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State Minister of Primary and Mass Education Md Zakir Hossain on Tuesday said educational institutions are likely to reopen any day in February after 11 months of closure forced by...
The World Health Organization's vaccine advisory panel has tentatively scheduled a review of the Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccine for February 8, an expert said on Tuesday. "Reviewing the data from AstraZeneca,...
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged coordinated global action on Monday to build an alliance against the growth and spread of neo-Nazism and white supremacy and the resurgence of xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and...
Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte resigned Tuesday after a key coalition ally pulled his party's support over Conte's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, setting the stage for consultations this week to...
The government's failure in domestic procurement, low public rice storage and hoarding by market players caused the surge in rice prices this financial year, a government study on Tuesday revealed....
The World Health Organization (WHO) issued fresh clinical advice on Tuesday for treating COVID-19 patients, including those displaying persistent symptoms after recovery, and also said it advised using low-dose anti-coagulants...
Pakistan’s government says it will review new internet regulations that rights groups have decried as a draconian measure to limit freedom of speech and increase internet surveillance. During a hearing...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said there are 481,029 unfit vehicles in Bangladesh at present. Owners are being urged to get fitness clearances via SMS with renewal...
China said on Tuesday it will conduct military exercises in the South China Sea this week, just days after Beijing bristled at a US aircraft carrier group’s entry into the...
Huawei has no plans to sell its mobile phone business, the company said on Monday, in response to media reports saying that Huawei is in talks to sell premium smartphone...
Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday posted an 8.3 per cent rise in quarterly sales and said it would share details from its keenly watched coronavirus vaccine trial soon, as the...
When residents in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province, look back to the first one or two weeks after the city entered an unprecedented lockdown on January 23, 2020, some remember...
Janet Yellen won overwhelming Senate confirmation as the first woman to lead the US Treasury on Monday, setting her quickly to work with Congress on coronavirus relief, reviewing US sanctions...
Abu Bokor Siddique is the owner of an indie literary publication house Swore-O. All was going well with his company until the arrival of pandemic. Protracted lockdown measures took his...
India wants to restart issuing tourist visa as soon as possible after assessing the COVID-19 situation after beginning of vaccination in Bangladesh and India. Indian High Commissioner Vikram Kumar Doraiswami...
The High Court (HC) on Tuesday upheld a subordinate court order that gave bail to Rashedul Haque Chisty, son of the ex-chairman of Farmers Bank audit committee Mahbubul Haque Chisty,...
Gabtali and Mohakhali inter-district bus terminals have been leased for a total of Tk 120.12 million for one year for the first time through open bidding at the initiative of...
Stocks witnessed a big jolt on Tuesday, with the key index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) tumbling below 5,700-mark, as investors went on sell-offs on large-cap stocks. DSEX, the...
The Directorate General of Drug Administration has approved the vaccination of the masses with Oxford-AstraZeneca doses from the Serum Institute of India. “Samples from every vaccine lot have been thoroughly...
Bangladesh has recorded 515 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 532,916. The death toll climbed to 8,055 after 14...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said there are 481,029 unfit vehicles in Bangladesh at present. Owners are being urged to get fitness clearances via SMS with renewal...
It is a common phenomenon in Bangladesh to watch movies that are available on random websites, sometimes even before they are released. Few of the viewers realise this circulation without...
A Ugandan court on Monday ordered the security forces to free opposition leader and pop star Bobi Wine, whose house arrest since a presidential election has drawn international pressure on...
The US Department of State has announced a free online course on improving English language skills and knowledge of the media for non-native English speakers. “The US Department of State...
Indian farmers protesting against agricultural reforms breached barricades and clashed on Tuesday with police in the capital, who fired tear gas to restrain them, shortly after a convoy of tractors...
City Bank on Monday formally opened its relocated Gulshan branch located at Gulshan 1 in the capital, says a press release received on Tuesday. Chairman of the bank Aziz Al Kaiser...
Facebook said on Monday it removed a post and suspended a messenger bot from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s page, after it posted that he wanted phone numbers to call...
Marico Bangladesh, a listed multinational company, has declared a third interim cash dividend of 200 per cent based on nine months' financials for the period ended on December 31, 2020. The...
Water.org Bangladesh, a leading international organization, has so far touched the lives of more than 2.8 million people in Bangladesh by enabling access to water and sanitation. Globally, Water.org operates...
Moderna said on Monday it believes its Covid-19 vaccine protects against new variants found in Britain and South Africa, although it will test a new booster shot aimed at the...
Europe is set to lift a 22-month flight ban on the Boeing 737 MAX this week after reviewing submissions by industry experts and whistleblowers, angering relatives of some of the...
Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change nudges global temperatures ever higher. Altogether, an estimated 28 trillion metric tons of ice...
Stocks on both the bourses witnessed a downward trend on Tuesday amid volatile trading as cautious investors continued profit booking on sector-wise issues. Following the previous two days’ correction, the...
“Social robots like me can take care of the sick or elderly,” Sophia says as she conducts a tour of her lab in Hong Kong. “I can help communicate, give...
When Randall Stephenson joined 180 of his peers leading many of the richest US companies in signing the Business Roundtable pledge on the “purpose of a corporation” in August 2019,...
Google employees from across the globe are forming a union alliance, weeks after workers at the search engine giant and other units of parent company Alphabet Inc formed a labor...
Twitter Inc said on Monday it launched a pilot programme that has users flag tweets that they believe are misleading and write notes to provide context. The project, called Birdwatch,...
Spanish tennis player Paula Badosa has described her extended period of quarantine ahead of the Australia Open following a positive novel coronavirus test as the worst moment of her career,...
The newly-commissioned Payra coal-fired power plant is running at less than half of its capacity from the first day due to transmission bottlenecks and insufficient demand, say officials. State-run Bangladesh...
The securities regulator has asked both the bourses to submit a detailed plan within 15 days regarding the issuance of new TREC (Trading Right Entitlement Certificate). The Bangladesh Securities and...
Chinese and Bangladeshi experts during a webinar on Monday favoured using alternative dispute resolution (ADR) to strengthen open account trade for import and export between China and Bangladesh. The event...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR), on Monday, ruled out any possibility to cut import taxes on rice and edible oil despite the recent price spiral of these two essential...
Lower middle-income countries witnessed the highest decline in working hours in 2020 as Covid-19 caused unprecedented disruptions to the world of work, according to an ILO report. An estimated 11.3...
Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Monday said the volume of defaulted loans has decreased in the banking sector due to the simplification of rules and regulations by the central...
A High Court (HC) bench while hearing a suo moto rule on Monday observed that the country has become a police state and the people tend to believe so. 'But...
The prolonged tariff preferences have hardly helped Bangladesh boost exports to the Chinese market due to narrow product basket, stringent value addition requirement and the lack of competitiveness, stakeholders and...
The first chief of staff of the Bangladesh Navy and freedom fighter Captain Nurul Huq died in Dhaka on Monday evening. He was 99. He was also the second temporary...
India has nominated renowned Bangladeshis -- musicologist Dr Sanjeeda Khatun and Lt Col Quazi Sajjad Ali Zaheer (retd) -- for this year's Padma awards. This was announced by the Indian...
Bangladeshi all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has become the only cricketer in the world to score 6,000 runs and take 300 wickets in a single country. He made a brilliant comeback...
Education Minister Dipu Moni on Monday said that the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations will be held on shortened syllabuses. "Brief syllabuses have been prepared...
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