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• Funding Next Budget: Kamal still banks on NBR

• 10 June 2020 16:06

One can only hope, is what one would remark once learning of Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal's revenue targ...

• A V-shaped economic recovery is still within reach. But the general public must play its part.

• 10 June 2020 16:06

Optimism is a disease, the polemical British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie once said, and talking with Manmoh...

• Coronavirus: Global death toll reaches 411,144

• 10 June 2020 16:06

The global death toll from the highly contagious Covid-19 stood at 411,144 while the number of confirmed cases...

• Karnaphuli tunnel project hits snag

• 10 June 2020 16:06

The Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) could manage only 1.5 per cent progress of the country's first road tunn...

• Shrimp sector seeks support to overcome dual shock

• 10 June 2020 16:06

Leaders of the country's shrimp sector have demanded special financial support

• BMD forecasts rain, thundershowers over country

• 10 June 2020 16:06

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) forecast rain and thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty win...

• Fiscal measure to upset car owners

• 10 June 2020 16:06

The National Board of Revenue or NBR is set to increase tax on private car owners and the import of onion in t...

• Govt takes Tk 113b from state-run power, gas entities

• 10 June 2020 16:06

The government has taken around Tk 113 billion (11,300 crore) from different state-run power and gas entities...

• JS to go into budget session Wednesday

• 10 June 2020 02:06

The size of the proposed budget could be approximately over Tk 5 lakhs 60 thousands crore

• BD reports record daily jump in deaths and new cases

• 09 June 2020 21:06

Highest single-day 45 deaths from Covid-19, record 3,171 new cases were confirmed by DGHS

• WB forecasts only 1.6pc GDP growth for Bangladesh

• 09 June 2020 20:06

If the GDP growth comes down to 1.6 percent as per World Bank’s projections, it will be the lowest figure in 3...

• COVID-19 situation is worsening globally, warns WHO chief

• 09 June 2020 20:06

"We would hope that in any mass gathering now. People who have had now four to five months to really internali...

• KSA considers limiting hajj pilgrims amid Covid-19 fears

• 09 June 2020 20:06

Authorities are now considering allowing “only symbolic numbers” this year, with restrictions including a ban...

• BD’s export earnings decline by 62pc in May

• 09 June 2020 20:06

Readymade garments (RMG) sector witnessed a 62 percent decrease to $1.23 billion in May, which is 84.20 percen...

• DMP arrests two with 4,000 pieces of yaba pills

• 09 June 2020 19:06

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested two persons from Jatrabari area of the capital along with 4,000 piece...

• বেতনের দাবিতে উত্তরায় পোশাক শ্রমিকদের বিক্ষোভ

• 09 June 2020 19:06

রাজধানীর উত্তরার আজমপুর এলাকায় বকেয়া বেতন ভাতার দাবিতে ভার্সেটাল গার্মেন্টের শ্রমিকরা মহাসড়ক অবরোধ করে বিক্ষোভ...

• Gas cylinder blast leaves 7 of a family burnt in Savar

• 09 June 2020 19:06

At least seven members, including two children, of a family suffered burn injures in a fire, supposedly caused...

• Malaysia detains 269 Rohingyas, finds body in damaged boat

• 09 June 2020 19:06

Malaysian authorities detained 269 Rohingyas refugees and found a body on board a suspected smuggling boat the...

• Man lynched after stabbing youth dead in Khulna

• 09 June 2020 19:06

A youth was lynched by a mob shortly after he stabbed another youth to death on Tuesday morning in Dacope upaz...

• In virus-hit Bangladesh, masked criminals add to woes of police

• 09 June 2020 19:06

Aside from its medical, financial and social impacts, the coronavirus pandemic