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Since a new type of coronavirus was reported in Wuhan, China, last December, the number of people infected worldwide has soared to over 44,000, and the death toll now exceeds...
Another two Bangladeshi migrant workers in Singapore have been infected with coronavirus, bringing the number of patients from the South Asian nation in the island state to four. The two...
Health Minister Zahid Malik on Thursday said 312 Bangladeshi nationals who returned from China’s Wuhan, the epicentre of coronavirus, will return home after a 14-day of quarantine on Saturday. “They...
To quote the Jibanananda Das, not everyone is a poet. Only a few of them are. Elaborately speaking, many people write poems. Only a small number of emerges as poets....
Writing is an art which helps a person to express himself effectively. It is one of the ways that we translate our thoughts for other people. Some people are better...
Another 183 Bangladeshi workers, including 20 women, were deported to the country by Saudi Arabia on Thursday. A Saudi Airlines flight carrying 89 workers landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport...
China has reported 254 new daily deaths and a spike in new daily virus cases of 15,152, after new methodology was applied in the hardest-hit province of Hubei as to...
Fire fighters have put out a fire that erupted in a multi-storey building in the city’s Paltan area. The fire broke out at an office on the 11th floor of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reshuffled her cabinet a year after forming government for a third consecutive term. As part of the shake-up, Housing and Public Works Minister SM Rezaul...
A multi-storey building in Dhaka's Paltan has caught fire. The fire broke out at the 17-storey DR Tower in Paltan's Box Culvert Road around 2:50pm on Thursday, according to the...
The prevailing reason for enrolling into a business programme is to become a practitioner. Business graduates carry aspirations to become CEOs, CFOs and business tycoons etc. Do universities build the...
A Dhaka court has summoned former shipping minister Shajahan Khan in a defamation case filed by Nirapad Sarak Chai founder Ilias Kanchan. Joint District and Sessions Judge Utpal Bhattyacharya passed...
The Armed Police Battalion (APBn) arrested a cleaning staffer with 32 gold bars weighing 3.7kg from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday. The arrestee was identified as Janathon Mukti Barikdar,...
Implementation of the ongoing solar power plant projects in Bangladesh that are somehow dependent on Chinese machinery and manpower is likely to be delayed by at least four months due...
More than two dozen diplomats are visiting Indian-administered Kashmir, New Delhi said on Wednesday, as the country tries to reassure foreign allies following several months of unrest in the contested...
Barrister Syed Sayedul Haque Sumon has decided to step down as prosecutor in the International Crimes Tribunal after eight years in order to fulfil his increased commitments to social causes....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the members of Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party (VDP) to work with honesty, courage and integrity to defeat evil forces to ensure public...
Prime minister Boris Johnson will reshape his government on Thursday, appointing a team he hopes will deliver his vision for Britain beyond Brexit and heal the divisions both in his...
Tesla is seeking approval from Chinese regulators to offer a new China-made Model 3 variant, a government document shows. The variant would have a longer driving range, a source familiar...
Bangalis love sweets. In fact, the love is so intense that one cannot imagine celebrating any occasion without ‘rashogollas’ or ‘misti’ as they are locally known. Imagine you are buying...
At least 25 Chittagong University (CU) students were injured after a bus carrying them fell into a roadside ditch at Maniapukur in Hathazari upazila of Chattogram on Thursday morning. The...
Stocks witnessed upward trend in early hours of trading on Thursday as investors continued their buying interest on major sectors’ shares after the central bank’s liquidity support measures. Following the...
The government is set to review the progress in attainment of sustainable development goals (SDGs) this April, officials said. The progress in the development agenda implementation is likely to come...
Asian stock markets wobbled on Thursday while safe-havens such as the yen, gold and bonds rose as the number of new coronavirus cases and deaths in the outbreak’s epicentre jumped....
Bilateral trade between Bangladesh and Poland reached $1.2 billion in the last fiscal year (2018-19), foreign secretary Masud Bin Momen said on Wednesday, expecting that both sides would work together...
SK Trims & Industries has constructed first '5.5 storied' building through IPO fund with a view to enhance its production capacity. The company's board of directors confirmed the completion of...
Four hundred chemical compounds of active pharmaceutical ingredients, or API, will enjoy exemption from the payment of advance income tax at the import stage from now on. Local producers will...
Ten most traded firms accounted for more than 26 per cent transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange on Wednesday. Shepherd Industries topped the chart. Market operators said investors showed appetite...
Bilateral trade with China and implementation of mega projects will not face any major hurdles if Bangladesh responds rationally to the coronavirus outbreak, Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming said...
CHATTOGRAM: The construction of Karnaphuli Tunnel, a dream project which can change Chattogram forever by connecting the north and south of the district, is on course to be completed within...
The Chinese province at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak reported a record rise in the death toll on Thursday under a new method for diagnosing cases, as health experts...
Banks' excess liquidity has crossed the Tk 1.0 trillion-mark again, fuelled by lower private credit growth in a sign that the investment situation has cooled. Surplus cash surged by nearly...
Human beings are considered the most complex creatures of this planet. Management science has made numerous attempts at uncovering the unknown aspects of human beings. The rapid progression of technological...
Startup Chattogram will be hosting its signature event named "Startup Chattogram Bootcamp 2020" for the first time in Chattogram. The event will host early stage startups which will get mentorship...
RANGPUR, Feb 12: The farming of onion has increased significantly in Rangpur agriculture region during this current season. According to sources unlike many other crops soaring price of onion as...
MAGURA, Feb 12: Coriander cultivation is gaining popularity among the cultivators of the district. Sources said, Magura farmers are showing high interest in coriander production for low cost, fair price...
Getting out of the comfort zone and starting a company is never an easy task. The never ending opinions, articles, and myths keep bombarding the self-esteem of a potential business...
The framers of the United States Constitution empowered Congress to remove presidents from office. Article 11, section 4 stipulates that a President "shall be removed from office on impeachment for,...
Every new technology rides a wave from hype to dismay. But even by the usual standards, artificial intelligence (AI) has had a turbulent run. Is AI a society-renewing hero or...
Where the celebrated senior cricketers fell short, the under-19 unsung boys made the dream come true. They are the world champions in the 50-over version of cricket. Their achievement is...
Another Bangladeshi has been tested positive for coronavirus in Singapore on Tuesday, Bangladesh High Commissioner Md Mustafizur Rahman told UNB on Wednesday. The patient is currently undergoing treatment at a...
After a big jump in the bilateral trade in goods between Bangladesh and India, the total trade dropped moderately in the past fiscal year mainly due to a big decline...
Patents, a form of intellectual property rights (IPRs), are believed by many to be necessary to incentivise innovation, and to recover research and development costs, by creating a temporary legal...
Coronavirus outbreak in China, which has spread to two dozen countries, will negatively affect Bangladesh’s tourism and aviation sectors, a senior government official said Wednesday. “The effect of coronavirus (now...
In the wake of the latest coronavirus outbreak, movie buffs are drawing an eerie parallel with the film Contagion, a 2011 thriller based on a lethal airborne virus called Nipah...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, appearing before the United Nations Security Council, on Tuesday rejected US President Donald Trump's Middle East peace proposal as a gift to Israel and unacceptable to...
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has decided to introduce a uniform entrance test for admission to all public universities in the country from the next (2020-21) academic session. The UGC...
The High Court (HC) on Wednesday said that vehicles without updated fitness certificates cannot run on the roads. The bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice KM Hafizul...
Nirapad Sarak Chai Chairperson Iliyas Kanchan has filed a defamation suit against former Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan demanding Tk 1 billion in compensation. Ilias filed the case with the court...
The High Court has acquitted four people over the death of 4-year-old Jihad, who fell into an unsealed deep tube-well for Bangladesh Railway project in Dhaka's Shahjahanpur in 2014. Justice...
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