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Petar “Stewie” Stantchev has an arsenal of skateboarding tricks he likes to display on the streets of Barcelona, the sport’s European hotspot. The fact that he is about half the...
Four Bangladeshi players earned one point each from two age groups in the Asian Continental Selection matches of the FIDE Online World Cadet and Youth Rapid Chess (Under-10, 12, 14,...
The government's ongoing skills certification programme-Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)-is hardly getting any response from the returned migrant workers for factors like a lack of publicity. On the other hand,...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has honoured nine top VAT-paying companies on the occasion of the National VAT Day and VAT Week-2020. The companies are Popular Pharmaceuticals, Berger Paints...
India will deploy its vast election machinery to deliver 600 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the most vulnerable people in the next six to eight months through conventional cold...
Two major lenders are expected to provide US$1.0 billion in loans to help Bangladesh procure Covid-19 vaccines, officials said on Friday. Both the World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development...
The country's insurance regulator will come up with its guidelines next year, paving the way for expanding the insurance market through banking channels, according to industry insiders. Insurance Development and...
The US Supreme Court on Friday rejected a long-shot lawsuit by Texas and backed by President Donald Trump seeking to throw out voting results in four states, dealing him a...
Pakistan accused arch-rival India of funding a long-running disinformation campaign against it on Friday and said it would raise the matter in global forums. In making its claim that India...
US health authorities, shipping services and hospitals stood ready on Friday to immediately launch a mass-inoculation campaign of unparalleled dimension, as federal regulators granted emergency approval to the first Covid-19...
Five years on from the Paris Agreement on climate change, the world remains in denial over the actions needed to prevent catastrophic warming, Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg said on...
A tax intelligence team has found that the vast majority of the businesses in Dhaka and Chattogram non-compliant in the matters of VAT (value added tax) payment. According to a...
Covid-19 dedicated hospitals have been struggling to deal with the growing number of critical patients as their ICUs (intensive care units) are getting close to reaching their capacity, officials and...
The global shipping crisis has fuelled freight charges, thus making the country's imported items costlier, businesses said on Friday. Shipping schedules around the world were disrupted by the pandemic, compounded...
In the eyes of global media, Bangladesh is now moving fast on the development highway. The development trajectory of Bangladesh is on the right way and very much inclusive. Tourism...
The World Health Organization said on Friday nearly 1.0 billion doses of leading vaccine candidates had been secured as part of the COVAX programme to provide vaccines for low- and...
A Rohingya woman is seeking $2.0 million in compensation for the death of her husband who was killed by government soldiers during a 2017 military crackdown in western Myanmar, lawyers...
South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk, a controversial figure both for his work and in his personal life, died in Latvia from coronavirus complications on Friday, a Latvian film official said....
With the franchisee bus routes in Dhaka slowly taking a shape, bus owners have also started tagging conditions in exchange for their cooperation. The Bus Route Rationalisation (BRR) Committee, at...
One big issue that is being talked about in business, the academia and every forum concerned about human problems nowadays is the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The subject matter of all...
Bangladesh's economic performance in terms of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been able to maintain a steady growth even in the face of odds over the past few years....
Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline said clinical trials of their COVID-19 vaccine showed an insufficient immune response in older people, delaying its launch to late next year and marking a setback in...
AstraZeneca will start clinical trials to test a combination of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine with Russia's Sputnik V shot aimed at boosting the efficacy of the British drugmaker's vaccine, Russia's...
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is the biggest trade deal in history. This regional block, comprising the 10-member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), China, Japan,...
By awarding the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize to the World Food Programme, the world's largest humanitarian organisation, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has shed the much-needed spotlight on hunger and conflict....
Hong Kong democracy activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 73, has been charged under the city’s national security law on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces, his Apple Daily newspaper...
As mass immunisation programme emerges as the next challenge for nations after development of coronavirus vaccine, the question remains how well Bangladesh is prepared to carry out this task. It...
Israel and Morocco agreed on Thursday to normalise relations in a deal brokered with US help, making Morocco the fourth Arab country to set aside hostilities with Israel in the...
One or two cold waves might sweep through the country's northern, north-eastern and central parts this month, the Met office said in its monthly report. The report said the cold...
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have congratulated Roch Marc Christian Kabore, President of Burkina Faso and Christophe Joseph Marie Dabire, Prime Minister of Burkina Faso respectively on...
Around a million doctors in India went on a day-long strike on Friday amid the coronavirus pandemic to protest against a new federal government rule that allows practitioners of the...
Novartis has received approval from the European Commission for Leqvio, also known as inclisiran, a drug to lower cholesterol that the Swiss drugmaker bought last year in a deal worth...
The French Development Agency AFD has agreed to provide 100 million euros in loan to Bangladesh for the digitalisation of the country’s power and energy sector. The deal aims to...
Razib got a decent job soon after completing his graduation. But the young man was hiding a secret from his employer. He bore a skin condition called 'Psoriasis'. Though not...
A locked-down pandemic-struck world cut its carbon dioxide emissions this year by 7 per cent, the biggest drop ever, new preliminary figures show. The Global Carbon Project, an authoritative group...
Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy has expressed his optimism that Bangladesh will be the key leader of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. “We believe Bangladesh is going to...
Australia cancelled the production of a locally made vaccine against COVID-19 after trials showed it could interfere with HIV diagnosis, with the government instead securing additional doses of rival vaccines....
The Covid-19 death toll surged to 6,986 in Bangladesh after 19 fatalities were registered in the 24 hours to 8:00 am Friday. According to a statement released by the health...
The ability of developing countries in Asia to fight the coronavirus pandemic got a much-needed boost after the Asian Development Bank said on Friday it has launched a $9 billion...
Country’s leading electronics company Walton has declared 12-year warranty on the major part (motor) of its inverter technology washing machines, both top and front-loading variants. It also declared extended warranty...
Under-construction flats in Advanced Police Town can be bought on the e-commerce marketplace Evaly.com.bd. Advanced Development Technologies Ltd (ADTL), one of the country's leading real estate developers, will sell a...
A total of 234 registered teams are set to take part in the country’s first-ever National Cyber Drill (NCD 2020) on Saturday. The teams have already registered from the different...
Facebook has taken action against two separate groups of hackers -- an unnamed group based in Bangladesh and APT32 in Vietnam, the social media giant said in a statement, bdnews24.com...
British actress Barbara Windsor, known for her role as landlady Peggy Mitchell in the soap “EastEnders”, has died aged 83, British media reported on Friday, citing a statement from her...
Some of the rooms in Korea Superfreeze Inc’s coldest warehouse are so frigid that a cup of warm water thrown into one will immediately turn into snow. Located 65 km...
Gazi Group Chattogram beat Fortune Barishal by seven wickets in the Bangabandhu T20 Cup on Thursday at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium riding on an impressive batting performance by Soumya Sarkar.Soumya...
A fire broke out at a plastic factory at Chawkbazar area in the old part of Dhaka city, officials said on Friday. Talking to The Financial Express, Rasel Sikder, duty...
Henry Nicholls battled to his sixth test century and provided the backbone for a New Zealand middle order fightback as his side reached 294-6 at the end of a torrid...
Ignoring corona virus infection, winter clothes trading is going on in full swing in Bogura district as a cold wave is sweeping the area. A good number of people are...
US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were jointly named Time magazine’s 2020 “Person of the Year” on Thursday, chosen from a list of finalists that included the...
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