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The Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF), a dedicated multilateral partnership platform to support the poorest countries in trade, has set up a dedicated webpage to examine the impacts of the COVID-19...
Heads of two international bodies on finance and trade in a joint statement on Friday urged the governments of different countries to refrain from imposing trade restrictions on key medical...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) has taken a move to provide its thousands of employees with incentives in recognition of their service during the period of coronavirus pandemic. BR has suspended all...
Amid a different reality caused by deadly coronavirus outbreak, countrywide lockdown, restriction on mass gatherings and congregational prayers, the month of Ramadan provides an opportunity to Muslims to deal with...
Retail businesses in the US state of Texas reopened Friday, for the first time in weeks, as a slow reopening process starts amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. According to the...
Another person was infected with coronavirus in Kishoreganj district in the last 24 hours on Friday, raising the total number of such cases to 175. Civil Surgeon Dr Mohammad Mujibur...
With the US coronavirus death toll topping 51,000 and nearly one in six workers out of a job, Georgia, Oklahoma and several other states took tentative steps at reopening businesses...
Earnings of the most of the multinational companies listed on the country's stock market rose in 2019 compared to the previous year. Market operators said the multinational companies performed well...
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) on Friday night directed its member factories not to ask workers who are in their villages to return to Dhaka until factory opening...
Bahrain is going to send back 347 Bangladeshi workers, including detainees, this week, sources in the Bangladesh embassy in Manama said. Of them, 300 Bangladeshis were released from jail by...
Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB)has cancelled licences of around 700 dealers for breaching the terms and conditions of the contracts, officials said. Besides, regulatory action against the dealers concerned is...
The board of directors of Brac Bank has recommended 7.50 per cent cash and 7.50 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2019. A meeting of...
The state-owned Sadharan Bima Corporation (SBC) has launched, for the first time, flood index-based crop insurance for haor (wetland) areas. Under a pilot project, the SBC has launched the scheme...
The central bank has formed a new refinance scheme worth Tk 150 billion to facilitate large industries and services sector which are being affected by the Coronavirus outbreak. The participating...
The government is frantically looking for external aid to narrow its budget deficit both for the current and next fiscal years due to the adverse impact of coronavirus pandemic, officials...
A new and astounding genre of new–poor households emerged as the vulnerable groups in a perception survey conducted by Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and BRAC Institute of Governance...
Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicles Importers and Dealers Association (BARVIDA) has condoled the death of Dr Saadat Hussein, the former cabinet secretary and also an ex-chairman of National Board of Revenue (NBR)....
The ongoing social distancing drive and restriction on movement due to the COVID-19 pandemic is taking a toll on people who survive on daily wages and living in extreme poverty....
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday cautioned against the use of malaria drugs, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, in COVID-19 patients outside of hospitals and clinical trials, citing risks...
Personal protective equipment and products like hand-washing soaps and sanitisers, face masks, gloves, protective spectacles and clothing suddenly become highly crucial for fighting deadly coronavirus across the world. While soaps...
On April 8, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that his state was "flattening the curve" of the COVID-19 pandemic. But only two weeks earlier, various models had projected that...
In a welcome and timely move the government, as it does every year to build its stockpile of food grains, has decided to double the procurement of boro paddy directly...
In line with the extended general holidays, public transport services will also remain suspended across the country until May 5 in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus that...
Having anecdotal evidence of unsuccessful attempts of scientists, including Laplace, Ampère, and Gauss, the history of experiments on communication technology with electricity dates back to 1726. With the issuance...
The past global recession that started off in the first quarter of 2008 and tapered down around the middle of 2009, had put the global economy in a shock that...
It is widely apprehended that the Bangladesh economy is going to be seriously affected by the Covid-19 fallout. The World Bank has already forecast a fall in economic growth to...
Global leaders joined the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday to launch an initiative to accelerate work on drugs, tests and vaccines against COVID-19 and to share them around the...
A total of 78 interns of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital (SOMCH) have been sent on quarantine after one of their colleagues tested positive for coronavirus. Confirming the matter,...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Friday said she was alarmed by restrictive measures imposed by several states against the independent media, as well as the arrest...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said BNP is spreading misleading information among people over COVID-19, demanding formation of a national taskforce to this end. “There is no...
Bangladesh Post Office’s mobile financial service Nagad will provide up to Tk 500,000 for treatment if any of its entrepreneurs, distributors and salespersons become positive for coronavirus. Nagad took this...
Three mobile phone operators — Robi, Banglalink and Teletalk– have confessed their inability to offer quality of services without additional spectrum allocation on emergency basis in this COVID-19 gripped situation....
Muslims worldwide began Ramadan on Friday and Saturday with dawn-to-dusk fasting, but many will have to forgo the communal prayers and family gatherings that make the holy month special, as...
Eighty countries and customs territories have so far introduced export prohibitions or restrictions to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. A new report, prepared by the Secretariat of the World Trade Organisation...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) continued its relief distribution among distressed, homeless and helpless people amid the coronavirus shutdown. On Wednesday, under the initiative of the DNCC, 8,654 people received...
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will help launch a global initiative on Friday to accelerate work on drugs, tests and vaccines against COVID-19 and to...
The Holy Ramadan, the lunar month of self-purification through fasting and abstinence, begins in the country on Saturday as the new crescent moon was sighted in Bangladesh sky on Friday,...
Workers of embroidery factories blocked a road in Adabar area of the city on Friday morning demanding that their arrears be cleared. Witnesses said some 150 workers of the factories...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Thursday to allot additional 1.1 billion Canadian dollars (about 782 million U.S. dollars) for national medical research against the COVID-19. "The better we...
Melon farmers in Gopalganj's Kotalipara have resorted to using the internet to keep their livelihoods afloat after a worsening coronavirus crisis brought Bangladesh to a standstill. Farmers in remote villages...
A total of 328 Bangladesh nationals who got stuck in India due to the current countrywide lockdown there returned home from New Delhi and Chennai on Friday afternoon by two...
The board of directors of Brac Bank has recommended 7.50 per cent cash and 7.50 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2019. Due to countrywide...
At a time when the world economy is plagued by the coronavirus pandemic, policymakers across the globe are faced with the same dilemma: how to get the economy back on...
The Bangladesh Government Tenderers’ Forum (BGTF) has sought urgent steps to clear their pending bills and amendments to Public Procurement Rules (PPR) for smoothly running development works for 2019-20 affected...
Google on Friday urged people to stay home for saving lives by a special doodle on its regular home page. The animated doodle shows that every single letter of ‘Google’...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Thursday fined different people and organisations a total of Tk 75,200 for allegedly violating the government’s social distancing measures amid the ongoing coronavirus shutdown. DMP...
Eight more people, including a physician, ‘tested positive for covid-19’ in Sunamganj in the last 24 hours till Friday noon. With the latest ones, the total number of identified cases...
Despite having various ailments, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will observe fasting and receive treatment in the holy month of Ramadan staying in quarantine. “Madam (Khaleda) has been in quarantine amid...
Bangladesh Army has moved to manufacture ventilators for critically ill patients suffering from the coronavirus. The ventilators are now in the ‘test and trial’ phase, with more than 80 per...
The government has taken steps to bring back stranded Bangladeshi citizens in the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic. More than 200 Bangladeshis have registered with the Bangladesh Embassy in...
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