Over 15 lakh doses of the Covid-19 vaccine that have remained unused since May will expire by August 6 as authorities have failed to administer the lifesaving vaccine amid people鈥檚 unwillingness to take the jab even though there is now a fresh rise in Covid-19 infections and deaths...
THE road transport system continues to be plagued with an entrenched culture of lawlessness, weak regulation and consequent accidents. The latest Road Safety Foundation report says that 696 died and 1,867 became injured in 689 traffic accidents in June alone. This comes down to an average of 23 death a day. This also marks a 22.55 per cent increase in fatalities from...
A SIGNIFICANT number of borrowers with proven track records face financial distress as the strict, new loan classification rules and rescheduling policy have classified them as defaulters, limiting their access to capital. This is a cause for concern. More than a thousand borrowers, mostly in export-oriented sectors such as textiles, apparel and leather, keep struggling with...
Bashundhara Group chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, retired Major General Tarique Ahmed Siddique, who was the defence and security adviser to ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and his wife Shaheen Siddique did not appear at the Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday, disregarding its summon...
In June this year, 23 people were killed daily on average in road accidents, according to a Road Safety Foundation report published on Wednesday...
A delegation from the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh, led by its president Mahtab聽Uddin Ahmed, on Monday met with commerce adviser Sk Bashir Uddin at the latter鈥檚 office, a press release said...
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Independent University, Bangladesh has launched a new high-speed Wi-Fi infrastructure, transitioning from Wi-Fi 5.0 to the state-of-the-art Wi-Fi 7.0, to support faster, low-latency, secure and more reliable internet access across its campus...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Monday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze 57 bank accounts of former social welfare minister Nuruzzaman Ahmed and his wife Hosne Ara Begum over graft allegations...
Bangladesh Commerce Bank has launched a new deposit product titled 鈥楳udaraba Cash Waqf Account,鈥� said a press release...
Israel said Monday it is 鈥榠nterested鈥� in striking peace agreements with neighbouring Lebanon and Syria, a potentially historic shift in the region after decades of war and animosity...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday summoned Bashundhara Group chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan to appear at the commission tomorrow over an inquiry into allegations of amassing illegal wealth against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 defence and security adviser Tarique Ahmed Siddique...
At least 422 workers lost their lives in 373 workplace accidents in the country between January and June this year, according to a report revealed by the Safety and Rights Society on Monday...
Several hundred students of Ideal College on Sunday afternoon blocked Science Laboratory crossing in Dhaka city for half an hour, demanding justice for the killing of their fellow in road accident over a month ago...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday filed a case against Rajshahi city Awami League organising secretary Azizul Alam Bentu, his wife, and their son on charges of amassing illegal wealth and concealing assets in their statements submitted to the commission...
The members of the law enforcing agencies arrested four people including their ringleader, who were cheating people identifying them as Anti-Corruption Commission officials, from the capital on Saturday night...
BRAC Bank has partnered with Visa to launch Visa Direct for Account, offering customers a faster and cost-effective way for outward international money transfers, said a press release...
AN ACUTE shortage of anti-rabies vaccine in public hospitals, which include Infectious Diseases Hospital in Dhaka, has created a serious concern, laying bare health services failures. The hospital, which treats 400鈥�500 cases of animal bites a day, ran out of stock on June 27. Hundreds of patients reaching the hospital from outlying areas are turned away. The hospital has also...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday initiated an inquiry into allegations of amassing illegal wealth against six officials of the National Board of Revenue, including Hasan Muhammad Tarek Rikabdar, president of NBR Reform Unity Parishad, the banner under which officials are continuing their movement.
Three members of a family, including an engineering university student, were killed after being hit by a truck in Uttara area of Dhaka on early Sunday...
An unidentified youth was killed in a road accident in Tejgaon of the city in the early hours of Sunday...
The Infectious Diseases Hospital at Mohakhali in the capital Dhaka, the top public hospital in Bangladesh for the treatment of infectious diseases, has run out of the anti-rabies vaccine, causing sufferings to the patients, who rush to the health facility from districts with animal bites after not getting treatment at the local level...
At least six people, including a child, were killed and 17 others injured in separate road accidents in Munshiganj, Magura and Manikganj on Saturday...
Four people were killed and 14 others were injured when a bus rammed into a truck on Dhaka-Mawa Expressway in Srinagar upazila of Munshiganj on early Saturday...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed two separate cases against 26 people, including former NRB Global Bank (now Global Islami Bank) managing director Prashanta Kumar Halder, also known as PK Halder, on charges of embezzling Tk聽49 crore from the bank...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday initiated an inquiry into allegations of appointing 21 people to different cadre positions illegally under the 29th Bangladesh Civil Service examinations during the Awami League regime which was ousted past year...
At least seven people were killed and 13 others injured in road accidents in Barishal, Jashore and Gopalganj districts on Thursday...
Midland Bank PLC on Wednesday signed an agreement with Visa to launch 鈥榁isa Direct for Account,鈥� said a press release...
At least four people were killed in road accidents in Meherpur, Sylhet and Cumilla on Wednesday...
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh has elected NKA Mobin as its new president; and Suraiya Zannath, Md Rokonuzzaman, Muhammad Mehedi Hasan and Md Moniruzzaman as new vice-presidents of the Institute...