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Ahead of shareholder meetings for the giant pharmaceutical corporations, the People’s Vaccine Alliance calculates that Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca have paid out $26 billion in dividends and stock...
Doctors of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have urged him to immediately end his hunger strike, warning that otherwise he could die. In a statement, the five say they...
Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi said on Thursday that China hoped the upcoming ASEAN summit on member Myanmar would pave the way for a "soft landing". The in-person summit in...
ইউটিউবসহ সামাজিক যোগাযোগ মাধ্যমে ছড়িয়ে পড়া হেফাজতে ইসলামের সহিংসতা ও ওয়াজের ভিডিও মামলার ‘আলামত’ হিসেবে সংগ্রহ করছে পুলিশ। সাম্প্রতিক সময়ে দেশজুড়ে কওমি মাদ্রাসাভিত্তিক সংগঠনটির সহিংসতা ও নাশকতার ঘটনায় শতাধিক মামলার...
Growers in the district are apprehending a shortage of labourers during the ongoing Boro paddy harvest amid the upsurge of Covid-19 cases across the country. Although the harvesting in some...
The global economy will recover this year from its coronavirus slump at a pace not seen since the 1970s as strong momentum builds in most major economies, according to Reuters...
The stock market regulator has temporarily relaxed the listing regulations or other securities laws for all the listed companies relating to the requirements of monthly/quarterly submissions until May 25. It...
The country's overseas job sector is facing a blow as the process to complete necessary formalities for sending thousands of workers abroad remained almost suspended due to the prolonged lockdown....
At least two people have died after a fire broke out in a chemical warehouse in Old Dhaka’s Armanitola on Friday. The fire on the ground floor of Haji Musa...
Wristwatch is the only jewellery men can wear, according a saying. It testifies how wristwatches have been appreciated as a styling boutique for years. However, perhaps smartphones have taken the...
CHATTOGRAM: Operational activities at Chittagong Port are facing hindrance due to a significant rise in the number of undelivered Refer Containers as importers are showing disinterest to get their imported...
Six key essential items for Ramadan were still selling at much higher prices than that of the government-fixed rates which market experts attributed to lax monitoring. Just ahead of the...
The tax revenue target and the capacity of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) are ill-matched. That is one of the major reasons for the widening shortfall in revenue collection,...
Despite a high Covid-19 fatality rate, people's movement continued to increase in the city even on the first day of the countrywide extended hard lockdown on Thursday To contain faster...
The government has set a target to procure a total of 1.8 million tonnes of paddy and rice during this Boro season to boost its stock in public warehouses which...
The Netherlands has put emphasis on an accommodating business climate for foreign investment and trade, as well as adherence to global labour and environmental standards, to attract more foreign investment...
A Bangladeshi man convicted of setting off a pipe bomb during rush hour in New York City's busiest subway station, Times Square, was sentenced on Thursday to life plus 30...
Nearly 57 per cent of the survivors of Rana Plaza are unemployed, according to a survey. Besides, 43 per cent of the other survivors have to make living by changing...
With the second wave of the pandemic looking more ominous than the first, the plan for opening up of educational institutions cannot but be deferred, most likely indefinitely. Last year's...
The move to raise an Export Development Fund (EDF)--- one of the key export facilitating schemes of the government came at a time when the export sector needed it most....
করোনাভাইরাসে আক্রান্ত হয়ে চিকিৎসাধীন অবস্থায় মারা গেছেন প্রবাসী কল্যাণ মন্ত্রণালয়ের সচিব ড. আহমেদ মুনিরুছ সালেহীনের বড়ভাই আহমেদ রাইছুছ সালেহীন। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম-এর। বৃহস্পতিবার বিকাল সোয়া ৪টায় ঢাকা মেডিকেল কলেজ...
Nightly clashes and other violent incidents between Palestinians and Israelis in Jerusalem during Ramadan have laid bare simmering tensions in the holy city, reports Reuters. Palestinians have clashed with Israeli...
A total of 14,000 expatriate workers left the country for Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and Singapore from April 17 to 21 amid the countrywide lockdown enforced to contain the Covid-19...
'There is as yet no monograph in English devoted to a comprehensive study of Hume's economics, let alone one that connects this body of thought to his philosophical tenets,' write...
হেফাজতে ইসলামের সরকার বিরোধী পোস্ট ফেইসবুকে শেয়ার করার অভিযোগে ডিজিটাল নিরাপত্তা আইনে মামলায়আওয়ামী লীগের মানিকগঞ্জের স্থানীয় এক নেতাকে গ্রেপ্তার করা হয়েছে। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম-এর। বৃহস্পতিবার দুপুরে তাকে জ্যেষ্ঠ বিচারিক...
In Bangladesh, cigarette taxation presents an excellent case to strengthen the cause of a time-fitting reform in the tax system and also emphasises the need for better policy decisions in...
An estimated 24.5 million people have become 'new poor' in the country because of the pandemic. This was the finding of a ' rapid response research' carried out jointly by...
It is now well recognised that Zakat, the fourth pillar of Islam, is an effective tool to reduce poverty and social discrimination. Being a Muslim-dominated country, the impact of Zakat...
Several pandemics have devastated mankind in different times, killing millions of people around the world. The earliest of them is smallpox, which dates back to 10,000 years BC. The disease...
বাংলাদেশ জানিয়েছে যে দক্ষিণ এশিয়া অঞ্চলের দেশগুলোতে করোনাভাইরাসের টিকা দ্রুত সরবরাহ করার লক্ষ্য নিয়ে একটি সংরক্ষণাগার গড়ে তোলার প্রস্তাব দিয়েছে চীন। বাংলাদেশের পররাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রী এ কে আবদুল মোমেন বিবিসি বাংলাকে নিশ্চিত...
নেত্রকোণায় অতিবৃষ্টি ও পাহাড়ীঢলে অকাল বন্যার কবল থেকে কৃষকরা রক্ষা পেলেও দু’দফায় হিট শক ও শিলা বৃষ্টির ক্ষয়ক্ষতির পরও কষ্টার্জিত ফলনের ন্যায্য দামে কৃষকের সন্তুষ্টি। নেত্রকোণার তিন উপজেলায় হাওরে বোরো...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said the overall progress of the country’s first metro-rail construction work stands at 61.49 per cent. “Overall progress of the metro-rail...
Experts and stakeholders called for removing social barriers and building capacity and skills of the girls and women to reduce gender gap aiming to find better-paid jobs and start new...
Bangladesh is unlikely to see any improvement in the Covid-19 situation before June next as the country is still in the grip of its second wave, predicted a group of...
A Dhaka court on Thursday placed Rafiqul Islam Madani, popularly known as Shishu Bokta, on a seven-day remand in a case filed under the Digital Security Act for delivering ‘anti-state...
Developed countries should draw an immediate action plan to reduce their carbon emissions and keep the global temperature rise at 1.5 degrees Celsius, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said. The...
Bangladesh's Test captain Mominul Haque scored his first-ever century on foreign soil against Sri Lanka at the Pallakelle International Stadium in Kandy on Thursday. He achieved the feat on the...
With India’s coronavirus situation sliding into a deeper crisis, Indian High Commissioner Vikram Doraiswami says his country is taking steps so that Bangladesh can continue its vaccination campaign. Doraiswami made...
সপ্তাহের শেষ দিন সামান্য বেড়েছে বাংলাদেশের দুই পুঁজিবাজারের সূচক। করোনাভাইরাসের সংক্রমণ রোধে ‘সর্বাত্মক লকডাউন’ শুরুর পর বৃহস্পতিবার ছিল ষষ্ঠ লেনদেন দিবস, আর এই ছয় দিনই সূচক বেড়েছে পুঁজিবাজারে। ঢাকা স্টক...
Singapore health ministry said on Thursday it will not allow entry to long-term visa holders and short-term visitors with recent travel history to India, which is battling a second wave...
Maybe you’ve moved into a new apartment in a metropolitan area. Standing in the doorway of your empty living room, you start thinking about decorating the space. You’ve got so...
Asia-focused overview of the plastic pollution crisis said the oil and gas industries will ramp up plastic production in the coming years raising fears of possible ‘plastic pandemic’ among experts....
As many as 65.71 per cent people in the country have seen a sharp income drop while some 37.14 per cent had to take loans from different sources to meet...
Bangladesh has registered 98 new fatalities from the coronavirus in a day, taking the death toll to 10,781. The caseload surged to 736,074 after 4,014 people tested positive for COVID-19...
Imagine taking away a drug from an addict or a cane of beer from an alcoholic; reactions that will follow is understandable. However, there is a new type of addiction...
The World Bank and the government on Thursday signed a $250 million financing agreement to help Bangladesh ‘create more and better jobs; recover faster from the Covid-19 pandemic; and build...
Stocks ended marginally higher on Thursday, extending the gaining streak for the eight straight sessions, as investors continued to show their appetite on sector-wise issues despite the ongoing countywide lockdown....
ZEE5 Global, one of the largest over the top (OTT) platforms for South Asian content, released a romantic comedy web film titled ‘Jodi Kintu Tobuo’ on April 1. The movie,...
Health Minister Zahid Maleque has warned of a third wave of Covid-19 if people do not follow the current health rules, reports bdnews24.com. “If there is a third wave, we...
The Biden administration on Thursday pledged to slash US greenhouse gas emissions by 50 per cent-52 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030, a new target it hopes will spur...
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