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The flow of inward remittances reached $10.90 billion in the first five months of the current fiscal year (FY 2020-21), registering an increase of more than 41 per cent, despite...
The fate of the home-grown Covid-19 vaccine 'Bangavax', which was initially called 'Bancovid', has become uncertain due to procedural complexities in developing clinical trial protocols, officials have said. The Globe...
The taxmen are not accepting the financial statements of corporate taxpayers if those are not accompanied by the document verification codes (DVCs) given by the ICAB. A decision to this...
Confession to the crime by the man who used gold smuggling as a means to becoming filthy rich within a few years should no longer surprise the public. A public...
Globe Biotech has ended a Memorandum of Understanding with International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh or icddr,b on trials of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by the Bangladeshi drugmaker....
In the wake of a probable second wave of corona virus infections in the country, there are apprehensions that the economy would face a tough time with small businesses and...
Experts are not willing to relate any change in the Covid-19 infection rate to seasonal variations. However, compared to last month's situation when the infection rate saw a relative decline,...
Two thirds of the world’s school-age children – or 1.3 billion children aged 3 to 17 years old – do not have internet connection in their homes, according to a...
I have written a lot in the past about the desirability of the European Union issuing perpetual bonds. But today I am proposing that individual member states should do so....
Italy’s antitrust authority has fined Apple 10 million euros ($12 million) for ‘aggressive and misleading’ commercial practices regarding its iPhones. The regulator said in a statement on Monday the company...
Wealth begets wealth. This simple concept of privilege has added to growing discontent with inequality that has escalated under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. A paper co-authored this year...
Bangladesh will be going to COP26 to be held in Glasgow next November with a high hope that the UK, as a host of this event, will be working very...
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police said they have information that the employees of two airlines are involved in trafficking people from Bangladesh. The CID declined to name the...
Bangladesh will not fall into the so-called debt trap due to its borrowing from China or India, Foreign Minister Dr AK Momen said on Tuesday. Many critics argue that since...
Exploitation of Bangladesh’s marine resources may result in loss of bio-diversity and exclusion of coastal communities unless issues of rights and environment are addressed, a panel of inter-state civic groups...
20 new dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours until Monday morning amid a spike in the mosquito-borne disease in the country. The health authorities said 94 dengue patients are...
Admission tests in 19 general and science and technology universities for the academic year 2020-2021 will be held under a cluster system. The tests will be held on Humanities, Commerce...
India is considering a plan to build a 10 gigawatts (GW) hydropower project in a remote eastern state, an Indian official said on Tuesday, following reports that China could construct...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Tuesday cleared four development projects, including Tk 6.93 billion (Tk 693-crore) one to install the third submarine cable. The submarine...
eGeneration, a leading system integration and software solutions company in Bangladesh, announced successful go-live implementation of SAP for UNIGAS, a concern of Unitex group. The event was held in The Westin Hotel,...
Grameenphone has struck a deal with telecommunications infrastructure services company edotco Bangladesh to establish more than 500 towers to ensure connectivity to users. The new towers will expand access to...
BDCSO Process, a forum of around 700 national Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), placed its declaration, containing 22 demands, in a virtual press conference yesterday. The declaration...
US President-elect Joe Biden will formally introduce his top economic policy advisers on Tuesday as his administration prepares to take power amid a slowing economic recovery hampered by the resurgent...
A bill requiring Iran’s government to step up uranium enrichment closer to the level needed for a nuclear weapon, and ignore other restraints on its nuclear programme agreed with major...
A powerful new telescope in outback Australia has mapped vast areas of the universe in record-breaking time, revealing a million new galaxies and opening the way to new discoveries, the...
Stocks ended higher on Tuesday, the first trading day of the December month, as bargain hunters showed a buying spree on lucrative issues. DSEX, the key index of the Dhaka...
Bangladesh has recorded 2,293 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 467,225. The death toll surged to 6,675 after 31...
Noting that the new Covid-19 infections declined globally for the first time since September, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged people to deal with the things with ‘extreme caution’. Updating...
Asian factories continued to recover steadily in November thanks to a boom in economic powerhouse China, private surveys showed on Tuesday, offering hope the region was shaking off the drag...
The students of Patuakhali Science and Technology University (PSTU) demonstrated against the ongoing recruitment process at the university on Tuesday. The students under the banner of ‘Sacheton Sikharthi and nagorikbrindo’...
China will build a ‘super’ dam on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo river close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Tibet, a state media report said...
Detectives have seized a consignment of 50,000 yaba pills at Jatrabari area of Dhaka while being carried the drugs after purchasing it from Cox’s Bazar. They also arrested three drug...
The cruise industry in China is coming back to life as routes to the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea will resume in December on a trial basis, following...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has stayed the High Court order asking the authorities concerned of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd to provide Tk 0.5 million...
Moderna Inc applied for US and European emergency authorisation of its Covid-19 vaccine based on full results from a late-stage study showing its vaccine was 94.1 per cent effective with...
Bitcoin soared to a record high against the dollar on Monday, as its 2020 rally steamed ahead, boosted by increased demand from both institutional and retail investors that saw the...
Two people were killed and another injured when an oil tanker hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Faridganj-Raiganj road at Chatura area in Faridganj upazila of Chandpur district on Tuesday. The...
Bangladesh has cancelled all open-air events for Victory Day celebrations amid a surge in coronavirus cases and deaths. People will be allowed to hold events indoors to celebrate Victory Day,...
China has provided North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his family with an experimental coronavirus vaccine, a US analyst said on Tuesday, citing two unidentified Japanese intelligence sources. Harry...
A record 235 million people will need humanitarian assistance next year, a near-40 per cent increase on 2020 which is "almost entirely from Covid-19," the UN's emergency relief chief said...
Forest officials have built a unique bridge for reptiles and other small animals to cross a busy highway in India's mountainous Uttarakhand state. The 90-foot (27-metre) "Eco Bridge", made from...
A Natore court on Tuesday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for killing his wife for dowry, three months after getting married in 2017. The convict Rubel Hossain was...
A life imprisonment convict will have to serve 30 years in jail, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has said in a verdict. But, in case of imprisonment until...
Emirates has been named as the World’s Leading Airline in three major categories at the World Travel Awards 2020: World’s Leading Economy Class, Airline Rewards Programme and Airline Lounge -...
The Supreme Court (SC) cause-list app has been made available on the Apple App Store, according to a top court statement issued on Tuesday. The app provides a user-friendly interface...
Moderna said on Monday (US standard time) it has applied for US emergency authorisation for its Covid-19 vaccine after full results from a late-stage study showed it was 94.1 per...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs started its "Bangabandhu Lecture Series" on Tuesday morning, marking the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Former Finance Minister and...
Department of Japanese Studies (DJS), University of Dhaka, has launched an online learning platform for its students, according to a university statement issued on Monday. The DJS is the first...
The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for Covid-19, the illness caused by the...
As mobile phones have become part and parcel of our everyday life, living without them or with damaged ones is no more an option. And so since the advent of...
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