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The government has decided to extend the appointment of the prime minister's Principal Secretary Ahmad Kaikaus, who was due to retire at the end of the month, for two more...
Why would someone go to a festival? The children would answer with wide eyes filled with excitement and happiness. The occasion to wear new clothes, go out with family and...
Working from home, investing in safety measures, curtailing expenses, doing online classes-- people have made various other adaptations during the past nine months since the Covid-19 virus hit Bangladesh. Like...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the members of Bangladesh Army to stand beside people to improve their living standards. “If the country prospers, the lifestyle of everyone has to...
Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Ito Naoki on Thursday said they want to see the start of repatriation process next year as Japan supports repatriation of Rohingyas to their homes in...
Bangladesh has improved eight places from 73rd to 65th position in the global cyber security index. In South Asia, the country ranks second with 44.16 points while India first with...
China has launched an antitrust investigation into Alibaba Group and will summon the tech giant’s Ant Group affiliate to meet in coming days, regulators said on Thursday, in the latest...
The government has decided to distribute over Tk 10.37 million to some 254 Christian religious institutions across the country on the occasion of Christmas Day on December 25. The decision...
Hundreds of young people in Rajshahi's Godagari, one of the major tomato-producing hubs in the country, have become self-reliant by cultivating tomato, a cash vegetable. Traders from different parts of...
A towering header from Casemiro and an added-time strike from Karim Benzema saw Real Madrid beat a stubborn Granada side 2-0 at home on Wednesday to notch a fifth consecutive...
Alphabet Inc’s Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and in at least three cases requested authors refrain from casting...
More than 100 people had been killed in a recent armed attack in west Ethiopia, the country's federal rights group confirmed late Wednesday, reports Xinhua. The bloodshed took place in...
M A Hashem, the founding chairman of Partex Group, passed away at a city hospital in the early hours of Thursday. He was 77. He died at Evercare Hospital around...
Bangladeshi non-government organisations (NGOs) will face shortfall in external funding once the country reaches the middle-income country status but, some development professionals say, they would still remain relevant to societal...
Stocks witnessed an upward trend in early trading on Thursday as Robi, the biggest-ever issue made a flying trading debut. Robi is the largest public offering in the history of...
The board of directors of Meghna Petroleum has recommended a 150 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2020. The final approval will come during the...
Stella Tennant, one of Britain’s top models, has died at the age of 50, British media reported on Wednesday. Tennant was born into the Scottish aristocracy. Her unconventional, androgynous looks...
The Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA) asked the microfinance institutions (MFIs) to provision one per cent fund on total loan loss. The microcredit regulator also asked the MFIs not to classify...
The government is building a skilled workforce according to the demand of overseas market in the post-coronavirus period, said Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad on Wednesday. He...
The second meeting of the task force (TF) formed to bring discipline in streets ended on Wednesday without any action plan. The first meeting, which was held more than a...
The VAT authority has moved to prepare a 'uniform end user' system for the large taxpayers to facilitate submitting VAT returns online without confronting any problem that they were facing...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has cancelled a tender of its funded project for buying 700 wagons for the Bangladesh Railway (BR) on allegations of 'inefficiency' in procurement process. The...
The lack of market information, limited facility for testing and standardisation and unavailability of raw materials are the major challenges for strengthening the motor cycle industry's backward linkage, an official...
The central bank on Tuesday issued a draft policy seeking opinions from the stakeholders concerned to set up alternative reference rate after phasing out of the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate...
Sukuk, the Islamic Shariah-compliant bond, will be issued on Monday, marking the history in the country's financial market. The Bangladesh Government Islamic Investment Sukuk worth Tk 40 billion will be...
Two mayors of Dhaka on Wednesday made the primary selection of four spots at the periphery of the Dhaka city for the relocation of inter-district bus terminals. The four selected...
Eminent playwright Mannan Hira passed away at a city hospital on Wednesday night. Mannan, who received the Bangla Academy Award in 2006, breathed his last around 9:00 pm following a...
Argentine football star Diego Maradona did not consume alcohol or illicit narcotics in the days before his death, an autopsy released on Wednesday said. Maradona, who died in November aged...
The euro rose to $1.22 and the dollar fell on Wednesday as foreign exchange traders looked beyond US President Donald Trump’s threat to block a $892 billion COVID-19 aid package,...
Marital breakup was once thought to be an ailment of industrial and capitalist societies in the Western world. A horrendous picture of talak or divorce as presented by a leading...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked the finance ministry and other related ministries and divisions to formulate another financial stimulus package plan keeping the second wave of COVID-19 in...
Adopted 72 years ago by the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was meant to ensure basic rights and fundamental freedoms across the globe. Its thirty articles...
Bangladesh and Bhutan finalised the terms and conditions recently for signing a preferential trade agreement (PTA) to increase bilateral trade. Under PTAs some select goods enjoy duty benefits from both...
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has alerted all to the attempts to recruit personnel for a private institution named Bangabandhu International University in Nilphamari’s Saidpur. The UGC on Wednesday confirmed...
Turkey is eager to sell defence equipment to Bangladesh and double the bilateral trade to $2.0 billion, visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said. He said he highlighted the...
Walton Hi-Tech Industries Limited has approved 200 per cent cash dividend for the general shareholders and 75 per cent cash dividend for sponsors and directors for the financial year 2019-2020. ...
Asian Tobacco (Pvt) Ltd, a Bangladeshi company, is going to establish a cigarettes and tobacco processing plant in Ishwardi Export Processing Zone with an investment of $2 million. The company...
Bangladesh has secured 35.90 points and ranked 112th among the 138 countries in the Global Knowledge Index 2020 (GKI). According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Mohammed...
Establishing a strong correlation between education, skills, jobs, and per capita income for creating a sustained growth path has been a daunting development challenge. Upon exploiting natural resources and low...
India has proposed a nine-point plan for reforms of the World Health Organization (WHO), including changes in mechanisms to monitor health emergencies that can cross borders and giving the head...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday sought Turkey’s involvement in ensuring the return of forcibly-displaced Myanmar citizens from Bangladesh to their homeland. Sheikh Hasina made the request when visiting Turkish...
Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury on Wednesday said that the digital record room will reduce harassment in the collection of land Records of Rights (ROR). The number of visitors to deputy...
The US Justice Department sued Walmart Inc on Tuesday, accusing the world's biggest retailer of fuelling the opioid crisis in the United States, ignoring warning signs from its pharmacists and...
The National Vitamin A plus campaign in Bangladesh has reached 20.8 million children aged between 6 months and 5 years with the important immunity boosting supplement, UNICEF said on Wednesday....
A group of Dhaka University students on Wednesday demanded ensuring residential facilities for them before hosting examinations for final year and masters from December 26 amid the coronavirus pandemic. They...
British drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc told Reuters on Tuesday its COVID-19 vaccine should be effective against the new coronavirus variant, adding that studies were underway to fully probe the impact of...
The authorities at Dhaka's Shahjalal International Airport have slapped a Tk 300,000 fine on Buraq Air after its passengers arrived in Bangladesh from Libya without negative COVID-19 test reports. A...
The coronavirus has landed in Antarctica, the last continent previously free from COVID-19, Chile’s military said this week, as health and army officials scrambled to clear out and quarantine staff...
Stocks rebounded strongly on Wednesday, with a turnover crossing Tk 12 billion-mark on the major bourse after four-month, as bargain hunters put fresh stakes on stocks amid optimism. DSEX, the...
As 2020 closes, regulatory approval of Covid-19 vaccines has raised hopes the world can defeat the pandemic next year. But production and delivery challenges suggest beating the disease will be...
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