Labour Market: Govt now looking for alternatives

Mentioning that the employment situation in different countries, especially in the oil-dependent Middle Eastern states, might not remain the same as before due to the pandemic, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government was working to explore alternative labour markets and send workers there.
20 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Gift from India: 20 lakh vaccine doses arrive today

India’s gift of 20 lakh doses of Covishield is likely to arrive in Bangladesh today.
20 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Priority List for Vaccine: Include those aged 50 and above: experts

Experts have stressed the need for including all aged 50 and above in the priority list for the first phase of Covid-19 vaccination to maximise the effectiveness of the inoculation campaign.
20 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Democracy has prevailed

Joe Biden yesterday became the 46th president of the United States with a call to unity, vowing to bridge deep divides and defeat domestic extremism two weeks after a mob attack tried to undo his election victory.
20 January 2021, 18:00 PM

US readies for inauguration of 46th president

President Donald Trump spent his last full day in the White House yesterday mulling pardons and President-elect Joe Biden was set to arrive in Washington ahead of an inauguration that his predecessor, in a final break with tradition, will snub.
19 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Pilot vaccination likely next week

The government is likely to start piloting the Covid-19 vaccination from next week with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines obtained from the Indian government, doses of which are expected to arrive in Dhaka tomorrow.
19 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Waz Mahfil: Will look into provocative sermons

Police said they will keep an eye on waz mahfils to identify those delivering indecent speeches in the name of sermons.
19 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Household Gas Supply: Acute crisis hits many areas in city

Residents of many areas in the capital have been facing an acute gas crisis for the last few weeks due to an inadequate supply of piped gas.
19 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Education During Pandemic: Digital divide wreaks damage

Distance learning programmes through television, radio and internet, adopted after the school closure due to Covid-19, remain by and large ineffective, finds a study.
19 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Int’l cricket returns with first ODI against WI

March 11, 2020 was when Bangladesh last played an international match -- the second and final match of the T20I series against Zimbabwe at home.
19 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Rohingya Repatriation: Dhaka expects it to start by June

Dhaka is expecting that the repatriation of Rohingyas will begin in the second quarter of this year as Bangladesh, Myanmar and China held a tripartite meeting on the issue yesterday.
19 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Vote for AL or else don’t cast ballots

Bogura district Swechchasebak League President Sajedur Rahman Shaheen has said voters who would not cast their ballots for the Awami league mayoral candidate in the Gabtali municipality polls need not go to polling centres.
18 January 2021, 18:00 PM

World facing ‘catastrophic’ moral failure

The world is on the “brink of a catastrophic moral failure” if rich countries hog Covid-19 vaccine doses while the poorest suffer, the head of the WHO said yesterday.
18 January 2021, 18:00 PM

India to send 20 lakh vaccine shots as gift

Bangladesh will receive 20 lakh doses of Covishield as a gift from india tomorrow, said a high official with knowledge of the development.
18 January 2021, 18:00 PM

16 more die, 697 infected with Covid in a day

A daily infection rate of 5.49% with 697 new cases were reported in the country till early yesterday.
18 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Practise tolerance, shun differences

President Abdul Hamid yesterday said the opposition parties, alongside the ruling party, would have to play a constructive role in maintaining transparency, accountability, tolerance, human rights and rule of law.
18 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Couple meet tragic end on way to work

Akash Iqbal and his wife Maya Hazarika were young millennials who were working hard to build a life in the city, but a bus ran over them and their dreams yesterday.
18 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Similar projects, different stories

In 2017, the government took up a four-and-a-half-year project, worth over Tk 3,900 crore, to construct bridges in rural areas for boosting agricultural and non-agricultural productions as well as sending the produce to the market easily.
18 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Bangavax Vaccine: Permission sought for clinical trial

The Clinical Research Organization has asked for permission to launch a clinical trial of Covid-19 vaccine Bangavax, developed by Globe Biotech Ltd of Bangladesh.
17 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Municipality Polls: AL candidates sweep second phase too

The ruling Awami League candidates clinched sweeping victories in the second phase of the municipality elections.
17 January 2021, 18:00 PM