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As of Monday, more than 110,000 US restaurants have completely closed amid the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, according to the National Restaurant Association. "The vast majority of permanently closed restaurants were...
A comprehensive report into the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings in which 51 Muslim worshippers were slaughtered sheds new light on how the gunman was able to elude detection by authorities...
US Embassy in Dhaka has announced the application period for the Community College Initiative (CCI) Programme 2021-2022, according to a statement issued on Tuesday. Bangladeshi undergraduate students from the first...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a 50-million US dollar loan to help restore the economic activities of microenterprises in Bangladesh, which have been severely affected by the coronavirus...
Police and businessmen have clashed at a market in Gulistan’s Fulbaria as Dhaka South City Corporation or DSCC began a drive to oust 911 illegal shops. The protesting traders of...
It’s about a decade since green lending began in Bangladesh aligning the country with the global progression of climate financing. By the end of the 2000s, large-scale local industries were...
India reported 26,567 new coronavirus infections, data from the health ministry showed on Tuesday, the lowest daily increase since July 10, according to a Reuters tally. Daily cases have been...
Two Bangladeshi nationals were shot dead by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Betna border in Haripur upazila of Thakurgaon district early Tuesday. The deceased were identified as...
A man, who was undergoing treatment at Khulna Medical College Hospital for dengue, died on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Zakir Hossain, 50, a resident of Zianagar in Pirojpur...
BMW has developed a data hub with Amazon’s cloud computing division, in a sign of how companies are increasingly using “big data” to try to boost efficiency. “We want to...
Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old grandmother, on Tuesday became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine shot outside of a trial as Britain began vaccinating its...
England’s One-Day International series against South Africa has been postponed amid concerns over the mental and physical health of the players, Cricket South Africa (CSA) and the England and Wales...
A Kushtia court has remanded four arrestees in police custody in a case of vandalising the sculpture of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the city. Senior Judicial Magistrate Enamul Haque...
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has proposed Tk 848.62 million funds only for consultancy services to construct a steel arch bridge over the Brahmaputra river in Mymensingh, according to...
Britain will start rolling out the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech on Tuesday, the first Western country to start vaccinating its general population in what was hailed as...
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming expressed China’s interest in working with the government of Bangladesh in the production and distribution of vaccines to address the Covid-19 pandemic. He said...
Japan plans to boost its tumbling birth rate by funding artificial intelligence matchmaking schemes to help residents find love. From next year it will subsidise local governments already running or...
Three bridges —one in Sunamganj and two in Gaibandha — have been lying unused for two years due to lack of approach roads. In Sunamganj’s Jamalganj, the bridge over the...
The filming of a biopic on Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is set to begin from January 2021, which was previously postponed due to the ongoing Covid-19...
Two trucks have collided head-on in Tangail Sadar Upazila, leaving at least five people dead and another injured. The incident occurred on the Dhaka-Tangail Bangabandhu Bridge highway in the Badekoya...
Stocks witnessed mixed trends in early trading on Tuesday as cautious investors opted for booking some profit on sector-wise stocks. Following the previous five days’ gain, the Dhaka Stock Exchange...
The government has asked nine state-owned sugar mills to start crushing of sugarcane for producing sugar during the current season. The ministry of industries (MoI) has already asked the authority...
Bangladesh and India are set to reopen train services, both freight and passenger, on the Chilahati-Haldibari route, after 55 years of suspension. Prime Ministers of Bangladesh and India will inaugurate...
Consumers will get cash prize on invoices by purchasing goods from the shops or outlets having Electronic Fiscal Devices (EFDs). Every month some 101 consumers will get the opportunity through...
The board of directors of Miracle Industries Ltd has recommended only a 1.0 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2020. The final approval of the...
The government is now desperate to source rice from the global market as its domestic procurement drive has almost fallen flat. Directorate General of Food (DGoF) has already completed the...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said that the United Nations' statement on Bhasan Char Rohingya relocation was undesirable as they were provided with the details of the island....
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has scrapped tax rebate facility on import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by the Petrobangla. The NBR's VAT Policy Wing issued a directive on...
The United States on Monday imposed financial sanctions and a travel ban on 14 Chinese officials over their alleged role in Beijing’s disqualification last month of elected opposition legislators in...
The World Economic Forum’s annual gathering of political and business leaders will move from Switzerland to Singapore next year as the COVID-19 pandemic would make it challenging to host the...
A trans-border passenger train service connecting Dhaka and the Indian city of Siliguri would be launched in March next year. The decision was finalised during a meeting between Railway Minister...
Some 1,947 film, radio and television artistes, technologists and concerned employees got Tk 2,500 each as a donation from the Prime Minister’s Relief and Welfare Fund during the coronavirus outbreak....
Bob Dylan has sold his entire catalogue of more than 600 songs spanning six decades to Universal Music Group’s music publishing arm, the company said on Monday. The deal includes...
BNP has described the government’s decision to shut down production in six state-owned sugar mills as inhumane and shortsighted The party also urged the government to resume threshing sugarcanes there...
It is quite befitting that Bangladesh signs its first ever preferential trade agreement (PTA) with the country that recognised it as an independent and sovereign nation before any other state...
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said the relocation of Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char will have no negative impact on repatriation efforts. "We’ve made this arrangement for a short...
The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has finally initiated a move to set the price of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) at the consumer level. “We’ve already started a process following...
Over the past four decades almost all advanced economies have become more polarized, with increasingly unequal income distributions. Developing economies lifted billions of people out of poverty, but in the...
The death toll from a head-on collision between a bus and two autorickshaws in Habiganj's Nabiganj Upazila reached eight. Another 10 people were injured in the accident that took place...
A lot of educated people may detect a resemblance between the start of relocation of 100,000 Rohingya refugees to Bhashan Char and a similar episode in ManikBandyopadhyay's novel 'Padma NodirMajhi'....
In this age of internet, gifted people can draw society's attention instantly. In the 1920s and early 1930s the radio was the wonderful medium that could instantly reach the farthest...
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) on Monday demanded a new stimulus package to pay workers’ wages amid the second wave of Covid-19. BGMEA President Dr Rubana Huq...
The world has been grappling with the deadliest pandemic of the century, and Bangladesh is badly affected. As of December 05, 2020, some 475,879 cases (#24 in the world) have...
The Cabinet on Monday decided to store all government data at the 300 Tera byte capacity Kaliakair Data Centre under the ICT Division. It will have a backup in Jashore...
China’s State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday he hoped and believed that US policy on China could eventually “return to objectivity and rationality”. China’s relations with...
The cabinet on Monday approved in principle a draft of the ‘Jatiya Muktijoddha Council Act-2020’ incorporating a provision to enable the commission to recommend the government to publish a list...
Ivermectin has shown promise against Covid-19 in a clinical trial and patients receiving a five-day course of ivermectin have shown an early viral clearance and improvements of blood biomarkers compared...
Maksons Group will invest US $112 million to set up three textile and chemical industries at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpa Nagar at Mirsarai of Sitakundu in Chattogram. The proposed...
At least six people were killed and 15 others were injured in a head-on collision between a bus and an autorickshaw in Nabiganj Upazila of Habiganj district The accident took...
Police in northern India have arrested 10 men for allegedly compelling women to change their religion after getting married, using a new anti-conversion law popularly called the "Love Jihad" law,...
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