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It is now evident that the spread of coronavirus is better contained in Bangladesh than in many countries. As of April 28, 2020, a total 6462 people have tested coronavirus...
Traditional market-based economic theory see the economic being within an economic system to function when there is free flow of information with full bargaining power. This leads to efficient allocation...
China is open to an independent investigation to determine the origins of the coronavirus now sweeping the world, Chinese ambassador to Berlin told a German magazine on Friday According to...
The Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) on Friday predicted rain or thundershowers for different parts of the country in the next 24 hours commencing 6:00pm. “Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary...
National Tubes Limited, the state-owned pipe manufacturer under the Bangladesh Steel and Engineering Corporation (BSEC), returned to profit in the fiscal 2019-20 after three years. “National Tubes Limited has earned...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the authorities to immediately drop all charges, which appear to violate freedom of expression, release the four people in custody, and repeal the draconian Digital...
Kuwait will enact a ‘total curfew’ from 1300 GMT on Sunday through to May 30 to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus. According to Reuters, further details of...
Priority to life while combatting the Covid-19 has led to economic losses and it is such a situation when people can hardly predict future sustainability of occupational and economic activities....
Health experts predict the 3rd week of the current month to be the peak COVID-19 infection period, while the scenario to remain static for subsequent several days and expected the...
With the Covid-19 declared as a "Pandemic" by the World Health Organization (WHO), there is no denying its adverse effects on all segments of the population including businesses and establishments...
With hundreds of thousands of people dead and millions infected, the novel coronavirus is continuing to pose a grave threat to human lives, particularly to those with pre-existing conditions like...
A wholesale market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan played a role in the outbreak of the novel coronavirus last year, as the source or possibly as an "amplifying...
Ready-made garment (RMG) workers have started to get salaries as banks are disbursing loans for paying wages of April from the government’s stimulus package of Taka 50.00 billion. As per...
Leaders of business organisations in Sylhet city area on Friday decided not to reopen shopping malls and markets before Eid-ul-Fitr. The meeting, presided over by Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) Mayor...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Friday berated statements posted on social media by some diplomats on media freedom issue terming them "unfortunate, disappointing and unacceptable". "They could have...
The Association of Mobile Operators of Bangladesh has asked for elimination of minimum turnover tax and rationalisation of corporate income tax in line with the regional countries in the national...
Abu Bakar Mollah with a pale face was sitting idle on a footpath in Old Dhaka the other day. He is one of those poor street vendors whose livelihoods have...
A special flight, carrying 167 medical students hailing from Jammu and Kashmir, reached Srinagar airport from Dhaka on Friday as part of India’s efforts to bring back its citizens stranded...
Evercare Hospital Dhaka has conducted the first Convalescent Plasma Therapy for the first time in Bangladesh. Successfully conducted in many developed countries recently, this Plasma Therapy is a promising research...
Bangladesh Police has booked Impulse Hospital in the capital for the treatment of coronavirus-infected police members. “The 250-bed hospital will treat only police members infected with coronavirus,” Assistant Inspector General...
For Claudia Alejandra, unemployment has become a full-time job. Since losing her position at the makeup counter at the Macy’s department store in Orlando, Florida, on March 28, Alejandra spends...
Grameenphone announces a series of initiatives and contributions to stand by its commitment in supporting frontline health professional heroes, customers, and its retailers fighting the on-ground COVID-19 pandemic. These are...
A woman and two children have died after a septic tank exploded in a five-storey residential building in Narayanganj. At least five others were injured in the blowout that took...
India on Friday started repatriating its nationals who have been stranded in Bangladesh due to restrictions on flight operations. In the first phase, a special Air India flight, with 170...
Top US and Chinese trade representatives discussed their Phase 1 trade deal on Friday with China saying they agreed to improve the atmosphere for its implementation and the United States...
The impact of the coronavirus outbreak will exacerbate the material slowdown in India’s economic growth, with the country expected to see 0 per cent expansion in the current fiscal year,...
The US government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has provided over $22 million to complement Bangladesh’s...
The death toll from coronavirus in Bangladesh rose to 206 as the health directorate confirmed seven more fatalities on Friday. Besides, the tally of positive infections also soared to 13,134...
Many Muslims took part in Jum’a prayers at mosques in Dhaka, as elsewhere in Bangladesh, on Friday, a month after the restriction on congregations was withdrawn subject to abiding by...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Thursday fined different people and organisations a total of Tk 66,400 for violating the government’s social distancing measures amid the ongoing shutdown. Several DMP teams,...
IPDC Finance's net profit dropped 5.47 per cent year-on-year to Tk 150 million in first quarter for January-March, 2020 as operating expenses increased. The net profit of the first non-bank...
For Claudia Alejandra, unemployment has become a full-time job. Since losing her position at the makeup counter at the Macy’s department store in Orlando, Florida, on March 28, Alejandra spends...
The Bangladesh navy has rescued around 280 Rohingya Muslims from the Bay of Bengal, towing their stranded boat to an island where they will be quarantined, coast guard and naval...
Twenty more people including two children were infected with coronavirus in Keraniganj in the last 24 hours till Thursday night. Dr Mir Mobarak Hossain, Upazila Health and Family Planning officer,...
The country’s single month merchandise shipments in April this year witnessed 82.85 per cent negative growth to only US$520.01 million, the lowest during the current fiscal year, according to data....
A train in India crashed into a group of migrant workers walking along the railroad tracks on to their way back to their home state on Friday, killing at least...
The government has taken a massive plan to recover canals, wetlands and small rivers across the country and re-excavate those to increase their navigability and water reservation capacity, groundwater recharge...
The 159th birth anniversary of the Rabindranath Tagore is being be celebrated on Friday. Tagore was a poet, visual artist, playwright, novelist, as well as a composer whose works reshaped...
Black people and men of Bangladeshi and Pakistani origin are nearly twice as likely to die from the COVID-19 disease than whites, even when adjusting data for deprivation, a new...
A teacher of Notre Dame College in Dhaka, who was suffering from pneumonia, fever and lung complications, died on the way to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) from Chandpur on...
CHATTOGRAM: Despite enormous economic loss suffered by shopkeepers and small traders of greater Chattogram triggered by the 40-day-long general holidays due to coronavirus outbreak, many merchant bodies here have delayed...
The central bank has invited applications from interested banks by May 14 to sign participatory agreements (PAs) on receiving refinancing facility under the large industries and services sector. All the...
National tax collector has ordered the field-level VAT offices to investigate businesses that avoided the payment of consumption levy and submission of returns, despite being operational during the lockdown. The...
Bangladesh has asked commercial councillors of its missions abroad to take effective steps so that export orders are not cancelled by the buyers concerned. The Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said...
The country's Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) have called upon the tax authority to bring in reforms in the tax policy for telecommunication industry to reap more benefit from them, according...
The ministry of finance on Thursday asked all state-owned banks to start procedures immediately for the implementation of relief packages the government offered to help businesses cushion the pandemic blow....
An estimated 2.4 million babies will be born in Bangladesh under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, said UNICEF on Thursday. The country ranks 9 in terms of the highest...
Japan on Thursday approved Gilead Sciences Inc's remdesivir as a treatment for COVID-19, making it the country's first officially authorised drug to tackle the coronavirus disease, reports Reuters. Japan reached...
That the government's rice procurement programme is benefitting the millers far more than the peasantry has been a recurrent allegation for many years now. The government, however, has preferred not...
The concluding part of a three-part essay on SDGs & Bangladesh The first Bangladesh progress report on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) implementation was prepared in 2018 following a rigorous methodological...
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