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As we are entering the fourth industrial revolution, digitisation of the manufacturing sector is becoming a requisite to ensure a sustainable export ecosystem. However, Bangladesh's apparel industry is still at...
Six months after raising its initial pre-seed funding, Bangladeshi EdTech start-up Shikho confirms that it has now closed a $175,000 bridge investment from three new investors, alongside a follow-on investment...
The High Court has ordered the police to immediately release Md Arman, a saree craftsman of Dhaka’s Pallabi who has been in jail for five years as a convict despite...
Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton has been knighted in the Queen's New Year Honours list. The Briton, 35, sealed a seventh drivers' title at the Turkish Grand Prix in...
Md Mustafizur Rahman has been appointed secretary of the Ministry of Land, according to a statement issued Thursday. Ministry of Public Administration issued a notification in this regard on December...
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will provide Bangladesh with an additional loan of US$18.07 million to rebuild microenterprises and support smallholders who have been affected by the COVID-19...
Only 40 per cent respondents said they know hand washing using water and soap is necessary before eating, said Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) in a report. The BBS on...
Speakers at a discussion programme Thursday urged the government to monitor hate speech in Bangladesh and bring the perpetrators under justice. They said hate speeches are flooding through the social...
The father of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday he was in the process of applying for a French passport to maintain his ties with the European Union...
The Department of Environment (DOE) has fined Toma group of construction, a contracting firm, Tk 500 million for cutting hill illegally in Loghagara upazila of Chattogram during the work of...
Bangladesh has recorded 1,014 new cases of the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 513,510, reports bdnews24.com. The death toll climbed to...
The year 2020 started with the rape of a Dhaka University student and protests erupted up and down Bangladesh. But violence against women in the country continued unchecked. The nation...
At least 188 people were killed in ‘crossfire’, ‘shootout’, and ‘gunfight’ with law enforcement agencies in 2020, said a report of Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK). Of them, 112 people...
Britain on Wednesday became the first country to approve AstraZeneca and Oxford University's home-grown UK COVID-19 vaccine, adding an easy-to-manage shot to the arsenal of a nation desperate for pandemic...
More than 10 million children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), northeast Nigeria, the Central Sahel, South Sudan and Yemen will suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, the...
Mohammad Saiyedul Islam, a Bangladeshi meritorious student studying on a scholarship from the Chinese government, has been appointed as the ‘International Investment Attracting Ambassador’ of the local government in Tongcheng...
Italy plans to vaccinate 10 to 15 million of its roughly 60 million citizens against coronavirus (COVID-19) by April 2021, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has said. During a year-end press...
Pakistan will purchase 1.2 million Covid-19 vaccine doses from China’s Sinopharm, a minister said on Thursday, the first official confirmation of a vaccine purchase by the South Asian country as...
Seventy three rape incidents, among other crimes, were recorded in Magura district alone in 2020. The most striking rape incident took place on November 22, when some miscreants raped a...
Schools and other educational institutions will reopen only when the pandemic situation improves, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, reports bdnews24.com. “We’ll wait until Jan 15 to see if the situation...
Turkish police detained people suspected of ties to the Islamic State militant group in an operation targeting a total of 35 foreign suspects in Istanbul on Thursday, state-owned Anadolu news...
Dividend payments to investors in the S&P 500 rose to a new record in 2020, despite the challenge posed by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, according to research from S&P Global....
US Republican Senator Josh Hawley on Wednesday pledged to challenge Democrat President-elect Joe Biden’s victory when Congress convenes to officially tally the electoral votes, which could trigger a lengthy debate...
Even two decades ago, the comics that the young generation of Bangladesh would follow were mostly from India, espcially its state of West Bengal, or other foreign countries. Chacha Chaudhary,...
The global Covid-19 caseload crossed 82 million on Thursday amid reports of a new, more contagious coronavirus variant affecting a number of countries. Data compiled by Johns Hopkins University (JHU)...
Hundreds of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East were left stranded in the open air on Wednesday when an attempt to relocate them to another site in Bosnia...
China approved its first Covid-19 vaccine for general public use on Thursday, a shot developed by an affiliate of state-backed pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm, as it braces for greater transmission risks...
The ready-made garment (RMG) factories can get cheaper electricity if they go for net metering after setting up rooftop solar system for electricity generation. The utility billing mechanism can save...
Dawn Wells, who parlayed her girl-next-door charm and wholesome beauty into enduring TV fame as the sweet-natured desert island castaway Mary Ann on the classic 1960s sitcom “Gilligan’s Island,” died...
The European Union and China agreed on Wednesday to an investment deal that will give European companies greater access to Chinese markets and help redress what Europe sees as unbalanced...
Russian scientists are poring over the well-preserved remains of a woolly rhinoceros that likely roamed the Siberian hinterland more than 12,000 years ago after it was found in the diamond-producing...
The stock market regulator has allowed brokerage firms to open new branch offices across the country after nine years following the long-standing demand of the stockbrokers. The Bangladesh Securities and...
SYLHET: Speakers at a discussion meeting in Sylhet demanded immediate recovery of the illegally grabbed streams, canals and ponds in the city and taking steps for protecting all the water...
Experts at a webinar on Wednesday put an emphasis on development of varied crops, fish and cattle through extensive research to boost production aiming to make the country self-sufficient in...
Sluggish demand followed by a spike in raw material prices pushed the local mild steel (MS) rod makers in a precarious position in 2020 amid the virus pandemic. According to...
Borrowers who rescheduled their defaulted loans under the Bangladesh Bank's (BB) relaxed policy in 2019 are now allowed to enjoy loan moratorium facilities like other clients, officials said. Besides, customers...
Two dozen football players at Army have been linked to an academic cheating scandal at the military academy, USA Today reported Wednesday. Last week, USA Today said that 73 cadets...
The world will never want to visit a year like the one that ends today. It was a year when a microscopic pathogen, known as SARS-Covid-2, brought all nations, rich...
Like most countries in the world, Bangladesh bids farewell to 2020 today (Thursday), a pandemic-devastated year that upended people's normal lifestyle while bringing the country's economic wheel to a skittering...
The on-campus round of Hult Prize-- the world's largest students’ social entrepreneurship case competition with participants from more than 2,000 universities across 121 countries around the globe-- ended on December...
The gaming industry today is the largest entertainment sector globally. For comparison, the video gaming industry in 2019 was worth US$ 152.1 billion, while the box office ($42.2 billion) and...
IT is 12 midnight; seems just too early to sleep. All the friends are online; need to scroll some more to make sure not missing out on anything interesting updated...
Microsoft Excel is one of the most important workplace applications that help to organise the business system. This tool is widely used in business practices, classwork and even personal data...
At a function arranged for giving the President's Award for Industrial Development 2018 on Monday, Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun has informed the audience of a laudatory move the...
Dhaka Abahani on Wednesday confirmed a berth in the quarterfinals, along with Mohammedan SC, after beating Muktijoddha Sangsad in the Federation Cup Football 2020. With the 2-1 win at Bangabandhu...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Wednesday said existence of no terrorist group was found in the country’s border areas as per the claim of India. “Existence of no terrorist...
President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday issued an order summoning the 11th session of the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) on January 18. This session will be the first one of 2021. “The...
Professor Dr Moonis Ahmar, a perceptive scholar as well as observer of Pakistani politics wrote an interesting column in a Pakistani English Language daily The Express Tribune on December 11...
Amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, the government will hand over new books to about 4.5 crore students at free of cost at the beginning of new year. Prime Minister Sheikh...
New Zealand’s bowlers produced a late final session surge to guide their side to a tense 101-run victory over Pakistan in the first test in Mount Maunganui on Wednesday and...
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