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A campaign, titled 'Good Clothes, Fair Pay', was launched on Tuesday, aiming to secure payment of living wages for workers in global garment supply chains. Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) and...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) has started carrying out a fresh feasibility study on the development of a dual-gauge double line rail track on the Joydebpur-Ishwardi section for the third time. The...
A total of 82,668 active BO (beneficiary owner) accounts were shut down in nearly one and a half months due to multiple reasons, including non-payment of account maintenance fees. The...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Tuesday tightened the Export Development Fund (EDF) facility for the shippers to some extent, as settlement of liabilities from the funded facility is no more...
Most of the importers are going to miss the government-set July 21 deadline to open letters of credit (L/Cs) to bring home 0.409=million tonnes of rice from abroad. The L/Cs...
With the record-highest single-month spending, government agencies implemented 92.79 per cent of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) in fiscal year (FY) 2021-22, officials said on Tuesday. In the single month...
Bangladesh has kept the transit fees unchanged for four trial runs of transhipment of Indian goods using Mongla-Tamabil, Tamabil-Chattogram, Chattogram-Shawla and Chattogram-Bibirbazar routes. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) issued...
A fresh loan-rescheduling and- restructuring policy the central bank has just issued would help raise recovery of huge unpaid loans and facilitate overall economic activities amid the exigencies of pandemic...
Bangladeshis also feel bitter bite of inflation as its point-to-point rate climbed to 7.56 per cent last month, a nine-year high, amid erratic price rises. Meanwhile, the average inflation rate...
Bangladesh and Brazil have signed an agreement on visa exemption marking 50 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. Shahriar Alam, MP who...
Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen has said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is creating a data-driven intelligent architecture for better and faster service across the globe. He made the remarks...
The Dhaka Power Distribution Company Limited (DPDC) have begun cutting off the power supply to any stores or shopping malls that continue business after 8:00 pm in a breach of...
The country experienced a total of 1,915 MW of load shedding on Tuesday, the first day of a new era of area-wise planned power cuts announced by the government, that...
The parliamentary standing committee on power, energy and mineral resources ministry set an example on Tuesday by holding its meeting without using air conditioners and even electric lights to save...
Globalisation, in its bare bones form of movement of goods and people across geographical areas, is as old as civilisation. Borders between countries where they could be identified were porous...
Russian gas flows via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline are seen restarting on time on Thursday after the completion of scheduled maintenance, two sources familiar with the export plans told...
Reports of price spiralling of essentials are common but road crashes, violence against vulnerable people, anomalies in education and healthcare sectors, and corruptions of different forms and proportions sometimes dominate...
New Governor of Bangladesh Bank Abdur Rouf Talukder paid a courtesy call on President M Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban in Dhaka on Tuesday evening. Welcoming the new governor, the president...
The days of public sector personnel wearing suits in the comfort of their air-conditioned offices amid summer heat are ending, at least for now. Government employees have been ordered to...
No wonder that observance of the World Youth Skills Day is more of a formality here as elsewhere. The day passed this week with little or no fanfare. In fact,...
To help the UN's effort to bring foodgrains of Ukrainian and Russian origin to the world market, the US government has reportedly exempted the production, manufacture or sale of agricultural...
A delegation from African country Eswatini has said Bangladesh can explore a $1.3 billion untapped market by expanding business ties with their country. The delegation came up with this call...
The European Parliament's delegation on international trade on Tuesday said that the block wants full implementation of Bangladesh government's commitment to implement a labour roadmap. "We want the full and...
The price of edible oil has been reduced by Tk 53 per litre in the Chaktai-Khatunganj wholesale market in Chattogram in line with the reduction of price in the international...
Britain recorded its highest ever temperature of 40C (104F) on Tuesday as a heatwave gripping Europe intensified, scorching fields and damaging airport runways and train tracks. The Met Office said...
The National Implementation Committee for the Birth Centenary Celebration of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Tuesday submitted its report to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Chief coordinator...
জ্বালানি সঙ্কটের এই সময়ে সরকারি নির্দেশনা অমান্য করে রাত ৮টার পর দোকানপাট, শপিংমল খোলা দেখলেই বিদ্যুৎ সংযোগ বিচ্ছিন্ন করা শুরু হয়েছে।বিদ্যুৎ, জ্বালানি ও খনিজ সম্পদ প্রতিমন্ত্রী নসরুল হামিদ মঙ্গলবার তার...
The government’s drive to administer 7.5 million Covid vaccine boosters and second doses in a day has drawn few people to the hospitals. Booster doses were administered at all government...
Alphabet unit Google said it will from Tuesday cut fees to 12 per cent, from 15 per cent, for non-gaming app developers on its Google Play App Store which switch...
বিদ্যুৎ নিয়ে কথা বলা বিএনপি নেতাদের মুখে শোভা পায় না বলে মন্তব্য করেছেন আওয়ামী লীগের সাধারণ সম্পাদক এবং সড়ক পরিবহন ওসেতুমন্ত্রী ওবায়দুল কাদের। তিনি বলেন, ‘বিদ্যুৎ নিয়ে বিএনপি কোন মুখে...
Malta plans to open a visa office in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in the near future, according to a report published by Daily Industry. - Advertisement - The same source says that...
European nations must accelerate vaccine uptake and bring back mask wearing to tackle a surge in COVID-19 cases driven by an omicron offshoot and avoid stricter measures later in the...
India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday said Nupur Sharma, suspended spokesperson of India’s ruling party BJP, cannot be arrested till August 10 this year in the nine cases against her over...
চট্টগ্রাম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় ক্যাম্পাসের ভেতরে এক শিক্ষার্থী যৌন নিপীড়নের শিকার হয়েছেন বলে অভিযোগ উঠেছে। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম-এর। ওই তরুণী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় প্রক্টর অফিসে অভিযোগ দিয়েছেন। অপরাধীদের শনাক্ত করার চেষ্টা চলছে বলে...
The race to replace ousted British Prime Minister Boris Johnson heated up on Tuesday, with four contenders offering more policies to try to climb to the top two in a...
বিদ্যুৎ সঙ্কটসহ দেশের বর্তমান অর্থনৈতিক পরিস্থিতি তুলে ধরে বিএনপির মহাসচিব মির্জা ফখরুল ইসলাম আলমগীর বলেছেন, এখন সরকার ‘সর্ষে ফুল’ দেখবে।মঙ্গলবার ঢাকার গুলশানে দলীয় চেয়ারপারসনের কার্যালয়ে এক সংবাদ সম্মেলনে তিনি একথা...
উচ্চ-পর্যায়ের কয়েক দফা বৈঠক করতে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রে গেছেন ইউক্রেইনের ফার্স্ট লেডি ওলেনা জেলেনস্কা। এ সফরে মার্কিন কংগ্রেসেও ভাষণ দেওয়ার কথা রয়েছে তার।মাত্র চার মাস আগে ওলেনার স্বামী ও ইউক্রেনের প্রেসিডেন্ট ভলোদিমির...
Greece has protested to Serbia and Ukraine for not being timely informed about the munitions cargo on board a Ukrainian aircraft which crashed near the northern city of Kavala on...
The High Court has ordered the authorities concerned to provide Tk 0.50 million within 15 days to the legal guardian of the baby who was born during a road accident...
Queen have made UK chart history by becoming the first act to sell seven million copies of an individual album. Their first Greatest Hits collection, from 1981, is now owned...
সরকারের নানা উদ্যোগেও বাজার দরের ঊর্ধ্বগতি নিয়ন্ত্রণে রাখা যাচ্ছে না; মহামারীর পর ইউক্রেইন যুদ্ধের ধাক্কায় বিশ্ববাজারে অস্থিরতার জেরে গত জুন মাসে দেশে মূল্যস্ফীতির হার সাড়ে ৭ শতাংশ ছাড়িয়ে গেছে। মঙ্গলবার...
The visiting European Union parliamentary delegation on Tuesday made it clear that Bangladesh must implement the Labour Roadmap and amend the EPZ labour rules to get the GSP plus facilities from EU. They also...
Bangladesh witnessed an nine-year high of 7.56 per cent inflation rate in June, the last month of FY22, as per state-owned BBS data. This important indicator of the economy rose...
The Pakistani rupee fell to an all-time low against the dollar for the second day in a row on Tuesday, closing at Rs222 in the interbank market. According to the...
A Boeing 737 Biman Bangladesh flight experienced technical difficulties at Kolkata’s Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport after taking on passengers. With the air conditioning turned off, the passengers were...
Bangladesh has recorded 879 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,998,291. The death toll from the disease climbed by eight in 24 hours...
গরমের মধ্যে স্যুট পরে সরকারি কর্মকর্তাদের এসি রুমে বসে শীতল থাকার দিনে ছেদ ঘটতে যাচ্ছে।বিদ্যুৎ সাশ্রয়ে শীতাতপ নিয়ন্ত্রণ যন্ত্রের ব্যবহার সীমিত করার পর এবার প্রধানমন্ত্রী পোশাক নিয়ে এই নির্দেশনা দিয়েছেন...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved the second revision of the much-hyped Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Development (Line-6) project with an additional cost of...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is all set to introduce regional cricket bodies, BCB President Nazmul Hasan Papon said after the annual general meeting of the board on Tuesday in Dhaka....
যাত্রী তোলার পর যান্ত্রিক ত্রুটির সংকেত পাওয়ায় কলকাতার নেতাজি সুভাষ চন্দ্র বসু আন্তর্জাতিক বিমানবন্দরেই বসে থাকল বিমান বাংলাদেশ এয়ারলাইন্সের বোয়িং ৭৩৭। এসি বন্ধ, হাঁসফাঁস গরমে যাত্রীদেরও ভেতরে বসে থাকতে হল...
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