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The recovery rate of coronavirus patients in the country is the lowest among South and Southeast Asian nations as Bangladesh still lags behind these countries in providing health services, an...
A half-day online workshop on preparedness of banks to mitigate effects of COVID-19 on economic, monetary and financial sector was held on Saturday at the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management...
A total of 353 Bangladeshi nationals, mostly expatriate workers, returned home from Maldives by a special chartered flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on Saturday night amid ongoing flight suspension due...
Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, who is accused of funding militias that massacred about 800,000 people, was arrested on Saturday near Paris after 26 years on the run, the French...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) has suspended the training programmes for its staff due to coronavirus outbreak. The training programmes will be suspended until further order, said the BR Training Academy located...
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that the ruling party leaders and activists are deceiving the poor by plundering money allocated for them by Prime Minister...
The government has ordered to revise lists of coronavirus cash aid beneficiaries amid reports that some of the names were duplicated to embezzle money. The disaster management and relief ministry...
The ‘Digital Bangladesh’ campaign of the ruling Awami League is playing important role during the time of crisis due to coronavirus pandemic, as millions of people are availing online services....
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen defined human agency as "what a person is free to do and achieve in pursuit of whatever goals or values he or she regards as important."...
As the pandemic is unfolding, the world grapples with health and economic crisis. When everything is at a standstill, technology has come to save the day. Data analytics in particular...
The UK's exit (Brexit) from the European Union (EU) is to be seen from a wider context of the UK economy's incomplete recovery from the 2007-08 global financial crisis (GFC)...
The people of Bangladesh have never been known as inflicting cruelty on animals. Tales of emotional bond between pet animals and humans are plenty. The Bangla literature is filled with...
The prospect of the country's new economic zones is deemed very encouraging. Businesses from both home and abroad are coming up with investment proposals worth billions of dollars. Such proposals...
As the authorities here have been dragging their feet on the issue of anti-dumping duty (ADD) imposed on Bangladesh jute goods by India, the latter, reportedly, is on the move...
A police constable of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday after his death on Friday at Chattogram General Hospital. The deceased was identified as Constable Md...
Ruling Awami League will celebrate the homecoming day of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday as she returned to the country on May 17, 1981 after a long exile. This...
Information Minister Hasan Mahmud has said private hospitals are demanding “prohibitive” amounts of money from the government for treatment of COVID-19 patients. “It’s hard to call a hospital a hospital...
Readymade garment (RMG) workers will get 50 per cent of their basic pay as festival allowance before Eid-ul-Fitr, while the rest 50 per cent will be paid after the eid....
Former Bangladesh cricket captain Masrhafe Bin Mortaza has put his bracelet, which he has worn for 18 years, on auction to raise fund to help people hit hard by the...
Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, in line with the government’s decision, has extended the ongoing closure of all courts across the country, including the Appellate and High Court divisions of...
Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said home-going tendency before Eid may worsens the coronavirus situation. He made this remark while speaking at a videoconference from Awami...
Azad Rahman, a composer, music director, singer and winner of National Film Awards, has died at the age of 76. Azad passed away in a Dhaka hospital around 4:45 pm...
Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh took over as new Mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) on Saturday. DSCC Chief Executive Officer Shah Md Imdadul Haque formally handed over the mayoral...
A total of 90 workers in 53 factories, located in five industrial zones under the jurisdiction of Industrial Police (IP), have so far been infected with coronavirus till Saturday. Out...
Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque has urged local juice manufacturers to buy more mangoes this year as marketing of farm produces have become a big challenge at this time due...
Gilead Sciences Inc's two clinical studies of its potential coronavirus treatment remdesivir will wind down by the end of May, closing off a path of patient access to the antiviral...
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) expressed concerns over imposing container detention charge amid the ongoing lockdown in the country. Bangladesh is imposing container detention charge, whereas shipping lines...
Bangladesh reported the first confirmed COVID-19 death on 18 March 2020 –10 days after reporting the first reported infection on 8 March 2020. As of 15 May, the total number...
A heavy rain hit Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, on Friday. Vehicles were seen moving on a flooded road in Colombo, reports Xinhua. Workers were draining water out of...
Eleven people, including five bank officials, were diagnosed with Covid-19 in the district in the last 24 hours till Saturday, raising the total number of confirmed cases to 365 here....
Bangladesh Meteorological Department has advised maritime ports to keep a distant cautionary signal No. 1 hoisted as a depression over the Bay of Bengal threatens to turn into a cyclone...
The global death toll from coronavirus pandemic reached 308,642 as of Saturday morning. Since first reported in China in December last year, coronavirus has so far infected 4,628,228 people globally,...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), in separate drives on Saturday, found Aedes larvae in 24 houses and establishments, and fined Tk 24, 000 in the capital as it launched combing...
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has expressed profound shock at the passing of its board member and National Professor Anisuzzaman. "CPD has lost a guardian and leader who steered...
The fatalities from COVID-19 in the country climbed to 314 after 16 new deaths were registered in the last 24 hours to 8:00am on Saturday, data from the health directorate...
Disgruntled workers of readymade garment (RMG) factory have descended on the streets at Mohakhali area of Dhaka city to demand back pay amid the coronavirus shutdown. The protests began around...
The local administration at Kutupalong Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar has put some 5,000 Rohingyas under lockdown after two more tested positive on Friday. With the two new cases, three...
Dubai-based Emirates has announced its plan to operate scheduled flight services from May 21 to nine destinations: London Heathrow Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Chicago, Toronto, Sydney and Melbourne, says a...
Seventy seven more Bangladesh nationals are scheduled to return home from the Maldives by a special aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force on Sunday (May 17). Bangladesh High Commission in the...
At least 24 people were killed and more than 35 were injured when two trucks collided with each other in northern India on Saturday, local officials confirmed said. The accident...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate mobile court drives on Friday fined different shops a total of Tk 39,500 for allegedly violating the government’s social distancing measures. Several DMP teams,...
Aid workers in Bangladesh raced to stop the coronavirus spreading through the world’s largest refugee settlement on Friday, installing isolation treatment centres and hand washing stations, after the first cases...
India’s coronavirus (COVID-19) cases have surpassed China’s with the health ministry on Saturday reporting the spike to 85,940 cases with 2,752 deaths. In total, China has reported 4,633 deaths among...
With the global economy battered by the coronavirus pandemic, Bangladesh has sought record $4.5 billion in loans from foreign donors to cover the deficit in the national budget for fiscal...
A special flight carrying 242 Bangladesh citizens stranded in the United States amid coronavirus pandemic is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka early Sunday. The flight departed for Bangladesh from Washington...
Dhaka, the overpopulated capital of Bangladesh, has been hit the hardest during the coronavirus pandemic as the city has more than half of the confirmed cases in the country, government...
World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that coronavirus threatens to reverse development gains made by Bangladesh in the last 50 years and has appealed for $320 million to help the...
The coronavirus pandemic has killed the Eid joy. Even though a rising number of COVID-19 cases is leading more people to opt for online shopping, the pandemic and subsequent global...
The maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra were advised to hoist distant cautionary signal number one on Saturday after a depression formed over the Southeast Bay and...
Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has long been hamstrung by capital shortfall, making it difficult for the agency to carry out timely market intervention, officials said. Supply of key essentials...
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