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The International Labour Organization (ILO) has joined forces with Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters’ Association (BGMEA) and Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters’ Association (BKMEA) to protect RMG workers during coronavirus...
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) expressed its deep condolence at the death of Latifur Rahman, Chairman and CEO of Transcom Group. Shams Mahmud, President of DCCI, condoled the...
The quota system in recruitments for government jobs will no longer exist in Bangladesh. With the results of the 38th BCS examination, the quota system came to an end. The...
Japanese manufacturers’ confidence sank in the second quarter to levels not seen since the 2009 global financial crisis, underscoring the damage the coronavirus pandemic inflicted on the export-reliant economy. The...
Some 500 Bangladeshis have died of coronavirus in Saudi Arabia so far, according to officials of Bangladesh embassy there. The number of deaths of Bangladeshi nationals is more than one-third...
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries will see their economies shrink by 7.6 per cent this year, an International Monetary Fund official said on Tuesday, revising downwards April forecasts of nearly...
Militants have no capability to carry out big attack as the law enforcement agencies have destroyed the militants' dens after the attack on Gulshan Holey Artisan café, said Dhaka Metropalitan...
The United States is "not in total control" of the coronavirus pandemic and COVID-19 cases in the country go up to 100,000 per day if the current trend "does not...
Four transport workers were killed and six others injured in a road accident at Anantapur point on the Taraganj-Burirhat road in Taraganj upazila in Rangpur on Wednesday. “The accident took...
Voices in China and the US are talking past each other - with hot language of decoupling and divorce. Thomas L. Friedman, opinion columnist for The New York Times, recently...
With a boom in the economy over the past decade, the number of offices and corporate structures entailing high-rise buildings in Bangladesh's major cities has mushroomed in recent years; along...
The country’s current masterplan to increase power-generating capacity, that accommodates increasing dependence on expensive, imported coal and LNG, puts it on course for even deeper financial stress emanating from the...
The coronavirus pandemic could wipe out "the modest progress" made on gender equality at work in recent decades with women globally at greater risk of losing their jobs, the International...
The New York City Council voted to pass the 2021 budget on Tuesday night with cuts to police funding after weeks of fraught negotiations with Mayor Bill de Blasio, but...
Alphabet’s Google said late on Tuesday (US standard time) it was delaying the reopening of its US offices by around two months because of a surge in the number of coronavirus...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a High Court stay order on a Department of Shipping (DoS) advisory that had asked the international shipping liners to...
East Razabazar under Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) marked as red zone was not declared yellow zone which was under lockdown for 21 days since 10 June ended on 30...
Eastern Refinery Ltd (ERL), the lone crude oil refinery of the country, resumed operation this week as private sector started taking furnace oil from its stocks. Local Summit Group took...
Apprehending further rise in coronavirus cases due to cattle markets ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday urged the authorities concerned to take necessary steps in...
Eminent businessman and Transcom Group Chairman Latifur Rahman passed away (inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un). He was 75. Mr Rahman breathed his last at his own residence in Cumilla’s...
Confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in Bangladesh reached 149,258 on Wednesday, a rise of 3,775 from the previous day, while related deaths increased by 41 to 1,888; according to data...
World’s leading ride sharing firm Uber has rolled-out the Bangla version of the app for drivers and riders in Bangladesh. Available on Android OS, the new language setting will help...
With COVID-19 spreading across the country like wildfire, the work-from-home culture has slowly become the new normal for most of us. While employees and companies have had to adapt to...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) reached the deposit milestone of Tk 1.0 trillion on Tuesday -- for the first time in the private banking sector of Bangladesh -- despite the...
It's been seven months since a court handed down capital punishment to the seven convicts for the grisly terror attack on Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka's Gulshan diplomatic district. But...
Authorities will lock down around 300,000 people in suburbs north of Melbourne for a month from late on Wednesday to contain the risk of infection after two weeks of double-digit...
A special flight of US-Bangla Airlines brought back152 Bangladeshi nationals stranded in the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday. “A US-Bangla special flight, carrying 152 stranded Bangladeshis, departed from Dubai at...
The consumer price index in June logged the lowest level since May 2000 as the novel coronavirus pandemic stretched deep the country's economy and depressed demands. The National Agency of...
Nineteen people were killed and six injured on Tuesday in an explosion at a medical clinic in the north of the Iranian capital Tehran, the official IRIB news agency reported,...
Six people died with fever and cold-related problems at Cumilla Medical College and Hospital in the last 24 hours till Wednesday morning, UNB reports. With the new deaths, 127 people...
The director of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) has rejected the reports of Tk 200 million in monthly food bills for the doctors, nurses and other health workers engaged in...
Three asylum seekers have tested positive for coronavirus in a sprawling encampment steps from the US border in Matamoros, Mexico, marking the first cases in a settlement that advocates have...
New US Covid-19 cases rose by more than 47,000 on Tuesday (local time) according to a Reuters tally, the biggest one-day spike since the start of the pandemic, as the...
India’s current account turned positive in the last quarter of the 2019/20 fiscal year as a result of a lower trade deficit and a sharp rise in net invisible receipts,...
The board of directors of two more banks – Mutual Trust Bank and Southeast Bank Ltd - has recommended dividends for the year ended on December 31, 2019, according to...
As the fear of possible dengue and chikungunya outbreak has gripped the residents of Dhaka amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has assured all...
Roads and Highways Department (RHD) resumed traffic movement on the damaged bridge over the river Buriganga on limited scale Tuesday night after getting green signal from its expert team on...
The country's six industrial zones witnessed more than 100 incidents of labour unrests in June mainly over non-payment of wages, official data reveals. Besides, workers of some 1,004 factories are...
Asia’s factory pain showed signs of easing in June, as a rebound in China’s activity offered some hope the region may have passed the worst of the devastation caused by...
Interest rate spread dropped significantly in April following implementation of the single-digit interest rate in the country's banking sector. The weighted average spread between lending and deposit rates offered by...
Government monitoring teams have identified increase in transport costs, price hike by rice millers, and massive purchase of paddy from the farmers as possible reasons for a recent surge in...
The 4th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Shimanto Bank was held on Monday through a digital platform. The meeting was presided over by the Director General of Border Guard Bangladesh...
Bangladesh International Arbitration Centre (BIAC) Chairman Mahbubur Rahman (top, right) speaking at the discussion on Problems in Trade and Supply Chain on a digital platform on Monday Experts in a...
Earnings per share (EPS) of most of the listed banks marked rise in the first quarter (Q1) for January-March, 2020 compared to the same quarter of the previous year despite...
As Bangladesh scrambles to slow the spread of coronoavirus, the government was stuck in a difficult choice of weighing life against livelihood, says a business leader. "In my opinion, it...
MAGURA, June 30: Nonpayment of bill is frustrating Magura jute growers and traders. Traders and Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) sources informed, at present four purchasing centres of BJMC are...
The securities regulator has sought information from all listed and four non-listed banks regarding their formation of special funds worth Tk 2.0 billion each as announced earlier to support the...
Top executives of the non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) have sought Tk 100-billion emergency support from the central bank to meet liquidity requirements amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The support was sought...
Risk of coronavirus infection is increasing in the district due to unexpected delay in getting test reports. Officials of District Health Department said the number of infected persons might be...
The exit from lockdown or general holidays should be based on data to get the desired outcome, said a business leader. "Entering into lockdown is a strategy and exit is...
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