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The government wants to make Dhaka-Sylhet multilane and modern highway operational by 2023 and the highway will remain fit for vehicular movement at least for 50 years. Foreign Minister Dr...
The Department of Environment, or DoE, has imposed a fine of about Tk 100 million on Chattogram Development Authority for razing hills beyond the approved limit to construct roads. The...
Boosting efforts to fight pneumonia could avert nearly 140,000 child deaths from pneumonia and other major diseases in Bangladesh, according to a new analysis. Forecasts show that over 100,000 children...
A team of scientists in Australia said on Wednesday they have successfully developed a lab-grown version of coronavirus, the first to be recreated outside of China, in a breakthrough that...
Airlines including United Airlines Holdings Inc said they were cancelling some flights to China as demand fell sharply and global companies told their employees not to travel on deepening fears...
The Hindu community is set to celebrate Saraswati Puja, worshiping the goddess of knowledge, music, art and culture, across the country on Thursday like elsewhere in the world amid much...
A total of 63 Indian fishermen, arrested for illegal entry into Bangladesh maritime boundary in October last, were freed from jail on Wednesday following a court order. The jail authority...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday said the government will keep those who will return to Bangladesh under observation before China lifts the ongoing 14-day restriction to avoid...
As many as 67 international observers from seven countries and the European Union will monitor the elections to Dhaka north and south city corporations. Among them, 27 are from the...
A family in the United Arab Emirates, arriving from China's central city of Wuhan, has been diagnosed with a case of the new coronavirus, the health ministry said on Wednesday,...
The government is keeping a close watch on 35 Chinese nationals working on the Padma Bridge project as part of its efforts to prevent the spread of a deadly coronavirus...
Stocks slipped back into the red on Wednesday, after a single-day break, as cautious investors went on selling on sector-wise large-cap issues. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock...
Various cold-related diseases affected 4,248 people across the country in the last 24 hours, the government said on Wednesday. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control room...
The High Court on Wednesday ordered the authorities concerned to recruit 117 physicians to fill up the vacant posts of jail hospitals across the country as soon as possible. The...
Awami League-backed Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayoral candidate Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh unveiled a five-point manifesto on Wednesday. He has pledged to transform the capital into a vibrant and...
Scientists in Australia have become the first to recreate the new coronavirus outside of China in what they have called a "significant breakthrough". The discovery will be shared with the...
Airlines including United Airlines Holdings said they were cancelling some flights to China as demand fell sharply and global companies told their employees not to travel on deepening fears over...
The United Nations and humanitarian community have welcomed Bangladesh’s decision to expand access of education for Rohingya children and adolescents living in Cox’s Bazar camps. “We believe this a positive...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the developed countries and development partners to come forward further to help the climate change vulnerable countries in a proper way, not to utter...
The board of directors of Marico Bangladesh has declared 300 per cent interim cash dividend for the year ending on March 31, 2020 based on nine months financials for the...
Stocks witnessed downward trend in early hours of trading on Wednesday as investors mostly followed cautious stance. Following the previous day’s modest gain, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the...
Iranian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday strongly rejected the US Middle East peace plan as "disgraceful." In a statement released hours after US President Donald Trump's announcement of the so-called Deal...
A drugstore in the Chinese capital has been fined 3 million yuan ($434,530) for hiking the price of masks by almost six times the online rate amid a spreading virus...
Severe flooding has left a total of 52 people dead in southeast Brazil's Minas Gerais state, the state civil defence agency said Tuesday. One person remains missing, 65 have been...
India’s government has stepped up the purchase of air purifiers over the last two years, taking the number of devices in ministries to protect against deteriorating air quality to nearly...
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Wednesday Kuala Lumpur was in talks with China to evacuate its citizens from Wuhan, the Chinese city at the center of the outbreak...
Mexico's exports grew 2.3 per cent in 2019 compared to the previous year, driven largely by an increase in manufactured goods to the United States, the National Statistics and Geography...
The securities regulator on Tuesday fined directors of two companies - Aman Feed and Regent Textile Mills-for breaching a number of securities rules. The BSEC also approved the corporate governance...
The central bank has asked all the scheduled banks to ensure display along with releasing account maintenance fee in their headquarters, branches and agent banking outlet's notice boards and websites....
Three people were killed when a motorbike crashed into a vehicle carrying a dredger machine on Birampur-Nawabganj road at Jolagari in Birampur upazila of Dinajpur district on Tuesday night. The...
Over 10,000 tonnes of plastic lamination waste are generated in Dhaka every year from different sources, causing various health and environmental hazards. Most of such waste cannot be recycled and...
The death toll from a new coronavirus in China rose sharply to 132 on Wednesday with nearly 1,500 new cases, heaping pressure on Beijing to control the disease as US...
Starbucks Corp on Tuesday became the first major US company to warn of a financial hit from the new coronavirus outbreak in China, as it closed thousands of restaurants and...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan the “slap of the century” on Tuesday as thousands of Palestinians held protests in Gaza and the...
Stories of financial scams have been so common in the past decade's Bangladesh that nothing - their number, frequency, and amount of money involved - did surprise people. They may...
The recent announcement of additional cash incentive for the export-oriented readymade garment (RMG) sector did not see much enthusiasm among the industry people. On the government's part, the move was...
So far as public works and project implementation are concerned, missing target has become something of an order of the day. A report carried in this newspaper on Sunday last...
Over 10,000 tonnes of laminated plastic waste is generated in Dhaka every year from various sources, causing several health and environmental hazards. Most of such laminated waste cannot be recycled,...
Donald Trump, the vociferously unpredictable US president, has long chastised China for seeking "unfair" advantage over trade and tariffs, violating intellectual property rights and "manipulating" the country's currency to its...
The recently held Madrid Climate Meeting marked 25 years of the Conference of the Parties (COP), a UN Framework Convention for Climate Change signed in 1992 by 165 signatory nations....
Chinese President Xi Jinping has said his country will surely defeat the 'devil' coronavirus that has killed 106 people, spread across the world and rattled financial markets. “The virus is...
The Dhaka University (DU) has rusticated 63 students who secured admission through illegal ways or cheating in tests by using digital means. Nine others facing similar allegations have been suspended,...
In a fractured and divided world, building partnership within and across nations is increasingly becoming more and more vital. Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires effective partnership between the governments,...
There was a moderate rise in nominal wage of low-paid skilled and unskilled workers in the country in the past year. Wages Rate Index (WRI), released by the Bangladesh Bureau...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the government is taking action to stop unregistered easy bikes and battery-powered rickshaws plying on the street across the country. “The...
The incidents of dacoity have allegedly risen in different areas of Kalia Upazila under Narail district recently. Panic gripped the people of the areas, especially Baka of Salamabad Union Parisad,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday reiterated her firm stance to use Bangladesh’s fossil fuel for its own economic development and the wellbeing of people. “Whatever gas we have we...
The High Court has confirmed the death sentence of eight convicts in the 2012 rape and murder of a schoolgirl in Laxmipur, reports bdnews24.com. It has also commuted the death...
Qatar’s ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah, and appointed Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdelaziz al-Thani as new premier. The emir’s...
A train has ploughed into four students on a motorbike, leaving three of them dead and the other “critically injured” at the level crossing in Kashiani Upazila of Gopalganj. The...
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