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India will drop the pre-departure COVID test requirement for travellers coming from or via China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Thailand and Japan from Monday, the health ministry said, as COVID-19...
Pahela Falgun (first day of spring on Bangla calendar), Shaheed Dibash (International Mother Language Day and Language Martyrs Day), and Valentine’s Day all fall in the month of February and...
President Joe Biden, under fire from some lawmakers, said on Thursday he did not view a Chinese spy balloon that transited the United States before it was shot down in...
Yahoo said on Thursday it plans to lay off more than 20 per cent of its total workforce as part of a major restructuring of its ad tech division, reports...
Cold, hunger and despair gripped hundreds of thousands of people left homeless after the earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria three days ago as the death toll passed 20,000 on...
Deutsche Bank of Germany has opened its representative office in Bangladesh as the bank's global clients have strong business ties with the country. Lokman Hossain Miah, Executive Chairman of Bangladesh...
Canada will continue supplying potassium fertiliser to Bangladesh, said Agriculture Minister Dr Muhamnad Abdur Razzaque on Thursday in the capital. He said there was an uncertainty over supply of potassium...
The government's tax revenue from the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) increased 6.21 per cent to Tk 171 million in January, compared to the month before, as turnover rose significantly following...
Midland Bank Ltd, which is set to commence IPO subscription in the middle of this month, offers 7.14 per cent shares to its employees under the employees share purchase plan...
Amid resistance by local interest groups, the European Union (EU) has sought intervention by the government of Bangladesh so that LafargeHolcim Bangladesh Limited (LHBL), a multinational company listed in Bangladesh,...
Fish prices, especially of cultured ones, were going beyond commoners' reach following an uptrend in rates of broiler chicken and other meat. Cultured pangas, koi, tilapia, ruhi, katla and pabda...
Posts and Telecommunication Minister Mustafa Jabbar on Thursday said gambling and fraudulent activities using mobile financial services (MFS) have become a grave concern towards building 'Smart Bangladesh'. He also said...
Better buyer-supplier partnership is imperative now amid transition as industry rides out corona aftershocks, says a survey report about the means of reinvigorating the global apparel market. The quality of...
Dhaka metro-rail company plans to make operational the entire corridor of the Mass Rapid Transit Line 6 (MRT-6) from Uttara to Motijheel by December this year. Dhaka Mass Transit Company...
Newspaper owners on Thursday demanded that the high-rated corporate tax for the industry be cut to 10-15 per cent in view of its financial hardship. In a pre-budget meeting at...
Agent banking booms while helping banks in netting deposits, distributing inbound remittances and disbursing credits, thereby bringing unbanked people under formal banking network. Although agent banking is spreading at a...
Bangladesh Under-20 Women outclassed Nepal with a 3-0 drubbing in the final of SAFF Women’s Championship to secure the title. Bangladesh missed several opportunities in the opening half as Nepal...
It was over fifty years ago in March 1968 when Rahima Karim had boarded a PIA flight from Dhaka that was bound for London. A few days later, a Pan...
The way the country's rivers are being polluted without respite, it might take barely fifty years before a number of them go out of sight --- at least in part....
Not many would contest the contention that it is truly difficult to get reliable data both at macro and micro levels in Bangladesh. The problem has come into focus very...
The planet Earth, the only known orbiting satellite of the star Sun serving as home to life, convulses and does so at an interval ranging roughly between 100/120 and 500...
That Bangladesh, after half a century of its independence, is yet to have a well-equipped refinery to treat imported crude fuel is strangely unusual. Despite the high investment required for...
Greening the economy is the prerequisite for attaining sustainable development goals. Transitioning to a green economy requires large-scale investment, with a principal role for the government to build an enabling...
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has approved a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and all matters over the bailout programme are settled, local broadcaster Geo said on Thursday,...
The businesses of Saudi Arabia is very much interested to invest in Bangladesh as a high-profile delegation of the Kingdom, led by Minister of Commerce of Saudi Arabia Majed Bin...
যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের আকাশসীমায় গত শনিবার ভূপাতিত করা চীনা গুপ্তচর বেলুন পাঁচ মহাদেশ জুড়ে চীনের নজরদারির বিস্তৃত কর্মসূচিরই অংশ বলে ধারণা ওয়াশিংটনের। কেবল যুক্তরাষ্ট্রে নয়, বিশ্বজুড়ে পাঁচ মহাদেশের বিভিন্ন দেশ চীনা গুপ্তচর...
The government has decided to amend the noise pollution control rules based on a survey conducted to determine the noise level in 64 districts of the country. The department of...
The government will provide Tk 81 million as an incentive to increase the cultivation and production of jute in the country. An incentive of Tk Tk 81 million is being...
শুরুতেই নষ্ট হলো সুযোগ। পরের কিছু আক্রমণও হলো না ঠিকঠাক। হবে, হচ্ছে করেও হচ্ছিল না গোল। অবশেষে বিরতির আগে প্রতিপক্ষের রক্ষণে চিড় ধরাতে পারলেন রিপা ও শামসুন্নাহার। প্রতিশোধের মিশনে নামা...
The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Malawi has crossed 1,300, a senior Malawian health official said on Thursday, as the southern African country battles its deadliest outbreak yet....
Turkey is grappling with one of the biggest challenges from the earthquake that flattened a swathe of its towns and cities: how to shelter hundreds of thousands of people left...
Home Minister Asaduzaman Khan on Thursday ordered the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) to submit report over the investigation into the murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi without...
The High Court on Thursday directed the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to complete its probe in a case that was filed against the Standard Asiatic Oil Company Ltd (SAOCL), a subsidiary...
Yotta Data Services – the data centre and cloud services arm of India’s business conglomerate, Hiranandani Group and the operator of Asia’s largest Uptime Institute Gold Operations-certified Tier IV data...
প্রয়োজনীয় ডলার না মেলায় সামনের দিনগুলোতে ব্যবসায়ীদের তরফ থেকে বীজ আমদানি করা সম্ভব হবে না বলে জানিয়েছেন বাংলাদেশ সিড অ্যাসোসিয়েশনের (বিএসএ) উপদেষ্টা আনোয়ার ফারুক। তিনি বলেছেন, “রাশিয়া-ইউক্রেইন যুদ্ধের জন্য অন্যদের...
Rescuers have moved 21 Bangladeshis in Turkey to Ankara from areas devastated by earthquakes, hospitalising two of them. The authorities “shifted” 19 students, along with the injured, to Ankara Wednesday...
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has expressed interest in setting up another fertiliser factory like Ghorashal Fertilizer Factory in Ashuganj, Bangladesh. The JBIC has also shown interest in...
The High Court has raised a question of whether dual citizens can purchase properties abroad with the money earned in Bangladesh according to the existing laws of the land and...
ইন্দোনেশিয়ার পূর্বদিকের সর্বশেষ অঞ্চল পাপুয়ায় ৫ দশমিক ২ মাত্রার মাঝারি এক ভূমিকম্পে অন্তত চারজন নিহত ও একাধিক ভবন ক্ষতিগ্রস্ত হয়েছে বলে জানিয়েছে দেশটির দুর্যোগ বিষয়ক সংস্থা। দক্ষিণপূর্ব এশীয় দেশটির ভূ-পদার্থবিদ্যা...
লন্ডনের বাংলাদেশি কমিউনিটির কেন্দ্রস্থল ব্রিক লেইনের ‘বাংলা টাউন’ সফর করেছেন যুক্তরাজ্যের রাজা তৃতীয় চার্লস এবং তার স্ত্রী কুইন কনসর্ট ক্যামিলা। ব্রিটেনের বর্ণবাদবিরোধী আন্দোলনের সূতিকাগার ‘আলতাব আলী পার্ক’ পরিদর্শনের মধ্য দিয়ে...
অন্ধত্ব নিরাময়ের পরীক্ষা হিসেবে এক ইদুরের মস্তিষ্কে সফলভাবে মানব মস্তিষ্কের অংশ স্থাপন করেছেন যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের বিজ্ঞানীরা। ‘ইউনিভার্সিটি অফ পেনসিলভানিয়া’র ওই গবেষক দল বলেছে, কোনো ক্ষতিগ্রস্ত ইঁদুরের মস্তিষ্কের সঙ্গে কৃত্রিমভাবে বেড়ে ওঠা...
The plight of hundreds of thousands of people left homeless by earthquakes in Turkey and Syria grew more desperate on Thursday, while hopes faded of many more people being found...
Pakistan's finance minister was quoted on Thursday as saying he expects talks with a visiting International Monetary Fund mission to be settled today (Thursday). "It is expected matters will be...
যানজট নিরসনে ২০৩০ সালের মধ্যে ঢাকা মহানগরী একটি ‘ভিন্ন রেল যোগাযোগ’ ব্যবস্থা দেখবে মন্তব্য করে প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনা বলেছেন, সেই সময়ের মধ্যেই দেশের রেল পরিসেবায় বৈপ্লবিক পরিবর্তন দেখা যাবে। বাসস...
আগামী বছর নির্বাচনে নতুন দল নিয়ে অংশগ্রহণের পথ খুলল বিএনপির এক সময়ের নেতা নাজমুল হুদার। তার দলের নাম হচ্ছে ‘তৃণমূল বিএনপি’; আর দলটির নির্বাচনী প্রতীক হবে ‘সোনালি আঁশ’। সর্বোচ্চ আদালতের...
A fire broke out in a plastic factory in the capital's Sowari Ghat area on Thursday afternoon. The fire started around 4:46 pm on the ground floor of a four-storey...
Agriculture Minister Dr Md Abdur Razzaque said Canada would continue selling potassium fertiliser in Bangladesh. The minister also said due to the Russia-Ukraine war and blockade, there was extreme global...
The first United Nations convoy carrying aid to Syrians stricken three days ago by a deadly earthquake crossed from Turkey on Thursday, witnesses and a border crossing official said. The...
Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organised a ‘Day of Champions and Inauguration of IUB Sports Complex’ on February Tuesday at its Bashundhara R/A campus in Dhaka. State Minister for Youth and...
The 355th meeting of the Board of Directors of Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited (SJIBL) was held on Wednesday at the Corporate Head Office of the Bank by maintaining proper hygiene...
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