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India may extend anti-dumping duty on Bangladeshi jute goods

Instead of lifting anti-dumping duty as requested by Bangladesh repeatedly, India is now conducting a 'sunset' review of jute goods...

A Bangladshi national highway awaits e-operation

A national highway is set to be brought under electronic road operation system for the first time - under a...

$250m ADB loan for safety-net overhaul

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) would provide US$250 million policy-based loan to Bangladesh for facilitating reforms in improving social safety-net...

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China's halt to live crab, eel fish imports costs Bangladesh Tk 3.18b

Bangladesh has suffered a loss worth Tk 3.18 billion in the last nine months, due...

Over 200,000 Bangladeshis go abroad with jobs this year

Bangladesh has sent 207,885 workers to different countries in last five and a half months...

Antonio Guterres appointed as UN chief for second term

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was appointed for a second five-year term on Friday by...

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Bangladesh

SoCBs widen sector's Q1 provisioning shortfall

The provisioning shortfall against their loans in the country's banking system swelled in the first quarter (Q1) of current calendar year despite the fact loan...

Bangladesh could save $500m every year by recycling cotton

Bangladesh’s garment industry, the world’s second-largest exporter...

Living cost in Bangladesh rises by 6.88pc in 2020: CAB

The cost of living in Bangladesh rose...

Global

European Union inflation rises to 2.3pc in May

Annual inflation in the European Union (EU) continued to rise in May, reaching 2.3 per cent, up from 2.0 per cent in April, according to...

Singapore's non-oil domestic exports grow 8.8pc in May

Singapore's non-oil domestic exports (NODX) grew by...

US budget deficit tops $2tr in first eight months of FY21

The U.S. budget deficit soared to 2.1...

আবু ত্ব-হা ‘ব্যক্তিগত কারণে আত্মগোপনে’ গিয়েছিলেন: গোয়েন্দা পুলিশ

এক সপ্তাহ ‘নিখোঁজ’ থাকার পর ফিরে আসা আবু ত্ব-হা মুহাম্মদ আদনান ‘ব্যক্তিগত কারণে আত্মগোপনে’ গিয়েছিলেন বলে জানিয়েছে গোয়েন্দা পুলিশ। শুক্রবার বিকেলে রংপুর ডিবি কার্যালয়ে এক...

কোভিড ভ্যাকসিন: সিনোফার্মের টিকা পাবে পাঁচ লক্ষ মানুষ, কারা পাবেন এই টিকা?

মহামারীতেও থেমে নেই সংঘাত, সারাবিশ্বে বাস্তুচ্যুত ৮ কোটি ২০ লাখ মানুষ

বিএনপি ক্ষমতা পেলে ‘রক্তের বন্যা’ বইবে: কাদের

’ভারতের জন্য আরো এক বছর হুমকি হয়ে থাকবে করোনাভাইরাস’

ঢাকা ব্যাংকের ভল্ট থেকে প্রায় ৪ কোটি টাকা উধাও এর খবর যেভাবে সামনে এলো

কোভিড: এক দিনে শনাক্ত বেড়ে ৩৮৮৩, মৃত্যু ৫৪ জনের

Stock

Regulator lifts floor prices of all shares

The country's stock market has returned to standard price movement...

Stocks end week on flat note

Stocks ended almost flat on Thursday, after remaining higher in...

EU regulators set July 27 deadline for decision on Aon, Willis deal

European Union antitrust regulators have extended until July 27 the...

Insurance broker Aon's EU concessions for $30b Willis bid may not be enough

Insurance broker Aon’s offer to sell assets in five EU...

Stocks open marginally higher on investors' buying appetite

CSE revises Shariah Index

Stocks ended marginally higher amid rising turnover

DSE halts Banco trading

Asian markets cautious ahead of US earnings and inflation data

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Call for ratifying ILO convention to uphold domestic workers' rights

Labour rights groups and activists on Thursday urged the government to ratify the ILO convention 189 in order to uphold the rights of domestic workers of the country. They put emphasis on incorporating the ILO convention 189 as they said time had co...

foodpanda adds transgender riders to its delivery...

Women's engagement in wholesale and retail trade...

TCB oil price set to surge further

Imports by trains through Benapole rise remarkably

'Yuan revolutionised rice production in world'

Nestlé infant formula processing plant goes into operation

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

Met office forecasts light, heavy rainfall on Saturday

Light to heavy rainfall is likely to occur across the country including Dhaka on Saturday, according to a Met office...

Dhaka seeks incentive-based package for sustainable graduation of LDCs

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Friday called for an incentive-based and long-term package for the graduating and graduated...

Transporters engaged in export, import at Benapole violating health rules

Most of the drivers and their assistants from India, along with the transport workers of Bangladesh, are not following the...

Politics

BNP leader Nipun Roy Chowdhury freed from jail

BNP leader Nipun Roy Chowdhury has been released...

Khaleda Zia struggling to survive, Abbas says

BNP senior leader Mirza Abbas on Tuesday said...

Country

Jashore, Kushtia register record COVID cases

Jashore and Kushtia have reported a record rise...

Jute mills workers in Khulna demand payment of arrear salaries

Two state-owned jute mills workers' organisations at a...

Crime

Police arrest four with ties to ATM booth fraud

Police have arrested four people, including a woman,...

Policeman held over killing of ‘wife and stepson’

A policeman has been accused of publicly shooting...

World

Asia

Israel to send 1.0m doses to Palestinians in vaccine exchange

Israel said Friday it will transfer around 1.0 million doses of soon-to-expire coronavirus vaccines to the Palestinian Authority in exchange...

Twitter's top official in India summoned over viral video

Police in India have summoned Twitter's top official in the...

India should brace for third COVID-19 wave by Oct, say health experts

A third wave of coronavirus infections is likely to hit...

Americas

Sizzling heat wave blankets US Southwest

Much of the western United States baked for a third day on Wednesday under a punishing heat wave that has...

Quoting Irish poet, Biden ends EU trade war

US President Joe Biden ended one front in a Trump-era...

Biden to hold first summit as US president with Putin

Expectations for a major breakthrough at a summit on Wednesday...

Europe

Italy launches Covid-19 digital ‘green pass’

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has signed a decree to create "green pass," a digital proof that the holder is...

Putin, Biden begin summit with slim hopes, deep disagreements

Shaking hands in front of a grand Geneva villa, US...

French Muslims pay heavy price in COVID pandemic

Every week, Mamadou Diagouraga comes to the Muslim section of...

Africa

Gunmen abduct over 80 students killing police officer in Nigeria

Gunmen killed a police officer and kidnapped at least 80 students and five teachers from a school in the Nigerian...

Zambia's first president Kaunda passes away

Zambia's first President Kenneth Kaunda has died at the age...

18 killed in Nigeria road crash

Eighteen people were killed in a road crash involving two...

Editorial

Investing in nation's children

Looking at the current age structure of the population, it can be said that the growth potential of the country's economy is very high at the moment. In this context, consider that 20 per cent of the population are aged between 15 and 20 years. Children, according to the UNICEF, make up 40 per cent of the population. So, the...

Land record digitisation in limbo?

It was around a decade ago, in 2010 to be precise, when two projects for land record digitisation were taken up by the government. The projects did inspire much hope to gradually make way for a major transformation in land record maintenance from manual to digital format. The two projects -- one funded by the government's own resources and the...