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The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) operated eight mobile courts on Tuesday as part of its anti-mosquito drive to destroy the breeding grounds of Aedes mosquitoes, responsible for dengue and...
"When will this pandemic end?" is a recurring question going through everyone's thoughts right now. It is hard to make assumptions about the future after this pandemic as the entire...
Post-pandemic fashion industry is expected to see the biggest paradigm shift in supply chain in decades. Being socially responsible and offering competitive pricing will no longer be enough during such...
As part of precautionary measures, the Health and Family Welfare Ministry has issued a 13-point health rules for government officials and employees in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. Followings are...
Perhaps the United States (US) establishment and think tank has taken a decision to consider China as their number one enemy. So, the US government, media and its ally are...
With 232,243 COVID-19 cases, Russia now has the second highest number of cases in the world after the United States, according to the Johns Hopkins University in the United States,...
The world's tallest building, Dubai's 828-metre Burj Khalifa, has become a glowing charity donation box, raising money for food for United Arab Emirates residents suffering the economic impact of the...
The process of grade 11 enrolments in colleges will begin on June 6 if the results of SSC and equivalent exams are published in May. Professor Harun-or-Rashid, the college inspector...
Bangladesh and Uzbekistan have agreed to form Joint Working Group (JWG) to boost bilateral trade and investment through removing different barriers. Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi gave the information on Tuesday...
Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) has urged seven banks in Cox’s Bazar to provide loans to salt farmers at 4 per cent interest with rebate facility. The banks...
Government should consider 8-10 per cent deficit in the upcoming budget, and austerity measures should be taken at the national level for channeling resources for the welfare of the poor....
Another group of Bangladeshi nationals, who got stuck in India amid its lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, returned through Benapole on Tuesday. Ahsan Kabir, officer-in-charge of Benapole Immigration...
As the country’s healthcare system has turned its main focus on breaking the tide of coronavirus pandemic, many patients with non-Covid health problems, especially those who have comorbidities, are passing...
A survey by Save the Children in Bangladesh shows that 64 per cent of children from marginalised groups and their families are currently facing serious food crisis amid the coronavirus...
Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) across the country has been producing 1,900 metric tonnes rice every day. Rice mills at thirteen BSCIC industrial areas among 76 across the...
The Planning Commission on Monday finalised the annual development programme (ADP) involving Tk 2.051 trillion for the next 2020-21 fiscal year. The ADP draft got the approval from the extended...
Japan has provided some sets of personal protective equipment (PPE) to the health ministry as part of the technical cooperation to implement capacity building for COVID-19 countermeasures. Japanese Ambassador ITO...
Recently, BSRM Group Employees contributed their one day salary to the Group’s fund raising program to help the helpless during the pandemic. The amount was distributed in three phases. Mr....
The World Health Organization (WHO) thinks ‘extreme vigilance’ is needed as countries begin to exit from lockdowns imposed to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, amid global concerns about...
PRAN-RFL Group, country’s leading business conglomerate, has donated sample collection booth (WISK Cabin) to Central Police Hospital and three hospitals of Bhola district to collect sample for covid-19 test. Recently,...
Professor Dr Abul Kalam Azad, Director General of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), has been kept in isolation as he started to show mild symptoms of COVID-19. Dr Azad...
The food delivery platform, foodpanda has taken yet another initiative to help people, especially daily wagers, fight the economic distress caused by lockdowns all across the country. In its newest...
The High Court has directed the government to take necessary measures to save dolphins in the Halda River in Chattogram and conserve the environment and the ecosystem. According to bdnews24.com,...
Coca-Cola has resumed its manufacturing facility at International Beverages Private Limited (IBPL) in Mymensingh. The operations began after successful inspection and appraisal by the Government Factory Inspection Authority officials on...
China announced on Tuesday a new list of 79 US products eligible for waivers from retaliatory tariffs imposed at the height of the bilateral trade war, amid continued pressure on...
To support harvesting process in labour crisis situation due to COVID-19 pandemic, Bank Asia has donated one more harvester machine to a female farmer in Sreenagar Upazila of Munshigonj district,...
The Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock has requested the Bangladesh Bank (BB) to involve its existing district- and upazila-level agricultural credit committees in disbursing loans to marginal farmers and entrepreneurs...
As coronavirus cases continues to rise in Bangladesh, the government is likely to extend the ongoing general holidays again until the Eid-ul-Fitr vacation in a bid to prevent the transmission...
As many as 57 per cent households in coastal areas of Bangladesh are facing food crisis because of the ongoing lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, according to a...
Huawei, the world’s leading technology company, has launched 'Eid Mubarak, Stay Connected' campaign to make the upcoming Eid festival a little bit blissful and colorful despite the lockdown situation across...
Malaysia's Industrial Production Index (IPI) decreased 4.9 per cent year on year in March, as all sectors registered negative growths, official data showed Tuesday. According to Malaysian Statistics Department, the...
Coal power plant construction will push ahead in Asia despite falling electricity demand and environmental concerns as policymakers prioritise boosting economies crippled by the coronavirus pandemic, analysts say. Fossil fuel...
Police have shut Aranya and Vive, two shops in Dhanmondi, for not complying with hygiene rules during the coronavirus outbreak. The shops were closed on Tuesday as both the big...
United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB) and Japan Bangladesh Friendship Hospital (JBFH) have jointly organized free telemedicine services. People in need of medical assistance can now easily get experienced consultant’s suggestion...
A total of 1,878 policemen were infected with coronavirus (COVID-19) as of Tuesday while performing their duties during the pandemic. Among the infected police members, 865 are from Dhaka Metropolitan...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate mobile court drives on Monday fined 25 shops a total of Tk 34,000 for allegedly violating the government’s social distancing measures. Several DMP teams,...
Bangladesh confirmed 969 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 16,660. Meanwhile, 11 more people died of the lethal disease in the...
Twenty people, including an Assistant Commissioner (Land) and her husband, were diagnosed with coronavirus on Tuesday in Keraniganj in Dhaka. Upazila Health and Family Planning Officer Dr Mir Mobarak Hossain...
The prices of broiler chicken, the key protein source for commoners, have witnessed a substantial hike in Dhaka city in the past few days. The item shot up to Tk...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmood on Tuesday said a special committee or task force will be formed to monitor the investigation and prosecution activities of the cases filed...
The government has released its fourth installment of cash incentive amounting to Tk 4.0 billion for disbursement among exporters for the fiscal year (FY) 2019-20. The money will be distributed...
Oil futures rose on Tuesday, boosted by an unexpected commitment from Saudi Arabia to deepen production cuts in June in a bid to help drain the glut in the global...
Farhana Aktar Rahima, the one-and-half-year-old child whose body was recovered from a septic tank in Lakshmipur on Saturday, was killed by her own father to frame his opponents in murder...
Field-level work on 25 ongoing power transmission projects remained suspended since the coronavirus outbreak in China, hitting hard the power sector development. According to official sources, most of these projects...
Logitech International reported a 13.6 per cent rise in fourth-quarter (Q4) sales on Tuesday as more people used its products while working from home due to the coronavirus crisis. Logitech, which...
More Bangladesh nationals are scheduled to return home from the Maldives by a chartered flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on May 15. If the date is further changed, it will...
All mosques in Iran will reopen temporarily on Tuesday, a further step in the government’s plans to ease restrictions that aimed to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, the...
Hyatt Hotels Corp said late Monday it would lay off 1,300 people globally as it tries to cope with the coronavirus crisis, which has virtually halted global travel by keeping...
Global alarm was sounded on Monday over a potential second wave of coronavirus cases after Germany, relatively successful in slowing the outbreak, reported that infections had accelerated again after the...
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk on Monday (US standard time) said production was resuming at the automaker’s sole US vehicle factory, in California, defying an order to stay closed and saying...
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