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China’s new confirmed infections from the coronavirus outbreak increased by a daily record, up by 2,590 cases on Saturday to top 14,000, as the quickly growing epidemic prompted global travel...
BNP activists and supporters were largely absent from the streets as the party was trying to enforce a dawn-to-dusk hartal (shutdown) in the capital city on Sunday protesting against ‘massive...
A man has died of the coronavirus in the Philippines in the virus's first confirmed fatality outside China. The patient was a 44-year-old Chinese man from Wuhan, in Hubei province,...
The Dhaka Custom House (DCH) has put forward a proposal to install non-intrusive inspection tools worth Tk 2.14 billion at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) to ensure security and speed...
Awami League mayoral candidates were unofficially declared elected in the elections to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) on Saturday. Ruling party contestant Sheikh Fazle...
Only 273 garment factories out of 1,600 inspected by the western retailers' platform, Accord, have managed to fix the safety hazards found in initial inspection. The Accord on Fire and...
The United Arab Emirates, UAE, is set to reopen its labour market for Bangladeshis shortly after an eight-year embargo, according to the country's envoy to the Gulf country. Muhammad Imran,...
Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar has said less than 25 per cent voters exercised their franchise in the elections to the two Dhaka city corporations on Saturday. “The biggest achievement of...
Gone are the days when the country's finance ministers, accompanied by a large delegation of officials, would make their annual pilgrimage to Paris to attend the 'Aid Consortium' meetings and...
Land is undeniably the foundation of any country's economic development, and it is directly linked to gross domestic product (GDP). It is the base upon which most economic activities take...
A decision has been made by the Bangladesh Bank to put a ceiling on (also known as an interest rate cap) the interest rate at 9.0 per cent for borrowers...
People not acquainted with normal spectacles of rural Bangladesh might feel puzzled after encountering a few. There are scores of grotesque views involving the present village life. They do not...
On Tuesday, January 28 President Trump in presence of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu unfolded the latest Middle East Peace plan in the White House. The plan calls for recognition of...
Goodbye, Britain. Brexit is done. It's over. Some Britons are waving Union Jacks, and public buildings are illuminated in red, white, and blue. Having dramatically opened up a new space...
Rejecting the results of the elections to the two Dhaka city corporations, BNP has called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Dhaka for Sunday. BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made...
Gono Forum President Kamal Hossain arrived at Baily Road’s Viqarunnisa Noon School & College to cast his vote in the city elections on Saturday. However, the experience was not a...
The Awami League mayoral candidates extended their lead in both Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) in the counting of votes in the elections to...
More hospitals designed to replicate the SARS treatment model are popping up across China as the country mobilises medical resources nationwide to contain the coronavirus outbreak. Beijing has begun to...
Awami League and BNP activists were locked into a clash in front of BNP central office at Nayapaltan in the capital on Saturday afternoon. Witnesses said when some AL activists...
Apple Inc on Saturday said it would shut all of its official stores and corporate offices in mainland China until Feb 09 as fears over the coronavirus outbreak mounted and...
The Awami League mayoral candidates took lead in both Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) in the counting of votes in the elections to the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to leave Dhaka for Rome on February 4 on a four-day bilateral official visit to Italy at the invitation of her Italian counterpart Giuseppe...
The month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair-2020 will begin on Bangla Academy premises and at Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital on Sunday. This year Bangla Academy has set the theme of...
Various cold-related diseases affected 3,792 people across the country in the last 24 hours, the government said on Saturday. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control room...
Balloting in the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) came to an end at 4:00pm on Saturday amid ‘low voter turnout’ and reports of sporadic...
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda faced difficulties in casting his vote through the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) for his fingerprint mismatch, reports UNB. Later, he had to use...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a special anti-drug drive arrested four suspects from different areas of the capital for selling and consuming illegal drugs. A special team of DMP, comprising...
Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar on Saturday said he did not find any polling agent of the mayoral candidates of BNP. He made the remarks after casting his vote along with...
No new dengue case was reported in the last 24 hours until 8:00am, the directorate general of health services (DGHS) said on Saturday. In its regular update, it noted that...
A man was assaulted reportedly by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists near the Curzon Hall on Dhaka University campus on Saturday morning after he voted for BNP candidates in the...
The government has sent seven people suffering from fever to hospital after they arrived from Wuhan amid a global emergency over the coronavirus outbreak. Shahriar Sazzad, a health officer at...
The evacuation of Thai nationals from the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in China could take place “in a matter of days”, Thailand’s government said on Saturday. Three officials from...
The US has announced it is expanding its curbs on immigration to include six more countries, including Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation. Citizens from Nigeria, Eritrea, Sudan, Tanzania, Kyrgyzstan and...
Three journalists were injured in separate attacks while covering the Dhaka city elections on Saturday. Mostafizur Rahman Sumon, a reporter of agami.com, was attacked allegedly by followers of an Awami...
BNP’s Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) candidate Tabith Awal’s main polls agent Moazzem Hossain Alal came under a bomb attack in Monipur on Saturday morning. A group of miscreants hurled...
Voicing dissatisfaction over low voter turnout, Jatiya Oikya Front Convener Dr Kamal Hossain has said voters are not coming to polling stations as they have no confidence in the election...
Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday unveiled the budget for fiscal 2020-21, vowing to boost income of Indians and their purchasing power, in a bid to revive domestic economic...
A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying 316 Bangladeshi nationals from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the new coronavirus outbreak, arrived in Dhaka city on Saturday...
The number of deaths from a coronavirus epidemic in China has risen to 259, the country’s health authority said on Saturday, as the United States announced new border curbs on...
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller visited two polling centres in Dhaka city on Saturday morning but did not interact with media. He first visited Rampura Ekramunnesa High School...
Awami League’s mayoral candidates for Dhaka north and south city corporations have expressed optimism about victory while BNP’s aspirants alleged that their agents were obstructed from entering some polling stations....
Stocks slipped into red in the outgoing week as investors sold shares amid the lower-than-expected earnings declared by large-cap companies. Week-on-week, DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange...
The Trustee Committee of the nine open-end mutual funds managed by ICB Asset Management Company Ltd (AMCL) approved dividends for the fiscal year 2019 at a meeting held on Thursday....
Elections to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) are in progress with drastically low presence of voters in the early hours. In the first two hours of the voting, less than...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday sharply criticised the diplomatic missions in Dhaka that made Bangladesh nationals foreign election observers saying that they have done a very outrageous deed. Sheikh...
The country's tourism sector starts bearing the brunt of Chinese novel coronavirus outbreak as many people are cancelling their planned visits to different destinations, insiders have said. They also said...
CHATTOGRAM: Lighterage ship shortages are hampering maritime trade, making slow the loading and unloading of goods from mother vessels for the crisis. More or less 150 lighterage ships are needed...
Two BNP councillor candidates in the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) were attacked by their rivals on Saturday morning when they were going to cast their votes. Sirajul Islam was...
The prices of mutton hit as high as Tk 900 per kilogram on Friday although the goat population has been increasing gradually in the country. At Kaptan Bazar, the biggest...
The under-construction metro rail and Dhaka Elevated Expressway are the major air polluters in the capital, leaving people in severe health hazards, according to the Department of Environment (DoE). In...
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