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Landslides and flash floods triggered by heavy rain across Nepal this week killed 11 people including one Indian and two Chinese workers at a development project, while 25 people were...
Zambia's first President Kenneth Kaunda has died at the age of 97, the Zambian government announced on Thursday. Secretary to the Cabinet Simon Miti said on Thursday that Kaunda died...
রাজশাহী মেডিকেল কলেজ হাসপাতালের কোভিড ইউনিটে গত ২৪ ঘণ্টায় আরও ১২ জনের প্রাণ গেছে। হাসপাতালের পরিচালক বিগ্রেডিয়ার জেনারেল শামীম ইয়াজদানী জানান, বৃহস্পতিবার সকাল ৬টা থেকে শুক্রবার সকাল ৬টার মধ্যে বিভিন্ন সময় তারা...
করোনাভাইরাসের চিকিৎসায় ‘মুখে সেবনযোগ্য’ ওষুধ আবিষ্কারের জন্য ৩০০ কোটি ডলারেরও বেশি বিনিয়োগ করার ঘোষণা দিয়েছে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের প্রেসিডেন্ট জো বাইডেনের প্রশাসন। বৃহস্পতিবার দেশটির স্বাস্থ্যসেবা বিভাগ ‘হেলথ অ্যান্ড হিউম্যান সার্ভিসেস ডিপার্টমেন্ট’ ওষুধ...
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has signed a decree to create "green pass," a digital proof that the holder is not infected by the coronavirus. The system, which became operational...
Annual inflation in the European Union (EU) continued to rise in May, reaching 2.3 per cent, up from 2.0 per cent in April, according to final data issued by the...
US President Joe Biden's executive order aimed at safeguarding Americans' sensitive data would force some Chinese apps to take tougher measures to protect private information if they want to remain...
দেশে দেশে করোনাভাইরাস সংক্রমণ থেকে জনগণকে রক্ষায় টিকার জন্য যখন হাহাকার চলছে, তখন বিশ্বজুড়ে এই মহামারীতে প্রাণহানি ৪০ লাখ ছাড়িয়েছে। যুক্তরাজ্য ও যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের মতো দেশগুলোতে মৃত্যু কমলেও ডেল্টা ধরন দ্রুত...
বাংলাদেশের বৃহত্তম স্থলবন্দর বেনাপোল এবং সীমান্তের ওপারে ভারতের পেট্রাপোলের মধ্যে পারাপারকারী ট্রাক ড্রাইভার ও তাদের সহকারীরা যেমন, তেমনি দেশের বিভিন্ন স্থান থেকে আসা পরিবহনকর্মীদের অধিকাংশই স্বাস্থ্যবিধি মানছেন না বলে অভিযোগ...
Two state-owned jute mills workers' organisations at a press conference at the Khulna Press Club on Thursday demanded payment of their arrear salaries and reopening of closed jute mills The...
BENAPOLE: Imports of goods by trains through Benapole port have seen a significant increase during the prevailing coronavirus pandemic, necessitating the railway authorities to start infrastructure development work quickly. Accordingly,...
Prices of summer vegetables have increased notably in Dhaka's kitchen markets, thus augmenting the woes of the consumers further. Broiler chicken and egg prices have also shown a further hike...
মহামারীর মধ্যে গত এক বছরে সুইজারল্যান্ডের ব্যাংকে বাংলাদেশিদের জমা টাকার পরিমাণ ৭ শতাংশ কমেছে। সুইস ন্যাশনাল ব্যাংকের (এসএনবি) বার্ষিক প্রতিবেদনে দেখা যাচ্ছে, ২০২০ সাল শেষে দেশটির ব্যাংকগুলোতে বাংলাদেশিদের জমা অর্থের...
Coronavirus-related deaths worldwide passed a grim milestone of 4 million on Thursday, according to a Reuters tally, as many countries struggle to procure enough vaccines to inoculate their populations. While...
The women's engagement in wholesale and retail trades increased by 126 per cent over a period of one decade due to their higher participation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs),...
The government is set to enhance further the price under the open market sale (OMS) programme. If the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) revises price, one litre of OMS soybean...
The country's stock market has returned to standard price movement system, as the securities regulator has lifted floor prices of all listed securities, set earlier to contain abnormal price fall...
Deposits in Swiss banks by Bangladeshi nationals and entities declined by 8.23 per cent to CHF (Swiss Franc) 562.86 million in 2020, according to latest data. The Bangladesh-linked money, considered...
Genome sequencing of samples from COVID-19 patients has found the highly infectious Delta variant among 68 per cent of the participants of a study. The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease...
A news story published in this paper some days back on the possibility of continuing the special facility for legalizing undisclosed funds in the next financial year (FY) must have...
ঢাকায় যত কোভিড-১৯ রোগী এখন রয়েছে, তার দুই-তৃতীয়াংশের দেহেই ডেল্টা ভ্যারিয়েন্টের সংক্রমণ পেয়েছেন একদল গবেষক। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকমের। ভারতে উদ্ভূত করোনাভাইরাসের এ ধরনটি দ্রুত ছড়ায় বলে এটা একটা উদ্বেগের...
চিটাগং ইন্ডিপেন্ডেন্ট ইউনিভার্সিটিতে (সিআইইউতে) গবেষণা বিষয়ক সেমিনারে আমেরিকার ইউনিভার্সিটি অব সাউদার্ন ক্যালিফোর্নিয়ার ডক্টরিয়াল ফেলো শৈবাল দেব রায় বলেছেন, যুক্তরাষ্ট্র তাদের গবেষণায় বর্ণবাদ, সংস্কৃতি, উপনিবেশিকতা আর পুঁজিবাদকে সামনে তুলে ধরে সচেতনতা...
Of the 28,000 or so universities in the world, the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings 2022, in its 18th edition, released on June 8 last, has come up with...
It was around a decade ago, in 2010 to be precise, when two projects for land record digitisation were taken up by the government. The projects did inspire much hope...
Producing and consuming more goods and services for the same amount of work sounds too good to be true. In fact, it's entirely possible. Higher productivity is one of the...
An upward trend of the Covid-19 infection is being noticed in the border areas of the country. Many bordering districts have witnessed a sharp rise in cases following an alarming...
Amidst all the doom and gloom associated with the Covid pandemic, some good news - at least on the economic front -- has started to emerge. While both the IMF...
The government’s Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd plans to launch underground train services in 2026 following the start of the construction work in 2022. As many as 800,000 passengers will...
This extraordinary memoir on the life and times of one of the greatest high-school headmasters of this country late Jalal-ud-Din Ahmad has come out in print 28 years after the...
The spectacular photograph presenting an aerial view of Dhaka's Suhrawardy Udyan not only soothes the mind; it also helps change the hackneyed image of Dhaka's unliveable status. The photograph taken...
Speakers at a virtual dialogue on Thursday called for urgent enhancement of cash transfers to the marginalised and affected households in view of COVID-19. They said there is a need...
Bangladesh is the 91st most peaceful country with an overall score of 2.068, according to Global Peace Index 21 released on Thursday. In the latest index, Bangladesh has jumped...
WHO guidance to help world reach target of reducing suicide rate by one-third by 2030 One in 100 deaths is by suicide across worldwide, says the World Health Organization (WHO)...
The Supreme Court has upheld a High Court verdict dismissing a plea that sought to preserve Mohammad Shahid Islam alias Kazi Papul's membership of parliament following his conviction in Kuwait....
State minister for the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid blasted state-run Dhaka Electric Supply Company Ltd (DESCO) for the delay in installing 24 substations. The consortium...
The government is planning to launch an educational TV channel for students to prevent any further loss of learning due to the coronavirus pandemic, reports bdnews24.com. The channel will allow...
Bangladesh has urged the member states and dialogue partners of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) to formulate and implement projects for economic cooperation relating to trade facilitation and liberalisation,...
Labour rights groups and activists on Thursday urged the government to ratify the ILO convention 189 in order to uphold the rights of domestic workers of the country. They emphasised...
The Bangladesh Restaurant Owners Association wants close down of ‘Designated Smoking Areas' in restaurants across the country for public health reasons. The demand was made at a virtual discussion titled...
জনস্বাস্থ্যের কথা বিবেচনা করে দেশের রেস্টুরেন্টগুলোতে ‘নির্দিষ্ট ধূমপান এলাকা’ নিষিদ্ধ চান বাংলাদেশ রেস্তোরাঁ মালিক সমিতি। ১৭ জুন বাংলাদেশ রেস্তোরাঁ মালিক সমিতি ও ঢাকা আহ্ছানিয়া মিশনের যৌথ উদ্যোগে আয়োজিত ‘তামাক নিয়ন্ত্রণ...
Bangladesh has registered 63 fatalities in the past 24 hours, the highest daily count since May 03. This brings the death toll to 13,345, according to the latest government data...
A total of 68,283 people secured bail in the 45 working days until Wednesday as the virtual courts and tribunals settled a total of 134,636 petitions. The virtual courts and...
The iDEA of the ICT Division will provide Tk 430 million (43 crore) to Startup Bangladesh Ltd for the development of seed and growth-stage startups. Through this company, startups have...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will give 53,340 more houses to the landless and homeless families as part of her government’s campaign to bring all landless and homeless families under housing...
The World Food Prize Foundation has awarded the World Food Prize 2021 to Dr Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, global lead for Nutrition and Public Health of WorldFish. She won the most...
Stocks ended almost flat on Thursday, after remaining higher in the previous two days, as late hours selling pressure wiped out the early gains. The market opened on a positive...
A heated debate has broken out in parliament about clubs in Dhaka city, and their involvement with alcohol and gambling. The unplanned discussion saw members of the Awami League, Jatiya...
A case was filed in connection with the killing of three people including two children in Goainghat upazila of Sylhet district. Father of slain Alema filed the case with Goainghat...
Much of the western United States baked for a third day on Wednesday under a punishing heat wave that has set temperature records, prompted health warnings, and strained power grids....
Some camps dotted in the forest have a few dozen people, some more than a thousand. The displaced sleep packed together under plastic sheeting for protection from Myanmar's monsoon rains....
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