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A training course titled 'effective operations of audit and inspection', arranged by Rupali Bank Training Institute began recently. Khandaker Ataur Rahman, deputy managing director of Rupali Bank, was the chief...
Temperature screening measures at airports and other ports of entry into Bangladesh have been extended to cover all inbound travellers in a bid to prevent a deadly coronavirus from spreading....
Under international risk management framework, Eastern Bank Ltd. (EBL) has been conferred on the ISO 27001:2013 certificate for the compliance of Information Security Management System (ISMS). Md Towfiqul Arif, Head...
Pep Guardiola poured cold water on the idea of Manchester City signing Barcelona’s Lionel Messi in the close season on Friday, saying he would prefer the Argentine forward to finish...
Police recovered the body of a garment worker from Ulail area in Savar on early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Yasmin Akter, 18, daughter of Mukul Miah, hailing from...
Bangladesh is now heavily dependent on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) for overseas employment, as other traditional job markets slashed manpower recruitment from the country, officials statistics showed. Data...
Singapore on Friday raised its coronavirus alert level and reported more cases not linked to previous infections or travel to China, a move that sparked panic-buying of essentials in some...
At least 200 shanties were destroyed when a fire tore through two slums in the capital's Banani T&T area early Saturday. Rasel Shikder, duty officer of Fire Service and Civil...
After a decade-long trend to borrow from savings certificates to finance development and pay for other expenses, the government is now facing the fallout as sales have dropped. The net...
The ministry of land has taken an initiative to monitor activities at the land offices at the grassroots level in order to ensure hassle-free and smooth services to the service...
The new coronavirus epidemic in mainland China is almost certain to become more deadly than SARS on Saturday as the death toll passed 700, health experts warned of mask shortages...
Stocks kept losing for the two straight weeks that ended on Thursday after the government passed a bill to bring surplus money of state and autonomous agencies to the national...
Donor funding to meet the expenses of the humanitarian needs of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh is in a declining trend. The UN agencies along with Dhaka launched an appeal,...
Facebook's social media accounts were temporarily taken over by a group of hackers on Friday afternoon. The hacking group OurMine posted on the Twitter and Instagram accounts for Facebook and...
The government has introduced an online accounting system for Bangladesh missions abroad, a move that may help contain the higher spending on health and education grounds. Apart from this, the...
The signing a deal on investment of US$ 321 million by a Saudi firm in the country's largest clinker-cement production facility at Chhatak in Sunamganj is in the final stage,...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina returned home this morning from Milan concluding her four-day official visit to Italy at the invitation of her Italian counterpart Giuseppe Conte. An Emirates Airlines flight...
Bangladesh's healthcare system remains inadequately prepared to cope with the potential outbreak of fatal coronavirus, which has so far killed more than 600 people. While state-backed hospitals have taken precautionary...
Visiting a library was by far the most common cultural activity among the Americans in the past year. A survey conducted by Gallup in December last unveiled the fact. It...
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Father of the Nation, had the dream to build a 'Sonar Bangla' of a type free from socio-economic and political exploitations. A priori reasoning would...
A strong case was made out last Monday as part of the SANEM annual economists' conference (SAEC) 2020 for widening access to bonded warehouse facility and modernising it for all...
A group of Bangladeshi students stuck in Yichang, a city in Hubei province of China, have appealed for evacuation citing a shortage of food and lockdown for a coronavirus outbreak....
Over the past few years, technology has advanced tremendously and cloud computing is one of the most significant innovations of information technology (IT) industry, encompassing blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI) and...
A supply crunch has pushed up onion prices by an average of 800 per cent in Dhaka’s kitchen markets compared to last year, according to UNB. Traders said prices of...
The world is facing a chronic shortage of gowns, masks, gloves and other protective equipment in the fight against a spreading coronavirus epidemic, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom...
This is the season of fishing carnival. In large parts of plain lands in this country, mass fishing gets going right from Poush and Magh on the Bangla calendar. Once...
Drug addiction, terrorism, militancy, mental depression and other immoral activities, especially committed by children and youths, are the burning problems facing the world now. In addition, loneliness of children and...
Currently markets along with other equity markets throughout much of the developed world have spent the past eight quarters absorbing the blows of political attacks, scandals and trade barriers and...
India wants to its Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh to be mutually beneficial, said newly-appointed Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Friday. The Bangladesh High Commissioner to...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wrapped up her four-day visit to Italy and left for Dhaka on Friday. A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the Prime Minister departed Milan Malpensa International...
A hackathon, also known as a hack day, hackfest or codefest, is a time-constraint collaborate intensive design sprint. The goal is to create functioning software or hardware by the end...
"I pray that my family will one day attend fewer funerals and more graduations." These words, spoken by Douglas, a Brazilian from São Gonçalo, resounded in my ears like a...
Bangladesh tumbled for 233 runs in 82.5 overs while batting first in the first Test of the two-match series against Pakistan that commenced on Friday at Rawalpindi. Mohammad Mithun was...
The four-day BASIS SoftExpo 2020 witnessed a large crowd on Friday, the second day of the ICT fair. The exhibitors and organisers were happy and expressed their satisfaction as hundreds...
A Chinese doctor who was reprimanded for warning against a "SARS-like" coronavirus before it was officially recognised died of the virus on Friday, triggering a wave of mourning in China...
The world is facing a chronic shortage of gowns, masks, gloves and other protective equipment in the fight against a spreading coronavirus epidemic, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus...
Finland's new government has announced plans to give all parents the same parental leave, in a push to get fathers to spend more time with their children. Paid allowance will...
Iran will soon disclose new information about the missile attack it carried out against a US base in Iraq last month, the ISNA news agency on Friday reported Amirali Hajizadeh,...
Bangladesh has put its key land port Benapole on high alert to identify coronavirus patients but its lone thermal scanner is dysfunctional. Authorities at Burimari land port, on the other...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that it will immediately commit up to $100 million for the global response to the 2019 novel coronavirus, reports IANS. The Seattle-based...
Malaysia's central bank has said that its international reserves stood at 104.2 billion US dollars as of Jan. 31, 2020. Bank Negara, the central bank of the country, on Friday...
Eleven of the 312 Bangladeshis evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan, have tested negative for the coronavirus. Prof Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora, the director of Institute of Epidemiology, Disease...
State minister for foreign affairs M Shahriar Alam has urged the European Parliament to remain seized with the Rohingya issue through its various monitoring mechanisms and tools towards facilitating the...
Britain’s ambassador to Tehran has returned to Iran, he announced in an online posting on Thursday, after his departure last month following a brief arrest by Iranian security forces fuelled...
A 25-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping a five-year-old girl on the premises of the US embassy in the Indian capital, Delhi. The man was arrested on Sunday...
Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka ranked the fourth worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Friday morning. It had an AQI score of 196 at 08:27am. The air was classified as...
Chinese president Xi Jinping assured US president Donald Trump on Friday that China is doing all it can to contain a new coronavirus that has killed almost 640 people, including...
A Chinese doctor who tried to warn the world about a new coronavirus died of the disease on Friday, prompting an outpouring of sorrow as the death toll passed 630...
Ten most traded firms accounted for more than one-fourth of transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Thursday, with LafargeHolcim making it to the top of the turnover chart...
Garlic and other cooking ingredients, key spices and fish became dearer last week for variolous reasons, increasing sufferings of the consumers, especially the commoners. Garlic, ginger, turmeric, red chilli powder,...
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