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Three suspected robbers have died in a gunfight with the police after a robbery gang strangled a night guard who stopped them from looting a shop in Feni. The gang...
Stocks witnessed mixed trend in early trading on Thursday amid worsening pandemic situation in the country. Within 30 minutes of trading, DSEX advanced more than 2.0 points while the CSE...
The world faces a shortage of oxygen concentrators as the number of worldwide cases of coronavirus infection nears the 10 million mark, the World Health Organization head said on Wednesday....
The board of directors of Continental Insurance Ltd has recommended 5.0 per cent cash and 5.0 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2019. The final...
The death toll from the coronavirus in Latin America is expected to skyrocket to 388,300 by October, with Brazil and Mexico seen accounting for two-thirds of fatalities as other nations...
South Africa’s budget deficit will be the highest in the post-apartheid era, and the finance minister warned in his emergency budget speech on Wednesday that debt had become a hippo...
Emirates commenced flights for travellers to and from Dhaka on Wednesday. The airline will operate flights thrice weekly to Dhaka, allowing customers to travel between Bangladesh and various destinations in...
The board of directors of IFIC Bank Limited has recommended a 10 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2019. The final approval of the dividend...
Qantas will axe 6,000 jobs in a bid to stay afloat through the coronavirus pandemic, the airline says. The cuts equate to about a fifth of the airline's workforce prior...
The Indian government has approved a proposal for an additional 121.27 million US dollar investment to be made by ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) in the development of an oil and...
A government agency has suggested providing cash incentives for the Covid-19 affected e-commerce sector to help them offset the impacts, officials said. It has also recommended increasing the rate of...
The government sat on Wednesday with the trade bodies to fix prices of rawhide of sacrificial animals ahead of Eid-ul-Azha. Traders, traders' associations and stakeholders of the two sectors attended...
State-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation, or BPC, will import around 20 per cent lower quantity of refined petroleum products during July-December by negotiating with suppliers as the coronavirus has dented domestic...
The daily Covid-19 sample tests has been far too inadequate despite notable increase in the number of PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) labs and sufficient availability of kits, according experts. They...
Coronavirus pandemic and resultant low demand of power and energy have reduced around 4,000 MW of electricity and 300 mmcfd of natural gas consumption across the country. "Currently, the country's...
The government has substantially increased the allocation on the social safety net programmes mainly due to supporting the coronavirus affected people. It allocated Tk. 955.74 billion or nearly 17 per...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a High Court order that granted bail to two contractors accused in a corruption case involving Tk 100.0 million in...
Slashing of corporate tax in the budget is unlikely to help bring down the effective tax rates of companies, hamstrung by a set of new provisions. Despite the cutback on...
Mashuk Chowdhury, renowned poet and Chief News Editor of the Bangladesh Pratidin, died of pneumonia at a hospital in Dhaka early Wednesday, report agencies. The 73-year-old journalist died around 1:30pm...
Dhaka Sangbadpatra Hawkers' Bahumukhi Samabay Samity Ltd president and freedom fighter Mostofa Kamal died on Wednesday at a city hospital, says a press release. He was 70. He died of...
Young professionals need to decide how to spend the early years of their careers so that they can achieve their dream role as soon as possible. Going out of the...
There has been a lot of talks and motivation directed towards the Class of 2020 about how to survive the ongoing tension created due to the pandemic. Surely this was...
Travelling is one of the most popular leisure activities among the youth of today. The ease of access to information related to traveling through internet and the availability of budget...
Bangladesh has joined the United Nations (UN) Alliance for Poverty Eradication that is formed to support actions geared towards poverty eradication and implementation of the SDGs. “Countries would have to...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) retained its first place ranking in the 2020 Aid Transparency Index (ATI), an independent measurement of aid transparency released on Wednesday at the Brookings Institution...
Speakers have urged the worker-sending countries to go for collective negotiation with the countries of destination to stop forced return of migrants. They noted that global migration regime obliges destination...
The air pollution in the capital Dhaka has reached an intolerable level. The city has been ranked as one of the worst in Air Quality Index (AQI) recently. The AQI,...
When the Covid-19 pandemic spread to other nations of the world from China, the mass media of Bangladesh were quite vocal in sounding alarm bells that the country was ill-prepared...
Speakers at a virtual dialogue have urged the government to reduce dependency on ‘expensive’ oil-fired power plants to cut overall electricity generation costs and boost up national economy. They also...
It has now been a few months since we have started living in a different world. In the meantime, many of us became used to a life confined within our...
Anyone with a basic understanding of how finance and economics work would acknowledge the fact that the relationship between risk and reward is a positive one. As risk increases, so...
The news story of China awarding duty-free and quota-free (DFQF) market access to Bangladesh's exports covering 97 per cent of the tariff lines is no doubt heartening. The trade benefit,...
The International Monetary Fund has projected that global economy could shrink 4.9 per cent in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic, 1.9 percentage points below than its previous forecast. IMF’s World...
The public administration ministry is sending to the prime minister a proposal to review the maximum age limit for government jobs as the coronavirus crisis is rendering many job-seekers ineligible,...
Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan expressed his desire to retire with the contemporaries Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim. During an online interview with Cricbuzz, Shakib also revealed the healthy competition...
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has elected MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga as its Chair with immediate effect. Paris-based world business organisation, which represents 45 million member bodies around the...
Some 413 Bangladeshis, mostly workers, will return from Bahrain on Wednesday night, according to Bangladesh embassy in Manama. The returnees include 40 deportees, 50 patients and 11 women. A special...
India reported 16,000 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, its highest daily increase since the outbreak began, and the government called in the army to manage new treatment centres with thousands...
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has approved a budget allocation of Tk 84.85 billion (8,485.12 crore) for 46 public and government universities for the fiscal year 2020-21. Of the total...
International Labour Organization (ILO) on Wednesday stressed policies to protect stranded migrant workers and ensure reintegration after their return to home countries. Due to Covid-19 pandemic, tens of millions of...
The government has launched an online agricultural market portal, hortexbazarbd.com, to boost trade of farm products during coronavirus pandemic, said officials. Agriculture minister Dr Mohammad Abdur Razzaque inaugurated the portal...
Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation (BPC) has decided to offer up to 50 per cent discount on its room rent of its hotels, motels at Kuakata and Cox’s Bazar from July 01...
A fire broke out at the ground floor of Bangladesh Bank on Wednesday afternoon, which was doused by the fire fighters soon. “The fire broke out on the wastage papers...
China has unveiled new, shortened negative lists for foreign investment, as part of efforts to further open up the economy and improve its business environment amid the novel coronavirus epidemic....
Farmers across the world must connect agriculture with the protection of biodiversity and the environment to have a sustainable food supply system in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the...
The government has shut down 45 red zones across the country, flagged on the basis of infection and death rates, as part of a renewed push to contain the coronavirus...
Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is now among the world's top 10 wealthiest people. Ambani is the chairman and chief executive of one of India's most valuable companies, Reliance Industries....
Dagonbhuiyan Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Md Rabiul Hossain and his wife have been infected with coronavirus. Besides, 16 more patients including a physician of Feni General Hospital and a Dhaka...
Intending hajj pilgrims who had deposited registration money to perform hajj under government or private management and now want to withdraw their money have to apply after July 12, reports...
People are passing undetected through the flawed health screening system at the Dhaka airport. After they land abroad, they get diagnosed with COVID-19. That raises questions over Bangladesh’s airport screening...
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