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Mahmudul Hakim Apu, a senior sub-editor of The Daily Shomoyer Alo, died at his residence in Dhaka’s Banasree early on Wednesday, reports bdnews24.com. He was suffering from respiratory problems, fever...
Mr. Azam J Chowdhury, on behalf of Omera Gas One Ltd. and Omera Petroleum Ltd. has donated 1,000 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the jail authorities to ensure the safety...
Bashundhara City Complex and Jamuna Future Park are not opening their doors to Eid shoppers as a precaution against the coronavirus infection even as the government has greenlighted reopening of...
A major challenge for Bangladesh is to mobilise and ensure effective use of the resources needed for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Under the SDGs financing strategy, Bangladesh has...
A New York-based non-government organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) - expressed its apprehension that hundreds of people might die in Bangladesh in the coming years from diseases related to arsenic...
Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has been trying to procure and store at least 10 days' reserve for petroleum products (estimated 0.11 million tonnes) taking the advantage of the 'very low'...
Bangladesh is being forced to endure lockdowns to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. These lockdowns are having a crippling effect on workers and businesses across the country. The economy has almost...
On April 27, different news outlets, including some of the leading newspapers in the country, quoted Singapore University of Technology and Design's (SUTD) Data-Driven Innovation Lab claiming 97.0 per cent...
The central bank has reportedly issued a guideline for disbursing Tk 200 billion to micro, small, medium enterprises (MSMEs) including cottage industries, announced earlier by the government, to boost production...
The government will not allow hawkers on pavements before Eid-ul-Fitr due to risk of coronavirus infection. However, shops and shopping malls will be reopened from May 10. The home ministry...
Samsung Group heir Jay Y Lee, embroiled in a bribery scandal, on Wednesday made a rare apology over controversial succession plans and said he will not hand over management rights...
The reopening of shops and shopping malls ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr will surely help the stalled wheel of economy move again, but health experts warned that it will also lead to...
A 1966 manuscript, on which a young Bob Dylan typed and wrote lyrics for a track on his “Blonde on Blonde” album and another song he later abandoned, went on...
Covid-19, caused by the deadly novel coronavirus, has been wreaking havoc across the world for the past few months. In addition to causing an unprecedented health emergency, it has stirred...
Bangladesh China Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCCI) along with Anhui Love Charity Foundation are going to donate Coronavirus protection materials (Mask, Hand sanitizer, Antibacterial Soap) among 2000 families in...
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said journalists are risking their lives to perform their duties during the coronavirus pandemic. “So far, 60 journalists were infected with coronavirus in the...
Leading economists have said a sound foreign currency reserve and debt ratio to GDP alongside debt repayment capability to largely help Bangladesh offset COVID-19 impacts on its economy. But they...
With the opening of RMG factories, shops and food joints despite no observable downward trend in COVID-19 cases in the country, increasingly large numbers of people have been seen emerging...
The Ministry of Industries has sought Tk 11 billion as seed money to provide loan to the micro and small entrepreneurs that remain outside the banking system. The ministry sent...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said 28,849 Bangladeshi workers will return home from the Middle East in next few weeks. Briefing the media about the inter-ministerial meeting on...
BRAC Bank has collaborated with Bidyanondo Foundation for providing food to the community that have been affected worst by COVID-19. The bank has contributed Tk 5.0 million for this purpose....
China’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday tariffs should not be used as a weapon, after US President Donald Trump threatened new tariffs last week as a retaliatory measure over Beijing’s...
When expectant women should be filled with joy, a collective concern is rippling through them as the healthcare system grapples with disruptive changes amid the coronavirus crisis. The idea of...
India on Wednesday handed over the third tranche of emergency medical assistance to Bangladesh. Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Riva Ganguly Das handed over RT-PCR COVID-19 testing kits, capable of...
A teenage boy was killed after a tree collapsed on his room during a nor’wester that wreaked havoc in Chitalmari upazila of Bagerhat district on Tuesday night. Besides, around 20...
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore and author Mustak Ahmed in a case started under the Digital Security Act. The elite police unit apprehended Kishore...
China plans to send four crewed space missions and the same number of cargo craft to complete work on its permanent space station within about two years, officials said after...
Tom Cruise has a reputation for action-packed movies, even doing his own stunts. But he could soon be taking things to the next level - teaming up with NASA to...
Over 500 poor families in Narsingdi’s Polash upazila have become self-reliant through commercial farming of pineapple. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources said, a good number of farmers mainly in...
Qatar Airways has warned its employees of ‘substantial’ redundancies as it struggles with a collapse in demand. Its chief executive Akbar Al Baker wrote to staff warning of the job...
The government has intensified its efforts to complete this 2019-20 fiscal year’s development works at the district level amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, an official said. The local government, rural...
135 more Bangladeshi nationals who got stuck in India due to coronavirus lockdown returned home through Benapole check post on Wednesday morning. With this, a total of 1,300 Bangladeshis have...
The country’s two bourses will remain closed until May 16 as the government further extended the ongoing holidays to contain the spread of deadly coronavirus. The government has further extended...
Another policeman died from coronavirus at Rajarbagh Central Police Hospital in the capital on Wednesday morning. With the latest, a total of six policemen have so far died from the...
After one month of restrictions amid coronavirus outbreak, the government has decided to allow people to offer prayers, including Tarabi, at mosques from Thursday’s Zohr prayers subject to following health...
Three more people died from novel coronavirus in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours to 8:00am on Wednesday, bringing the body count to 186. Besides, 790 others were diagnosed with...
Police officers tasked with ensuring the safety of citizens on the ground are growing increasingly susceptible to the coronavirus as infections continue to trend upwards within the law enforcement agency's...
Three UN humanitarian agencies including the UNHCR, IOM and UNODC urged the regional countries to ensure protection for the migrants at sea. In a joint statement issued on Wednesday, they...
Air fares should fall when flights restart but then rise by at least 50 per cent, warns a global airline industry body. Airlines are keen to get planes back in...
The number of new coronavirus cases in Russia rose by 10,559 over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide tally to 165,929, the coronavirus crisis response centre said on Wednesday....
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) will work together to improve access to sustainable energy, bolstering...
The government is likely to go for a strategic 'recovery plan' in the next budget (2020-21) with a greater focus on agriculture and health sectors to revive the national economy...
As market volatility has eased after the mayhem of March, investors betting on a rocky economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis are buying shares of exchanges that are poised to...
Twelve more people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in tests conducted at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College and Hospital. Dr Himanshu Lal Roy, deputy director of the hospital, made the...
There are no signs North Korean leader Kim Jong Un received heart surgery when he disappeared from state media for three weeks, but he reduced public activity due to coronavirus...
Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, is being celebrated at their respective homes in the country today (Wednesday) in view of the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic....
People have begun flooding back into Dhaka after the government relaxed the shutdown over coronavirus with the Eid-ul-Fitr approaching. The Kathalbari-Shimulia route was packed with Dhaka-bound ferries overcrowded by travellers...
Habibur Rahman Mollah, MP, elected from Dhaka-5, died in a city hospital on Wednesday morning. He was 82. He breathed his last around 10:05am while undergoing treatment at Square Hospitals,...
Six people, including two bank officials, have been diagnosed with coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in Nilphamari district. Civil Surgeon of the district Dr Ranjit Kumar Barman said two officials of Islami...
Seven members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and one policeman in Keraniganj have been infected with coronavirus, raising the number of virus cases in the district to 235. Dr Mir...
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