May 15, 2020

March will be viewed as watershed for digital Bangladesh

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 15 May 2020 The pandemic, it seems, was the big bang the digital Bangladesh charge needed to level up. Holed […]
May 15, 2020

RMG owners want to give worker’s half pay as bonus

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 15 May 2020 Garment factory owners yesterday proposed paying workers 50 percent of their basic salaries as Eid bonus. Union […]
May 15, 2020

Containment successful in 2 areas

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 15 May 2020 Although Dhaka has by far the highest number of coronavirus cases in the country, two neighbourhoods at […]
May 15, 2020

Company launches ‘anti-coronavirus fabrics’

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 15 May 2020 Zaber & Zubair Fabrics Limited (Z&Z), a sister concern of local garment exporter Noman Group, formally launched […]
May 15, 2020

First Covid-19 case detected at Rohingya camp

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 15 May 2020 A Rohingya refugee has tested positive for the novel coronavirus at the Ukhiya refugee camp in Cox’s […]
May 15, 2020

Plasma therapy trial to start next week

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 15 May 2020 The government is hopeful that it would be able to “experimentally start” using convalescent plasma therapy for […]
May 15, 2020

Curbs on movement from May 17 to 28

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 15 May 2020 The government has once again extended the ongoing shutdown of public and private offices till May 30 […]
May 14, 2020

Covid-19 Testing: Brac to set up 100 walk-in kiosks across country

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 14 May 2020 Brac is going to set up 100 walk-in kiosks across 19 risky regions of the country, to […]
May 14, 2020

Stymied by the traffic shutdown

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 14 May 2020 No cacophony of metals clinking, no yelling of experts to apprentice mechanics, only skeletons of under-repair vehicles […]