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Square Pharmaceuticals dominated the Dhaka Stock Exchange’s transaction chart in the outgoing week while ten most-traded stocks accounted for 22 per cent transactions. Market analysts said investors were active on...
A four-year programme has been launched to increase the capacity of investors and entrepreneurs to deal with social business and environmental issues. The initiative was titled 'Biniyog Briddhi (B-Briddhi) --...
The capital market passed a chaotic week as securities regulator imposed new circuit breaker. The bourses also decided to cut an hour trading time to minimize the losses due to...
British Business Group (BBG) recently organised a breakfast meeting to discuss trade between the UK and Bangladesh. The meeting was co-hosted by Robert Chatterton Dickson, the British High Commissioner and...
The government has taken measures to help check the spread of coronavirus infections among launch passengers across the country. The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) at an emergency meeting...
Voting has begun in the by-polls to the Dhaka-10 parliamentary seat with more than 312,000 voters on Saturday amid fears over the global coronavirus outbreak. The same day, two more...
Businesses other than drugs and essentials are bearing the brunt of panic over the pandemic. Tourism, transport, eateries, consumer goods are the hardest-hit by Covid-19 caused by novel coronavirus, according...
An FIR was lodged against singer Kanika Kapoor by Lucknow's Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Narendra Kumar Agarwal, at the Sarojini Nagar Police Station, late on Friday night under Sections 188...
Prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina cast her vote in the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) by-polls to Dhaka-10 constituency at Dhaka City College centre this morning (Saturday). The prime...
The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has leapt by 627 to 4,032, officials said on Friday, an increase of 18.4 per cent - by far the...
Young people are not immune from coronavirus and must avoid socialising and communicating it to older, more vulnerable people, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The choices made by...
South Korea reported 147 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, holding to its downward trend in daily infections from a peak in February, but concerns about new outbreaks around small clusters...
Bangladesh has cut air connectivity with 10 countries, including India, Singapore and Saudi Arabia, to limit the spread of the coronavirus. AHM Touhid-ul Ahsan, director of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport,...
The government has finally decided to repeal the Agricultural Labour (Minimum Wages) Ordinance-1984, considering that such an order is no longer necessary in the country, officials said. The decision was...
Bangladesh and India are set to start a joint study on the signing of an advanced free trade area deal under the banner of comprehensive economic partnership agreement, or CEPA,...
Rice prices Friday soared to two-year high. Coarse variety of rice was selling at Tk 50 a kilogram in Dhaka city markets. The prices of 10 key essentials marked a...
The government sent a project concept paper to the World Bank (WB) last week, seeking fund for facilitating surveillance, investigation and rapid response system to stop spreading Coronavirus outbreak in...
As a measure to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the country, the government has already asked the returnees from virus-affected countries to avoid public transport. Nevertheless, it is not...
The share-cropping system- defined as sharing the output between a landlord and his tenants in lieu of renting out/in land --had been the predominant tenancy system in Bangladesh since time...
The sudden skyrocketing of onion price months back will remain a grim reminder of how lack of readiness can overwhelm the entire nation to the point of triggering panic. True,...
The local administration has enforced a complete shutdown in Shibchar municipality and three unions of Shibchar upazila in an effort to contain the spread of coronavirus. All the entrances and...
The global economy is already in a recession as the hit to economic activity from the coronavirus pandemic has become more widespread, according to economists polled by Reuters amid a...
The novel coronavirus pandemic has put the global economy on hold. Stocks are crashing and countries are declaring indefinite lockdowns forcing people to remain indoors. The worst-hit are the developed...
In the world of abstraction of Prof. Paul Romer, economic outputs are driven by mixing objects with ideas. On the other hand, in the world of globalisation, trade dominates economic...
Many private entrepreneurs have long been demanding lower interest rate to reduce cost of doing business. The government held a number of discussion sessions with the private sector on the...
"There should be no billionaires. We cannot afford a billionaire class whose greed and corruption has been at war with the working-class families of this country for the past 45...
With markets already in turmoil, a dollar credit crunch now threatens the world economy. Companies dependent on international trade have seen their earnings collapse, and many will be unable to...
The world is shutting down. Places that were once teeming with the hustle and bustle of daily life have become ghost-towns with massive restrictions put on our lives - from...
A nor’wester is likely sweep over nine districts of the country, including Dhaka, at any time until 9:00am on Saturday. “Nor’wester may sweep over Dhaka, Pabna, Tangail, Mymensingh, Faridpur, Madaripur,...
The minister leading the Dutch government’s fight against the coronavirus resigned on Thursday, a day after collapsing from exhaustion during a parliamentary debate on the epidemic, reports Reuters. Medical Care...
Jatiya Press Club (JPC) has suspended all of its activities and services from March 21 to March 31 to prevent the further spread of coronavirus. The club managing committee took...
California has issued a "stay at home" order to residents as it tries to stem the march of the coronavirus across the most populous US state. Governor Gavin Newsom told...
YouTube and Netflix will reduce video quality on their services in Europe to avert internet gridlock as thousands of Europeans, constrained by the coronavirus outbreak, switch to working from home....
A global recession – perhaps of record dimensions – is a near certainty due to the COVID19 pandemic, said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. “Our economic response must focus on people,”...
The coronavirus has dealt a blow to NASA’s plan to return Americans to the moon by 2024, as the space agency chief has ordered the temporary closure of two rocket...
Malaysia will deploy the army from Sunday to help enforce travel and movement curbs aimed at reining in the spread of a coronavirus, the government said, as it grapples with...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has formed a committee aimed at preventing the spread of the deadly coronavirus or COVID-19. The DNCC panel mayor Md Jamal Mustafa will preside over...
Bangladesh has confirmed three more coronavirus cases, taking the total to 20. Among the new cases, a 70-year-old patient is in a critical condition, said Prof Nasima Sultana, additional director...
Sri Lanka has re-imposed an island-wide police curfew, effective from 6:00pm local time on Friday to 6:00am on Monday, as the South Asian country steps up efforts to check the...
More than 245,000 people have been infected by the novel coronavirus across the world and 10,028 have died, with cases and deaths outside China far exceeding those in the country...
Asian shares made a partial comeback from a global rout on Friday but still nursed massive losses for the week, while bonds rallied and oil extended its gains. European shares...
At least four people were killed and six others injured in two separate road accidents in Mymensingh and Narsingdi on Friday. In Mymensingh, two people were killed as a truck...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a young man for spreading rumour over coronavirus through Facebook from Mujguni in Khalishpur upazila of Khulna district on Thursday night. The arrestee...
Five children, suffering from measles, died while 100 more have been infected at three villages in Baghaichhari upazila of Rangamati district, according to the district Health Department. Civil Surgeon Bipash...
Two people were killed as a truck hit another truck on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Bhandab area in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh district on Friday. The deceased were identified as Jamal...
Islamic Foundation on Friday urged Muslims to come to mosque only to offer Farz prayers of Jum’a. It requested all concerned to offer their Sunnah and Nafl prayers at home,...
President Donald Trump will cancel an in-person meeting of G7 leaders at Camp David in June because of the coronavirus and will hold a video-conference instead, the White House said...
Prices of key essentials items, including rice, pulses, sugar, egg and potato soared notably last week which the market observers and traders attributed to a panic-buying by the city-dwellers, triggered...
The government has proposed replacing two of its projects in the list of China-funded projects. In a recent letter to the Economic Relations Division, or ERD, the Power Division said...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to scrutinise progress of some 25 ongoing projects of its customs, VAT and income tax wings to indentify bottlenecks in their implementation....
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