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Ten men were killed on Saturday when gunmen opened fire on a drugs rehabilitation centre in the Mexican city of Irapuato, the government of Guanajuato state said. Guanajuato, a region...
A total of 97 people were infected and five died in the last 24 hours until Saturday evening in Cox’s Bazar. “A total of 108 people tested positive when 348...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has written an article marking the historic Six-Point Day today. Following is the article: We observe June 7 as the Six-Point Day. The year 2020 has...
Stocks on both the bourses witnessed a slight gain trend at opening on Sunday despite investors’ concerns over the worsening COVID-19 situation and the floor prices mechanism kept the market...
The COVID-19 pandemic delivered a big blow to the mobile handset business in Bangladesh, as the local industry incurred an estimated loss of Tk 1.0 billion (100 crore) due to...
Malaysia’s new government would not be willing to accept even compensation of $3.0 billion from Goldman Sachs in a settlement over the 1MDB scandal, the finance minister told Reuters, ruling...
The board of directors of RN Spinning Mills has decided to reduce its paid-up share capital by issuing 1 share against existing 7 shares (7:1) of Tk 10 each to...
Prices of some essential commodities witnessed a decline last week, according to the city's kitchen market sources, giving consumers some relief during this pandemic period. Prices of broiler chicken, sugar,...
Health experts and economists have urged the government to impose a strict lockdown along with a curfew for at least a month to contain the spread of COVID-19. They said...
Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing has become the first minister in Bangladesh who is confirmed to have contracted the novel coronavirus amid an escalating outbreak. The Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT) affairs...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has asked the scheduled banks to submit information on daily basis regarding the formation of the special fund earlier announced to support the country's ailing capital market....
ACME Laboratories Ltd’s net profit after tax fell slightly by 1.74 per cent year-on-year in the nine months for July, 2019 to March, 2020. The board of directors of the...
'Nirapon', a platform of North America-based apparel brands and retailers, has closed its activities in the country. "Nirapon will continue its focus on safety while shifting to a more streamlined...
The government has selected a total of 17 development projects worth US$11.5 billion as priority ones for Chinese investment. The list of priority projects has been prepared in line with...
Unscrupulous traders have been selling medical oxygen extortionately, thus mounting the sufferings of Covid-19 and non-Covid patients as the demand for oxygen cylinders at household level goes up. Many families...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has allowed container train service on the Benapole-Petrapole route for the import of essential commodities in the wake of disruption in the movement of...
Amid allegations of charging extra fare against transport operators and ignoring social distance, owners now complain about not getting adequate passengers to run their bus services. Long-haul bus operators mainly...
The FBCCI has handed over personal protective equipment (masks, PPEs, face shields and gloves) to the Economic Reporters Forum (ERF). Sheikh Fazle Fahim, president of the apex trade body, handed...
Global cases of the novel coronavirus topped 7 million on Saturday, as case numbers surge in Brazil and India. About 30 per cent of those cases, or 2 million infections,...
The shortage of passengers has forced Biman Bangladesh Airlines to cancel its flights scheduled for Sunday and Monday on three domestic routes. Tahera Khandaker, Deputy General Manager (PR) of Biman,...
A major three-alarm fire has destroyed a Southern California distribution centre that was used to ship items to Amazon customers. Authorities said employees moved out to safety and there were...
As the Covid-19 crisis has escalated, stay-at-home orders have led to a surge in online purchases - of everything from groceries to medicines to household essentials - by consumers in...
Now-a-days the banking process is becoming faster, easier and wider throughout the world. Agent banking service is an outcome of the process. The main purpose of agent banking is to...
According to the Financial Express of June 1, Bangladesh had 47,153 cases of Covid-19 infection and 650 people died from the infection by the end of May. The paper quoting...
Since the diagnosis of the first case of Covid-19 pandemic in Bangladesh on March 08, 2020, Chinese Enterprises Association in Bangladesh (CEAB) has positively responded to the call to fully...
"An investment in knowledge always pays the best dividend" is what Niloufer Manzur believed. Ever since she set her feet into the academic arena, she tirelessly tried to imbibe her...
Different types of scenarios have been unfolding in various sectors of the country over the last one week. They include Dhaka-bound people's frantic rush to the city. People have been...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said recently the country's economy will surpass that of Malaysia and Singapore by 2024. He said the Bangladesh economy flourished immensely under the leadership of...
Japan East West Medical College Hospital in the city has started providing treatment for Covid -19 patients on Saturday. Health and Family Planning Minister Zahid Maleque inaugurated the services through...
For the farming community, getting raw deals is a common happening in this part of the world. Nature, at times, thrust on them calamities such as drought, cyclone and flood,...
The government has prepared a proposal to finalise different parameters to categorise coronavirus-infected areas in three zones - red, yellow and green- with an aim to stem the spread of...
The historic Six-Point Day, marking the demand for autonomy for the then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, is going to be virtually observed tomorrow (Sunday) across the country in wake of...
Awami League presidium member and former home minister Sahara Khatun has been admitted to the city’s United Hospital with old age complications. She was hospitalised a few days ago with...
Businesses are renegotiating contracts with multiple stakeholders as they are facing uncertain future due to COVID-19 pandemic. A study, conducted by the Economic Research Group (ERG) on selected areas of...
Altogether 5,999 members of Bangladesh Police have been infected with coronavirus while performing duties across the country as of Saturday morning, as per a UNB agency report. “Among the coronavirus-infected...
Protesters are expected to gather in Washington for a huge demonstration on Saturday, its police chief said, as US street marches over the killing of a black man in custody...
The orthopaedic department of Barishal’s Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) has been put under lockdown after 11 doctors and nurses tested positive for coronavirus. Other doctors and staff of the...
A wedding party contributed to a new surge in coronavirus infections in Iran, the country’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday but insisted the country had no option but to...
State-run Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) has sought Tk 58 billion from the government to carry out the regular expenses as huge electricity bills remain unpaid. “We sought the financial...
Bangladesh has called for global solidarity and cooperation to address the challenges of the migrants, who are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Permanent Representative (PR) of Bangladesh to the...
Physicians from Bangladesh Medical College Hospital (BMCH), led by Dr Tarek Alam, claimed that a combination of the anti-parasitic drug ‘ivermectin’ with antibiotic ‘Doxycycline’ yielded amazing results against SARS-CoV-2. Dr...
Former health minister Mohammed Nasim is in ‘deep coma’ and currently is in ventilation support in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Bangladesh Specialised Hospital at Shyamoli in the capital....
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro threatened on Friday to pull his country out of the World Health Organization after the UN agency warned Latin American governments about the risk of lifting...
The government is planning to impose area-wise lockdowns in Dhaka, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, by identifying infection clusters and hotspots in the capital after Bangladesh ranked 20th among...
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) on Saturday said its President Dr Rubana Haque did not announce anything about RMG workers' retrenchment from June. In a statement amid widespread...
IPDC Finance Limited, the first ever private sector financial institution in Bangladesh, contributes Tk 20 million to Prime Minister's Relief and Welfare Fund. Chairman of IPDC Finance and former Principal...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam has written to the Inspector General (IG) of police calling for the transfer of a joint commissioner for corruption. In the letter, the...
India and China agreed on Friday to resolve a dispute over their shared border in the Ladakh region through diplomatic channels, the Indian foreign affairs ministry said in a statement,...
Green mango processing could be the vital way to boost family income and nutritional safety besides reclamation of the losses of the fallen mangoes. Every year, huge quantities of underdeveloped...
Chairman of Yabang Group Xiaochu Xu met Bangladesh Ambassador to China Mahbub Uz Zaman at his office in Beijing and discussed investment plans in Bangladesh. They plan to invest in...
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