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Though it is common knowledge that businesses, both in the global and domestic spheres, have been severely affected by the pandemic-induced shutdowns, the picture of the damage so done to...
The Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) has urged the government to reconsider its decision to raise bus fare by 60 percent amid the coronavirus pandemic. In a message on Tuesday,...
Daraz, a leading online marketplace in the country and a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, will invest Tk 5.0 billion in Bangladesh by 2021 to make the e-commerce experience more congenial...
The Ministry of Liberation War Affairs has issued a gazette notification recognising 1,256 people as freedom fighters. The gazette was published on Tuesday following a decision taken at the 66th...
A total of 5,333 policemen were infected with coronavirus across the country while performing duties as of Tuesday as the virus infection situation continues to worsen with the rise in...
Facebook employees walked away from their work-from-home desks on Monday and took to Twitter to accuse Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg of inadequately policing US President Donald Trump’s posts as strictly...
Gilead Sciences Inc is developing easier-to-administer versions of its antiviral treatment remdesivir for COVID-19 that could be used outside of hospitals, including ones that can be inhaled, after trials showed...
A British shopping app is raising money to help hard-pressed garment workers in Bangladesh by selling off clothes ditched by global fashion brands as the coronavirus crisis decimated their sales,...
The High Court (HC) has ordered the authorities to submit probe reports by Jun 14 on a fire that left five people dead at United Hospital’s COVID-19 unit. The authorities...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) is set to launch special cargo trains between Chapainawabganj and Dhaka to carry mango from its main producing districts. According to a notice issued by BR’s Chief...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has planned to resume cricket gradually as they want the players to prepare for the upcoming Sri Lanka tour despite the uncertainty looming over the...
Gilead Sciences Inc has said its antiviral drug remdesivir had mixed results in a late stage study of people with moderate COVID-19, as patients given a five-day course of the...
Keeping at least one metre apart, wearing face masks and eye protection are the best ways to reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection, according to the largest review to date...
After two months and eight days, trade between Bangladesh and India resumed through Bhomra land port of Satkhira from Tuesday. Import and export activities through this port were suspended due...
Following the success of operating eight intercity train services by abiding health guidelines, Bangladesh Railway (BR) is set to resume 11 more train services on Wednesday. While the road and...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) on Tuesday found Aedes larvae in a house in the capital and fined Tk 10, 000 during a mobile court drive. A DNCC team led...
The family of one of the 26 Bangladeshi migrants murdered in Libya has filed a case against three ‘middlemen’ in Maksudpur upazila of Gopalganj district under the anti-trafficking law. Kabul...
A Hong Kong pro-democracy group said on Tuesday it had filed a complaint with the United Nations over what it described as abuse of anti-government protesters held in custody in...
As deadly coronavirus continues to spread across the globe, strategies for developing a safe and effective vaccine are rapidly moving forward, according to reports carried by various global news media,...
At least 20 people have died in a series of landslides that took place in Assam of India on Tuesday. The dead are largely from three different districts of the...
Bangladesh Post Office (BPO) has started transporting mango, litchi and other seasonal fruits of marginal farmers of Rajshahi region to Dhaka free of cost through its fleet. The initiative has...
World Health Organization (WHO) experts and a range of other scientists said on Monday there was no evidence to support an assertion by a high-profile Italian doctor that the coronavirus...
At least five US police were hit by gunfire during violent protests over the death of a black man in police custody, police and media said, hours after President Donald...
With the protests and riots in the US reaching fever pitch, US President Donald Trump’s leaked call to governors across America to “dominate” and “arrest and try people” -- has...
Maldives’ Health Protection Agency recorded the COVID-19 related death of a third Bangladeshi on Monday, reported Maldives’ The Edition. A 54-year-old man, the latest COVID-19 Bangladesh victim, admitted at Tree...
India's government said on Tuesday it has approved Gilead Sciences Inc's antiviral drug remdesivir for emergency use in treating COVID-19 patients, reports Reuters. Remdesivir is the first drug to show...
A total of 48,300 enterprises with a total registered capital of 557.9 trillion Vietnamese dong (nearly 24.3 billion US dollars) were set up in Vietnam in the first five months...
Jordanian authorities should immediately release Bangladeshi journalist Selim Akash and drop any charges against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Monday in a statement. On April 14,...
The point-to-point inflation rate in May dropped to 5.35 per cent compared to that of 5.96 per cent in the previous month (April), official data showed. A year ago in...
Stocks kept their losing streak on Tuesday amid growing tension over the impacts of coronavirus pandemic in the listed companies’ earnings as well as country’s overall economy. DSEX, the key...
The government on Tuesday approved two COVID-19 response projects at a combined cost of Tk 24.92 billion aimed at combating the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus in the country. Along...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said coronavirus has slowed economic advancement of the country to some extent but the nation will step forward defying all hurdles. Coronavirus (COVID-19) has slowed ...
Bangladesh confirmed 2,911 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 52,445. This is the biggest spike in daily new cases of the...
Indonesia has cancelled the hajj pilgrimage this year for people in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation due to concerns over the coronavirus, the religious affairs minister said on Tuesday. Each...
The first case of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) was reported in Wuhan, China, in late December 2019. As of 31 May, 2020, over 6.2 million COVID cases were reported in over 200...
A Rohingya man died from coronavirus (COVID-19) while undergoing treatment at the isolation centre at Ukhiya camp in Cox’s Bazar district on Monday night. The deceased could not be identified...
President Donald Trump has threatened to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest in the US over the death of a black man in police custody. He said...
Police have arrested four people in connection with the disappearance of Tk 8.0 million from a National Bank vehicle in Old Dhaka. They were arrested in multiple raids across the...
Authorities in Congo announced a new Ebola outbreak in the western city of Mbandaka on Monday, adding to another epidemic of the virus that has raged in the east since...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has filed a fresh civil case against 17 Philippine entities to recover the 81 million US stolen in a 2016 cyber heist, reports philstar.com. The case has...
The Indian city of Mumbai could be in for a weather phenomenon that has never occurred in its documented history. A cyclone developing over the Arabian Sea—the second to be...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has expanded the Trade Finance Program (TFP) to support private sector in Bangladesh by raising its financing limit to US$755 million from $518 million at...
Stocks saw downward trend in early hour of trading on Tuesday, maintaining the previous day’s downturn amid growing tension over the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic in the listed companies’ earnings....
Keeping at least one metre apart and wearing face masks and eye protection are the best ways to cut the risk of COVID-19 infection, according to the largest review to...
Former Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) shortly after he was admitted to a private hospital in Dhaka on Monday. “My father is COVID-19...
Saudi power company ACWA's proposal to generate solar power in the farms of state-owned sugar corporation has triggered opposition from interest groups who fear destruction of fertile agricultural land. The...
Although the government has shut all educational institutions across the country amid the coronavirus outbreak, a good number of English medium schools in Dhaka are reportedly forcing guardians to pay...
Prime Bank’s consolidated earnings per share (EPS) rose 13.5 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter (Q1) for January-March, 2020, according to an official disclosure on Tuesday. The board of...
Two more close-end mutual funds, managed by ICB Asset Management Company, each have got their tenure extension for another 10 years, said an official disclosure on Tuesday. Closed-end mutual funds...
The signing of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) with three friendly nations has been delayed for months as the economy is battling the global COVID-19 fallout, officials have said. Trade officials...
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