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The central bank has extended the date of submitting statement on relations with family and other types of businesses by the directors and top executives to their boards of directors...
The leaders of the US Senate agreed on Friday to push back former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial by two weeks, giving the chamber more time to focus on President...
Around 50 per cent capacity of the country's 19 private inland container depots has remained unutilised as the government allows them to handle a limited number of imported products, industry...
The government has doubled the benefit of insurance coverage for outbound Bangladeshi workers with a view to enhancing their financial protection. Now a worker will get Tk 400,000 from his...
India has sought permission to start using the two Bangladesh seaports at Chittagong and Mongla for regular transit of cargoes destined for its north-eastern states, officials say. The neighbouring country...
About 400,000 Americans have died of Covid-19, with the U.S. contributing around thirty per cent of all cases globally. And the numbers are still rocketing. The health sector in many...
The Indian Finance Act, 2020 incorporated many changes in the customs law and procedures, including administration of Rules of Origin under Trade Agreements. The new Chapter VAA has been incorporated...
History is replete with pandemics and their dreadful consequences. But in recent memory, any other pandemic of the Covid-19's scale and deadliness is quite unheard of. Modern science, despite its...
The despicable incident of rape and murder of a student in Dhaka is another rude awakening for all. This O-level student went to her friend's empty flat where she was...
Bangladesh is soon going to be among the countries starting their vaccination programmes early. There is a lot of optimism as well as pessimism among the people about the upcoming...
Bangladesh moved up to the third spot in the ICC Cricket World Cup Super League (CWCSL) standings with two wins in a row against West Indies. Bangladesh now have 20...
Bangladesh will get the first consignment of contractual supplies of COVID-19 vaccine, Covishield, from India soon as the country on Friday allowed commercial export of the vaccine to fight the...
Angelo Mathews ground out a century for Sri Lanka as England's bowlers battled hard on the first day of the second Test in Galle. The hosts were 7-2 when James...
Since the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the subsequent 2007-2008 global financial crisis, the global economy has entered into a period of elevated economic volatility, underpinning the need to use...
In a short video on the empirediaries.com YouTube channel, a protesting farmer camped near Delhi says that during lockdown and times of crisis farmers are treated like "gods", but when...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained four suspected hundi traders with US$ 190,000 from Hamidpur in Jashore on Friday. The arrested were identified as Md Mithu Mandal, 28, Md...
Anti-government and anti-fascist protesters in Portland and Seattle vandalised a Democratic Party office and other buildings and scuffled with police on Wednesday, protesting against US President Joe Biden’s inauguration. People...
The founder and trustee of the Gonoshasthaya Kendra Zafrullah Chowdhury urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to launch the vaccination coronavirus programme by taking the first shot to calm public nerves....
Shooting for Bangabandhu, a biographical film on Father of the Nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, started in Mumbai of India on Thursday. The muhurat (inauguration) of the biopic, directed by Indian...
State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam has expressed hope that an effective and safe vaccine against COVID-19 will be equally accessible globally which can help the world to...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday extended the heartiest congratulations to the Bangladesh cricket team for winning the three-match one day international (ODI) series against the West Indies. In a...
Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane has tested positive for Covid-19, the Liga giants have revealed. The Frenchman, who has been seeing serious questions asked of his future at Santiago Bernabeu,...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday his country was completely self-reliant on coronavirus vaccine supplies as the world's second-most populous country inoculated more than one million people within...
Barcelona missed two penalties before edging into the Copa del Rey last 16 with two extra-time goals against third-tier Cornella on Thursday. Miralem Pjanic and Ousmane Dembele were both denied...
A superb four-wicket haul by Mehidy Hasan Miraz and a gritty half-century from captain Tamim Iqbal have fired Bangladesh to a comprehensive seven-wicket win in the second ODI against the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the distribution of houses among 66,189 landless and homeless families across the country under the Ashrayan-2 Project, the world’s biggest ever scheme for providing shelter...
The number of buses registered across the country witnessed a drastic fall in 2020 compared to that of 2019. A total of 2,395 buses were registered in 2020 while the...
Japan is publicly adamant that it will stage its postponed Olympics this summer. But to pull it off, many believe the vaccination of its 127 million citizens for the coronavirus...
Russia has welcomed US President Joe Biden’s proposal to extend the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the two countries, which is set to expire in less than two...
It's still not time for "No Time to Die." Producers of the forthcoming James Bond thriller say the film's release has been delayed again, until the fall of 2021, because...
US President Joe Biden will seek a five-year extension to the New START arms control treaty with Russia, the White House said on Thursday, in one of the first major...
India's top federal probe agency on Friday lodged a criminal case against Cambridge Analytica for illegally collecting personal data of some 560,000 Facebook users in the country, more than two...
The government is sounding out other companies to immunise its 170 million-strong population after securing 30 million doses of the Oxford University-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. Bangladesh needs 340 million doses of...
Bangladesh has recorded 619 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 530,890. The death toll climbed to 7,981 after 15...
Myanmar has said they are committed to begin the repatriation of Rohingya as per the bilateral agreement signed with Bangladesh in 2017. Myanmar's International Cooperation Affairs Minister Kyaw Tin conveyed...
Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday it would block its search engine in Australia if the government proceeds with a new code that would force it and Facebook Inc to...
Off-spinner Mehidy Hasan Miraz’s four-for has helped Bangladesh bowlers tear through the West Indies batting line up, mirroring the first match as the visitors crumbled to 148 all out in...
The American Center at US Embassy in Dhaka has announced the call for applications for the Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) programme 2021-2022. This programme is a six-week exchange...
The police are offering security during the transportation of large sums of cash in Dhaka, but the people appear to have little or no interest in the special service called...
An air of festivity flooded a Perth auditorium in Australia recently when a number of Dhaka University’s former students met there for the first time to share their joy with...
Imagine an elderly grandmother who is repeatedly forgetting things. Her family dismisses it just as a sign of her getting old. But her memory is deteriorating and it is continuously...
Facebook on Thursday said it was referring its decision to indefinitely suspend the accounts of former US President Donald Trump to its independent oversight board. Trump will remain suspended while...
Officials and farmers are expecting an excellent production of mustard in Rangpur agriculture region as its harvest will begin in the next month during the current Rabi season. Officials of...
Pfizer has slashed in half the volume of Covid-19 vaccines it will deliver to some EU countries this week, government officials said on Thursday, as frustration over the US drugmaker’s...
The Bangladesh Railway has asked the shippers not to carry by train the overloaded containers anymore to and from Chattogram and Dhaka as it takes more journey time and damages...
The government will conduct a total of 2,000 mobile courts across the country against the violators of existing laws with a view to combating noise pollution. Noise Pollution (Control) Rules,...
The City of London on Thursday approved the removal from its ceremonial Guildhall home of statues of two figures that symbolise the financial sector’s historic role in slavery. The move,...
Edible oil prices climbed to a new record last week as the maximum rate of soya bean oil reached Tk 140 a litre. Prices of coarse and medium varieties of...
This year’s London Marathon is set to break new ground with a record 50,000 runners expected to tackle the course on the city’s streets while another 50,000 compete in a...
The High Court (HC) sought details, including name, address and status, of the officials of the Bangladesh Bank's (BB) three departments, who were in charge of overseeing financial institutions (FIs)...
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