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WTO’s new trade report focuses innovation

The shift towards digitalisation and knowledge-based economies highlights the increasing importance of innovation and technology to economic growth, observed the...

Bangladesh reports highest single-day infection in 80 days

Bangladesh reported 2,419 coronavirus cases and 28 deaths in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Monday. The country witnessed...

Recovery slower in the informal economy

In South Asia, three-quarters of workers depend on informal employment. The informal economy of Bangladesh constitutes of 86.2 per cent...

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Bangladesh will get vaccine from India on priority basis, says Salman

Bangladesh will get the coronavirus vaccine to be manufactured by the Serum Institute of India...

Primary students to get promotions without examinations

The students of primary schools across Bangladesh will be promoted to the next classes without...

UNICEF to deliver 2.0b doses of COVID-19 vaccines around the world

UNICEF is working with major global airlines and freight providers to step up efforts to...

Today's News Headlines

Bangladesh

Dhaka urges Delhi not to impose fresh NTBs, and widen trade gap

Bangladesh has requested India to withdraw its new customs rules which, officials fear, may make it difficult for the former to get tariff preferences. Dhaka...

EPB lowers service charge on exports to EU

The state-owned Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) has...

Extravagance with public money!

The Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) has...

Global

Sri Lanka to open $250m tire factory in 2021

A 250-million-US-dollar tire manufacturing plant in Sri Lanka's western town of Horana is scheduled to open in January 2021, local media reported on Monday. The...

Singapore narrows 2020 GDP growth forecast to -6.5 to -6pc

Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI)...

Taiwan's manufacturing output decline again

The production value of Taiwan's manufacturing industries...

Stock

Stocks keep losing for fourth straight session

Stocks extended the losing streak for the fourth straight session...

Stocks nosedive in early trading

Stocks tumbled in the early trading on Monday as investors went...

Asian shares gain on vaccine rollout hope

Asian shares climbed on Monday, with a broad regional index...

World stocks ease further from highs, oil dips on COVID-19 count

Positive news about possible vaccines had helped push the MSCI...

Aman Feed declares 12.5pc dividend

BD Finance to issue 1st Zero Coupon Bond

Stocks see fall as major sectors plunge

Asian stocks ride high on Covid-19 vaccine hopes

Wall Street firms crave certainty about US election, hope for quick stimulus

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SMEs contribute over 80pc to industrial employment

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) contribute 80 to 85 per cent to the industrial employment of the country, according to a new study. According to the research, conducted by the SME Foundation, more than 98 per cent of the total business ent...

Telecom companies urge tax cut for affordable...

Bangladesh raises Boro rice acreage target by...

Star Kabab dishes now available through e-food

LankaBangla Finance Limited and Nagad become partners

HSBC appoints Kevin Green as country head of Wholesale Banking, Bangladesh

Uber launches 24x7 safety helpline in Bangladesh

Currency	Sell	Purchase

Commodity	Price	Change
GOLD	2,034.80 (US$/oz)	+1.38%
SILVER	28.32 (US$/oz)	+2.32%
COPPER	6,437.00 (US$/oz)	+1.05%
CRUDE OIL	42.19 (US$/bbl.)	-2.36%
COTTON # 2	0.62 (USc/lb)	+2.47%
WHEAT (CBOT)	210.09 (USD/bu)	-0.1%
PALM OIL	823.96 (USD/MTon)	3.4%
Soybean OIL	35.04 (USc/lb)	+0.26%
Sugar # 11	14.31 (USc/lb)	+2.00%

National

DLS, DGHS express concern over excessive use of antibiotics

Department of Livestock Services (DLS) and Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) have expressed concern over excessive use of antibiotics...

Bangladesh, India to sign four MoUs during Hasina-Modi’s virtual summit

Bangladesh and India are likely to sign four memorandum of understandings (MoUs) during the upcoming virtual meeting of Prime Minister...

DSCC stops removal of stray dogs for now

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has no plan to remove stray dogs for now. And no dogs will be relocated...

Politics

Hasan urges BNP to find out reason behind Fakhrul’s contradictory statement

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Friday urged...

Govt introduces culture of enforced disappearance, Fakhrul alleges

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on...

Country

Native fruit varieties disappearing fast in Narsingdi

The native fruit varieties are disappearing fast in...

Date juice collectors getting ready as winter is around the corner

With the advent of the winter, a good...

Crime

RAB arrests seven for selling stolen mobile phones

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested seven people from...

Tk 0.9m robbed from Chuadanga Sonali Bank at gunpoint

Robbers looted around Tk 900,000 at gunpoint from...

World

Asia

Saudi Arabia rejects report on 'secret meeting' with Israeli PM

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister has denied that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to the Gulf kingdom on Sunday to...

Netanyahu for not returning to Iran nuclear deal

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in an apparent message to...

India’s health minister says local Covid vaccine could complete final trials within two months

India’s health minister said on Sunday a locally-developed Covid-19 vaccine...

Americas

Clock is ticking for Trump as Biden marches forward with cabinet

US President Donald Trump’s increasingly tenuous efforts to reverse his election loss could be dealt a lethal blow on Monday...

US plans to begin vaccination from Dec 11

The first Americans could receive a COVID-19 vaccine as soon...

US health officials allow emergency use of antibody drug Trump received

US health officials Saturday agreed to allow emergency use of...

Europe

France postpones ‘Black Friday’ by a week

France's government on Friday got supermarket chains and e-commerce platforms like Amazon to agree to postpone "Black Friday" promotions, responding...

Eastern Europe crosses over 5.0m COVID-19 cases

The tally of coronavirus cases in the Eastern European sub-region...

German doctor arrested for ‘killing’ coronavirus patients

German police said they had opened a murder inquiry against...

Africa

Ethiopia's Tigray forces destroy airport in Axum

Forces of Ethiopia’s Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) have destroyed an airport in the town of Axum, state-affiliated Fana broadcaster...

Ethiopian army plans artillery attacks on Tigrayan capital, alerts civilians

Ethiopia's army plans to surround the rebel-held capital of Tigray...

Post-Mugabe era: High hopes for change dissipate into disaffection

Zimbabwe’s former leader Robert Mugabe stepped down on November 21,...

Editorial

Govt officials outnumber politicians in laundering money

If the involvement of more government officials than politicians in siphoning off money out of the country has surprised Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, it also testifies to a saga of corruption in government offices. Politicians may come and go but the bureaucracy through which the government functions stays almost impervious. Small wonder that public servants have, contrary to their...

Case for dengue awareness

Following last year's trend, dengue cases have made their presence announced this year also from many parts of the country. The prevalence, as seen in the past, is highest in Dhaka. With the nation bracing for the second wave of the dreadful Covid-19 pandemic, the Prime Minister intermittently alerting people to it, the looming dengue scourge adds to the overall...

Views

Time is ripe for innovation in the world of sovereign debt restructuring

When corporations have too much debt and need to restructure it, creditors often end up exchanging bonds or loans for stocks. They trade the guaranteed...

Pandemic and the wider economic spectrum for workers

Strengthening banking sector for post-COVID recovery

Lockdown’s toll on children

Catching the wave of blue finance

Remembering -- a pioneer in Islamic Banking

Investment policy priorities for the RCEP in post-Covid recovery

Columns

Making highways work properly

Lots of grand promises were made immediately after the opening...

Opinions

Now the superbugs

The Covid-19 has shown how unprepared the world is if...

Reviews

America must mend many fences on trade

Until 2016, global leadership was a hallmark of American greatness....

Analysis

Spin-off effect on lower income groups

Currently the Covid-19 pandemic has hit livelihood hardest. This terrible...

Education

DU suspends evening MBA admission test amid controversy

The Dhaka University has suspended the admission test of its Faculty of Business Studies MBA (evening) courses amid controversy. The...

CFA Society awards 162 scholarships

CFA Society Bangladesh has awarded a total of 162 scholarships...

Murtaja Baseer's artwork exhibition underway

Baseer: An Eloquent Mind'-- an art exhibition is underway at...

Sci-Tech

iDEA project receives WITSA award in Public-Private Partnership category

‘Innovation Design and Entrepreneurship Academy (iDEA) project’ of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) under ICT Division has received international honour in...