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The pandemic has caused a dramatic rise in mental problems in people, irrespective of age and sex. An increase in suicides and ideations of self-harm among students of Dhaka University...
India's drug regulator on Friday approved a coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University for emergency use, two sources with knowledge of the matter said. The approval paves the...
Insurgents from western Myanmar on Friday released three ruling party politicians who had been kidnapped from conflict-torn Rakhine state, a spokesman for the insurgent group said, calling it a goodwill...
As the Covid-19 infections spreading fast, its global caseload hit 83.3 million on Friday, according to data released by the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The data showed the total caseload...
African countries began officially trading under a new continent-wide free trade area on Friday, after months of delays caused by the global coronavirus pandemic. But experts view the New Year's...
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...
A new era has begun for the United Kingdom after it completed its formal separation from the European Union. The UK stopped following EU rules at 23:00 GMT, as replacement...
Britain and Vietnam signed a free trade agreement on Tuesday, Vietnam's trade ministry said, days before Britain completes its transition out of the European Union. The deal, which will replace...
A new year is just around the corner. Like every walks of life, the cricketing fraternity of Bangladesh is also looking forward to forgetting the year of 2020 which started...
The government has distributed new textbooks on the first day of 2021, but the secondary students are yet to receive all books. The officials of primary education have received all...
India's drug regulator is set to approve on Friday a coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University for emergency use, three sources with knowledge of the matter said. The...
In an effort to speed up access to Covid-19 vaccination in the developing world, the UN health agency approved Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccines for emergency use. Regulatory experts convened by...
Bangladesh has recorded 990 new cases of the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 514,500. The death toll climbed to 7,576 after...
Prime Bank has recently launched a real-time remittance service, called RemitPrime, for the customers of its subsidiaries in Singapore and the UK. RemitPrime is the first real-time, online platform launched by...
A clockface of the Elizabeth Tower at the Houses of Parliament, more commonly known as Big Ben, shows 2300 GMT, as Britain formally exits the EU, in London, Britain December...
More than three women and children in the country were raped daily on an average in 2020, according to an annual report of a women's rights organisation. Bangladesh Mahila Parishad...
US President Donald Trump on Thursday extended a pair of immigration bans that block many “green card” applicants and temporary foreign workers from entering the country, measures he says are...
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Barrister Fazle Noor Taposh Thursday said that DSCC will start crash programme from Saturday to clean three canals and two box culverts to recover...
The US decision to impose additional tariffs on French wines and cognac, which come in addition to a first set of tariffs late last year, will cost the sector a...
The year 2020 was a wild one for Wall Street, bookended by the end of the longest bull market in history with the battering of equities by the Covid-19 shutdowns,...
Coronavirus-spurred growth in the technology sector will help drive M&A activity in the Asia Pacific next year, bankers and lawyers predict, with the potential easing of Sino-US tensions likely to...
The hacking group behind the SolarWinds compromise was able to break into Microsoft Corp and access some of its source code, Microsoft said on Thursday, something experts said sent a...
Bangladesh and the rest of the world bid adieu to 2020, a year many would like to forget, and welcomed 2021 with hopes that the New Year will be different...
As the coronavirus (Covid-19) infections spreading fast, its global caseload hit 83.3 million on Friday, according to data released by the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The data showed the total...
The Sari-Gowain River is being polluted due to coal mine drainage from the upstream hilly region. It has been revealed in a research by the academics of Sylhet Agricultural University...
Manchester United's Edinson Cavani has been given a three-match ban and a £100,000 fine for a social media post containing a Spanish phrase that is offensive in some contexts, BBC...
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will provide Bangladesh with an additional loan of US$ 18.07 million to rebuild microenterprises as well as to support smallholders affected adversely by...
The engineering sector emerged as the best performer on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) in 2020, with a gain of 133 per cent, while the life insurance sector was the...
Bangladesh’s dependable batsman Mushfiqur Rahim is expecting a good year after much of the 2020 was eaten up by the Covid-19 pandemic around the world, UNB reports. In the year...
The government will procure 35 more dredgers to ensure smooth navigability of the waterways, considering its importance on the country's economic growth. "We (the government) have procured 34 dredgers over...
Fireworks soared into the sky above the Sydney Opera House, but the harbour below was a deserted ghost town, a fittingly creepy send-off for a year that will not be...
Knowing full well that wishful thinking about remedies from pains of the pandemic would not bring fruits to any individual and the nation, it is time to explore elements of...
Telecommunication and internet services emerged as the 'saviour' in 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic restricted mobility of people to avert spread of the deadly virus, and subsequently life had to...
The net sale of state-run savings instruments more than tripled in the July-November period of this fiscal year (FY), 2020-21, than that of the corresponding period of previous fiscal. The...
After an 'unprecedented' year in 2020 riddled with scars of the pandemic, the country's readymade garment (RMG) sector is ushering in the new year 2021 amid some challenges and hopes...
Bangladesh's economy will eke out "satisfactory" growth next year provided private investments and international trade remain buoyant, a leading voice on private business has said. "While uncertainties and volatilities are...
Bangladesh would need at least three years to not just get back to the full speed of the economic activities but to overcome the losses caused by the Covid-19 pandemic,...
The government pursued a cautious stance in 2020 while approving development projects and releasing funds amid fears of higher budget deficit due to the adverse impact of Covid-19 pandemic, according...
Every initial public offering (IPO) applicant will get primary shares on a pro rata basis as the stock market regulator scrapped the lottery system for general investors in an IPO....
The operating profit of majority of the private commercial banks (PCBs) shrunk in the just-concluded calendar year mainly due to the impact of Covid-19 and implementation of the single-digit interest...
Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) has handed the responsibility of drainage system management and canals to the city corporations to solve the waterlogging woes. DWASA, Dhaka South City...
When all the unwanted developments during a pandemic-hit year soured the mood of policymakers, a healthy remittance inflow emerged as the one of the few comfort zones for them. In...
No New Year has ever burst forth from the darkest recess of a year like the one gone by. As the first sun rays tentatively sparkle through the wintry mist...
The New Year is a time to take stock of the past and place a wish list for the future. But given the extreme odds that the just concluded year...
The recovery of the country's economy following the coronavirus crisis is long and slow due to data scarcity, experts said. Relief distribution is also affected due to the lack of...
The Chittagong University (CU) Bureau of Business Research (BBR) from business faculty, has arranged a webinar on December 23, 2020 with the theme- "COVID-19 Impact and Business Stabilisation: The Role...
Farida Yasmin of the Daily Ittefaq made history by getting elected as the first female president of the Jatiya Press Club (JPC) on Thursday. Ilias Khan of the daily Amar...
The world has not experienced such a dreadful time as seen in 2020, except wars, in the last couple of centuries. Focused on a pandemic, almost the whole year elapsed...
A buzz was created recently when a 21-year-old Bangladeshi girl named Tamanna Islam became one of the youngest paid authors in an international platform named Goodnovel. She explained that it...
The work-sharing between humans and machines is a contentious issue. The discourse has been progressing, leading to some lamentable observations. In the face of rising low wage population, are we...
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