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Shares of electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc surged nearly 20 per cent on Tuesday, rebounding from a deep selloff with its largest daily gain in a year after data showed...
The World Bank has approved 120 million US dollars to help Bangladesh improve food security by enhancing climate resilience and productivity of irrigated agriculture and fisheries. The Climate-Smart Agriculture and...
Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha left reporters stunned and amused on Tuesday when he interrupted his own news conference to spray them with hand sanitiser in a bid to dodge...
Japan has decided to stage this summer’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics without overseas spectators due to public concern about COVID-19, two government sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters...
The dollar on Tuesday backed off its 3-1/2-month high as US Treasury yields stabilised ahead of key inflation data and Treasury auctions this week, boosting riskier currencies such as the...
Stocks witnessed a downward trend in early trading on Wednesday as risk-averse investors opted for booking profits on the quick-gaining stocks. Following the previous day’s marginal correction, the Dhaka Stock...
Queen Elizabeth said on Tuesday the British royals were saddened by the challenging experiences of her grandson Prince Harry and his wife Meghan and promised to privately address revelations about...
The farmers of Chandpur district are showing keen interest to grow sunflower in their fields, the officials of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) in the district have told the...
Shares of GameStop jumped on Tuesday for the fifth straight day, as the meme stock rally that began earlier this year got more juice on news about the video game...
China summoned Britain’s ambassador in Beijing on Tuesday to lodge “stern representations” over an “inappropriate” article she wrote defending recent international media coverage on China, the foreign ministry said. Caroline...
Norway has suspended the sale of a Norwegian engine maker owned by Rolls-Royce Holdings to a Russian-controlled company while it assesses the security implications for the country’s navy and the...
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva first ran for president in 1989. Three decades later, the gravelly-voiced former union leader looks set for one more run at Brazil’s top job after...
The UN Security Council failed to agree on Tuesday on a statement that would have condemned the coup in Myanmar, called for restraint by the military and threatened to consider...
The securities regulator is set to enhance the IPO quota for general investors aiming to facilitate their greater access to such facility. To this effect, the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange...
The securities regulator will hold a meeting with a delegation of the Bangladesh Bank (BB) on March 15 to ensure more coordination between the regulatory bodies for the sake of...
Apparel export to the US, the country's single largest destination, registered over 16 per cent decline in January 2021 year-on-year mainly because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Bangladesh fetched US$ 519.37...
The government has assigned 28 teams to monitor and oversee the price trends of key essential items in the city markets, officials said. However, experts have expressed doubts about the...
Health experts at a programme in the city on Tuesday observed that child tuberculosis (TB) and extrapulmonary TB are the two emerging challenges for a high TB burden country like...
Onion prices rose further in the last three days, augmenting the woes of the consumers. The increased prices hit hard especially the commoners who had already dug deep into their...
Country's overall LNG (liquefied natural gas) re-gasification reached around 837 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) on Monday, the highest-ever so far, as the government is importing a high volume...
The country's trade deficit has widened by 1.50 per cent or US$145 million in the first seven months of the current fiscal year (FY) because of rising import payment pressure...
The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), Dhaka, on Tuesday alleged withholding taxes were denying the corporate taxpayers the benefits of the cut in their tax rate, made effective...
The government has taken initiatives for the socio-economic rehabilitation of the returnee migrant workers, Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad said Tuesday. "Efforts to retrain returnee migrants and...
In the 19th and early 20th century Bangladesh, many ustad (teachers or mentors) used to offer lessons to visiting students. Themselves mostly insolvent, some of them still taught their pupils...
Advance railway tickets will be available five days before departure instead of 10 from now on. Moreover, passengers will get a full refund on tickets subject to deduction of service...
When more than seven months back, the decision of shutting down the state-owned jute mills came as a bolt from the blue, there was more to it as the decision...
The fact that the government has included agriculture in its current export policy as a priority sector is undoubtedly a right step forward. Though various agricultural items produced by our...
India's foreign ministry said on Tuesday it had summoned the United Kingdom's high commissioner over what it called "unwarranted and tendentious discussion" of Indian agricultural reforms in the British parliament....
Crisis meetings involving senior royals have taken place following the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's interview with Oprah Winfrey. BBC royal correspondent Daniela Relph said Buckingham Palace "will not want...
Facebook Inc said on Monday it was testing a feature on Instagram that allows some content creators in India to share short video clips, known as reels, on their Facebook...
Nearly one in three women worldwide is subjected to physical or sexual violence during her lifetime, pervasive criminal behaviour that has increased during the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO)...
Family members of school student Ifran Khan Rakib, who was killed in the city's Hatirjheel area in July 2019, demanded exemplary punishment of the killers by bringing them under justice....
সিঙ্গাপুরের হাসপাতালে চিকিৎসাধীন বিএনপির স্থায়ী কমিটির সদস্য ব্যারিস্টার মওদুদ আহমদের শারীরিক অবস্থা সংকটাপন্ন।খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম-এর। উন্নত চিকিৎসার জন্য ১ ফেব্রুয়ারি তিনি সিঙ্গাপুরে মাউন্ট এলিজাবেথ হাসপাতালে ভর্তি হন। মঙ্গলবার মওদুদের...
সারাদেশে ৪০ লাখের বেশি মানুষ করোনাভাইরাসের টিকা নিয়েছেন; আর নিবন্ধনকারীর সংখ্যা ছাড়িয়েছে সাড়ে ৫২ লাখ। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম-এর। স্বাস্থ্য অধিদপ্তরের মেডিকেল ইনফরমেশন সার্ভিসেস-এমআইএস এক সংবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তিতে জানিয়েছে, মঙ্গলবার একদিনে...
The country's Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector is frequently termed as one of the backbones of the economy. The underlying importance of the sector is also reflected in the...
President Abdul Hamid will get his first jab of Covid-19 vaccine on Wednesday. He will receive the shot at 5:00 pm, his Press Secretary Joynal Abedin said, reports UNB. Bangladesh...
The Anti-Tobacco Media Alliance (ATMA) on Tuesday urged the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to impose specific taxes and hike prices of all tobacco products to discourage people from consuming...
আসছে বাজেটে নারীদের সেবা খাতের উদ্যোগে মূল্য সংযোজন কর (ভ্যাট) ১৫ শতাংশ থেকে ৪ শতাংশে নামিয়ে আনার সুপারিশ করেছে বাংলাদেশ উইমেন চেম্বার অব কমার্স অ্যান্ড ইন্ডাস্ট্রি (বিডব্লিউসিসিআই)। মঙ্গলবার জাতীয় রাজস্ব...
ইলেক্ট্রনিক মাধ্যমে ব্যাংকিং পরিচালনা, লেনদেন ও ব্যবস্থাপনায় নতুন একটি আইনের খসড়ায় নীতিগত অনুমোদন দিয়েছে মন্ত্রিসভা। প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনার সভাপতিত্বে মঙ্গলবার মন্ত্রিসভার ভার্চুয়াল বৈঠকে ‘পেমেন্ট অ্যান্ড সেটলমেন্ট সিস্টেমস আইন, ২০২১’ এর...
Five media companies in Myanmar have been stripped of their licences, state television MRTV announced on Monday. The five independent companies were named as Mizzima, Myanmar Now, 7-Day, DVB and...
বাংলাদেশে মোবাইল অপারেটরদের মধ্যে বেতার তরঙ্গ বা স্পেকট্রাম বরাদ্দের জন্য নিলামে অংশ নিয়ে রবির সাথে দীর্ঘ কয়েক ঘণ্টার লড়াইয়ের পর রেকর্ড দামে ৫ মেগাহার্টজ তরঙ্গ কিনে নিয়েছে গ্রামীণ ফোন। নিলামে...
The High Court (HC) on Tuesday refused to grant bail to Mohsin Talukder, an accused in a case filed under the Digital Security Act 2018, for threatening to kill cricketer...
There are some shortcomings in the professional work of women entrepreneurs. If there are deficits, it will be difficult for women entrepreneurs to get loan facilities. That is why if...
US Embassy in Dhaka and local NGO Education & Cultural Society (ECS) launched a new project aimed at encouraging Bangladeshi women and girls to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday urged all to follow three health safety protocols -- wearing face-mask, exercising maximum caution and keeping public gatherings limited -- in the fight against...
Lawmaker Haji Mohammad Selim has got an order to surrender to the lower court as the High Court upheld a 10-year jail sentence given in a wealth case two decades...
‘অবৈধ সম্পদ’ অর্জনের অভিযোগে দুই যুগ আগের একটি মামলায় আওয়ামী লীগের সংসদ সদস্য হাজি সেলিমের ১০ বছরের কারাদণ্ড বহাল রেখেছে হাই কোর্ট। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম-এর। তবে সম্পদের তথ্য গোপনের...
Smooth transport connectivity between India and Bangladesh has the potential to increase national income by as much as 17 per cent in Bangladesh and 8.0 per cent in India, says a...
Employment opportunities and food security of returnee migrant workers have improved while health and psychosocial challenges dropped in the months after the government lifted the nationwide shutdown. However, household debt...
Dove soap maker Unilever will remove the word ‘normal’ from its beauty and personal care products, as well as stop digital alterations of body shapes and skin colour of models...
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