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Making a choice between life and livelihoods, particularly when it concerns millions of people, is very difficult now. Governments the world over are under pressure to ease the prolonged lockdown...
As the government is all set to enhance the testing capacity for coronavirus infection, the effort gets seriously handicapped by dearth of medical and laboratory technologists. The shortage of this...
As the announcement of the national budget is approaching, a number of suggestions and demands are already on the table. Unlike the previous years, the setting for the upcoming budget...
The government has instructed public servants not to upload, share, comment on or react to social media posts, including image, audio or video, with ‘damaging’ messages on any state or...
While there is no remarkable let-up in the intensity of the coronavirus pandemic in Bangladesh, nature in the country's capital wears a colourful look. It's a look which Dhaka finds...
Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury Bir Bikram was one of the key organisers of the oath-taking ceremony of Bangladesh Government-in-Exile at Boidyanathtala (later renamed Mujibnagar) under the then Meherpur sub-division on April...
A total of 97 garment workers and employee from 24 districts and nine industrial belts were infected with corona virus as of Thursday, according to findings of a right group....
A nor’wester accompanied by rain swept over the capital on Thursday evening. The seasonal storm hit around 7:30pm with a downpour and gusty wind that lasted for a few minutes,...
Taxpayers will not be fined or levied interests if they fail to file income tax returns on time during the coronavirus outbreak or in times of war and disasters. The...
The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Thursday published a guideline on conducting courses online in light of the prevailing coronavirus pandemic, including teaching, taking examinations, their assessment as well as...
Bangladesh on Thursday reported deaths of 13 coronavirus patients in 24 hours -- its highest single-day fatality so far -- as the death toll rose to 199. The Directorate General...
The government has backtracked on its decision to buy Boro rice from farmers this year in 18 Upazilas through a mobile app amid the coronavirus crisis. The Ministry of Food...
The government has started procurement of paddy directly from farmers at Tk 26 per kg. Boiled rice is being bought at the rate of Tk 36 and ‘Atap rice’ at...
The government has approved an ordinance to introduce court proceedings via videoconferencing amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. On Thursday, the cabinet has given the final approval to the 2020 ordinance...
Workers of a garment factory staged demonstrations at Bhannara of Kaliakoir upazila in Gazipur on Thursday morning, protesting their retrenchment. Workers of Deiyu Fashion Limited gathered in front of the...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday approved an additional $500 million loan to bolster the efforts of the government of Bangladesh to manage the impact of the novel coronavirus...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has installed disinfectant tunnels at the entrance of each and every police station in efforts to protect its staff and service seekers from the infection of...
Nazmul Karim Chowdhury, vice-chancellor of Fareast International University in Dhaka, has died from the COVID-19 disease at the age of 71. He breathed his last on early Thursday morning in...
The Bank of England held off from further stimulus measures on Thursday but said it was ready to take more action to counter the country’s biggest economic slump in over...
The Center for Enterprise & Society (CES), a research centre at University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), recently conducted a comprehensive online survey titled ‘CES COVID-19 Consumer Pulse Survey’. A...
A total of 706 more people tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours till Thursday, according to the DGHS official. With the latest...
Brac University (BU) Mongol-Tori rover has been ranked 3rd globally in this years University Rover Challenge (URC) 2020, after first ranked University of Michigan and runners up Stanford University. BU...
Despite a sluggish remittance inflow through regular channels amid Covid-19 outbreak, the amount of remittance sent by expatriate Bangladeshis through online or wallet based money transfer services has increased. In...
The Philippines' gross domestic product (GDP) declined by 0.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2020, the first contraction since the fourth quarter of 1998, according to the Philippine...
Commerce minister Tipu Munshi on Thursday said reopening markets is not mandatory for businesspeople. “The market owners who don’t want to reopen shopping malls can keep those shut… reopening market...
South Korean health authorities raised new concerns about the novel coronavirus after reporting last month that dozens of patients who had recovered from the illness later tested positive again. The...
Myanmar authorities brought back 38 Myanmar nationals from Bangladesh and 135 from Thailand to home by a relief flight on Wednesday, state-run media reported Thursday. In order to retrieve the...
Three Bangladeshis have reportedly run away from a COVID-19 quarantine centre in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur. They are among the nine foreigners who left the quarantine centre located...
Nine people, including two health workers, were infected with coronavirus in Chapainawabganj, raising the number of such cases in the district to 11. Civil Surgeon Dr Zahid Nazrul Chowdhury,...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate mobile court drives on Wednesday fined different people and business entities a total of Tk 39,300 for allegedly violating the government’s social distancing measures amid...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has waived Value Added Tax (VAT) to facilitate local production of personal protective equipment (PPE) and surgical face masks to fight COVID-19. From now...
The number of coronavirus infections rose to 52,952 in India, up by 3,561 over the previous day, the health ministry said on Thursday, with no signs of abating despite a...
Just a few hours after the evening on March 25, 1971- the then West Pakistani junta launched an army cleansing operation known as Operation Searchlight. The operation went down to...
The joy of reading is a very common topic of essays in the educational curriculum of the country. Students have been cramming the benefits of reading for a very long...
The novel coronavirus has put the entire world to a halt. Most of the globe is on lockdown to slow the death toll and flatten the curve of this pandemic....
China on Thursday declared the whole country now at low virus risk as its new cases fall to near zero and no new deaths have been reported from COVID-19 in...
US President Donald Trump has described the coronavirus pandemic as the "worst attack" ever on the United States, pointing the finger at China. Mr Trump said the outbreak had hit...
At least 47 residents and three workers have been infected with coronavirus at a retirement home in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, authorities said on Wednesday (local time),...
The RAB has arrested Minhaz Mannan Emon, a director of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), on charges of spreading disinformation against the government in a Digital Security Act case. The...
At least six people are dead after a chemical gas leakage at an LG Polymers facility located near Visakhapatnam in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, a local government...
Listed pharmaceuticals companies are expecting a growth in their earnings for January-March (Q3) as their productions, distributions and sales have almost remained 'unaffected' amid COVID-19 pandemic. Pharmaceuticals companies are busy...
Gilead Sciences Inc faces a new dilemma in deciding how much it should profit from the only treatment so far proven to help patients infected with the novel coronavirus. The...
China’s exports rose 3.5 per cent in April from a year earlier, confounding market expectations for a sharp fall, as factories restarted production after the coronavirus pandemic, customs data showed...
The reopening of shops and shopping malls ahead of Eid will surely help the stalled wheel of economy move again, but health experts warned that it will also lead to...
Banking experts are divided over the latest central bank circular centring the suspension of interest on all types of loans for the months of April and May. Some tend to...
The government has asked the authorities concerned to take effective measures for speedy release of imported goods--especially key essential commodities--from different ports amid the coronavirus pandemic, officials said. It has...
The Bangladesh Bridges Authority (BBA) has sought Tk 50 billion funds in the upcoming development budget for the Padma Bridge construction work, lower than the amount in the current fiscal...
More than 80 per cent of rural and low-income population in the country experienced a decrease in earnings from February to March due to COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey....
Bangladesh Association of Publicly Listed Companies (BAPLC) has urged the securities regulator not to change the category of listed companies upon their failure in declaring or disbursing dividend at the...
FBCCI on Wednesday urged the country’s banks to take quick steps to disburse the stimulus money declared by the government to stave off the impact of the coronavirus on the...
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