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Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam on Wednesday said that all illegal billboards will be removed from Dhaka city as part of the cleanliness programme. “I ask the...
Sanitation workers in Bangladesh and three other South Asian countries are working amid the Covid-19 pandemic with little protective equipment and poor access to handwashing and cleaning facilities, according to...
Cheated by local agents and exploited and incarcerated abroad, around 340 Bangladeshi migrant workers have been detained again, once they returned home recently, migrants’ rights activists have observed, terming their...
A Dhaka court on Wednesday ordered the authorities concerned to confiscate the properties of five people including Anisul Hoque, associate editor of Prothom Alo, in a case filed over the...
The 5th BIMSTEC Summit, preceded by the 17th BIMSTEC Ministerial meeting, is proposed to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka in the first half of January 2021 subject to the...
Treating critically ill COVID-19 patients with corticosteroid drugs reduces the risk of death by 20 per cent, an analysis of seven international trials found on Wednesday, prompting the World Health...
Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday directed her party leaders to constitute full-fledged committees of the party at the grassroots level where their councils were held...
Mentioning that the inward remittance inflow witnessed a whopping 50 per cent growth during this July-August period, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said such uptrend of remittance inflow alongside...
It will be difficult for Lionel Messi to remain at Barcelona after he made public his desire to leave the Spanish club, his father and agent Jorge Messi said on...
A Khulna court on Wednesday convicted four people and sentenced them to death for killing a madrassa student, Musa Sikdar, in Rupsha upazila in 2018, reports UNB. The death row...
The state-owned mobile operator Teletalk will provide internet bandwidth to the students of country’s public and private universities at nominal price with an aim to facilitate their virtual educational activities...
City Bank, the largest credit card player in Bangladesh with a 35 per cent market share, launched interoperable QR-based payment solution with four payment schemes in one QR code: American...
After a long hiatus, things are getting normal again, and people are in need of a safer mode of transportation as the risk of contracting COVID-19 still looms large. Amid...
The family of Paul Rusesabagina - hailed a hero in a Hollywood movie about Rwanda's 1994 genocide - has demanded that authorities in Kigali charge him in an international court...
Expatriate Bangladeshis remitted around $1.96 billion in the month of August in the fiscal 2020-21 which is the second highest in the country’s history, according to the latest data of...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said without harnessing the energy, tech savvy and optimism of young people, the world has no hope of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or the...
Fed up with being confused for China amid the coronavirus pandemic and Beijing’s stepped-up efforts to assert sovereignty, Taiwan said on Wednesday it would redesign its passport to give greater...
Engineers are preparing to test a booster rocket that will help send Americans back to the Moon in 2024. Two of these boosters form part of Nasa's massive Space Launch...
China's virus prevention authority published a plan to further strengthen the country's capacity for COVID-19 nucleic acid testing by specifically deploying facilities in local regions, which experts said will fully...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the aim of her government is to build a poverty-free, educated, developed, qualified, prosperous and knowledge-based nation. "We’ll build a poverty-free, educated, developed,...
The prices of green chilli increased further in the capital’s retail markets as it hit Tk 250-300 per kilogram (kg) on Wednesday, battering the consumers already struggling with higher prices...
Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Wednesday informed the High Court that a total of 12,543 hospitals and diagnostic centres have applied for renewing their licence across the country....
A Khulna court has handed down a death sentence to four people for murdering a grocery store employee in Rupsha in 2018. District and Sessions Judge Moshiur Rahman Chowdhury passed...
Online marketplace Evaly has halted digital transactions amid several allegations of financial irregularities and is currently only accepting cash on delivery orders. Many customers who have paid hundreds of thousands...
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, also founder of Grameen Bank, has been appointed as the Inaugural Chancellor of Albukhary International University (AIU) in Malaysia, reports Strait Times. Yunus, who is...
The government has taken initiatives to send workers to Cambodia, Poland, China, Romania, Croatia and Seychelles as a part of efforts to export manpower to alternative labour markets. The parliamentary...
A Dhaka court on Wednesday ordered the authorities concerned to freeze 58 bank accounts of Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed and its Managing Director Masud Parvez in a money laundering...
Bangladesh has confirmed 2,582 fresh cases of Covid-19 in a 24-hour period, raising the tally of infections to 317,582. The death toll jumped to 4,351 after 35 fatalities were registered...
Daily trade turnover on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) surpassed Tk 12 billion-mark Wednesday after two weeks as enthusiastic investors put fresh stakes on stocks. Turnover, a crucial indicator of the...
China’s foreign ministry on Wednesday rejected a US report that Beijing was expected to double the number of its nuclear warheads. The Pentagon said on Tuesday that China is expected...
Though crab exports remain paused due to coronavirus pandemic, farmers in and around Khulna are hopeful of a resumption being just around the corner. As a result they are waiting...
Three workers were killed in an explosion at a container depot in Patenga area of Chattogram district on Wednesday. The identities of the deceased could not be known yet, reports...
The Afghan government released nearly 200 Taliban prisoners to spur the start of long-delayed peace negotiations, senior Afghan officials said on Wednesday. The fresh releases are from a group of...
Muktarul Islam, said to be a mentally-retarded man, has been chained with a tree for the past 20 years by his family at Sallapara in Pirganj upazila of Thakurgaon district....
Ferry services on Shimulia-Kathalbari route resumed after 12 hours of disruption on Wednesday due to poor navigability, causing immense sufferings to the commuters. Shafiqul Islam, assistant general manager of Bangladesh...
A probe panel commissioned by the home ministry has interrogated former Teknaf OC Pradip Kumar Das, who is charged with the killing of retired army major Sinha Md Rashed Khan,...
Dhaka South City Corporation officials have admitted that relocating the stray dogs from the capital offers no solution as anger grows among animal rights activists, who say doing so would...
The United Kingdom will lead a global call to action to protect the world’s poorest people from coronavirus and the increasing threat of famine, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced...
The Trump administration said on Tuesday (local time) that it will not work with an international cooperative effort to develop and distribute a Covid-19 vaccine because it does not want...
Fed up with being confused for China amid the coronavirus pandemic and Beijing’s stepped-up efforts to assert sovereignty, Taiwan said on Wednesday it would redesign its passport to give greater...
Amid a record number of applications to Swedish universities, the country's Council for Higher Education has decided not to offer college entrance exams this fall, due to the coronavirus (Covid-190...
The state-run Padma Oil Company has signed an agreement with Energypac Power Generation Limited for the expansion of business, said an official disclosure on Wednesday. Under the agreement, Energypac Power...
“Every person you meet is a potential carrier of the disease,” a doctor said this to me when I visited the town of Bhagalpur and its nearby villages to cover...
Bangladesh is observing one-day state mourning on Wednesday in honour of former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee. All government, semi-government, autonomous and private institutions and Bangladesh missions abroad kept the national...
The death toll from Covid-19 reached 855,444 globally on Wednesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Besides, the number of confirmed cases stands...
The unemployment rate in the 19-member euro area continued to rise in July, a month marked by some relaxation of COVID-19 containment measures in many members of the European Union...
Pakistan says it has blocked Tinder, Grindr and three other dating apps for not adhering to local laws, its latest move to curb online platforms deemed to be disseminating “immoral...
Stocks witnessed an upward trend in the early hours of trading on Wednesday as optimistic investors were showing their appetite on sector-wise issues. Following the previous day’s modest correction, the...
Australia's economy has plunged into its first recession in nearly 30 years, as it suffers the economic fallout from the coronavirus. Gross domestic product (GDP) shrunk 7 per cent in...
Mohammad Hafeez scored a scintillating unbeaten 86 as Pakistan held their nerve to defeat England by five runs in the third and final Twenty20 International at Old Trafford on Tuesday...
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