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Weaving contemporary designs into a traditional West African fabric, Nigerian Tsemaye Binitie is creating fashion he hopes can also bridge the gap between luxury and the everyday. His material of...
CHATTOGRAM: Key essential items, including edible oil, sugar, redmeat, chilly and rice became costlier at both retail and wholesale levels in the port city ahead of Holy Shab-e-Barat and Ramadan....
Stocks dipped in the outgoing week as panic-driven investors dumped their holdings amid fears of fresh wave of the virus due to the rising trend of Covid-19 infected patients in...
Shanta Asset Management Limited (SAML) has taken an initiative to launch a new open-end mutual fund concentrating mainly on fixed income securities -- "Shanta Fixed Income Fund"-- in line with...
Once famed by introducing Bangladesh as a shipbuilding country, the Western Marine Shipyard is now languishing from capital crunch and is looking for fund to survive, officials said. The company...
A discussion on development of the handicapped people in progress at Sagar-Runi Auditorium of Dhaka Reporters Unity in the city on Friday. People with different types of handicaps demanded on...
The United Kingdom has urged Bangladesh to address the existing trade barriers and other structural problems to help attract more foreign direct investments including those from British companies. "Foreign direct...
Lack of capital and access to credit remain as major barriers to cluster-based SME development, according to a latest study. The study conducted by Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS)...
কোনো মানুষই নিখুঁত না। ভুল করা এই খুঁতযুক্ত মানবজাতির অন্যতম বড় একটি বৈশিষ্ট্য। ভুলের সঙ্গে নিত্য বসবাস করলেও ভুল নিয়ে খুব একটা স্বচ্ছন্দ হতে পারে না মানুষ। না নিজের ভুল...
Exports of face masks from Bangladesh increased in the first eleven months of 2020 during the prolonged pandemic, contributing to the diversification of the country's export basket. The country exported...
Facebook has fixed a technical issue that caused a global outage of its services after more than a million people reported problems with its photo-sharing app Instagram. The issue had...
A few weeks after San Francisco’s school district moved to remote learning last year in hopes of halting the spread of the coronavirus, Kate Sullivan Morgan noticed her 11-year-old son...
Neydi, a Bolivian primary school student, logs on to virtual classes like many kids around the world during the pandemic. The only difference is the setting: surrounded by tombstones in...
Faruk, a fisherman from Japoria village of Hatia Island under Noakhali district, travels about 300 kilometres to catch fish in the Bay of Bengal. He enjoys the call of the...
It was a knee-jerk reaction initially when general holiday---a misnomer of lockdown ---was announced for restriction of people's movement. The hard-pressed segments of people were at the greatest disadvantage. Some...
Notwithstanding an impressive improvement in literacy, higher girls' enrolment and lower school dropout rates in the last 50 years, the overall education scene in Bangladesh is still dismal on many...
The main use of a country's foreign reserve is to maintain liquidity to prevent inflation and meet any emergency as well as external obligations including clearing sovereign and commercial debts...
Before making an investment decision, a foreign company would like to be sure that the environment of doing business in the country of choice is congenial. Does Bangladesh meet the...
BNP leader Barrister Moudud Ahmed was laid to eternal rest at his family graveyard in Noakhali’s Companyganj after several rounds of funeral prayers in Dhaka and Noakhali on Wednesday. The...
The French capital is set to go into a month-long Covid lockdown as the country fears a third wave. Some 21 million people in 16 areas of France will be...
Some unidentified men have detained a journalist of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Aung Thura, while performing duties outside a court in the capital in Myanmar amid protests against military coup...
নিজের বাসায় পড়ে গিয়ে আহত হয়েছেন ভাষা সংগ্রামী, প্রাবন্ধিক-গবেষক আহমদ রফিক। ৯২ বছর বয়সী এ লেখককে রাজধানীর গ্রিন লাইফ হাসপাতালে চিকিৎসা দেওয়া হচ্ছে। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকমের। আহমদ রফিকের ঘনিষ্ঠজন সাইফুজ্জামান...
The Covid-19 crisis poses an unprecedented threat to development in the Asia-Pacific region that could reverse much of the hard-earned progress made in recent years. The good news is we...
Banking professionals, economists and money market specialists are fully aware that the most common and complicated problem in the banking business is non-performing loan (NPL). This is because bank deals...
প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনা বলেছেন বাংলাদেশের মানুষের ভোটে নির্বাচিত হওয়ায় তিনি দেশের ইতিহাসের দুই মাহেন্দ্রক্ষণ জাতির পিতার জন্মশতবার্ষিকী এবং স্বাধীনতার সুবর্নজয়ন্তী সরকারে থেকে উদযাপন করার সুযোগ পেয়েছেন। এ জন্য বাংলাদেশের মানুষের...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday urged all to make a vow to implement dreams of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by building a developed and prosperous...
The US House of Representatives has introduced a resolution commemorating the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence, reports BSS. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan on March 26, 1971,...
Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation Per Olsson Fridh has said Sweden will remain a partner of Bangladesh for its future endeavours as the partnership in the past decades grew...
Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen has said the visiting Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa assured that Colombo would cast its vote for Bangladesh in next membership election to...
করোনাভাইরাস মহামারী বৃদ্ধির মধ্যে রমজানের এক মাসেরও কম সময় বাকি থাকলেও বাজারে মাছ-মাংস ও তেলসহ নিত্য প্রয়োজনীয় বিভিন্ন পণ্যের লামাগহীন দরবৃদ্ধি নিয়ন্ত্রণে কোনো নজরদারি দেখা যাচ্ছে না। কিন্তু সংসারের আয়-ব্যয়ের...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam on Friday said if the allegation of canal grabbing against any councillor is proven, he or she will lose the post...
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has paid tribute to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, describing him as a “person of principle” who dedicated his entire life for the people. Speaking...
Pakistan’s President Dr Arif Alvi has said his country wants to improve its relations with Bangladesh and called for utilising all avenues for improving the bilateral ties. Talking to Pakistan’s...
Bangladesh has made a proposal to sign a preferential trade agreement (PTA) with Maldives to bolster bilateral ties with an emphasis on improving connectivity and trade. The proposal was made...
The government needs to immediately ratify the ‘Basel Ban Amendment’ to stop illegal plastic waste trade in the country, said experts on Thursday. They made the call at a report...
বাংলাদেশের ইতিহাসের দুই মাহেন্দ্রক্ষণ বঙ্গবন্ধুর শেখ মুজিবুর রহমানের জন্মশতবার্ষিকী ও স্বাধীনতার সুবর্ণজয়ন্তীর তৃতীয় দিনের অনুষ্ঠানে সঙ্গী হয়েছেন শ্রীলঙ্কার প্রধানমন্ত্রী মাহিন্দা রাজাপাকসে। মিরপুরের সরকারি পিএইচ সেন্টারের বাক ও শ্রবণ প্রতিবন্ধী শিক্ষার্থীদের...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he and US President Joe Biden should hold live online talks in coming days after Biden said he thought the Russian leader...
North Korea has said it was cutting diplomatic ties with Malaysia to protest a court ruling that allowed a North Korean to be extradited to the United States to face...
Police have raided a village in Sunamganj to nab the perpetrators who attacked the homes of Hindu residents following a Facebook post. "The police raid is still on to capture...
Visiting Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksha on Friday said his country wants to strengthen bilateral relations with Bangladesh. "I look forward to engaging with PM Sheikh Hasina and the...
Singapore's anti-narcotics agency has made its biggest seizure of cannabis in 14 years after conducting a series of raids this week in the city-state, which has some of the world's...
এক কাপে চায়ে আমি তোমাকে চাই’—কবীর সুমনের এই গানটি শোনা আছে কি? তা এক কাপ চায়ে আপনি যাকেই চান না কেন, সকালের শুরুতে বা দিন শেষে সন্ধ্যার আড্ডাবাজি মুহূর্তে এক...
Bangladesh has recorded 1,899 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections to 566,838. The death toll climbed to 8,642 after 18 fatalities were...
বাংলাদেশে সুনামগঞ্জের শাল্লা উপজেলায় হিন্দু অধ্যুষিত গ্রামে হেফাজতে ইসলামের সমর্থকদের হামলা, ভাঙচুর লুটপাটের ঘটনায় এখনো পর্যন্ত সন্দেহভাজন অন্তত ২৪ জনকে আটক করেছে পুলিশ। সুনামগঞ্জের শাল্লা থানা পুলিশ আটকের এই তথ্য...
Samia Suluhu Hassan, 61, made history on Friday when she was sworn in as Tanzania’s first female president at State House, the government offices in Dar es Salaam, the country's...
Myanmar security forces shot dead eight opponents of a Feb. 1 coup on Friday, a funeral services provider said, as Indonesia sought an end to the violence and urged that...
Police arrested a young man at Bangalipara area in Sadar upazila of Thakurgaon district for posting a morphed photo of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on social media on Thursday. The...
At least three people were killed in a head-on collision between a truck and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on the Bogura-Nagarbari Highway in the Hailaghati area of Shahjadpur upazila of Sirajganj...
An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 hit a remote part of Tibet on Friday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties. The China Earthquake Administration said the quake had a...
জাতির পিতা বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিবুর রহমানের জন্ম শতবার্ষিকী এবং স্বাধীনতার সুবর্ণজয়ন্তীর আয়োজনে যোগ দিতে ঢাকায় পৌঁছেছেন শ্রীলঙ্কার প্রধানমন্ত্রী মাহিন্দা রাজাপাকসে। শ্রীলঙ্কান এয়ারের একটি ফ্লাইটে শুক্রবার সকাল ১০টার দিকে ঢাকার শাহজালাল...
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