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Rescue operations are continuing for the second day after a fatal collision between two launches on Dhaka’s Buriganga River killed 32 people on Monday, bdnews24.com reports. The divers resumed their...
WorldFish Bangladesh has extended its support among the cyclone Amphan-affected fishers in Cox’s Bazar. The organisation will operate a humanitarian assistance of $29,000, or Tk 2.46 million, to 426 households...
North South University (NSU) has unanimously nominated M. A. Kashem as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BOT). Mr. M A Kashem is an eminent industrialist and businessman in...
Bharat Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine has been approved for human trials, making it India’s first domestic candidate to get the green light from the government’s drug regulator as cases surge in...
Bangladesh Double Glazed Ltd (BDGL) has brought latest glazing technology in the country to provide energy-efficient, pollution-free and sustainable glazing solutions. Glazing solutions refer to door and window works in...
Naval police on Tuesday filed a case over the launch capsize in the river Buriganga, bringing charges of “negligent death” against seven people. The case filed with West Keraniganj Police...
The board of directors of Bank Asia Ltd has decided to form a subsidiary company to conduct digital banking activities subject to obtaining necessary approval from regulators. The board of...
Chinese scientists have expressed concern after detecting another new strain of flu that has the potential to become a pandemic. The newly emerged flu virus is carried by pigs, but...
Stocks saw marginal gain in early trading on Tuesday with turnover remaining low as investors mostly followed cautious stance amid worsening pandemic situation in the country. Within 30 minutes of...
India's government has banned TikTok and dozens more Chinese-made apps it says are a danger to the country. In a statement, it said the apps were "prejudicial to sovereignty and...
Social media site Reddit on Monday shut down r/The_Donald, a forum which long served as a popular online home base for fans of President Donald Trump, saying it violated the...
China’s parliament passed national security legislation for Hong Kong on Tuesday, setting the stage for the most radical changes to the former British colony’s way of life since it returned...
Leaders of the country's apparel sector urged the government to continue the existing 0.25 per cent source tax for next five years. Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) and...
Six Participating Financial Institutions (PFIs) got approval from the Bangladesh Bank on Monday for financing Meghna Industrial Economic Zone Limited (MIEZL) in Narayanganj. A total of BDT 2.82 billion under...
Six institutions have sought the regulatory intervention for removing an asset management company (AMC) from its job of managing two closed-end mutual funds (MFs). The institutions have urged the securities...
The spread of COVID-19 can be contained if footpaths and bicycle lanes are made friendly for pedestrians, according to the opinions made during a public hearing. The participants in the...
The Covid-19 pandemic is not even close to being over, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing on Monday. Tedros noted that, six months after China first...
Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity (BJKS), a citizens' rights platform, demanded on Monday of the government to provide an appropriate amount of compensations to the victims' families of launch incident at...
The divers of Fire Service and Civil Defence have rescued a person alive 13 hours after a launch capsized on the Buriganga river in Dhaka, killing at least 32 people....
A government body has suggested banning the sale of inferior-quality health safety gear on footpaths in the interest of the consumers, officials said. The directorate of national consumer rights protection...
Three major business bodies, on Monday, sought deletion of certain new provisions in the VAT and income tax law to salvage them in the Covid-19-affected economy. In a joint press...
Tanners will get loans from Covid-19 incentive packages to buy raw hides during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha, a meeting has decided. The financial institutions division at a meeting on Monday asked...
The Board of Directors of South Bangla Agriculture and Commerce (SBAC) Bank Limited has recommended 10 per cent stock dividend for the shareholders for the year 2019 subject to approval...
With the aim of providing a platform to discuss the emerging business and investment opportunities and the underlying challenges of bilateral trade between Bangladesh and India in the new paradigm...
The US Embassy in Dhaka and the British High Commissioner to Bangladesh extended their heartfelt condolences and sympathies to the families of those who died and to those injured in...
It's not possible to implement all objectives of the national budget, in keeping with all recommendations made by economists, businessmen and other stakeholders. Computing the budget in the light of...
It doesn't take long for a society to get attuned to the new normal. Take the case of Bangladesh and the other developing countries - and also the developed bloc....
This country is no stranger to floods. But at a time coronavirus has wreaking havoc with human lives and livelihoods and the country's south-west is reeling from the cyclone Amphan's...
India is drawing up an incentive scheme for the car making companies with an aim to double exports of vehicles and components in the next five years, four sources with...
With still more than 1,000 cases of Covid-19 diagnosed daily (as of 24 June), Hong Kong SAR and its communities have been in need of support for several months. Strategic...
Organisers of a Facebook Inc advertising boycott campaign that has drawn support from a rapidly expanding list of major companies are now preparing to take the battle global to increase...
Very recently, some scientific examinations of the ongoing pandemic have revealed that the antibodies created by the Covid-19 infections are experiencing a sharp decline. This is alarming, especially because it...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) hinted that the cricketers will start preparation from next month, keeping the Asia Cup and Twenty20 World Cup in mind if the situation allows them...
China's military has received the greenlight to use a COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by its research unit and CanSino Biologics after clinical trials proved it was safe and showed some...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday told Parliament that the government will recruit 2,000 doctors and 4,000 nurses to ensure healthcare services for the Covid-19 patients. “[The government] has created...
Iran has issued an arrest warrant against US President Donald Trump and 35 others over the killing of Iran’s top general Qassem Soleimani. Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said on Monday...
State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury suspects there was foul play involved in the fatal collision between two launches on the Buriganga River which resulted in the deaths of...
While going to rescue a launch that capsized in the Buriganga River on Monday morning, a salvage ship caused an accident by hitting the First Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge, locally known...
Healthcare officials and experts have said despite continued coronavirus onslaughts claiming lives, infection recovery rate in Bangladesh was higher than the global average, a phenomenon they attributed to patients higher...
Two UN agencies on Monday distributed agricultural machinery and rice seed to the local farmers at Cox’s Bazar as part of a joint emergency response to the coronavirus pandemic. The...
The death toll from the fatal collision between two launches on the Buriganga River has climbed to 32 after two more bodies were pulled from the river. The incident took...
The Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) on Monday announced Tk 6.03 billion budget for fiscal year 2020-21 (FY21). The new budget is about Tk 1.23 billion more than the...
A 100-bed hospital, jointly initiated by Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) and Bidyanondo Foundation, is set to start its operations from Wednesday to fight against coronavirus pandemic. Officials involved with the...
Fresh areas in the country’s northern region were inundated on Monday amid heavy rain and huge onrush of upstream waters from India. Flood situations worsened further in Kurigram, Gaibandha, Bogra,...
Some 415 Bangladeshis returned home from United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday morning, according to Welfare Desk at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. They were stranded in the oil-rich Middle Eastern...
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh on Monday said mobile court drives will be conducted to ensure proper maintenance of health guidelines at the cattle...
The Finance Bill for fiscal year 2020-21 has reduced the lock-in period for investments of undisclosed income in stocks to 1 year from proposed 3 years in a bid to...
Bangladesh will start importing cleaner marine fuel with 0.5 per cent sulphur from July instead of 180 CST high sulphur fuel oil with 3.5 per cent sulphur as per the...
Dhaka Power Distribution Company Ltd (DPDC) will complete its departmental investigation by Tuesday into issuing inflated electricity bills to a large number of consumers. “We’ll complete the investigation process by...
Gilead Sciences Inc said on Monday it has priced its COVID-19 treatment candidate remdesivir at $390 per vial in the United States and other developed countries. Based on current treatment...
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