Oil prices sped higher on Thursday as the war in Ukraine drove a mad dash for resources in an ominous sign for global inflation, while Asian shares eked out gains...
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has launched its online-based membership management system to make registration procedures easy, faster and more convenient for factories. The online-based system will...
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has emerged as a concern for the Readymade Garment (RMG) sector of Bangladesh, said BGMEA. Russia, a potential and emerging market for Bangladesh RMG exports, has...
Domestic makers of essential building materials call for unburdening them of the overweight of multiple taxes to help them sustain the fallout of the pandemic. They say a spike in...
Most of the listed life insurers saw price appreciation on Wednesday and dominated the chart of top 10 gainers. Of top 10 gainers of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), eights were...
রাশিয়ার আগ্রাসন শুরুর পর এক সপ্তাহে ইউক্রেইন থেকে ১০ লাখের বেশি মানুষ প্রতিবেশী দেশগুলোতে শরণার্থী হিসেবে আশ্রয় নিয়েছে বলে জানিয়েছে জাতিসংঘ। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকমের। গত ২৪ ফেব্রুয়ারি রুশ সেনারা...
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) on Wednesday recommended providing tax benefits, like the ones now being enjoyed by the RMG industry, to all the export-oriented industries in...
ইউক্রেইনে রাশিয়ার সামরিক অভিযানের নিন্দা জানিয়ে একটি প্রস্তাব পাস করেছে জাতিসংঘ সাধারণ পরিষদ। বুধবার পরিষদের জরুরি অধিবেশনে পাস হওয়া এই প্রস্তাবে ভোটদানে বিরত ছিল বাংলাদেশসহ ৩৫টি দেশ। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর...
A resilient rebound in apparel trade buoyed the country's merchandise shipments as Bangladesh recorded over 30-per cent annualized export growth in the current financial year's first eight months. Exports fetched...
An engineer on board the Bangladeshi vessel ‘MV Banglar Samriddhi’, which is stranded at a port in Ukraine, has been killed amid Russia’s invasion of the Eastern European country. The...
Mobile-phone operators Grameenphone (GP), Robi and Teletalk have failed to meet the benchmark of 4G data speed in Dhaka division, excluding the areas under two city corporations. However, only the...
The government downsized the annual development budget to Tk 2.07 trillion with cuts in foreign assistance by Tk 175 billion, as foreign-aided projects lost gear into lax execution. On Wednesday,...
Summit Group's FSRU (floating, storage, re-gasification unit) resumed re-gasification of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in a major step to ease several month-long countrywide natural gas crisis. The FSRU, which had...
Collection of tax revenue, largely import-stage revenue, grew by 15.75 per cent in the first seven months of the current fiscal year. Customs revenue grew by 22.45 per cent until...
In the shadows of recent financial problems the classified-loan buildups in Bangladesh's banking system leapt over 16 per cent or Tk 145.40 billion in the last calendar year. Such slide...
Global commodity-price spirals amid unfolding geopolitical conflicts -- the Russia-Ukraine war at a peak -- may exert inflationary pressures on Bangladesh market. Such concern is aired in the Bangladesh central...
The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to reprimand Russia for invading Ukraine and demanded that Moscow stop fighting and withdraw its military forces, an action that aims...
'College life' -- these are just two words with many things lying inside them. School Secondary Certificate (SSC) assessments end and students enter a new chapter of their academic life...
It has been more than a decade since the launch of the creative question pattern in the national curriculum. Creative questions were a blessing for most of the students as...
The importance of data is known to all. However, implementing a data culture into a company is not easy, which most companies fail to do. Noshin Nawar interviewed Khan Muhammad...
The government has issued a notification declaring 'Joy Bangla' as the national slogan of Bangladesh. The Cabinet Division issued the notification on Wednesday, reports UNB. According to the notification, officials...
Refugee populations represent one of the most marginalised groups in whichever host country they come to settle and this is clearly the case with Rohingya population, a majority of whom...
How much should be the price difference between famers' and consumers' levels? It depends on several factors such as distances a produce traverse from farms to ultimate destinations and then...
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi says that he is preparing to take action against businesses to reduce the inflated prices of necessities ahead of Ramadan. “The media should spread the word...
UNDP, Unilever Bangladesh and Narayanganj City Corporation jointly took a move to reduce plastic pollution by recycling and reusing plastic waste. As part of the joint initiative and symbolic one,...
Bangladesh Bank in a report submitted to the High Court has argued that there are abnormal differences between the salaries of the high and low-ranking officials of private banks. The...
Ahead of the two-match T20I series against Afghanistan, Bangladesh captain Mahmudullah Riyad expressed his aim to play fearless cricket in the shorter format of the game. Bangladesh previously played six...
এক বছরের ব্যবধানে দেশে ভোটার বাড়ল সাড়ে ১৫ লাখেরও বেশি। তাতে এখন মোট ভোটার সংখ্যা দাঁড়িয়েছে ১১ কোটি ৩২ লাখ ৮৭ হাজার ১০ জনে। বুধবার জাতীয় ভোটার দিবসে চূড়ান্ত ভোটার...
A combination of whammies have brought the agriculture to a seemingly one-ended impasse. Climate change specialists have made the case existing practices are unsustainable for the environment. Increasing yields through...
Japan is ready to take in Ukrainians fleeing Russia's invasion, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Wednesday, adding that he had made the pledge during a phone conversation with his...
AC Milan failed to take advantage of several chances as they played out a 0-0 draw with neighbours Inter Milan in the first leg of their Coppa Italia semi-final at...
The annual average rate of inflation is likely to cross 6.0 per cent level by the end of the current fiscal year (FY22), according to the central bank’s inflation expectation...
The government has decided to stop the sales of non-bottled soybean oil after May 31 and sales of non-bottled palm oil after December 31 this year with an aim to...
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) launched a digital membership management system. BGMEA President Faruque Hassan inaugurated the digital “BGMEA Membership Management System” (MSS) on Tuesday at a...
The country's merchandise export earnings maintained hefty growth during the first eight months of current fiscal year recording over 30 per cent rise this fiscal year following the good performance...
Pre-primary schools are set to reopen on Mar 20 after almost two years of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision to resume in-person learning was taken in light...
Alphabet Inc's Google said on Tuesday that it has blocked mobile apps connected to RT and Sputnik, Russia’s state-owned television network and news agency, from its Play store. The company...
University of Chittagong (CU) has initiated a process to establish a greenhouse to develop climate-tolerant crop varieties. The Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Department of the university is constructing the greenhouse...
স্কুলে ভর্তি হয়েও শ্রেণিকক্ষ যারা দেখেনি, তাদের সেই সুযোগ ঘটতে যাচ্ছে। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম-এর। প্রাথমিক শিক্ষা অধিদপ্তর বুধবার এক বিজ্ঞপ্তিতে জানিয়েছে, আগামী ২০ মার্চ থেকে প্রাক-প্রাথমিকের শিক্ষার্থীদের শ্রেণি কার্যক্রম...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday reiterated her determination to ensure an improved and developed life for the countrymen through implementing the spirit and ideology of the War of Liberation....
UAE Ambassador in Bangladesh Abdulla Ali AlHmoudi on Wednesday said the food processing industry in Bangladesh looks promising for possible investment by his country’s businesspeople. The ambassador made the remark during...
The National Economic Council (NEC) has approved a Tk 2.076 trillion revised Annual Development Programme (RADP) for the current fiscal year (FY22), prioritising the transport and communication sector. The NEC...
The Maldives is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. With gorgeous sea beaches, resorts and mind-blowing nature, every year, a lot of tourists across the world...
The world’s biggest aircraft, the Antonov-225 cargo plane, was destroyed by Russian forces while it was under repair at an airfield in Gostomel near Kyiv. Confirming the information on Sunday,...
Following an awful performance in ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2021, the Bangladesh team will play some Twenty20 International (T20I) series that would help the cricketers to get prepared for...
Foreign investors are effectively stuck with their holdings of Russian stocks and rouble-denominated bonds after the central bank put a temporary halt on payments and major overseas' settlement systems stopped...
Bangladesh has recorded 732 new Covid-19 cases in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,945,108. The death toll from the disease climbed by eight in 24 hours...
BRAC Bank’s Women Banking TARA has introduced a host of lucrative offers on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2022. TARA credit card customers will enjoy 16% interest...
The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested a fugitive militant, who was sentenced to death in a case over a conspiracy to assassinate...
Education Minister Dipu Moni says secondary schools will resume full-fledged academic activities soon as primary school students returned to the brick and mortar classrooms following an ebb in coronavirus infections....
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