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• India-Bangladesh trade resumes through Petrapole; jute, maize exported

• 01 May 2020 15:05

The West Bengal government expressed its displeasure over not being consulted before restarting trade through...

• Gonoshasthaya's Covid-19 testing kit permitted for trial

• 01 May 2020 07:05

Now that Gonoshasthaya Kendra has received permission from the drug administration, BSMMU will begin the trial...

• Sales of savings certificates through banks resume from Sunday

• 01 May 2020 06:05

The National Savings Directorate has started selling savings certificates Wednesdays and Thursdays every week

• BR to operate three special parcel trains from today

• 01 May 2020 06:05

The trains will begin operation on Dhaka-Chittagong, Dhaka-Dewanganj and Dhaka-Khulna routes from 01 May, 2020

• Remittance drops 34pc in April

• 01 May 2020 05:05

Bangladesh received remittance worth $945 million in the first 29 days of April, compared to $1.43 billion in...

• ADB approves $100m to support Covid-19 response in BD

• 01 May 2020 05:05

The project will equip 17 medical college hospitals with isolation and critical care units, and train 3,500 he...

• EU contributes Tk230cr to strengthen social security in BD

• 01 May 2020 05:05

With this grant, the EU recognises and supports the government’s commitment to the eradication of poverty and...

• Govt asks Facebook to delete pages spreading Covid-19 rumours

• 01 May 2020 04:05

Reports about pages that reportedly shared misinformation were sent to Facebook in the last two weeks

• Stock market likely to reopen on May 10

• 01 May 2020 04:05

March 25 was the last trading day for the Bangladeshi capital market

• Govt recruits 7,000 doctors, nurses to combat virus spread

• 30 April 2020 23:04

The Public Service Commission has issued a notice for the recruitment of 2,000 doctors

• Five more die of COVID-19 in BD, 564 test positive in 24hrs: DGHS

• 30 April 2020 23:04

Five more people died from coronavirus (COVID-19) in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours till Thursday, (COVID-19)...

• Dutch Minister assures Bangladesh not to cancel apparel orders.

• 30 April 2020 20:04

The Netherlands has assured Bangladesh that the Dutch buyers will not cancel or suspend their orders from the...

• Mugda hospital director made OSD over mask scam

• 30 April 2020 20:04

The government has moved against Dr Shahid Md Sadiqul Islam, the director of Dhaka Mugda Medical College Hospi...

• NBR orders partial VAT office opening till May 5

• 30 April 2020 18:04

All field-level value-added tax (VAT) offices will work on a limited scale during public holidays until May 05...

• BD water contains harmful pharmaceutical residues, reveals int'l research

• 30 April 2020 18:04

There is hazardous level of pharmaceutical residues in water of Bangladesh,

• Dhaka's air quality shows significant improvement.

• 30 April 2020 18:04

Dhaka’s air quality showed significant improvement on Thursday morning with the capital city ranking 20th wors...

• ‘No mass-production of COVID-19 vaccine before mid-2021’

• 30 April 2020 18:04

GlaxoSmithKline, the world's largest vaccine maker, said the global push to develop an immunisation against th...

• Veteran Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor dies

• 30 April 2020 17:04

Fans and family mourn the demise

• Forex reserve reaches $33b on lower import

• 30 April 2020 17:04

The country's foreign exchange (forex) reserve reached at US$33 billion-

• Paradigm shift: Embracing online education

• 30 April 2020 04:04

With the coronavirus spreading rapidly across the world, countries have taken rapid and decisive actions to sh...