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The above early nineteenth-century maxim has been doing the rounds ever since it was coined, supposedly by the celebrated British Prime Minister, William E. Gladstone. For all practical purposes, the...
At least 140 Europe-bound migrants drowned off the coast of Senegal when their boat caught fire and capsized, marking the deadliest shipwreck recorded this year, the UN migration agency said...
As countries, companies, and households confront the Covid-19 pandemic's economic fallout, many market watchers are sounding the alarm about rapidly rising leverage worldwide. And for good reason: in an acceleration...
Director of the Institute of Public Health Md Abdur Rahim has apologised for ordering Islamic dress code amid the outcry. He also has withdrawn his own order that made following...
Never before in the history of the United States has an incumbent president dismissed in advance the outcome of the election and refused to make peaceful transfer of power, if...
In many of his novels Humayun Ahmed quite deftly portrays the life in the lower middle-class families in Bangladesh. These unremittingly poverty-battered people are mostly concentrated in the country's cities...
The 300th ATM booth of Jamuna Bank Limited was inaugurated at Mohammadpur-Bosila road in the capital on Thursday. Nur Mohammed, chairman of the Jamuna Bank Foundation, was present as the...
The Dhaka University (DU) authorities have decided to cut its holidays and vacation in the next academic year to make up for the academic losses caused by the ongoing closure...
Foreign investors, from now on, can open Temporary Non-Resident Taka Account with local authorised dealers (AD)-designated banks and also with offshore banking units (OBUs) of local banks. Referring to a...
Bangladesh’s foreign currency reserves have surpassed $41 billion, three weeks after crossing the $40 billion for the first time. The reserves at the Bangladesh Bank stood at $41.2 billion on...
The amount of working capital loan for Covid-19 affected industries and service sectors under the Prime Minister's announced Economic Stimulus Package has been raised to Tk 400 billion from Tk...
The Eid-e-Miladunnabi will be observed on Friday, marking the day of birth and passing away of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh), with religious festivity and fervour. On this day in 570,...
Environmental experts on Thursday urged the authorities concerned to pass regulation in a bid to ban ‘Lead Paint’ in the country citing its adverse impact of lead on biodiversity. They...
Freedom Fighters can now use 'Bir' before their names, according to a gazette notification issued by the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs on Thursday. The gazette says that the...
Internet users are expected to witness a slower connection speed from Nov 2-4 due to emergency maintenance work of submarine cable, as per the revised update of internet service providers....
Facebook has extended supports to the flood victims in Bangladesh after people's sufferings have deepened as it has coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, causing millions of people to slip into...
Air bubble arrangement between Bangladesh and India inaugurated! After months of lockdown and suspension of flights, the air bubble between India and Bangladesh was inaugurated by High Commissioner of India...
ZEE5 Global has announced its entry into Bangladeshi productions after a successful launch of two Pakistani originals on its largest OTT platform for South Asian content. All these shows are...
The Kolkata airport, under the air bubble agreement with Bangladesh today received the first flight from Dhaka while an Antonov AN-124 aircraft, termed as world’s largest civil cargo aircraft, landed...
The Institute of Public Health, a government entity, has made the Islamic dress code mandatory for its Muslim employees, triggering a social media backlash. The institute’s Director Dr Abdur Rahim...
Favipiravir, a drug used to treat COVID-19, has received permanent registration in Russia, Russian Deputy Health Minister Viktor Fisenko said on Thursday, reports UNB quoting TASS. No serious side effects...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said about 450 kilometres of highways were upgraded to four-lane across the country in the last 12 years. “In the last...
Bangladesh's Ambassador to the State of Qatar Md Jashim Uddin appreciated the exemplary deed of Mohammad Yasin, a Bangladeshi talabat rider who recently earned huge admiration for assisting a helpless...
Bangladesh’s state-owned Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company is seeking two liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes for delivery in December through separate tenders, two industry sources said on Thursday, reports Reuters. It...
SINGAPORE/MELBOURNE - Oil prices fell on Thursday, extending a 5.0 per cent slump in the previous session, as governments’ renewed restrictions to curb a second wave of coronavirus infections and...
Bangladesh has witnessed 25 fatalities in the 24 hours till 8:00am Thursday, climbing the death toll to 5,886. It has also recorded 1,681 new cases of the novel coronavirus in...
A Khulna court on Thursday sentenced three people to death for killing a van driver in Bhatiaghata upazila in 2019. The convicts are Md Robiul Islam, Boni Amin Sheikh and...
Children in the poorest countries have lost nearly four months of schooling since the start of the pandemic – A report of UNESCO, UNICEF, and World Bank finds. Schoolchildren in...
United Commercial Bank Limited donated 1,50,000 pieces of blankets to Prime Minister’s Relief Fund on Wednesday. Mr Anisuzzaman Chowdhury Ronny, Executive Committee Chairman of UCB delivered the blankets to Dr...
An attacker with a knife killed two people and wounded several others at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, French media and police said, in an...
Bangladesh has laid emphasis on enhanced trade and investment cooperation with China amid growing interest among Chinese investors to invest in Bangladesh. "We are working very closely with the Chinese...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government has taken the responsibility for running the state to take Bangladesh to a more dignified position by making it self-reliant in every...
A group of British opposition lawmakers have filed a legal case against Prime Minister Boris Johnson over what they say is his failure to protect the public’s right to free...
Bangladesh National Museum is set to reopen to visitors on a ‘limited scale’ on Nov 1, after remaining shut for more than seven months amid the pandemic. The visitors will...
The defence ministry of the Nagorno-Karabakh region said on Thursday 51 more casualties have taken its military death toll to 1,119 since fighting with Azeri forces erupted on September 27....
The government has extended the closure of all educational institutions until November 14 as the existing Covid-19 situation in the country has not yet improved. Education Minister Dipu Moni announced...
Asia is starting to see signs of economic recovery as it rides on the back of an upturn in China, which is entering a new expansion phase less than a...
Amid its non-stop spread, the global confirmed cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) surpassed 44 million on Thursday, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The data shows the...
India crossed a grim milestone of 8 million coronavirus cases on Thursday, with a daily rise of 49,881 infections, health ministry data showed. The world’s second most populous nation also...
Eight renowned personalities and one organisation on Thursday received the ‘Independence Award 2020,’ the highest state honour given in recognition of their remarkable contributions to the nation. On behalf of...
The board of directors of United Power Generation & Distribution Company Ltd has recommended 145 per cent cash and 10 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on June...
Stocks witnessed a mixed trend in the early trading on Thursday as investors mostly followed cautious stance amid ongoing earnings and dividend declaration sessions. Following the previous five days’ downward...
Britain will on Thursday chide the “pernicious” trade practices of the United States and Europe, even as it tries to pin down deals with its most important allies in a...
Daraz Bangladesh- a concern of Alibaba Group and country's largest online marketplace is hosting the Eleven Eleven (11.11) campaign for the third time. Daraz’s parent company, Alibaba Group had first...
USAID has launched more than $28 million in activities to advance regional energy markets in South Asia to strengthen energy security and expand access to energy across the Indo-Pacific region....
Vietnam deployed hundreds of soldiers and heavy machinery on Thursday to search for survivors after landslides triggered by torrential rains from Typhoon Molave, one of the strongest typhoons in the...
Shayan Chowdhury Arnob, the immensely popular and talented singer-songwriter with a fanbase spanning Bangladesh and West Bengal, got married Wednesday to Sunidhi Nayak, a fellow musician as well as alumni...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Western countries mocking Islam wanted to “relaunch the Crusades”, heightening a confrontation with France over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that have...
The winner of the race for the White House will face a generation of low-to-middle income Americans struggling to get back to work because of a health crisis not seen...
The European Union’s plan to rein in US tech giants with new rules could cost the 27-country bloc as much as 85 billion euros ($100.5 billion) in economic growth, Brussels-based...
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