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Ten days after rioters breached the US Capitol in a deadly attack that stunned the world, cities nationwide were girding for a potential new wave of violent protests over the...
A central bank deputy governor Saturday heavily criticised the country's audit firms for not performing their due responsibility while auditing banks. "I haven't seen one single instance where an audit...
The tax authority has moved to access international databases to detect transfer of royalties, interest and other sources of income by the multinational companies (MNCs) officials said. They said the...
Bangladesh's poultry industry has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic as it has already incurred a loss of Tk 70 billion, industry insiders said on Saturday. The industry has...
The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has done what has been long overdue. It held the first-ever hearing on uniform LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) pricing on Thursday last in line...
Indian High Commissioner (HC) to Bangladesh Vikram K Doraiswami on Saturday reiterated that Bangladesh will receive its supply of the Coronavirus vaccine from an Indian manufacturer "quickly and urgently" as...
Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp is delaying an update aimed at increasing business transactions on the platform after a storm of concern from users who feared that the messaging platform was watering...
Countries are moving fast toward creating digital currencies. Or, so we hear from various surveys showing an increasing number of central banks making substantial progress towards having an official digital...
A collaborative approach among governments, brands and suppliers will be the key to ensure better recovery of the global apparel sector which has suffered an unprecedented disruption in view of...
Though the year of 2020 started with a lot of optimism, all those changed with the onset of Coronavirus pandemic. Things turned grim due to the spread of the deadly...
A violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump wielding "Jesus Saves", anti-communist banners, confederate and US flags stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, January 6 and forced lawmakers into hiding...
Halal is an Arabic phrase for something that is permitted according to Islamic law. Muslims across the world need to have the assurance that they are consuming products and services...
A vast middle-class society has grown in the country during the last two decades following stable economic growth of over 6.0 per cent and service-sector boom in the country. A...
Readymade Garments (RMG) is the most important export-oriented business sector in Bangladesh, which has changed and improved remarkably since the Rana Plaza collapse in terms of achieving workplace safety and...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the people have replied to BNP’s falsehood centring the polls by exercising their franchise in a huge number amid festivity and...
Putting all speculations to rest, the Bangla Academy authorities have unambiguously announced that the Amor Ekushey Book Fair will not be held this February. Although rumours have been rife that...
BNP alleged that ruling party supporters captured most polling stations during municipality polls on Saturday as they did during national elections. "We’ve information that the ruling party didn’t allow our...
Democratic President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday nominated US foreign policy veteran Wendy Sherman, a key negotiator of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, to be the number 02 official at...
Bangladesh is purchasing 30 million doses of Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine from Serum Institute of India, the largest vaccine manufacturer of the world, to tackle the coronavirus outbreak. But questions over...
Shibli Rubayat-Ul-Islam, chairman of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission, has warned against market manipulation, saying that anyone trying to play dirty will get caught easily. “If someone tries to play...
Voting in the second phase elections to 60 municipalities concluded on Saturday amid stray incidents of violence and irregularities. Balloting started around 8:00am and continued until 4:00pm without any break....
Bangladesh will step up wheat purchases from Ukraine to make up for any shortfall in supplies from Russia which has announced plans to impose a higher export tax on the...
Reiterating the government’s plan to ensure access to internet for all, State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Saturday said the digitalisation of 90 per cent of the public...
Sanitation worker Manish Kumar became the first person in India to be vaccinated against COVID-19 on Saturday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched one of the world's largest immunisation campaigns...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) has formed a new clean and sustainable ocean partnership to support initiatives in Asia and the Pacific to help...
Astrazeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine has been granted approval for emergency use in Pakistan, the country’s health minister said on Saturday, the first vaccine against the disease to be given the green...
Australia remain on top after a rain-shortened second day of the decisive fourth Test against India in Brisbane. After resuming on 274-5, the hosts added a further 95 runs before...
South Africa’s cricket team arrived in the southern port city of Karachi on Saturday to play test matches in Pakistan for the first time in nearly 14 years. The Proteas...
Lahiru Thirimanne's unbeaten 76 frustrated England as Sri Lanka fought back on the third day of the first Test in Galle. Sri Lanka, who were bowled out for 135 in...
MI Cement Factory Limited (Crown Cement) organised a two-day programme styled “Crown Family Night” for its top 50 channel partners and their families at BRAC CDM in Gazipur recently, according...
Suicide rates in Japan have jumped in the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly among women and children, even though they fell in the first wave when the government...
Police have arrested six members of an alleged extortion ring from different areas of Dhaka on charges of extorting money from people by giving threats over phone calls. Dhaka Metropolitan...
An aftershock shook Indonesia’s Sulawesi island on Saturday as rescue workers combed the rubble of collapsed buildings for survivors after an earthquake killed at least 46 people on Friday and...
China on Saturday finished building a 1,500-room hospital for COVID-19 patients to fight a surge in infections the government said are harder to contain and that it blamed on infected...
Bangladesh have rewarded Hasan Mahmud for his consistent performances in domestic cricket with a maiden call-up to the Tigers' ODI squad for the upcoming home series against the West Indies....
In another action against China days before he leaves office, US President Donald Trump on Friday directed government departments to look at ways to minimise procurement of Chinese goods and...
The minimum monthly wages of the country’s readymade garment (RMG) workers is still the lowest which should be increased further, said a top official of H&M on Saturday. The Swedish...
Three people including a policeman and an Ansar member were injured as a crude bomb was exploded at Gonipur Government Primary School polling station in Dagonbhuiya upazila during the municipality...
More than 30 million vaccine doses have already been administered in 47 mostly high-income countries but the global vaccine rollout has exposed glaring inequalities in access to this life-saving tool,...
Bangladesh has recorded 578 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 527,063. The death toll climbed to 7,883 after 21...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched on Saturday one of the world's largest vaccination campaigns, as part of efforts by the populous nation to bring the Covid-19 pandemic under control...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced parliamentary and presidential elections on Friday, the first in 15 years, in an effort to heal long-standing internal divisions. The move is widely seen as...
Long-time leader Yoweri Museveni had a commanding lead in Uganda’s presidential election according to preliminary results on Friday though his main rival Bobi Wine said there had been widespread fraud....
The second phase of voting has begun in 60 municipalities with over 2 million eligible voters across Bangladesh amid the coronavirus pandemic, reports bdnews24.com. Despite the wintry weather, voters have...
The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on companies in Iran, China and the United Arab Emirates for doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines and on...
US President Donald Trump on Friday received Morocco’s highest award for his work in advancing a normalization deal between Israel and Morocco, a senior administration official told Reuters. In a...
The United States has told India it is unlikely to get a waiver on its planned acquisition of Russian S-400 air defence systems, raising the risk of sanctions similar to...
Amazon.com Inc’s first US union election since 2014 is scheduled to begin with the mailing of ballots in early February and a vote count starting March 30, a US labour...
State attorneys general are planning a third lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google, this one focused on the search and advertising giant’s Play Store for Android phones, according to two sources...
The Guatemalan military has detained hundreds of migrants at its border as thousands of Hondurans, including many families with young children, continued to walk north on Friday as part of...
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