The new look of banknotes featuring the image of King Charles has been unveiled by the Bank of England. The portrait will be the only change to existing designs of £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes and will start to enter circulation from mid-2024. New notes will feature the King’s portrait on the front and in the see-through security window. ...

The Embassy of Bangladesh in Rome, Italy has honoured five expatriate Bangladeshi nationals with ‘Remittance Award’ on the occasion of International Migrants Day-2022. The embassy organized an event on December 19 at the Chancery. Five Bangladeshis received awards as top remittance senders from Italy between the period of July 2021 and June 2022, reports UNB. Md. Shameem Ahsan, Bangladesh Ambassador ...

A special campaign for administering the fourth COVID vaccine dose started on Tuesday across the country. Ahmedul Kabir, director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS, launched the campaign at Kurmitola general Hospital in the capital at 9am. Only Pfizer vaccine will be used in the campaign. People aged above 60, who already received their third dose, will ...

Walton has launched two new CiNEd gaming monitors with IPS panels. These monitors can be used for different purposes, including gaming and graphic designs, reports UNB. Touhidur Rahman Raad, chief business officer of Walton Digi-Tech Industries, said: “Modelled as WD27GI06 and WD27GI07, the new gaming monitors feature 27-inch QHD IPS LED-backlit display with 2560 and 1440 pixel resolution and frameless ...

Bangladesh reported 20 more Covid cases in 24 hours till Monday morning. With the new numbers, the country’s total caseload rose to 2,036,948, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). However, the official death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,437 as no new fatalities were reported. The daily case test positivity rose to 0.85 percent from ...

Bangladesh Bank (BB) has taken a decision to form a fund, title ‘Bangladesh Bank Agricultural Development Common Fund (BBADCF)’ for increasing farm production. Under the initiative, banks would deposit money equivalent to the undisbursed amount of farm and rural loans in the fund and the BB would give 2 per cent interest on the deposits, as per a BB circular ...

Country’s both the bourses, Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – on Sunday plunged further due to mainly price fall in large-cap securities. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), went down by 11.21 points or 0.18 percent to 6,245.61. Two other indices also ended sharply lower with the DSE 30 Index, comprising blue ...

Bangladesh on Sunday recorded zero Covid-19 death while it reported 17 coronavirus positive cases. “Bangladesh reported 0.65 percent Covid-19 positive cases as 2,612 samples were tested during the last 24 hours,” a daily statement of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said here. During the period, the combined figure of coronavirus infection in Dhaka district and the capital is ...

Outside a funeral home in eastern Beijing, dozens of people were bundled up in parkas and hats against the freezing temperatures Friday evening as workers in full protective suits wheeled out coffins one by one. When an employee with a clipboard shouted the name of the dead, a relative trundled up to the coffin to examine the body. One of ...

A rout in global equities extended on Friday and government bond markets came under fresh selling pressure as hawkish tone from central bankers and weak data stoked recession fears. The selling spilled over into commodities markets, where oil prices dropped over $2 per barrel. Gold prices faced their biggest weekly loss in four weeks after the Federal Reserve indicated it ...