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With the new coronavirus - the 2019 novel coronavirus acute respiratory disease (2019-nCoV ARD) - there are now (8 pm Wuhan time, Feb 10) over 42,600 confirmed cases worldwide. If...
After the great depression and the Glass-Steagal Act, commercial banks were tightly regulated in order to safeguard stability of the financial system. Conventional banks are more regulated, closely monitored, better...
Global debt records were smashed in 2019 reaching the highest debt - to GDP ratio to 322 per cent which narrowly surpassed 2016 as the highest on record. Global debt...
Frankly, I blame Henry Kissinger. Way back in the 1970s, he called Bangladesh “an international basket case”. At the time, no doubt, it was. Television images of the frequent devastating...
As many as 2,194 books hit the Amar Ekushey Book Fair in the last 14 days till Saturday. According to Bangla Academy, poetry books are dominating the fair. However, publishers...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said Shamima Begum, a British woman who left Britain as a schoolgirl to join militant outfit Islamic State in Syria and got her...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the government has introduced gastroenterology departments at 13 medical college hospitals across the country to expand the gastroenterology treatment in Bangladesh. She made...
'Gregorian' is the identity of pride and glory. St. Gregory's High School and College is one of the most influential educational institutions in the sub- continent. The Gregorian Association celebrated the...
Number of victims in landslides decreased drastically across the country in 2019 compared to that of 2018, according to official data. At least, 13 people died and 28 others injured...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Saturday said the process of relocating 100,000 Rohingyas from Cox’s Bazar’s refugee camp to Bhasan Char will begin on completion of erecting barbed-wire fences...
Around 250 brick kilns are operating without clearance certificate from the Department of Environment (DoE) in Keraniganj, the outskirts of Dhaka. Sources said there are 300 brick kilns in Keraniganj...
Two new dengue patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours until 8:00am on Saturday, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). According to the daily update from DGHS,...
The 79th birthday of internationally reputed nuclear scientist and Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina’s husband Dr MA Wazed Miah will be observed on Sunday in a befitting manner. On February 16...
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia could apply for parole only after accepting her crimes. “The government only can consider her parole, if she (Khaleda...
BNP leaders and activists are staging demonstrations in front of the party’s Nayapaltan central office on Saturday afternoon demanding release of their chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail. However, they failed...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a second tranche loan of $170 million to conclude the Third Capital Market Development programme in Bangladesh. ADB approved the programme totaling $250 million in...
A Chinese tourist has died in France after contracting the new coronavirus - the first fatality from the disease outside Asia. The victim was an 80-year-old woman from China's Hubei...
German authorities say one person has been killed and three others injured following a shooting late Friday outside a Berlin music venue. Police in the German capital said Saturday that...
Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka ranked second among the cities with worst air quality on Saturday morning. It had an AQI score of 197 at 08:05am. The air was classified as ‘unhealthy’....
Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) has recently opened an Agent Banking Outlet in Rangpur. Head of Retail and SME Banking of EBL M. Khorshed Anowar inaugurated outlet at Hajipara, C.O. Bazar...
Fifteen children died in a fire that swept overnight through an orphanage in Haiti run by a US religious group, authorities said on Friday, triggering renewed controversy over the hundreds...
An Indian antitrust investigation of Amazon.com Inc and Walmart’s Flipkart has been put on hold by a court, three lawyers involved in the proceedings told Reuters on Friday. Amazon this...
BASIC Bank Limited organized a Town Hall Meeting and Managers’ Conference for Chittagong region on Friday at the Bank's Agrabad Branch premises. Md. Rafiqul ALam, Managing Director (MD) of the...
Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said he would help Pakistan stay off a terrorism financing blacklist at a meeting of a global finance watchdog, a move he suggested would...
Md. Mahbub ul Alam, Managing Director & CEO of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited, achieved ‘CEO of the Year 2019’ award conferred by UK-based financial intelligence house Cambridge International Financial Advisory....
Rupali Bank Ltd opened an ATM booth at the Mugda General Hospital in the city on Saturday. Saber Hossain Chowdhury, MP, was the chief guest on the occasion. Obaidullah Al-Masud,...
Police have cordoned off the BNP headquarters in Naya Paltan area of the capital ahead of the party's scheduled march to demand the release of jailed Chairperson Khaleda Zia. A...
Two people were killed and 10 others were injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway in Rajendrapur area of Gazipur on Saturday morning. The identities of the deceased could...
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio endorsed US Senator Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic presidential race on Friday, the Sanders campaign said. De Blasio, a liberal who dropped out...
The mosquito menace has set in with weather getting less cold after the exit of winter, bringing back the fears of dengue fever among the residents of capital Dhaka. The...
The United States has reached agreement with the Taliban on a weeklong reduction of violence that could lead to a US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, a senior administration official said...
A digital display board has been set up at Benapole Customs and Immigration Check Post to raise awareness among passengers about coronavirus (renamed COVID-19). The board, which displays messages about...
Stocks rebounded strongly in the outgoing week as investors put fresh stakes in shares thanks to the central bank's bailout package to boost the ailing capital market. Week-on-week, DSEX, the...
Ten most traded firms accounted for 24 per cent transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange last week with LafargeHolcim continuing to dominate the chart for fourth straight weeks. Market operators...
Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) Limited arranged an in-house training programme on Thursday at its conference hall on "Trading of Government Securities in the Secondary Platform of the Exchange" for executives...
IPDC Finance Limited introduced first ever interest-free book loan titled "Subodh" for booklovers, said a statement. With the slogan "Notun boiyer ghrane, subodh jaguk prane", the product was launched at...
Bangladesh’s permanent representative (PR) to the UN ambassador Rabab Fatima has said ensuring justice and accountability for the Rohingyas is an important precondition for their safe, dignified and voluntary return...
The government is contemplating imposing service charge on export consignment under the European Union's (EU) Registered Exporter System (REX) aiming to retain the GSP facility there, officials said. The rate...
Almost no headway has been made in the registration programme launched for enlisting the Bangladeshi diaspora due to lack of proper initiatives by the embassy offices in job destination countries,...
English Premier League champion Manchester City was banned by UEFA from the Champions League for two seasons on Friday for "serious breaches" of spending rules in a seismic ruling against...
More than 2,600 new cases were confirmed from a coronavirus outbreak in mainland China, the National Health Commission said on Saturday, a day after people returning to the capital from...
Sugar and some vegetables saw a price spiral last week, adding to the woes of commoners. Meat prices also increased a little bit because of the rising demand in restaurants...
The coronavirus epidemic has started exacting its toll on the implementation of key projects under the ministry of industries, people familiar with the situation said. They said the construction work...
The Roads and Highways Department, or RHD, has proposed spending Tk 0.7 million for marking road signs and signals for each kilometre of a 27km-long highway, officials said. They said...
Bangladesh's exports to the United Kingdom are set to face stiff competition as Britain is preparing for its new tariff policy after leaving the European Union. The tariff policy will...
Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan on Friday said direct train service on Dhaka-Siliguri route will begin in June after installation of the Chilahati-Haldibari rail track. “It’ll be completed by...
A time-honoured but often problematic practice in basic welfare economics is to separate efficiency considerations from distributional concerns. In an economy with given endowments and a given distribution of them,...
Inequalities. The evidence is everywhere. And although they may be hard to measure and summarise, there is a sense in many countries that many are approaching a precipice beyond which...
In the age of the fourth industrial revolution, a diverse development agenda starting from attaining sustainable development goals to empowering youth to meeting milestones of economic aspiration largely depends on...
A lot has been discussed about the terrible condition of public buses in Dhaka. Commuters are forced to take their regular rides on risky and ramshackle buses and minibuses -ones...
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