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Garment Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad (GSKOP) has condemned factory owners for not providing sufficient transport to help workers reach workplaces amid the weeklong lockdown. In a statement on Thursday, Abdul...
Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Muhammad Imran on Friday highlighted the significance of the historic Mujibnagar Day that falls on April 17 and said the Mujibnagar government played a historic...
Brac University has appointed Professor Charalabos (Haris) Doumanidis as Brac University’s inaugural vice president for research. According to a press release, he will initially focus on building Brac University’s research...
Bangladesh will demand 10 percent of the funds that the humanitarian agencies raise in the name of Bangladesh and Rohingyas if they do not provide services to 100,000 Rohingyas to...
Southeast Asian countries are considering a proposal to send a humanitarian aid mission to Myanmar as a potential first step in a long-term plan to broker a dialogue between the...
রমজানের প্রথম সপ্তাহে অধিকাংশ নিত্যপণ্যের দাম অপরিবর্তিত থাকলেও সব ধরনের ফলমূলের দাম বেড়েছে। বৈশাখের তপ্ত এই সময়ে ইফতারিতে দেশি-বিদেশি ফলমূলের পরিমাণ বাড়াচ্ছেন রোজাদাররা। এর ফলে বাড়তি চাহিদা তৈরি হওয়ায় ফলের...
Akhilesh Mishra started getting a fever and a cough last Thursday but he initially thought it was just the flu. Akhilesh began to worry the next day, when his father...
The streets of the capital were largely deserted on the third day of a nationwide 'strict' lockdown unlike the first two days. Rickshaws, which were seen plying the city streets...
Johnson & Johnson had reached out to rival COVID-19 vaccine makers to join in an effort to study the risks of blood clots, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday,...
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has said a humanitarian calamity is engulfing South Asia as Covid-19 skyrockets across several countries setting new records, withover 200,000...
At least 142 physicians in the country have died of Covid-19 so far while the total number of infections among the health workers have exceeded 8,200, according to a report...
The number of new Covid-19 cases per week has nearly doubled globally over the past two months, approaching the highest rate seen so far during the pandemic, the head of...
Bangladesh has registered 101 new fatalities from the coronavirus, the most in a day, taking the death toll to 10,182. The caseload surged to 711,779 after 4,417 people tested positive...
Lionel Messi has helped to obtain 50,000 Covid vaccines from China for an ambitious but controversial plan to inoculate all of South America’s football players before this summer’s Copa América...
A medical team has prescribed an additional drug for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia after reviewing the final report of her chest CT scan. Khaleda’s daughter-in-law Dr Zubaida Rahman, the wife...
করোনাভাইরাস মহামারির ২য় ঢেউয়ে বাংলাদেশে অনেকের জন্যই হাসপাতালে ভর্তি এবং সুচিকিৎসা পেতে এক প্রকার হাহাকার পরিস্থিতি সৃষ্টি হয়েছে বলে জানাচ্ছেন রোগীর স্বজনরা। সংক্রমণ এবং মৃত্যু বেড়ে যাওয়ায় আক্রান্তদের সেবাদানের ক্ষেত্রে...
Foodies and cooking experts can’t decide on one thing. Which is the better method of preparing a meal, grilling or frying? Grilling involves cooking over direct heat, usually over an...
South Korean government has imposed suspension on visa issuance for Bangladeshi nationals following increasing the number of Covid-19 positive passengers from the country. The suspension has come into force from...
The World Health Organisation will decide late this month or in May on emergency use listings for COVID-19 vaccines from Sinopharm and Sinovac following an extended review, a WHO European...
করোনাভাইরাস মহামারীর মধ্যে শনিবার থেকে চারটি আন্তর্জাতিক গন্তব্যে বিশেষ ফ্লাইট পরিচালনা করবে ইউএস-বাংলা এয়ারলাইনস। শুক্রবার ইউএস-বাংলার এক সংবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তিতে জানানো হয়, শনিবার (১৭ এপ্রিল) থেকে দুবাই, মাস্কাট, দোহা ও সিঙ্গাপুর...
Virtual courts and tribunals have granted 7,204 people bail in the three working days to Thursday. On the last day, 2,360 people secured bail. The virtual courts and tribunals settled...
At least eight people were killed in a shooting at a FedEx warehouse in Indianapolis late Thursday, and the gunman was believed to have taken his own life, reports bdnews24.com...
Bangladesh has administered a second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to 930,151 people in the second phase of the government's mass inoculation drive amid a surge in cases of coronavirus...
Two models of the world’s top-selling SUVs H2 Jolion and H6 were unveiled in Dhaka on Monday through a virtual event, says a press release received on Friday. Fully loaded...
China’s economic recovery quickened sharply in the first quarter from last year’s deep coronavirus slump, propelled by stronger demand at home and abroad and continued government support for smaller firms....
SYLHET: Over 30,000 tourism workers are at risk of losing their jobs during the Corona outbreak in Sylhet region. They are already in serious trouble since the tourist spots had...
CHATTOGRAM: A section of workers at Chittagong Port last night stopped work for one hour protesting manhandling of a port staff by police allegedly for not following health rules. Port...
‘সবাই তো সুখী হতে চায়, তবু কেউ সুখী হয় কেউ হয় না’, কিংবা, ‘সুখেরই পৃথিবী সুখেরই অভিনয়, যতই আড়াল রাখো—আসলে কেউ সুখী নয়’— সুখ নিয়ে বাংলা গানের ভুবনে যে কয়টি...
India reported a record daily increase of 217,353 Covid-19 infections over the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Friday. It was the eighth record daily increase in the...
The Malaysian government has criticised the Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur for launching a job portal "ChakrirKhoj" without the consent of its Human Resources Ministry. Quoting human resources minister...
Bangladesh as the current chair of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) should lead the CVF countries to be carbon-neutral by 2050. A group of national and international civil society organisations...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has detected irregularities in customs assessment by a section of revenue officers (ROs) and assistant revenue officers (AROs) using Asycuda World system. The NBR...
Media professionals requested the government to cut corporate tax and duty on newsprint import to help the industry survive. They made the appeal in a virtually-held pre-budget discussion on Thursday...
The Ministry of Finance has formulated a new rule to invest in Bangladesh Government Treasury Bond (BGTB) specifying the details on transaction of the instrument in the secondary market, the...
The coronavirus pandemic exacerbated the challenges faced by minority-owned businesses, which experienced higher rates of closures and revenue losses and had more trouble accessing credit than white business owners, according...
There is a much higher risk of brain blood clots from Covid-19 infection than there is from vaccines against the disease, British researchers said on Thursday, after the rollout of...
The cross on top of Hungary's largest church, the magnificent Esztergom Cathedral, has been hiding a 176-year-old time capsule that was only recovered during renovation work this year. The sealed...
Reuters News on Thursday unveiled a new subscription website as part of a broad initiative to court business professionals. In addition to targeting its current global readership, the newly revamped Reuters.com is hoping...
India will spend $200 million over the next five to seven years to promote the use of hydrogen, Indu Shekhar Chaturvedi, the top bureaucrat at India's Ministry of New and...
The United States on Thursday (US standard time) imposed a broad array of sanctions on Russia, including curbs to its sovereign debt market, to punish it for interfering in last...
The point-to-point inflation increased to 5.47 per cent in March last as the prices of some essential items went up mainly in the rural areas, according to official data released...
The government agencies implemented only about 42 per cent of the revised development projects in the first three quarters of the current fiscal year (FY) which is the lowest in...
A magistrate of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has fined 15 people on charges of moving in breach of coronavirus lockdown rules in Dhaka. Magistrate Polash Kumar Boshu handed the...
The World Bank (WB) in its latest Bangladesh Development Update (BDU) listed three factors on which, it said, would depend the recovery or collapse of the country's economy. The pace...
When TS Eliot wrote, 'April is the cruellest month, breeding/ Lilacs out of the dead land', did he ever have a premonition of the dreadful April 2021 when the entire...
The pandemic situation in the country is breaking its record every day. The newly found South African variant, though not necessarily virulent as evident in other countries, is more infectious....
A move reportedly initiated by the government to facilitate export of halal food should be welcome given the high potential and the dire need of export diversification. It has been...
Film actress and former MP Sarah Begum Kabori has been put on life support in the course of her treatment for COVID-19 at Dhaka's Sheikh Russel National Gastroliver Institute &...
As a new surge of the Covid-19 had struck Bangladesh recently, the government announced a seven-day nationwide lockdown for one week (5-11 April). The target of this lockdown was to...
It was a wise decision on the part of the government to celebrate two great national events keeping the pageantry to a bare minimum. Both the events, however, deserved unfettered...
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