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Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa has arrived in Dhaka to join the celebrations of the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s...
Cultivation of zinc-enriched paddy is increasing in Nilphamari district. Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) sources said about 5,000 farmers have already taken training on the farming process of the newly...
First, of its kind in Bangladesh, the government has selected 13 farmers to award 'Agricultural Important Person (AIP)' status for their outstanding contributions to the development of the country's agricultural...
The prices of milk and edible oil shot up again last week, hitting people's pockets. Milk prices showed a maximum of 25 per cent hike while edible oils witnessed a...
President of International Chamber of Commerce Bangladesh (ICCB) Mahbubur Rahman (top, middle) and other distinguished persons at the webinar on "Global Awareness on Open Account Export Transactions and Recent Policy...
Speakers of a virtual dialogue, organised by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), underscored the necessity to accommodate more clean and environment-friendly power plants in the next Power System Master...
Country's bakery and confectionery industry has become almost self-sufficient in meeting the local demand, thanks to entrepreneurs who have invested heavily to produce quality items and import substitutes. The industry...
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on Thursday approved $500 million in financing from the International Development Association (IDA) to help Bangladesh vaccinate 54 million people against Covid-19, the...
Ousted Myanmar lawmakers are exploring whether the International Criminal Court (ICC) can investigate any crimes against humanity committed since the February 1 coup, as an activist group said three more...
US delivery firm FedEx Corp has said quarterly profit jumped more than expected on higher prices and surging volume from pandemic-fueled e-commerce deliveries during the holiday shipping season. FedEx shares...
Gunmen have killed at least 13 Mexican police in an ambush a short distance outside the capital, local authorities said, in one of the worst mass slayings of security forces...
A new algorithm-based study by a group of UK universities has predicted that 63 countries – roughly half the number rated by the likes of S&P Global, Moody’s and Fitch...
Germany, France and other European nations announced plans to resume using AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine on Thursday after EU and British regulators moved to shore up confidence in the shot, saying...
The United States and China levelled sharp rebukes of each others’ policies in the first high-level, in-person talks of the Biden administration on Thursday, with deeply strained relations of the...
North Korea said it would sever diplomatic relations with Malaysia after a court there ruled that a North Korean man could be extradited to the United States to face money-laundering...
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is coming to Bangladesh on a two-day visit on Friday. He will join the celebrations of 50 years of independence and birth centenary of...
The proposed Action Plan to boost export of farm products appears to be no more than a routine exercise as it tends to see high yield as the main factor...
In March 2011 when Syria mired into civil war, Joe Biden, the then Vice President of the United States declared that "when a state engages into atrocity, it forfeits its...
After trying for four years, Bangladesh has failed to make any progress on removal of Indian anti-dumping duties on Bangladeshi jute goods. The latest attempt also turned fruitless during the...
The government has appointed Md Fazlul Bari as the next ambassador of Bangladesh to the Republic of Iraq. Ambassador-designate Fazlul Bari is a secretary to the Government of Bangladesh and...
A research based book has been published on the filmography of Zahir Raihan, the renowned Bangladeshi filmmaker and writer, who has made timeless films like Behula, Kancher Deyal, Jibon Theke...
The government is yet to take a decision on whether to impose fresh lockdown curbs amid a resurgence of coronavirus cases in the country, Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said....
Experts at a webinar stressed introducing integrated mosquito management (IMM) method and ensuring monitoring and evaluation of field- performance of insecticides and equipment to tame mosquito menace in the country’s...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that people tend view others as they actually see themselves after US President Joe Biden said he thought Putin was a killer, and...
The very mention of rivers in Bangladesh beside cities and towns brings to mind a common view. Most of them are in their death throes, with their streams choked by...
Bangladesh Embassy in China celebrated the birth centenary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman through a globally-participated webinar and day-long programmes. The programme was held on...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina early this week inaugurated the 'Bangladesh Infrastructure Development Fund (BIDF)' that enables the government to use a part of the country's foreign exchange reserve for bankrolling...
A centenary and a golden jubilee -- two different occasions but how intrinsically inseparable from each other! The two meet at the confluence of history. Hardly a nation is privileged...
The Department of Information & Communication Technology (ICT Department) will purchase 85,000 laptops for 5,000 educational institutions across the country. The laptops will be procured under the Sheikh Russel Digital...
The government has decided to rename the Halda river 'Bangabandhu Biodiversity-rich Heritage Halda'. Halda river is the country's largest water body for carp fish breeding. The decision was taken at...
Japanese assistance for Rohingya refugees and host communities reached $155 million since the beginning of the crisis in 2017. The Government of Japan last week decided to extend Emergency Grant...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday inaugurated the Amar Ekushey Book Fair-2021, a yearly event of booklovers and publishers, in the capital. The prime minister opened the book fair, joining...
Md Nasir Uddin Ahmed, additional secretary, joined as the new inspector general (IG) at the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) on Monday (March 15). Prior to joining...
The global economy is set to grow by 4.7 per cent this year thanks to a stronger-than-expected recovery in the United States, a report by the UN Conference on Trade...
Moderna expects to deliver its first COVID-19 vaccines to Britain in April and is on track to meet its supply obligations, a spokesman for the company said after ministers warned...
হাজারীবাগ ও কামরাঙ্গীরচর এলাকায় বুড়িগঙ্গা থেকে ৭৪টি স্থাপনা তিন মাসের মধ্যে ভাঙতে নির্দেশ দিয়েছেন হাই কোর্ট। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম-এর। জরিপ কমিটির দেওয়া অবৈধ দখলখারী অবস্থান, ব্যক্তি, প্রতিষ্ঠানের তালিকা দেখে...
Police recovered the throat-slit bodies of a woman and her daughter from a house at Digambar Bazar of Bahabal upazila in Habiganj early Thursday. The deceased were identified as Anjali,...
Bangladesh has recorded 2,187 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, the highest since Dec 8, taking the tally of infections to 564,939. The death toll climbed to...
The World Health Organization's vaccine safety panel is now due to issue its findings on the AstraZeneca Covid-19 shot on Friday, a WHO spokesman said, reports Reuters. The WHO's global...
Coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2, may be vulnerable to ultrasound vibrations, within the frequencies used in medical diagnostic imaging, according to a study that used computer simulations, reports hindustantimes.com citing PTI. The...
Stocks tumbled on Thursday as panic gripped investors amid soaring trends of Covid-19 infections and death in recent days in the country. The market opened on a downward trend which...
করোনাভাইরাসের সংক্রমণ ফের বাড়তে থাকায় জনসাধারণকে মাস্ক পরা ও সামাজিক দূরত্ব রক্ষাসহ স্বাস্থ্যবিধি মানাতে বিশেষ কর্মসূচি নিয়ে রোববার থেকে মাঠে পুলিশ নামছে বলে মহাপরিদর্শক বেনজীর আহমেদ জানিয়েছেন। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর...
করোনাভাইরাসের যে নতুন ধরনটি পাওয়া গেছে যুক্তরাজ্য ও দক্ষিণ আফ্রিকায়, তার বিরুদ্ধে মডার্নার কোভিড-১৯ টিকাটি কার্যকরী বলে দেখা গেছে বলে দাবি করেছে মার্কিন ওষুধ নির্মাতা কোম্পানির বিজ্ঞানীরা। গবেষণাগারের প্রাথমিক পরীক্ষায়...
ডিজিটাল ল্যাবের জন্য ৪৮৭ কোটি ২১ লাখ ৭ হাজার ৭৯১ টাকায় ৮৫ হাজার ল্যাপটপসহ তথ্য প্রযুক্তি সামগ্রী কিনছে সরকার। অর্থমন্ত্রী আ হ ম মুস্তফা কামাল বৃহস্পতিবার সরকারি ক্রয় সংক্রান্ত মন্ত্রিসভা...
বাংলাদেশে করোনাভাইরাস সংক্রমণের ঊর্ধ্বগতি রোধ করার জন্য ১২ দফা সুপারিশ করেছে কর্তৃপক্ষ। মঙ্গলবার স্বাস্থ্য অধিদফতরের মহাপরিচালকের সভাপতিত্বে কোভিড-১৯ প্রতিরোধ ও বর্তমানে করণীয় সম্পর্কে জরুরি সভা হয়। কোভিড-১৯ পরিস্থিতি নিয়ন্ত্রণ ও...
NRB Commercial Bank will make its share trading debut on March 22 (Monday) on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) under ‘N’ category. DSE trading...
Bangladesh and the Maldives have signed four Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) to boost cooperation between the two countries in different areas including fisheries and cultural affairs. The MoUs were signed...
New coronavirus infections in India rose by the most in more than three months as a second wave of the epidemic gathered momentum, with Maharashtra, the country’s richest state, accounting...
Britain said on Thursday that there were lumps and bumps in the global vaccine supply chain that was causing some issues and scolded the European Union for threatening to slap...
The High Court has granted bail to Erfan Selim, son of MP Haji Selim, in a case over ‘assaulting’ a navy officer at Dhanmondi in October. Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim...
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