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Beximco Pharmaceuticals reported a 28 per cent year-on-year decline in profit for October-December, FY23, rendered by rising costs and the expiry of the Covid vaccine distribution agreement. The consolidated earnings...
Two more garment factories in Bangladesh have received the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) for their green initiatives in...
Dhaka Electric Supply Company (DESCO) - the state-owned electricity distributor - has reported a loss of Tk 31.71 million in the three months through December 2022 despite a growth in...
The High Court (HC) has sought a list of Bangladeshi workers who died and got injured during massive building work in Qatar centring the 2022 FIFA World Cup. At least...
The government has extended the tenure of Indian oil and gas exploration company ONGC Videsh Ltd's (OVL's) production- sharing contract (PSC) by two more years - offering the firm an...
The Local Government Division (LGD) will issue simplified, bilingual and unified trade licence form and certificate for all union parishads (UPs) in Bangladesh. The new form is expected to reduce...
The central bank will not create any more special financing scheme now with funds from the foreign- exchange reserves to support businesses. Governor Abdur Rouf Talukder made it clear at...
With e-governance as ultimate end in view, the government has a plan to take the so-far-little-known Grievance Redress System (GRS) to upazila level across the country by December next. To...
Amid persistent persuading by economists for allowing market-determined exchange rates, the central bank of Bangladesh is set to raise its dollar price by 1.0 per cent to Tk 101. The...
Flour products become too costly in Bangladesh as the country's wheat acreage loses out to corn, litchi, mango and tea gardens while global supplies wobble amid 'price war'. Farmers increasingly...
The government is likely to raise the retail power price in February as part of its plans to readjust gas and electricity prices every month. The Power Division raised the...
Chief of Army Staff General S M Shafiuddin Ahmed on Monday visited the Chittagong Hill Tracts border road project being implemented under the supervision of the Bangladesh Army in Chittagong...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Israel and Palestinians to calm tensions as he visited on Monday during the worst violence in years, reaffirming a long-stalled peace vision as...
A suicide bomber struck a crowded mosque inside a police compound in Pakistan on Monday, causing the roof to collapse and killing at least 47 people and wounding more than...
Bangla Academy has allocated a total of 901 stalls to 601 organisations for Amar Ekushey Book Fair-2023, which is set to be inaugurated on Wednesday. The authorities have allotted 165...
The consumer rights agency of Bangladesh has ordered traders, especially those in the Baitul Mukarram area of Dhaka, to stop selling water believed to have been collected from the Zamzam...
When a city holds the unenviable record of remaining at the top of the list of the most polluted cities in the world for an entire week except a day,...
A hideous and rundown vehicle squeaking along a highway or a city road spewing out black smoke is a common sight in this country. They are makeshift careers. Despite repeated...
Suicidal tendency among school and college students has risen alarmingly as more than 532 students took their own lives last year. And every month on average 37 students committed suicide...
In December 2022, a United Nations (UN) biodiversity meeting, formally known as the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was hosted by Canada in...
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile strike during a phone call in the run up to the invasion of...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) today inked "Participation Agreements" with 49 commercial banks for Tk 100.00 billion Export Facilitation Pre-finance Fund (EFPF). The central bank formed the EFPF fund for exporters to...
Safiur Rahman Farabi, an extremist blogger who was handed life term over the murder of science writer and blogger Avijit Roy, has been found guilty of charges pressed under the...
Iran and Russia have connected their interbank communication and transfer systems to help boost trade and financial transactions, a senior Iranian official said on Monday, as both Tehran and Moscow...
State-run Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), India's largest insurer, is reviewing Adani Group's response to scathing criticism by a US short-seller and will hold talks with the group's management within days...
Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday said BNP has started road march after losing its way in politics. “When the power of...
Referring to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s remark that Awami League will never abandon people, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said that people know who fled the...
China’s government on Monday criticised US controls on technology exports as a trade violation, after Japan and the Netherlands agreed to join Washington in limiting Beijing’s access to materials to...
Long-term effects have been found in people recovered from Covid infection, with 12 per cent of the recovered developing depression from the mild to severe category as a long-term Covid...
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said that Argentina has started the process to reopen an embassy in Dhaka during his counterpart Santiago Cafiero’s trip to the country at the...
BRAC Bank Limited and PLI Asset Management Limited have signed a custodial services agreement. The agreement will enable BRAC Bank to provide custodial services to PLI Asset Management Limited for...
Food is one of the basic human rights. In this modern age, even food is segregated, and a certain class can enjoy special varieties of food. What if cooking for...
পবিত্র সৌদি আরবের জমজম কূপের পানি বাংলাদেশে বিক্রি আপাতত বন্ধ রাখার সিদ্ধান্ত হয়েছে। দেশের ‘ভাবমূর্তি রক্ষায়’ এই পদক্ষেপ নেওয়া হয়েছে জানিয়ে ভোক্তা অধিকার সংরক্ষণ অধিদপ্তর বলেছে, এখন কোনো দোকানে এই...
অনলাইন সংবাদমাধ্যমে দেশবিরোধী সংবাদ প্রচার করা হলে তা বন্ধে পদক্ষেপ নেওয়া হবে বলে জানিয়েছেন তথ্য ও সম্প্রচার মন্ত্রী হাছান মাহমুদ। তিনি বলেছেন, ১৯১টি অনলাইন নিউজ পোর্টালের লিংক বন্ধে ইতোমধ্যে ডাক...
Turaag Active, a brand of Wave Riders Limited, teamed up with Daraz and Foodpanda to promote active lifestyle. Wave Riders Limited, a sister concern of Urmi Group—a leading readymade garment...
The High Court on Monday sought a list of Bangladeshi migrant workers who died, and got injured during the construction works of hotels and stadiums in Qatar since 2010 to...
Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud on Monday said that a letter was sent to the Department of Posts and Telecommunications to block the links of 191 online news portals....
ঢাকায় পুনরায় দূতাবাস খোলার প্রক্রিয়া শুরু করেছে লাতিন আমেরিকার দেশ আর্জেন্টিনা; ফেব্রুয়ারির শেষে দেশটির পররাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রী সান্তিয়েগো কাফিরো’র সফরে তা উদ্বোধনের সম্ভাবনার কথা জানিয়েছেন পররাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রী এ কে আব্দুল মোমেন। ঢাকায় দূতাবাস...
Global Islami Bank has launched a special mudarabah savings account named ‘Ehsan’ to bring marginalised communities of the country under banking scope. Md. Abul Bashar, executive director, financial inclusion department...
A suicide bombing at a crowded mosque in Pakistan's Peshawar killed at least 32 people on Monday, the latest attack targeting police in this northwestern city where Islamist militants remain...
Exim Bank has arranged Annual Risk Management Conference-2023 with the aim of increasing awareness on risk mitigation in the banking sector. Recently, the conference has held at Multi-Purpose Hall of...
Islami Bank Training and Research Academy (IBTRA) has organised a workshop for RDS and UPDS officials on performance evaluation and strategies for achieving targets According to a press release, the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the construction works of the country's first-ever underground metro rail (MRT Line-1) on February 2 (Thursday). "The Prime Minister is scheduled to inaugurate the...
Apple-supplier Jabil Inc's India unit has begun making components for AirPods in the country and is shipping plastic bodies or enclosures for AirPods to China and Vietnam, Bloomberg News reported...
Indonesian police said on Monday a local trader of industrial-grade chemicals sold them as pharmaceutical-grade, leading to their use in medicated syrups that authorities suspect may have caused deaths of...
The age-old proverb "look before you leap, think before you act" is true, but it is up to us to decide how much of it to apply to our everyday...
Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) Chairman Air Vice Marshal M Mafidur Rahman has said that the expansion and modernisation works of all 8 airports – international and domestic –...
The US embassy in Turkey warned Americans on Monday of possible attacks against churches, synagogues, and diplomatic missions in Istanbul, marking its second such notice in four days, following Quran-burning...
Real Madrid lost ground in the La Liga title race as they were held to a goalless draw at home to Real Sociedad. The result left Madrid five points adrift...
If you suffer from joint pain, you know how painful and inconvenient that is. Occasional joint pain happens to almost all of us at least once in our life. In...
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