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Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT) on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Robi Axiata Limited to provide the students of BUBT with high-speed internet data for...
Toxic air killed more people in India in 2019 than in 2017, The Lancet said in a report shared by the government on Tuesday, with 1.67 million deaths accounting for...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday directed the authorities concerned to take measures for not providing house rent allowance to government employees if they don't stay at the government quarters...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved a project involving Tk 18.83 billion for ensuring WASH facilities for around 4.5 million people through providing water...
Bangladesh has yet to decide if it will impose a ban on air travel to and from the United Kingdom amid growing fears over the emergence of a newly-identified variant...
The United States on Monday imposed additional visa restrictions on Chinese officials over alleged human rights abuses, taking further action against China in the final month of US President Donald...
The Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) has revised its Shariah Index on the basis of performance of the CSE listed companies. The new index will be effective from December 30. The...
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has temporarily withdrawn an order issued against leading mobile operators Robi and Banglalink to stop their telecommunication value-added services (TVAS). The regulator had issued the...
Bangladeshi companies working in the climate-resilient, environment-friendly, clean and renewable energy-efficient sector have a great opportunity to get project financing from Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN), experts opined. Their opinion...
Bangladesh has registered 17 new fatalities from the coronavirus infection, the lowest daily count in five weeks, taking the death toll so far to 7,329. The caseload climbed to 503,501...
Bangladesh has earned reputation as a mature country in humanitarian operations but the development workers have proved some shortcomings in strategic leadership skills in a businesslike world, a stakeholders’ discussion...
AstraZeneca and Amgen said on Tuesday their experimental asthma drug tezepelumab failed to meet the main goal of reducing patients’ dependence on steroids, while keeping the respiratory condition in check...
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe submitted to voluntary questioning by Tokyo prosecutors on Monday in a case against his secretary over unreported political funds, public broadcaster NHK reported on...
Stocks returned to the red on Tuesday, after a single-day break, as many investors freed funds to participate in the upcoming IPOs while some were waiting for the debut of...
The United Kingdom was stuck in Covid-19 isolation on Tuesday after much of the world cut off travel ties due to a highly infectious new coronavirus strain, snarling one of...
Larger-than-expected money transfers from migrants overseas have provided a tonic for several sickly economies during the coronavirus crisis, but the outlook for such flows remains fraught with uncertainty even as...
The US Congress on Monday (local time) approved an $892 billion coronavirus aid package, throwing a lifeline to the nation’s pandemic-battered economy after months of inaction, while also keeping the...
Emirates has received the APEX 2021 Five Star Global Official Airline Ratings™, based on feedback from passengers that was independently collected by APEX, world’s largest international airline association via its...
Fahim Hridoy, who owns a fast food shop in Dhaka city’s Tejturi Bazar, has plans to buy some warm clothes soon for himself. When asked from where, he was quick...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has suspended its flight services to Oman for a week after the Gulf state closed its borders amid the concerns over the spread of a new strain...
Gone are those days when imagining any social or religious festival without satiating your taste buds with sumptuous curries made with freshwater fishes such as pangas, catla, sheat fish, rohu,...
US movie studio MGM Holdings is exploring a sale, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday. The movie studio behind the 'James Bond' franchise has tapped investment...
Chelsea striker Tammy Abraham scored a late opportunist double to secure a 3-0 home win for Chelsea over West Ham United in the Premier League on Monday after Brazilian defender...
At least 84 women were tortured to death for dowry in the first 11 months of the current calendar year across the country, according to a local legal aid and...
More than 77 million people have been infected with coronavirus (Covid-19) globally and over 1.7 million of them died since the first cases were reported in December last year, according...
The parent of a TikTok copycat from India has raised more than $100 million from investors including Alphabet Inc’s Google and Microsoft, months after the Chinese-owned short-video app was banned...
A new variant of the coronavirus spreading rapidly in Britain carries mutations that could mean children are as susceptible to becoming infected with it as adults - unlike previous strains,...
Stocks posted a marginal decline in the early trading on Tuesday as investors followed a cautious stance ahead of the trading debut of the country's largest-ever issue Robi. Following the...
Abdul Kader, popular television actor who has recently been diagnosed with stage IV cancer, tested positive for coronavirus (Covid-19) on Monday. The actor returned home from Christian Medical Hospital in...
The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island erupted on Sunday night, according to an advisory from the US Geological Survey, followed by an earthquake that struck at the volcano’s south...
Thailand’s Mana Srivate has performed dozens of resuscitation attempts in his 26 years as a rescue worker, but never before on an elephant. Mana was called into action while off...
The Planning Commission and Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority will conduct a piloting of business continuity plan (BCP) among the industries located in two economic zones aiming to strengthen resilience in...
The government will review the progress in implementation of the existing export policy 2018-21 aiming to help boost export, officials said. To this effect, the monitoring committee on the existing...
US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on live television as part of a growing effort to convince the American public the inoculations...
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Monday he had tricked a Russian secret agent into disclosing details of the botched plot to kill him and had been told that poison...
The World Health Organization cautioned against major alarm over a new, highly infectious variant of the coronavirus that has emerged in Britain, saying this was a normal part of a...
The High Court on Monday cleared the way for the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 of Dhaka to continue the trial of all 25 accused in connection with the murder of Abrar...
The government has moved to bring freelancers under the purview of incentives or cash support against their earnings through exporting services. The move to patronise the online workers has been...
In the wake of slow implementation of projects under the Indian Lines of credit (LOCs), experts have suggested restructuring of the bilateral lending programmes and relaxing its terms. India has...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam on Monday said that the highest security measures would be taken to ensure a smooth celebration of Christmas Day and the new...
Building on its commitment to carbon neutrality in its operations by 2030 and announced intention to exit the new-build coal power market, GE (NYSE: GE) on Monday shared its position...
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others," wrote George Orwell in his allegorical novella Animal Farm nearly eight decades ago. The quote still holds true...
Bangladesh Bank has purged 36 audit firms from the list of those eligible to audit listed and non-listed banks and financial institutions. The central bank has published the updated list...
A court in Cox’s Bazar on Monday accepted the charge sheet against 15 people, including former OC of Teknaf police station Pradip Kumar Das, over the murder case of retired...
A significant improvement in Bangladesh's Cigarette Tax Scorecard produced and released by the Tobacconomics, a US-based research initiative, is certainly salubrious. An improvement from a score of 0.87 in 2014...
A slew of countries closed their borders to Britain on Monday over fears of a highly infectious new coronavirus strain, heightening global panic, causing travel chaos and raising the prospect...
Today's life is inconceivable without mobile phones. The handsets have meanwhile reached every home in most countries of the world. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) reports that in November 2020,...
On the day of the independence of Pakistan on 14th August, 1947, East Bengal, its eastern wing, saw no spontaneous jubilation. To the average people in Dhaka, the day was...
The rapid spread of a new variant of coronavirus in the United Kingdom has been blamed for the introduction of strict tier four mixing rules for millions of people, harsher...
As Bangladesh is approaching the milestone of becoming a middle-income country, donors are gradually shifting their priorities. Traditional fundings from bilateral and multilateral sources are drying up triggering a need...
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