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The country's energy regulator has suggested a subsidy of 25 per cent on the import price of LPG, or liquefied petroleum gas, for the operators to keep the cost of...
US President Donald Trump has told allies he plans to pardon his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during an investigation...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned that any Covid-19 vaccine could lead to side-effects in some people, as even popular medicines do, and that the government would only go...
Implementation of the proposed Dhaka Metropolitan Detailed Area Plan (2016-2035) may impair Dhaka city by destroying its environment and broadening distance among social classes. Experts on Tuesday said the proposed...
Trading has emerged as the most dominant SME business in Bangladesh followed by manufacturing, according to a latest survey released on Tuesday. The survey said some 69 per cent SMEs...
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) will demolish the historic Kamalapur rail station building in order to accommodate space for mass rapid transit (MRT) line-06. To this end, a coordination meeting of...
Foreign Secretary (FS) Masud Bin Momen is scheduled to visit Delhi on December 9 to join Bangladesh-India FS-level talks, which will mainly focus on the upcoming meeting between the prime...
The government has endorsed four-time higher project cost as the Payra Port Authority (PPA) has failed to acquire required land for seaport infrastructure development in five years. The PPA will...
Most people in Kurigram, home to the largest army of the country's poor, don't know how the borderline of their economic conditions is delineated as the poverty line can never...
Drafting the country's first employment policy aimed at creating 30 million jobs by 2030 was announced months back. The move is a follow-up of one of the very significant election...
Tax evasion by private individuals and multinational corporations is a bane of nations worldwide. Such tax abusers get away with their dishonest practice through legal loopholes as well as with...
LankaBangla Finance Limited recently organised a award giving ceremony titled "Spend More, Win Extra" - Spend Campaign. The campaign ran jointly by LankaBangla Finance Limited and Esquire Electronics Limited from...
Runner became the first Bangladeshi International Motorcycle Brand Winning Superbrands for the year 2020-21. It was announced at a grand online award ceremony recently. Salman Fazlur Rahman, MP, Advisor...
Dr Drew Miller knew his patient had to be moved. The vital signs of the 30-year-old COVID-19 victim were crashing, and Kearny County Hospital in rural Lakin, Kansas, just wasn’t...
Although Covid-19 infections and deaths are surging in many parts of the world, recent announcements of apparently successful vaccine trials have offered a light at the end of the tunnel....
Russia on Tuesday said that the efficacy of its Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine is over 95 per cent and the cost of one dose of the shot for international markets...
A new look at allocation of advances is of critical importance. Almost the entire sum of bank advances is, indeed, debt capital supplied to several categories of entrepreneurs (borrowers) in...
Cambridge University Library has announced that two notebooks written by Charles Darwin, worth many millions of pounds, have been missing for 20 years. One of them contains the 19th Century...
Selling yourself to a recruiter has never before been harder than in the Covid-19 pandemic that has rendered hundreds of millions of people jobless across the world, including Bangladesh. With...
Given the current global pandemic, we are witnessing a digital transformation across the world which will only accelerate the forecasted growth of the IT industry significantly as acknowledged by the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has instructed authorities concerned to take preparations from right now for cold-chain management, stockpiling, supply and proper distribution of Covid-19 vaccines. Sheikh Hasina also asked all...
Faridul Haque Khan Dulal, the lawmaker from Jamalpur-2 constituency, has taken oath as state minister of the government. President Md Abdul Hamid administered the oath for the new state minister...
November 24, 2020, Dhaka: The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) and Oracle have brought cloud technology to Africa to manage public health programs. Initially, Ghana, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone will use the...
A fire broke out at Bihari camp on Babar road in the city's Mohammadpur area on Tuesday. Russel Shikder, Duty Officer of Fire Service and Civil Defence Control room, said...
Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has toppled Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as the world’s second-richest person. Elon Musk overtook Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to become the third-richest only a...
United efforts are needed to stop violence against women in the country, observed speakers at a webinar on Tuesday. They said it is impossible for the government alone to prevent...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) will pronounce its judgement December 1 to on a plea to review its verdict regarding the tenure of a convict’s life term...
Netflix shows are getting trendy in recent times and due to an easy entrance, people from Bangladesh are also getting along with these shows. One of the most talked-about shows...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Tuesday stressed that the international community needs to take urgent steps to resolve Rohingya crisis. He pointed out that strong pressure needs to...
Farmers are cultivating tomatoes successfully in the region including the vast Barind tract getting its good yield and better prices in the market. They are very enthusiastic and optimistic over...
Earl R Millar, ambassador of the United States to Bangladesh paid a courtesy call to Sultana Afroz, secretary to the Bangladesh government and CEO of the Public-Private Partnership Authority (PPPA)...
All the citizens above 14 years of age will get smart national identity (NID) cards as the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Tuesday approved a project...
Bangladesh is set to initiate a fund mobilisation campaign to support Gambia’s legal battle against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the Rohingya genocide as OIC foreign...
Stocks posted a marginal gain on Tuesday, snapping a four-day losing streak, as bargain hunters showed their buying binge on sector-specific issues. DSEX, the benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock...
Bangladesh has reported 32 more coronavirus (Covid-19) deaths and 2230 fresh infections recorded in the 24 hours to 8:00 am. With these, the total deaths and cases now stand at...
Photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol has secured bail in one of three cases filed against him by Magura-1 MP Saifuzzaman Shikhor under the Digital Security Act. The High Court bench of...
The High Court (HC) has halted the sale of weapons used in the liberation war. It also ordered the government to submit a report on the stock and current state...
The net inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Bangladesh declined by 39 per cent in the past fiscal year (FY20) over the previous one (FY19), according to the latest...
British and European Union negotiators on Monday resumed talks on their post-Brexit relationship via video-conferencing, with the focus still squarely on dividing up fishing quotas and ensuring fair competition for...
Alamgir Hossain, an executive council member of Dhaka University Mass Communication and Journalism Alumni Association (DUMCJAA), died at a hospital in Dhaka on Monday. Alamgir, also the former director of...
No one has so far come forward to stand by the helpless families of the Tazreen factory workers who were killed in the horrific fire tragedy eight years ago, alleged...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has frozen the bank accounts of businessman Monir Hossain (locally known as Golden Monir), three of his family members and his business entities, official...
The government is set to impose new pandemic restrictions in certain sectors as the Covid-19 caseload continues to climb. “It’s not possible to impose a full lockdown,” said Road Transport...
Belize's Prime Minister Johnny Briceno has tested positive for coronavirus (Covid-19), the prime minister's office said in a statement on Monday. It said, "Prime Minister Briceno will remain in isolation...
Awami League lawmaker Faridul Haque Khan is scheduled to be sworn-in as a state minister. President Md Abdul Hamid will administer the oath to the new officeholder at 7:00 pm...
The world's poorest and most vulnerable must not be "trampled in the stampede" for Covid-19 vaccines, the head of the World Health Organization has warned. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said...
Barcelona forward Antoine Griezmann has dismissed talk of a rift with teammate Lionel Messi and said he had nothing to do with recent comments about the Argentine forward from his...
As consumer demand for mobile financial services continues to surge in the wake of COVID-19, MetLife Bangladesh has introduced even more convenient ways of premium payment through bKash. MetLife’s 1+...
Two women from Bangladesh have made it to the BBC’s list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2020, The BBC reports. Rima Sultana Rimu, a...
Globally, more than 59 million cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) were reported until Tuesday morning, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Meanwhile, the death toll from the virus...
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