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About 49 per cent of the pandemic-hit internal migrants returned to their roots last year for massive job cuts, non-payment of wages and decreased salary. According to a SANEM survey,...
Progress in mega projects in Bangladesh is likely to be disrupted in the absence of vaccination measures for hundreds of foreign nationals working at the field level. Among the foreigners,...
The Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) and the global oil suppliers are at loggerheads over the enforcement of 'force majeure' provision for the supply and delivery of fuel during the pandemic...
The ministry of finance has overlooked the 'tainted' image of Vitol Asia Pte Ltd., though the Singaporean company was blacklisted thrice in Sri Lanka while its US unit was accused...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has lowered import taxes on non-boiled atap rice to 25 per cent from 62.5 per cent through issuing a gazette. However, the import of...
The Banking Secrecy Act is preventing taxmen from obtaining depositors' data by establishing connectivity with the lenders, the head of the revenue board said. Speaking at a pre-budget discussion on...
The grand finale of investment strategy competition 'MetLife presents Capitalizer 2021' ended on February 19, 2021, at Le Meridien. Organised by Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) Finance Society (FS), Capitalizer...
Designer's Hive is about to celebrate its first year anniversary with a fanfare on March 12, 2021 at Hotel Bengal Canary Park, Gulshan, Dhaka. Top level executives from renowned and...
Cox's Bazar Student Society (CSS) is a non-profit organisation that was established in 2012 with a motto of helping students and underprivileged people of Cox's Bazar. Nine years into operation,...
How often a guitar-freak youth is seen to lay down his/her six-string after years of practice only to let dust settle on it; the omnipresent singer in all cultural festivals...
Bangladesh has been continuously doing well in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector in recent times. This is the result of increased youth engagements that are unfolding throughout the...
There are many inspiring stories of women successfully exploring their entrepreneurship by using digital platforms during the testing time of confinement to home on account of the coronavirus pandemic. Some...
In Asia, poverty is highly concentrated in rural areas. Four out of every five poor households are rural, and many of these households rely on risky, weather-dependent agricultural activities. To...
Technology wars are becoming the new trade wars. In the race to dominate the technologies of the future, the competition between the United States (US) and China has led to...
At a recent virtual gathering of parents and faculty at my children's school, one parent who is a teacher and therefore eligible to receive a Covid-19 vaccine mentioned that she...
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has urged the government to reduce the tax at source on readymade garment (RMG) exports at 0.25 per cent from the existing 0.50...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the United Arab Emirates on Thursday in an opportunity to showcase new Gulf ties before a closely contested election in Israel. Netanyahu would...
সম্প্রতি ঢাকার বিমানবন্দরে ত্রিশটির মতো আমদানি করা গরু বাজেয়াপ্ত করার পর জানা যাচ্ছে, আমদানি নিষিদ্ধ এই ব্রাহমা জাতের গরুগুলো মিথ্যা তথ্য দিয়ে আনা হচ্ছিল। ব্রাহমা জাতের গরু বাংলাদেশে উৎপাদন ও...
The United Nations’ children’s fund on Wednesday urged countries to contribute more money to help poor countries access coronavirus vaccines, saying around $1.0 billion was needed. UNICEF, the world’s single...
বাংলাদেশ থেকে ‘প্রচুর টাকা’ পাচার হওয়ার কথা স্বীকার করে দুর্নীতি দমন কমিশনের নতুন কমিশনার মো. জহুরুল হক বলেছেন ভবিষ্যতে যাতে কোনো টাকা পাচার না হয় সেটা নিশ্চিত করতে কমিশন তৎপর...
The recent custodial death of the writer Mushtaq Ahmed after being arrested under the Digital Security Act (DSA) and then held in jail for 10 months has generated indignations, uproars...
With the approval of the Bangladesh Maritime Zones Act, the country is now free to explore and exploit the rich marine resources of the Bay of Bengal and exercise the...
President M Abdul Hamid and his wife Rashida Khanam received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Bangabhaban in Dhaka on Wednesday afternoon. “The President and his wife Rashida...
Popular musician turned actor Tahsan Khan has been appointed as the ‘Face of Evaly’, according to a statement. Tahsan will remain as the ‘Face’ for the country's e-commerce marketplace evaly.com.bd...
The parliamentary standing committee on textiles and jute ministry on Wednesday recommended the government to run different textiles mills under public-private partnership (PPP). The recommendation came from the 8th meeting...
Bangladesh cricket team members were on their way to Queenstown from Christchurch after their 14-day quarantine ended. They will stay in Queenstown before the first match of the three-match ODI...
Rajasthan, a big northwestern Indian state, said on Tuesday it had started limiting COVID-19 vaccinations to its major hospitals due to a shortage of doses, despite an assurance from the...
A highly infectious variant of Covid-19 that has spread around the world since it was first discovered in Britain late last year is between 30 per cent and 100 per...
ধরে নিয়ে যাওয়ার পর থানায় গ্রেপ্তার দেখানোর আগে ‘অজ্ঞাত স্থানে নিয়ে নির্যাতন’ চালানোর অভিযোগে ‘হেফাজতে মৃত্যু নিবারণ’ আইনে অজ্ঞাতনামা আসামিদের বিরুদ্ধে মামলা করেছেন কার্টুনিস্ট কিশোর। ডিজিটাল নিরাপত্তা আইনের মামলায় সম্প্রতি...
Cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore on Wednesday filed a complaint with a Dhaka court over alleged torture on him in custody after his arrest under the Digital Security Act (DSA). Kishore...
Women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul, who was released last month after three years in prison, said on Wednesday she hoped a Saudi court would amend her sentence ahead of the...
A Malaysian court on Wednesday overturned a decades-old government policy barring non-Muslim publications from using the word ‘Allah’ to refer to God, in a landmark ruling on an issue that...
জাতির পিতা বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিবুর রহমানের জন্মশতবার্ষিকী ও স্বাধীনতার সুবর্ণ জয়ন্তী উপলক্ষ্যে জাতীয় প্যারেড গ্রাউন্ডে আয়োজিত অনুষ্ঠানে অংশ নিতে আমন্ত্রিত অতিথিদের সঙ্গে করোনাভাইরাস পরীক্ষার নেগেটিভ সনদ রাখতে হবে। বুধবার সচিবালয়ে...
বিধান অনুযায়ী ট্রেনে শুধু নারীদের জন্য বিশেষ কামরা বরাদ্দ রাখার নির্দেশ কেন দেওয়া হবে না, তা জানতে চেয়ে রুল জারি করেছে হাই কোর্ট। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম-এর। সেই সঙ্গে শিশু,...
The High Court on Wednesday issued a rule asking the government to explain as to why the railway authorities should not be directed to arrange separate compartment for women. The...
Dubai’s Grand Mufti Shaikh Ahmad bin Abdul Aziz Al Haddad has said taking the COVID-19 vaccine will not break a Muslim’s fasting during Ramadan. “The vaccine does not break any...
Three people are jumping on the bandwagon of digital transactions every second by opening Nagad accounts, the mobile financial service of the Bangladesh government, reports UNB. On March 7, about...
Rich nations have been blocking proposals for poorer countries to get vaccines in a quick manner resulting in the majority of the poorest nations failing to avail a single vaccine dose,...
মিয়ানমারে বিক্ষোভকারীদের ওপর পুলিশের গুলি না চালাতে মিনতি জানিয়েছিলেন একজন খ্রিস্টান নান। কিন্তু তার সেই আর্জি রুখতে পারেনি বন্দুকের গুলি।খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম-এর। গত মাসে সেদেশে সামরিক অভ্যুত্থানের পর থেকে...
Stocks posted marginally lower for the second straight session on Wednesday as risk-averse investors opted for booking profits on quick-gaining stocks. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange...
Moinuddin Abdullah, the former secretary to the agriculture ministry, has taken office as the new chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Md Jahurul Haque, former chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory...
An Israeli-Canadian lobbyist hired by Myanmar's junta will be paid $2 million to "assist in explaining the real situation" of the army's coup to the United States and other countries,...
Bangladesh has recorded 1,018 new cases of the coronavirus, the highest daily count in two months, taking the tally of infections to 553,105. The death toll climbed to 8,496 after...
US recession drama “Nomadland” and coming-of-age story “Rocks” led the nominations for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards on Tuesday with seven nods each, with a...
Almost a year into the pandemic, coronavirus is still on the loose and hitting the headlines. After the outbreak of the virus, the schools around the country were closed. After...
Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen urged his Finland counterpart to explore investment opportunities in Special Economic Zones and HI-TECH Parks in Bangladesh. The two ministers discussed the possibility...
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has said in a report that economists and analysts polled in the Survey of Professional Forecasters expect Singapore's gross domestic product (GDP) to grow...
Journalist and television presenter Piers Morgan left his high-profile breakfast slot with the broadcaster ITV on Tuesday after his long-running criticism of Prince Harry’s wife Meghan reached a crescendo over...
The European Parliament on Tuesday dropped its call to phase out the free allowances industrial sectors receive through the European Union carbon market if those sectors become covered by the...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam is in hospital care after contracting the coronavirus despite being vaccinated for the illness a month ago. He was admitted to Rajarbagh Central...
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