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Bangladesh Meteorological Department on Wednesday forecast light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind at many places over the country in the next 24 hours ending 9:00am...
France will end special government powers brought in to deal with the coronavirus pandemic on July 10 though it will retain the ability to curb gatherings and freedom of movement...
The family of former health minister Mohammed Nasim, who remains in critical condition at a Dhaka hospital after contracting Covid-19, is planning to fly him to Singapore for treatment. They...
Stocks witnessed yet another flat session on Wednesday as investors mostly followed cautious stance ahead of national budget and ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. DSEX, the key index of the Dhaka Stock...
Bangladesh reported 3,190 fresh cases of novel coronavirus on Wednesday, the health directorate said, its biggest daily increase yet in infections, pushing the total case count to 74,865. Authorities also...
Transport regulators have moved to cancel the registrations and route permits of any public transport for not following hygiene rules and charging extra fare during the pandemic. The Road Transport...
India's financial capital, Mumbai, has recorded 51,000 cases of Covid, taking it past the peak in Wuhan, where the virus first emerged. The news comes amid a surge of infections...
A physician of Impulse Hospital, a private hospital in Dhaka, has died after contracting Covid-19, raising the body count among doctors to 27. Dr Jalilur Rahman Khan, a senior consultant...
Emirates, one of the world’s biggest long-haul airlines, will lay off more pilots and cabin crew on Wednesday, sources said, in what would be a second day of redundancies. An...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has formed a high-level panel comprising leading experts to tap into quick bounce back of the Southeast Asian economies after the coronavirus pandemic. ADB President...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan appointed new governors in 41 provinces, a presidential ruling in the Official Gazette showed on Wednesday. As part of the move, 23 governors were shuffled between...
The national budget session of the current parliament is going to be held at 5:00 pm today (Wednesday) amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Parliament session will be chaired by the...
The shortage of passengers has forced Biman Bangladesh Airlines to cancel its flights scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday on three domestic routes. Tahera Khandaker, Deputy General Manager (PR) of Biman,...
Stocks remained almost flat in early trading on Wednesday as investors’ concerns over the worsening Covid-19 situation and the floor price limitation kept the market nearly inactive. Within first 30...
Population-wide facemask use could push Covid-19 transmission down to controllable levels for national epidemics and could prevent further waves of the pandemic disease when combined with lockdowns, according to a...
Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd’s profit after tax surged 59 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter (Q1) for January-March, 2020. The board of directors of the bank in a meeting held...
Chinese companies are putting off plans for US listings as tensions between the world’s top two economies rise, lawyers, bankers, accountants and regulators involved in what has been a major...
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has urged countries to recognise the importance of global trade amid the COVID-19 pandemic and guard against a "dramatic retreat" from globalisation....
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a $17.7 million financing package with Spectra Solar Park Limited (SSPL) to invest in a 35-megawatt utility-scale solar photovoltaic plant in Bangladesh. The...
Bangladesh has ruled out any possibility to accept 269 Rohingyas detained by the Malaysian authorities saying it is no way Bangladesh's responsibility. "Rohingyas are not our citizens. Under no circumstances...
Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) forecast rain and thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty winds at many places over the country in the next 24 hours until Wednesday evening. In a regular...
The country's mango, litchi and other summer fruit growers are facing a double blow due to supply disruption during the coronavirus pandemic as well as fall in production. Low demand...
The Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) could manage only 1.5 per cent progress of the country's first road tunnel construction project under the Karnaphuli River during the corona pandemic-caused lockdown period...
Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has rejected the rights share offer of Dragon Sweater and Spinning Ltd. The securities regulator issued a letter to the company on June 3...
The target of completing the span placement work on Padma Bridge has been extended by five more months due to setbacks caused by the virus scare in assembling the spans,...
Leaders of the country's shrimp sector have demanded special financial support as well as duty exemption on imported inputs to overcome the setback they suffered due to Covid-19 pandemic and...
The securities regulator has asked both the bourses to set work plans for transforming the trading platforms into completely digitalised ones to avoid trade disruptions during any kind of pandemic...
The detection of coronavirus infection among some Bangladeshis, who left the country on special flights to at least two countries---Japan and South Korea--- with corona negative certificates, has triggered serious...
The National Board of Revenue or NBR is set to increase tax on private car owners and the import of onion in the budget for the upcoming fiscal year. It...
The government has taken around Tk 113 billion (11,300 crore) from different state-run power and gas entities over the past several months during the coronavirus pandemic. The Ministry of Finance...
In preparation to welcome travellers back to its hotels across the Asia-Pacific and to reassure guests who are currently in residence, ONYX Hospitality Group has announced enhanced operational hygiene and...
Army will help the civil administration enforce a lockdown in Dhaka’s East Rajabazar to slow the spread of coronavirus. The Inter Services Public Relations Directorate or ISPR made the announcement...
A total of 6,718 policemen were infected with coronavirus across the country while performing duties as of Tuesday. "Among the total infected policemen, 3,015 have made full recovery until Tuesday...
A legal notice has been served on Tuesday to the concerned government bodies to take necessary steps in 72 hours for the proper management of coronavirus-related medical waste. Advocate Md...
Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (LGRD) Minister Md Tazul Islam on Tuesday said an initiative has been taken to identify the areas with high infection rate to contain the...
Doctors, nurses, laboratory staff and other healthcare professionals providing direct patient care have been reported to be at very high risk in combating the current Covid-19, and many have been...
As if the game is over for professional journalism, pessimists like to infer from circulation fall coupled with declining ad revenue after the pandemic has further plagued the media industry....
Dishing out stimulus packages is only a part of the government move. How the disbursement process is worked out has assumed high importance given the immediate need for smooth implementation...
In the backdrop of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and its short-term impacts and medium to long-term implications for the recovery phase, the key policy concern emerging from the current public...
As Bangladesh's war against the covid-19 pandemic has entered its 10th week with the general public wondering how our doctors, who are engaged in the frontline, are faring in their...
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Tuesday urged the government not to keep any provision of whitening of black money in the forthcoming national budget in the name of creating employment...
The condition of Gonoshasthaya Kendra’s founder Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury has slightly improved. An online medical board, comprising local and foreign doctors, has been formed for the treatment of Dr Zafrullah....
As Sharif Uddin contemplates leaving the cramped Singapore dormitory where he has spent weeks under coronavirus quarantine, fears about his future creep in. The 42-year-old Bangladeshi construction supervisor is one...
Gilead Sciences Inc's antiviral drug, remdesivir, prevented lung disease in macaque monkeys infected with the new coronavirus, a study published in medical journal Nature showed on Tuesday, reports Reuters. Remdesivir...
Burundi's outgoing President Pierre Nkurunziza has died, the government of the central African nation announced in a statement posted on Twitter, Reuters reports. The government statement said that Nkurunziza had...
Experts at a webinar on Tuesday laid emphasis on transformative changes, innovative actions for the conservation of oceans and marine resources. To observe the World Oceans Day 2020, the International...
The High Court on Tuesday refused to grant bail to former vice president of Dhaka Bank and its Dhanmondi branch in-charge Md Aminul Islam in a case filed over misappropriating...
A Bangladesh foreign ministry official said the refugees were the responsibility of Myanmar. "Why don’t they ask Myanmar to take them back?" said the official criticising Malaysia for creating pressure...
The lockdown and social distancing measures to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic forced 95 per cent people across the country to suffer a loss in their income, according...
Beijing cleared all its domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases as the last patient was cured and discharged from hospital on Monday, local authorities said Tuesday. No new confirmed cases, suspected cases...
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