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Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said the government plans to inoculate 200,000 people per day after receiving the first shipment of coronavirus vaccine doses, reports bdnews24.com. He reiterated that frontline...
Civil Courts Amendment Bill, 2021 was placed in the Jatiya Sangad aiming to raise the financial jurisdiction of the Judges of the lower court for disposal of civil cases. Law,...
A court in Thailand on Tuesday sentenced a former civil servant to a record prison term of 43 years and six months for breaching the country’s strict law on insulting...
Veteran actor Mujibur Rahman Dilu died at the age of 69 at a city hospital. He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at the United Hospital in Dhaka on Tuesday...
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...
India is planning revising its foreign investment rules for e-commerce, a move that could compel players, including Amazon.com Inc, to restructure their ties with some major sellers, reports Reuters. The...
Bangladesh has pushed Myanmar hard on creating a favourable environment for Rohingya repatriation and "cautiously expressed optimism" to begin it in the second quarter of this year. The two countries...
When President Donald Trump delivered his inaugural speech on Jan. 20, 2017, he promised an end to “American carnage,” a bleak and dysfunctional nation he had promised that he alone...
A panel of experts commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) has criticised China and other countries for not moving to stem the initial outbreak of the coronavirus earlier and...
After waiting for over nine months, cricket is all set to make a return to Bangladesh as the hosts are going to take on the touring West Indies on January...
Nearly 69.5 per cent of the primary and secondary students in Bangladesh did not attend distance learning classes through television, radio and the internet during the Covid-19 pandemic, a study...
The government has proposed legal amendments in parliament to publish the outcome of last year's Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent exams in an alternative evaluation method amid the coronavirus crisis....
India's homegrown vaccine developer Bharat Biotech has warned people with weaker immunity and other medical conditions that include allergies, fever, or a bleeding disorder to consult a doctor before getting...
A virtual tripartite meeting among Bangladesh, Myanmar and China began on Tuesday afternoon to discuss ways to expedite the Rohingya repatriation process. The repatriation talks with Myanmar remained halted for...
It's jokingly said that Bengalis may forget their own phone numbers but they will never forget Bela Bose's number - 2441139. This is the testament to the popularity of a...
Emirates has launched its much-awaited global sale to inspire and encourage travellers to reconnect with family and friends or explore new destinations in the New Year. To avail the special...
Bangladesh has recorded 702 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 529,031. The death toll climbed to 7,942 after 20...
President-elect Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping immigration bill on Day One of his administration, hoping to provide an eight-year path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million people...
The two million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, to be sent by India as a gift, will arrive in Bangladesh on Wednesday, said Director General of Health Services ABM...
Hossain Sardar is a hearing-impaired farmer. He has cultivated eye-catching colourful plums in Khulna’s Dumuria. Each of his plum trees bears two to four maunds of fruits, which he is...
Rishabh Pant unleashed a Twenty20-style batting assault to fire India to an incredible three-wicket win in the fourth Test decider on Tuesday as Ajinkya Rahane’s injury-ravaged tourists humbled Australia with...
Among the young sumo wrestlers lifting weights in the ring, 10-year-old Kyuta Kumagai stands out. At 85 kilograms (187 lb), Kyuta is twice the size of the other children his...
The National Technical Advisory Committee on Covid-19 has recommended the government re-impose a 14-day institutional quarantine for all people returning from abroad, fearing a further spread of the new and...
An independent panel said on Monday that Chinese officials could have applied public health measures more forcefully in January to curb the initial Covid-19 outbreak, and criticised the World Health...
Amid a second wave of Covid-19 infections, the total caseload worldwide has now surpassed the 95 million mark. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count stood at...
Lunar rocks retrieved by a historic Chinese mission to the moon weighed less than initially targeted, but China is still willing to study the samples with foreign scientists, the mission’s...
Pobeda flight DP936 was a few minutes into its descent towards Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, where thousands of supporters of poisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny were waiting to meet him on...
A red tie, often tied too long. A raised fist, often held high to a supportive crowd. A scowling face. A raised voice. President Donald Trump never hid how he...
Indian opposition parties called on Monday for an investigation into chat messages from a top TV anchor that they said showed prior knowledge of air strikes carried out by Prime...
Stocks on Dhaka bourse witnessed a downward trend in the early trading on Tuesday as risk-averse investors continued their profit booking sell-offs on quick-gaining stocks. However, Energypac Power Generation made...
Disneyland Paris said on Monday it was postponing its reopening by almost two months, to April 2, due to the resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic. “Due to the prevailing conditions...
On the eve of discussions between Bangladesh and Myanmar on resolving the Rohingya refugee crisis, China, which provides the 'tripartite' framework to the dialogue, said it will continue to support...
Second episode of the webinar series, organised by The Financial Express (FE), will be held tomorrow (Wednesday). It will focus on the tectonic shifts in supply chains as a result...
The government will enact a new law to help prevent forgery of land documents for reducing public sufferings and giving faster service to genuine land owners, said a top official...
The planned company-based bus service on the Bosila-Motijheel route is going to be like that of the traditional trip-based services for not following the procedures of a joint venture company....
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has sought 10 per cent higher funds than its allocation to finance some mega projects ahead of the annual development programme (ADP) revision, officials...
Amid the skyrocketing prices of edible oils in the local market, a government body has suggested withdrawing value-added tax (VAT) to tame inflation. The Bangladesh Trade and Tariff Commission (BTTC)...
Health experts on Monday expressed concern over a negative impression created among the people about the Covid-19 vaccines due to unceasing adverse comments in the social media. They urged the...
Six major Asian garment producing countries have partnered to reach a common position over buyers' purchasing practices, especially payment and delivery terms, industry people said. On January 12, nine trade...
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JASOD) president and former information minister Hasanul Haq Inu has tested positive for the coronavirus after hospitalisation. Inu was taken to Bangladesh Specialised Hospital’s COVID unit on...
The World Health Organization is in advanced negotiations with Pfizer about including the company’s COVID-19 vaccine in the agency’s portfolio of shots to be shared with poorer countries, a senior...
As many as 2.0 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine will arrive in Bangladesh from India as a gift on Wednesday, the health secretary says. The Serum Institute of India...
A man and his wife have died in a road accident near Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. Akash Iqbal and wife Maya Hazarika Mitu, residents of Mollartek, were riding...
The sixth Housing and Population Census of the country will begin on October 25 and continue until October 31. The week-long sixth population and housing census, which was earlier scheduled...
Can the country's unsafe level crossings be made reasonably safe for pedestrians and vehicles using those and the trains running on railway tracks? If the latest initiatives taken jointly by...
Property price has appeared as a leading indicator for real economic activities and macro-prudential measures since global financial crisis of 2007-09 in both advanced and emerging market economies. House price...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid a courtesy call on President Abdul Hamid at the President's Chamber in the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban on Monday evening. "During the meeting, the Prime Minister...
A suspected robber died in a mob beating at Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram on early Monday. The identity of the deceased, aged about 63, could not be known immediately. Locals...
As the world enters the 2nd year of the ongoing pandemic as well as shutdowns, it is the teenage school students who have now begun realising a bitter truth. It...
Incidents of rape and rape-related deaths have been making frequent headlines these days. The very recent shocking death of a schoolgirl from Kalabagan area in Dhaka has again caused public...
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