Viber cuts business ties with Facebook
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High street to PPE: Bangladesh garment makers turn virus gloom into boom
Facing ruin as orders from Western brands collapsed in the coronavirus pandemic, many Bangladeshi garment factories have been…
Bangladesh celebrates 20 years of Test Status
Bangladesh completed the 20th year of getting Test status today (Friday). On this day in 2000, the country…
Desperate search on for solid footballers from Europe
National football coach Jamie Day is desperately looking for Bangladeshi-born European booters to get them included in the…
Meet Bangladesh’s ground-breaking female coach who’s ‘married to football’
Not many Bangladeshis would quit a safe, public-sector job with perks and a pension to become a full-time…
FIFA offers $ 1.5 billion aid fund for federations
FIFA’s ruling council has approved a relief plan of giving a total of 1.5 billion U.S. dollars to…
Liverpool win Premier League title after 30 years
Liverpool have ended their long wait to be crowned Premier League champions after Manchester City’s 2-1 loss at…
Covid-19 casts gloom on tourism in Rangamati, Bandarban
The global outbreak of the Covid-19 has affected life and economy unlike anything the world has ever seen.…
Of friends and foes in politics
।। Shamim A. Zahedy ।। Coming to Bangladesh’s stance on the Indo-China conflict, experts suggest that as Dhaka…
Study hours declined by 80pc due to school closure
Since schools have shut down, there has been a significant reduction in the total time students spend studying…
Corona Crisis: BNP demands halting utility bills, taxes
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said the government is putting pressure on people to…
Stocks end week in green
Country’s both the bourses, Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE), closed week extending the slight…
BCB introduces COVID-19 WELLNESS app for players
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has introduced an app to monitor the health and mental well-being of the…
Miniature Art Project DOOB begins Today
A nine-day online Miniature Art Project DOOB (Immersion) begins Today. Young Bangladeshi artist Azizee Fawmi Khan is the…
Google says it will pay publishers for news content
Google will pay partnered media publishers in three countries and offer some users free access to paywalled news…
Youth held for making ‘derogatory comments’ against PM in N’ganj
UNB: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Tuesday arrested a young man from Noyamati Muslim Para in…
‘Hajj pilgrims can take back registration money’
UNB: The pilgrims who paid for the registration of Hajj this year will be able to take back…
Bill placed to allow courts to hold virtual trial proceedings
A Bill was introduced in Parliament on Tuesday to empower courts to run trial proceedings through videoconferences and…
‘It’s waistcoat, not Mujib coat’: BNP MP Harun
Harunur Rashid, BNP’s MP from Chapainawabganj-3, on Tuesday said some media wrongly reported that he joined parliament wearing…
A quarter-billion children getting no education: UN
AFP: Nearly 260 million children had no access to schooling in 2018, a United Nations agency said in…