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An oil-laden train was derailed in Sylhet's Fenchuganj area leaving the rail communication of Sylhet with Dhaka and Chattogram suspended, police said on Friday. Confirming the matter, Md Safayet Hossain,...
Facebook Inc on Thursday took down hundreds of Instagram accounts that were hacked and sold for their high-value usernames, including the accounts of people behind this activity. A Facebook spokeswoman...
Director Spike Lee’s Vietnam War drama “Da 5 Bloods” roared back into the Hollywood awards race on Thursday when it was nominated for the top prize at the Screen Actors...
Zahida Bibi feared for her family's survival when she lost her job as a housekeeper in Islamabad during the Covid-19 outbreak. Zahida's four children depend on her income – and...
Jakiul Islam, Managing Director of Northern Electric Supply Company (NESCO) in an exchange of views meeting with journalists and local elite at NESCO office in Rajshahi on Thursday noon. The...
The High Court on Thursday issued three-point directives to protect the dwellers of the capital city from the pollution of the dust. The court directed the Director General of the...
Prices of Atta, chicken, onion, garlic, and lemon witnessed a hike last week battering the consumers further. Packet Atta (coarse wheat flour) prices were raised by Tk 2.0 a kg...
Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) has brought some 43 new products under mandatory licencing to ensure availability of quality products in the market. The firms will have to put...
Insurance regulator on Thursday suspended providing all types of commission for the country’s non-life insurance companies. The Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority issued a circular at 10:00 pm on the...
Stocks extended the winning streak for the second straight session on Thursday as bargain hunters showed their buying appetite for sector-specific large-cap issues. DSEX, the key index of the Dhaka...
The demolition of iconic Kamalapur Rail Station building has been under discussion on request from the Japanese developer of a multi-modal transport hub on the site. Sources confirmed that the...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has offered tax waiver of prize money of the electronic fiscal device lottery winners. The income tax wing of the board issued an order...
US congressional investigators found “dangerous levels of toxic heavy metals” in certain baby foods that could cause neurological damage, a House Oversight subcommittee said in a report released on Thursday...
Demanding compensation, employees of Sanofi Bangladesh have decided to go on fast-unto-death from tomorrow (Saturday), although the management terms it "illogical." The announcement for protest came at a time when...
The government has slashed its bank borrowing target by more than 3.0 per cent to Tk 820 billion for the current fiscal year, compelled by lower implementation of the annual...
The US embassy in New Delhi urged India’s government on Thursday to resume talks with farmers whose months-long protests over agricultural reforms erupted into violence last week. India’s Foreign Ministry...
Twenty-one eminent personalities will get the country's second highest civilian award, the Ekushey Padak, this year in recognition of their contributions to various fields. The Cultural Affairs Ministry announced the...
Businesses had been alleging for long that the lending rates of banks in Bangladesh are too high. And it was adding to the cost of their doing business. They wanted...
For a 20-year-old making tens of millions of taka is quite difficult, if not impossible. Prodigies far younger of rare qualities in the Western world at times make news for...
The recent move by the government to produce 4,500 tonnes of jute seeds within the next five years may seem rather exceptional. This is because there is apparently a lack...
Turkey’s foreign ministry on Thursday dismissed international criticism of its response to the month-long protests at one of the country’s top universities, warning that such criticism could encourage what it...
India survey finds a quarter of children may have COVID antibodies, more than average More than a quarter of Indian children aged between 10 and 17 may have already contracted...
Dhaka University (DU) has paid income tax of teachers and employees from its own funds in breach of rules. The Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General has made an...
23 years ago, in January 1998, five economists gathered for an urgent discussion on the social role of economists in Bangladesh. In 1998, Bangladesh was reeling from the devastating impact...
After the Dhaka Airport in Tejgaon had been shifted to its massive building at Uttara under its new definition as an international airport, speculations were rife about the old airport....
In 1832, the great cholera pandemic hit Paris. In just a few months, the disease killed 20,000 of the city's 650,000 population. Most fatalities occurred in the heart of the...
Home for Palestinian Barakat Mour is a hillside cave in the West Bank, which he says is often under threat from Israeli settlers in the occupied territory. “You’ll be sitting...
Bangladesh has decided to inoculate 3.5 million people, instead of 6.0 million, against COVID-19 in the first month of the nationwide vaccination programme The changes were brought to the plan...
Though the government is set to launch the mass vaccination programme across the country on February 7, public apathy to get registered for it looks to be a major challenge...
A former Ugandan child soldier who became a commander of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army was convicted on Thursday of dozens of crimes, including widespread rape, sexual enslavement, child abductions,...
Bangladesh Civil Society for Migrants (BCSM), a platform of 19 civil society organisations, on Thursday demanded immediate and unconditional release of detained Bangladeshi fishermen in Qatar. The platform expressed deep...
The verdict against six extremists in a case over the murder of science writer-blogger Avijit Roy will be delivered on Feb 16, reports bdnews24.com. Judge Mojibur Rahman of Dhaka’s Anti-Terrorism...
Bangladesh's Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd said on Thursday the Serum Institute of India (SII) had delayed the first supplies of a COVID-19 vaccine for private sale, instead prioritising government immunisation campaigns....
The United States on Wednesday extended the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with Russia for five years, said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. "Extending the New START...
The government on Thursday formally declared six sectors child labour free as part of its move to eradicate child labour by 2025. State Minister for Labour Monnujan Sufian at a...
World food prices rose for an eighth consecutive month in January, hitting their highest level since July 2014, led by jumps in cereals, sugar and vegetable oils, the United Nations...
CVC Finance and Dotlines Bangladesh Limited joined hands on Thursday by signing a MoU to develop alternate delivery channels for the products of CVC Finance, according to a statement. This...
A woman was crushed under the wheels of a train near Joynal Market Rail crossing area in city’s Uttara this morning, reports BSS. However, identity of the victim could not...
Myanmar's junta blocked Facebook in the name of ensuring stability on Thursday and activists said at least three people were arrested at a street protest against the coup that ousted...
The sweeping cold wave may persist in some parts of Bangladesh until Saturday, according to an official at Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD). Abdul Mannan, a meteorologist at BMD told The...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked agricultural scientists to conduct further research over local fruits and agricultural items to expand the market for those. "It's essential to conduct more...
Bangladesh has recorded 485 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 537,030. The death toll climbed to 8,175 after 13...
Expressing deep concern over the report aired by Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera on Bangladesh, BNP has sought an ‘acceptable and credible’ explanation from the government over it. BNP senior...
The long-awaited working committee meeting on Rohingya repatriation between Bangladesh and Myanmar has been deferred due to the changed situation in Myanmar. "Yes, it's deferred due to the current domestic...
A scintillating maiden Test hundred from youngster Mehidy Hasan Miraz has put Bangladesh in an advantageous position on the second day of Chattogram Test against the West Indies. The 23-year-old...
Even four years after it was badly damaged, a 34 km road connecting Moulvibazar town, Shamshernagar and Chatlapore remains unusable. On several appeals the authority concerned managed to do only...
A Narail court has sentenced BNP’s acting Chairman Tarique Rahman to two years in prison in a case filed over his disrespectful comments on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Judge Amatul...
Economics Circle, a web-based platform, is launching its first-ever webinar titled 'COVID-19 Stimulus Packages: Have We Done Alright?' on Friday at 7:00pm. The country’s leading financial daily The Financial Express...
The president of the Tokyo 2020 organising committee told a meeting on Wednesday that female directors talked too much, which was “annoying”, according to Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun. Yoshiro Mori,...
Up to 600 players and support staff connected to the Australian Open will have to isolate until they have been tested for Covid-19 after a hotel quarantine worker in Melbourne...
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