The six sugar mills, out of 15 under Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation (BSFIC), will not crush sugarcanes this year. However, these mills will purchase sugarcanes supplied by the...
William, Queen Elizabeth's grandson and second-in-line to the throne, and Kate are travelling 1,250 miles across England, Scotland and Wales on board the Royal Train as part of their three-day...
The International Organization for Migration (IOM), in collaboration with Cox's Bazar district administration, has opened a new health clinic for veteran freedom fighters in Cox's Bazar. Some of the freedom...
President-elect Joe Biden will nominate California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for secretary of health and human services as soon as Monday, a source familiar with the decision said, as he...
Field-level officials have suggested the government to engage commercial, industrial and non-political organisations to motivate people to mask up as Bangladesh has started seeing an increased number of Covid-19 cases...
Detectives in a drive arrested a young man along with 27,600 Yaba tablets from Malibagh Chowdhurypara in the city on Sunday night. The arrestee is Mohammad Shakil, 19. Tipped off,...
A Dhaka court on Monday asked the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to submit a report within January 7 after investing the cases filed against three people, including Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh...
Bangladesh has recorded 2,198 new cases of the coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 479,743. The death toll surged to 6,874 after...
A month-long training course on Jute goods manufacturing began at the Porabasti Slum of Mirpur on Saturday. The initiative has been undertaken by a local NGO, SPACE to commercially manufacture...
France, Britain and Germany said on Monday they were “deeply concerned” by an Iranian announcement that it intended to install additional advanced uranium-enriching centrifuges and a parliamentary law that could...
A few weeks ago, Mukteshwar Kalo, a member of the Kondh tribe in eastern India, suddenly came down with a fever, cough and aches. Nearly anywhere else, these symptoms would...
India reported 32,981 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, data from the federal health ministry showed on Monday. Cumulative cases now total 9.68 million, the second-highest tally in...
Scoring in a top-flight game is deemed hard, continuing it is deemed harder, and scoring winners week in, week out is deemed the hardest. And players like Cristiano Ronaldo and...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is ready to pull out of Brexit talks unless the European Union agrees to budge on its demands, The Sun newspaper reported on Monday. “Today...
Two cases have been filed against three people including Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh Chief Junaid Babunagari for their remark opposing the establishment of the sculpture of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. President of...
Education Minister Dr. Dipu Moni has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (Covid-19), officials confirmed the FE. The minister is doing well without experiencing any visible complications, Public Relation Officer...
Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board has said that the country's tourist arrivals in January to September this year had slumped 78.6 per cent to 4.3 million from 20.1 million a year...
At least one person has died and 227 have been hospitalised by an unidentified illness in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh. The patients had a wide range of symptoms...
The High Court (HC) on Monday asked the authorities concerned to take measures to ensure the security of all sculptures of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman across the country. The HC...
The digital land management activities of the whole of Bangladesh will be monitored through the Land Service Digitization Monitoring Cell, Land Secretary Md. Muksodur Rahman Patwary said. This was stated...
Farmers in six districts of the country’s south-western region — Jashore, Jhenidah, Magura, Kushtia, Chuadanga and Meherpur — are busy cultivating and caring for winter vegetables. Many of them, already...
The number of global coronavirus (Covid-19) cases has crossed 67 million, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU). According to the data compiled by JHU, the total caseload globally reached 67,009,962...
The share price of Islami Insurance Bangladesh Limited is soaring without having any undisclosed price sensitive information. The non-life insurer’s share price more than doubled within three months to close...
The United States is preparing to impose sanctions on at least a dozen Chinese officials over their alleged role in Beijing’s disqualification of elected opposition legislators in Hong Kong, according...
Farmers in Netrakona’s haor (wetland) area are yet to be able to sow their Boro paddy seeds for seedling transplantation due to a slow recession in water there. They say...
Stocks on both the bourses witnessed an upward trend in the early trading on Monday as enthusiastic investors continued their buying binge on sector-specific large-cap issues amid optimism. Following the...
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) on Sunday launched a technology centre styled as 'Tech C' to support SMEs and start-ups in enabling technology in their...
All the under-construction and proposed coal-fired power plant projects in the country are behind schedule, resulting in uncertainty over their completion on time. It has been alleged that the delay...
Share prices of Dominage Steel Building Systems continued to soar as its share jumped 9.78 per cent further on Sunday riding on investors' 'irrational hype' over the new issue. The...
The adverse purchasing practices, delayed payments, lower price offers and less work orders by global buyers might force a good number of suppliers out of business, industry people fear. A...
Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine producer by volume, has sought emergency use authorisation in the country for AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine on Sunday, according to several reports in...
Some big companies would go public as a few of those were waiting for necessary approval and others taking preparation. Presently, a good number of companies such as Union Bank,...
The absence of a specific method in the VAT rules has made it difficult for the taxmen to freeze bank accounts of non-compliant businesses, deepening fear of the potential legal...
Banks are going to face substantial pressure originating from an ever-bulging defaulted loans in the next years as the regulatory support in this particular area is due to expire by...
A writ petition was filed with the High Court (HC) on Sunday seeking security of all sculptures including those of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman across the country, reports UNB. Supreme...
There are few children who do not feel delighted on being given toys as gift. Affluent parents buy their kids the latest versions of toys. The children of not-so-rich parents...
At long last the first batch of 1,642 Rohingya refugees could be relocated to Bhasan Char from their crammed shanties in camps of Cox's Bazar. Not many including the UN...
Most businesses have gone through a tough time since the start of the pandemic in March this year. They are, however, not out of the woods though economic activities have...
A power system ‘hiccup’ at an office of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) in Dhaka has left around 30,000 government websites inaccessible. The problem in the power system of the...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said defamation of sculpture of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who is the architect of independent Bangladesh, is a severe blow to the root...
Accusing the government of ‘conspiring’ to destabilise the country to cling to power, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday cautioned his party colleagues not to take any...
Remittances are a large source of foreign exchange receipts of the country. Since all remittances in foreign exchange have to be surrendered to Bangladesh Bank in exchange for taka, and...
The evolving dynamics within the post-Brexit EU and the new US Biden Administration will need to take into account the growing influence of China in the African continent. The paradigm...
New Zealand completed the first step of its mission for the home summer when it beat the West Indies by an innings and 134 runs Sunday on the fourth morning...
This was supposed to be the year Europe and Africa redefined their relationship. In March, the European Commission unveiled its vision for a "comprehensive strategy with Africa," intended to kick-start...
Former Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza is finally set to make a comeback to competitive cricket after a long gap of nine months as Gemcon Khulna picked him up for...
Beximco Dhaka scored their third win in a row beating Gazi Group Chattogram by seven runs on Sunday at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium. With this win, Dhaka has become...
An understrength Australia has sunk to its third defeat in a row and lost the T20 series to India in straight sets in a thrilling six-wicket loss at the SCG....
Suhaila Siddiq, Afghanistan's only female lieutenant general and one of a small number of women to hold a ministerial post in the country, died in hospital on Friday at the...
Business Tabloid, an international business magazine, has awarded Nagad as the Best Digital Financial Services of 2020, says a press release. Nagad is the digital financial service of Bangladesh Postal...
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