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A 'Training on Women's Economic Leadership' course for returnee women migrant workers began in the city on Tuesday. Japanese Ambassador Naoki Ito inaugurated the course at Bangladesh-Korea Technical Training Centre...
CHATTOGRAM: The second divisional VAT (value-added tax) fair will begin in Chattogram on Wednesday (today). The two-day fair will be held at Agrabad, Chattola, Chandgaon, Rangamati, Khagrachari, Patiya, Bandarban and...
Speakers at a conference on Monday said financial reporting in insurance sector of Bangladesh is facing setback due to some grey areas between the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) and...
Though one decade has already elapsed by this time seeing Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) polls being held three times, including the last one on January 27, construction work of the...
The High Court (HC) has sanctioned the amalgamation of the Bangladesh Steel Re-Rolling Mills Limited with the BSRM Steel Mills Limited. It said all the assets and liabilities of the...
Planning Minister M A Mannan expressed his tough stance on project evaluation, and asked the authorities concerned to oversee the development works properly. "You have to be tough in project...
Stakeholders urged the foreign investors and non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) to invest more in Bangladesh capital market to get a better return. They were addressing the inauguration of a four-day road...
Rohingya refugees who were relocated to Bhasanchar from Cox's Bazar are now getting involved in income-generating activities. A non-governmental organisation (NGO) is providing vocational training to some 200 Rohingyas on...
The flow of people to vaccine centres keeps rising steadily as Bangladesh reported roughly 77-per cent rise in the number of vaccinations on Tuesday. The percentage was 60 on the...
Owners of many tenure-expired privately-owned oil-fired power plants, including those of rental and quick rental ones, have shown interest to continue electricity generation on 'no electricity, no payment' basis instead...
Bangladesh's imports have started picking up for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic paralysed the national economy, according to shipping executives. Imports surged in January by 5.0-6.0 per cent...
The size of the banks' non-performing loans (NPLs) shrank further at the end of the fourth quarter of 2020. The suspension of the usual practice of classifying loans that had...
Lies - small or big - have threatened our society, making living challenging. No more is truth universally accepted as a collective defence against crimes and corruption. A generation is...
Permission for large-scale import of sugar causing mounting losses to state owned sugar mills and seriously affecting livelihood means of thousands of sugarcane farmers is not just shortsighted but thoughtless,...
Bangladesh has finally made the move to ratify the ILC 138, the International Labour Organisation (ILO)'s minimum age convention. Ratification of this particular ILO convention has been long overdue since...
Mary Wilson, a founding member of The Supremes, has died at the age of 76, her publicist has said. Wilson died suddenly at her home in Henderson, Nevada, on Monday....
বেসরকারি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়গুলো থেকে ১৫ শতাংশ হারে আয়কর আদায় না করতে জাতীয় রাজস্ব বোর্ডকে (এনবিআর) নির্দেশ দিয়েছেন আপিল বিভাগ। এ সংক্রান্ত মামলা আপিল বিভাগে নিষ্পত্তি না হওয়া পর্যন্ত আয়কর আদায় করা...
International tribunals tend to be praised, in principle, by those they avoid investigating. Once interest shifts to those parties, such bodies become the subject of accusations: bias, politicisation, crude arbitrariness. ...
Europe's oldest person, French nun Sister Andre, has survived COVID-19 and will celebrate her 117th birthday this week, her caregivers said. Lucile Randon, who took the name of Sister Andre...
A Chattogram court on Tuesday granted two-day remand of six members of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested in a case accusing them of abducting a man from Anowara, threatening to...
The head of the World Health Organization-led team of experts investigating the origins of COVID-19, Peter Ben Embarek, said on Tuesday that it was “very unlikely” that a leak from...
India said on Tuesday it had no concerns over the efficacy of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine despite South Africa putting it on hold, and ordered 10 million more doses of...
Remittance flows account for a significant share of national earnings of low and middle-income countries such as Bangladesh. Given the pandemic scenario, the World Bank, in April 2020, had projected...
The unexpected loss of the Bangladesh cricket team to the visiting West Indies in Chittagong on Sunday in the first Test shocked the home team's ardent supporters no doubt, and...
The government Tuesday released two new varieties of rice and jute seeds prospecting high yields. The National Seed Board (NSB) has approved high zinc enriched ‘Brri dhan-100’ variety invented by...
The Primary Waste Collection Service Providers (PWCSP) on Tuesday threatened to stop collecting household wastes if they are not given authority to provide certificates and attestation to the cleaners within...
The number of newborns in China plummeted 15 per cent in 2020 from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Public Security, with the onset of the novel coronavirus...
নতুন করে জনবল নিয়োগ, অবৈধ প্রবাসী কর্মীদের বৈধ করা ও ফেরানোর প্রক্রিয়া ঠিক করে মালদ্বীপের সঙ্গে একটি সমঝোতা চুক্তি সই করেছে বাংলাদেশ সরকার। মালদ্বীপের পররাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রী আবদুল্লা শহিদের ঢাকা সফরের মধ্যে...
টানা দুই দিন বড় দরপতনের পর সপ্তাহের তৃতীয় দিন সূচকে বড় উল্লম্ফন ঘটেছে ঢাকার পুঁজিবাজারে। মঙ্গলবার ঢাকা স্টক এক্সচেঞ্জের (ডিএসই) প্রধান সূচক ডিএসইএক্স আগের দিন থেকে ১২২ দশমিক শূন্য ৮...
বেসরকারি খাতের পরিচ্ছন্নতাকর্মীদের অনুমোদন ও প্রত্যয়ন আগামী সাত দিনের মধ্যে ফিরিয়ে দেওয়া না হলে ঢাকার বাসাবাড়ির ময়লা নেওয়া বন্ধ করার হুমকি দিয়েছে পরিচ্ছন্নতাকর্মীদের সংগঠন প্রাইমারি ওয়েস্ট কালেকশন সার্ভিস প্রোভাইডারস (পিডব্লিউসিএসপি)।...
Amid the tough time of coronavirus, women in Bangladesh's rural areas are making biodegradable, reusable Ella masks from garment scraps to cope with the pandemic-induced new social lifestyle and ensure...
The head of the World Health Organization-led team in the central Chinese city of Wuhan probing the origins of COVID-19 said on Tuesday that cold-chain transmission of the virus is...
Appreciating Bangladesh’s economic progress, British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson has emphasised attaining more competitive and strengthening business-friendly environment for attracting more foreign investment. He has also underlined...
Police fired gunshots into the air and used water cannon and rubber bullets on Tuesday as protesters across Myanmar defied bans on big gatherings to oppose a military coup that...
Manpower recruiters urged the authorities concerned not to allow any syndication in the manpower sending process to Malaysia to protect the interests of the sector. They made their call at...
Rescuers raced to free around 35 Indian construction workers trapped in a tunnel, two days after the hydroelectric dam they were helping to build was swept away by a wall...
Some 3.6 million people will be provided with access to hygienic sanitation facilities and about 600,000 people with clean water in the country’s 78 upazilas (sub-districts) under a World Bank-aided...
Rashed Amin Biddut, an IT business expert, has recently joined at telecommunication network Bahon as chief operating officer (COO) recently. Over 20-years of experience in creating the best customer experience,...
ময়মনসিংহের গফরগাঁও ও ভালুকার নয় আসামির বিরুদ্ধে একাত্তরে যুদ্ধাপরাধের মামলার রায় জানা যাবে বৃহস্পতিবার। বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতাযুদ্ধের সময় অপহরণ, আটক, নির্যাতন ও হত্যার মত অপরাধের চারটি ঘটনায় জড়িত থাকার অভিযোগ রয়েছে...
Watching the business news first thing is a new routine for 12-year-old South Korean Kwon Joon, as he dreams of becoming the next Warren Buffett after earning stellar returns of...
The Maldives will recruit workers from Bangladesh by creating a solid framework under an agreement, said visiting Foreign Minister of the Maldives Abdulla Shahid. “Today we’ll be signing two memoranda....
Singapore Airlines Limited said on Tuesday it would defer over US$ 3.01 billion of spending on Airbus SE and Boeing Co planes after reaching agreements with the aircraft manufacturers to...
James Anderson and Jack Leach bowled England to a famous 227-run victory against India on the final day of the first Test in Chennai. Anderson inspired England with 3-17 and...
Bangladesh has recorded 387 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 538,765. The death toll climbed to 8,229 after eight...
Windows 10 has a major design overhaul inbound for later in 2021, at least in theory, and we’ve caught a number of glimpses of what interface changes might be in...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has instructed teachers to get vaccine shots as Bangladesh plans to reopen educational institutions anytime soon with the nationwide inoculation drive underway. State Minister of Primary...
সারাদেশে করোনাভাইরাসের টিকাদান শুরু হওয়ায় যে কোনো সময় স্কুলগুলো খুলে দেওয়া হতে পারে। আর সেজন্য শিক্ষক-কর্মকর্তাদের টিকা নেওয়ার নির্দেশনা দিয়েছেন প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনা। মঙ্গলবার সকালে সচিবালয় ক্লিনিকে টিকা নেওয়ার পর...
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen wished China a happy Lunar New Year on Tuesday, but said she will not yield to Chinese pressure and reiterated a call for dialogue to resume...
Protesters opposed to Myanmar’s military coup defied bans on big gatherings to extend the largest demonstrations in more than a decade on Tuesday, chanting and confronting police who fired water...
বাংলাদেশে কাতারভিত্তিক টেলিভিশন চ্যানেল ‘আল জাজিরা টেলিভিশন’ নেটওয়ার্কের সম্প্রচার বন্ধ চেয়ে হাইকোর্টে রিট করা হয়েছে। আবেদনটির ওপর আজ মঙ্গলবার বিকাল পৌনে ৪টার দিকে শুনানি শুরু হতে পারে। বার্তা সংস্থা ইউএনবি...
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