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A third of my country was just underwater, writes PM in The Guardian

The climate crisis and Covid-19 are crying out for international cooperation, writes Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in The Guardian. Here’s...

Bangladesh Bank fails to keep default loans at bay: TIB

The country’s central bank has failed to play its role in controlling default loans in the banking sector, said Transparency...

ECNEC approves Tk 2.46b hilsa development project

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved a project for development and management of hilsa resources...

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Bangladesh’s Covid-19 death toll surpasses 5,000

The coronavirus toll in the country has reached 5,007 with 28 people reported dead in...

Confident Russia offers to share legal risks of Covid vaccine

Russia is so confident in its Covid-19 vaccine that it will shoulder some of the...

DSEX falls below 5,000-mark on selling binge

Stocks extended the losing streak for the fourth straight session Tuesday, with the key index...

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Covid-19 Update

Source: Johns Hopkins CSSE

Confirmed Cases

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Bangladesh

BEPZA inks $56.33m new investment agreement amid pandemic

Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) has signed 56.33 million US dollar new investment agreement with seven companies during Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Among them, five...

Trade with Nepal, Bhutan: Dhaka seeks to carry goods thru Indian land

Bangladesh has lately strengthened its efforts to...

Minister sees wide wealth gap

Discrepancies in wealth distribution are wide and...

Global

US govt debt will nearly double by 2050: CBO

US federal debt is projected to reach nearly twice the size of the economy in 2050, driven by the massive fiscal response to the COVID-19-induced...

UK manufacturers see no evidence of 'V'-shaped recovery

British manufacturers see no evidence of a...

Canada's wholesale sales hit record high in July

Canadian wholesale sales rose 4.3 per cent...

Stock

DSEX dips below 5,000-mark in early trade

Stocks witnessed a downward trend in the early trading on...

Apex Footwear recommends 25pc cash dividend

The Board of Directors of Apex Footwear Limited has recommended...

Regulator revises margin loan ratio

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) on Monday issued...

HSBC, StanChart's HK shares drop after 'FinCEN' leak

HSBC and Standard Chartered's Hong Kong shares dropped on Monday after media...

Walton Hi-Tech makes debut trading Wednesday

Profit booking drags markets lower at opening

Mir Akhter’s share bidding now begins Oct 4

IPO subscription of Dominage Steel Building begins Oct 19

Asian stocks gain shrugging off weakness in Wall Street

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Onion price: Govt sends monitoring teams to seven dists, three ports

The government has sent six teams to seven districts and three land-ports of the country to monitor the price of onion, its stock, supply, import and production there, officials said. The Ministry of Commerce (MoC) has sought help of deputy commissi...

Emirates collaborates with Huawei to expand reach...

Intel gets US licence to supply some...

Online hiring of trucks earns popularity in Bangladesh

Govt plans to import of 4.98m MT petroleum in 2021

$60b sought for TikTok's US deal

NBR set to launch VAT e-payment next month

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

Primary schoolteachers to get pay in higher grade soon

Government primary school assistant teachers will get their salaries in higher grade soon as the upgradation work of the ‘iBAS++’...

Another lawsuit filed against former DUCSU VP Nur, five others

A second lawsuit has been initiated against former DUCSU vice president Nurul Haque Nur and five others over the rape...

Political violence claims 25 lives in first eight months: ASK

Some 25 people were killed and 1,025 injured in 98 incidents of political violence across the country in the first...

Politics

Quader says BNP leaders stay in AC rooms announcing movement

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and...

Devoted AL activists to get priority in committees: Obaidul Quader

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday...

Country

Eye-catching streams in Sylhet's Goabari attract visitors

A good number of people, mostly young, gather...

Hatchery creates hope among freshwater prawn farmers

A newly built hatchery in Rajshahi city has...

Crime

72 held in DMP’s anti-narcotics drives

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 72 people...

‘Stalker’ hacks schoolgirl to death in Savar

A schoolgirl was hacked to death allegedly by...

World

Asia

Two die, 20 wounded as floods hit Indonesian capital

Floods and landslides have struck Indonesia's capital of Jakarta and its surrounding areas, leaving two people dead, one missing and...

China expanding mass labour programme in Tibet

China is pushing growing numbers of Tibetan rural labourers off...

Modi defends new law as critics warn of risks to Indian farmers

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi defended new laws aimed at...

Americas

Trump admin rushes to toughen visa process for skilled foreign workers

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, before his...

Mexico’s confirmed coronavirus cases cross 700,000, actual toll unknown

Mexico surpassed 700,000 confirmed coronavirus cases on Monday even as...

Sudden top court vacancy poses new ‘wild card’ for US presidential race

The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has...

Europe

US, China absent from global vaccine plan joined by 156 nations

Some 156 nations have joined a global scheme for fair distribution of future vaccines against Covid-19, an alliance led by...

‘Surrounded by NATO’, neutral Switzerland to vote on buying fighter jets

Switzerland, which last fought a foreign war more than 200...

Czech health minister quits amid surge in coronavirus cases

Czech Health Minister Adam Vojtech said on Monday he had...

Africa

Ethiopia files terrorism charges against leading opposition activist

Ethiopia has filed terrorism charges against a prominent media mogul and opposition politician from the Oromo ethnic group, Jawar Mohammed,...

South Africa commits $650 million to ailing airline SAA

The South African government has told administrators of South African...

Nigerian doctors strike again over benefits amid coronavirus

Nigerian resident doctors began their second strike of the year...

Editorial

Developing automobile sector

If the country goes for car manufacture locally, the number one casualty is likely to be the importers of reconditioned cars. So the importers of reconditioned cars may have reasons to be wary of the government initiative to shape up the proposed Automobile Industry Development Policy 2020. As such importers' association, the Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicles Importers and Dealers Association (Barvida),...

Of battery-run rickshaws

Although the so-called battery-run rickshaws have long been singled out as culprits behind recurring accidents, some fatal, they continue to ply the Dhaka streets with their typical defiance. They have naturally drawn the ire of the road safety movement activists since they began operating in the capital. The government on occasions declared them unlawful, apparently to little avail. The mechanised...

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Cultivating global financial cooperation

The Covid-19 pandemic is the mother of all stress tests for the global economy, and not least for emerging markets and developing economies. Early on,...