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A top US trade official for South and Central Asia has said Bangladesh has emerged as the third largest readymade garment (RMG) product supplier to the United States after China...
An Iranian lawmaker has died from coronavirus, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday. This is just another sign the disease is spreading within state institutions. Iran is one...
The International Women's Day will be celebrated in the country, as elsewhere across the globe, on Sunday highlighting women’s rights. According to United Nations Women, the theme for International Women’s...
Dhaka's air was classified as ‘unhealthy’ on Saturday morning as Bangladesh’s capital ranked the fifth worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI). It had an AQI score of 154 at...
Iran's Health Ministry said Saturday the death toll from the virus climbed to 145 while more than 1,000 infections were confirmed overnight totaling some 5,823 cases nationwide. Some 21 new...
The United Kingdom is expected to abolish the so-called tampon tax at the end of 2020, as the Brexit transition period comes to a close. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi...
Online-based organisation ‘SSC’99 Friends Club’, in association with the ‘SSC 99- Back to School’ and ‘Bandhon SSC 99’, has arranged an art competition for the children of those who attended...
OPEC has failed to secure a deal with Russia and other non-OPEC producers on its plans for big, additional oil production cuts, two OPEC sources said on Friday at talks...
A bus helper was killed and 13 other people were injured in a collision between a bus and a truck at Sayedabad in Sadar upazila of Sirajganj district on Saturday....
South Korea’s coronavirus cases rose to 6,767 on Saturday, up by 174 from late Friday, with more than 60 per cent of the total cases linked to a secretive church...
Police and BGB members on Saturday recovered the bodies of five people who went missing after two boats capsized in the Padma River on Friday, raising the death toll from...
A suspected robber was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with police in Baghoir Chitakhola road area in Dakkhin Keraniganj of Dhaka on Friday night. The identity of the deceased could not...
About a quarter of China’s new confirmed cases and almost all of those outside the epidemic’s epicentre in Wuhan originated outside the country on Friday, according to official data. Most...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has reported 15 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 45, the Ministry of Health and Prevention said...
To celebrate upcoming international women’s day, a four-day fair to promote women entrepreneurs and their products began at the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management premises on Thursday. The event is...
City Bank signed an agreement with ClassTune to implement digital payment collection platform for schools & colleges across Bangladesh. The signing ceremony was held at the City Bank Head Office...
Bags can baffle the older generation, for very few of them could afford the luxury of carrying a bag to office. It is the big boss of a public or...
To assure to build the Dream Bangladesh of the Father of the Nation Bangabondhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Dhaka Bank Limited has announced SOBAR JONNO BARI OFFER under its Home Loan...
"Welcome to a campaign that tells the powerful special interests that we will no longer tolerate the greed of Wall Street, corporate America and the billionaire class. Yes, we will...
In the world of weight-loss diets, low-carbohydrate, high-protein eating plans often grab attention. The Paleo, South Beach, and Atkins diets all fit into that category. They are sometimes referred to...
The fragrance industry holds a major share in the personal care and cosmetics industries for being used as key ingredients in the products and in recent years it has evolved...
Emirates is providing customers more flexibility, choice and value through its newly introduced waiver policy for all booked tickets issued on or from today, 7 March until 31 March 2020....
Mexican authorities on Friday said they have identified a sixth person infected with coronavirus, a 71 year-old man in the State of Mexico who recently traveled to northern Italy. Deputy...
Large crowds thronged the National SME Product Fair 2020 in the city on Friday, the third day of the expo, as nearly 300 entrepreneurs from across the country showcased their...
Police on Saturday morning recovered the throat-slit bodies of two girls and rescued their mother with severe burn injuries from a house at Goran area in the capital. The deceased...
Stocks kept losing in the outgoing week as worried investors continued their sell-offs amid growing tension over the impact of coronavirus outbreak. Week-on-week, DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka...
LafargeHolcim Bangladesh (LHBL) posted a significant improvement in financial results in 2019. Consolidated Sales Revenues for the year rose to BDT 17,840 million, up by BDT 1,208 million compared to...
A number of large business groups have come across a new-found opportunity in rooftop solar power projects amid the rising prices of fossil fuel and power tariff. They are increasingly...
Facebook said on Friday it is closing its London offices until Monday after a visiting employee from Singapore was diagnosed with coronavirus. “An employee based in our Singapore office who...
Three senior members of Saudi Arabia's royal family, including the king's brother, have been arrested for unexplained reasons, US media report. Two of the men were among the kingdom's most...
Kuwait suspended all flights to and from Bangladesh and other six countries for a week with an immediate effect from March 06 (Friday). The six other countries from where the...
Boro farming is set to decline this season as hundreds of farmers, upset about consistently low paddy and rice prices, have switched to other crops, said insiders. Market experts expressed...
Planning Minister M A Mannan, on Friday, said the government is maintaining an uncompromising stance on realising defaulted bank loans. But, it cannot recover the bad loans immediately, as there...
The government has taken an initiative to manufacture spare parts of motorcycles locally with intent to boost the national economy, officials said. The industries ministry has also drafted the 'Motorcycle...
State-run Bangladesh Krishi Bank, or BKB, has once again sought Tk 20 billion in loan from the central bank's refinancing scheme to continue its farm lending, officials say. The cash-strapped...
Twenty-one people aboard a cruise ship that was barred from docking in San Francisco have tested positive for coronavirus, US officials said on Friday, adding to the more than 100,000...
Apart from trading assurances, no breakthrough was made in the just-concluded fifth meeting of the Trade and Investment Cooperation Framework Agreement (TICFA). In fact, there is no progress as both...
The ongoing Coronavirus epidemic has started taking its toll on overseas employment sector, as recruiting countries have already initiated different measures to check foreigners' movements to prevent spreading of the...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has paid homage to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, commemorating his historic March 7 speech, which was touted as an indirect declaration of the country’s independence in...
The volume of lending by banks and financial institutions, or FIs, to the real estate sector has started rising in recent years in a sign of the industry's recovery, people...
Tigers gave a wining farewell to Mashrafe Bin Mortaza as the ODI captain through completing the 'mission whitewash' against Zimbabwe on Friday. Bangladesh completed the mission with a 123-run win...
Roads in Bangladesh still remain too dangerous for passengers and pedestrians as 1,027 people, including 141 women and 166 children, were killed while 1,301 others injured in 755 road accidents...
As the outbreak of novel COVID-19 virus turns into a global pandemic, major stock markets around the world suffered their worst performance since the 2008 financial crush. It is feared...
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 4 2020 (IPS): Twenty-five years after the historic Beijing women's conference in China - a milestone in advancing equal rights - violence against women and girls is...
Since the dawn of the fourth industrial revolution, there has been a growing concern over job loss. Creating jobs in the industrial economy has been the primary means for increasing...
The Prime Minister's call to the youth of the country to be entrepreneurs rather than job-seekers after obtaining a degree couldn't have been timelier. The call came when she was...
There is a declining trend of pressing into service new private cars on roads in the country. The number of newly registered private cars declined sharply in the past two...
A group of researchers of the Center for Development Research (ZEF) of Bonn, Germany, observed immense changes in the farming systems worldwide. The fundamental forces which are driving farm change,...
Banks facilitate repatriation of export payment against export trade on contract sales. They do not take responsibility to repatriate payment, rather they comply with regulatory instructions to execute the transactions....
I asked a poor rickshaw-puller Keramat Mia, who earns an average of Taka 500 a day, why he had chosen to have a Facebook account. "After a daylong toil pulling...
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