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Speakers at a workshop urged the government to count persons with disabilities properly in the upcoming Sixth Population and Housing Census 2021 and Comprehensive Disability Survey. They also suggested following...
BNP Standing Committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed has been hospitalised as he fell ill due to a low level of haemoglobin. "Sir was admitted to Evercare Hospital in the city...
Three youths, who reportedly drank excessive liquor on the 31st night, died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on Saturday morning. The deceased were identified as Faisal, 28, son of Ainul...
India's cricket board chief Sourav Ganguly, popularly known as 'Dada', has suffered a heart attack. The 48-year-old former India skipper was rushed to a leading private hospital in the city...
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday said that more than 371,500 children would be born on the first day of 2021. “The children born today enter a world...
Japan will consider issuing a new emergency declaration after governors in the capital region urged action to tackle a record surge in Covid-19 cases, the head of the nation’s pandemic...
US Senator Mitt Romney on Friday urged the US government to immediately enlist veterinarians, combat medics and others in an all-out national campaign to administer coronavirus vaccinations and slow a...
Mongla Port, the second largest sea harbor of the country, witnessed anchoring of at least 117 foreign ships in last December breaking all previous records, said an official. The ship...
Teachers and students of Dhaka University (DU) have expressed their hopes and demands in new year as the university is going to celebrate its centenary. Students and teachers of the...
Bangladesh has recorded 684 new cases of the novel coronavirus, the lowest daily count since May 9, taking the tally of infections so far to 515,184. The death toll climbed...
Bajaj Auto on Friday announced that it has become the first two-wheeler brand in the world to cross a market capitalisation of rupees 100,000 crore (converts to about USD 13.6...
Pakistan’s famous truck art will move from its highways to the skies, as a flying academy is painting a two-seater Cessna aircraft with the colourful technique. With elaborate and flamboyant...
Vietnam has detected its first imported case of the new coronavirus variant that is spreading rapidly around Britain, the health ministry said on Saturday. The variant was detected in a...
Indian Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has said that coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccines would be free of cost across the country. "Not just in Delhi, it (vaccine) will be free across the...
The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2020 comes at a crucial juncture for the world of work. The report, now in its third edition, maps the jobs and...
After plunging into the worst recession in decades amid coronavirus (COVID-19) shutdowns in 2020, the US economy has been recovering in recent months. With alarming case spikes and a long-delayed...
Oman has appreciated the Bangladesh government’s decision of relocating some of the Rohingyas from Cox’s Bazar to Bhasan Char terming the new place "conducive and safe" for living. The Head...
Tencent’s online games were removed and then reinstated on Huawei’s app store on Friday in a dispute over revenue sharing by the Chinese multinational technology conglomerate holding company. Huawei was...
President Donald Trump suffered a stinging rebuke in the US Senate on Friday when fellow Republicans joined Democrats to override a presidential veto for the first time in his tenure,...
The number of people killed in large commercial airplane crashes rose in 2020 to 299 worldwide, even as the number of crashes fell by more than 50 per cent, a...
Saadat Hasan Manto, one of the unique storytellers in the history of literature, was devastated by the horrors of the partition of the British India. The aesthetic commentary on violence...
The government is eager to allow the import of environment-friendly plastic scrap items which do not put any adverse impacts on the domestic industry and the environment. However, the Bangladesh...
Migratory birds from Siberia and other cold regions have started flocking to the banks of the Karnaphuli River and the seashore in Chattogram after the onset of winter. The hill...
The employees and workers of Faridpur Sugar Mills demanded to the government to pay all their dues immediately for the sake of their survival. They made the demand from a...
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd will focus on developing its core portfolio of sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) and their electric version, a senior executive said on Friday after the company ended joint...
Bangladesh Mahila Parishad President Ayesha Khanam, also a freedom fighter, has passed away in the early hours of Saturday. “We are deeply saddened to announce that Bangladesh Mahila Parishad President...
Iran has told the United Nations nuclear watchdog it plans to enrich uranium to up to 20 per cent purity, a level it achieved before its 2015 accord, at its...
Australia amended its national anthem to remove reference to the country being “young and free” amid calls to recognise that its Indigenous people are the oldest continued civilisation in the...
Commerce Secretary Dr. Md. Jafar Uddin, on Thursday, said Bangladesh will lose a number of duty-free quota-free (DFQF) facilities after its graduation from the existing least developed country (LDC) status....
Norwegian soccer player Omar Elabdellaoui was hospitalised with eye damage and facial burns after fireworks exploded in his hand at his home in Istanbul on New Year’s Eve, his Turkish...
Global K-Pop sensation BTS celebrated New Year’s Eve with an online concert on Thursday along with other K-pop groups from its management agency Big Hit Entertainment and fans from around...
Creating as many as 11.33 million jobs during the 8th five-year plan (FYP) period would be challenging for the government as the fallout of Covid-19, economists said on Friday. Following...
One-fourth of the BGMEA members, large in size, accounted for a major share of the country's total readymade garment exports and employment, industry people say. Some 351 large units of...
Rice prices increased again last week despite the government's reduced import duties on the staple, according to market sources. Palmoil, broiler chicken, also registered a hike, further battering the consumers....
A move to install an automated traffic signal system at four busy intersections in the city went in vain due to theft of a computer with software from a godown,...
The container traffic at the Chittagong port contracted by approximately 6.0 per cent in 2020 as the Covid-19 rattled movement. The country's main sea port witnessed the negative growth of...
Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) is sinking into atrophy as its financial and operational health has deteriorated, people familiar with the situation say. The sorry state of the corporation has...
Netflix released 'The Social Dilemma', a film, in September 2020 which revealed the insurgence of manipulation-based technology, flipsides of social media platforms and possible pitfalls of data-driven future. Within this...
The world has just entered yet another year, 2021, with a lot of expectations for better time. The past year, 2020, was an unprecedented year of devastation and anxiety in...
America's former Secretary of State and National Security Adviser in the President Richard Nixon's administration in the 1970s, Henry Kissinger, once termed Bangladesh an 'international basket case'. His poor impression...
Though belated, the government's skills certification programme for overseas jobseekers is a praiseworthy move, but lack of public knowledge has rendered it rather restricted to the extent that many job-seekers...
Pakistan and India on Friday conducted the annual practice of exchanging the list of their nuclear installations under a bilateral arrangement that prohibits them from attacking each other's atomic facilities....
A cold snap, disrupting life in the northern part of Bangladesh, will likely to damage the Boro seedbeds if the weather does not improve and potentially trigger a seedling crisis,...
The US killing of top general Qassem Soleimani will not deter Iranian resistance, a senior commander said on Friday as tensions mounted in the build-up to the first anniversary of...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members seized gold, arms, dollars, and drugs worth Tk 1.2 billion and arrested 378 persons involved in smuggling and trafficking along the border areas of Jashore's...
The present Awami League government had incorporated the pledge to build a Digital Bangladesh by 2021 in its election manifesto announced on December 12, 2008, based on which it assumed...
Saint Martin's Island is one of the most attractive places for tourists in Bangladesh. The island is located at the mouth of the Naf river, nine kilometres south of Teknaf...
The New York Stock Exchange is starting the process of delisting securities of three Chinese telecom companies, after US President Donald Trump last month barred US investments in Chinese firms...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday extended greetings of New Year 2021 and hoped that Bangladesh would march towards prosperity in the new year. The road transport and...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday hoped that the country will get rid of both coronavirus and ‘autocracy’ in the new year, 2021. “We greet all on...
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