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The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday launched a formal investigation into graft allegations in purchasing safety equipment like N95 masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare professionals. In this...
The Department of Shipping (DoS) has extended the validity of certificates, surveys, audits and inspections of Bangladeshi flag vessels, which have already expired or are going to expire before October,...
The local overall electricity generation costs have fallen amid a downtrend in global oil prices with the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic across countries. "The falling oil prices have reduced...
BRAC has launched an emergency financial support of Tk 30 million for 7,250 returned migrant workers who are affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Dr Ahmed Munirus Saleheen, secretary of Ministry...
The central bank has slashed cash reserve ratio (CRR) by 200 basis points to 2.0 per cent only from existing level of 4.0 per cent for the offshore banking operation...
Business leaders alleged on Thursday that the changes in VAT measures in the budget have turned the relevant law into a business-unfriendly statute. They said the 2012 VAT law has...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal since his presentation of the budget in parliament on June 11 last has, at least, on a couple of occasions said he would spend first...
Every year when the finance minister unveils the annual national budget, a set of budget document is released by the ministry of finance. One of the documents is 'Bangladesh Economic...
With their mobility markedly reduced by the pandemic containment measures like lockdown, and the public thus made to stay within the four walls of their houses for weeks together, the...
The proposed budget amounting to Tk 5680.00 billion for the fiscal year 2020-2021 is the largest-ever in the history of Bangladesh. This is a dilemma to have this big budget...
According to UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) 2019, the number of international migrants estimated 272 million, of which two-thirds are migrant workers. Labour migration from Bangladesh...
Spring is the season when the whole nature blossoms with all its expressions of beauty: new leaves, flowers, fruits, vegetables. All this prompts a riot of colour. The first book...
Had the African-American (then called 'negro' or black) lady Rosa Parks been alive today by miracle, she would have certainly felt devastated. A great bewilderment would have overcome her. It...
Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) on Thursday forecast that rainfall will continue for two more days all over the country commencing 6:00pm, reports UNB. “The axis of Monsoon runs through Uttar...
The government has appointed new director generals (DGs) to the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution, the Department of Disaster Management and NGO Affairs Bureau, reports bdnews24.com. The Ministry of Public...
Mobilisation of equipment worth Tk 4.0 billion for implementing different development projects has been delayed due to communication disruption amid coronavirus pandemic. State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul...
The World Health Organisation hopes hundreds of millions of doses of coronavirus vaccine can be produced this year and two billion doses by the end of 2021, chief scientist Soumya...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) is set to suspend two inter-city train services on Dhaka-Chattogram and Dhaka-Noakhali route from Saturday for not getting adequate passengers amid coronavirus pandemic. The service of Sonar...
Rights groups, including local and international NGOs, have called for an integrated plan to save the displaced Rohingya people and the host community from coronavirus in the Cox’s Bazar. They...
The Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock has directed the Department of Livestock Services (DLS) to take urgent measures to prevent the spread of lumpy skin disease (LSD) in cattle. At...
A daylong online training on Artificial Intelligence (AI) was organised by the Innovation Design and Entrepreneurship Academy (iDEA) project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) under the ICT Division. Senior Secretary...
Unilever Bangladesh Limited (UBL) has donated BiPAP breathing machines and Covid-19 testing kits to two organisations in Bangladesh—Sajida Foundation and icddr,b, says a press release. This donation is part of...
Namibia's health system has drastically reduced the risk of about 200,000 people living with HIV and Aids from contracting coronavirus through the distribution of antiretroviral drugs for consumption over a...
The temporary fences that separated protesters from the White House have come down. But its occupant, President Donald Trump, appears to be more isolated than ever, reports Reuters. Recent opinion...
Police recovered the body of a young man from the rooftop of Arambagh Sporting Club in the capital’s Motijheel area on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Saiful Islam, 35,...
The coronavirus crisis in Bangladesh is not going away anytime soon and it may take at least two to three years to disappear, said Prof Dr Abul Kalam Azad, Director...
Different units of police have arrested 109 people over extortion on roads and highways across the country from June 1 to 17. "Altogether 109 people were arrested in 51 cases...
Increasing automation and digitisation in the workplace is gradually altering the quality and quantity of jobs. New skills are demanded and hence born, while older skills are becoming obsolete. The...
Farid Uddin Ahmed, director of United Commercial Bank (UCB) and member of its risk management committee, died of COVID-19. He breathed his last at Anwer Khan Modern Hospital in Dhaka...
East West University Center for Research and Training (EWUCRT) has organised a research seminar on Rohingya genocide in Myanmar on Google Meet app. The online seminar titled ‘Rohingya Persecutions in...
The Bangladesh Meteorological Department has warned of landslides in the hilly regions of Chattogram as heavy rainfall batters different parts of the country with the onset of the monsoon season,...
Rana Dasgupta, a prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal, and his wife have been tested positive for Covid-19. Mr Dasgupta has been suffering from fever and sore throat for the...
The number of confirmed Covid-19 patients has surpassed 100,000-mark in Bangladesh. Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Thursday reported 38 deaths from the coronavirus (Covid-19) in the 24 hours...
France’s elite ‘RAID’ police unit has arrested several members of the Chechen community after four nights of gang violence in the city of Dijon, a police source said. Trouble first...
Stocks edged lower on Thursday, with turnover remaining below Tk 1.0 billion-mark, amid growing virus tension and dissatisfaction over the proposed budget. DSEX, the key index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday stressed the need for strengthening Bangladesh Navy further in a bid to protect the country’s vast maritime area. “It is essential to make our...
Bangladesh, for the fourth consecutive year since 2017, has been ranked among the 10 worst countries in the world where labour rights are not guaranteed, according to a global survey....
A suspected criminal was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Habibpur in Gazipur's Kaliakoir upazila early Thursday. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Hanif, 30, son of...
New Zealand recorded on Thursday its third new case of the coronavirus this week as quarantine breaches and other failures undermined public confidence days after it declared itself among the...
The government has directed all mayors to prepare for zone-based lockdown restrictions to tackle the rampant coronavirus outbreak in Bangladesh. Local Government Minister Md Tajul Islam handed out instructions to...
ClimateLaunchpad, the world’s largest green business idea competition, has been launched worldwide and for the first time in Bangladesh, seeking ideas to tackle climate change. Gen Lab, a youth-led social...
A doctor of Enam Medical College Hospital, who was suffering from fever and cold, died from coronavirus at his residence in the capital's Mirpur area on Wednesday night. The deceased...
The DSE Brokers Association urged the government to reconsider four proposals in the final budget, including reduction of AIT of its members to 0.015 per cent from the existing 0.05...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has sought income tax documents of Mohammad Shahid Islam, MP of Laxmipur-2 constituency (independent), his family and his sister-in-law from the National Board of Revenue (NBR)....
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States would not close businesses again as several states reported rising numbers of new coronavirus infections. “We won’t be closing the country...
Developing Asia will barely grow in 2020 as containment measures to address the Covid-19 pandemic hamper economic activity and weaken external demand, according to an updated Asian Development Bank (ADB)...
South Korea’s chief nuclear negotiator will hold talks with officials in Washington on Thursday amid flaring tensions with North Korea after Pyongyang blew up an inter-Korean liaison office and threatened...
Stocks witnessed downward trend in early trading on Thursday with sluggish turnover as growing tension over the Covid-19 pandemic and floor price mechanism kept the investors almost stagnate. Trading started...
Chinese health authority said Thursday that it received reports of 28 new confirmed Covid-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Wednesday, of which 24 were domestically transmitted and four were imported....
In a withering behind-the-scenes portrayal, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton accused him of sweeping misdeeds that included explicitly seeking Chinese President Xi Jinping’s help to win...
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