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US drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said on Wednesday that documents related to development of their Covid-19 vaccine had been “unlawfully accessed” in a cyberattack on Europe’s medicines...
India’s antitrust body on Wednesday conducted raids at offices of UltraTech Cement and two subsidiaries of the world’s largest cement maker LafargeHolcim, two sources close to the matter told Reuters....
Stocks on both the bourses witnessed an upward trend in the early trading on Thursday as bargain hunters were showing their buying binge on sector-wise issues amid positive expectation. Following...
The stock market regulator has approved the IPO (initial public offering) proposal of Sonali Life Insurance Ltd which will raise a capital worth Tk190 million under the fixed price method....
The PKSF’s Prosperity programme’s multidimensional interventions is addressing poverty and its causes in a sustainable way, Abdur Rouf Talukder, Senior Secretary, Finance Division, Ministry of Finance has said. He said...
The country's telecommunication regulator has taken a move to bring local assembling and manufacturing of telecommunication service related equipment other than mobile handsets under its licensing authority. The Bangladesh Telecommunication...
Facebook could be forced to sell its prized assets WhatsApp and Instagram after the US Federal Trade Commission and nearly every US state filed lawsuits against the social media company,...
The introduction of antigen-based kits for testing coronavirus has hardly made any visible progress in boosting the number of tests in the country even as both infections and fatalities from...
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Wednesday that she expects an IMF programme that freezes payments on IMF debt from the poorest countries to be extended through...
Indian ONGC Videsh Ltd has planned to drill two exploratory wells in two separate offshore blocks in the next drilling season starting from October 2021. It is preparing to drill...
Britain’s medicine regulator said anyone with a history of anaphylaxis to a medicine or food should not get the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, giving fuller guidance on an earlier allergy warning...
The tenure of VAT Online Project (VOP) has been extended by another six months as the majority of its work remained unimplemented, the revenue board chief said on Wednesday. The...
As much as 90 per cent extreme-poor families have a paltry monthly income of Tk 2,000 (US$23.80). The World Bank (WB) considers an individual living on or below $1.25 per...
The ready-made garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh is thriving. It provides a huge job market for both skilled and unskilled professionals. Some of these skilled jobs include high paying management...
With the aim of improving entrepreneurial skills of the students, the most anticipated event of the year for the students of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU)-- promotional activities of TrailBlazer 3.0 ...
Finding a fulfilling career is one of the keys to a happy life. In Bangladesh, young minds tend to choose fields of study owing to the pressure created by parents,...
The government is going to build relief warehouses in 500 upazilas each across the country to speed up relief distribution during any natural disaster. State Minister for Disaster Management and...
Bangladesh has assured the international community of improved living conditions and security for the Rohingya refugees who are being relocated to the Bhasan Char island from the camps in Cox’s...
This is no jailbreak but in essence a similar act by juveniles confined to a correction centre. As many as eight boys of the now infamous JashoreShishuUnnayan Kendra ran out...
The World Bank's latest report says more than half of Bangladesh's poor households will live in urban areas soon even though 8 in 10 poor currently live in rural areas....
A country is classified as a least developed country (LDC) by the United Nations (UN) based on its statuses of poverty, human resource weaknesses and economic vulnerabilities. The Istanbul Programme...
Rich nations, home to 14 per cent of the global population, have acquired 53 per cent of the total stock of the most-promising Covid-19 vaccines as of last month, said...
A cylinder-like bomb weighing 250 kg was found on Wednesday afternoon while digging for construction of the third terminal at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka. HSIA Deputy Director...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday stressed the need for robust international climate coalitions to reduce the carbon emission effectively and save the future generations. “I would like to underscore...
Input Output Coefficient shows Value Added Tax (VAT) officials the quantity of raw materials needed (wastage included) for production of each unit of a product. There are provisions for filing...
Before Covid-19, travel and tourism had become one of the most important sectors in the world economy, accounting for 10 per cent of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and more...
The Covid-19 pandemic will leave the US economy with a deeply scarred labor market. More than 20 million jobs have been lost during the crisis, and only half have been...
As many as 101 Bangladeshi citizens, who were working at a factory of Bangladeshi readymade garment manufacturer DBL Group in Ethiopia, have returned home due to security concerns over the...
The High Court on Wednesday asked the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) to submit a report by January 03 next year detailing progress in investigation into complaints of money laundering against...
Greenhouse gas emissions reached a new high last year, putting the world on track for an average temperature rise of 3.0 degrees Celsius, a UN report showed on Wednesday. The...
Despite calls for ceasefires and compassion amid the coronavirus pandemic, violence and persecution have continued to force people from their homes, with record numbers now displaced, says the United Nations....
A full recovery of the economy from the coronavirus crisis is still uncertain as more than half the funds from stimulus package for the cottage, micro, small and medium enterprises...
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC) in Bangladesh has launched the second edition of the ‘HSBC Business Excellence Awards’. The programme aims to recognise and honour business enterprises...
Britain’s medicine regulator has advised that people with a history of significant allergic reactions do not get Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine after two people reported adverse effects on the first day...
BNP vice chairman and former minister Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf died of coronavirus at a city hospital on Wednesday. He was 80. Chowdhury breathed his last around 1:15 pm at...
Flight operations at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport resumed after six hours of suspension on Wednesday morning due to poor visibility caused by dense fog. A number of flights were diverted...
Five people were killed in a helicopter crash in the French Alps on Tuesday and a sixth was injured and fighting for his life, French President Emmanuel Macron said. The...
The value of global merchandise trade is predicted to fall by 5.6 per cent in 2020 compared with last year, according to UNCTAD's latest nowcasts. This would be the biggest...
The government has approved a proposal to import another 50,000 tonnes of non-basmati parboiled rice from an Indian supplier. Additional Cabinet Secretary Abu Saleh Mostafa Kamal announced the purchase in...
The coronavirus pandemic has slowed efforts to make safer the often hazardous job of dismantling old ships in Bangladesh, officials said, following the latest worker fatality. Covid-19 temporarily shuttered ship-breaking...
A subsidiary of the state-owned Janata Bank in New York, which lost $603,947 equivalent to Tk 51 million sometime before February 2020, is yet to recover the money allegedly stolen...
Bangladesh has registered 2,159 new cases of the coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 484,104, reports bdnews24.com. The death toll surged to...
BNP leaders Khaleda Zia, Tarique Rahman and Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir are named in a complaint filed with a Dhaka court over the vandalism of Bangabandhu's sculpture and inciting the...
The Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase on Wednesday approved the proposal of a Chinese-Bangladeshi consortium to set up a 55 MW wind power plant on build-own-operate basis at Mongla in...
Stocks rebounded in the gaining streak on Wednesday, after a single-day break, as bargain hunters showed their buying binge on sector-wise issues amid positive expectation. DSEX, the key index of...
An experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) has 86 per cent efficacy, the health ministry of the United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday, citing an interim...
India's government will consider amending reforms that have sparked protests by farmers fearing the end of guaranteed crop prices but it will not abandon the plan, a government official said...
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi on Wednesday called upon the country's businesses to take opportunities of the Public investment Facility for Infrastructure Constraints (PIFIC) to increase the export volume in the...
More than 68 million people have been infected with coronavirus (Covid-19) globally and over 1.5 million of them died since the first cases were reported in December last year, according...
Nine out of 10 people in dozens of poor nations could miss out on getting vaccinated against coronavirus (Covid-19) next year because rich countries have hoarded far more doses than...
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