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China tightened checks on international travellers arriving at Beijing airport on Sunday, after the number of imported new coronavirus infections surpassed locally transmitted cases for a second day in a...
Apple said it is closing all its retail stores, except those in Greater China, for the next two weeks to minimise the risk of coronavirus transmission, a move that was...
Argentina banned entry to non-residents who have traveled to a country highly affected by coronavirus in the last 14 days, the government officially announced late on Saturday. The ban was...
A total of 152 Bangladeshi nationals have returned home from Italy, the European epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic. An Emirates flight carrying the evacuees landed in Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International...
Two of the EU's biggest states, Spain and France, have followed Italy in announcing emergency restrictions to combat the spread of the coronavirus. In Spain, people are banned from leaving...
Stocks tumbled at opening on Sunday amid growing tension over the impacts of coronavirus outbreak as more two cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Bangladesh. Within 15 minutes of trading, DSEX,...
Delta Brac Housing Finance Corporation (DBH) has reported profit after tax of Tk 1,077 million in 2019, rising 2.78 per cent over the previous year. With Tk 44.30 billion housing...
Donald Trump tested negative for the coronavirus, his doctor said on Saturday, as the US president extended a travel ban to Britain and Ireland to try to slow the spread...
The country's overseas employment sector, which is considered the strongest pillar of the economy, is set to almost collapse with suspension of all international flights by the Kingdom of Saudi...
Profit of state-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation, or BPC, climbs to around Tk 230 million a day with the spread of Covid-19 pandemic. Oil prices in the international market witnessed its...
Dual policy on the subsidised urea fertiliser management is seen as a major financial burden on the Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC), officials said. As things turn severe, the country's...
The country's budget deficit reached Tk 359 billion in the first five months to November, a 37 per cent jump over the same period last fiscal, the ministry of finance...
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, or BTRC, has decided not to collect VAT from the network operators, exposing the row with the tax authority. According to the decision taken by the...
FARIDPUR, Mar 15: Over the past seven years, the acreage of Boro paddy has reduced to twenty thousand hectares of land in the district due to low market price of...
Bangladesh suspends flights with passengers from European nations, except Britain The government has suspended flights carrying passengers from all European countries, except Britain, for two weeks due to the coronavirus,...
The once ubiquitous beggars of Dhaka are making a comeback. They have swung into the act quite insidiously. In order to evade the notice of the alert public and the...
Bangladesh needs to strengthen the government's institutional capacity to support and coordinate extreme poverty eradication initiatives being carried out by the government and civil society organisations. In this process, there...
Independent economists and financial sector experts almost a decade back had given their unanimous opinion: the number of banks and non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) operating at that time were enough...
Two new coronavirus-infected patients have been detected in Bangladesh, taking the total number of COVID-19 patients reported in the country to five. The infected patients arrived in the country from Italy...
There are growing concerns that global financial system is increasingly becoming stressed with coronavirus spreading around the world causing gloomier growth prospects for the global economy. But it is the...
On Monday, February 24, with stock markets close to all-time highs, the world was suddenly thrown into a financial crisis as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. And ever since,...
The first human trials of a coronavirus vaccine are to be launched within days, scientists in the US have said which has showed some kind of hope to the world...
Students and teachers of Dhaka University’s Pharmacy department have prepared low-cost hand sanitiser, aiming to prevent the spread of infectious coronavirus or COVID-19. Two hundred bottles were prepared in two...
Bangladesh's RMG sector is now in threat from both buyers' and suppliers' end due to the global coronaviurs situation. Initially, it was assumed that Bangladesh will be benefited from coronaviurs...
Health authorities in England announced on Saturday a further 10 deaths caused by coronavirus, almost doubling the number of fatalities in Britain since Friday. "I am sorry to confirm 10...
National Board of Revenue (NBR) has set a target to register 0.15 million new VAT payers to raise the tally to 0.3 million in Mujib Year, reports BSS. To this...
The government has brought back 23 Bangladeshi students, who were evacuated by India along with its nationals from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of a coronavirus pandemic. They...
Coronavirus cases in Spain have risen by 1,500 to more than 5,700, public health officials say, reports The BBC. Spain is the worst affected country in Europe after Italy, which...
A collision between a bus and a truck has left at least five people killed and 10 others injured in Fakirhat Upazila of Bagerhat. The Barishal-bound bus from Khulna collided...
A newborn baby has tested positive for coronavirus in what is thought to be the youngest case of the disease in the UK, it has emerged, reports The Guardian. The...
At least 35 journalists fell victim to harassment in January-February 2020, according to a report by an independent rights body. Of them, eight received death threats over phone during the...
A total of 5,381 auto-rickshaws were registered across the country in the first two months of the current calendar year, according to official figure. Of them, only 54 got registration...
A minor boy was trampled to death by a wild elephant at Boalkhali upazila in Chattogram on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Akib, 2, son of Shamshul Alam...
Countries around the world on Saturday continued to close borders, impose strict entry and quarantine requirements and restrict large gatherings in efforts to contain the spread of the new coronavirus,...
Nine people are currently in isolation at different hospitals after showing symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) infection with four others in institutional quarantine, according to the government's disease control agency. Among...
Two new dengue patients was hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Saturday, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). According to daily update from DGHS, eight...
As a collapse in the oil price unleashed chaos in financial markets, Madrid money manager Diego Parrilla phoned a colleague who agreed: they had better head to work early in...
The US State Department summoned the Chinese ambassador to the United States on Friday to protest against comments by Beijing suggesting the US military might have brought the coronavirus to...
The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a coronavirus aid package early on Saturday that would provide free testing and paid sick leave, in a bid to limit the economic...
Britain’s government will ban mass gatherings from next week in an attempt to curb the coronavirus outbreak, an escalation of its crisis plan which critics had said was too relaxed....
India sent back around 40-45 Bangladeshis with COVID19-like symptoms, just as they entered its state of Tripura through Akhaura check-post on Friday. All of them had valid travel documents, officials...
A curfew is going to be imposed in Metro Manila of the Philippines, begining Sunday, in a bid to contain the spread of COVID-19, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA)...
A fire broke out at a Jhut Patti at block A of Mirpur’s section 10 in Dhaka on Saturday. The fire broke out around 1:25pm, UNB reported citing fire service...
Emirates will operate its last flight from Rome of Italy today (Saturday). Earlier, it suspended flights between Dubai and Venice on March 11, Milan and Bologna on March 13. ...
Agrani SME Financing Company Limited, an NBFI owned by Agrani Bank Limited, won an award from Bangladesh Bank at the recently held “Banker - SME Women Entrepreneur and Product Display-...
Jamuna Bank Foundation opened a medical camp to provide medical services at RD High School in Kazipur, Sirajgonj. The Chairman of the Standing Committee on Food Ministry of Bangladesh National...
The Walt Disney Co will release ‘Frozen 2’ on Disney Plus several months early to give families cooped up by the coronavirus a welcome distraction — and give its streaming...
NCC Bank has formally opened its Lalbagh and Donia sub-branches in Dhaka recently. Managing Director & CEO of the Bank Mosleh Uddin Ahmed formally inaugurated these 2 sub-branches as the...
Telenor’s commercial 5G network opens today in nine different cities and villages across Norway, making Telenor the first mobile operator in the country to offer 5G to customers. “Telenor is...
A couple suffered burn injuries following a fire that originated from a gas line leakage at Kanchpur of Sonargaon upazila in Narayanganj district on Saturday. The victims are – Ashraf,...
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