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The government has asked key importers to explore alternative overseas market for essentials and pharmaceutical products to ensure smooth supply of the same amid prolonged COVID-19 pandemic. It also said...
The government has failed to utilise its virtual office solutions during the lockdown, despite the introduction of 'e-nothi', officials and experts said on Tuesday. The shutdown of the offices for...
Kitchen items like garlic, lentil, cardamom and dry chilli have become pricier further in the past two days, much to the consumers' woes this Ramadan amid lockdown. Sources said imported...
With the coronavirus spreading rapidly across the world, countries have taken rapid and decisive actions to shut down schools, colleges and universities to contain the virus and ease the spread...
This recent pandemic has given rise to a number of unanswered questions. As a result, people are continuously checking news and browsing their news feed for updated information. As much...
"Hello apa, I don't need any food. It's just my baby is starving. It needs some powder milk, even cow milk will do! Can you arrange some?" Out of hundreds...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has advised the banking sector leaders to keep non-performing loan (NPL) at a tolerable level as the economic recovery after COVID-19 pandemic would be challenging....
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the government on Tuesday decided to release fifty per cent of the security deposit paid by recruiting agencies of overseas jobs, to help them pay wages...
As many as 30 health workers, including eight doctors, have been diagnosed with COVID-19 at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases or NICVD in Dhaka. A total of 52 heath...
Could we imagine Ramadan has begun with shopping centresclosedand flocks of desperate shoppers quarantined separately at home? Who foresaw no official or political Iftar party, no invitation from friends and...
Amid confusion for well over a week about opening or continuing to shutter the garment factories, it was finally officially decided not to open. Ever since the corona pandemic began...
Buy a mask and let his family go hungry, or buy food and go out into the crowded city without one - that is the stark choice facing Hayatullah Khan,...
Now that the primary concern for every human being on this planet is to survive the coronavirus pandemic, not many dare look far beyond today or the next day, let...
National Professor and noted educationist Dr Jamilur Reza Choudhury was laid to eternal rest at the Banani graveyard in Dhaka following Namaz-e-Janaza at Dhanmondi Eidgah Mosque premises after Zohr prayers...
A bee sting nearly killed me. My passion for beekeeping therefore comes as a surprise to many. Through tending their hives, I observe nature's complex system of interdependency, adaptability and...
The poultry farmers of across the country sold poultry products worth Tk 267.2 million through mobile sales centres of the Department of Livestock across the country. The farmers have sold...
Boro accounts for 54.0 per cent of the total rice produced in the country, while Aus accounts for another 7.0 per cent. Of the total rice marketed by local producers,...
Walton is ready to produce ventilators and mechanical breathing devices with the technical support from the US-based medical device and solution providing company Medtronic. State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid...
LIKE the rest of the world, developed and developing alike, Bangladesh is struggling to cope with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unlike any other crisis the world has faced...
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said the patrons of the killers of Father of Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman are still active in the country’s politics. “Being benefitted politically,...
A sub-inspector of Kishoreganj’s Bhairab Police Station, who was infected with Covid-19, was discharged from Kurmitola General Hospital in Dhaka on Tuesday after his recovery. The police officer identified as...
Importers do not need to pay container storage fees for clearance of goods from the Chattogram Port within May 4, the authorities said. The Chattogram Port Authority announced the waiver...
State Minister for Youth and Sports Zahid Ahsan Russell on Tuesday said that government is working to create employment for youth who have become jobless due to coronavirus outbreak in...
Global confirmed COVID-19 cases topped 3 million on Monday, reaching 3,002,303 as of 1 p.m. (1700 GMT), according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins...
The Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) through its affiliated organisations has provided assistance worth about Tk 27 crore to the poor affected by the Covid-19 shutdown. PKSF, in a statement issued...
Four people, including three nurses, were diagnosed with coronavirus in Chougacha upazila of Jashore district on Tuesday. Upazila Health and Family Planning officer Dr Lutfunnahar said of the newly infected...
The government has enlisted Nagad, Bangladesh post Office’s financial service, as emergency service. Ministry of Public Administration issued a gazette notification to this end recently, reports BSS press release on...
In a new framework released Monday as a roadmap to support countries' path to social and economic recovery, the United Nations called for an extraordinary scale-up of international support and...
Coca-Cola in Bangladesh has committed an initial support of Tk 11.5 crores towards helping the healthcare system and communities through food package and distribution of beverages to combat the crisis...
US President Donald Trump says states should “seriously consider” reopening their public schools before the end of the academic year, even though dozens already have said it would be unsafe...
Two activists of United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) were gunned down by miscreants at Madhyabanchara in Dighinala upazila in Khagrachhari district on Tuesday morning. The deceased were identified as Sudibya...
Bangladesh is unlikely to be able to take advantage of the declining oil price in the global market for lack of its additional storage capacity. The global coronavirus pandemic has...
The PKSF's partner organisations provided various types of assistance worth Tk 270 million (270,000,000) to the people of the country amid the Covid 19 crisis. The Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation...
Sporadic outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, including measles and diphtheria, have already been seen in parts of Bangladesh amid the outbreak of Covid-19, according to a UNICEF statement. Apart from this,...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Tuesday said steps have been taken so that garment workers cannot enter Dhaka from outside as RMG factories will be operated on a limited scale...
The Prime Minister’s Office has sought information on the losses suffered by government institutions during the nationwide extended lockdown over the coronavirus outbreak, reports bdnews24.com. All the ministries have been...
Farmers in the haor areas of Bangladesh have harvested 62 per cent of paddy as of April 27, said the Ministry of Agriculture. Among the rest 38 per cent, 14...
The 67th birthday of Sheikh Jamal, son of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is being observed today (Tuesday). To mark the day, Bangladesh Awami League (AL) and...
Bangladesh Bank has extended the deadline for exporters to file applications seeking loans from the Tk 50 billion stimulus package for worker wages until May 2. According to bdnews24.com, the...
As academic activities at all levels have come to a halt following the closure of educational institutions amid the coronavirus outbreak, the government has taken steps to help students continue...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate mobile court drives on Monday fined different people and organisations a total of Tk 36,350 for allegedly violating the government’s social distancing measures amid...
No coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths were reported on the Chinese mainland for the 13th straight day until Monday, the health authorities said Tuesday. The overall confirmed cases on the mainland had...
Kim Jong Un may have missed a key holiday on April 15 because of concerns over the coronavirus, not because he is ill, South Korea’s minister for North Korean affairs...
China has criticised India’s decision to stop using Chinese testing kits for the novel coronavirus because of quality issues as unfair and irresponsible in the latest strain in their ties....
Two new dengue cases were reported in the last 24 hours till 8am on Tuesday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). A daily update from DGHS said...
German economic institute Ifo has said it expected the economy to contract by 6.6 per cent in 2020 year-on-year due to the coronavirus pandemic. It said on Tuesday that the...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said that politics of division and disintegration will worsen the coronavirus situation in Bangladesh. “We need to fight this deadly virus collectively and...
Bangladesh confirmed 549 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 6,462. It is the biggest spike in daily new cases of the...
Two people have died after a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Bogura’s Sherpur Upazila. The incident took place in Sherua Bottola area at around 6:30am on...
Malaysia's Deputy Health Minister Noor Azmi Ghazali and Perak executive council member Razman Zakaria have been jointly charged with 13 others at the Magistrate's Court after they were all pictured...
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