Experts have highly appreciated the government for its move to shut the border with India for the next 14 days as they think that the border control is now crucial to block the highly infectious virus variants that have emerged in the neighbouring country.
Dhaka, Apr 25 : The government will give financial assistance of Tk10,000 each to 2,000 more journalists – walloped by the unprecedented disruptions unfolded by the pandemic.
Dhaka — The Kandy Test between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh Saturday ended as a high-scoring draw with one and half an hour left to play as rain forced an early close. Tamim Iqbal and captain Mominul Haque remained unbeaten on…
Dhaka, Apr 25 : As city markets remained closed during the strict phase lockdown that entered into force on the very first day of Ramadan, as well as the Bengali New Year on April 14, buyers started moving to online…
Bangladesh will get 21 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccine by the first week of May, said DG of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam on Sunday.
Mild to moderate heat wave is sweeping over Dhaka, Mymensingh, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Rajshahi divisions and the region of Srimangal and it may continue and spread.
Bangladesh spent an entire day on the field but failed to take a wicket as hosts Sri Lanka piled on the runs in Kandy on day 4 before bad light stopped play in the first Test.
An Oscars unlike any before will get underway Sunday night, with history on the line in major categories and a telecast retooled for the pandemic.
কোভিড-১৯ এর দ্বিতীয় ঢেউয়ের কারণে চলাচল সীমিতকরণের নির্দেশনার পরিপ্রেক্ষিতে কর্মহীন মানুষের মানবিক সহায়তায় এগিয়ে এলো বিসিএস নবম ব্যাচ ফোরাম।
The role of the IMF as lender-of-last-resort has skyrocketed during the Covid-19 pandemic, with emergency financing and loan packages disbursed to 86 countries since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020.
A handful of industrialized countries led by the European Union, Switzerland and the United Kingdom have held hostage on “ideological” grounds the proposal to suspend certain provisions of the WTO’s TRIPS Agreement to combat the pandemic, said people familiar with the development.
Bangladesh recorded 83 more Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours until Saturday morning pushing up the total fatalities to 10,952.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia underwent a fresh Covid test on Saturday to know whether she has recovered from the virus as she has been doing well with no visible symptom, said her personal physician Mohammad Al Mamun.
Detective Branch (DB) members of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested another top leader of Hefazat Islam Bangladesh from the city’s West Agargaon area on Saturday afternoon.
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) has stretched the application deadline of April 24 for its 2020-21 undergraduate programme to May 3.
At least four people were killed and 35 others sustained burn injuries after a massive fire broke out at a building in the Armanitola area of Old Dhaka in the early hours of Friday.
The Amazon Basin is fast approaching an irreversible tipping point. That should concern everyone because what happens in the Amazon has planetary implications.
If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught the world one thing, it is the high price we pay – in lost lives, damaged economies, and wasted human potential – when we undervalue resilience.
But while President Joe Biden’s administration is focusing on the Central American migration crisis, it must not miss the opportunity to drive urgently needed climate action to help the region rebuild after the pandemic.
With the pandemic not yet over, politicians are unsurprisingly loath to dampen spirits further with talk of tax increases. But the socially sustainable shift that they profess to seek will require revenue reforms.
সরকার করোনার টিকার জন্য যথাযথ কোনো ব্যবস্থা নেয়নি। ১০ হাজার মানুষের মৃত্যুর পরে এখন তারা চীন-রাশিয়া থেকে টিকা সংগ্রহ করার জন্য নতুনভাবে তোড়জোর শুরু করেছে।
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is responding to urgent liquidity needs in developing countries but fails to ensure systemic debt solutions or recovery without austerity.
Dhaka, Apr 24 : The 8th anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse, the worst-ever tragedy in the country’s multi-billion-dollar ready-made garment (RMG) industry, is being observed on Saturday amid the coronavirus pandemic.
News Desk The Bangladesh government has suspended all assignment activities for students of classes VI to IX across schools in the country in view of the worsening situation of Covid-19.
Dhaka, Apr 24 : The densely populated capital of Bangladesh has once again topped the list of world cities with the worst air quality. Dhaka’s air quality index (AQI) at 6.29 am read 489, considered ‘severe’.
HARARE – Zimbabwe beat Pakistan for the first time in a Twenty20 international Friday, with four-wicket Luke Jongwe the star of a shock 19-run triumph at Harare Sports Club.
LONDON – Fast bowler Jofra Archer has officially withdrawn from the Indian Premier League but is on track to be fit for England’s first Test of the summer, cricket chiefs announced on Friday.
DHAKA – Bangladesh bowlers reduced Sri Lanka to 229-3 after the batsmen helped them declare the first innings on 541-7 on day three of the first cricket Test at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium at Kanday on Friday.
Dhaka — Bangladesh declared the first innings of the Kandy Test against Sri Lanka scoring 541 for seven wickets in 173 overs before the lunch break of day three on Friday.
DHAKA – The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) today announced it’s full list of seven-member emergency committee making chairman to BFF president Kazi Mohammad Salahuddin, said a BFF press release today.