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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday handed over the prestigious Begum Rokeya Padak to five persons for their outstanding contributions towards the society, women education and women empowerment. Sheikh Hasina...
When the Champions League draw put Barcelona and Juventus in the same group, soccer fans all over the world eagerly awaited the prospect of watching Lionel Messi versus Cristiano Ronaldo...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ranked 39th on the list of the world’s 100 most powerful women of 2020 announced by Forbes on Tuesday. Hasina, the longest-serving prime minister in the...
Stocks witnessed mixed trends in early trading on Wednesday as cautious investors opted for booking some profit on sector-wise issues. Following the previous day’s mild correction, the Dhaka Stock Exchange...
The US health regulatory and research institute CDC has said it was willing to offer Bangladesh its expertise in fixing priority of potential anti-Covid-19 vaccine recipients, fearing the issue to...
Indian Coast Guard on Tuesday rescued 19 Bangladeshi fishermen who were stranded in Indian waters in the Bay of Bengal. The fishermen who started from Cox’s Bazar on November 15,...
Experts during a virtual workshop on Tuesday emphasised safer use of biotechnology to double the crop production within 2030 in order to achieve a sustainable development goal (SDG). They also...
The government has re-appointed Dr Zaid Bakht as chairman at the state-owned Agrani Bank for the next three years. His appointment as chairman of the bank has been made for...
President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday laid out his plan to fight the coronavirus pandemic during his first 100 days in office, saying his administration would vaccinate 100 million Americans, push...
The initial public offering (IPO) lottery draw of Robi Axiata, the largest ever IPO in Bangladesh's capital market history, will be held tomorrow (Thursday). The lottery draw will begin at...
The government will procure 50 per cent of its required jute bags for packaging food grains and fertiliser from private jute millers. Remaining 50 per cent will be purchased from...
Padma Bank Limited, formerly known as Farmers Bank, has sought waiver of a penalty amounting to Tk 1.44 billion imposed by the central bank for its failure to comply with...
At least 36,000 people in America's journalism industry have lost jobs since the spread of the pandemic, according to Columbia Journalism Review. The statistics of job losses or furloughs of...
Lamenting the loss of Dhaka's canals has for long been a subject of news stories --- not just as a manmade havoc on environment but more pathetically as a monstrous...
In the absence of adequate judicial manpower to adjudicate, cases are piling up in the courts. This is adding to the usual delays made in completing the prosecution of a...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh is among the few countries that have experienced one of the worst forms of genocide during the War of Liberation in 1971. The...
A “negative campaign, unrealistic conditions and static position” of the United Nations agencies made it impossible for the government to include them in the relocation of the Rohingya refugees to...
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has underscored the need for providing a special focus on strengthening domestic resource mobilisation in the Eighth Five-Year Plan (8th FYP) to address Covid-19...
Even in these times of Covid-19 came the surprise announcement from Chinese authorities that the war against poverty in China has finally been won. On Nov 23, 2020, Xinhua, the...
Australia's China problem -- official contacts frozen and many of our exports under siege -- is now gaining attention far beyond our shores. Much of the world, given stark evidence...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday the full potential of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) can only realised in an atmosphere free of terrorism and...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said the communal forces will not be given any scope to strengthen footings in the country that attained independence through the nine-month...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday expressed unwillingness to talk about the current sculpture controversy as he thinks it is not an issue for their party. “I...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Monday gave its seal of approval to Citizen Bank Limited, asking the lender to boost paid-up capital to Tk 5.0 billion within two years. The board...
Bangladesh received ‘Best Award’ for outstanding performance and lasting contribution at the 15th Abuja International Trade Fair held on November 24 to December 4 at Abuja in Nigeria. Bangladesh High...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said Saarc has huge prospect to reunite the member states to collectively address the challenges emanating from the Covid-19 pandemic during this unprecedented...
Hundreds of shoppers pack a wet market on a December weekday morning in the Chinese city of Wuhan, jostling to buy fresh vegetables and live fish, frogs and turtles, reports...
Brenton Tarrant, the Australian-born attacker who killed 51 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch in 2019, travelled extensively around the world, including India where he spent nearly three months,...
India captain Virat Kohli’s breezy 85 went in vain as Australia prevailed by 12 runs in the final Twenty20 International to avoid a series whitewash at the Sydney Cricket Ground...
Pacer Kamrul Islam Rabbi became the third Bangladeshi bowler to pick up a T20 hat-trick after fast bowler Al-Amin Hossain and off-spinner Aliss Al Islam. Playing for Fortune Barishal in...
Many Bangladeshis identify bikes or motorcycles as ‘HUNDA’; a mispronunciation of ‘HONDA’- the Japanese automobile brand. Have you ever pondered, why so? This is because Japanese brands have...
Prime Minister’s Private Industry and Investment Adviser Salman Fazlur Rahman on Tuesday expressed enthusiasm for the introduction of ‘Sukuk Bond’ in Bangladesh market as a new investment equipment. “The treasury...
Canadian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Benoit Prefontaine has called for collective voice and actions at all levels possible to help bring about positive change ending gender-based violence globally. "This is...
Four lions at Barcelona Zoo have tested positive for COVID-19, veterinary authorities said on Tuesday, in only the second known case in which large felines have contracted coronavirus. Three females...
An Argentine senator wants to put Diego Maradona on the country’s bank notes and presented a project to Congress on Monday to get the late soccer star and possibly even...
vivo V20: a camera-centric showstopper with industry-leading features and sleek design Are you fond of taking photos and enjoy taking selfies? Do you have a shutterbug inside of you?...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a United States federal agency, has offered its expertise in fixing priority of potential anti-COVID-19 vaccine recipients in Bangladesh, fearing the issue to...
The High Court on Tuesday questioned the legality of a lower court order that granted permanent bail to Toufique Imrose Khalidi, editor-in-chief of online news portal bdnews24.com, in a corruption...
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) demanded strict and impartial implementation of ‘zero tolerance’ policy against corruption in all sectors, including the health sector in the Covid-19 pandemic to offset the socio-economic...
The government will construct a two-storey expressway from Panchabati of Narayanganj to Muktarpur Bridge of Munshiganj with an expenditure of Tk 22.28 billion. The Executive Committee of the National Economic...
The High Court has ordered authorities to take legal steps to punish those who opposed the building of statues and defaced the sculpture of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, reports bdnews24.com....
Bangladesh recorded 32 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths and 2,202 fresh cases in 24 hours. The recovery count rose to 4,01,194 after another 2,571 patients were discharged from the hospitals during...
China and Nepal jointly announced the new height of Mount Everest, known as Mount Qomolangma in China, as 8848.86 metres on Tuesday, ending years of debate over the three-metre difference...
President-elect Joe Biden has chosen retired General Lloyd Austin, who oversaw US forces in the Middle East under President Barack Obama, to be his defence secretary, two people familiar with...
The government has extended the contract of Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam by two years. The Ministry of Public Administration issued an order on Tuesday, extending Islam’s contract for two...
The number of schoolchildren affected by school closures due to the coronavirus pandemic soared by 38 per cent in November, placing significant strain on the learning progress and well-being of...
The government will launch a new financial grant worth US$40 million on Wednesday to help four export-oriented sectors address the infrastructural constraints. The Public Investment Facility for Infrastructure Constraints (PIFIC)...
Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah reappointed Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah as prime minister on Tuesday following parliamentary polls in the Gulf Arab state, which faces its worst economic crisis...
Stocks slipped into the red on Tuesday, snapping a five-day winning streak, as risk-averse investors opted for booking profit on sector-wise issues. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock...
Evaly.com.bd has become a ‘platinum sponsor’ of the 'Digital World-2020', while its concern e-food, the food partner of the opening and closing ceremonies of the exposition that is set to...
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