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The Singapore high court has ordered a blogger to pay Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong S$133,000 ($98,825) in damages in a defamation case filed by the city-state's leader, according to...
স্বাস্থ্যমন্ত্রী জাহিদ মালেক বুধবার বলেছেন, করোনাভাইরাসের টিকা নিয়ে বিভ্রান্তি ছড়ানো হচ্ছে। তিনি বলেন, "টিকা নিলেই যে সংক্রমণ হবে না সেটি ঠিক না। টিকা নিলে রোগ প্রতিরোধ ক্ষমতা বাড়বে। তাছাড়া এখনও...
Bangladesh and Bhutan today agreed to activate the river routes to expand business between the two countries. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Bhutanese counterpart Dr. Lotay Tshering reached the...
With the Covid-19 situation worsening around the world, the global caseload crossed 124 million on Wednesday. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the global Covid-19 tally and fatalities now stand...
Aid workers searched on Wednesday to reunite Rohingya Muslim families separated when a huge fire swept through the world’s biggest refugee settlement in Bangladesh, forcing about 45,000 people from their...
Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering, who is in Dhaka to join the celebrations of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary and the golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence, has paid a...
Italian aerospace and defence group Leonardo and a consortium of IT companies are to use satellites, sensors and drones to protect a 1,000 hectare nature reserve on the outskirts of...
Myanmar activists plan more anti-coup protests on Wednesday, including a silent strike with many businesses due to close and calls for people to stay home, a day after a seven-year-old...
Stocks plummeted at the opening on Wednesday as cautious amid the rising trend of Covid-19 infections and deaths alarmingly every day. Following the previous day’s flat ending, the Dhaka Stock...
Guatemalan authorities closed the capital’s international airport on Tuesday as ash and rocks sprayed from the Pacaya volcano, grounding nine planes and diverting an incoming flight to neighbouring El Salvador....
আমরা যারা স্কুল-কলেজ-বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে পড়ি, কিংবা শহরে কোনো মেসে থেকে চাকরিবাকরি করি, তাদের বড়দের কাছ থেকে ‘এত রাস্তার খাবার খাও কেন?’ ধরনের কথা প্রায়ই শুনতে হয়। কিন্তু সত্যি বলতে, বর্তমান নাগরিক...
US cinema chain Regal will reopen next month in time for big-budget release “Godzilla vs. Kong”, owner Cineworld said on Tuesday, as it set out a deal to show Warner...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX will be landing its Starship rockets on Mars well before 2030, the billionaire entrepreneur said in a tweet on Tuesday. The private space company had raised about...
In a room crammed from ceiling to floor with boxes, cabinets and drawers of Lego bricks, Hoang Dang intently builds a bright blue, yellow and red fishing boat with a...
As cheering children and men frantically paddle their inflatable surfboard through the frothy Pacific waves onto the beach, one passenger placidly sits in the bow taking it all in -...
Velo3D Inc will merge with a blank-check company backed by tennis star Serena Williams, in a deal that takes the 3D printing technology venture public at a combined value of...
Bangladesh Tea Association (BTA) on Tuesday demanded a cut in import duty on some irrigation units amid the scarcity of rain in major tea gardens. It also demanded that the...
Transport sector leaders on Tuesday urged the government to reduce duties on the equipment and accessories used for vehicles in the upcoming budget for the fiscal year 2021-2022 considering the...
MAGURA: Outstanding success has been achieved in Magura in producing 12- month long green banana. Akamat Mollah of village Shibrampur under Magura sadar upazila deserves this glorious credit. Akamat is...
With business as usual scenario, 11.8 million people will face internal migration due to climate change and associated impacts by 2031 and by 2041 it may rise to 21.3 million,...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Tuesday said ups and downs are common phenomenon in stock market and advised the people to invest cautiously. "If you think that ups and...
Issuing warnings against the possible price hike of essential items during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan, a state intelligence agency made some recommendations including taking stern action against unscrupulous...
The government has fixed tolls for using the 1.49-kilometre-long bridge over Payra River in Patuakhali, as its construction is expected to be completed by June, establishing direct link between Dhaka...
Jute price hike has dealt a double blow to the volatile rice market as fibre sacks have skyrocketed in recent months, causing a further price surge of the staple. The...
Water tariffs under the Dhaka WASA are unlikely to be hiked immediately, its chairman told the FE on Tuesday. The DWASA board has put on hold the proposed 5.0 per...
Businesses are now deeply worried that resurgence of the Covid-19 might unsettle the recovery they have been making in recent months following a notable improvement in both infection and fatality...
As Bangladesh celebrates the golden jubilee of its independence, a retrospection of the country’s journey suggests an upward trajectory in terms of various development attainments. The nation has attained the...
Turn on, tune in and stay at home. That’s what millions of music fans did in 2020, with a rise in subscription streaming leading global recorded music revenue growth of...
Britain’s Prince Harry will become the first chief impact officer of BetterUp Inc, a San Francisco-based start-up that provides employee coaching and mental health assistance, the company said on Tuesday....
AstraZeneca will publish up-to-date results from its major US Covid-19 vaccine trial within 48 hours after health officials publicly criticised the drugmaker for using “outdated information” to show how well...
The coronavirus pandemic should make governments realise that defence spending cannot guarantee security for their populations and should encourage them instead to divert funds to improve health care and fight...
The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on Tuesday calling for equitable, affordable access to Covid-19 vaccines and fair pricing. The text, endorsed by more than 130 countries...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday pledged to rebuild and revitalise the transatlantic military alliance after a bruising four years when Washington portrayed NATO as outdated, divided and...
Tesla Inc’s use of in-car cameras to record and transmit video footage of passengers to develop self-driving technology raises privacy concerns, influential US magazine Consumer Reports said on Tuesday. Consumer...
UN human rights boss Michelle Bachelet received a mandate on Tuesday to collect evidence of crimes during Sri Lanka's long civil war, which ended in 2009 with the defeat of...
Among the many man-made environmental hazards, the one going unabated despite alarm raised by the environmentalists and conscious quarters in the country is the conventional method of brick making. The...
Industrialisation is the universally accepted path to economic development or growth. Bangladesh is no exception to this norm. But it is also true that environmental degradation caused by economic activity...
Sinovac said its COVID-19 vaccine is safe in children ages 3-17, based on preliminary data, and it has submitted the data to Chinese drug regulators. More than 70 million shots...
Ascend Technologies, a US-based IT company, headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, founded by Bangladeshi- American entrepreneur Kawser Jamal in 2003, has embarked on an expansion phase in Bangladesh from March...
English is the dominant global language. It has become almost a necessity for people to speak English if they are to enter a global workforce, as many international companies expect...
Police recovered the bodies of a woman and her son from Korail slum in Boubazar area of Dhaka on Tuesday. The deceased are Hashi Begum,24, wife of Rubel and her...
A popular Polish writer is facing a potential sentence of up to three years in prison for calling the nation’s president a “moron” on social media. Jakub Zulczyk had criticised...
The most difficult task for any writer or public speaker today is to create appeal for narratives s/he makes and replicates. The easiest thing, in this regard, is to blame...
War has been a cruel thing since the very beginning. Most of the time, people's rights which are protected by law get violated during a war. We can see in...
The World Bank Group will have vaccine programmes in 30 countries by the end of April, backed by some $2.0 billion in financing, bank president David Malpass said on Tuesday,...
UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay on Tuesday said the historic March 7 speech defended universal values, freedom, human rights and dignity. ” . . . it (March 7 speech) defended universal...
There comes a question why we need letters of credit (LCs) to import goods when our central bank is holding huge liquidity as international reserves. The LCs need to be...
রাজধানীসহ দেশের বিস্তীর্ণ অঞ্চলে মৃদু থেকে মাঝারি ধরনের তাপপ্রবাহ অব্যাহত রয়েছে। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম-এর। টানা তিন দিন ধরে বিরাজমান এ তাপদাহ আরও অন্তত কয়েকদিন অব্যাহত থাকতে পারে বলে আভাস...
At least 11 people have died in a massive fire that devastated thousands of homes at a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, according to the disaster management and relief...
Residents of different areas of the city suffered immensely on Tuesday as household gas crisis, caused due to the damage of the gas feeder pipeline in Savar, hit them acutely....
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