The interim government has continued to provide crisis-hit commercial banks and large business groups with emergency loan assistances with the offering of Tk 180 crore to the Beximco Group in the past week, said officials...
Britain on Sunday became the first European nation to join a major Indo-Pacific trading bloc, in what has been hailed as the country鈥檚 biggest trade deal since Brexit...
AN UNEVEN development of the power sector, riding on a wrong policy and supported by the now-repealed energy indemnity law, is more pronounced with a decline in the power demand since the onset of the winter. A low demand for power shows the abnormal extent of power overcapacity. About three quarters of the installed power generation capacity...
More than three quarters of Bangladesh鈥檚 installed power generation capacity remained unused for a few hours in the morning since the winter officially began on the first day of December...
The Asia Pacific region鈥檚 growth in the forthcoming year will remain at 2024 levels, according to Mastercard Economics Institute鈥檚 recently published economic outlook for the year 2025, which also forecasted that inflation and interest rates would ease offering relief to consumers and households...
Australia and Pacific nation Nauru announced a landmark security treaty on Monday, advancing Canberra鈥檚 aim of blunting China鈥檚 growing regional influence...
Bulgarian ambassador to Bangladesh Nikolay Yankov on Sunday affirmed the start of Visa Facilitating Services for visa issuance in Dhaka...
Exporters will enjoy cash incentive for shoes and bags made of a mixture of synthetic materials and fabrics under the bond and duty drawback facilities, said the Bangladesh Bank...
THE recent political transition in Sri Lanka, following the presidential and parliamentary elections of September and November, offers a pivotal opportunity to address entrenched issues of exclusion. In his inaugural speech at the 10th Parliament, president Anura Kumara Dissanayake emphasised his commitment to preventing racism and religious extremism in Sri Lanka. He asserted that his government...
Leaders of Gonoforum on Thursday called on the political parties of the country to forge national unity to foil the conspiracies of creating anarchies in Bangladesh...
Bank Asia celebrated its 25th anniversary through an event at Pan Pacific Sonargaon in the capital Dhaka on Tuesday, said a press release...
BIMSTEC expert group on visa matters will pursue visa facilitation scheme to promote intra-BIMSTEC travels, people-to-people exchanges, trade and tourism.
THE proposition that 78 per cent of the dengue patients recorded as residents of Dhaka鈥檚 south city areas in hospital documents are from outside Dhaka is worrying on a couple of counts. This brings to the fore the weakness of the reporting mechanism put in place in hospitals. This also stands to frustrate any plan to fight against the disease. Above all else...
South Asian countries, including Bangladesh, need $625b to fulfill their targets of renewable energy capacity by 2030...
Politicians, academics and officials at a geopolitical conference in Dhaka on Sunday called for a free and open Indo-Pacific without dominance of any individual country while...
British parliamentary under-secretary of state for Indo-Pacific Catherine West will visit Bangladesh on November 16-17 to discuss ways to strengthen ties with Bangladesh on key fronts...
Bangladesh paid over Tk 1 trillion in capacity charge to power plants during the 14 years of rule of the immediate-past and now ousted Awami League government until 2023...
A five-member delegation headed by deputy commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command Lt Gen Joshua M Rudd has paid a courtesy call on Bangladesh鈥檚 army chief General Waqar-Uz-Zaman at the Army Headquarters in Dhaka during a three-day visit.
The chief adviser, Professor Muhammad Yunus has said the Awami League exhibited 鈥榓ll the characteristics of fascism鈥� and it has 鈥榥o place鈥� in the country鈥檚 politics for now...
Thousands took to Lisbon鈥檚 streets on Saturday to protest against police use of force and racism, following a week of unrest sparked by the shooting of a black man by officers...
AN INCREASING number of death from dengue infection may have been the result, as experts believe, of mutation in both the dengue virus and its vector 鈥� primarily, Aedes aegypti. As dengue virus has its genome based on ribonucleic acid which can mutate fast to adapt to adverse conditions, experts say that such...
ACI Motors-Yamaha participated in the 鈥�7th Chattogram Motor Fest 2024鈥� held at GEC Convention Hall, Chattogram from October 17 to 19, says a press release.
China鈥檚 central bank boosted support for markets Thursday by opening up tens of billions of dollars in liquidity for firms to buy stocks as part of a raft of measures by Beijing to kickstart the country鈥檚 flagging聽economy...
A man killed three people and wounded 15 in a knife attack at a supermarket in the Chinese megacity of Shanghai, police said Tuesday.
Yamaha Bangladesh announced the launch of the new Yamaha FZS Version 4.0 in the Bangladesh market, says a press release.
The Southeast University pharmacy department in collaboration with the Southeast Pharmacy Club celebrated the World Pharmacists Day, holding a rally and a discussion, at the university in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Wednesday.
The North South University Pharmaceutical Club in association with the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences observed the World Pharmacist Day 2024, holding a rally on its campus in Dhaka on Wednesday, said a press release...
The American Chamber of Commerce in Bangladesh put forward a set of recommendations, including trade facilitation, public sector modernisation and enhancing digital payment infrastructure to attract foreign direct investment and improve the ease of doing business in the country...
China said it test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday, firing it into the Pacific Ocean in its first such exercise in decades...
TODAY is World Pharmacists Day. The day marks the anniversary of the inception of the International Pharmaceutical Federation, FIP, in 1912 and was adopted by the FIP Council, made up of pharmacy leaders from throughout the world, at their congress in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2009. Since then, World Pharmacists Day has been celebrated...