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Country's leading economists have expressed concern over the gradually lessening involvement of the economists in the policymaking process and feared that it would affect achieving sustainable development of the country....
The government has allowed 64 more traders to import over 0.171 million tonnes of rice to boost the supply of the staple in the domestic market as it struggles with...
Japanese firm Tokyo Gas Co Ltd has finally been awarded the job of carrying out a feasibility study, preparing documents and helping select a final bidder to build the country's...
Both consumers and marginal farmers are suffering as prices of rice continue to surge, analysts said on Sunday. To remedy the situation, they suggested forming an Agricultural Price Commission to...
A Chattogram court on Sunday turned down a bail petition filed by former OC of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das in a graft case over amassing wealth illegally. Chattogram...
The High Court has asked Ekattor TV why it aired statement and interview of Proshanta Kumar Halder, who has been absconding with charges of gaining illegal wealth worth Tk 3...
A demolition drive targeting illegal structures has been on for nearly a couple of weeks in the capital. Dhaka South City Corporation and Dhaka North City Corporation are conducting the...
In parallel to this pandemic-stricken year in which time often seemed to stand still, businesses rapidly went digital and made structural changes to their payments operating models. Global economies moved...
Science Technology and Innovation (STI) has been at the forefront of the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. From enhancing our understanding of virus transmission pathways and the complexity of pandemic...
Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh has swatted away his predecessor Sayeed Khokon’s fervent criticism of him as ‘insignificant’. “If someone says something out of personal resentment,...
President M Abdul Hamid has asked Dhaka University authority to prepare a roadmap to overcome the session jam created due to COVID-19 pandemic. The President came up with the directive...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman gave all necessary guidelines to run an independent state in his speech after returning to Bangladesh...
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has recommended private universities adopt a cluster admission test system similar to the centralised entry exam hosted by public universities to mitigate sufferings of examinees....
Spreading of rumour is a form of malware. Sometimes sensitive issues are deliberately focused upon to present a negative denotation that affects the dimension and creates a gap. Instead of...
Five Bangladeshi nationals, who were arrested by the Houti Coast Guard on February last year, returned from Yemen. The rescued Bangladeshis – Mohammed Yousuf, Mohammad Alauddin, Mohammed Alamgir, Mohammed Rahim...
Foreign ministers from the United States, Canada, Britain and Australia condemned last week’s arrest of over 50 democracy activists in Hong Kong in a joint statement on Sunday, calling on...
When will Covid-19 vaccine be available in Bangladesh for mass inoculation? The vaccine developed by the Oxford-AstraZeneca is the one that has got regulatory approval so far to enter the...
Belying a layman guess that the planet Earth might have become cooler in 2020, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) authenticated the highest average temperature on record in...
The government is going to launch a mobile application (app) to conduct the registration process for the government-run COVID-19 vaccine programme, official sources at the Directorate General of Health Services...
The UK has mobilised $1.0 billion from global donors to support vulnerable countries access Covid-19 vaccines to stop the virus' spread amid competition among countries to get the vaccine first....
Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (LGRD) Minister Md Tajul Islam on Sunday said a new city will be built on the banks of the Turag River near Dhaka and...
Hyundai Motor and Apple Inc plan to sign a partnership deal on autonomous electric cars by March and start production as early as 2024 in the United States, local newspaper...
The Dhaka University has opened the PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) programme for the 2020-2021 academic-years (January-June). Aspirants have to apply for the programme after selecting supervisors from the respective departments...
The Embassy of Bangladesh in Rome, Italy honoured five expatriate Bangladeshis and a business organisation with “Remittance Award". The five individual awardees of 2020 are Kartik Chandra Ghosh, Syed Abdullah...
Both the consumers and the marginal farmers are incurring losses amid continuous surge in rice prices in the country, experts at a webinar observed on Sunday. They suggested forming an...
Trucks carrying 112 metric tonnes of rice from India entered into Bangladesh through the Hili land port on Saturday afternoon. Consumers say they hope the rice import would help to...
"Bye bye family. We're heading home for now," Ratih Windania posted on Instagram from Jakarta's airport with pictures of three laughing children and two emojis blowing kisses. The message was...
Men wearing traditional loin clothes and women dressed in white robes clapped and chanted before going into an ice water bath during a Shinto ritual at a Tokyo shrine on...
Former Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has broken many records in his illustrious cricketing career. The 39-year-old's record-breaking spree continues even after his international retirement. Dhoni has now become the...
The daily number of new coronavirus cases has doubled in China, prompting tougher movement restrictions and, in the capital, passengers must scan a health code before boarding a cab or...
Security has been stepped up at Germany’s Bundestag (lower house of parliament) after the storming of the Capitol in Washington by rioters last week, Bundestag President Wolfgang Schaeuble has told...
Bangladesh is now willing to get the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, according to a senior DGHS official. Bangladesh has expressed the interest as COVAX, an initiative to make Covid-19 vaccines globally...
Bangladesh has recorded 25 deaths and 1,071 new cases of the novel coronavirus in last 24 hours, taking the tally of infections so far to 522,453. The death toll climbed...
Indonesian authorities on Sunday located the black boxes of the Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the sea soon after taking off from the capital Jakarta, as human body parts...
Democratic-led efforts to impeach US President Donald Trump for a historic second time gained momentum over the weekend, although it looked far from certain whether enough Republicans would back the...
If you’re an identical twin who’s always resisted being called a clone of your sibling, scientists say you have a point. Identical twins are not exactly genetically the same, new...
The government has revoked the freedom fighter certificates of 52 people, including ex-army officer Risaldar Mosleh Uddin Khan alias Moslem Uddin Khan, one of the killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur...
A Bangladeshi national has been awarded 46 months of imprisonment reportedly for smuggling fellow countrymen from Mexico to the United States. Moktar Hossain, who was formerly residing in Monterrey, Mexico,...
Two people were killed and three others injured when a bus plunged into a road side ditch on Satkhira-Khulna highway at Bhairabnagar in Tala upazila of Satkhira district on Sunday....
Two “unacceptable” incidents of abuse in two consecutive days at the Sydney Cricket Ground have prompted widespread condemnation from ex-players and coaches and an apology from Cricket Australia to the...
The US is lifting long-standing restrictions on contacts between American and Taiwanese officials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says. The "self-imposed restrictions" were introduced decades ago to "appease" the mainland...
A case was filed against 40 leaders and activists of BNP for threatening to oust government through an armed movement. AKM Shamsuzzaman Chowdhury, president of Patiya upazila unit Awami League...
A sense of fright had gripped the nation about the fate of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Pakistani captivity in 1971. But as he reached London hours after his freedom,...
The historic Homecoming Day of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is being observed across the country on Sunday. On January 10, 1972, Bangabandhu had returned to independent...
The federal judge hearing the US Justice Department’s antitrust case against Google said on Friday he directed his financial advisers to immediately sell mutual funds he owns that hold stock...
Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka will join Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic in playing a pre-Australian Open warm-up exhibition in Adelaide after serving their quarantine in the South Australian city,...
Pope Francis said on Saturday people working against democracy must be condemned whoever they are, and lessons should be learned from this week’s attack on the US Capitol by supporters...
A shawarma shop in Moscow was forced to close a day after it opened following an outcry over its provocative Josef Stalin-themed branding, the shop’s owner told Reuters on Saturday....
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker Nio Inc on Saturday launched its first sedan model, eyeing a greater share of the world’s largest car market. The launch of the ET7, at...
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand said on Sunday that it was responding with urgency to a breach of one of its data systems. A third-party file-sharing service used by...
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