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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday approved a $100 million loan to support Bangladesh government in its efforts to address the public health requirements for combating the coronavirus pandemic....
Saudis began tentatively returning to shopping malls and open-air markets on Wednesday after authorities relaxed restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, reports Reuters. Security guards took...
Around 34.0 per cent nations, including Bangladesh, across the word are yet to safeguard citizens’ data and privacy. A new report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development...
Another batch of 164 Bangladeshis, who got stuck in India due to lockdown there amid coronavirus outbreak, returned home from Chennai on Thursday. A special flight of US-Bangla Airlines carrying...
Md Selim Reza, secretary to the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment, has been made secretary to Railways Ministry. The Ministry of Public Administration issued a notification in this...
The Public Service Commission has issued a notice for the recruitment of 2,000 doctors from those who passed the 39th Special BCS Exam to the posts of assistant surgeon. PSC...
Awami League general secretary Obaidul Qauder on Thursday said garment factories around Dhaka have been reopened on a limited scale as there is a risk of losing international market of...
Euro area economy contracted 3.3 per cent in the first quarter (Q1) year on year, while the broader European Union economy contracted 2.7 per cent year on year, the bloc's...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday provided a financial assistance of Tk 83.125 million to 6,959 Qawmi madrasas across the country on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan,...
The government will take stern action against the persons who fail to remove stagnant water from their respective buildings and premises to help stop breeding of aedes mosquito. Under the...
Five more people died from coronavirus (COVID-19) in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours till Thursday, (COVID-19), according to the DGHS official. With the latest victims, the death toll due...
Japan is preparing to extend its state of emergency over the novel coronavirus, originally set to end on May 6, for about a month, government sources told Reuters on Thursday,...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate mobile court drives on Wednesday fined different people and business entities a total of Tk 56,600 for allegedly violating the government’s social distancing measures...
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) is set to resume its parcel service on a limited number of routes from Friday to facilitate cheap transportation of daily local agricultural produce and household...
Six people were diagnosed with coronavirus in the last 24 hours, taking the number of confirmed cases to 43 in Lakshmipur. Civil Surgeon Abdul Gaffar disclosed the information on Thursday...
The government has moved against the director of Dhaka Mugda Medical College Hospital Dr Shahid Md Sadiqul Islam, by removing him from active duty amid the controversy surrounding the quality...
The local administration of Natore is going to put the district under lockdown on Thursday following a surge in coronavirus cases among people there. Deputy Commissioner Shah Riaz came up...
Two more policemen have died from the coronavirus in Bangladesh, taking the death toll from the disease in the law-enforcement agency to three. Sub-inspector Md Abdul Khalek, 36, and constable...
The Netherlands has assured Bangladesh that the Dutch buyers will not cancel or suspend their orders from the Bangladeshi readymade garment (RMG) factories. Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation...
New clinical data on Gilead Sciences Inc’s experimental antiviral drug remdesivir has raised hopes it might be an effective treatment for the novel coronavirus that has infected more than 3.0...
A child was killed and 11 others were injured in an explosion at the residence of a Jamaat-e-Islami leader at Shubhaddya North Para in Keraniganj early Thursday. The identity of...
The US embassy in Dhaka has issued a fresh travel/health alert for its citizens and suggested them to depart Bangladesh if such opportunities arise amid the outbreak of COVID-19. It...
British consumer goods firm Reckitt Benckiser Plc reported record quarterly sales growth on Thursday as customers stocked up on its Lysol disinfectants, Mucinex cough syrup and Dettol soap amid the...
Eleven doctors and as many nurses of Jashore General Hospital were sent home to be in quarantine on Wednesday after they came in close contact with coronavirus patients, UNB reports....
Dhaka’s air quality showed significant improvement on Thursday morning with the capital city ranking 20th worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI). It had an AQI score of 91 and...
Germany has banned Iran-backed Hezbollah activity on its soil and designated it a terrorist organisation, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday. Police conducted early morning raids in Germany to detain...
Shares of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd rose almost 9.0 per cent on Thursday after the Indian drugmaker got an approval to conduct clinical trials with antiviral drug favipiravir, seen as a...
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he believes China’s handling of the coronavirus is proof that Beijing “will do anything they can” to make him lose his re-election bid...
Silicon Valley billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg offered dueling views on lockdown measures designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus on Wednesday, with Facebook’s Zuckerberg endorsing the measures...
Actor Rishi Kapoor has died at 67 after a two-year-long battle with cancer. Rishi breathed his last at the Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital in Mumbai. His wife and actor...
The Serum Institute of India has said it plans this year to produce up to 60 million doses of a potential vaccine against the new coronavirus (COVID-19) that is under...
There is hazardous level of pharmaceutical residues in water of Bangladesh, which may help develop bacteria and fungi that are resistant to the medicines used for treating human infection, an...
As fear grows among people over the fast transmission of deadly coronavirus and taking treatment going to a doctor or hospital has become riskier for all kinds of patients, including...
Share prices of all listed banks tumbled up to 72 per cent in the past one year until March 25, 2020 amid prolonged bearish trend in the country's capital market....
The DSE Brokers Association (DBA) has made a set of proposals, including the scope of investing undisclosed money into the capital market, to overcome the crisis created following the outbreak...
The securities regulator will fix new timeframe after opening its office to seek public opinion on the draft rules required to issue new TREC (trading right entitlement certificate). The decision...
The ongoing lockdown in response to the COVID-19 outbreak has posed a serious challenge for the government to strike a balance between the need for resuming economic activities and the...
The country's foreign exchange (forex) reserve reached at US$33 billion-mark on Wednesday following lower import payment pressure on the economy due to the worldwide spread of coronavirus pandemic. The forex...
All field-level value-added tax (VAT) offices will work on a limited scale during public holidays until May 05 to keep the revenue collection process uninterrupted. As instructed by the National...
Garment factories that remained closed during the public holidays would pay 60 per cent of workers' gross monthly wages for April, sparking protests from labour leaders, a senior official said....
With the coronavirus outbreak in Bangladesh pushing towards the second month, the testing capacity remains one of the lowest in the world. The constraint is posing a real danger to...
Bangladesh is going to face a big blow from the storm of Covid-19. Business and trade have already started to suffer. With Ramadan in an unprecedented period, consumer-oriented businesses need...
The government has asked all the deputy commissioners (DCs) to take steps for shifting the existing kitchen markets to suitable places to help prevent further spread of coronvirus pandemic. Under...
More than 2,000 Supreme Court lawyers have applied for loans from the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) through emails as the association decided to provide interest free loans to its...
GlaxoSmithKline, the world's largest vaccine maker, said the global push to develop an immunisation against the coronavirus would not lead to widely available products before the second half of next...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi have pledged to work together to boost food production to offset the possible food crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic....
As noted by Warwick Anderson, a University of Sydney professor of ethics, in a recent article titled 'Epidemic Philosophy', the Covid-19 pndemic galvanised many Western philosophers to philosophise about its...
The prime minister's indication that the country's educational institutions may remain closed up to September next does not bode well for the education calendar. Her projection is, however, based on...
In the past, pandemics killed large numbers of people. For example, Asian Flu (1957-58) killed between 1.1 million and 4.0 million people and Spanish Flu (1918-20) killed between 17million and...
We face uncertainties regularly in all walks of life i.e. risks are always there. But we are hardly interested to manage those. That is so because risk management is expansive;...
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