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The overall market price-earnings ratio of Dhaka Stock Exchange reached rock bottom at 10.58, a 10 years low as of March 25 this year amid free-fall of stock prices. The...
US President Donald Trump has told his administration to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus....
Dhaka’s air quality showed signs of improvement on Thursday morning. The capital ranked 22nd worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) with a score of 76. The air quality was...
The stakeholders of Chittagong port stressed quick delivery of containers to overcome the container congestion at the port. In a meeting called and chaired by Divisional Commissioner of Chattogram A...
Asia’s economic growth this year will grind to a halt for the first time in 60 years, as the coronavirus crisis takes an “unprecedented” toll on the region’s service sector...
Bangladesh Garment Manufactur-ers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has decided to reopen its factories from April 26 in a bid to, what they said, save the sector from being doomed. However,...
While foreign contractors involved in development projects left the country after the outbreak of coronavirus, their Chinese counterparts are continuing their work. Though at a slow pace, project people said...
Bangladesh has slashed natural gas production by around 36 per cent to 1,600 million cubic feet a day as the nationwide shutdown to combat the coronavirus has dented domestic demand....
Proposals regarding policy interventions are being frequently put forward by international and national organisations and governments with the common goal of safeguarding trade and trade-finance related challenges that have arisen...
A successful early-stage investment in digital start-ups and early-stage businesses is 90 per cent predicated on the quality of the founder and the founding team and the behaviour they exhibit,...
After late fee waiver, Bangladesh Bank has ordered all banks not to charge interest on credit card bills payable from Mar 15 to May 31 as the COVID-19 crisis drags...
A banker will get Tk 500,000 to Tk 1.0 million, based on their ranks, as health insurance and a special grant, if he or she gets infected with COVID-19 while...
With breathtaking speed, the coronavirus crisis sends shockwaves around the globe. Production lines have come to a standstill. Global supply chains are broken. Companies are filing for bankruptcy. Workers are...
Vietnam, just south of coastal China, is the 15th most populous country in the world with 97 million people. According to its Ministry of Health (MoH), as of April 13,...
The government directed the deputy commissioners to update the list of deprived population for distributing the Tk 10 per kg rice under open market sale (OMS) programme. The Ministry of...
Public-Private Partnership (PPP) has been appreciated as an important way out for infrastructure development in Bangladesh. Though there have been some recent successes in institutional and regulatory framework, other critical...
To fight the Covid-19 pandemic, we need several gears starting from hand sanitisers, surgical masks to hand gloves. In taking care of infected patients, healthcare workers require personal protective equipment...
An invisible assassin is stalking the entire globe causing mayhem, havoc, disease and deaths, forcing panicked people to stay home even at the cost of livelihoods and leaving behind a...
Owners and workers of dried fish processing units in Cox’s Bazar have demanded emergency funds and other supports from both public and private sectors for their survival, to ease the...
Shutdowns to fight the Covid-19 menace have affected loading and unloading activities at the container jetties of the Chittagong port resulting in undue wait and congestion of the container vessels...
The number of COVID-19 cases reported worldwide passed two million on Tuesday. It took 83 days to reach the first million cases worldwide and just 14 days for the second...
City Bank has provided food support to some 100,000 poor people who are undergoing food shortages due to coronavirus pandemic. The bank provided sacks of food, each containing 10kg rice...
Almost 78 per cent of readymade garment workers of BGMEA member factories have received salary. Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association President Rubana Huq gave the information on Wednesday, reports...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has introduced €200 million Green Transformation Fund (GTF) along with the existing US$200 million to set up environment-friendly infrastructures. “A decision has been taken to introduce €200...
Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Wednesday said Gazipur, Mymensingh, and Keraniganj should be put under strict lockdown as coronavirus infection level in these areas is similar to Narayanganj. “The situation...
The government has suspended four Union Parishad chairmen and five members for irregularities in distribution of relief materials amid the coronavirus outbreak. Two separate notifications were issued in this regard...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has paid tribute to Dr Md Moinuddin, a physician of Sylhet Osmani Medical College, following his death from the coronavirus. Hasina offered her condolences to the...
The government has permitted the owners of industrial units to renew their boiler operation until June without paying any late fee. Office of the Chief Inspector of Boilers under Industries...
Countries that ease restrictions imposed to fight the spread of the coronavirus should wait at least two weeks to evaluate the impact of such changes before easing again, the World...
The government on Tuesday said it will arrange loans for returnee migrant workers to enable them to pursue viable income activities, particularly in the agriculture sector. The loans, to be...
Amid pressure from the middle-east countries, the government has finally taken preparations to bring back Bangladeshi expatriate workers. As per the decision, the country will start the repatriation in a...
China's banking system has remained robust after two years of reform and risk reduction efforts and can handle bad debt increases brought about by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. It is...
A 3M plant in China is working around the clock to produce hundreds of millions of respirators under a deal that the US-based tech giant signed with US President Donald...
India has agreed to sell hydroxychloroquine tablets to Malaysia for use in the treatment of COVID-19 patients, a Malaysian minister said on Wednesday, with New Delhi partially lifting its bar...
The government has warned that it will take legal actions, including suspending licenses and filing cases against garment factories that will fail to pay March wages by tomorrow (Thursday). Department...
The last medical assistance team started leaving Hubei Province Wednesday as the COVID-19 epidemic in the hard-hit province has been subdued. The medical team consisting of over 180 medical workers...
One new dengue case was reported in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Wednesday, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). According to daily update from the DGHS,...
Several trade unions called upon the government to provide them food and financial supports during the lockdown period imposed to contain the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). They also requested the...
A total of 460,000 businesses in China succumbed to the novel coronavirus assault in the first quarter of 2020, among which 57 per cent had been in operation for less...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday handed over medical equipment to the government of Bangladesh to help strengthen its efforts to improve treatment facilities of Covid-19 patients and contain...
Two more people were diagnosed with coronavirus in Borura and Titash upazila of Cumilla district on Wednesday, raising the total number of such cases to 18, reports UNB. Confirming the...
Japan urged its citizens on Wednesday to stay home, as media reports warned that as many as 400,000 of them could die of the coronavirus without urgent action, and Prime...
In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicentre of the disease...
New York’s attorney general on Tuesday (US standard time) sued the Trump administration over a federal rule that she says illegally limits paid sick leave for workers affected by the...
A Bangladesh Navy ship started for the Maldives on Wednesday carrying more than 100 metric tons of food, medicines and medical equipment as assistance from Bangladesh to help the country...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday warned that the government will never tolerate the misuse of relief materials saying that those who are involved in irregularities in this regard must...
Emirates has updated its COVID-19 travel waiver policies into one simplified approach for rebooking and refunds on tickets issued in all its global markets. The airline is offering three options...
The coronavirus health crisis likely knocked China’s economy into its first decline since at least 1992 in the first quarter, raising the heat on authorities to do more to restore...
The death toll from coronavirus rose to 50 in Bangladesh as the country confirmed four more fatalities on Wednesday. The tally of infections also soared to 1231 after 219 people...
The local administration is going to put Satkanaia upazila of Chattogram district under lockdown from Wednesday evening as it has been identified as a hotspot of coronavirus (COVID-19) transmission. Mobarak...
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