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Speakers at a programme on Sunday suggested a host of measures to help the country's economy weather Covid-19 fallout. The measures include mid- and long-term plans to generate new employment...
The government is going to raise the country's per capita income target by $153 to US$2,326 in the next fiscal, despite the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, officials said...
Bangladesh's apparel exports to the United States grew by 2.13 per cent during the first four months of 2020 calendar year, compared to the same period of last year. The...
The government has directed both the Dhaka City Corporations to form committees in all the wards aiming to contain the spread of Covid-19, an official said. The local government, rural...
The authorities of Dhaka University (DU) have claimed to introduce a new method which can detect coronavirus within around 40 minutes. A team of researchers, led by Professor Dr Zeba Islam Seraj, chairperson of...
Achieving the tax collection target set by the National Board of Revenue or NBR for fiscal year 2020-21 is "impossible," analysts said calling the goal "unrealistic." They made the remarks...
The health authorities are planning to put Dhaka, Narayanganj, Gazipur and Narsingdi under lockdown on pilot basis at the initial stage. Dr Abul Kalam Azad, director general of Directorate General...
The government has cancelled the gazettes of 1,181 freedom fighters. The Ministry of Liberation War Affairs issued a notification on Sunday in this regard, report UNB and BSS. The notification...
Import-export activities with India through the country's largest land-port Benapole have resumed on Sunday afternoon after two-and-half months. With the resumption of the trade activities, 24 Indian goods-laden trucks have...
World Bank Country Director Mercy Miyang Tembon has said the transition of stimulus packages, announced to minimise the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, should be transparent. She also suggested enhancing the...
There are different areas that are quite correctly drawing attention of European Union policy makers, particularly re-assessing factors that will need to be addressed regarding social elements of the corporate...
The Covid-19 pandemic, which primarily surfaced as a public health concern, has rapidly transformed into a socio-economic-humanitarian catastrophe of unprecedented nature and level around the world. Not a singular facet...
If online shopping during the lockdown was an option for many families in the capital city, it is only more so now for them. Why? Now the city is behaving...
As the demand for clamping a 'hard' lockdown from health experts and even business leaders is becoming louder, the government, apparently, is about to initiate a soft approach to contain...
The recent spectacle of physically distanced garment workers in queues, clad in personal protective equipment (PPE) and wearing masks and head covers while entering their factory, was undoubtedly encouraging. A...
Abdul Monayem Khan, a senior journalist and Cox’s Bazar correspondent of The Financial Express, died of Covid-19 at the Chittagong Medical College Hospital on Sunday. He was 54. His elder...
The Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) has taken up a project to install water treatment plant (Jashaldia) to supply drinking water from Padma River for four million residents...
Digital presence of teachers, students, officials and employees of all government and monthly pay order (MPO) listed high schools and colleges will be made mandatory across the country. Directorate of...
The Covid-19 pandemic continued it onslaught and expanded over 200 countries and regions around the world since its outbreak in China on December last. In case of pessimistic scenario assuming...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) found Aedes larvae in 216 houses and establishments in the capital on Sunday, the second day of its combing operation. Five organisations in the Tejgaon...
The condition of ailing Awami League presidium member and former health minister Mohammed Nasim is unchanged as he still remains in ‘coma’. He is currently in ventilation support at the...
bKash users can pay any amount of internet bill 24/7 from anywhere without any extra charge during the COVID-19 pandemic, said a press release. In the month of April and...
Three workers of a factory were burnt to death and two others received injuries while melting hot iron rod at Mirarsari upazila in Chattogram. The deceased were identified as Gias...
A new nonbank financial institution, Strategic Finance and Investment Limited, has secured final approval from Bangladesh Bank to run operations. The central bank issued a notice on awarding the authorisation...
The United States has evidence China is trying to slow down or sabotage the development of a COVID-19 vaccine by Western countries, Republican senator Rick Scott said on Sunday, Reuters...
Anti-racism protests attended by thousands of people in London and other major British cities "undoubtedly" risk causing an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases again, British health minister Matt...
A senior consultant of internal medicine at Square Hospital has died of the COVID-19 disease at the age of 67, reports bdnews24.com. Dr Mirza Nazim Uddin, director of medical services...
Senior Chinese officials released a lengthy report Sunday on the nation's response to the coronavirus pandemic, defending their government's actions and saying that China had provided information in a timely...
International Organization for Migration (IOM) along with the collaboration of two local non-government organisations of the district administration will produce 100,000 bottles of 200 ml hand sanitizers in Cox’s Bazar....
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday said he would consider changes to the policy that led the company to leave up controversial posts by US President Donald Trump during recent...
The icddr,b has issued a clarification over the statement of its Executive Director Dr John D Clemens cited by British publication The Economist in a widely-discussed report on the state...
Police arrested six suspects in connection with a gang-rape incident in Dhaka’s Kadamtali area. The arrestees are Md. Tushar (22), Md. Ali Hossain Rony (24), Md. Sumon Hawladar (30), Md....
Bangladesh’s first human milk bank stalled once after running into opposition by a group of Islamists last year, and it faces another prodigious hurdle now: the coronavirus outbreak. The hardliners...
Mohammad Shahid Islam, MP of Laxmipur- 2 constituency (independent), has been arrested in Kuwait. Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Kuwait arrested Shahid Islam on Saturday night, Bangladesh Ambassador to Kuwait...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday called upon all to get united for tackling the coronavirus situation instead of confusing the nation with the ‘virus of division’. "It's...
A team of Chinese medical experts, who have the firsthand experience of containing the virus and treating the patients with remarkable success, is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on Monday...
Tens of thousands of demonstrators amassed in Washington and other US cities on Saturday demanding an end to racism and brutality by law enforcement, as protests sparked by George Floyd’s...
NGO networks BDCSOprocess, CCNF (Cox’s Bazar CSO NGO Forum) Disaster Forum, NAHAB (National Alliance for Humanitarian Actors in Bangladesh) and NIRAPAD (Network for Information, Response and Preparedness, Activities on Disaster)...
The global death toll from the coronavirus has crossed 400,000 as the cases of infections are approaching seven million worldwide, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. The gradual...
A total of 2,767 policemen made full recovery from coronavirus as of Sunday. Some 6,206 policemen were infected with coronavirus across the country while performing duties. “Among the total infected...
Bangladeshi expatriates account for half of those who died from COVID-19 in the Maldives while the rest are locals, a Maldives Insider report analysis shows. Meanwhile, Xinhua reported as of...
Japan will not join the United States, Britain and others in issuing a statement scolding China for imposing a new security law, Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday, citing officials...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday donated Tk 100 million (10 crore) to the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) to continue its healthcare and other services to...
Stocks on both the bourses posted modest gains on Sunday, snapping a four-day losing streak, as some investors showed their buying binge on selective categories. DSEX, the key index of...
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 301 to 183,979, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Sunday. The reported death toll...
Forty two more people died of the highly infectious coronavirus disease in the last 24 hours to 8:00 am on Sunday. With the latest, the death toll from COVID-19 now...
In response to the ongoing pandemic and to ensure physical distancing, City Bank has introduced a mobile app for its working capital finance customers. These customers are the distributors and...
Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), a leading think-tank of the country, projected that the growth rate of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) would be 2.50 per cent in the current fiscal...
The government has made arrangements to bring Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT) Affairs Minister Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing to Dhaka for treatment at the Combined Military Hospital after he became the...
RAB Executive Magistrate Sarwoer Alam and his wife have been infected by the coronavirus. Sarwoer received the positive test result on Saturday night, he said, bdnews24.com reported. “My throat had...
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