A four-day REHAB Fair Chattogram-2021 kicked off at the city's Radisson Blu Chattogram Bay View hotel on Thursday. State Minister of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid inaugurated the...
Graphic Machinery and Equipment (GME) Ltd has inked a partnership agreement with FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corporation (FFBI) to distribute two latest models of multifunction office printers in Bangladesh. The two...
Baraka Power has decided to issue zero coupon bonds amounting to Tk 1.80 billion in face value to repay the existing debts. The company will issue the bonds under private...
The securities regulator has allowed stock brokers to open two additional consolidated customer's accounts (CCA) to smoothen the maintenance of investors' funds deposited for investment purposes. The Bangladesh Securities and...
Stocks ended higher on Thursday, maintaining the gaining streak for the fourth straight session, as buoyant investors put fresh bets on heavyweight banking sector issues. DSEX, the prime index of...
Secretary General of Jatri Kalyan Samity Mozammel Hoque Chowdhury has alleged that transport owners and workers were overcharging the passengers, defying the government-fixed fare rates. "Passengers are often harassed and...
Bangladesh's lone crude oil refinery Eastern Refinery Ltd (ERL) remained closed over the past one week as part of its regular renovation. The overhaul may continue until mid-December to make...
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has alleged that Bangladesh reported to the ILO little or no progress on implementation of a roadmap to improve the workers' rights agreed earlier...
Onion, broiler chicken and loose edible oil became pricier last week increasing sufferings of the consumers, especially the commoners, already hit hard by price hike of other essentials. Onion prices...
The High Court on Thursday declared the four-member consultancy committee appointed for the Delta Life Insurance Company Limited by the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (IDRA) illegal. The High Court...
The central bank asked authorized dealer (AD) banks to ensure repatriation of services-export proceeds within 120 days the way merchandise-export earnings are brought home. To this end, the Bangladesh Bank...
The Bangladesh Tour Operators and Tour Guides (Registration and Operation) Bill, 2021 also aims at ensuring the best services for the tourists and thus giving a boost to the potential...
Bangladesh prepares to propose at the upcoming WTO meet continuity of preferential trade treatment for six to nine years after graduating from the LDC status so that the country is...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said the government will gradually lower bus fares for students through a task force. His remarks came in the wake of protests by Dhaka...
Eminent citizens, many of them revered educationists, have expressed their concern over the government plan to form an education board aimed at holding primary education completion (PEC) examination. Educationists and...
The sudden hike in fuel prices had its predictable fallouts. Public transport owners found it a convenient ploy to arm-twist the government for taking a decision in favour of raising...
About 1.4 million students are expected to sit for the Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examinations starting on Dec 2 after a nine-month delay due to the coronavirus pandemic. Instead...
দুর্নীতির মামলায় দণ্ডিত খালেদা জিয়াকে উন্নত চিকিৎসার জন্য বিদেশে নেওয়ার দাবিতে শনিবার ৭ ঘণ্টার গণঅনশনের ডাক দিয়েছে বিএনপি। বৃহস্পতিবার বিকালে এক জরুরি সংবাদ সম্মেলনে দলের মহাসচিব মির্জা ফখরুল ইসলাম আলমগীর...
Any person in teaching profession working anywhere in Bangladesh can now easily avail a bank loan as BRAC Bank has launched a specially designed personal loan product - “Dishari”....
Recently, Dhaka Bank Limited signed an agreement with RAK Ceramics (Bangladesh) Limited for Payroll Banking Services at Dhaka Bank Coporate Head Office, Gulshan, Dhaka. Mr. Emranul Huq, Managing Director &...
স্কুলশিক্ষার্থীদের কোভিড-১৯ টিকা পাওয়ার সুবিধায় এবার প্রতিটি শিক্ষা প্রতিষ্ঠানে গিয়ে তা দেওয়ার সিদ্ধান্ত নিয়েছে সরকার। বৃহস্পতিবার ঢাকায় এক অনুষ্ঠানে স্বাস্থ্যমন্ত্রী জাহিদ মালেক এই তথ্য জানিয়ে বলেছেন, “খুব শিগগিরই তা বাস্তবায়ন...
The government is planning to provide students aged 12 to 17 access to Covid -19 vaccines in every school as part of an expanded inoculation campaign for children. Health authorities...
Technology possibilities offer multiple channels for creating economic values. In developed countries, often, it begins the journey with invention, reinvention, and innovation. But in less developed countries, the journey starts...
Pfizer Inc has signed a $5.29 billion deal with the US government to deliver 10 million courses of its COVID-19 oral antiviral drug starting this year, the drugmaker said on...
The chances for winning a Booker or Man Booker Prize by the globally little known nations are getting slimmer. The blow came in 2014. That year came the new prize...
Currency swap is reported to be executed by the country's central bank with its counterpart in Russia to facilitate payment settlement for bilateral trade transactions. If it is not possible...
South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Dr Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor has said the great potential of African and Bangladeshi markets still remain unrecognized. "The potential of Africa...
Facebook advertisers promoted false and misleading claims about climate change on the platform in recent weeks, just as the COP26 conference was getting underway. Days after Facebook's vice president of...
The Philippines on Thursday condemned 'in strongest terms' the actions of three Chinese coast guard vessels that it said blocked and used water cannon on resupply boats headed towards a...
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has urged the realtors to use Net Metering System (NMS) to ensure economic use of electricity. "You can take advantage...
The High Court on Thursday declared the four-member consultancy committee appointed for the Delta Life Insurance Company Limited by the Insurance Development & Regulatory Authority (IDRA) illegal. The High Court...
The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup has come to an end last Sunday with the Aussies claiming their first-ever Men’s title in the shortest format of the game. This seventh...
A Chinese professor at the University of Copenhagen conducted genetic research with the Chinese military without disclosing the connection, the university told Reuters, in the latest example of how China's...
A protest by Dhaka College students occupied the road for one-and-a-half hours to call for a half-fare for bus rides. They ended the protest after police gave them assurances that...
Bangladesh reported another death from Dengue fever while 129 new patients were hospitalised in 24 hours till Thursday morning. Although dengue cases were supposed to drop ahead of winter the...
Winter is here. A mild south breeze and dry atmosphere with bright shining sunlight during the day are common phenomena before the arrival of December. Those who have to go...
রাজনীতির ‘বাইরে গিয়ে’ বিএনপি চেয়ারপারসন খালেদা জিয়াকে ‘বাঁচাতে’ উন্নত চিকিৎসার জন্য তাকে বিদেশে পাঠানোর আহ্বান জানিয়েছেন দলটির মহাসচিব মির্জা ফখরুল ইসলাম আলমগীর। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম-এর। বৃহস্পতিবার জাতীয় প্রেস ক্লাবে...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday filed a case against a lab technologist of Khulna General Hospital for embezzling Tk 25.8 million collected from Covid-19 tests. Khandaker Kamruzzaman, deputy assistant...
রাজধানী ঢাকার বিভিন্ন রুটে কয়েক দিন ধরে অঘোষিত গণপরিবহন ধর্মঘটের পর বৃহস্পতিবার থেকে বেশ কিছু পরিবহন আবার চলাচল করতে শুরু করেছে। পরিবহন শ্রমিকরা জানিয়েছেন, বুধবার পর্যন্ত ওয়েবিল বন্ধের দাবিতে পরিবহন...
বাংলাদেশে আগামী ২রা ডিসেম্বর থেকে উচ্চমাধ্যমিক পরীক্ষার তারিখ ঘোষণা করা হয়েছে। শিক্ষামন্ত্রী দীপু মনি বৃহস্পতিবার এক সংবাদ সম্মেলনে এ তারিখ ঘোষণা করেন। খবর বিবিসি বাংলার। শিক্ষামন্ত্রী জানান, ২০২০ সালের তুলনায় ২০২১...
Salman F Rahman, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s adviser on private investment affairs, said the US entrepreneurs should take the opportunity of Bangladesh’s highly liberal investment regime. He said this during...
Getting a century in T20 is tricky. It is a feat mostly achievable for top-order batsmen. Though centuries are not alien in franchise based leagues, the T20 World Cup has...
Young people in Bangladesh are substantially more likely to be aware of climate change than older people, says a new international survey by UNICEF and Gallup released ahead of World...
Somalia has agreed to a Bangladesh proposal on joint contract farming in the African country for better use of its huge unutilised cultivable land. Visiting State Minister for Foreign Affairs...
After the 2019 World Cup final, Jimmy Nessham had one request and one advice in his social media accounts for the kids. Request to the ‘One up there’ (God) to...
দুর্নীতির দায়ে দণ্ডিত বিএনপি নেত্রী খালেদা জিয়াকে চিকিৎসার জন্য বিদেশে পাঠানোর দাবি নিয়ে আলোচনায় আইনমন্ত্রী আনিসুল হক সংসদে বলেছেন, তিনি ‘আইন অনুযায়ীই’ চলবেন। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম-এর। বৃহস্পতিবার জাতীয় সংসদের...
Despite previously announcing the price at which the government had bought the COVID vaccine earlier, Health Minister Zahid Maleque has declined to share information regarding the price at which recent...
Prices of almost all essentials, including vegetables and onion, have remained steady in the capital’s kitchen markets on Thursday. Prices of major vegetables, namely brinjal, bean, pumpkin, bitter gourd, pointed...
While we have seen Bangladesh sticking to weird and obsolete cricketing strategies like playing left-right combination, not using left-arm spinner when a left-hander bats, reserving the best bowler for the...
আজকের এই কর্পোরেট যুগে এমন খুব কম মানুষই আছেন যারা নিজের খাবার প্রতিদিন রান্না করার সুযোগ পান। প্রতিদিন খাবার রান্না করার চেয়ে বেশিরভাগ মানুষ বরং ফ্রিজে খাবার সংরক্ষণকেই বেশি গুরুত্ব...
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