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Admission into schools through lottery this year

New students will be admitted to different classes, including class l, through lottery due to Covid-19 situation, said Education Minister...

Apparel exporters want simplification of rules for procuring raw materials

The country's apparel manufacturers and exporters, who use local raw materials, are facing difficulties in procuring inputs due to Bangladesh...

New alliance launched to help Bangladeshi farmers thrive

Farm entrepreneurswill be able operate through ‘Better Life Farming’ centres, which will provide agri-inputs, crop advisory and market linkages under...

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Bangladesh establishes diplomatic ties with Dominica

Bangladesh has established diplomatic relations with the Commonwealth of Dominica, an island country in the...

Coronavirus death toll nears 6,500 with 39 new fatalities

Death toll from the coronavirus infection surged to 6,487 after 39 fatalities were registered in...

FM, FS test positive for Covid-19

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen and Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen have tested positive...

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh may get $500m more WB fund for vaccine procurement

The World Bank (WB) has assured Bangladesh of providing US$500 million worth of funds for procuring coronavirus vaccine to be to inoculated all citizens gradually,...

EPB lowers service charge on exports to EU

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

Global

Elon Musk overtakes Bill Gates to become world's second-richest person

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has toppled Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as the world’s second-richest person. Elon Musk overtook Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to...

Sri Lanka to open $250m tire factory in 2021

A 250-million-US-dollar tire manufacturing plant in Sri...

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

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

Stock

Stocks extend winning streak for second straight sessions

Stocks extended the winning streak for the second straight sessions...

Bourses witness upward trend at opening

Stocks on both bourses witnessed an upward trend in the...

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...

Golden Son declares dividend after three years

Stocks witness uptrend at opening

Mir Akhter’s IPO subscription to begin Dec 24

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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Uniform LPG price most likely with 25pc subsidy

The country's energy regulator has suggested a subsidy of 25 per cent on the import price of LPG, or liquefied petroleum gas, for the operators to keep the cost of the cooking fuel within the reach of commoners. Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commis...

Garment exporters demand waiver from emergency charges

Online land development tax system by March

WTO’s new trade report focuses innovation

Coronavirus: World’s largest latex glove maker shuts factories

SMEs contribute over 80pc to industrial employment

Telecom companies urge tax cut for affordable internet

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

Three hospitals submit explanation to HC over death of newborn twins

Authorities of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka Shishu Hospital and Mugda Islami Bank Hospital have submitted explanations to...

Cyclone Niver to make landfall in India; no disaster likely in Bangladesh

There is no sign of a major weather change or a disaster in Bangladesh as cyclone Niver is likely to...

Govt to speed up efforts to dispose pending human trafficking cases

Bangladesh is accelerating efforts to bring human traffickers to justice, the Law Minister Anisul Huq said on Tuesday, after a...

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

Tomato yield brings smile to farmers in Rajshahi region

Farmers are cultivating tomatoes successfully in the region...

Native fruit varieties disappearing fast in Narsingdi

The native fruit varieties are disappearing fast in...

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

India's Modi warns of possible side-effects of Covid vaccines

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned that any Covid-19 vaccine could lead to side-effects in some people, as even...

Global Covid-19 infections top 59 million

Globally, more than 59 million cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) were...

China’s Manila mission denounces US for ‘creating chaos’ in Asia

China’s embassy in the Philippines has denounced the United States...

Americas

Colombia's first lady tests positive for coronavirus

The wife of Colombian President Ivan Duque, Maria Juliana Ruiz, has tested positive for coronavirus (Covid-19), the president's office confirmed...

Trump planning to pardon former national security adviser Michael Flynn

US President Donald Trump has told allies he plans to...

COVID cases flood hospitals in America’s heartland

Dr Drew Miller knew his patient had to be moved....

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

Combating corporate tax abusing nexus

Tax evasion by private individuals and multinational corporations is a bane of nations worldwide. Such tax abusers get away with their dishonest practice through legal loopholes as well as with the connivance of a section of the corrupt government officials of the host countries. In this way, these two groups of tax dodgers fleece nations of their public money. The...

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...

Views

Allocative asymmetries of bank advances

A new look at allocation of advances is of critical importance. Almost the entire sum of bank advances is, indeed, debt capital supplied to several...

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

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

Columns

Draft employment policy and job creation

Drafting the country's first employment policy aimed at creating 30...

Opinions

Global investors making transparency possible

Corporate tax avoidance is an open secret in the world...

Reviews

The blue blood of horseshoe crab: An undervalued resource in Bangladesh

While taking a beach walk along the shore of St....

Analysis

Spin-off effect on lower income groups

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

Education

SSC, HSC examinations likely to be delayed in 2021

Education Minister Dipu Moni has said it will not be possible to hold the SSC and HSC examination in time...

Primary students to get promotions without examinations

The students of primary schools across Bangladesh will be promoted...

DU suspends evening MBA admission test amid controversy

The Dhaka University has suspended the admission test of its...

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...