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Stocks tumbled at opening on Sunday as panic gripped investors fearing further fall of share prices riding on the news of a countrywide lockdown to slow the spread of the...
Opponents of military rule in Myanmar made the Easter egg a symbol of defiance on Sunday, posting pictures of eggs with slogans after a night of candle-lit vigils across the...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is widening its net and realising outstanding taxes to meet the yearly revenue collection target of the Income Tax Wing, reports UNB. For the...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) is set to start operating a Covid-dedicated hospital at Mohakhali kitchen market by April 14. Initially, the DNCC hospital will have 250 beds with 16...
The revenue board has waived value-added tax (VAT) on all types of expenditure of the Bangabandhu 9th Bangladesh Games to facilitate the organiser, the Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA). The domestic...
Tourist spots and recreational centres at Cox's Bazar including the beach, have fallen silent as a result of the closure of all tourist attractions in the face of the second...
US rapper and actor DMX is in serious condition in hospital following a heart attack, says his lawyer Murray Richman. Mr Richman told US media he didn't know whether the...
Bulgarians vote in a parliamentary election on Sunday that will decide whether long-serving Prime Minister Boyko Borissov wins a fresh four-year mandate despite persistent concerns about graft in the European...
The former crown prince of Jordan says he has been placed under house arrest as part of a crackdown on critics. In a video passed to the BBC by his...
Thousands of demonstrators joined rallies across Britain on Saturday against a proposed law that would give police extra powers to curb protests, with some scuffles breaking out following a march...
The biennial election to the apparel apex trade body -- Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) for 2021-23 term -- will be held today (Sunday). A total of 1,853...
The SME Foundation has started work on finalising a policy on loan disbursement among pandemic-hit small and medium enterprises from the Tk 1.0 billion stimulus package by next June. In...
Residents on Saturday afternoon confined Hifazat-e Islam leader Mamunul Haque to a room at Royal Resort in Narayanganj’s Sonargaon where he was spending time with a woman who he claims...
The first two-day summit between China and the United States held in Anchorage, Alaska on 19-20 March was quite acrimonious. It was the first such summit held since President Joe...
The country's health services came under massive public scrutiny last year when the deadly SARS-CoV-2 pathogen started taking a heavy toll on life and livelihood at an unprecedented pace. Certain...
Amid the menacing resurgence of the novel corona cases in the country, the government has resumed its preventive measures targeting all public modes of travel. They include trains, buses and...
The National Road Safety Council (NRSC) has recently formed a committee to review the draft national road safety strategic action plan. The plan of action aims to reduce the number...
Dhaka city dwellers were gathering at kitchen market in a fit of panic buying after the government announced a countrywide ‘lockdown’ for seven days from April 5-11 to tackle the...
Bangla Academy President Shamsuzzaman Khan along with two directors of the academy have tested positive for coronavirus. The two others are Director of Sales, Marketing and Reprint Jalal Ahmed and...
The Rohingya refugees, now living in Bhasan Char, on Saturday interacted with the foreign diplomats and expressed their willingness to return to their homeland in Myanmar. They conveyed their "high...
The flight operations on domestic routes will remain suspended immediately after enforcement of lockdown, said Air-Vice Marshal M Mofidur Rahman, chairman of Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) on Saturday....
Understanding human mobility and migration patterns caused by economic distress or a career move, escape from political turmoil or violence, natural disasters, or tourism require access to timely and reliable...
All ships stranded by the grounding of the giant container ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal in March had passed through the canal by Saturday, ending the backlog that...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has signed participation agreements (PAs) with 12 banks and two financial institutions (FIs) to operate its Technology Development Fund (TDF), a refinance scheme of Tk 10...
Britain's medicines regulator is urging people to continue taking the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, despite revealing that seven people in the UK have died from rare blood clots after getting the...
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has extended the time for voting in the elections to its body of executives with an aim to maintain health safety rules amid...
মহামারী সামাল দিতে লকডাউনের ঘোষণা এলেও দেশের বিনিয়োগকারীদের লেনদেনে কোনো সমস্যা হবে না বলে জানিয়েছেন দেশের পুঁজিবাজার নিয়ন্ত্রক সংস্থা। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম-এর। ব্যাংক চললে পুঁজিবাজারও চলবে বলে শনিবার বাংলাদেশ...
In order to do better in the ease of doing business (EODB) index, Bangladesh needs to reform commercial law, improve land border facilities and more efficient banking system, said discussants...
A Taiwan court on Saturday released on bond the manager of a construction site whose truck authorities believe caused a train accident that killed at least 51 people, as family...
The ongoing edition of Bangabandhu Bangladesh Games will continue although the government is set to enforce a 7-day lockdown from Monday to stem the spread of Covid-19. This sports event...
Passenger train services will remain suspended across the country during the countrywide lockdown, Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujon has said. However, the freight train services will continue as before, the...
জাতীয় অ্যাথলেটিক্সের পর বঙ্গবন্ধু ৯ম বাংলাদেশ গেমসেও ১০০ মিটার স্প্রিন্টে সেরা হয়েছে দুই চেনা মুখ মোহাম্মদ ইসমাইল ও শিরিন আক্তার। বঙ্গবন্ধু জাতীয় স্টেডিয়ামের ট্র্যাকে শনিবার পুরুষ বিভাগের ১০০ মিটারে ১০...
The authorities have postponed indefinitely the final professional examinations of MBBS course at the medical colleges under Dhaka University due to a spike in coronavirus infection. The university announced the...
দ্রুত বাড়তে থাকা করোনাভাইরাসের সংক্রমণ সামাল দিতে এক সপ্তাহের ‘লকডাউনের’ খবর এলেও তার ধরন কেমন হবে তা স্পষ্ট হয়নি এখনও। এবার কী কী খোলা থাকবে, কতটা কড়াকড়ি হবে- সেসব প্রশ্ন...
The last ships stranded by the grounding of a giant container vessel in the Suez Canal should pass through the waterway on Saturday, according to the canal authority, which said...
Gloria Jean’s Coffees inaugurated its sixth outlet at Rampura in Dhaka on Friday, according to a statement. A small event on this occasion was arranged at the venue at 7:30...
The number of Japanese companies operating in Bangladesh has increased around four times in 10 years as the government ensured better business climate for the foreign investors in the country....
করোনাভাইরাস মহামারীর ব্যাপক বিস্তারের মধ্যেই নতুন নেতৃত্ব বেছে নিতে রোববার ভোট দেবেন তৈরি পোশাক প্রস্তুতকারক ও রপ্তানিকারকদের সংগঠন বিজিএমএইর দুই হাজারের বেশি সদস্য। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম-এর। বেশ কয়েক দিনের...
Mayor of Washington DC Muriel Bowser has declared March 26, 2021 "Bangladesh Day." She congratulated the government and people of Bangladesh on the Golden Jubilee of Bangladesh's independence which concurs...
খুলনায় সন্ধ্যা ৭টার পর দোকানপাট, বিনোদনকেন্দ্র বন্ধ রাখার নির্দেশ দিয়েছে জেলা প্রশাসন। খুলনার ডিসি মোহাম্মদ হেলাল হোসেন বলেন, সারা জেলা ও শহরের সব ধরনের পর্যটনকেন্দ্র, পার্ক, পিকনিক স্পট, বিনোদনকেন্দ্র ৫...
Trading and settlements at both the bourses will be continued if the banks provide their services amid covid-19 pandemic or any other situation, officials said on Saturday. In a statement,...
Bangladesh has logged 5,683 new cases of the coronavirus in a day, taking the tally to 630,277. The death toll climbed to 9,213 after 58 fatalities were registered in the...
করোনাভাইরাসে আক্রান্ত হয়ে দেশে গত এক দিনে আরও ৫৮ জনের মৃত্যু হয়েছে, নতুন রোগী শনাক্ত হয়েছে আরও ৫ হাজার ৬৮৩ জন। শনিবার বিকালে স্বাস্থ্য অধিদপ্তর জানিয়েছে, গত এক দিনে মারা...
The terms of China's loan deals with developing countries are unusually secretive and require borrowers to prioritise repayment of Chinese state-owned banks ahead of other creditors, a study of a...
বাদাম চাষে কম খরচে লাভের মুখ দেখছেন রংপুরের তিস্তাপাড়ের কৃষকরা। কৃষকরা জানান, চরের জমি উর্বর হওয়ায় বেশি সার দিতে হয় না। তাই কম খরচে চাষ করা যায়। বীজ রোপণের তিন...
শিশু দিবাযত্ন কেন্দ্র বা ডে-কেয়ার স্থাপন করতে হলে সরকারের কাছ থেকে অনুমোদন ও সনদ নিতে হবে- এমন বিধান রেখে একটি বিল সংসদে উত্থাপন করা হয়েছে। ডে-কেয়ার থেকে শিশু হারিয়ে গেলে...
Prime Bank’s women-focused initiative ‘NEERA’ has undertaken a countrywide programme to drive financial literacy among the unbanked women of the society. As part of ‘Month of Neera’ initiative, marking International...
India’s biggest cities braced for stricter lockdowns and other COVID-19 curbs on Saturday as infections hit a six-month high, as a month-long surge continued in the country third-worst hit by...
Dhaka bourse passed the week with a moderate loss both in broad index and turnover as investors were panicked over the surge in covid infections and deaths. Amid selling pressure...
Country's ceramic makers have demanded the withdrawal of existing supplementary duty and reduction in other taxes on imports of raw materials to help protect the domestic industry from an uneven...
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