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For urban middle-class students of the University of Dhaka, the pandemic-induced closure has largely been an extended vacation. It was completely different for residential students. Many of them faced great...
Currently, 78 insurance companies-- 32 life and 46 non-life are operating in Bangladesh. However, contribution of insurance sector to the country's GDP is not in line with the economic development....
The first and foremost cause of child labour in Bangladesh is the economic condition. It is very difficult for poor families to pay for children's education. As a result, the...
Members of the Bangladesh national cricket team are safe and sound in New Zealand, said Jalal Yunus, the chairman of the media and communication committee of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB)....
International Organization for Migration (IOM), with support from USAID's Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), organised a “Safety at Sea” training for 200 boatmen based on the island of Moheshkhali. IOM...
Five wagons of a cargo train derailed after a collision with a rail trolley at Milpara area near Kushtia Railway Station on Friday. No casualties were reported but railway services...
Spotify, a popular audio streaming service, has signed over a dozen brands as launch partners across three new markets in Asia, including Bangladesh. The two others are Sri Lanka and...
Despite a high-profile visit to China by a team of international experts in January, the world is no closer to knowing the origins of COVID-19, according to one of the...
Indian farmers who have been protesting for months against deregulation of produce markets plan to block a major expressway outside New Delhi on Saturday, the 100th day of their campaign,...
The High Court has ruled that children cannot be sentenced to jail for more than 10 years regardless of the crimes they are convicted of. A child’s statement cannot be...
Pope Francis left Rome on Friday to start a four-day trip to Iraq, his most risky foreign trip since his election in 2012 and the first visit by a pontiff...
Bangladesh has won plaudits from The Wall Street Journal for the economic strides it has made in recent years in the wake of its graduation from the UN's least-developed-country categorisation....
Law Minister Anisul Huq has said any change or amendment to the Digital Security Act will become apparent ‘in a few days’ amid the clamour for the repeal of the...
Bangladesh has recorded 635 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections to 549,184. The death toll climbed to 8,441 after six fatalities were...
The National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) is closing one of its Bangladesh branches after failing to recover nearly 98 per cent of its loans from debtors, the bank’s country head...
YouTube has removed five channels of Myanmar's military-run television networks hosted on its platform in the wake of the coup in the Southeast Asian country. "We have terminated a number...
Households, retailers, institutions and the hospitality industry threw almost one billion tonnes, or 17 per cent of the food available to consumers worldwide in 2019, the United Nations (UN) has...
The US Senate is considering including in a new bill to boost competitiveness against China $30 billion in funding for previously-approved measures to supercharge the country’s chipmaking industry, a congressional...
Police Friday claimed to have arrested three members of banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (Huji) in the Sayedabad area of Jatrabari. The accused have been identified as Huji Operations Chief...
ডিজিটাল নিরাপত্তা আইনে কোনো পরিবর্তন বা সংশোধন আনা হবে কি না, ‘কিছু দিনের মধ্যেই’ তা দেখা যাবে বলে জানিয়েছেন আইনমন্ত্রী আনিসুল হক। শুক্রবার সকালে ব্রাহ্মণবাড়িয়ার আখাউড়া রেলওয়ে জংশনে সাংবাদিকদের প্রশ্নের...
Scientists have spotted a planet orbiting a star relatively near our solar system that may offer a prime opportunity to study the atmosphere of a rocky Earth-like alien world -...
A late rally in Chinese shares on Friday helped pull Asian stocks off one-month lows as investors picked bargains while attention shifted to US non-farm payrolls due later in the...
From models strutting inside an empty museum to designers absenting themselves from the catwalk calendar, this season’s virtual fashion weeks have been re-styled with a new look many expect will...
Bangladesh has been elected member of the Council of the International Seabed Authority for a four-year term from January 1, 2021, to December 31, 2024. Located in Kingston of Jamaica,...
Cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore is in poor health following his release on bail after 10 months in jail in a digital security case, losing 9 kg of body weight while...
Oil prices rose more than 1 per cent on Friday, extending gains from the previous session, after OPEC and its allies agreed not to increase supply in April as they...
Rain or thundershowers is likely to occur at one or two places over the country on Friday (today), according to an official at Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD). Talking to The...
Three shops were gutted in a fire at Madhubag in Dhaka’s Moghbazar area, said fire officials on Friday morning. The fire broke out at 10:06 am, Lima Khanam, duty officer...
Myanmar’s junta lost a tug of war over leadership of its UN mission in New York and the United States unveiled new sanctions targeting military conglomerates after the deaths of...
The government has planned to turn Bangladesh into a regional automobile manufacturing hub by 2030, said Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun on Thursday. "The export competitiveness of locally manufactured...
An average of 69 thousand hectares of arable land in the country is being used for non-agricultural purposes every year, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin said....
Poison- free vegetables are being produced in the crop fields of five villages of Elliotganj South Union in Cumilla's Daudkandi upazila. About 1,200 metric tonnes of vegetables will be produced...
SYLHET: Duck farming has brought fortune to Ejharun Mia of a remote village in Sunamganj district's Tahirpur upazila. The poor man is a lucky one by now through a rising...
The Chinese National People’s Congress (NPC) is going to review the draft decision of improving the electoral system of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region(HKSAR) during its annual session. According to...
State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak has declared bdapps (www.bdapps.com), the country's largest mobile application platform, as the national application store. The announcement was made at an agreement...
Despite rapid expansion of the e-commerce industry in the country, there hasn't been any effective mechanism to trace and collect revenue from the sector. "It is very difficult to bring...
Imports from the Asian Clearing Union (ACU) member countries increased by more than 11 per cent in the January-February period of this calendar year, officials said. The amount of ACU...
Prices of different species of fishes witnessed a hike last week which traders attributed to a fishing ban in hilsa sanctuaries for the next two months. A surge in poultry...
The government's net borrowing from the state-sponsored savings instruments stood at Tk 257.02 billion in the first seven months of fiscal year (FY) 2020-21, according to official statistics. The amount...
The construction work of metro rail from Airport Station to Kamalapur Station is likely to start early next year, amid challenges of completing the utility shifting work and finalising the...
A special tribunal created only to deal with stock market-related cases is having an idle time since it does not have any work to do, according to tribunal sources. The...
Vietnam spent nearly 1.9 billion US dollars importing cloth in the first two months of this year, posting a year-on-year rise of 17.6 per cent, according to the country's General...
Trade experts and economists suggested on Thursday that the government form a central committee, comprising specialists from private and public sectors, to devise ways for weathering challenges in the post-LDC...
China will “resolutely guard against and deter” interference by external forces in Hong Kong’s affairs, Premier Li Keqiang said, amid criticism from western countries over Beijing’s suppression of pro-democracy opposition...
Pop group BTS have been named the best-selling artists of 2020 by the IFPI, the organisation that represents the global recorded music industry. The accolade caps a stellar year for...
Bangladesh wants to buy up to 40 million more doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine from the Serum Institute of India (SII), its health secretary said on Thursday, potentially more...
China on Friday restored its annual economic growth target, setting it at above 6.0 per cent, and pledged to create more jobs in cities than last year, as the world’s...
Myanmar’s military rulers attempted to move about $1 billion held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York days after seizing power on Feb 1, prompting US officials to put...
Bangladesh, after many years, is not in the comfort zone as far as the food security issue is concerned. A recent report of the Global Agricultural Information network of the...
The United Nations Committee for Development Policy recommends on February 27 that Bangladesh be formally recognised as a developing nation in 2026. Had there been no pandemic, the formal transition...
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