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Standard Bank Limited distributed hand sanitizer among the mass people at free of cost to prevent coronavirus on Wednesday. Managing Director & CEO of the Bank Mr. Khondoker Rashed Maqsood...
The local administration has put Bailjuri village of Ghior upazila in Manikganj under lockdown to prevent transmission of novel coronavirus following the death of an elderly man with symptoms of...
Mali reported on Wednesday its first two cases of coronavirus, the government said in a statement. he two patients are Malian nationals, a 49 year-old woman from Bamako and a...
Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, has tested positive for coronavirus, Clarence House has announced. The Prince of Wales, 71, is displaying mild symptoms "but otherwise remains in...
edotco Group Sdn Bhd (“edotco”), an integrated telecommunications infrastructure services provider, announces the appointment of Ricky Steyn as the new Country Managing Director of edotco Bangladesh. Under this new...
The global economy is reeling at the threats posed by coronavirus. The preliminary estimates by the UNCTAD amount to a loss of US$1.0 trillion to the global economy in 2020...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday urged BNP to avoid all negative politics considering the global crisis caused by coronavirus outbreak. “I expect BNP to help the government...
The United Kingdom has announced to extend visas for the foreign nationals, who are unable to return home from Britain until May 31 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. British Home...
The High Court (HC) on Wednesday observed that lockdown should be declared in the country to prevent transmission of coronavirus (COVID-19). The court also advised all to follow guidelines set...
Stock posted a modest gain on Wednesday, the last session before 10-day government holiday, as the securities regulator imposed circuit breaker to boost the ailing market. DSEX, the key index...
BNP chief Khaleda Zia has been released from jail after 25 months behind bars amid the government’s precautionary measures to fight the coronavirus outbreak, reports bdnews24.com. The home ministry had...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Wednesday said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to be released from jail shortly as all the necessary procedures in this regard have already been...
Bangladesh received an Indian assistance in the form of 30,000 surgical masks and 15,000 head-covers on Wednesday, while fighting the Covid-19 outbreak. The assistance is intended to support the efforts...
British consumer price inflation slipped back in February from a six-month high it had reached the month before, reflecting a drop in the cost of fuel and video games that...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who left her Gulshan residence ‘Feroza’ about 25 months ago, will be returning there as the government has moved to release her from jail. Staffers are...
Boko Haram militants killed 92 Chadian soldiers and wounded 47 more in the deadliest attack ever on the country’s military, President Idriss Deby said late on Tuesday. The soldiers were...
Fatalities in Italy from coronavirus have surged in the last 24 hours, the Civil Protection Agency said on Tuesday, dashing hopes the epidemic in the world’s worst hit country was...
Bangladesh cricketers have decided to pool up a fund by providing half of their one-month pay for a coronavirus fund as 27 players joined efforts to battle the pandemic outbreak....
Barcelona forward Lionel Messi and Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola have each donated one million euros (1.08 million US dollar) towards the fight against coronavirus (COVID-19). Argentina international Messi’s donation...
US senators and Trump administration officials have reached an agreement on a massive economic stimulus bill to alleviate the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak, the negotiators said on Wednesday....
Another elderly man has died from the coronavirus in Bangladesh, taking the total death toll from COVID-19 disease in the country to five, said the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control...
Four people were killed and many others injured in road crashes in Rajshahi and Kushtia districts on Wednesday. In Rajshahi, a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) will spray disinfectants through water cannons in city areas twice a day in an effort to limit the spread of coronavirus. The arrangement was ordered...
The board of Standard Bank has decided to amend relevant clauses for conversion into full-fledged Islamic banking subject to approval from shareholders and relevant authorities. The board of directors of...
Stocks posted a slight gain in early trading on Wednesday as investors mostly followed cautious stance amid growing tension over the impacts of coronavirus outbreak. The presences of investors on...
Members of the Armed Forces started their fieldwork in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka and elsewhere in the country on Wednesday morning to help the civil administration ensure that people maintain social...
Indians crowded grocery stores and chemists on Wednesday in a struggle for essential items after prime minister Narendra Modi ordered a total lockdown for three weeks to fight a coronavirus...
Facebook said on Tuesday (US local time) the coronavirus outbreak was undercutting sales of the advertising that accounts for nearly all of its revenue, even as more users spend time...
The 'Genocide Day' is being observed in the country today (Wednesday) commemorating the brutalities and cowardly attacks carried out by the Pakistani occupation forces on the unarmed Bangalees on the...
The securities regulator has asked the listed companies to hold AGM/EGMs and board meetings and disseminate price sensitive information using digital platforms to avoid large gathering in view of raging...
The central bank has relaxed foreign exchange regulations, allowing banks to extend the usance period of life-saving drug imports up to six months instead of three months. It will depend...
The fear of getting infected by the highly contagious COVID-19 dealt a serious blow to the city's healthcare centres, which witnessed a massive fall in the number of admitted patients...
Sylhet-based editors have decided to stop the publication of newspapers as coronavirus cases surged in Bangladesh, according to a statement released on Tuesday. The suspension will be effective from Thursday...
Thailand has recorded 107 new coronavirus cases, bringing total to 934, a health official said on Wednesday. The new cases consist of 27 patients linked to previous cases, 13 new...
US authorities put out tsunami warnings on Wednesday after an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck off Russia’s Kuril Islands, but meteorological officials in Japan issued no alerts, although they said...
Germany has assured Bangladesh of finding ways to safeguard the survival of the latter’s textile industry amid the threat caused by the coronavirus pandemic across the world. "I greatly hope...
Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg said on Tuesday that while self-isolating after recent travels in Europe she probably came down with COVID-19, and urged other young people to stay at...
The national revenue board has declined to reduce the import duty and taxes on sugar and edible oil on the occasion of the upcoming Ramadan. It said any cut in...
The local administration has put two houses under lockdown in Chattogram city as a woman who tested positive for coronavirus visited those. Civil Surgeon of the district Sheikh Fazle Rabbi...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has pleaded for medical supplies, warning Covid-19 is spreading in his state faster than "a bullet train". "The apex is higher than we thought and...
Bangladesh Post Office's easy, safe, timely and cost-effective digital financial service "Nagad" is set to complete a year of its journey. The state-run service platform brought a massive change to...
Bangladeshi workers staying abroad are having a tough time for a freeze in their economic activity due to the outbreak of coronavirus at their receiving countries. The operatives on a...
In 1918 the world population was less than 2 billion. The US population broke 100 million, and the global population reached 1.9 billion. Today: US population is 320 million, and...
The spread of coronavirus is going to take a serious toll on the global economy. Different international agencies have already projected that an economic recession is unavoidable. United Nations Conference...
The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that the United States could become the global epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, which finally forced reluctant organisers to postpone the Tokyo 2020...
The ‘Genocide Day’ is tomorrow. On the black night of March 25 nearly five decades ago, Pakistani occupation forces launched brutal genocide codenamed ‘Operation Searchlight’ on the unarmed Bengalees. This...
To raise awareness among the retailers amid the current pandemic of coronavirus disease (Covid- 19), Dettol, one of the renowned brands of antiseptic soap in the market, is conducting a...
Saudi Arabia's recent decision to crank up oil production represents a dramatic shift in its thinking about energy markets and its own reliance on oil revenues. Gone are the days...
The innovation of low-cost corona detection kits by a team of scientists of Gonoshasthya Kendra is heartening enough to bolster the morale of all conscious citizens across the country. At...
Deployment of the army has begun on Tuesday across Bangladesh to assist the civil administration at the field level in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak as dozens of cases...
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