Dhaka, Saturday


18 May 2024


PM foresees ties with US reaching higher heights in coming days
She greets Biden, Kamala Harris

PM foresees ties with US reaching higher heights in coming days

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has congratulated US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, saying she foresees the bilateral relationship reaching higher heights in the coming days.

17:36 8 November 2020

Fund crunch to impact free Covid-19 vaccination for all

Fund crunch to impact free Covid-19 vaccination for all

The government might need more than Tk14,000 crore for providing free vaccines to the 16.5 crore people of Bangladesh

06:06 8 November 2020

US gets first female, black and South Asian vice president

US gets first female, black and South Asian vice president

Harris and President-elect Joe Biden`s victory, as projected by several international media outlets, arrives days after a prolonged vote count reflecting a deeply divided electorate.

05:24 8 November 2020

BREAKING: Biden takes Pennsylvania and the presidency

BREAKING: Biden takes Pennsylvania and the presidency

The BBC projects that he has reached 273 electoral college votes, meaning that he’ll become the president in January, pending the outcome of any legal challenges.

05:06 8 November 2020

JS special session on Mujib Barsha begins tomorrow

JS special session on Mujib Barsha begins tomorrow

A special session of the 11th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) will begin at 6:00pm tomorrow on the occasion of the Mujib Barsha.

02:05 8 November 2020

India successfully launches 10 satellites

India successfully launches 10 satellites

Indian today successfully launched into space as many as 10 satellites in one go, including its latest earth observation satellite (EOS-01) and nine more satellites from foreign nations, the first such mission during the Covid-19 pandemic.

01:43 8 November 2020

British envoy inspects impact of community toilets at Kalyanpur s

British envoy inspects impact of community toilets at Kalyanpur s

British High Commissioner to Dhaka Robert Chatterton Dickson paid a visit to Kalyanpur slum in the city on Saturday, where British-Dutch multinational FMCG company Unilever has set up a community toilet -- WASH Centre -- for the 8,000-odd residents in collaboration with an NGO.

00:33 8 November 2020

Jamuna Bank gets new Deputy Managing Director

Jamuna Bank gets new Deputy Managing Director

Noor Mohammed has been appointed as the Deputy Managing Director of Jamuna Bank Ltd on November 1

00:05 8 November 2020

British High Commissioner visits Unilever-supported facilities

British High Commissioner visits Unilever-supported facilities

British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson visited the Unilever supported Kalyanpur WASH Centre and other Covid-19 initiatives in the capital’s Kalyanpur slum on Saturday

23:56 7 November 2020

Bangladesh reports 1,289 new cases, 13 deaths

Bangladesh reports 1,289 new cases, 13 deaths

Bangladesh has reported 1,289 fresh coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, pushing the total number of reported positive cases to 418,764

23:36 7 November 2020

Motorola re-enters Bangladeshi smartphone market after a decade

Motorola re-enters Bangladeshi smartphone market after a decade

Motorola, one of the leading global companies in the smartphone business, has announced its re-entry into the Bangladeshi smartphone market after almost a decade with the launch of the Moto G8 Power Lite

22:58 7 November 2020

72% firms yet to get stimulus loans: SANEM

72% firms yet to get stimulus loans: SANEM

SANEM, a local think-tank, found this in a survey conducted among 502 firms, 252 of which were from the manufacturing sector and 250 from the service sector

22:36 7 November 2020

UK appoints Champion to support developing countries to deal with
Climate change already affecting people all over world, says UK

UK appoints Champion to support developing countries to deal with

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has appointed the former Secretary of State for International Development, Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP, as the UK’s International Champion on Adaptation and Resilience for the COP26 Presidency.

22:06 7 November 2020

Oikya Parishad stages protests against ‘attacks on minority commu

Oikya Parishad stages protests against ‘attacks on minority commu

Bangladesh Hindu Buddha Christian Oikya Parishad today staged demonstrations in Shahbagh area of the capital, protesting what it said recent ‘communal attacks on minority communities’ in different parts of the country.

21:50 7 November 2020

Cooperatives can remove rural poverty: PM

Cooperatives can remove rural poverty: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said there will be no poverty in Bangladesh if multidimensional rural cooperatives can be established.

20:22 7 November 2020

‘We don’t matter’: Rohingya deprived of vote in Myanmar elections

‘We don’t matter’: Rohingya deprived of vote in Myanmar elections

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, who have taken shelter in Bangladesh, lament their exclusion from the polls.

19:03 7 November 2020

Suu Kyi’s party expected to win second term in Myanmar polls

Suu Kyi’s party expected to win second term in Myanmar polls

Myanmar’s citizens go to the polls Sunday in an effort to sustain the fledgling democracy they helped install just five years ago.

18:53 7 November 2020

Biden says he’s preparing for White House

Biden says he’s preparing for White House

Biden said he and his running mate, Kamala Harris, have held briefings on the coronavirus and the economy this week as the US records record daily cases.

18:00 7 November 2020

Uzbekistan calls for cultural, economic cooperation with BD

Uzbekistan calls for cultural, economic cooperation with BD

Uzbekistan Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov Khafizovich has called on economic, trade and cultural cooperation with Bangladesh

17:36 7 November 2020

Bridging the digital divide to scale up the Covid-19 recovery

Bridging the digital divide to scale up the Covid-19 recovery

As the world has grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic, with closing of borders, curfews, lockdowns and other movement restrictions, digitalization has come to the rescue

05:02 6 November 2020

Finance Division, Sonali Bank signs MoU with DU, SUST

Finance Division, Sonali Bank signs MoU with DU, SUST

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between the Finance Division of the Ministry of Finance, Sonali Bank, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) and Dhaka University

04:39 6 November 2020

UNDP, Citi support young entrepreneurs to achieve SDGs

UNDP, Citi support young entrepreneurs to achieve SDGs

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Citi Foundation on Thursday awarded five start-ups for providing excellent solutions with significant social impact at the community-level for attaining SDGs.

They were

02:18 6 November 2020

Stimulus packages help 8% labour force: CPD

Stimulus packages help 8% labour force: CPD

Bangladesh has so far announced 19 packages worth Tk113,117 crore for businesses to help them tackle the impacts of Covid-19. It is 3.74 percent of the country`s GDP.

02:14 6 November 2020

ILFSL sinking under soaring bad loans

ILFSL sinking under soaring bad loans

ILFSL’s consolidated earnings per share sank to negative Tk 126.36 for the year ended on December 31, 2019 against Tk 0.51 positive just a year ago.

01:21 6 November 2020