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Members of the Armed Police Battalion (APBn) arrested a man along with 10,000 pieces of Yaba pills at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport early Monday. The arrestee was identified as Rakib...
Many Asian countries are accelerating the rollout of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine after confidence in its safety was hit, following reports that the shot was linked to rare blood clots in...
The government has scrapped eligibility tests at schools for Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations this year due to the coronavirus pandemic while the registration will be held online from Apr...
The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen unleashed dozens of air strikes against what it called Houthi military targets in the country’s north, including the capital Sanaa and the port of...
Australian authorities are planning to evacuate thousands more people on Monday from flood-affected suburbs in Sydney’s west, which is set for its worst flooding in 60 years with drenching rain...
The red carpet was rolled out as Nepalese President Bidya Devi Bhandari arrived in Dhaka this morning on a two-day official visit. A VVIP aircraft of Nepal Airlines (A320), carrying...
Stocks plunged at the opening on Monday like the previous two days as investors became worried following the sudden surge in Covid-19 infections and death in recent days. Meanwhile, unlike...
কথায় আছে, মানুষ অভ্যাসের দাস। আর তাই পুরোনো অভ্যাস ছাড়া যেমন কঠিন, তেমনি নতুন অভ্যাসে অভ্যস্ত হওয়ায় সহজ নয়। নতুন অভ্যাস গড়ে তুলতে আপনাকে অবশ্যই কিছু চর্চার মধ্য দিয়ে যেতে...
Disney’s animated adventure “Raya and the Last Dragon” led the domestic box office in its third weekend, illustrating the appeal of family films as Hollywood attempts to mount a moviegoing...
The board of directors of Premier Bank has recommended 12.50 per cent cash and 7.50 per cent stock dividends for the year ended on December 31, 2020. The board has...
Of the seven commodities sectors driving deforestation, palm oil companies are doing the most to alleviate their environmental impact following years of public pressure, a study by a global environmental...
Atiqullah Khan Masud, publisher and editor of Bangla-language newspaper Janakantha, has died at the age of 71. He breathed his last at Evercare Hospital at around 5.30 am on Monday,...
Iran does not trust US promises on lifting sanctions and will only return to its commitments under a 2015 nuclear deal once Washington fully removes the measures, Iranian Supreme Leader...
Barcelona ravers have found a way to get round Covid-19 curbs on clubs by holding outdoor silent discos in some of the city’s best-known locations. On Sunday, people welcomed the...
Saudi Arabian state oil giant Aramco is betting on an Asian-led rebound in energy demand this year after it reported a steep slide in net profit for 2020 on Sunday...
Turkey’s lira plunged 16 per cent to near its all-time low as markets opened after President Tayyip Erdogan made the shock weekend decision to oust a hawkish central bank governor...
Former US President Donald Trump, suspended from Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, plans to launch his own platform in two...
Israeli authorities confiscated the VIP border pass of Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki upon his return to the West Bank from a meeting at the International Criminal Court (ICC), a...
Demonstrators in Myanmar maintained their dogged opposition to military rule on Sunday despite a rising death toll, with two more people killed as the junta appeared equally determined to resist...
India’s health ministry warned on Sunday that a huge gathering of devotees for a Hindu festival could send coronavirus cases surging, as the country recorded the most new infections in...
A man has become an icon of benevolence providing farmers with all-out cooperation including imparting adult education to illiterate ones here in Kaliganj upazila in Jhenidah. Kazi Emdadul Haque, popularly...
Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Bangladesh and the Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship (ICE) Centre of the University of Dhaka held a meeting with Vice Chancellor Dr Akhtaruzzaman on Sunday to...
The stock market regulator has approved an unsecured contingent-convertible mudaraba perpetual bond worth Tk 6.0 billion in favour of Exim Bank. The approval came at a meeting of Bangladesh Securities...
The mayors of Narayanganj and Gazipur City Corporations at a programme on Sunday expressed different opinions about tax collection. Local government minister Tazul Islam was present at the programme as...
Farm credit disbursement grew by more than 7.0 per cent in the first eight months of fiscal year (FY) 2020-21 as demand for such loan picks up for seasonal effects....
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Sunday urged Janata Bank to be 'effective and efficient' in managing the bank's operations in order to reduce unnecessary expenditure and increase profit. Expressing...
Bangladesh would start administering the second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine, Covishield, from April 08, a senior health official said on Sunday. Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) additional director...
The Islamic Foundation has published the timetable for Sehri and Iftar for Muslim devotees during the holy month of Ramadan. Subject to moon sighting, the holy month of Ramadan is...
Amid growing demand for the instrument, the central bank has decided to introduce a separate quota on Sukuk or Islamic bonds for the country's Sariah-compliant or Islamic banks, officials said....
Bangladesh is looking for better connectivity and expansion of relations with the five neighbours whose heads of government are visiting the country to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of independence and...
A stark contrast between the maximum surge of coronavirus infection in the winter in Europe and America as against its drop during the colder months in Bangladesh should not escape...
The securities regulator has set an ambitious target. It wants to rope in at least half a dozen large local companies having an aggregate annual turnover worth $2.5 billion (more...
With news making the rounds that a number of new overseas Covid-19 variants have already entered Bangladesh, lots of people have started feeling edgy. The strains allegedly include the pandemic...
Mizoram, a landlocked state of India, has shown interest to increase trade ties with Bangladesh. The government of the Indian state has proposed to set up four border haats along...
A housewife was killed and her husband sustained severe burns after as a gas cylinder exploded at their home in Rashidpur neighbourhood of Jamalpur town on Sunday. The deceased was...
Rajiv Nath, who heads India's largest syringe factory, says he is turning down as many as 40 requests for syringes from across the world. Mr Nath's Hindustan Syringes & Medical...
BNP standing committee has demanded the government identify the real offenders involved in the attack, vandalising and looting Hindu houses in Noagaon village of Sunamganj's Shalla upazila through a fair...
The energy crisis in Texas has become world news. During extreme winter weather in February, surging electricity demand collided with falling generation, forcing the state's grid operator to implement rolling...
The Serum Institute of India is likely to send over the next shipment of Oxford-AstraZenca COVID-19 vaccine on Mar 26 or a bit later, Health Secretary Md Abdul Mannan has...
Even before taking his oath of Office and immediately afterwards, President Biden expressed his dissatisfaction about the manner in which Trump carried out his foreign policy. He also signaled that...
The Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has busted a car theft gang operating mainly in the capital and Sylhet division. Eight stolen vehicles were recovered and four...
In Bangladesh, the distribution of household work and child-care mirrors traditional perceptions of men and women's roles in the family. According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (2018), women on...
কোভিড-১৯ সংক্রমণ বাড়তে থাকায় সাধারণ ছুটি ঘোষণা করা হচ্ছে বলে গুজবের মধ্যে শেয়ার বিক্রির হিড়িকে ব্যাপক দরপতন হয়েছে পুঁজিবাজারে। রোববার দেশের প্রধান পুঁজিবাজার ঢাকা স্টক এক্সচেঞ্জের (ডিএসই) প্রধান সূচক ডিএসইএক্স...
Nepalese President Bidya Devi Bhandari will arrive in Bangladesh on Monday to join the celebrations of Bangladesh’s golden jubilee of independence and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary. Responding to...
The news about the possibility of a general holiday citing Health Secretary Abdul Mannan amid the resurgence in coronavirus infection is “fake”, the health ministry says. The government had enforced...
Kona cafe organised an unplugged session ‘Amex Experiences Unplugged At Kona’ aiming to draw audiences in and promote good music in a city lacking regular musical reprieve. Renowned musician Minar...
ভারতের সেরাম ইনস্টিটিউট থেকে অক্সফোর্ড-অ্যাস্ট্রাজেনেকার টিকার পরবর্তী চালান আগামী ২৬ মার্চ বা তার পর আসতে পারে বলে জানিয়েছেন স্বাস্থ্যসেবা বিভাগের সচিব মো. আবদুল মান্নান। রোববার তেজগাঁওয়ে সিএমএসডির নতুন ভবনের উদ্বোধনী...
The government has taken steps to reclaim the illegally occupied 138,613 acres of reserved forest land, said Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister on the day of International Day of...
The oil giant Saudi Aramco has announced that its profits fell sharply last year as lockdowns around the world curbed demand for oil. Earnings in 2020 fell by nearly 45...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked Awami League and its associate bodies to observe the Mujib Year until December 16 next working out separate programmes, including pro-people ones, so...
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