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Govt sells rice at Tk 30 per kg for garment workers

Dhaka, Nov. 13 -- The government has launched a special Open Market Sale (OMS) programme to sell subsidised rice to garment workers at Tk 30 per kg. Under the programme, each worker can buy up to 10 ... Read More


Why Microsoft's global outage has proved so hard to fix

Dhaka, Nov. 13 -- Microsoft's global outage has disrupted email, workplace applications and artificial intelligence tools worldwide, with the technology giant struggling to restore normal operations a... Read More


Opposition MPs to visit Nusrat's burnt home

Dhaka, Nov. 13 -- An opposition parliamentary delegation has left for Kushtia to visit the fire-gutted ancestral home of reserved-seat MP Nusrat Tabassum, joint convenor of the National Citizen Party ... Read More


How the Bachchans became Sonia Gandhi's second family

Dhaka, Nov. 13 -- For Sonia Gandhi, the Bachchan family residence was more than just a place to stay when she arrived in India. It became her "maayka", or parental home, with the family embracing her ... Read More


SRB came within '220 metres' of Asif Nazrul's stolen phone

Dhaka, Nov. 13 -- The Special Response Battalion (SRB) has failed to recover former interim government advisor Asif Nazrul's stolen mobile phone despite coming within 220 metres of its location before... Read More


Gold gets cheaper again

Dhaka, Nov. 13 -- Gold prices have fallen again in Bangladesh, with the price of 22-carat gold dropping by nearly Tk 10,000 per Bhori over the past week following another cut by the Bangladesh Jewelle... Read More


Singer Shahed Ali, known for song 'Rokzana', dies

Dhaka, Nov. 13 -- Sheikh Shahed Ali, a popular singer of the 1990s and founder of the band Gachh, has died after a 21-day battle for life. He breathed his last at 10:05am on Friday while undergoing t... Read More


Bangladesh to receive $30mn in climate finance

Dhaka, Nov. 13 -- Bangladesh is set to receive $30 million from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for the first time earmarked for the people residing in its coastal regions. State Minister for Climate an... Read More


The Meghna is quietly making room for new land

Dhaka, Nov. 13 -- The Meghna estuary is a landscape in constant flux, where land is lost even as new ground rises from the water. But over the past 35 years, satellite images have captured a striking ... Read More


An alleged spy, a chip war and Jensen Huang's fall

Dhaka, Nov. 13 -- Jensen Huang's abrupt resignation from Nvidia has turned revelations about his private life into a wider controversy over alleged Chinese espionage and America's technological rivalr... Read More