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The government has started providing necessary training to health staffers across the country to initiate the Covid-19 vaccination programme which is expected to be inaugurated by the first end of...
A Dhaka court has asked Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police to submit a probe report in the case lodged over Bangladesh Bank reserve heist on February 17. Dhaka Metropolitan...
Bangladesh has registered 14 new fatalities from the coronavirus, the lowest daily count in two months, taking the death toll to 7,833. The tally of infections climbed to 524,910 after...
A man was killed and six others were injured after a suspected AC compressor explosion at a building in the capital's Gulshan-2. The incident took place at the Empori Financial...
Bangladesh’s Beximco Pharmaceuticals will buy up to three million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from Serum Institute of India at about $8 each for sale on the private market, Beximco’s...
Sundora, an exclusive omni-channel retailer of international luxury fragrance and beauty brands in Bangladesh, has opened their new outlet in Banani. Sundora’s diverse offering provides everything that a customer needs...
Alphabet Inc’s YouTube said on Tuesday it has suspended Donald Trump’s channel as it violated policies for inciting violence after last week’s assault on the US Capitol by the president’s...
Bangladesh witnessed a significant increase in the number of new cancer patients during the period from 2015 to 2017, according to a latest government report. Out of 76,543 outpatients attended...
Vice President Mike Pence told House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday that he is opposed to invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office after...
Schools should be kept open or reopened as soon as possible, despite the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) chief has said. "As we enter the second...
Organisers of the postponed Tokyo Olympics should decide in February or March whether the coronavirus risks have fallen enough to let spectators attend the Games in July, the head of...
A South Korean startup has developed an AI-powered dog collar that can detect five emotions in canines by monitoring their barks using voice recognition technology. The Petpuls collar can tell...
In a small village in eastern Hungary, more than 20,000 teddy bears are “hibernating” in a warehouse, waiting for the coronavirus pandemic to ease so they can bring joy to...
Economic, climate and healthcare upheavals point to the need to move toward developing cleaner energy sources, environmentally friendly jobs and healthier communities, participants in a Reuters Next panel said on...
General Motors Co on Tuesday presented a futuristic flying Cadillac - a self-driving vehicle which takes off and lands vertically and carries the passenger above the streets and through the...
New models will help electric vehicle sales in China zoom this year, after tepid business in a virus-riddled 2020, and analysts predict Tesla’s Model Y pricing will emerge as a...
Visa Inc said on Tuesday its political action committee had temporarily suspended all donations last week as it reviews its candidate contribution guidelines. A host of businesses have said they...
Email security provider Mimecast said on Tuesday that hackers had hijacked its products in order to spy on its customers. The company said it had been alerted to the attack...
The Ad Council on Tuesday said it has raised $37 million from corporate donors including Bank of America, Facebook and General Motors to fund a nationwide coronavirus vaccine campaign aimed...
Expressing gratitude to the central bank for extending loan disbursement period under the stimulus package, the SME Foundation has urged the financial institutions to disburse the fund accordingly to help...
The government on Tuesday presented the macroeconomic and socioeconomic progresses achieved by Bangladesh in recent times and the latest position of the country regarding graduation from the least developed country...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) authority was compelled to revise the results of the urban poor settlement mapping in the Dhaka South City Corporation in the face of strong criticism...
Planning Minister MA Mannan on Tuesday said the weaker side of the Development Project Proposals (DPPs) is the absence of proper feasibility study. "This is not only my observation but...
A number of Bangladeshi workers have remained stranded in Algeria for the past two years as they fell victim to human trafficking in the name of labour migration. Victims and...
Shahriar (single name used) tied the knot with Maleeha, a corporate affairs officer of a multinational company, at a convention centre in Dhaka in the first week of December last...
Zeinaf Jabar, 11, learned some English while spending a year at a migrant camp in Greece and is now trying with her family, repeatedly, to cross into Croatia in what...
PayPal Holdings said late on Monday (US standard time) it had blocked a Christian crowdfunding site, GiveSendGo, after it helped raise funds for people who attended last week’s event in...
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) will provide utilisation declaration (UD) services digitally from January 16 (Saturday) to ensure transparency and efficiency in the process. The apex apparel...
China is top foreign investor in the country's economic zones (EZ) as the number of its formal proposals outstrips 13 other nations. Between fiscal year 2018 and December of 2020,...
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has so far constructed small bridges and other relevant structures having a combined length of 280 kilometres across the country, but it hardly carries...
After two commendable business events, Josephite Business Club has once again brought their flagship event "Walton 3rd Josephite Entrepreneurs' Den" for school and college students. Innovative thinking, accurate planning and...
It now looks longer than initially thought. After a year of losses and fears, life is far from being free from the pandemic. Many people may have been sick of...
One of the most dreaded fallouts since the Covid pandemic had hit countries across the globe was a probable shrinkage in overseas remittance. As remittance matters, more than anything in...
The complications created over the apparel exporters' refusal to use the privately-operated Inland Container Depots (ICDs) warrant prompt addressing. It involves the interests of two important private sector business operators....
US President Donald Trump, who is under pressure to resign after his supporters carried out a deadly breach of the US Capitol last week, has said there was tremendous anger...
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the government to ensure maximum transparency in the procurement, collection and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines. The TIB stressed the need for following the relevant...
Rapid urbanisation is driving up demand for sand in Bangladesh, leading to uncontrolled and mostly illegal extraction of sandstone and rocks from the riverbeds. The hunger for sand is threatening...
Covid-19 recessions have hit most countries, requiring massive fiscal responses. While most developing countries struggled with mounting debt even before the pandemic, many developed countries also face unprecedented macroeconomic pressures...
Twitter Inc said it has suspended more than 70,000 accounts since Friday that were primarily dedicated to sharing QAnon content after last week’s violence in Washington when supporters of President...
Does the existing system of financing smallholders match with their real needs? That may satisfy some of them. But the majority of smallholders are deprived of the potential benefits of...
Bangladesh Reference Institute for Chemical Measurements (BRICM) has invented a nasal spray to kill coronavirus in the upper respiratory tract. The Bangasef Oro-Nasal Spray has proven safe, effective and helpful...
Ecom Express, India’s leading technology-enabled end-to-end e-commerce logistics solutions provider, has invested around Tk 1.0 billion (Tk 100 crore) in Paperfly, the largest home delivery service network in Bangladesh. The...
2020 will go down in history as the year that terminated the American-sponsored 'peace process'. While 2021 will not reverse the monumental change in the US attitude and objectives in...
Habib Wahid, one of the most popular singers and music composers in Bangladesh, recently got married again. The national award-winning musical superstar confirmed this news from his verified Facebook page...
Users complained on Tuesday that they were unable to access Facebook and WhatsApp, social media platforms being widely used for campaigning by all sides ahead of Thursday’s election in the...
India’s Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd on Tuesday said it would set up an agro-machinery assembling plant in Bangladesh due to the latter’s potential in growing farm mechanisation. Besides, the company...
The government has handed over a list of 230,000 more Rohingya refugees to Myanmar for repatriation to their homeland in Rakhine State. Delwar Hossain, the director general of the foreign...
Hundreds of migrants are taking shelter in abandoned buildings in and around the northwestern Bosnian town of Bihac, wrapping up as best they can against the snow and freezing weather...
Serum Institute of India will sell the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to Bangladesh at $4.0 per dose, three sources with knowledge of the mater told Reuters, about 47 per cent more...
Border Security Force (BSF) has described Bangladesh-India border as a very complex border due to close proximity, ethnic and cultural similarities of the population living on both sides of the...
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