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The coronavirus pandemic took a heavy toll on the country's overseas employment sector in the outgoing calendar year (2020), as a large number of Bangladeshi workers lost their jobs. On...
Star-studded Bashundhara Kings smartly reached the quarterfinals of the 32nd Federation Cup Football 2020 as the Group C champions beating Chittagong Abahani 1-0 in a group-deciding match on Monday, UNB...
The number of registered trade unions in the country's readymade garment (RMG) sector has increased significantly in last seven years, but most of which are allegedly non-functional, industry insiders said....
Post-Covid consequences and losses from latest random floods might undercut the country's efforts to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs), experts told a webinar on Monday. They said a comprehensive database...
India withdrew its ban on onion export on Monday, nearly three and a half months after imposing it abruptly which saw the commodity's price through the roof in Bangladesh, UNB...
Private sector credit growth decelerated further in November as fresh borrowing demand dropped after the second wave of Covid-19 hit the country, experts said. Private credit growth fell to 8.21...
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is in talks with HungryNaki to buy the local food delivery firm, industry officials said. The talks are still at the primary stage. Contacted, HungryNaki deputy...
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Monday said conspirators are still active to destroy the prevailing peace in Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT) region along with destroying the peace of the...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said the election commission (EC) should resign right now shouldering the responsibility for "corruption, incompetence and failures". “The eminent intellectuals of...
Narendra Kumar Sinha has testified against his brother the former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha in a case that involves embezzlement of Tk 40 million in credit from The Farmers...
The Tk. 40 billion sukuk was over-subscribed by nearly four times to Tk. 151.53 billion in its first auction held on Monday at the central bank. For the first time,...
The inauguration of the Women Central Jail built within the complex of the Keraniganj Central Jail completes a process of creating modern and better facilities for inmates of both sexes....
Secretary of the Election Commission Secretariat Md Alamgir on Monday said the first phase of the municipality polls was held successfully across the country with a voter turnout of 60...
Banking sector of Bangladesh commenced its journey under the leadership of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as part of his economic rebuilding movement in the newly...
The year 2020 started with great enthusiasm in this country. March 17, 2020 was the birth centenary of the architect of this country Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. It was decided...
Many people can remember well the days of sending or receiving parcels through the postal department. Those boxes or packets wrapped in specially made paper used to mainly carry books...
A genomic research team at the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) has identified a new variant of the Covid-19 pathogen. The BCSIR scientists say the new strain...
Reading the memoirs of Andrei Gromyko does something cheering to the soul. In the first place, it takes one back to the rather energising days that symbolised the Soviet Union...
Prime Bank has recently launched a state-of-the-art real-time remittance service- RemitPrime- for its subsidiaries in Singapore and the United Kingdom (UK). This is the first real-time, online platform launched by a Bangladeshi bank...
The energy regulator has decided to hold public hearings to re-fix the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) on January 14, 17 and 18 next year. According to the Bangladesh...
The Cabinet has approved the draft of ‘Hajj and Umrah Management Law-2020’ in principle to bring more discipline in this sector. According to the draft law, a hajj agency could...
The second batch of 1,772 Rohingya refugees is scheduled to be shifted to Bhasanchar island on Tuesday. According to the concerned authorities, these refugees belong to 427 families. “They have...
The government is working to bring the lagging char areas into the mainstream of development, said Planning Minister M A Mannan on Monday. “To realise the development plans for Char-...
The Cabinet on Monday approved in principle a draft of ‘Highway Law-2020’ keeping provision of punishment for different offenses. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the regular cabinet meeting, joining...
A Saudi court on Monday sentenced a prominent women’s rights activist, Loujain al-Hathloul, to five years and eight months in prison in a trial that has drawn international condemnation and...
The National Economic Council (NEC) will sit tomorrow (Monday) to consider the 8th Five Year Plan (2021-2025) of the country in order to attain 8.0 per cent GDP growth on...
Country’s electronics giant Walton Hi-Tech Industries Limited has achieved the long-term AAA credit ratings for the last financial year 2020, says a press release. The capital market listed only Bangladeshi...
The Serum Institute of India, which is manufacturing the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, said on Monday it expected the British and Indian governments to approve shots for emergency use within a...
The government has conferred President's Award for Industrial Development upon 19 companies in recognition of their distinctive contributions to the economy. Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun and State Minister...
The High Court (HC) on Monday halted the education ministry's decision for six months to remove the name of late president Ziaur Rahman from the titles of two high schools...
Pantho Rahman (Channel i) and AKM Moinuddin (UNB) have been elected President and General Secretary respectively of the Diplomatic Correspondents Association, Bangladesh (DCAB) for the year 2021. Pantho was elected...
‘Shomogro Bangladesh 5 ton’ - We all have seen that inscribed in the back of trucks on roads and highways that travel many kilometers. Truckers are responsible for vehicles that...
Speakers at a programme on Sunday stressed the need for centralised coordination of community volunteers so that they can respond swiftly to disasters or other humanitarian crises. They also said...
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested three suspected members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts early Sunday. The arrestees are Mohammad Ali, 36,...
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) inked MoU with Institute of Chartered Secretaries Bangladesh (ICSB) and Daffodil International University (DIU) on Monday. DCCI President Shams Mahmud, President of ICSB...
Bangladesh has recorded 932 new cases of the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 510,080, reports bdnews24.com. The death toll climbed to...
Australia face an uphill task to avoid defeat by India in the second Test after collapsing on the third day in Melbourne. Trailing by 131 on first innings, the hosts...
Stocks posted a marginal gain on Monday, extending the winning streak for the fourth straight sessions, as investors remained active on major sectors stocks. DSEX, the prime index of Dhaka...
Veteran chest physician Prof AKM Shamsul Huq, former director of the National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital, died on Monday at the age of 85. Huq was...
A cold spell has continued to grip Bangladesh's northern regions for the last 10 days, with the mercury dropping below 8.0 degrees Celsius in some parts of the country. Chuadanga...
Seven Pakistani soldiers were killed late on Saturday in an attack in the southwestern province of Balochistan, the military said on Sunday. Security sources told Reuters the attack occurred in...
Saudi Arabia's interior ministry on Monday extended a ban on entry to the kingdom by air, land and sea for another week amid concerns over a fast-spreading variant of the...
Bangladesh has introduced a mandatory two-week institutional quarantine period for all travellers arriving in the country from the United Kingdom following the discovery of a new variant of the coronavirus...
Vietnam recorded export turnovers of approximately 281.5 billion US dollars in 2020, up 6.5 per cent year-on-year, and import turnovers of over $262.4 billion, up 3.6 per cent, with a...
Researchers have detected the toxic and unhealthy radon gas presence in indoor air in Dhaka city for the first time in the country. The Environment and Social Development Organization (ESDO)...
A Reuters cameraman, Kumerra Gemechu, was arrested in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Thursday and will be kept in custody for at least two weeks, his family said. He...
A Chinese citizen journalist who covered Wuhan's coronavirus outbreak has been jailed for four years. Zhang Zhan was found guilty of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble", a frequent charge against...
Britain will ban “buy one get one free” promotions for food high in fat, sugar or salt and free refills of sugary soft drinks in restaurants from April 2022, the...
New Zealand’s bowlers took a couple of rain and hail shower delays in their stride and slowly broke down Pakistan’s stubborn resistance to help the hosts take control of the...
Several European countries have launched coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccination as the first batch of vaccines was distributed among European Union (EU) member states, in the hope of defeating the virus. "Today...
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