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US President-elect Joe Biden plans to quickly extend travel restrictions barring travel by most people who have recently been in much of Europe and Brazil soon after President Donald Trump...
Turkish investors are keen to invest in special economic zones in Bangladesh as the country offers attractive incentives for foreign investors, said Turkish Ambassador to Bangladesh Mustafa Osman Turan. Osman...
Bangladesh ace Shakib Al Hasan has bagged four wickets to help the Tigers dismiss visiting West Indies for a paltry 122 as cricket returned to the country in the first...
Digital banking today has the possibility of being integrated into future routine activities across internet-enabled devices. It will make the entire process invisible, thanks to the potentials of personal digital...
Bangladesh has been largely successful in averting an economic crisis that arced around the world due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. “It was possible to...
Three people were killed and 15 others injured after a bus overturned in Bogail area of Bhanga upazila in Faridpur on Wednesday. Identities of the deceased could not be known...
Two million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to be sent by India as a gift to its next-door neighbour will arrive in Bangladesh on Thursday afternoon, instead of Wednesday....
United Nations agencies are warning that more than 350 million people in the Asia-Pacific region are going hungry as the coronavirus pandemic destroys jobs and pushes food prices higher. The...
Dhaka once again has topped a list of cities with the worst air quality in the world. The capital's air quality index (AQI) at 9.30 am on Wednesday read 378,...
Tsinghua Unigroup, a Chinese conglomerate that has long sought to become a semiconductor powerhouse, is now caught between a rock and a hard place as debt woes mount while key...
YouTube said on Tuesday it was extending a one-week ban on outgoing US President Donald Trump uploading videos or live-streaming to his channel for at least an additional seven days....
Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma met 100 rural teachers in China via a live video meeting on Wednesday morning, in the businessman’s first appearance since October, triggering a sharp jump...
US President Donald Trump granted clemency to former White House aide Steve Bannon as part of a wave of pardons and commutations issued in his final hours in office, a...
America's billionaire businessman and founder of TD Ameritrade Joe Ricketts is launching a new national outlet to deliver news “without opinion or bias,” a spokesperson said on Tuesday. The news...
The former deputy chairman of the 2012 London Olympic organising committee said on Tuesday he would be planning for a cancellation if in charge of the Tokyo Games. Keith Mills...
Indy Mellink, a Dutch card fan, was explaining a game to her cousins last summer when she asked herself: why should a king be worth more than a queen? The...
Stocks on both the bourses witnessed an upward trend in the early trading on Wednesday as bargain hunters continued to put fresh bets on sector-wise issues. Following the previous day’s...
A tabloid’s publication of a deeply personal letter written by Meghan, Britain’s Duchess of Sussex, to her father was a “plain breach” of privacy, her lawyers told a court on...
Overcapacity in Bangladesh’s power system has worsened and also threatens to deteriorate in near future, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) on Wednesday. Data available...
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, received a Covid-19 vaccine and urged people across the world to accept the jab, saying that getting vaccinated was part of the Christian commandment...
Goldman Sachs Group dwarfed Wall Street estimates as its fourth-quarter profit more than doubled, powered by another blowout performance at its trading business and a surge in fees from underwriting...
Uganda accused the US ambassador on Tuesday of seeking to subvert last week’s presidential election by trying to visit the main opposition candidate at his home, which has been surrounded...
Janet Yellen, US President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for Treasury Secretary, urged lawmakers on Tuesday to “act big” on coronavirus relief spending, arguing that the economic benefits far outweigh the risks...
When Bangladesh national cricket team will take on West Indies on Wednesday in the first match of a three-match ODI series, it will be the Tigers’ first international fixture in...
The government is going for stocktaking of supplies and prices as part of its advance planning to keep the prices of essentials under control during Ramadan. Under the initiative, the...
Educational institutions in the country should reopen in phases as over 75 per cent of the primary and secondary-level students prefer going back to schools, according to a survey. The...
Commerce ministry has sought opinion from livestock department regarding a proposed ban on the import of poultry items, officials said. On Tuesday, fisheries and livestock ministry in a letter asked...
Bangladesh's apparel exports to one third of the 27 European countries, including Germany, the Netherlands and Poland, increased in the first half of fiscal year (FY) 2020-21 amid Covid-19. Denmark,...
Bangladeshi women domestic workers receive the lowest wage in Oman, according to a study. It has showed that Filipino women call the highest rate of pay as elsewhere in the...
The special committee on bus route rationalisation (BRR) will seek Tk 1.0 billion from the central bank to launch a company-system bus service on Ghatarchar-Kanchpur pilot route. Dhaka South City...
The Planning Commission (PC) has taken a tough stance against the projects in the Barishal region that have made very poor progress, in terms of their execution. Planning Minister M.A....
The securities regulator has sought a 'comprehensive' business plan of ten years from the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). The regulatory instruction came Tuesday at a meeting held at the office...
Four terminals will be built outside Dhaka for inter-district buses and the terminals inside the capital will be used for inter-city buses only, the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayor...
India, one of the world’s biggest drugmakers, will start exports of COVID-19 vaccines as early as Wednesday, government sources said, paving the way for many mid-and lower-income countries to secure...
Like other industries of Bangladesh, the livestock sector, which includes the poultry and the dairy industries, has also been adversely impacted by the shutdowns enforced to combat the pandemic. Unfortunately,...
The world needs American leadership in the battle against COVID-19, the EU’s top diplomat said, urging US President-elect Joe Biden to step up after the Trump administration was widely criticised...
The Volgodonsk Branch of JSC "AEM-technology" (part of the machine-building division of Rosatom - "Atomenergomash") manufactured and shipped the internals of the nuclear reactor for the first power unit of...
There is a sense of discontent among the conscious sections of the citizens at the inadequacy of the country's testing laboratories to determine the level of contamination in food products....
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Tuesday formally opened the newly-built Bhasan Char Police Station in Hatiya upazila of Noakhali. Noakhali's police chief Md Alamgir Hossain presided over the inaugural...
The advice to philanthropists to acknowledge the benefits some of them have reaped from a system of social and economic inequality exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, has captured some readers'...
A year into the Covid-19 crisis, countries across the globe continue to face alarming levels of pressure on their health and social services. Education and other essential rights, such as...
A common characteristic of the currently pursued economic growth model is that it is often associated with increasing inequalities in income or consumption. Sustained economic growth in last three decade...
Bangladesh is getting ready to launch its second satellite "Bangabandhu Satellite-2" by 2023. Bangladesh Satellite Company Limited (BSCL) signed an agreement with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) at its head office on Tuesday,...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has brought further flexibility for foreign-owned companies operating in Bangladesh in accessing loans from their parent companies and shareholders. According to a circular issued by the central...
The government has appointed Bangladesh Bank (BB) deputy governor Ahmed Jamal as the director of the Board of Directors and the member of the executive committee of the bank for...
The High Court (HC) on Tuesday upheld the bail of JMI Limited Chairman Md Abdur Razzak granted by a subordinate court in a case accusing the company of supplying fake...
Bangladesh on Tuesday proposed to start repatriation of Rohingya refugees by the first quarter of this year. The proposal was placed in a trilateral virtual meeting among Bangladesh, China and...
Ferry services on the Paturia-Daulatdia route resumed after an eight-hour suspension due to dense fog. Bangladesh Inland Water Transportation Corporation’s (BIWTC) Aricha terminal manager Mahiudddin Rasel said they suspended the...
The fifth phase polls in 31 municipalities will be held on February 28 as per the schedule announced by the Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday. EC’s Joint Secretary (Public Relations)...
Russia's consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor on Tuesday said Russia's second vaccine against COVID-19 is 100 per cent effective based on the results of clinical trials, the TASS news agency reported....
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