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Reiterating her call to countrymen to maintain health guidelines properly to contain the spread of coronavirus, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the government would reopen the educational institutions...
Bangladesh has logged 363 new coronavirus cases, the lowest daily count in over nine months, to take the tally of infections so far to 534,770. The death toll climbed to...
The demand for water will go up by 50 per cent by 2050 and some 4.0 billion people in this world face water scarcity at least for a few months...
The pandemic continues to grow even as nations race ahead with mass vaccination programmes. In fact, the global Covid-19 caseload has now surged past 102 million. The total case count...
A total of 1,464 Rohingyas on Saturday left for Bhasan Char, as part of the third batch, from camps of Cox's Bazar, as part of the government’s initiative to relocate...
Balloting at 62 municipalities in the third phase elections began on Saturday morning. Voting started at 8:00 am and will continue until 4:00 pm without any break, reports UNB. The...
Tehran will not accept the US demands that it reverse an acceleration of its nuclear programme before Washington lifts sanctions, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Friday. The demand...
A “#bitcoin” tag on Elon Musk’s Twitter profile page led to a 14 per cent jump in the cryptocurrency on Friday, the latest in a series of market moves triggered...
New York City’s famed restaurant scene will re-open for indoor dining on Valentine’s Day, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Friday, the latest announcement by a U.S. state to...
EU lawmakers, who are gearing up to curb the power of US tech giants, have told Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Alphabet that they are willing to push back a proposed...
Two barges sailed up and down a vast stretch of floating trash on the Potpecko artificial lake in Serbia on Friday, collecting tons of garbage that almost clogged the dam...
Online broker Robinhood has raised more than $1 billion of fresh capital from existing investors, having been strained by high volumes of trading this week and raising the ire of...
Some 700 migrants bound for the United States are stranded on a Caribbean beach in Colombia because the South American country’s borders remain closed to curb the spread of coronavirus,...
US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, has said that the United States must be prepared to impose costs on China for its actions against Uighur Muslims in...
All students have passed the Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent assessments of 2020, which were graded without holding the exams due to the coronavirus pandemic. As many as 161,807 achieved...
Atlanta attorney L. Lin Wood, a lawyer who played a role in former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn his election defeat, put his law license in jeopardy on Friday...
The United States is committed to “positive, constructive and active engagement” with all members of the World Trade Organization on reforming the body and is actively considering who to choose...
Speakers during a webinar on Friday stressed the need for a significant rise in cybersecurity enforcement capacity to ensure a virtual secure place for all. They urged the authorities concerned...
The commerce ministry will sit on Monday to decide on the proposed ban on the import of poultry items from neighbouring countries including India to help protect the local poultry...
Bangladesh Institute of Capital Market (BICM) launched "BICM Research Seminar Series" on Thursday. Professor Shaikh Shamsuddin Ahmed, commissioner of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) inaugurated the seminar series presided...
A move has been made for a 10-kilometre two-lane elevated road to connect Kishoreganj Sadar and Mithamoin upazila amid criticism over first such road having possible impacts on the ecosystem....
The Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Limited (HPL) is set to invest $423.78 million to establish an industrial unit at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpa Nagar (BSMSN) for manufacturing medical products. The proposed...
Two more pharmaceutical companies, one Chinese and one Indian, expressed intention to conduct the third phase trial of their Covid vaccines in Bangladesh. Chinese state-owned pharmaceutical company - Institute of...
Bangladesh received nearly 3,000 dead bodies of migrant workers from different job destination countries in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic. Most of the dead bodies were brought home from Saudi...
China has emerged as one of the leading bilateral development partners of Bangladesh as it disbursed US$460.41 million loans in the first half of the current fiscal year, insiders said...
People intending to be vaccinated have experienced immense difficulties in getting registered on the dedicated government website. The procedural tangle of the online platform (www.surokkha.gov.bd) came to light a few...
The Indian officials are now seeking permission for physical presence in Bangladesh for investigating any customs-related offences, officials say. They are also seeking information about the assessment of valuation, origin...
Disrespectful attitude towards girls and women in this country is not a new thing. What is very alarming is this kind of mentality is growing instead of disappearing. Though there...
The ravages of the pandemic are visible in every aspect of life across the globe. To combat the pandemic, for the time being, the economies so obsessed with growth have...
The Readymade Garment (RMG) Industry's vulnerability to market uncertainties became manifest during the pandemic more than ever before. Even some big names in the international retail market, which buy garment...
The first batch of coronavirus vaccine arrived in Bogura on Friday, according to a UNB report. Officials from the district civil surgeon office took in the packages of vaccine around...
European Union regulators authorised AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine for use in adults on Friday, amid criticism the bloc is not moving fast enough to vaccinate its population. The European Medicines Agency...
A US lobby group which represents firms including Amazon.com and Walmart has urged India not to tighten foreign investment rules for e-commerce companies again, according to a letter seen by...
With circumstances previously not thought of, the Covid-19 pandemic has given rise to a series of heated debates regarding which public health measure would be most effective to contain the...
With the rapid developments in theory of monetary policy, the practice of monetary policy framework has greatly been evolved since the early 1990s. Meanwhile many central banks around the world...
Johnson & Johnson on Friday said its single-dose vaccine was 72 per cent effective in preventing COVID-19 in the United States but a lower rate of 66 per cent was...
In a victory for environmentalists, a Dutch appeals court on Friday said that the Nigerian subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell was responsible for multiple oil pipeline leaks in the Niger...
Bangladesh and India agreed to renew the bilateral air bubble arrangement and to expedite implementation of the line of credit (LoC) projects. During the Foreign Office Consultation (FOC) meeting, held...
State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak has said the government plans to develop a second software technology park in Dhaka to create skilled IT professionals. The announcement came at...
The United Nations and Western governments voiced alarm on Friday over threats by Myanmar's military that have stirred fears of a coup in the aftermath of an election the army...
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday urged all countries to strengthen testing services and use the essential diagnostics list to drive better care and better...
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday alleged the current government’ corruption has got international recognition through the sentencing of Bangladeshi MP Mohammad Shahid Islam alias Kazi...
UN chief Antonio Guterres said on Thursday he is ‘particularly worried’ about the power of social media companies and that mechanisms should be created to regulate decisions like the banning...
Britain on Friday hailed a new visa offering Hong Kong citizens a route to citizenship after China's crackdown but Beijing said it would no longer recognise special British passports offered...
Vietnam’s health minister said on Friday a new COVID-19 outbreak was 'basically under control' in the areas most affected, as cases spread to Hanoi, the capital, where the ruling Communist...
A dominant Pakistan defeated South Africa by seven wickets inside four days to win the first Test at the National Stadium, Karachi and take 1-0 lead in the two-match series....
More than 200,000 people have fled fighting in the Central African Republic since violence erupted over a December election result, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday, with nearly...
Britain is banning direct passenger flights to and from the United Arab Emirates from Friday, shutting down the world's busiest international airline route from Dubai to London. Britain said it...
Bangladesh has registered 7 new fatalities from the coronavirus in a daily count, the lowest in almost nine months, to take the death toll so far to 8,094. The caseload...
Results of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examination 2020 will be published on Saturday, according to an education ministry statement. The results will be released at a programme...
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