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Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) Sunday said the market needs more products including exchange traded funds (ETF) to increase depth. The newly-constituted CSE Board made the suggestion while meeting with the...
Government is temporarily shutting down all educational institutions across the country from March 17 amid a global coronavirus outbreak. “The official order will be published on Monday afternoon,” Deputy Education...
Dhaka University authorities have announced that the university will remain shut for 11 days from March 18 to 28 in efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus. The decision was...
For years, Hindus and Muslims lived and worked peacefully together in Yamuna Vihar, a densely populated Delhi district. But the riots that raged through the district last month appear to...
In a verdict on the 2019 murder of 5-year-old Tuhin in Sunamganj, a court has sentenced his father and uncle to death. District and Sessions Judge Waheduzzaman Sikder handed down...
New Zealand banned gatherings of 500 people or more on Monday to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern warned of tough action against anyone who...
Stocks witnessed a downward trend in the early trading on Monday amid growing tension over the impacts of coronavirus outbreak. Within 15 minutes of trading, DSEX, the key index of...
An explosion at a gas processing plant on Sunday killed at least 15 people and destroyed about 50 buildings after a fire broke out in a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria’s...
Germany will temporarily introduce border controls on its frontiers with Austria, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg and Denmark from Monday, the government said on Sunday as the country seeks to curb a...
Louis Vuitton owner LVMH will use its perfume production lines to start making hand santiser to protect people against the coronavirus outbreak. The luxury goods maker says it wants to...
The Economic Relations Division (ERD) has requested the health ministry to immediately send project proposals to get fund launched by the World Bank to prevent coronavirus (COVID-19). On March 03,...
The Bangladesh Freight Forwarders Association (BAFFA) has urged the authorities concerned to stop issuing permits to foreign employees to work in the local logistic and freight forwarding industry. The association...
Foreign nationals with valid visas staying in Bangladesh will now have the option of extending their existing visas by three months, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) in...
The three states bearing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe have all recorded their highest death tolls for a single day. Italy saw 368 deaths bring its total...
Berlin is trying to stop Washington from persuading a German company seeking a coronavirus vaccine to move its research to the United States, prompting German politicians to insist no country...
Top merchant bankers have urged the central bank to take effective measures to implement its policy regarding the creation of special funds for revival of the ailing capital market. At...
The COVID-19 coronavirus - which has now spread to more than 100 countries - has pushed the world into "uncharted territory," according to World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom....
The country's banking sector is currently undergoing a number of challenges such as lowering lending rate to a single digit, bringing down advance-deposit ratio, tackling corruption, ensuring good governance, maintaining...
Like in more than 100 other countries, the impact of the novel strain of coronavirus officially designated as COVID-19 by World Health Organization (earlier referred to as 2019-nCoV) has cast...
Many countries, including Bangladesh that are yet to combat a large-scale invasion of the invisible army of deadly virus may learn a few things from South Korea, Italy, and lagging...
After the government directive banning corporal punishment in all Bangladesh educational institutions, the practice had declined remarkably. It followed a landmark High Court order in 2010. The decade that followed...
CUMILLA, Mar 15: About 92 people from various places in the district have been placed in home quarantine on suspicion of having coronavirus. This information was confirmed by Cumilla District...
SIRAJGANJ, Mar 15: Students of a government primary school in Royganj upazila of Sirajganj district have been facing untold suffering as they cannot use a bridge for lack of approach...
The havoc that the coronavirus has been wreaking worldwide for the last two to three months needs no elaboration. Even the mightiest nation, both financially and militarily, appears to be...
As the controversy over effectiveness of mask in protecting a wearer from coronavirus contamination is yet to be over, the handy face protector has turned out to be most sought-after...
About 69 per cent of forcibly - displaced Myanmar nationals (FDMNs) are currently poor compared to the 26 per cent five years ago, according to a recent study. The study,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina welcomed her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi’s proposal on strategies to battle coronavirus in SAARC region and said will look forward to a constructive dialogue with other...
A special tribunal on Sunday adjourned till March 24 the hearing in the case lodged over murder of blogger and writer Abhijit Roy. Dhaka Anti-terrorism Special Tribunal Judge Md Mujibur...
A drive to increase the country’s potato exports reached an important landmark on Sunday with the inauguration of a special shipment, destined for Singapore, Malaysia, and the United Arab Emirates....
Countries around the world are beefing up control and prevention measures to contain further spread of the novel coronavirus. World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday in...
The Government on Sunday signed €360 million ($400 million) loan agreement with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to help upgrade the Dhaka - Northwest international trade corridor in Bangladesh. Fatima...
In a reciprocal move, Bangladesh has decided to stop entry of Indian visitors to Bangladesh temporarily, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen disclosed on Sunday On Wednesday last, India suspended...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said the government is mulling over closing the educational institutions in view of the outbreak of coronavirus. “Closing the schools and...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Sunday said the government wants to protect over 160 million people of the country by not allowing expatriate Bangladeshis with "imported" coronavirus. He...
Registration of sport-utility vehicles (SUV) in hard/soft category stood at 1,095 in the first two months of the current calendar year, according to official reports. Of the total, the number...
With fears of coronavirus dominating market sentiment, stocks tumbled further on Sunday amid incessant selling by investors to escape further losses. Within 15 minutes, DSEX slumped more than 200 points...
Dr Ashraf Siddiqui, a noted poet, folklorist and former director general of Bangla Academy, is undergoing treatment at a city hospital with respiratory problems. Farhad, an official of customer care...
India on Sunday reported that the number of coronavirus infections had risen to 107, an increase of 23 from the day before, with a western state home to the country’s...
Kurigram’s deputy commissioner Sultana Pervin will be withdrawn over her involvement in the midnight arrest and jailing of a local journalist, said state minister for public administration Farhad Hossain today...
An Uzbek citizen has tested positive for coronavirus after returning from France, Uzbekistan’s Healthcare Ministry said on Sunday, marking the first infection from the virus in the Central Asian country...
Across Bangladesh, 2,314 people are currently in home-quarantine as part of a countrywide effort to prevent the spread of coronavirus or COVID-19. "All of them are from abroad... so far,...
Thailand reported 32 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, bringing the total infections in the Southeast Asian country to 114, health officials said. It was the biggest daily jump in cases...
At least four madrasa students were killed and 16 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck at Talukdar Bazar in Kamarkhand upazila of Sirajganj on...
Mutual Trust Bank Limited (MTB) has recently signed a MoU with AG Motors at a simple ceremony held at MTB Centre, the bank’s Corporate Head Office, Gulshan in the city....
Australia's prime minister has ordered a 14-day self-isolation for anyone arriving in the country to try to halt the spread of the coronavirus. "This is very important," Scott Morrison said...
The first three coronavirus patients detected in Bangladesh have recovered and been discharged, the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) announced Sunday. IEDCR director Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora...
A Members’ Conference on ‘Income Tax Policy Paper on the upcoming Amendment of Income Tax Ordinance 1984’, arranged by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) will be held...
Four members of banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) have been sentenced to death for the murder of a Hindu priest, Jagneshwar Roy, in Panchagarh in 2016. Rajshahi's Speedy...
The 15th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Bangladesh Merchant Bankers Association (BMBA) was held on Saturday at The Westin Dhaka, Gulshan in the city. The meeting was presided over by Md....
A court on Sunday granted bail to journalist Ariful Islam Rigan, who was jailed for one year for ‘possessing narcotics’. He is the district correspondent of online news portal Bangla...
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