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India and China said they wanted peace but blamed each other on Wednesday after soldiers of the two sides savagely fought each other with nail-studded clubs and stones on their...
Bangladesh's gross domestic product is expected to grow by 4.5 per cent in fiscal year 2020 and 7.5 per cent in fiscal year 2021, according to an Asian Development Bank...
Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) between Bangladesh and Bhutan is in the final stage and it is likely to be signed by August next to increase bilateral trade between the two...
Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) has made a set of proposals, including reduction of corporate tax for listed companies, for the government's further consideration before finalising the budget for the fiscal...
Banks have started deducting value added tax or VAT on the subscription of Netflix and other global entertainment platforms after orders from the central bank and the tax authority. The...
The BSEC will withdraw the floor price mechanism soon in a bid to ensure free price movements of stocks. Prof. Md. Mizanur Rahman, a commissioner of the securities regulator, disclosed...
The government's rice and paddy procurement drive has seen poor progress due to satisfactory prices of the grain in the mainstream market, said insiders. The directorate general of food (DGoF)...
Experts have called on the government to provide budgetary allocations for the urban poor as well as the newly poor across the country to tide them over during the coronavirus...
The Padma bridge project office has set up a corona unit on its construction site with an estimated fund of Tk 10 million to avoid viral infection. It is aimed...
Many Bangladeshi workers staying in Saudi Arabia have not been getting due wages for months, thus living in reduced circumstances during this coronavirus pandemic. Talking to the FE, some workers...
A significant number of general audit objections was nulled automatically through an order issued to help strengthen the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of Bangladesh, officials said....
The central bank has asked the commercial banks to take effective measures to implement the government-announced stimulus packages immediately to help revamp the country's overall economic activities. The advice was...
Industrial units across the country barring those in Dhaka metropolitan area terminated nearly 11000 workers in the past two weeks, according to reliable sources. The factory owners took recourse to...
We as a nation should emphasize more on producing good leaders. In a time of crisis, like we are in now, with people feeling frightened and uncertainty, leadership...
Rapid globalisation has turned the world into a global village. In this era a qualification like ACCA can be one's passport to a career that transcends national boundaries. ACCA, the...
Interactive Cares is holding yet another online contest amidst this dreaded quarantine. The lockdown has undoubtedly brought an immense amount of anxiety among all people. Nevertheless, many people are utilising...
Experiences help things get better, don't they? As Indira Gandhi said, "Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision." The world is a place of...
The World Health Organisation said on Wednesday that testing of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in its large multi-country trial of treatments for COVID-19 patients had been halted after results from...
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) Wednesday started a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of anti-parasitic medicine Ivermectin in combination with antibiotic...
The three months of horrendous human tragedies unleased by Covid-19 resulted in the death of over 110,000 people in the United States. About 500,000 people have been infected and many...
In the proposed budget of FY21, the Finance Minister started with the promise of high hope despite the current unprecedented crisis due to Covid-19. Priority sectors have been rightly identified. ...
The top officials of the United Hospital in Dhaka cannot leave Bangladesh as they are charged with negligent death in a case over a fatal fire at its isolation unit...
The government has set an ambitious goal for growth of private investment. The question is whether such goal is achievable or not. Analysts say the goal of doubling private investment...
The common people across the globe are spending their days in anxieties and uncertainties in the midst of Covid-19 pandemic, which is now racing towards a peak in Bangladesh. The...
Marico Bangladesh Limited has recently launched a website under Parachute Just for Baby brand that would serve as an informative web platform for parents regarding safe baby care. This will...
One of the much talked about mechanisms for raising NBR revenue as well as bringing a sense of appropriateness in the country's Tax-GDP ratio is the expansion of tax net....
Qatar Airways has temporarily closed its Bangladesh office to maintain social distancing and requested all passengers to call or email (Tel:+97440222200, qrmedia@qatarairways.com.qa) to help with their bookings. “As the safety...
Experts term proposed budget ‘unrealistic and fictional’ Experts at a post-budget meeting on Wednesday, termed the proposed budget ‘most unrealistic’ and ‘fictional’. They said that with such...
Bangladesh has deferred two LNG cargoes having the capacity of carrying 138,000 cubic meters of LNG each as nationwide lockdown to combat the coronavirus pandemic has dented domestic demand of...
Visa Inc, a leader in payments technology, on Wednesday unveiled its plans to establish a country liaison office in Dhaka. The new office, expected to be established by year end...
The clinical trial of convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19 patients in Bangladesh has hit a snag due to a shortage of funds as the coronavirus outbreak worsens. At the beginning...
Dhaka Stock Exchange and the Chittagong Stock Exchange have revised the trading hours as banking hours changed due to rising cases of Covid-19 infections and deaths in the country. As...
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has been infected with coronavirus. The minister is now undergoing treatment at Bashundhara Ever Care Hospital (formerly Apollo Hospital), his personal secretary Kamruzzaman Chowdhury Tuhin told...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a meeting on Wednesday discussed the Covid-19 situation in the country and issued directives to contain the pandemic. The meeting was held at the PM’s...
Senior officials from China and US are scheduled to meet on Wednesday in the US state of Hawaii to talk over a range of key issues like bilateral trade, Huawei...
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) on Wednesday remobilized its mobile P3 lab to facilitate COVID-19 nucleic acid testing in Beijing amid a renewed outbreak, according...
Greater investment in clean energy infrastructure will contribute to Asia and the Pacific’s recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and make economies more resilient against future shocks, participants at...
Healthcare authorities on Wednesday said experts concerned were asked to quicken examinations of efficacy of a two-drug combination developed recently by a team led by a senior Bangladeshi doctor, claiming...
US-Bangla Airlines has been operating 32 domestic flights on different routes daily. US-Bangla is operating five daily flights from Dhaka to Chattogram, five to Jashore, four to Saidpur and two...
British inflation fell to its lowest since June 2016 last month as the coronavirus pandemic sucked demand from the global economy and oil prices tumbled. Consumer price inflation slowed to...
Subscription of ‘CAPITEC-IBBL Shariah Unit Fund’, an open-end Shariah compliant mutual fund, is set to begin from July 1, 2020. The initial size of the CEPITEC-IBBL Shariah Unit Fund is...
India impatiently awaited Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s response on Wednesday to the death of at least 20 soldiers in a border clash with Chinese troops as the country’s media vented...
Russia on Wednesday reported 7,843 new cases of the novel coronavirus, its lowest daily caseload registered since April 30, pushing the nationwide total to 553,301. Russia’s virus response team said...
City Bank has donated a high flow nasal cannula machine to Chattogram General Hospital (CGH) to facilitate treatment of corona virus disease (Covid-19) patient. The machine is donated as part...
Germany’s smartphone app to help trace coronavirus infections has been downloaded 6.5 million times in the first 24 hours since its launch, the chief executive of software company SAP said...
Coronavirus rapid testing kits developed by Gonoshasthaya, known as “GR COVID-19 Dot Blot”, are not effective, BSMMU Vice-Chancellor Kanak Kanti Barua has said. The kits were capable to accurately detect...
Stocks inched up on Wednesday, with turnover remaining below Tk 1.0 billion-mark, as most of the investors were cautious amid worsening situation of the deadly virus. DSEX, the key index...
Bangladesh witnessed 4,008 new cases of novel coronavirus on Wednesday, the health directorate said, its biggest daily increase yet in infections, bringing the total case count to 98,489. Authorities also...
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has announced that he and his wife Ana Garcia both tested positive for the novel coronavirus (Covid-19). "Today I was diagnosed as having been infected...
A Bangladeshi cattle trader was shot dead by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Dakkhin Patari village along Adatala border in Sapahar upazila of Naogaon on early Wednesday....
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