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Bangladesh has made a routine payment of more than US$987 million to the Asian Clearing Union (ACU) against imports during the September-October period of this calendar year. After the payment,...
Export earnings from the country's pharmaceutical sector continued its upward trend over the last seven years on the back of a conducive policy environment, skilled human resources and patent waiver,...
India's top court is set to deliver a ruling on Saturday on a disputed religious site that has been fiercely contested by majority Hindus and Muslims for decades, lawyers said,...
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has failed to complete a 15.5-kilomtre road widening project in two years' time. The department has now sought revision of the project titled the...
The government has allowed the sale of six more products, made at the export processing zones (EPZ), in the local market by paying applicable taxes. The products are mainly electronics...
A total of 19 senior bankers along with three professionals have applied for the post of a deputy governor of the Bangladesh Bank, officials said. The government-formed search committee on...
The anti-graft watchdog has advocated cent per cent physical verification of containerised goods amid rampant tax evasion in top seaports, officials said. But multiple consignees said such one-to-one inspection would...
A number of China-funded mega infrastructure projects involving billions of dollars are not on track, with contractors and implementing agencies blaming each other for the slow progress. This has been...
Bangladesh raised the storm danger signal on Saturday morning as cyclone ‘Bulbul’ intensified further and was expected to make landfall around the evening. Low-lying areas of the coastal districts are...
Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) suspended all sorts of activities at three maritime ports and inland water transportation as cyclonic storm Bulbul over the Bay of Bengal is nearing...
Danger signals were issued for key maritime ports of Bangladesh on Friday evening as very severe cyclonic storm ‘Bulbul’ approaches Bangladesh, reports UNB. Danger signal 7 was advised for the...
The days are coming soon when buyers will not be interested to buy from firms which are not using carbon-neutral energy. As carbon footprint for fossil fuel is high, manufacturing...
Back in August, the Business Roundtable, which comprises the chief executive officers of America's largest companies - with combined annual revenues of more than $7.0 trillion - updated its long-standing...
E-commerce is no more a new fundamental business paradigm that nay go against the traditional business paradigm. It has emerged from convergence of several major information technologies and business practices....
A bus plunged into a pond with over 50 passengers on board at Kalugazir Pukur of Subarna Char upazila in Noakhali on Friday evening. Sayedur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Char Jabbar...
Cool and dry months are expected now in Bangladesh. Dhaka air is already letting us know that the city is dusty and unhealthy. Not only in Dhaka, all the major...
In the context of declaring a planetary emergency, many proponents are advocating for developing a greener world that can serve the dual purposes of reducing GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions and...
Mr Ragnar Gudmundsson, the Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Dhaka has raised quite a number of issues in a column of The Financial Express last Wednesday....
"The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth are noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the...
More than a year ago, the Road Transport Act, 2018 was passed in parliament. Now it has formally come into effect. Hefty financial penalty or fine for violating traffic rules...
The list of the Razakars, who collaborated the then Pakistani Army during the Liberation War of the country in 1971, will be announced on December 16, this year. “The list...
The Department of Agricultural Extension or DAE is embracing digital technologies to monitor pest attacks on crops and in turn, minimise the damage these inflict by at least 5.0 per...
Poor, landless and destitute families affected by river erosion would be given financial aid based on losses suffered and number of family members. The authorities decided to provide a lump...
Some 149 dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Friday. Fifty-seven of them were hospitalised in Dhaka, the Directorate...
China provided financial assistance of $300,000 for ceasefire monitoring work being carried out by Myanmar authorities on Friday morning. The cash assistance was presented by the Special Envoy for Asian...
China has successfully tracked and received data from the newly launched Earth observation satellite Gaofen-7, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station...
Country’s southwestern coastal districts have taken all-out preparations and kept 1377 cyclone shelters ready as severe cyclonic storm ‘Bulbul’ may hit the region on Saturday evening, reports UNB. Amirul Azad,...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday directed the authorities concerned not to file any case under the Road Transport Act-2018 in the next seven days. “As the...
The European Commission said on Thursday that euro area gross domestic product (GDP) is forecast to expand by 1.1 per cent in 2019 and by 1.2 per cent in 2020...
China's foreign trade registered stable growth in the first 10 months of this year with more opening-up measures to follow in the near future. The country's foreign trade volume expanded...
At least six people have died in a head-on collision between a minibus and an auto-rickshaw on the Magurmari intersection of the Panchagarh-Tetulia highway in Panchagarh district. One other person...
The admission test for first year BBA courses under 2019-20 academic session at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) of Dhaka University (DU) was held on Friday. A total of...
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming has paid a courtesy call on Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dr. Md. Akhtaruzzaman at his residential office. Some other high officials from the...
A Bangladeshi youth was shot dead by Border Security Force of India at Shilgate in Moheshpur upazila of Jhenaidah early Friday. The deceased was identified as Sumon, 25, son of...
German parliament president Wolfgang Schäuble recently met with Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus to discuss social business. Economic issues related to poverty, microfinance, unemployment and youth also came up for...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested a regional leader of a banned outlawed party along with arms from Durbachar Bazar in Sadar upazila of Kushtia district. The arrestee...
Three people, including two cops, were injured in a road accident near Chandrima Udyan at Sher-e-Banglanagar in Dhaka on Friday. The injured were identified as Masud Pervez, inspector (investigation) of...
The cyclone Bulbul has intensified into a ‘very severe’ cyclonic storm over the Bay of Bengal and is moving towards the Bangladeshi coast with a wind speed of up to...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Thursday welcomed the release of more than 100 illegal immigrants and refugees from a detention centre in the Libyan capital of...
World stocks rallied to near record highs on Friday after China said it had agreed with the United States to cancel tariffs in phases, a key demand of Beijing for...
China’s exports and imports contracted less than expected in October, providing some relief for the economy as Beijing tries to reach a partial trade deal with Washington. But even if...
Facebook Inc on Thursday launched a catalogue feature for its WhatsApp messaging app, it said in a blog post, building out the service’s e-commerce tools as it moves slowly toward...
Housemaids from Bangladesh were the most in demand with the recruitment ratio reaching 21 per cent during last month, according to the monthly periodic bulletin issued by Musanid electronic gate...
Myanmar has been denied membership of Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) amid its non-fulfillment of commitment over the Rohingya repatriation. Myanmar again applied for the IORA membership this year and...
Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla, and Payra have been advised to lower local cautionary signal No 3 and hoist local warning signal No 4. The severe cyclonic storm...
A man was killed and another injured when a truck hit a motorbike on Boda-Debiganj road in Boda upazila of Panchagarh district on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as...
Prices of onion declined slightly last week but remained beyond the purchasing capacity of low-income segment of the society. Prices of some vegetables increased further in the last seven days...
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck northwestern Iran early Friday, killing at least five people and injuring over 300 others, officials said. The temblor struck Tark county in Iran's Eastern Azerbaijan...
China and the United States have agreed to roll back tariffs on each others' goods as part of the first phase of a trade deal, officials from both sides said...
The bilateral trade between Bangladesh and Australia has stood at $2.44 billion now. Australian high commissioner in Dhaka Julia Niblett disclosed this at a programme in the capital on Tuesday...
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