Bangladesh

President Gilbert F Houngbo of the Rome-based International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has complimented Bangladesh’s capacity to implement projects and utilize resources, citing the country’s status as IFAD’s most comprehensive portfolio internationally, reports BSS. According...

Bangladesh has fallen six spots to 106th place in the Henley Passport Index 2021, sharing the same slot as Lebanon and Sudan once again. Bangladesh is directly ahead of Sri Lanka and Iran, which share the...

Bangladesh has had the most significant daily increase in Covid-19 cases since the epidemic began, with 11,525 new cases, bringing the total to 9,66,406. In a regular daily announcement, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS)...

Amid a worsening Covid-19 scenario in the country, the railway ministry of Bangladesh has decided to run special cattle trains for ferrying sacrifice animals ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, says UNB. Bangladesh Railway will operate the trains from...

Japan Tobacco International came to Bangladesh with the largest investment in the country’s history, but it failed to succeed due to British American Tobacco’s domination and anti-competitive tactics, according to company representatives. They’ve also pointed the...

To combat the sudden spike of the COVID-19 epidemic, the government agreed to prolong the ongoing flight suspension of all domestic flights for another week, until July 14. Under government direction and instruction, all domestic flight...

In the last 24 hours, Bangladesh has registered 164 new coronaviruses (COVID-19) deaths and 9,964 positive cases, the largest number of both fatalities and infections in a single day since the pandemic began. “The country reported...

In the last month, 78 per cent of those infected with coronavirus in the country were found to have the ‘Delta’ type identified in India. The government’s Institute of Pathology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) obtained...

The Walt Disney Company, once stopped its sourcing from Bangladesh in 2013 amid the fire and building collapse disasters, has considered including the country in its Permitted Sourcing Country list with ILS (International Labor Standard) audits....

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl Miller has said his country understands urgency of providing “safe” and “effective” COVID vaccine to Bangladesh, adding Washington DC’s vaccine donations that arrived here last night is “only the beginning”. “The...