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Seven people, including a child, were killed in a collision between a microbus and a bus on Dhaka-Mawa highway at Sologhar in Sreenagar upazila of Munshiganj on Friday. The identities...
A probe body, formed by the local administration following a train accident in Ullapara upazila of Sirajganj district on November 14, said the accident took place due fault in loop...
Bangladesh have lost half of their wickets in the first session of the day-night Test match against India in Kolkata. After winning the toss, the Tigers got off to a...
A jury in New Zealand on Friday convicted a 27-year-old man of murdering a British woman backpacker, a case that shocked the country and raised questions about its reputation as...
The biggest risk to the overall US economy remains tariffs and trade as businesses have cut back on investment, a US Federal Reserve official has said. "Right now, overall, my...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a Union Parishad (UP) member reportedly with 2,256 Yaba tablets from Barogharia in Sadar upazila of Chapainawabganj district on Thursday night. The arrestee...
A suspected robber was killed and five others injured in a lynch-mob attack at Sagardi village in Raipur upazila of Laxmipur district early Friday. The deceased was identified as Sohel,...
The securities regulator has allowed the chiefs of merchant banks to conduct sell-buy of the shares of listed companies. The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) took the decision on...
The central bank has waived the Probashi Kallyan Bank (PKB) from maintaining the stipulated statutory liquidity ratio (SLR) in line with the existing Banking Companies Act 1991. The state-owned specialised...
The ministry of textiles and jute (MoTJ) has sought a fresh allocation of over Tk 11 billion from the government for the state-run Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC), officials said....
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), a banned militant outfit, from, Char Raninagar in Sadar upazila early Friday. The arrestees are Manirul Islam,...
The government has launched special labour inspection programme in the country's construction sector to ensure safety and prevent accidents, officials said. The Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE)...
About 20 million people in the country are facing different physical problems blamed on thyroid hormone and 50 per cent of them are women, speakers said at a conference in...
The government moves to build the largest-ever urea fertiliser plant in the northern region which requires 40 per cent of the country's total annual demand for urea, officials said. The...
JOYPURHAT: The transport strike, enforced protesting the Road Transport Act-2018, badly affected trading at the biggest wholesale vegetable markets in the country's northern region on Thursday. Wholesalers could not purchase...
The prices of onion remained almost unchanged at their previous high level on Thursday despite arrival of imported consignments in the market, according to traders and consumers. Visits to some...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reached Kolkata to watch the first day-night Test match between India and Bangladesh at the invitation of her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi. A special flight...
Road transport services were yet to return to normal on Thursday despite withdrawal of strikes by transport owners and workers after a late night meeting with the Home Minister over...
The customs authorities are now empowered to halt the products imported or exported, violating the Intellectual Property Rights, or IPR. According to the provisions of new rules, customs officials will...
Authorities of Bangladesh University of Science and Technology (BUET) have permanently expelled 26 of its students, mostly leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), over the killing of Abrar...
The head of Anti Corruption Commission, or ACC, has said a focal person will be selected at the anti-graft watchdog shortly to get information about suspicious transactions. Chairman Iqbal Mahmood...
For more than 55 years, ever since the first Water Resources Master Plan was formulated by IECO (1964), the policy makers and engineers have continued to seek more rigorous means...
Bangladesh is famous for its woven fabric worldwide, the tradition stretching back to over one thousand years. Previously, there were arrangements for selling the woven clothes locally through informal channels....
On the Bangla calendar Jibananada's Hemanta has arrived more than a month ago. Blades of Aman paddy plants or grasses heralded the advent of this dusky season spreading, in its...
Another cargo aircraft carrying 105 metric tonnes of imported onion from Egypt arrived in the city on Thursday evening. Abdul Latif Munshi, Public Relations Officer (PRO) of Commerce Ministry, said...
The Ministry of Food started this year's Aman rice procurement programme Wednesday last with food officials buying paddy in some areas where harvesting has already begun. The deputy commissioners of...
The High Court's observation to the effect that production, sale and storage of fake and adulterated medicines should be dealt with maximum punishment resonates with the sentiments of most people...
Selling date-expired drugs that too by renowned drug stores in the capital did cause a stir some days ago. While spurious drugs are already a cause of worry in the...
Police have detained a union council member of Sylhet’s Zakiganj Upazila after his video of beating up a man in arbitration drew criticisms on social media. Abdus Salam, member of...
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the central bankers' club in Basel, Switzerland, recently conducted an in-depth evaluation of the unconventional monetary policies that have become the norm in many...
In the highly industrialised regions of the world, most of the people are said to be hypochondriac. Their obsession with health, sickness and medicinal remedies is sharply at variance with...
Students are the central stakeholder in any education system. However, they are often excluded from the very conversations in educational planning that determine their lives and their futures. These conversations...
An offender can be punished with a view to having a deterrent effect both for the person concern and for others, giving an example. But when a judge is lenient...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the guidelines on the new road transport act are in the final stages. “Once it is done, there won't be any...
The government will procure 0.6 million tonnes of paddy directly from farmers in the current Aman season, said Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzak on Thursday. He said underprivileged farmers will...
A total of 23,381 auto-rickshaws were registered with Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) across the country in the first 10 months of the current calendar year. Of them, 6,789 got...
A new rule requiring customers to obtain a certificate before completing a transaction online is causing people a lot of grief with businessmen in the IT sector suffering in particular....
The High Court (HC) has ordered the government to explain why the expulsion of 15 students from the Primary Education Completion (PEC) examinations should not be deemed illegal. The authorities...
The overall investment proposals with the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) rose by a staggering 309 per cent during the July-September quarter in 2019 compared to the previous quarter April-June,...
CARE’s SHOUHARDO III, a food security programme with funding from USAID and government of Bangladesh organised a workshop on “Improved Weather and Flood Information System for Community Based Risk and...
The rail communications between Mymensingh and Kishoreganj remained suspended since Thursday afternoon after derailment of a wheel of Chattogram-bound Nasirabad Express train. AKM Quamruzzaman, station master of Bhairab Railway Station...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled his new 36-member cabinet at the swearing-in ceremony on Wednesday. Trudeau won the 2019 Canadian federal election in October, which gives his Liberal Party...
At a time unprecedented violence is ravaging Hong Kong, the US Senate on Tuesday unanimously passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act after the House of Representatives approved...
The greenhouse gas emissions from China's rice fields have been reduced by 70 per cent over the past five decades, according to a recent Chinese study. China's rice agriculture, a...
The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has accelerated the sale of onion at Tk 45 per kg both at divisional and district levels, including Dhaka city, to keep its supply...
At least 78 women were tortured to death for dowry alone in the first ten months of calendar year, according to a local legal aid and rights body. Apart from...
Criticising the government for the soaring prices of essentials, including that of onion, BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed on Thursday said a socioeconomic situation like that of 1974 has been...
Bus services on several long routes are yet to fully resume despite transport owners and workers calling off their strike over the new road transport law following a meeting with...
Malaysian authorities have arrested 680 Chinese nationals suspected of operating an extensive online fraud operation cheating people in their homeland, officials said on Thursday. A team of 150 Immigration Department...
German carmaker BMW on Thursday said it had ordered more than 10 billion euros’ ($11.07 billion) worth of battery cells from Chinese battery cell maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Co (CATL)...
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