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A Dhaka court on Wednesday issued the death warrant for Captain (retd) Abdul Majed, one of the convicted killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Judge of...
The government has appointed Benazir Ahmed, director general of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), as the new inspector general of police (IGP). The Home Ministry issued a notification on Wednesday in...
A young man died from fever and breathing complications at Bakhtarpur village in Doarabazar upazila of Sunamganj on Tuesday night. The deceased, aged around 22, was a brick kiln worker...
An elderly man, who returned from a Tablighi congregation, died in quarantine at Uttar Milikbhagha village in Bagha upazila of Rajshahi on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Abul Kalam...
Save the Children has urgently called for international assistance to help Bangladesh meet a surge in demand for ventilators to cope with the COVID-19 outbreak and avert a humanitarian disaster...
As France entered its fourth week of lockdown, the coronavirus epidemic still hit hard, claiming on Tuesday 1,417 more deaths in hospitals and nursing homes, making the combined fatalities at...
Bangladesh, along with five other garment manufacturing countries, has urged global brands, retailers and traders to consider all potential impacts on workers and small businesses in supply chains while taking...
Bangladesh usually maintains one of the highest average MFN (Most Favoured Nation)-applied tariffs on personal protective equipment (PPE), according to the latest report of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). It...
The industries ministry has asked the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to provide data on import of salt and sodium sulphate for last three and current fiscal years. The move...
Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter and payment app Square, has said he will donate $1 billion (£810m) towards efforts to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. According to Mr Dorsey, the...
The US recorded the most coronavirus deaths in a single day with 1,736 fatalities reported on Tuesday. It brings the total number of deaths in the country to 12,722, according...
Facebook Inc on Tuesday launched a new messaging app for couples called “Tuned” that allows them to chat, share photos and music as well as have a timeline of shared...
Many Italian companies and academics are pressing the government to reopen factories to prevent an economic catastrophe, as the world watches how the first Western country to impose a lockdown...
A man who died from fever and cold in Karimganj upazila of Kishoreganj on Monday was found to be infected with the coronavirus, said Kishoreganj Civil Surgeon Dr Mohammad Mujibur...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson condition is stable and he remains in intensive care for close monitoring, a spokesman for his office has said. Johnson was admitted to hospital on...
Shortage of labourers amid the prevailing lockdown has currently emerged as a major impediment for farmers across the country, especially in harvesting Boro crop in the haor region. Harvest of...
Bangladesh Merchant Bankers Association (BMBA) has prepared a set of budget proposals including more reduction of corporate tax for listed companies. The BMBA sent their budget proposals, made for the...
The securities regulator is yet to publish its annual report for the fiscal year (FY) 2018-19, though the ongoing FY 2019-20 will be ended within June 30, 2020. The officials...
The stockpile of the containers at the Chittagong port, the prime sea port of the country, is likely to decrease next week as the authority exempted the port store-rent for...
The central Chinese city of Wuhan began allowing people to leave on Wednesday for the first time since it was locked down 76 days ago to contain the novel coronavirus,...
Nearly 100 textiles and clothing factories were open on Tuesday, defying industry lobby groups' decision on the closure until April 14, part of the national attempt to slow the spread...
Hardship of daily-earner transport workers has reached an unbearable state during the ongoing lockdown in the country for not getting any financial support from welfare funds of workers' unions and...
"My restaurant has remained shut for 10 days now due to coronavirus. I've lost my daily earnings. All my 11 cooks and hotel boys are waiting for their wages." "Who...
In a dramatic escalation of measures, Narayanganj is going to be the first district in Bangladesh to go on complete lockdown from today (Wednesday) as the industrial hub has recorded...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to expand the customs assessment work at ports covering all imports barring the commercial ones during the ongoing shutdown that is now...
A very cliched phrase in our lives ‘moving out of the comfort zone’ is often used as if it is as easy as moving down a stair. Almost all of...
Even though many people in Bangladesh are interested in becoming a successful entrepreneur, most of them do not have ample knowledge about entrepreneurship. Bangladesh has one of the youngest populations...
It is often said that a proper career planning is crucial to success. Some even believe that if one does not have a perfect career plan laid out in early...
The current state of the world has confined us to our homes at a time when social distancing is very important. This has led to closures of major places of...
The authorities have put on lockdown 12 more areas in Dhaka after detecting COVID-19 patients. As many as 20 of the 41 new cases reported on Tuesday are from these...
Crises come in two variants: those for which we could not have prepared, because no one had anticipated them, and those for which we should have been prepared, because they...
A memo has been sent to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to make RAB chief Benazir Ahmed the inspector general of police. He has been heading the elite police force for...
We all are well aware that the whole world, including our country, is now passing through a very crucial time due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The government has announced general...
New York state recorded 731 new coronavirus deaths Tuesday, marking the biggest one-day jump in the outbreak. The state's death toll since the beginning of the outbreak is now 5,489,...
The cost of fighting the coronavirus on society and the economy will be very high. Around 52.0 million or 85 per cent of the country's workers are depended on various...
The stimulus package announced by the Prime Minister on April 5 targeting mostly the macro economy is no doubt timely to help the economy ride out the prevailing standoff because...
Unlike their colleagues in Italy and Spain, Czech hospital doctors have not yet needed to make harrowing decisions on which COVID-19 patients get the best care. Only half the ten...
Although Wall Street is many things to many people, in reality what is indisputable is that its all-encompassing impact -- not just on the American economy but on the global...
Some 200 houses were put under lockdown in different parts of capital Dhaka on Tuesday as a number of residents from those areas tested positive for coronavirus. Officer-in-charge of Chawkbazar...
In a state of full or partial lockdown, the idea of restarting economic activities is becoming the foremost concern. For countries like ours, it is the small businesses already bearing...
The argument that cancer and road crashes kill many times more people than the number of death in the Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) can't persuade all to relax. In no...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has requested people to refrain from offering ziarat at the graveyards under the city corporation to prevent the transmission of coronavirus. According to UNB, the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ripped into the doctors who refused to treat patients amid the coronavirus outbreak, citing the death of a Dhaka University student. She says the government has...
The government is completing formalities to hang Abdul Mazed, a key fugitive convict in the killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. “The formalities to execute the verdict against Captain Abdul...
China reported no coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, the first time since it started publishing daily figures in January, reports BBC. The National Health Commission said it had 32 confirmed cases,...
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has urged owners of industries to pay salaries to their workers for the month of March within April 16. The minister also urged them not to...
China Railway Group Limited (CREC), the contractor of Padma Bridge Rail Link Project (PBRLP) and the parent company of the contractor of Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project, on Tuesday donated Personal...
Pakistani doctors went on strike at two hospitals in southwestern Quetta on Tuesday, a day after police used force to break up and detain medics protesting against a lack of...
United Nations Development Programme has stepped up for the people of Bangladesh through its countrywide network of projects and resources amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic Strengthening Women’s Ability for Productive...
China has successfully reduced the mortality rate of COVID-19 as the disease developed, said Gauden Galea, representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in China, at a press conference Tuesday....
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