Both divisions of the Supreme Court (SC) will hold their proceedings on limited extent from April 5 to 11 during the ongoing nationwide lockdown to halt the spread of COVID-19...
The government has asked Muslims in the country to refrain from arranging iftar and sehri (fast breaking and night meal) at mosques during the holy month of Ramadan amid increasing...
The government is contacting China and Russia for the vaccines as an alternative while continuing its efforts to bring the consignments of vaccines it already bought from Serum, said Health...
Russia said on Monday it would extend a punitive slowdown of Twitter until May 15 though it acknowledged the US social media company had speeded up deletion of banned content....
Youth-centric smartphone brand realme has launched two smartphones – realme 8 Pro and realme C21 - at the same time in Bangladeshi market to satiate the thirst of the tech-savvy...
বাংলাদেশে করোনাভাইরাসের প্রাদুর্ভাবে সারাদেশে করোনায় আক্রান্ত এবং মৃত্যুর হার অস্বাভাবিকভাবে বেড়ে যাওয়ায় রমজান মাসে মসজিদে ইফতার ও সেহরির আয়োজন না করার নির্দেশনা দিয়েছে ধর্ম বিষয়ক মন্ত্রণালয়। মসজিদে জামায়াতে নামাজ পড়ার...
Public transport went off the streets and shops remained shut in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka as the country started a seven-day lockdown on Monday, aiming to contain the second wave of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday reaffirmed that the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine will be rolled out on Thursday next as per the schedule. She came up with the...
ক্রমাগত বাড়তে থাকা করোনাভাইরাসের সংক্রমণ নিয়ন্ত্রণে আনতে সরকার লকডাউনের ঘোষণার পর আচমকাই বেড়ে গেছে মাস্ক, হ্যান্ড স্যানিটাইজারের দাম ও চাহিদা। রোববার রাজধানীর বিভিন্ন ওষুধের দোকান ও সুপারশপ ঘুরে দেখা যায়,...
Floods and landslides triggered by tropical cyclone Seroja in a cluster of islands in southeast Indonesia and East Timor have killed at least 76 people and displaced thousands, officials said...
Vietnam's National Assembly confirmed the nomination of Pham Minh Chinh, a career security official, as the Southeast Asian country's next prime minister at an official ceremony on Monday. Chinh, 62,...
Bangladesh has logged 7,075 new cases of the coronavirus in a day, taking the tally to 644,439. The death toll climbed to 9,318 after 52 fatalities were registered in the...
করোনাভাইরাসের সংক্রমণ রোধে শুরু হওয়া এক সপ্তাহের ‘লকডাউন’ আরো বাড়বে কিনা সে বিষয়ে বৃহস্পতিবার বৈঠকে পুনঃমূল্যায়নের পর সিদ্ধান্ত হবে বলে জানিয়েছেন মন্ত্রিপরিষদ সচিব খন্দকার আনোয়ারুল ইসলাম। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম-এর।...
Shop owners and employees of New Market and adjacent shopping malls in Dhaka staged demonstrations for the second consecutive day on Monday protesting the closure of shopping malls during the...
The Rapid Action Battalion has launched a campaign in Dhaka to ensure the use of masks on the first day of a seven-day nationwide virus lockdown. The drive, led by...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has conveyed his thanks to Dhaka for making ‘excellent arrangement’ during his recent two-day state visit to Bangladesh on March 26-27. “I write to convey...
লেবানন থেকে পৌনে ২৭৫ জন যাত্রী নিয়ে ঢাকা আসা একটি বিমানের যাত্রীরা কোয়ারেন্টিন না করার দাবিতে বিক্ষোভ করছেন। করোনাভাইরাস সংক্রমণ বেড়ে যাওয়ার কারণে বাংলাদেশ যেসব দেশের সাথে বিমান যোগাযোগ নিষিদ্ধ...
বরাবরের মতোই রমজান মাসে সকাল ৯টা থেকে বিকাল সাড়ে ৩টা পর্যন্ত অফিস সময় নির্ধারণ করেছে সরকার। প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনার সভাপতিত্বে ভার্চুয়াল মন্ত্রিসভার বৈঠকে সোমবার এ সময়সূচি নির্ধারণ করা হয়। বৈঠক...
The government has rearranged the office timing for the upcoming holy month of Ramadan from 9:00am to 3:30pm for all government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous institutions. The decision was taken...
An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck the eastern coast of North Island in New Zealand on Monday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth...
Brunei, the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries, on Monday threw its support behind a regional leaders' meeting to discuss developments in Myanmar and said it...
Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar has been hospitalised a day after testing positive for Covid-19. The actor said he was doing fine but decided to get admitted as a "precautionary measure...
Rescuers have retrieved 19 more bodies from a sunken launch on the Shitalakkhya river in Narayanganj, taking the death toll to 24. Earlier, the authorities handed over the bodies of...
Two people were killed when a truck hit a van on Rajshahi-Dhaka highway at Jewpara Borosenbagh in Puthia upazila of Rajshahi district on Monday. The deceased were identified as Abdus...
Some 513 people were killed and 598 others injured in road accidents across the country in March this year. During the month, a total of 409 road crashes took place...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday everyone in England will be able to take a Covid-19 test twice a week in a new drive to track the pandemic...
At least 21 policemen were injured as a bus hit a police van on Cumilla-Sylhet highway at Pirbari area in Sadar upazila of Brahmanbaria district early Monday. Mozammel Haque Chowdhury,...
Are you feeling that you are split between two worlds? Don’t think we are talking about any cosmic science here. We are indicating the worlds that we have to maintain...
South Korea’s LG Electronics will wind down its loss-making mobile division after failing to find a buyer, a move that is set to make it the first major smartphone brand...
Authorities have handed over the bodies of four victims of the Narayanganj launch capsize to their families. The body of another unidentified victim is being kept at the Narayanganj General...
The global Covid-19 cases surpassed 131 million on Monday despite the rapid vaccination campaign across the world, according to the data compiled by Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The JHU data...
Bangladesh has slipped 15 places to rank 65th among 156 countries in the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2021. With a score of 0.719 points, Bangladesh retained...
India’s daily Covid-19 cases soared by 103,558 on Monday, the biggest such daily increase, data from the health ministry showed, taking the total to 12.59 million. The country added 478...
Faruque Hassan-led Sammilita Parishad has swept the biennial election to the apex apparel trade body — Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) — for the term of 2021-23. His panel...
Amazon.com Inc has apologised to US Representative Mark Pocan, admitting to scoring an “own goal” in its initial denial of his suggestion that its drivers were sometimes forced to urinate...
Banks and other financial institutions (FIs) have been asked to prepare a business continuity plan (BCP) to deal with any crisis in the coming days. BCP is defined as the...
Thousands of Pakistanis rushed to get inoculated in the first round of commercial sales of COVID-19 vaccines that began over the weekend, with vaccination sites in the southern city of...
India’s richest state, Maharashtra, announced stringent COVID-19 restrictions from Monday, after a rapid rise in infections now accounting for more than half the country’s daily new cases. An industrialist who...
CHATTOGRAM: With a fresh one-week nationwide lockdown being enforced from today to control the new Covid-19 wave in the country, traders in Chattogram fear a huge loss of their business,...
Pope Francis urged countries in his Easter message on Sunday to quicken distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, particularly to the world’s poor, and called armed conflict and military spending during a...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has moved to frame a special VAT payment policy for the sales and marketing of imported reconditioned vehicles in order to resolve complexities relating...
Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) launched an IP calling app named 'Alaap' on Sunday. Anyone having internet connections with his/her mobile handsets can talk at 30 paisa per minute through...
The stock market regulator on Sunday increased the marginal loan limit for the investors to curb the free-fall of share prices. From now on, investors will be able to borrow...
The country received 6.62 per cent higher foreign assistance in the first eight months of the current fiscal year (FY2020-21) as compared to the corresponding period of the previous FY,...
Two Chinese state-owned companies have recently written to the government, expressing their interest in implementing the Dhaka-Chittagong hi-speed railway project. They wanted to execute the project on a public-private partnership...
Prices of rice, onion, potato, broiler chicken, and egg witnessed a further hike on Sunday ahead of the lockdown from today (Monday), raising the concern of the commoners. Rice prices...
A launch packed with passengers has capsized in the Shitalakkhya river in Munshiganj after being hit by another launch, reports bdnews24.com. The sunk vessel, Sabit Al Asad, left Narayanganj for...
The unfolding spectacle of the pandemic now looks more ominous than ever before. Any hope that the year 2021 will be better than the previous year has already been dashed....
হেফাজতে ইসলামের যুগ্ম মহাসচিব মামুনুল হককে নিয়ে শনিবার নারায়ণগঞ্জের এক রিসোর্টে যে নাটকীয় পরিস্থিতি তৈরি হয়, তা নিয়ে রোববার জাতীয় সংসদে বক্তব্য দিয়েছেন প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনা। আর প্রধানমন্ত্রীর ওই বক্তব্যের...
It is a piece of good news that the central bank has formulated a policy on financing the startups that are lately emerging at a fast pace. There are success...
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