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The Singapore government is racing to create additional housing for about 60,000 migrant workers by the end of this year, as it seeks to reduce the density in dormitories which...
The central bank and the securities regulator took a set of decisions in a meeting on Monday, including disbursement of the listed banks' cash dividends only among small investors, considering...
Mercantile Bank Limited (MBL) has taken a series of measures to bring un-banked people into the banking network through boosting micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) across the country. "We...
Moody’s Investors Service downgraded India’s credit rating to a notch above junk on Monday, citing a prolonged period of slow growth in Asia’s third-largest economy, rising debt and persistent stress...
A writ petition challenging the legality of raising bus fare by 60 per cent for the period of coronavirus pandemic was filed with the High Court on Monday. Barrister Mohammad...
The European Union will provide a fund worth 500 million euros to support the country's readymade garment workers, informed sources said. The fund will be disbursed among the RMG workers,...
The High Court on Monday ordered the hospitals concerned and clinics of the country to test the COVID-19 samples of pregnant women on a priority basis. The High Court bench...
The flow of inward remittance fell by more than 14 per cent in May following the coronavirus outbreak in different parts of the world, officials said. Remittance from Bangladeshis working...
Mobile phone users and tobacco consumers may have to count additional costs in the upcoming fiscal year (FY). The Value Added Tax (VAT) wing under the National Board of Revenue...
The deficit in the upcoming budget is likely to hit a new high of 5.7 per cent due to the government's "expansionary" fiscal approach aimed at weathering the coronavirus effect...
The country's banking system, already creaking under bad debts and other irregularities, now faces unprecedented challenges as the ongoing pandemic takes its toll on the economy. Economic problems, when they...
The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly altered the global workplace and employer-employee relations. With the easing of restrictions in a rising corona crisis and the highest numbers recorded yet, it is...
Despite the loud claims of unprecedented scientific progress and huge technological breakthroughs for over a century, the circumstances surrounding Covid-19 or Novel Coronavirus pandemic appear to be a lot similar...
The Yamuna and the Ganges, the two rivers flowing by the Indian capital of Delhi and the city of Kolkata, the West Bengal capital, are notorious for their highly polluted...
Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday said the government can go tough again, as and when necessary, in its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic’s local outbreak. Specially...
At a time Covid-19 is claiming a few thousand lives globally every day, the killing of 26 Bangladesh nationals and four Sudanese in Libya may not have drawn the media...
Decades of privatisation, outsourcing and budget cuts in the name of "efficiency" have significantly hampered many governments' responses to the Covid-19 crisis. At the same time, successful responses by other...
We have yet to know when the peril of the Covid-19 pandemic will come to an end. In such an uncertain situation, most of the countries have adopted the "lockdown"...
The government plans to flag COVID-19 risk zones as part of efforts to strangle the spread of the novel coronavirus in the country. Areas will be flagged red, green and...
The government is trying to boost domestic food production to tackle any food crisis that may arise amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, said Agriculture Minister Dr. Abdur Razzaque. “The production...
Huawei launched its next-generation IdeaHub series intelligent endpoint for all-scenario smart office ecosystem recently aimed at improving efficiency for enterprises, especially remote collaboration during social distancing. Huawei IdeaHub is a...
City, long route and mini buses resumed services on Monday with 60 per cent higher fares and following some, not all, health guidelines to check the further spread of coronavirus...
India's cases of coronavirus crossed 190,000, the health ministry said on Monday, overtaking France to become seventh highest in the world, as the government eases back on most curbs after...
Environment, Forests and Climate Change Minister Md Shahabuddin on Monday encouraged people to have juicy seasonal fruits to boost immune system in addition to staying on high alert to avoid...
The World Health Organization (WHO) should press four governments including Bangladesh that have shut down the internet to minority populations during the Covid-19 crisis to restore internet access, Human Rights...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has extended the deadline for submission of corporate and other tax returns until June 29. The extended deadline would be valid for the taxpayers...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has issued a guideline allowing non-bank entities to provide electronic payment services to the customers of schedule banks and others. Such service will fall under the...
Offices at the Secretariat will be running with physical presence of maximum 25 per cent officers and employees amid the COVID-19 outbreak, according to a government decision. At the same...
The iDEA project under the ICT Division is assisting educational institutions in conducting online classes. The inaugural ceremony of online class activities was organized on Monday at Dhaka Residential Model...
Vegetable farming on floating beds made of water hyacinth and bamboo in waterbodies or ponds, has drawn huge response from farmers in different areas of Sylhet district. This method of...
Police arrested three youths from Mouhali village of Ghior upazila in Manikganj on Sunday night in a case filed over gang- rape of a woman. The arrestees are—Wasim Hossain, 20,...
Bangladesh ODI captain Tamim Iqbal has been named World Food Programme’s National Goodwill Ambassador in Bangladesh. WFP confirmed Tamim’s appointment on June 1 through a press release, reports UNB. “I...
The Islampur branch of BASIC Bank was locked down on Monday after eight employees including the branch in-charge tested positive for COVID-19. A senior official of the state-owned commercial bank...
Stocks got back into the red on Monday, the second trading session after a long closure, amid a growing tension over the Covid-19 outbreak as the country is set to...
Health sector should get utmost priority in the upcoming budget for the 2020-2021 fiscal in a bid to reduce COVID-19 effects and provide basic health security for vulnerable population, speakers...
The RMG Sustainability Council (RSC) on Monday took over the functions of Accord as the extended tenure of the western retailers’ platform finally ended on Sunday. Ready-made garment (RMG) manufacturers,...
The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested a man suspected of trafficking 26 Bangladeshi nationals who were recently killed in Libya. Kamal Hossain, alias Haji Kamal, 55, was apprehended in Dhaka...
Twenty-two more people died from coronavirus (COVID-19) in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours till Monday, according to the statistics of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). With this, the...
The hygiene and social distancing rules critical to limiting the spread of the coronavirus infection are being disregarded as passengers swarmed the Chandpur launch terminal, a day after river transport...
Domestic flights operation resumed on Monday on Dhaka-Chattogram, Dhaka-Sylhet and Dhaka-Saidpur routes on a limited scale after more than two months of suspension amid the COVID-19 pandemic. While talking to...
South Africa partly lifted a two month-old coronavirus lockdown on Monday, letting people outside for work, worship, exercise or shopping, and allowing mines and factories to run at full capacity...
Renowned F, known as one-half of the music director duo Sajid-Wajid, died on Monday in a Mumbai hospital due to multiple health complications at the age of 42. The singer...
Australia’s three decades of uninterrupted prosperity are coming to an abrupt end as the global coronavirus pandemic crashes one of its most lucrative sources of income – immigration. The country...
No new dengue case was reported in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Monday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). One dengue patient is now being treated...
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Monday said he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, speaking during a Facebook live video. “I didn’t have any symptoms, I decided to...
About 40 US cities including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago and Washington DC have imposed curfews as protests against police brutality kept spreading for the sixth day. The protests began in...
As the search for a remedy to COVID-19 continues in full swing, the national technical advisory committee on the coronavirus has warned against using any unproven medicine or plasma therapy...
Buses on Monday morning resumed services after more than two months of suspension in efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus in the country. The presence of passengers is...
A man died in Subadda area of Keraniganj on Sunday night a day after his son’s death from coronavirus infection. The deceased was identified as Bazlur Rahman Mridha, 75. Bazlur’s...
Nearly 24 hours after launching from Florida, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule delivered NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station on Sunday, marking the first US...
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