The visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation, led by its deputy managing director Antoinette Monsio Sayeh, on Sunday discussed with Bangladesh Bank officials the country’s economic challenges and the request for a $4.5 billion loan from th…
Four private telecom operators-Grameenphone, Banglalink, Robi and Airtel owe an amount of Tk2,413 crore to the government which remains due as VAT on 2G spectrum fees and licence fees, said the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC)….
China on Saturday reported nearly 60,000 deaths in people who had COVID-19 since early December, offering hard numbers for an unprecedented surge that was apparent in overcrowded hospitals and packed crematoriums, even as the government released little…
Dhaka has topped the list of cities around the world with the worst air quality this morning (January 15, 2023).With an air quality index (AQI) score of 285 at 9:30 am on Sunday, Dhaka ranked first in the list of cities with worst air.An AQI between 15…
Scores of rescue workers and onlookers crowded near a steep gorge outside a resort town in central Nepal where a regional passenger plane crashed Sunday, as rescuers combed the wreckage on the edge of the cliff and in the ravine below.So far, 68 people…
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was admitted to Dhaka’s Evercare Hospital this morning.He was admitted to the hospital for a health checkup around 10:30am as he was feeling unwell, BNP’s Media Cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan said.Read m…
Another person died from dengue in 24 hours till Sunday morning.With the new number, the official death toll from dengue rose to three this year, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).Besides, 22 people were hospitalised with t…
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin has said if his ministry can work in unison with the ministries of health and agriculture, tobacco cultivation can be stopped in the country.“Farmers will require some incentives in that c…
A Dhaka court on Sunday deferred till February 14 the submission of the probe report in a case filed over the death of Buet student Fardin Noor Parash.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shanta Islam Mallik fixed the fresh date as the investigating officer o…
US Assistant Secretary of State for Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu has committed the US administration’s continuous support and cooperation for all future endeavours of Bangladesh and referred to the tremendous socio-economic devel…
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said Bangladesh ranks 88th among 183 countries in road accident death rate.In response to a tabled question from Awami League MP elected from Chattogram M Abdul Latif, the Minister said the i…
The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro rose to 29 Sunday, the regional governor reported as rescue workers scrambled to pull survivors from the rubble.Emergency crews worked th…
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