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China cracked down on what it described as a "chaotic" celebrity fan culture on Friday, barring platforms from publishing popularity lists and regulating the sale of fan merchandise after a...
Cows injured during their summer sojourn in the high Swiss Alpine meadows got a jump on their healthier herdmates on Friday when they got helicopter rides down the mountain, reports...
Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti was tight-lipped about Paris St Germain striker Kylian Mbappe on Friday, amid mounting speculation the France forward could join the LaLiga club before the transfer...
A donor-financed project for converting Akhaura-Sylhet railway corridor, which also connects Dhaka and Chattogram, to dual-gauge track has long been laid off and a bid is now underway to redo...
The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka (MCCI) forecasts an upturn in export receipts, import values and inward remittance at the end of the first quarter of this fiscal....
About 12,500 people were evacuated from Afghanistan on Thursday, raising the total number of evacuees amid the Taliban takeover of Kabul to roughly 105,000 since Aug 14, the White House...
Researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have created a facemask using silver and copper nanolayers that neutralizes SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, the university's official gazette...
The government has turned down the Bangladesh Agro-Processors' Association (BAPA)'s proposal for providing cash incentive for the export of fragrant rice. The BAPA in a recent letter to commerce ministry...
The number of coronavirus patients in US hospitals has breached 100,000, the highest level in eight months, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, as a resurgence of...
“আমাদের দায়িত্ব ছিল শুধু মিথ্যা আশ্বাস দেওয়া। একটা মানুষের পক্ষে দিনের ১৪/১৫ ঘণ্টা অনবরত মিথ্যা কথা বলা, এটা সহ্য করাও কঠিন।” এই মন্তব্য আলোচিত ই-কমার্স প্ল্যাটফর্ম ইভ্যালির একজন সাবেক কর্মীর,...
CHATTOGRAM: Owners of leather storages or godowns in the port city sold rawhides worth around Tk 200 million (Tk 20 crore) during and after Eid-ul-Azha this year, celebrated on July...
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, policy changes are taking place across the world in recent times to facilitate international trade. Keeping this in mind, stakeholders, especially bankers, should...
Bangladesh's premier trade chamber, MCCI, finds some less-promising economic indicators-revenue mobilisaiton and public expenditure in particular-are weakening the country's fiscal framework. The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka, calls...
Bangladesh needs to adopt a shock-responsive social-safety-net programme with perfect identification of the extreme poor, experts at a webinar said on Thursday. Such a social protection strategy will not only...
Trying to bring transparency and accountability in Bangladesh's external trade, government's revenue authority is setting Export General Manifest (EGM) module as decoy in 17 private inland container depots (ICDs) for...
The regulator is aggressively working to introduce insurance products for bond issuers that will guarantee repayment of the principal and all associated benefits to the bondholders in the event of...
The central bank has further extended the policy relaxation regarding loan repayment to the scheduled banks by their borrowers to help recover the country's pandemic-hit economy, officials said. Under the...
Tax collection from Bangladesh's large manufacturing industries plummeted, registering a negative growth in VAT receipts in July, as a countrywide 'strict lockdown' for 18 days for checking corona transmission dealt...
The United States pressed on with the monumental evacuation from Afghanistan on Friday amid tighter security measures and fears of more bloodshed, a day after the suicide attack at the...
After a series of hard restrictions, the government has favoured gradual return of normalcy by reopening almost all sectors except educational institutions. The pandemic compelled the government to impose several...
Before independence, jute was the chief cash crop of the country and it accounted for more than 50 per cent of the export earning. Being the biggest foreign-exchange earner, jute...
Reports that many Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia are going hungry as they have lost jobs due to the pandemic are very disconcerting. As it is a serious humanitarian crisis...
At least 17 people have died and some 33 others are missing after a boat overturned following a collision in Brahmanbaria’s Sadar Upazila. The mishap occurred in Loiska Beel around...
ব্রাহ্মণবাড়িয়া সদরে একটি বিলে বালুবোঝাই ট্রলাররের সঙ্গে সংঘর্ষে যাত্রীবোঝাই ট্রলার উল্টে অন্তত ১৭ জন নিহত হয়েছে। ব্রাহ্মণবাড়িয়ার পুলিশ সুপার আনিসুর রহমান জানান, শুক্রবার বিকাল সোয়া ৫টার দিকে উপজেলার লইসকা বিলে...
At least 10 people have died and some others are missing in a boat accident in Brahmanbaria’s Sadar Upazila. It overturned after a head-on collision with a sand-laden trawler in...
Onrush of upstream waters and heavy rains have caused 16 rivers to swell in Kurigram and left almost 20,000 people marooned. Water levels have risen to above 17 cm and...
Over the past two decades, the Asia-Pacific region has made remarkable progress in managing disaster risk. But countries can never let down their guard. The Covid-19 pandemic, with its epicentre...
America's 20-year misadventure in Afghanistan is finally over. The original purpose of our use of force, to destroy al-Qaeda after September 11, was legitimate. Our goal evolved, however, into a...
Manchester City have pulled out of the race to sign the Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo after Manchester United have started preparing a contract offer for him, according to the BBC...
International remittance has been playing a crucial role in the socio-economic development of Bangladesh for decades. It has also provided an effective cushioning for Bangladesh economy during several crisis periods....
At least 16 people were killed in a factory fire on Friday in Pakistan’s largest city and financial hub, Karachi, raising questions about the industrial safety in a country not...
Building a suitable environment and ensuring vaccination are among the major concerns that should be addressed before reopening educational institutions as the country has missed golden opportunity to restart in-person...
Education Minister Dipu Moni has expressed her hope that it will be possible to reopen the universities for in-person classes and examinations after mid-October if the inoculation of students goes...
Sayed Sadaat was the communications minister of the Afghan government before moving to Germany last December in the hope of a better future. Now he is a delivery man in...
Being in the sunlight was already a rarity in city life. But in the continued existence of the pandemic, people are actually forgetting to bathe in the sun. The human...
Afghanistan’s Taliban is planning an inclusive caretaker government after the group toppled the Western-backed administration in a stunning sweep earlier this month, reports Al Jazeera. Taliban sources told Al Jazeera...
A total of 184 industrial establishments got registered with the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) in three months, from April to June this year. The total amount of the proposed...
A major review of vaccines suggests the AstraZeneca jab does raise the risk of blood clots and another serious condition that can cause bleeding, according to the BBC. But, it...
A total of 139 Bangladeshi students have been selected to obtain master’s degrees in different European countries under the European Union’s Erasmus Mundus scholarship this year. Under the programme, the...
জন্মের পর থেকে একজন শিশুকে বেশ কয়েকটি ধাপ অতিক্রম করতে হয়। প্রতিটি মানুষকেই পার করতে হয় জীবনের বিচিত্র এসব অধ্যায়, যার প্রত্যেকটিতেই থাকে নতুন কিছু অভিজ্ঞতা কিংবা সাড়া জাগানো কিছু...
Although no death from Dengue was reported in 24 hours till early Friday, 184 more people were hospitalised with the mosquito-borne disease, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS)....
করোনাভাইরাসের সংক্রমণ কমে আসার ধারায় দেশে দৈনিক শনাক্ত রোগীর সংখ্যা এবং পরীক্ষার তুলনায় শনাক্তের হার নেমে এসেছে জুন মাসের মাঝামাঝি সময়ের পর্যায়ে। স্বাস্থ্য অধিদপ্তর জানিয়েছে, শুক্রবার সকাল পর্যন্ত ২৪ ঘণ্টায়...
Bangladesh has registered 117 new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 25,846. The COVID-19 caseload surged to 1,486,153 after 3,525 people tested positive for the...
As the Covid infection rate continues to fall, health experts advised the government to immediately take adequate preparations along with a roadmap to reopen the educational institutions gradually. They think...
At least three Indian states are denying passports and government jobs to people because of their social media posts or participation in protests, human rights activists has said, reports Reuters....
Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd on Friday put a train of six metro rail coaches on a trial run on Diya Bari-Mirpur route. MAN Siddique, managing director of Dhaka Mass...
শিক্ষার্থীদের টিকার আওতায় এনে অক্টোবরের মাঝামাঝি সময়ে বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় খুলে দেওয়া যাবে বলে আশা করছেন শিক্ষামন্ত্রী দীপু মনি। তবে স্কুলে খুলে দিতে করোনাভাইরাসের সংক্রমণ পরিস্থিতি পর্যবেক্ষণ করা হচ্ছে বলে জানিয়েছেন তিনি। খবর...
উজানের ঢল এবং অতিবৃষ্টির কারণে কুড়িগ্রামে ১৬টি নদ-নদীর পানি বেড়ে যাওয়ায় পানিবন্দি হয়েছেন প্রায় ২০ হাজার মানুষ। কুড়িগ্রাম পানি উন্নয়ন বোর্ডের নির্বাহী প্রকৌশলী আরিফুল ইসলাম জানান, শুক্রবার সকাল ৯টায় ধরলা...
যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের প্রেসিডেন্ট জো বাইডেন বলেছেন, আফগানিস্তানে জিহাদী হামলা সত্ত্বেও কাবুল থেকে লোকজনকে মার্কিন বিমানে করে সরিয়ে নেয়ার অভিযান অব্যাহত থাকবে। ওই হামলায় ৯০ জনেরও বেশি মানুষ নিহত হয়েছেন, যাদের মধ্যে...
The parliamentary standing committee on the health ministry has asked for a report on the full government plan on the production of coronavirus vaccines in Bangladesh. The committee, which wants...
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