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Dhaka bourse welcomed the year 2021 with a robust start as investors' active participations added 220 points to the broad index which posted the highest single week gain since August...
The telecoms regulator is planning to run a drive test in 12,000 kilometres countrywide in six months to measure the quality of telecommunication services. The quality of service (QoS) test...
A feasibility study has found an 81-kilometre route viable for circular train in the periphery of Dhaka city, estimating $8.0 billion for construction. Sources said the route would be part...
The telecoms regulator has floated a draft guideline on fifth-generation (5G) cellular network seeking opinions from stakeholders despite unavailability of full 3G and 5G networks in Bangladesh as yet. The...
The government's net borrowing from the country's banking system is expected to be negative in January, as a move is underway to repay Tk 40 million from the surplus, officials...
The Louvre museum in Paris - home to the Mona Lisa and other world-famous works of art - suffered a 72 per cent drop in visitors in 2020 compared to...
The prices of staple rice and that of edible oil, a key cooking ingredient, remained high last week, depriving the consumers, especially the commoners, of breathing space as they had...
Twitter said on Friday that it has permanently suspended US President Donald Trump’s account due to the risk of further incitement of violence following the storming of the US Capitol...
Covid-19 infection rate dropped below 6.0 per cent while the fatality rate from coronavirus inched up further in Bangladesh on Friday. The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) reported the...
The government has backtracked from a plan to propose the United States for signing a free trade area (FTA) deal considering its lack of preparedness, an official says. Failing to...
The pharmaceutical industry's growth slowed significantly last year in the aftermath of Covid-19 pandemic. The life-saving drug market expanded at 6.5 per cent in the third quarter of 2020 to...
The European Union reached a deal with Pfizer and BioNTech for 300 million additional doses of their COVID-19 vaccine, the head of the European Commission said on Friday, in a...
The Indian government and representatives of protesting farmers failed to reach an agreement on contentious new agriculture laws on Friday and said they will meet again in a week’s time....
The Covid-19 impact on Bangladesh economy since March 2020 reflected a sharp decline in growth rate of real gross domestic product (GDP) to 5.24 per cent in FY20, compared to...
The plan to demolish the iconic Teacher-Student Centre (TSC) at the University of Dhaka often called Dhaka University (DU) has enraged many for obvious reasons. Though the pro-vice-chancellor of DU...
Blaming a syndicate behind the spiralling of mild steel (MS) rod prices, an apex body of construction industry entrepreneurs expressed concerns over it and also urged the government to intervene...
The initial confusion created over the earlier reported statement made by the head of the Indian company producing the Oxford vaccine seems to have been dispelled once and for all....
The brief uncertainty surrounding Bangladesh's receipt of Oxford's Covid-19 vaccine from India seems to be over. Also, as assured by Bangladesh government's top health officials, the vaccine should be available...
US President Donald Trump has said will not attend the inauguration of his successor, Democratic President-elect Joe Biden, later this month. “To all of those who have asked, I will...
The number of people who have been infected with COVID-19 in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the virus was first identified, could be around three times the official figure,...
Large parts of the world-outside of China and a few other countries-face a runaway virus, which has not been stopped because of criminal incompetence by governments. That these governments in...
A teenaged O Level student has given statement before a court confessing that he had raped and murdered a friend from Mastermind School in Dhaka, police say. Police produced 18-year...
The ruling Awami League will hold a workshop titled ‘Karmojiboner Karmoshala’ on Saturday with a view to providing guidelines to youth in making career planning and enhancing skills. Under the...
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has described Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent address to the nation as a ‘black document of falsehood’. "We want to make it...
A police officer has died from injuries sustained as President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol, a violent siege that is forcing hard questions about the defeated president's remaining days...
The United Arab Emirates will reopen all its land, sea and air entry points with Qatar starting Saturday, state news agency WAM reported on Friday. Saudi Arabia announced a breakthrough...
A COVID-19 vaccine produced by Sinovac Biotech is deemed halal, or permissible under Islam, Indonesia's Ulema Council said on Friday, days before the country is scheduled to start its inoculation...
A COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech was 78 per cent effective in a late-stage Brazilian trial and entirely prevented severe cases, a source said on Thursday, boosting Chinese...
Brisbane will go into three days of strict lockdown later on Friday as the government tries to contain a more contagious variant of COVID-19, raising more doubts about the Gabba...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has summoned 15 Thakurgaon teachers to interrogate them about irregularities in teachers’ transfer and recruitment, Primary School Certificate (PSC) exam and scholarship results. Also, there are...
Facebook has partnered with local organisations in an effort to support and raise awareness on mental health in the country. People can now access support resources at National Institute of...
Bangladesh has logged 785 new cases of the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 520,690. The death toll climbed to 7,734 after...
Congressional Democrats on Friday weighed impeaching President Donald Trump for a second time, two days after his false claims of election fraud helped encourage a mob that stormed the US...
Some 5,431 people were killed and 7,379 others injured in road accidents from January to December 2020 across the country. During the period, a total of 4,735 road accidents took...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday banned the government from importing new coronavirus vaccines from the United States and Britain. “Imports of US and British vaccines into the...
The number of Americans filing first-time claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly dipped last week while staying extremely high, with the labour market recovery appearing to stall as a raging Covid-19...
The United States on Thursday said it would hold off slapping tariffs on French cosmetics, handbags and other imports in retaliation for a digital services tax Washington says will harm...
Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has marginally witnessed a drop in cases filed and fines realised for violating traffic rules in November compared to October of 2020. BRTA filed 1,511...
Farmers in Magura are expecting a bumper production of mustard due to government support and favourable weather this year. According to Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Magura, a total of...
Namibia saw a continued downward trend in rhino and elephant poaching last year after stepping up patrols and sharply increasing fines, the government said on Thursday. Citing intensified intelligence operations...
An O-level student was killed, allegedly after rape, in Kalabagan area of Dhaka on Thursday. Police arrested the 17-year-old victim’s boyfriend and three others in connection with the incident. The...
Tesla chief and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk surpassed Amazon.com’s top boss Jeff Bezos to become the world’s richest man, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. Including Thursday's gains in Tesla shares,...
Daimler AG’s unveiled a new display screen on Thursday that will cover almost the entire dashboard of its luxury Mercedes-Benz models, in a bid to outdo Tesla Inc’s hallmark touchscreen...
Democratic control of the Senate offers President-elect Joe Biden an opportunity to advance parts of his climate agenda, but the paper-thin majority likely puts sweeping global warming legislation beyond reach....
China’s Baidu plans to form a company to make smart electric vehicles (EV), two sources familiar with the matter said, with manufacturing to be carried out at plants owned by...
LGRD and cooperatives minister Tazul Islam on Thursday expressed his disappointment over uncontrolled development at Purbachal with no plan for controlling population density. Such unplanned development may ultimately make the...
US President Donald Trump faced the threat on Thursday of a second impeachment, a day after his supporters breached the US Capitol in a stunning assault on American democracy as...
The apparel trade group has engaged a global law firm Sidley to set the strategies for retaining the duty-free market access to the European Union (EU) after the country achieves...
The public and private electricity users owe a total of Tk 85.56 billion in outstanding bills to the Power Division. Of the total amount, Tk 69.63 billion is remaining pending...
The country's tax revenue collection grew by 2.10 per cent in the first half (H1) of the current fiscal year (FY), 2020-21, although the Covid-19 pandemic hit economic activities hard....
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