In a significant milestone in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, Bangladesh today began the second biggest vaccination drive in the South Asia region
Bangladesh’s container depot fire; norms violated in cargo handling at Chittagong port
Industrial accidents are common in Bangladesh. Experts blame poor safety standards and lack of enforcement of norms and regulations. Garments factories, which account for the country’s most exports and employ over 4 million workers, often see deadly fire incidents.
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‘Trade, investment should dominate Bangladesh-US ties’
The relationship between Bangladesh and the United States, the largest economy of the world, should be dominated by trade and investment to benefit both countries, eminent personalities said at a webinar on Tuesday
Bangladesh PM places six proposals before world to stop random use of antibiotics
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday stressed the need for immediate global actions to decrease careless and indiscriminate use of antibiotics to effectively fight the silently emerging antimicrobial resistance that could endanger mankind
‘Bangladesh now a trade-dependent country, not an aid-dependent one’
Renowned economist and academician Prof Rehman Sobhan has described Bangladesh as a trade-dependent country, rather than an aid-dependent one, urging the United States to enhance trade and invest more in Bangladesh and other countries in Asia
Bangladesh PM holds first in-person meet in ten months
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for the first time in 10 months attended a weekly cabinet meeting in person yesterday
Bangladesh PM: Due global climate adaptation actions not possible for lack of finance
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said the lack of finance and political will were responsible for not taking due global actions for adapting to the damages caused by the adverse impact of the climate change
Bangladesh’s vaccination plan unveiled
The Bangladesh government has worked out a plan for national vaccination against Covid-19 with a target to give two doses of jabs to each of 130 million people to eliminate the prevalence of the deadly virus
Grade 10, 12 students will have regular classes, rest once a week: Bangladesh education minister
Bangladesh Education Minister Dipu Moni today informed the parliament that classes at schools will resume on a limited scale
Pandemic pushes 42pc in Bangladesh into poverty
Forty-two percent of 5,577 households covered by a nationwide survey in Bangladesh were found below the poverty line, according to the findings of the study released yesterday
Bangladesh PM Hasina gives homes to over 66,000 homeless
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina believes the gifting of homes to the homeless and landless people of Bangladesh marks the biggest festival in Mujib Year, the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Bangladesh to begin COVID-19 vaccination Wednesday
Bangladesh’s COVID-19 vaccination program will begin on Wednesday and it will be virtually inaugurated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
Bangladesh reaffirms commitment to nuclear-free world
Bangladesh has reiterated the clarion call made by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at his historic maiden address to the UN General Assembly in 1974, “to free the world from the scourges of nuclear war.”
angladesh orders schools, colleges to be ready for in-person restart
The Bangladesh government has ordered the high schools and colleges to prepare for in-person reopening with measures to protect students, teachers and support staff from the coronavirus amid the pandemic
PM Hasina set to make dreams come true for thousands in Bangladesh
Mobarak Miah, a native of Kurigram district, cannot stop smiling
Bangladesh looking for more sources to get coronavirus vaccines
Bangladesh is sounding out other companies to immunise its 170 million-strong population after securing 30 million doses of the Oxford University-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine
