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The board of directors of Prime Bank Ltd has recommended 13.50 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2019. The board of directors of the bank...
The South Asian countries, including Bangladesh, might lose US$142 billion to $218 billion due to impact of the deadly Coronavirus pandemic on their economies, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said...
The mandatory 14-day institutional quarantine system for Bangladeshis returning from India to prevent coronavirus infection has been relaxed. The doctors on duty at the checkpost medical team will check the...
The government expects to achieve 20.04 million tonnes of Boro production target, although acreage of this major crop fell to a three-year low this year. The government officials are still...
Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) initiates a study of 'convalescent plasma therapy' on Covid-19 cases today (Saturday). Under the study, blood plasma will be collected from some donors, who won...
The government plans to transfer Tk 150 billion from the surplus money of the state-owned enterprises or SoEs to the government exchequer during fiscal year 2019-20, finance ministry officials say....
The government is set to approve a Tk 2.05-trillion Annual Development Programme (ADP) at the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting scheduled for Tuesday, officials said on Friday. Amid the coronavirus...
The central bank is purchasing securities without any check to funnel funds into banks, which are supposed to finance economic rescue packages. The quantitative easing or QE is a form...
BRAC Bank has contributed 1,000 pieces of imported face shields to Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), says a press release. The contribution came on to help DMP ensure the safety...
Summit has closed USD 140 million (equivalent to BDT 11.90 billion) as long-term financing from Clifford Capital Pte. Ltd. (“Clifford Capital”) of Singapore and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (“SMBC”), Japan’s second...
As the University Grants Commission (UGC) has recently come up with a direction of conducting online classes due to the Coronavirus situation, universities have embarked on a new journey of...
Tragedy in the Greek literature is driven by character flaws in heroic figures while tragedy in the English or Shakespearean literature is more nuanced and complex. In contrast, tragedy or...
Indonesia will require big internet companies to pay value-added taxes (VAT) on sales of digital products and services from July as part of efforts to boost revenue amid the coronavirus...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has alleged that a vested quarter is manipulating data on deaths from coronavirus infection on social media with clever disinformation in a propaganda campaign...
UNICEF said it is preparing a 210-bed Severe Acute Respiratory Infection Isolation and Treatment Centre after the first coronavirus cases were confirmed among the Rohingya population in Cox's Bazar. The...
Around the world, food insecurity is spiking. Experts predict that the number of hungry people will double during the Covid-19 pandemic. Throughout Africa, governments struggle to provide for the neediest....
When a number of social thinkers and philosophers like Amartya Sen express their optimism that 'a new world' or 'a better society' will emerge in the post-Covid period, many people...
As Bangladesh is fighting coronavirus pandemic that has affected 212 countries and territories, assumptions about the virus, prediction of severity, and pattern of genome have all been changing, puzzling scientists...
Many are calling for a temporary moratorium on all debt repayments by developing and emerging economies, in order to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic from triggering a tsunami of sovereign defaults....
As elsewhere in the world, Bangladesh's health sector has also been facing an unprecedented challenge from the covid-19 pandemic since March when the country's first death from the virus was...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) kept all its VAT field offices open on Friday to facilitate VAT return submission. The deadline for submission of VAT return for the month...
At least 1,000 Rohingya are stranded at sea as Southeast Asian nations tighten their borders to keep out the new coronavirus, Amnesty International said on Friday, urging action to ensure...
World’s No.2 cigarette company British American Tobacco said on Friday it was ready to test its potential COVID-19 vaccine using proteins from tobacco leaves on humans, after it generated a...
The country's first crowdfunding digital platform ‘EkDesh’ was launched with the aim of making it easier for any government or non-government organisation to provide zakat or financial grants. State Minister...
The board of directors of Prime Bank Ltd has recommended 13.50 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2019. The board of directors of the bank...
Travellers have crammed into ferries at Munshiganj’s Shimulia to cross the Padma river to 21 southern districts despite coronavirus scare with around 10 days left to Eid-ul-Fitr. They were trying...
The British government on Friday announced three more chartered flights from Bangladesh to take back more than 900 British travellers home. The flights will be operated on May 20, May...
Save the Children, Bangladesh has expressed its regret for publishing a ‘misleading’ survey report conducted over a small sample of slum children here to find out COVID-19 impact on them,...
The authorities concerned have suspended the upcoming 193rd Eid-ul-Fitr Jamaat (congregation) at the historic Sholakia Eidgah Maidan this year due to the coronavirus outbreak. Kishoreganj Deputy Commissioner (DC) and Sholakia...
Clifford Capital Pte Ltd of Singapore and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) of Japan are set to provide long term financing of $140 million (Tk 11.90 billion) to Summit Power...
The first unit (660 MW) of newly-constructed Payra coal-fired power plant went into commercial operation on Thursday, utilising the recently-commissioned 400 kV Payra–Gopalganj power transmission line, reports UNB. “We’ve successfully...
Tougher scrutiny of foreign investment in India has soured the plans of China's smartphone manufacturers seeking to expand beyond selling hardware for a bigger share of the South Asian country's...
No new dengue case was reported in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Friday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), reports UNB. Currently, two dengue patients are...
Asian Paints is swimming against the tide. Instead of slashing pay and jobs - standard industry responses to the current demand destruction - India's biggest paints maker is raising salaries...
Amazon Prime Video, Amazon's streaming service, will screen several new Indian films originally meant for theatrical release this month, sparking protests from cinema owners as the novel coronavirus outbreak upends...
A total of 14 doctors and eight health workers were infected with the coronavirus (COVID-19) in different hospitals in Chattogram until today (Friday). Among them, a 36-year-old gynecologist and a...
Bangladesh has sought cooperation from the European Parliament for the restoration of apparel work orders, suspended or cancelled by various European brands and retailers after the COVID-19 pandemic. The Ministry...
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) on Thursday said the number of mobile internet subscribers crossed 100 million in the country as of March. A total of 103.253 million people...
India has invited Bangladeshi officials to discuss as New Delhi seeks to protect its mills by imposing yet another bout of safeguard duty on jute products of Dhaka. Anti-dumping duties...
Any vaccine to fight the new coronavirus will not be ready for use for at least two years, the chief executive of Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis , which no longer...
The coronavirus pandemic could cost the global economy between $5.8 trillion and $8.8 trillion (£4.7 trillion-£7.1 trillion), according to Asian Development Bank (ADB). That's more than double last month's prediction...
India has lost two weeks in its bid to get a picture of the spread of the coronavirus in its population because of poor Chinese testing kits, a member of...
An already-dismal near-term US economic outlook has darkened further in the latest Reuters poll of economists, and while a recovery is still forecast for the second half, the economy won’t...
Bangladesh Meteorological Department has advised maritime ports in the country's southern regions to hoist the distant cautionary signal No. 1 after a well-marked low over south-east Bay of Bengal concentrated...
South Bangla Agriculture & Commerce (SBAC) Bank Limited has exempted late fine on monthly installment of deposit savings schemes. All monthly-based deposit scheme clients will be able to avail this...
Mexico has reached "the peak moment" of its coronavirus outbreak, officials said, as the country recorded its largest one-day rise in cases so far. More than 2,409 new cases of...
Fifteen people died of coronavirus and 1202 tested positive in the 24 hours to 8:00am, Bangladesh's Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said on Friday. With the latest, the number...
The Ministry of Agriculture has planned to cultivate vegetables at the courtyards of 650,000 houses across the country to tackle the possible food crisis due to coronavirus pandemic. "As per...
Russia on Friday reported 10,598 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, pushing its nationwide case tally to 262,843. Russia’s coronavirus taskforce said 113 people had died over the last...
A man, named in 16 cases of murder, robbery and drug peddling, has died in a “gunfight” with police in the Khilgaon neighbourhood of Dhaka on Thursday. Belal Hossain, 29,...
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