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India won the third one-day international (ODI) match by 13 runs against Australia at the Manuka Oval on Wednesday avoiding a clean sweep in the series with all-rounder Hardik Pandya’s...
This year is underway to be the second hottest on record, behind 2016, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday. Five data sets currently place 2020, a year characterised...
Constituted and run as the country's central bank under the purview of Bangladesh Bank Ordinance 1972, Bangladesh Bank (BB) serves as the supervisory cum controlling authority of the nation's banking...
The Global Rights Index 2020 pointed out violence, mass dismissals and regressive laws for the worst situation in Bangladesh. The country has once again been ranked among the 10 worst...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Disability Alliance on SDGs Bangladesh Wednesday urged for inclusion of the disability in the 8th Five-Year Plan. The appeal came at a workshop titled...
The police have removed a suspicious bag from near an annex building of the US embassy in Dhaka. The bomb disposal unit of the police found a tin can wrapped...
The European Union criticised Britain's rapid approval of Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, saying its own procedure was more thorough after Britain became the first western country to...
Covid-19 is dramatically widening a global divide that was evident long before the current crisis. Only some countries have been able to cover the costs of the pandemic and lockdowns...
There prevails a dilemma between exporters and importers. Exporters want cash payment, while importers want to make delayed payments. There are, inter alia, two markets -- sellers' market and buyers'...
The government has approved a proposal to import 50,000 tonnes of parboiled non-Basmati rice from India in the year 2020-21 through international quotation. Additional Cabinet Secretary Abu Saleh Mostafa Kamal...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has urged all to refrain from organising processions, rallies and any mass gathering in the metropolitan area without taking its prior permission for the sake of...
Facebook-backed cryptocurrency Libra has been rebranded "Diem" in a renewed effort to gain regulatory approval by stressing the project's independence. Plans for Libra, first floated by Facebook last year, were...
Five Bangladeshi seamen, who had been held hostage by Houthi rebels in Yemen's capital Sana’a since February this year, will soon return home through India. State Minister for Foreign Affairs...
Speakers at a meeting on Wednesday underscored the need for engagement of vulnerable communities in the process of combating HIV virus infection in the country. They also suggested creating awareness...
The government has decided to follow the direct procurement method (DPM) for procuring the vaccines for the Covid-19 considering it as a matter of urgent state necessity. The Cabinet Committee...
The month-long online book fair has started in the port city. Eminent educationist Professor Anupam Sen inaugurated the book fair at the hall of Chattogram Academy at Momin Road in...
At least 486 people were killed and 741 others injured in some 443 road accidents in November, according to a study by a passenger welfare association. Besides, at least 52...
Online marketplace evaly.com.bd has provided jerseys for physically-challenged para footballers ahead of the Bangabandhu Para Football Championship-2020. The jerseys were officially distributed among the players and coaches of each team...
People living in areas with where COVID-19 is spreading should always wear masks in shops, workplaces and schools that lack adequate ventilation, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday....
The Interpol has warned that organised criminal networks could be targeting COVID-19 vaccines, and could look to sell fake shots. The global police co-ordination agency, which is headquartered in France,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has taken the family of Shampa Khatun, a child in Jamalpur who was compelled to work as a rickshaw-van puller, under her wing. Shampa, a fourth-grader...
No woman sued perpetrators of domestic violence at the court of chief judicial magistrates in keeping with the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act, in 10 years after enactment of...
Japanese automotive group Nissan is to set up a new regional business unit for Africa as it seeks to boost manufacturing capacity and penetrate one of the world’s biggest undeveloped...
Some 2,000 casual agriculture labourers from northern Kurigram district have received an insurance payout of Tk 2,700 each, distributors said on Wednesday. This, they believe, would contribute to compensating them...
The high level of lead in toys is exposing children to health hazards as it can be inhaled easily, experts say. They have called for immediate research and action from...
Akbar Ali, the latest sensation of Bangladesh cricket who led the under-19 team to the world cup title, was a mere eight-and-a-half-year-old boy in May 2010. Looking back further by...
Bangladesh has recorded 2,198 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 469,423. The death toll surged to 6,713 after 38...
Stocks extended the gaining streak for two straight sessions on Wednesday as optimistic investors continued their buying spree on large-cap issues amid optimism. DSEX, the key index of the Dhaka...
The stage is set for the development of the deep sea Matarbari Port Development Project (MPDP) in Bangladesh. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has agreed to provide US$ 25.4...
Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL) has been awarded the prestigious Bank of the Year 2020 Bangladesh by The Banker, an English-language monthly international financial affairs publication. The virtual award programme was...
A court has issued an arrest order for Baul singer Rita Dewan who is facing charges of hurting religious sentiments in a case under the Digital Security Act. Bangladesh Cyber...
A Dhaka court has sentenced seven people to death in a case filed over the murder and burning of the body of freedom fighter and Awami League leader Atiqullah Chowdhury...
Some 84 per cent of resorts in the Maldives have been granted permission to reopen by the Ministry of Tourism since July, local media reported on Wednesday. Tourism Ministry statistics...
US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday that economic activity has continued to recover from its depressed second-quarter level, but momentum has slowed down in recent months. Noting that...
China successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon’s surface on Tuesday in a historic mission to retrieve lunar surface samples, Chinese state media reported. China launched its Chang’e-5 probe on...
Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for use and said that it will be rolled out from early next week....
The United Nations has said Rohingyas must be able to make a free and informed decision on relocation to Bhasan Char based upon relevant, accurate and updated information. "The United...
In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the industrial city of Gazipur near the capital Dhaka, Bangladesh will develop a wastewater and sludge treatment system with private sector participation in two of its...
US President Donald Trump’s reshaping of the federal judiciary has done little to help him win lawsuits challenging the election outcome, with Trump appointees rebuffing him and the US Supreme...
In order to understand global poverty better and how people's radical choices worsen the issue, ‘Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of The Way To Fight Global Poverty’ by Nobel laureates...
Real Madrid’s Champions League hopes are hanging in the balance after they lost 2-0 at Shakhtar Donetsk on Tuesday, leaving them third in Group B with one round of games...
A low-key Rash festival at Dublar Char in the Sundarbans has ended with Hindus taking a holy bath in the nearby salty waters of the Bay of Bengal on Monday...
Nearly 37,000 Americans died of coronavirus (Covid-19) in November, the most in any month since the dark early days of the pandemic, engulfing families in grief, filling newspaper obituary pages...
Singapore has given US start-up Eat Just the greenlight to sell its lab-grown chicken meat, in what the firm says is the world’s first regulatory approval for so-called clean meat...
The IPO subscription of Lovello Ice Cream, an ice cream brand of Taufika Foods and Agro Industries, is set to open on January 3, 2021, aiming to raise Tk 300...
India may not need to vaccinate all of its 1.3 billion people if it manages to inoculate a critical mass and break the transmission of the coronavirus, senior government officials...
Bangladesh has missed about 50 per cent of tests for HIV in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This year the country tested over 0.5 million people instead of 1.0...
Construction of the proposed LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) terminal at Matarbari deep-sea port hits a snag due to dilly-dallying in selecting a partner for executing the project efficiently. The delay...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is failing to realise some Tk 62 billion import duty that is stuck with 15,777 pending cases, officials have said. The huge sum is...
Potters in Netrokona’s Kalmakanda have been facing hard times, as they cannot earn as before for a decent living. Prices of clay soil, the raw material in making pots, have...
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