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The Bangladesh government has signed a deal with two organisations to buy 30 million doses of the Oxford University vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca. The officials from the Ministry of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has commissioned Bangladesh Navy’s five modern warships -- BNS Umar Farooq, BNS Abu Ubaidah, BNS Prottasha, BNS Darshak and BNS Tallashi-- at Naval Berth-1 in Chattogram....
The Bank of England (BoE) increased its already huge bond-buying stimulus by a bigger-than-expected 150 billion pounds ($195 billion) as it sought to cushion Britain’s struggling economy against the hit...
The number of global coronavirus (Covid-19) cases is approaching 48 million on Thursday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. According to the data, the death toll from the...
Twenty shops were gutted in a fire which broke out at Boro madok Bazar in Bandarban early Thursday. Mui Sui Thui, chairman of Romacri Union, said the fire broke out...
For a Football fanatic, at times, positioning and movement off-the-ball is as beautiful as a player going on a mesmerising run to score a sumptuous solo goal. The optimal reward...
Police in the city of Portland made arrests and seized fireworks, hammers and a rifle after late night demonstrations, as Oregon Governor Kate Brown activated the state’s National Guard in...
A handful of pivotal states remained in play Wednesday (US standard time) in the tightly contested US presidential race. Here, The Associated Press reviews them and examines the reasons why...
Navana Limited (the exclusive distributor of Toyota vehicles in Bangladesh) and Strategic Finance & Investments Limited (SFIL) have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). Under the MoU, customers of...
Bangladesh is mulling the introduction of its own index to assess the country's business environment as the World Bank (WB) has halted the publication of its flagship report 'Ease of...
There were more than 100,000 new cases of coronavirus in the US on Wednesday - a record one-day increase. The figure, reported by the Covid Tracking Project, is accompanied by...
Stocks witnessed upward trend in early trading on Thursday as bargain hunters remained active on sector-wise issues based on corporate declarations. Following the previous day’s modest correction, the Dhaka Stock...
The board of directors of recently listed Associated Oxygen has recommended 2.0 per cent cash dividend to public shareholders other than sponsors- directors and 8.0 per cent stock dividend to...
Turkish Ambassador to Bangladesh Mustafa Osman Turan has reiterated his country's continued support to the government of Bangladesh over the Rohingya issue. Bangladesh is hosting over a million of Rohingyas...
Bangladesh’s point-to-point general inflation rate has increased to 6.44 per cent in October, the highest in seven years, amid the coronavirus (COvid-19) pandemic. The country had the previous highest inflation...
US Democrat Joe Biden on Wednesday (US standard time) predicted an election win over Donald Trump after pivotal victories in Michigan and Wisconsin, while the incumbent Republican President sought to...
Republicans appeared poised to retain control of the US Senate on Wednesday, after Senator Susan Collins defied political odds to win re-election in Maine and other Republican incumbents led Democrats...
Policymakers should focus more on newly-vulnerable population alongside the pre-existing marginalised groups while framing strategies for the pandemic recovery, experts have said. They also said many people, who were pushed...
RAJSHAHI: It was just out of fancy that Salah Uddin Mamun started to pet four rats of Swiss Albino species at his house in the Kantakhali area of the Rajshahi...
Transactions through mobile financial services (MFS) grew by over 26 per cent in the third quarter (Q3) of 2020, as general people, businessmen and the government agencies preferred to use...
The Bangladesh Garments Manufacturer and Exporter Association (BGMEA) has sought a 10-year moratorium on the outstanding loans of its members to help them ride out the corona crisis. The Association...
Assume, being late from work. As the sun has set, the curtain of darkness is falling over everything around. Adding to the tension of reaching home, someone reminds that the...
For a lot of students, their adolescent dream is to study abroad. The experience of being independent in a new environment is something most teenagers see as a welcome adventure....
The sixth edition of the flagship event of Bangladesh University of Professionals Business and Communication Club (BUP BCC) -- CreADive-- kicked off this year on September 24, 2020. Since its...
From being peer pressured into starting a YouTube channel to now garnering over 140,000 subscribers and nine million total views, young musician Masha Islam has surely come a long way....
The US Postal Service (USPS) completed required sweeps of mail processing facilities late Tuesday in about a dozen states after it had earlier said it could not meet an afternoon...
With the US presidential election turning into a nail-biter, bankers, traders and financial analysts told Reuters on Wednesday that Wall Street was worried the ultimate winner could have tough sledding...
A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Wednesday weighed arguments by Republicans seeking to stop a suburban Philadelphia county from counting mail-in and absentee ballots that voters had been permitted to...
The excruciatingly close US presidential election hung in the balance on Wednesday, with a handful of closely contested states set to decide the outcome in the coming hours or days,...
Myanmar’s army chief said on Tuesday the civilian government, led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, is making ‘unacceptable mistakes’ in the run-up to a pivotal general election on...
As election night turns into the morning after, there is still far more that we don't know about the race to be the next president -- and to control the...
The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) latest World Economic Outlook report has raised a massive clamour worldwide. According to this report, Bangladesh will surpass India in per capita GDP this year....
Financial inclusion is the degree and ease of access to financial services by individuals and firms within an economy. Ease of access to financial resources can act as a major...
In medical emergencies, minutes make a difference between life and death. If minutes extend to hours on account of refusal of admission to hospitals -- one after another, the time...
In the jargon of finance and security trade, circuit-breakers are pre-defined values in percentage terms that act as automatic checks when there is a runaway move in stock market index...
As traditional banking is failing to include increased un-banked people into the banking network, there is a need for 'alternative' financial institutions for un-banked people, especially in rural areas. In...
A day after Americans voted in a bitterly contested election, the rest of the world was none the wiser on Wednesday, with millions of votes still to count, the race...
Migration plays a vital role in reducing unemployment and poverty in Bangladesh. The remittances sent by the migrants have been growing over time, mainly because of the increasing number of...
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has decided to provide interest-free loans to 41,501 insolvent students of public universities for buying smartphones to ensure their participation in online education programmes amid...
The United States on Wednesday formally left the Paris Agreement, a global pact forged five years ago to avert the threat of catastrophic climate change. The move, long threatened by...
The exercise titled ‘Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Bangladesh 2020’ demonstrates the US’s continuing commitment to working with the Bangladesh military to address shared maritime security concerns in the...
Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc added information label to some of US President Donald Trump's posts on the US election in a real-time test of their rules on handling misinformation...
The fate of the United States presidency hung in the balance Wednesday morning, as President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden battled for three familiar battleground states — Wisconsin,...
The High Court has questioned legal provisions that bar married women from seeking justice for rape by their husbands asking why it should not order the government to nullify the...
Despite incomplete results from several battleground states that could determine the outcome of the US presidential race, President Donald Trump proclaimed victory over Democratic challenger Joe Biden on Wednesday. The...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has hoped that the country’s foreign currency reserves will reach $50 billion by December 2021. “Hopefully our foreign currency reserves will reach $50 billion within...
The Nordic countries are eyeing a stronger partnership with Bangladesh by making more investment here. The ambassadors of three Nordic countries – Denmark, Norway and Sweden – said this on...
A Dhaka court today (Wednesday) framed charges in a graft case filed against suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Prisons Partha Gopal Bonik, formally initiating the trial against him. Judge...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide US$160 million loan to establish a modern and sustainable sewerage system in Khulna city. To this effect, a loan agreement was signed between...
The Covid-19 deaths reached 6,004 in Bangladesh on Wednesday with 21 new fatalities, according to official data. Besides, some cases of 1,517 fresh infection were recorded in the last 24...
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