirus could derail efforts by governments to reopen economies and ease lockdown restrictions. Here is a rundown of countries and regions with the highest infection...
Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom has taken part in her first public video conference call to mark Carers Week, adding another first for the British monarch during her long...
Deputy commissioner of Bandarban district Mohammad Daudul Islam tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday. Civil Surgeon Aung Sui Marma said his samples were tested at Cox’s Bazar PCR lab in...
Bangladesh is now 10th in the world both in daily and weekly increase in new coronavirus cases, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) coronavirus (COVID-19) dashboard. Latin American country...
Implementation of the ‘loan dependent’ budget for 2020-21 fiscal year will be a big challenge for the government as the collection of revenue has shrunk amid the coronavirus pandemic. The...
BUILD, a leading think tank said in order to give a clear signal to the global community and the local and foreign investors, the government should immediately prepare a COVID-19...
Britain's economy shrank by a record 20.4 per cent in April from March as the country spent the month in a tight coronavirus lockdown, official data showed on Friday in...
Hiding from Myanmar's police, journalist Aung Marm Oo refuses to conceal his anger with the civilian government led by Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as his country prepares for...
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) Thursday hailed the government for announcing a 'business-friendly budget' which will help overcome the current pandemic. "We would like to congratulate the Government...
As Bangladesh keeps recording an accelerating number of confirmed cases of Covid-19, Unnayan Onneshan (UO), in a budget analysis on Friday, opined that the government should enforce a lockdown, advocating...
Moazzem Hossain Nannu, a crime reporter of Daily Jugantor and a former secretary of Crime Reporters Association of Bangladesh (Crab), on Friday sustained burn injuries in a fire incident at...
Russia recorded 8,987 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its total to 511,423, the country's coronavirus response centre said in a statement Friday. The death toll grew by...
Millions of children are at risk of being pushed into child labour as a result of the Covid-19 crisis, which could lead to the first rise in child labour after...
Japan’s economy appears to have hit bottom and is eyeing a recovery from the damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic, its finance minister said, underscoring cautious optimism spreading among policymakers...
Bangladesh on Friday witnessed its highest single-day rise in both Covid-19 fatalities and infections. A total of 46 people died of the deadly respiratory disease in the last 24 hours...
India has turned down a travel request for members of a US government panel seeking to review its religious freedom, saying such foreign agencies had no standing to assess the...
The Centre For Policy Dialogue (CPD), in its budget reaction on Friday, said the proposed budget for the fiscal year 2020-21 (FY21) has largely ignored the impacts of the Covid-19...
A month into efforts to broadly reopen the US economy there is little clarity either on the pace and durability of the recovery, or on the ability to convincingly suppress...
Different lower courts in virtual hearings across the country granted bail to 33,155 people in 20 working days from May 11 to June 11. Md Saifur Rahman, special officer of...
Prof Gazi Zahirul Hasan, a paediatric surgeon in BSMMU, has died in hospital care after contracting the novel coronavirus infection. He passed away during treatment in Dhaka Medical College Hospital's...
Australia has eliminated the novel coronavirus in many parts of the country, its chief medical officer said on Friday, clearing the way for sports fans to soon return to stadiums...
The government's payment of interest on account of servicing its debts, both domestic and foreign, has marked a significant rise in the proposed budget for fiscal year 2020-21. A total...
The just-unveiled budget is likely to exacerbate the public sufferings of a worsening Covid-19 situation, the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) said. Distinguished Fellow Professor Mustafizur Rahman said the assumptions...
Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) has been shortlisted for the Times Higher Education (THE) Asia Awards 2020, says a press release. It is the only institution from Bangladesh shortlisted for the...
The High Court directed the concerned government bodies on Thursday to continue selling daily essential commodities of Trading Corporation Bangladesh (TCB) to the people at upazila level until the end...
A writ petition was filed with the High Court on Thursday seeking its directives upon the respondents to declare a fresh lockdown in whole Dhaka city for at least two...
India on Friday reported a total of 297,535 coronavirus infections, surpassing the United Kingdom to become the fourth worst affected country in the world. The number of infections increased by...
The government will go for hefty borrowing from the banking system to partly finance budget deficit for the fiscal year 2020-2021. Its bank borrowing is set to climb 79 per...
The government has allocated Tk 395 billion (Tk39,573 crore) for local government and rural development (LGRD}ministry in the proposed budget offiscal year (FY) 2020-21 with huge plans to expand urban...
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