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Overshadowed by the coronavirus outbreak, the Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of the Muslims, will be celebrated this year in a setting unlike anything the world has ever seen as...
Without wearing a face-covering himself, US President Donald Trump toured a new medical mask factory in Arizona on Tuesday (local time), taking a rare trip out of Washington to visit...
The law enforcement agencies arrested 79 people since March for spreading rumour and disinformation on social media, the Centre for Genocide Studies has said. But the nationwide number of rumour-related...
Runner Automobiles, one of the country's leading automobile makershas assured employees and staffs of not facing any job cut even though its sales and collections almost cameto a halt due...
The government has taken an initiative to bring back the Bangladeshis, stranded in the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic, in a chartered flight either on May 14 or 15....
The ousted director of a US agency responsible for developing drugs to fight the coronavirus pandemic filed a whistleblower's complaint on Tuesday accusing President Donald Trump's administration of retaliating when...
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged China to be transparent about the origins of the COVID-19 outbreak that has killed more than a quarter of a million people since...
Earnings of three-fourth listed textile sector companies fell in the first half (H1) of the current fiscal year as exports endured declining trend while the financial expenses increased. There are...
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown have put mango and litchi growers into great trouble. Limited transportation, coupled with poor demand, has been forcing many farmers to leave mangoes in...
The government is going to take a hard line to fully enforce health guidelines in industrial units as most factories are operating amid the coronavirus pandemic. To this effect, sources...
The government is set to encourage 'forward contract' mechanism for import of key essential goods to avert any possible supply crisis in near future, officials said. A forward contract is...
Stringent procedural complexities make it difficult for non-apparel businesses to avail the relief packages intended to cushion the blow from the coronavirus pandemic. Leaders of the non-readymade garment industries made...
With 1,635 Bangladeshi workers deported from the Middle-East (M-E) countries last week and more in the pipeline, experts call for undertaking prudent diplomatic and fiscal management to absorb economic shock...
The government has increased its bank borrowing target by more than 54 per cent to nearly Tk 730 billion to partly finance the budget deficit of the current fiscal year,...
After 11 years, the outlay of the Annual Development Programme, or ADP, could almost flatten as revenue income fell in the aftermath of coronavirus outbreak, officials said on Tuesday. They...
The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) is going to launch free dengue tests from May 11. According to UNB, the free dengue tests will be available at five city maternity...
President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have greeted the Buddhist community members on the occasion of Buddha Purnima. Greeting the Buddhist community as well as the countrymen...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said the BNP’s politics is infected with the ‘virus of criticism against the government’. “The BNP’s politics is infected with the all-pervading...
Three-day long CoronaThon-19, a hackathon focusing on combating the coronavirus in online platform, ended on Monday (May 04, 2020), says a press release. The event started on May 02. 20...
Vivo has overtaken Samsung in smartphone sales. Vivo has achieved this milestone in the Indian market in the first three months of this year despite the impact of the coronavirus...
The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) constitute a universal, integrated and transformative vision for a sustainable world. For the goals to be reached, everyone needs to do their...
Huawei launched ten all-new air engine Wi-Fi 6 series models for the Asia Pacific region which are ideal for laying a high-quality fully-wireless campus. The products stand out with technological...
DAP Fertiliser Company Limited, operating under the Ministry of Industries, has exceeded its production targets for the fiscal 2019-20 (FY20). The factory, situated at Rangadia in Chattogram, had set a...
We are now passing though a very tough time. With many of the businesses around the world shut, industrial activities at a standstill and people locked in their houses, doctors...
The government has allowed e-commerce providers to deliver food items, books, electronic gadgets and dresses to customer's doorsteps adopting proper safety measures. The Commerce Ministry issued a notification in this...
The story of India’s crackdown on Kashmir last August was difficult to show to the world. The unprecedented lockdown included a sweeping curfew and shutdowns of phone and internet service....
It's dissatisfaction that prompts people to search for more news items using alternative platforms - online and offline. Soothing stories are rarely there for the quarantined masses as the pandemic...
In what we are now through, prescriptions are not rare for economic recovery coupled with counselling -- both temperate and imposing -- to convince people about ways that can contain...
Many of the migrant workers whose hard-earned money had contributed to the country's foreign exchange reserve in a big way have in a cruel twist of fate lost everything in...
All educational institutions in Bangladesh will remain shut until May 30. The secretary of secondary and higher secondary education made the announcement Tuesday, reports UNB.
Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE said on Tuesday they have begun delivering doses of their experimental coronavirus vaccines for initial human testing in the United States, reports Reuters. The US...
The Health Minister Zahid Malik has said the reopening of the economy is giving rise to coronavirus infections as the officially confirmed daily cases jumped by a record 786 on...
Businessmen will be allowed to keep shops and shopping malls open for six hours from 10:00am to 4:00pm every day from May 10, after maintaining health guidelines during the general...
Israel has isolated a key coronavirus antibody at its main biological research laboratory, the Israeli defence minister said on Monday, calling the step a "significant breakthrough" toward a possible treatment...
The country’s export earnings witnessed a massive slump, recording an 85 per cent year-on-year drop in April as the coronavirus pandemic continues to roil the global economy. Readymade garments exports...
Sarkarbari Central Jam-e-Mosque in Gazipur’s Painshail saves around Tk 250,000 after paying clerics from the charitable donations it receives during the month of Ramadan every year. “We will have to...
Leaders of the different business associations of leather and leather goods, plastic products, accumulator battery and light engineering sector today called for easing the stringent procedures to help them avail...
The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (Caab) on Tuesday extended the suspension of all international and domestic flights unil May 16, aiming to prevent the spread of coronavirus. The restriction...
Britain has overtaken Italy to report the highest official death toll from coronavirus in Europe with more than 32,000 deaths, figures released on Tuesday showed. The high death toll could...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded Kim Jong Un a commemorative war medal marking the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, the Russian embassy in Pyongyang said Tuesday....
The Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) started clearing the dues of the workers of state-owned jute mills in Khulna region following their hunger strike. “We've already started paying about Tk...
Water.org Bangladesh recently organized a high-level webinar to draw attention to the plight of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) at a time of COVID-19, and also highlight the importance of WASH Financing...
16 interns of 53rd batch of the Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital (SOMCH) have tested positive for coronavirus. Dr Anisur Rahman, assistant director, district Directorate General of Health Services, said...
One new dengue case was reported in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Tuesday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). A daily update from DGHS said...
Mango growers in Chapainawabganj, known as the mango capital of the country, are passing their days in great worries as the marketing of their produce has become uncertain amid the...
A six-member medical board has been constituted to oversee the treatment of Dhaka University history professor Muntassir Mamoon at Dhaka's Mugda Medical College Hospital after he tested positive for the...
Police have arrested 17 suspected members of the banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in Dhaka. The arrests were made by an anti-terrorism police unit in Kakarail at around...
Bangladesh confirmed 786 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 10,929. This is the biggest single day spike in infections since the...
Farmers have already harvested about 90.02 per cent of the Boro paddy sowed in the Haors or backswamps of Bangladesh amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to the government. Agricultural...
Officials in India’s capital imposed a special tax of 70 per cent on retail liquor purchases from Tuesday, to deter large gatherings at stores as authorities ease a six-week lockdown...
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