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Bangladesh reported 2,695 fresh cases of novel coronavirus on Wednesday, the health directorate said, bringing the total case count to 55,140. Authorities also registered 37 more fatalities in the last...
Chinese Company M/s Unicorn Leather Goods Factory Ltd will establish a leather and artificial leather products manufacturing industry in Chattogram Export Processing Zone. This fully foreign owned company will invest...
Eleven pairs of intercity trains resumed operations from Wednesday, Bangladesh Railway said. Directorate General of Bangladesh Railway Shamsuzzaman said train services resumed with eight pairs of intercity trains following health...
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases and the death toll have been rising since mid-April in the country but it was in May when the situation worsened. Bangladesh reported its...
The government’s directives on maintaining social distancing and health guidelines are largely being ignored by passengers and transport operators in Bhola. Launch owners apparently did not take any step to...
Saifur Rahman, a COVID-19 patient who complained of being held captive all day at Anwer Khan Modern Hospital over medical bills, has been allowed to leave after paying Tk 150,000...
The construction work of the country’s first ever metro rail is progressing fast as the authorities have completed overall 72.12 per cent work so far of the project from Uttara...
Two female coronavirus patients, undergoing treatment at the isolation unit of Jashore General Hospital, fled on Tuesday night. They were identified as Sanu Begum, 27, wife of Lutfur Gazi of...
Stocks witnessed very slow trend in early hour of trading on Wednesday amid growing tension over the impacts of coronavirus pandemic in the listed companies’ earnings as well as country’s...
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of US cities on Tuesday for an eighth consecutive night of protests over the death of a black man in police...
India’s coronavirus infections crossed 200,000, the health ministry said on Wednesday, and a peak could still be weeks away in the world’s second most populous country. Cases jumped by 8,909...
The spring started out rosy for the Indian arm of ClearScore, a company that offers online credit scores and loans. Within weeks, the coronavirus pandemic had taken hold, drastically changing...
The Coffee Table Book (CTB) titled ‘Shinning Bangladesh’ dedicated to the celebration of the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has been published. The press...
Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use...
The public subsection of Express Insurance Ltd now will begin from June 14 as the insurer announced fresh date for IPO subscription on Wednesday. The IPO subscription for shares of...
A senior official of the Directorate General of Food died from coronavirus (COVID-19) on Monday night. Utpal Kumar Saha, 53, chief controller of Dhaka Rationing under the DGF, recently tested...
The Dhaka University is introducing a health insurance scheme for its students in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. A six-strong committee, headed by the treasurer, has been formed to...
Zoom Video Communications nearly doubled its expectations for annual sales on Tuesday, driven by a surge in users as more people work from home and connect with friends online during...
The Pan Pacific Sonargaon Dhaka will be fully operational and prepared to serve its valued patrons with heightened safety measures from June 08 onwards, said a press release. A comprehensive...
Depositors can now be able to pay their due installments of DPS (deposit pension scheme) and other savings schemes for the months of April and May, 2020 by the 20th...
The price of green papaya showed uptrend in the city kitchen markets in last few days, market sources said. Green papaya, which is an available vegetable round-the-year, was selling at...
CHATTOGRAM: The ship-breaking industry which supplies raw materials for the country's steel and iron sector is suffering a huge loss in the current financial year because of twin problems, imposition...
Benapole Customs House has set a new record across the country by reducing the customs duty assessment time through issuing customs delivery orders in just ten minutes and release orders...
Md. Abdul Halim, former secretary of the industries ministry on Tuesday joined the securities regulator as a commissioner. Mr. Halim has joined the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange (BSEC) following a...
The interest rate on Bangladesh Government Treasury Bond (BGTB) increased slightly on Tuesday as banks were least interested in buying the instruments. The yield, generally known as coupon interest rate,...
Most of the shopping malls in Dhaka city have resumed operations after Eid vacation amid risks of Covid-19 that transmit to people who come into close contact. It is mandatory...
With the sudden rise in the number of death among Bangladeshi expatriates in Saudi Arabia last week due to coronavirus infection, the total death toll of Bangladeshi citizens abroad reached...
Garment, footwear and construction sectors have suffered the biggest economic hit during the Covid-19 pandemic with supply chain disruption as the top challenge, according to a latest report. An estimated...
The High Court on Tuesday wanted to know what condition the prisoners and prison staff across the country are passing through during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The court asked Deputy...
A virtual court in Dhaka on Tuesday rejected a bail petition of Meftahul Islam Zion, a 15th batch student of naval architecture and marine engineering department of Bangladesh University of...
With the government's bank and non-bank borrowing on a steep rise, the next fiscal's budget is likely to earmark an allocation of Tk 635.25 billion for paying interest. The allocation...
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) will collect tax from all the 26 sectors, instead of the present nine, to increase the revenue income of the corporation without increasing tax burden...
This years’ budget must put thrust on ensuring our survival through strengthening health, medical and social security sector. Prominent economic analysts and experts shared such thought on upcoming National Budget...
Health and safety is the highest priority at Prime Bank, then comes operations and business. Minimum staff and maximum safety. Strictly maintaining social distancing and extending care and compassion to...
Vivo has come up with its new smartphone V19 after Eid vacation. During this COVID-19 crisis, V19 can be a different experience for photography. A dual eye view selfie camera...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has cancelled its all domestic flights due to a lack of passengers on the second day after resumption of services following a two-month shutdown over the coronavirus...
India launches $6.7b plan to boost electronics manufacturing India has launched a $6.65 billion plan to boost electronics manufacturing, saying it would start by offering incentives to five global smartphone...
A total of 85 public representatives were suspended temporarily so far their alleged irregularities in cash aid disbursement and relief distribution for destitute people since detection of the country’s first...
Information Minister Hasan Mahmud has said United Hospital cannot avoid responsibility for the deaths of five people caused by last week’s fire incident at COVID-19 isolation unit of the hospital....
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has appointed Dona Bertarelli, an ocean conservation advocate, as its special adviser for blue economy. Dona Bertarelli, a Swiss philanthropist with...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said that the main opposition BNP had dragged themselves to a position of ‘political isolation’, through years of what he called negative and...
Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain on Tuesday said that coronavirus is seriously affecting public life as the government has failed to control its outbreak in the country. In a statement,...
Changing roster duties so that a balance is achieved between staff coming to office and those working from home is just one of the innovations that general insurance major Green...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) unveiled two graffities at Gulshan 2, DCC market recently to recognise and thank the frontline workers for rendering...
The lockdown is attacking all groups of people in the world either physically or mentally. No employed or unemployed person will come out better from it. The lockdown may save...
Bangladesh High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Riaz Hamidullah met Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees on Tuesday and hoped Dhaka-Colombo relations would be further improved in the coming years,...
It's easy to find fault with the United States' Covid-19 response or, to be more accurate, the woeful lack thereof. Denial, delays, political infighting, and systemic failures have resulted in...
The world has not experienced what it is experiencing due to Covid-19 pandemic in any episode of its recorded history. A global pandemic of this intensity and pace that has...
Eleven years after one cyclone had exposed houses and arable land to onslaught of saline waters, another one found the people of Bangladesh's coastal belt barely protected. Amphan's trail of...
Although the coronavirus pandemic has not yet swooped on this land with the same murderous frenzy as in many countries, its impact cannot be measured in terms of deaths and...
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