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China's major economic indicators entered positive territory in the third quarter of this year, showing the country's Covid-19 prevention and control measures and economic recovery remain at the forefront among...
Robbers looted around Tk 900,000 at gunpoint from Sonali Bank in Chuadanga's Jibonnagar upazila on Sunday. Ashraful Islam, security guard of the branch, said three people wearing face masks and...
Bangladesh wants to begin relocation of Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char soon as the government finds the weather and overall environment suitable for such relocation, officials said. The relocation is...
Fifteen Asia-Pacific economies formed the world's largest free trade bloc on Sunday, a China-backed deal that excludes the United States, which had left a rival Asia-Pacific grouping under President Donald...
Pakistan will present evidence to the United Nations and other international bodies that India, its neighbour and arch rival, is involved with militant organisations on its soil, Pakistan's foreign minister...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday opened a pavilion 'Prodorshonite Bangabandhu' (Bangabandhu in exhibition) at the South Plaza of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. The Prime Minister opened the pavilion marking...
The number of people who have fled into Sudan from the conflict in northern Ethiopia has risen to at least 20,000, the UN refugee agency said on Sunday. More than...
The Ministry of Liberation War Affairs has issued a state honouring order, 2020 on the death of the heroic freedom fighters, and thus repeals the state honouring order of 2005,...
Constructions of eight Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) power plants, with a combined generation capacity of 3,471 megawatts (MW), are underway. “The under construction gas/LNG based power plants having generation capacity...
The impact of a new Covid vaccine will kick in significantly over summer and life should be back to normal by next winter, one of its creators has said. Prof...
India’s rice bran oil imports from Bangladesh are set to double in 2020-21. The imports of such oil from Bangladesh have already hit 60,000 tonnes during the April-October period compared...
A Dhaka Declaration was launched on Sunday defending media freedom, journalists’ protection and citizen’s rights from the grassroots level to international institutions. The declaration came ahead of the second ‘Global...
The second Covid-19 test of Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal came negative tonight, confirmed the public relation officer of the ministry.The test was conducted in Police Hospital at Rajarbag in the...
Many emerging economies like Bangladesh will be affected by declining international demand and export revenues as the UNCTAD fears a fall in the volume of global trade in 2020. In...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) seems to have all the elements in place, except for the investigation. In five years since 2015, when the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate...
Metrocem Cement Limited arranged "Team Magnificent: Annual Sales Conference 2020" at Emmanuelle's Banquet Hall in the city on Saturday. The motto of the programme was "Let's Make Magic Happen". Md...
The government has confirmed 21 new deaths from the COVID-19 illness in a day, raising the toll to 6,194. Coronavirus cases surged by 1,837 in the 24 hours to 8...
Hifazat-e-Islam, a Qawmi madrasa-based Islamist party in the country, has elected its new ameer and secretary general on Sunday. A council meeting of the party has made Juanyed Babunagari its...
The benchmark index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) tumbled below 4,900-mark on Sunday as cautious investors went on sell-offs on major sectors’ shares. The market opened on a negative note...
Australia hopes that the country’s strained relations with China will improve under an ambitious trade deal between 15 Asia-Pacific economies, Reuters reports. The country's Trade Minister Simon Birmingham expressed the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the Bangladesh Coast Guard will be strengthened so that they can play a role in helping the government tap the potential of the ‘Blue...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Sunday expressed his optimism over signing of Teesta water sharing deal with India saying it remains ready for signing since 2011. "India frequently...
Still wearing the camouflage fatigues in which he had fought against Azeri forces a week earlier, Arsen, an ethnic Armenian, lit a fire on Saturday under his sister’s dining room...
Experts at a virtual webinar have underlined the need for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) to resolve LC-related international trade disputes. They stressed specifically on the issues and challenges of resolution...
Legendary actor Soumitra Chatterjee, star of some of Bengali cinema's finest films, has died. He was 85. Mr Chatterjee tested positive for Covid-19 last month and was taken to hospital,...
In an overnight drive, police arrested 25 female activists of Jamaat-e-Islami from Jhaudia Bazar in Kushtia on Saturday night. Tipped off, a team of police conducted a drive in Jhaudia...
The value of bilateral trade between Iran and the European countries reached 8.8 billion US dollars from March 20 to Oct. 21, Ruhollah Latifi, spokesperson for Iran's Customs Office announced...
Fifteen Asia-Pacific economies formed the world’s largest free trade bloc on Sunday, a China-backed deal that excludes the United States, which had left a rival Asia-Pacific grouping under President Donald...
At least three rockets were fired at Eritrea’s capital from Ethiopia on Saturday night, five regional diplomats said, a major escalation of a conflict pitting Ethiopian government troops against rebellious...
At least ten Covid-19 patients, undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Piatra Neamt County Hospital in northeastern Romania, were killed in a fire that broke out...
An event titled ‘Road to Startup Entrepreneurship and Innovation’ for technology entrepreneurs and innovators was held on Saturday at the popular Cumilla Club in Cumilla. Minister of the Ministry of...
Stocks witnessed a slow trend in early hours trading on Sunday as investors mostly followed cautious stance amid ongoing quarterly declarations of the listed companies. Following the previous week’s downward...
Green malta is now being cultivated on a large scale in different villages of Cumilla district, raising the hope of better income generation among the growers. The cultivators of the...
The government has formed an inter-ministerial committee, which will recommend the government ways of averting possible price volatility of essential commodities, officials say. Commerce and Agriculture secretaries are the co-chairpersons...
Fish prices increased further last week despite the end of a three-week-long ban on fishing in major sanctuaries in the country earlier this month. The government's 22-day fishing ban in...
Travel tax collections slumped by 89.41 per cent in the first quarter of the current fiscal year because of the coronavirus-induced travel restrictions imposed by most countries around the globe....
The government is planning to launch a company-managed city bus service system in a small corridor of the city on a pilot basis. Initially, five companies of 50 owners of...
The securities regulator has started developing a database of top officials, sponsor-directors and auditors of the listed companies, who are in the know about the price sensitive information (PSI), to...
India has again pressed Bangladesh for allowing its companies to participate in international tenders floated by the government of Bangladesh, officials said. "The High Commission of India, Dhaka has further...
"If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" This immortal line by Shelley is filled with the expectation of arrays of happier times after bouts of woes. But the line...
There is no denying the fact that Bangladesh is now confronting some major challenges in steering its economy to a higher growth trajectory. Such challenges are slow implementation of development...
The Document Verification System (DVS) software, developed jointly by the National Board of Revenue (NBR) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB), is expected to be a handy...
The five-team Bangabandhu T20 Cup Cricket will begin on November 24 at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur. Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Saturday announced the full itinerary of...
At least 104 Bangladeshi workers, who were trapped for 10 days in Tigray region of Ethiopia where federal troops are fighting local forces, were rescued on Saturday. “The workers of...
President-elect Joe Biden claimed victory as it became clear he was the winner securing the majority of electoral college votes (290), and he also secured the majority of popular votes...
Earlier this year, stringent lockdowns and uncertainty about the severity and transmission of Covid-19 led to the widespread adoption of physical distancing measures across the world. However, as Covid-19 outbreaks...
A Dead Zone in the Bay of Bengal (BoB), nearly half the size of Bangladesh and at depths 70m and below, has been discovered in recent years by a group...
Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has tested positive for coronavirus while on international duty with Egypt. The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) said on Friday that Salah, 28, returned a positive test...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday blasted Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda for, what the opposition leader said as, making his office an ineffective institution....
Two airports in Ethiopia's Amhara state which neighbours Tigray where federal troops are fighting local forces were targeted by rocket fire late on Friday, the government said, as an 11-day...
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