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More than 4.02 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 276,894 have died, according to a Reuters tally. Infections have been reported in...
A chartered flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines left Dhaka on Sunday to bring back Bangladeshi nationals who have been stuck in the United Kingdom amid flight suspension due to coronavirus...
The government has assigned an officer in each of Bangladesh's 64 districts to supervise agricultural activities with the aim of ensuring food security amid a rampant coronavirus outbreak in the...
Despite the countrywide shutdown triggered by coronavirus, agriculturists and agriculture officials expect a surplus boro production this year as over 98 per cent of boro paddy has already been harvested...
Emirates airline has reported a profit of US$ 288 million, for the year ended on March 31, 2020, which is 21 per cent up from the previous year. During the...
Shop employees of Gausia market staged demonstrations and blocked Mirpur Road for an hour on Sunday demanding their arrears. The agitating workers took to the streets in front of Gausia...
The Government of Bangladesh has allowed partial opening of the economy with effect from early May, while the Covid-19 pandemic is spreading faster than has been the case hitherto. Broadly,...
Bangladesh confirmed 887 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 14,657. This is the biggest single day spike in infections since the...
Two associations of motorcycle assemblers and manufacturers have sought a financial support worth Tk 20.6 billion from the government to help protect the motorcycle industry. They have sought the support...
A college student was stabbed to death by unidentified miscreants on Saturday in Pabna Municipaity area. The deceased was identified as Jewel Rana Akash, 20, son of Sujon Mia of...
Tesla sued local authorities in California on Saturday (US standard time) as the electric carmaker pushed to re-open its factory there and Chief Executive Elon Musk threatened to move Tesla’s headquarters...
Two Bangladeshi families stuck in Vellore since the start of the lockdown hitched a ride on a special bus carrying 24 people from West Bengal and reached Kolkata on Saturday...
A platform called "Food for Nation" has been set up under the “Innovation Design and Entrepreneurship Academy (iDEA) project”. The platform run by the Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) under the...
Film producer, director and censor board member Rana Hamid died of cancer at a hospital in the capital on Saturday night. He had been suffering from stomach cancer and kidney...
Malaysia’s government extended the time frame for movement and business curbs by another four weeks to June 9, amid a gradual reopening of economic activity stunted by the coronavirus pandemic....
Fifty eight more Bangladesh-origin British citizens will leave Dhaka for Manchester, England today (Sunday). A special flight of Novoair Airline brought the 58 British citizens to Dhaka from Sylhet at 9:00am...
The US Embassy in Bangladesh urged its citizens to join Ambassador Earl Miller and members of the embassy for a virtual town hall meeting via WebEx to be held on...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate mobile court drives on Saturday fined different people and business entities a total of Tk 94,300 for allegedly violating the government’s social distancing measures...
Nearly 70,000 workers and employees of state-owned jute, textiles and sugar mills are virtually starving for non-payment of salaries amid the corona outbreak. Many of them wondered why they are...
In the dark and unforgiving coronavirus cloud hanging over Bangladesh's foreign income, jute exports have grown 14 per cent year-on-year to $791.3 million in the July-April period of the current...
China’s National Health Commission reported 14 new confirmed coronavirus cases on May 9, the highest number since April 28, including the first for more than a month in the city...
As businesspeople have been permitted to keep shopping malls and markets open on a limited scale from Sunday, some of them reopened their shops in different parts of the country,...
South Korea reported 34 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, the highest daily number in a month, after a small outbreak emerged around a slew of nightclubs that a confirmed patient...
Three key US officials guiding the coronavirus response were in self-quarantine on Saturday after coming into contact with someone who had tested positive for COVID-19, according to spokesmen and media...
Former President Barack Obama described President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic as “chaotic” in a conference call with former members of his administration, a source said on Saturday....
Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Saturday advised the civil surgeons and upazila health and family planning officials to test dengue of suspected patients who will come with Covid-19...
The government should try to secure external financing to meet its budget gap for fiscal year 2020-21, said the Centre for Policy Dialogue, or CPD, on Saturday. "It is critically...
More than 130 Bangladeshi students, stranded in the United Kingdom since the suspension of international flights between Dhaka and London in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, are scheduled to...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) has started freight train service to bring in essential goods from India amid a slowdown in road-based transportation due to the coronavirus pandemic. Railway officials said the...
The fate of about 150,000 workers who are in the process of going abroad with jobs has fallen uncertain as the host countries cannot receive them shortly because of the...
The swift shifts in the current business climate are hard to ignore - and business continuity ranks high in priority for manufacturers to ensure they can continue to operate. Major...
The country's roads and highways are normally witness to hundreds of small and big road accidents every year. It was the common spectacle in the pre-coronavirus times. The highest numbers...
The country wants to see new gas field discovered within a span of six months to one year, said Mr Nasrul Hamid, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources...
That the country has started producing the generic version of an antiviral drug, remdesivir, is a piece of welcome news. One leading pharmaceutical company has already achieved this milestone and...
The Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) and its main affiliate Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) have demanded compensation of at least Taka 5.0 million for every newsman died of...
As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic progresses, growing demands are causing shortages of testing kits, personal protective equipment (PPE), and ventilators in many affected countries. Even the most developed countries...
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has said that Covid-2019 would compel stakeholders to revisit the concept of supply chain.It is estimated that the lockdown/shutdown/restrictions will directly...
With the Eid-ul-Fitr approaching, leading fashion and lifestyle brand Aarong will reopen 14 of its 21 outlets amid the coronavirus outbreak. Customers will have to register online beforehand to enter,...
Almost all the malls in Dhaka’s New Market area have decided to keep the shutters down until Eid-ul-Fitr fearing spread of coronavirus. The owners’ associations of New Market, Chandni Chawk...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday urged his party leaders and activists to stand by the poor and destitute people with the money they are supposed to spend...
BNP’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that the government is easing the shutdown only to protect the interests of big businesspeople ignoring the threat to people’s...
Turkey has assured Bangladesh of raising the Rohingya issue at the next meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) as Rohingya problem remains unresolved and it is putting much burden...
As many as 220 more Australians have left Dhaka for home on a second special flight. They were stranded in Bangladesh due to a travel ban over the coronavirus pandemic....
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) and Common Health Bangladesh have signed an agreement to provide free telemedicine service to 100,000 garment workers. BGMEA President Dr Rubana Huq and...
The waiver of container storage fees at Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) yard would not be extended after May 16, CPA chairman Commodore Abul Kalam Azad has said. Following the demand...
The first freight train loaded with onions was handed over by Indian Railway to Bangladesh Railway (BR) authorities at Gede (India) - Darsana (Bangladesh) interchange point on Saturday. After customs...
Gautam Aich Sarker, an additional secretary of the government, has died a day after being admitted to the Kurmitola General Hospital with kidney complications. He did not show symptoms of...
The Bangladesh Post Office (BPO) has launched Krishak Bondhu Postal Service (KBPS) for transportation of agriculture products of marginal farmers into the wholesale markets of capital city without any cost...
Another employee of the Anti-Corruption Commission has died from the COVID-19 disease. Khalilur Rahman, an employee of the commission, died while undergoing treatment at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s Corona...
The Rotary Medical Support Center has been inaugurated to provide medical assistance to people suffering from various diseases during this pandemic situation. Rotary Governor (2020-21) M. Rubaiyat Hossain inaugurated the...
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