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Ant Financial, an affiliate of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, will open its Alipay mobile app platform to 40 million service providers in China over the next three years and help...
Speakers at a roundtable programme on Monday urged for launching massive public awareness programmes in a bid to prevent kidney diseases. Speaking at the National Press Club the speakers said...
More than 114,300 people have been infected by the coronavirus across the world and 4,026 have died, according to a Reuters tally. Infections outside China have been reported by 111...
Banglalink, one of the leading digital communications service providers in Bangladesh, has announced toll-free calls to coronavirus Hotline numbers for its subscribers to facilitate the preventive measures against the spread...
SEATTLE, March 10, 2020 – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard today committed up to $125 million in seed funding to speed-up the response to the COVID-19...
The JCI Bangladesh has recently presented nine women with the 'Woman of Inspiration Award 2020' on the occasion of International Women’s Day. Gender equality was the theme of this year's...
The High Court (HC) has declared that ‘Joy Bangla’ will be the national slogan of the country. Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan and Justice KM Kamrul Kader’s bench made the announcement...
Citizen’s Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh in association with 11 of its partner organisations is organising a day-long conference titled ‘VNR 2020 of Bangladesh: Positioning Non-State Actors’, on March 11 in...
Singapore has started charging visitors for coronavirus treatment, the city-state said as it reported new imported infections involving people who had traveled from neighboring Indonesia. Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most populous...
An elderly couple returning from Saudi Arabia has been quarantined after displaying symptoms of the novel coronavirus. They landed at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Tuesday morning. The couple...
The Maldives government has halted all direct and transit flights from Bangladesh over the recent confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Bangladesh. The ban will be effective from Tuesday till March...
Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) has urged the banks to start their process to invest in the stock market as soon as possible. "Bangladesh Bank recently released a directive regarding capital...
Another Italy-returnee Bangladeshi was hospitalised with fever on Monday and kept in an isolation ward at Matlab Uttar Upazila Health Complex in Chandpur district. “The 60-year-old man came to Matlab...
A Bangladesh-origin man in his 60s has become the third patient to die after testing positive for coronavirus in the UK, reports bdnews24.com citing BBC Bangla. He passed away at...
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, on Tuesday, marking the first time he has done so since the epidemic began late last year. Xi...
Workers in Bangladesh's garment industry face increased threats, intimidation and even physical and sexual abuse, according to a report for an influential US Senate committee that urged authorities to do...
The number of people infected with the coronavirus topped 114,000 across the world as the outbreak spread to more countries, causing greater economic damage, reports Reuters. DEATHS/INFECTIONS - More than...
Even after Bangladesh reported its first coronavirus cases, the seaport and airport in Chattogram are yet to get thermal scanners as part of preventive measures to stop further spread of...
Australia's Qantas airline is making deeper cuts to its flights, with Asia and the US hit the hardest. The company said it would reduce international flights by nearly 25 per...
About 3,900 metres of the much-hyped Padma Bridge became visible after the installation of the 26th span on Tuesday morning. The span was installed on pillar no 28 and 29...
A top regulatory official on Monday said an "unholy game" is going on in the capital market involving issuers, issue managers, audit firms, and the company management to cheat the...
The share prices of only two companies- Mutual Trust Bank (MTB) and Bangladesh Industrial Finance Company (BIFC)- rose on Monday on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). Amid panic-driven sales exerted throughout...
The Department of Health issued highest alert in Benapole Land Port and international check post on Monday soon after three cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Bangladesh for the...
The whole of Italy will be placed under lockdown until next month, prime minister Giuseppe Conte announced on Monday, in an unprecedented new attempt to beat coronavirus in Europe's worst-affected...
Eco-friendly pheromone traps in cabbage field are gaining popularity in Natore district. A good number of farmers said the method reduces the production cost as it does not require pesticides...
Myanmar police said the army had filed a lawsuit against Reuters news agency and a local lawmaker for criminal defamation, weeks after the military objected to a news story published...
Cultivation of maize is increasing in the district thanks to favourable climactic condition, fair price of the crop and appropriate initiative by the local agriculture offices. Sources at the Department...
The government will arrange special quarantine facilities for passengers arriving from epicentres of Italy, South Korea, Iran along with imposing visa restrictions for some other countries if the number of...
The Public-Private Partnership Authority (PPPA) has postponed a scheduled meeting of Bangladesh-Japan joint platform following detection of coronavirus infected patients in the country, sources said. They said that the PPPA...
The central bank has resumed purchasing the US dollar from the commercial banks after around three years to help the country's foreign exchange (forex) market remain stable. As part of...
The number of zero return submission by both corporate and individual taxpayers has reached over 400,000 so far of the current fiscal year, in a sign taxpayers conceal the actual...
The Coronavirus epidemic poses a threat to the country's apparel sector, as foreign buyers have started revising their business strategies amid the prevailing critical situation. Sector insiders opined that export...
BOGURA, Mar 09: Thousand of landless farmers in the district are in great difficulties as the Nagore river has lost its navigability. The river originates from the Karatoa (Nilphamari) river...
FARIDPUR, Mar 09: Cumin seeds have been successfully cultivated for three years at Faridpur Spice Research Sub-station under Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute. Sources said, cumin is cultivated widely in India,...
GOPALGANJ, Mar 09: Farmers in Muksudpur upazila of the district are expecting a bumper production of BARI Musur-6 this season. According to the upazila DAE office sources, a total of...
A swashbuckling half-century by Soumya Sarkar and three wickets each from Mustafizur Rahman have guided Bangladesh to a resounding 48-run victory against Zimbabwe in the opening T20I. Chasing 201 for...
As we are well-aware of, Bangladesh is set to graduate from least developed country (LDC) status by 2024 and become an upper middle income country by 2031. Bangladesh aims at...
Since its slump in 2011, the real estate market had been passing through difficult times until 2016 when it started to gradually pick up, thanks to the economy's growing strength,...
Geologists say the Sahara desert was once a massive expanse filled with lush greenery and numerous water bodies, with its inhabitants engaged in agriculture. The area is believed to have...
Mosquitoes have of late become a dangerous insect spreading various types of diseases across the country. With the advent of warmer season the city dwellers around the country are terribly...
Prices of different types of face masks, handwashes and sanitisers have unusually increased due to higher demand a day after confirmation of first three cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in...
The COVID-19 outbreak is threatening to become a global pandemic of the type not seen for a century. This new coronavirus has now spread to 77 countries, infecting over 93,000...
The coronavirus outbreak exposed not only Asia's soft economic underbelly, but also its huge physical frailties in the event of an epidemic/pandemic: it does not have nearly enough medical infrastructures...
The Biman Bangladesh Airlines has reduced its international flight frequency to more than 50 per cent due to passenger’s scarcity as well as ban on flight operation in some destinations...
Guava farming has become blessings to many farmers as it has made them wealthy in the region including its vast Barind tract during the last couple of years. The farmers...
Six passengers of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw were killed in a road accident at Mirzapur upazila of Tangail on Monday morning. The deceased were identified as Hridoy, 18, of Beltoil village,...
The cabinet on Monday endorsed the draft of a protocol to be signed for receiving assistance from Russia over the operation and maintenance of the Ruppoor Nuclear Power Plant after...
In the wake of detection of the first coronavirus cases in Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday urged the people of the country not to panic and avoid any...
Two more people were sent to a hospital with the ‘symptoms of coronavirus ‘after their arrival at Hazrat Shahajalal International Airport from Italy on Monday. "They were sent to Kuwait...
The year since the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max has been a journey through grief, anger and determination for Ruth Kageche, Zipporah Kuria and others whose loved...
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