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Irregularities in development projects, including slow implementation, repeated extension of deadlines and the use of substandard materials, are nothing new in Bangladesh. The ordinary residents of Tahirpur upazila describe a...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Maldives today (Monday) ending her maiden six-day bilateral visit. "A special VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her...
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), arrested Hamjalal Sheikh, the owner of the MV Abhijan-10 launch that caught on fire in Jhalakathi, leading to the death of three dozen people. The...
A man and his wife were killed as a truck ploughed through their roadside house at Garohori village in Dewanganj upazila early Monday. The deceased are Joynal Abedin, 48 a...
China's local symptomatic coronavirus cases crept up again, with most new infections reported in the northwestern city of Xian as it entered a fifth day of a lockdown. Xian's case...
ঝালকাঠিতে অভিযান-১০ লঞ্চে ভয়াবহ অগ্নিকাণ্ডে তিন ডজন মানুষের মৃত্যুর ঘটনায় লঞ্চ মালিক হামজালাল শেখকে গ্রেপ্তার করেছে র্যাপিড অ্যাকশন ব্যাটালিয়ন-র্যাব। সোমবার সকালে ঢাকার কেরানীগঞ্জ থেকে তাকে গ্রেপ্তার করা হয় বলে র্যাবের...
Aspiya Islam Kajal cried a lot when she was dropped from the list of trainee recruit constables (TRCs) for having no permanent address. Nurturing a childhood dream of being a...
Australia’s New South Wales state reported more than 6,000 new COVID-19 cases on Monday and confirmed its first death from the omicron variant. The fatal case was identified as a...
The global overall number of coronavirus cases is fast approaching 280 million with the new Covid-19 strain Omicron showing a spike in hospitalisation. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the...
The securities regulator has allowed Meghna Bank and Southeast Bank to issue subordinated bond worth Tk 5.0 billion each. The approvals came in a meeting, held at the Bangladesh Securities...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday summoned two members of the board of trustees of North South University (NSU) over the allegations of realising excessive fees from students, tax evasion,...
South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a veteran of the struggle against white minority rule, died on Sunday aged 90, Reuters reports. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate was an outspoken campaigner...
The shareholders of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) have elected Sharif Anwar Hossain, managing director of Sahidullah Securities as the DSE's shareholder director. Mr Hossain on Sunday became the premier bourse's...
CHATTOGRAM: A European container ship which took berth at Chittagong Port four days ago after more than four decades, left the country's prime sea port Saturday evening after unloading goods...
The central bank asks authorised dealer (AD) banks to use shipping information available in online system of Bangladesh Customs as final for online monitoring, meant for checking external trade-related forgeries....
Bangladesh's apex chamber stands to whistle stop a drafted new income-tax law to have the authority to elicit the private sector's recommendation as businesses see 'loopholes' in it. Stating in...
The commerce ministry has suggested that Alesha Mart, a crisis-ridden e-commerce platform, apply to the Bangladesh Bank (BB) directly for a working-capital loan as there is no way the ministry...
A Dhaka Court on Sunday sentenced 11 people including former Managing Director of the state-owned Sonali Bank Humayun Kabir in a case filed on charge of embezzling Tk 13.7 million....
Bangladesh saw inflation barometer of the economy surge with increases in both food and non-food prices, partly in tune with global market and largely for lax local controls in analysts'...
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) found that the moderate or severe food-insecurity situation in Bangladesh returned to the pre-pandemic level by January this year, which the households experienced...
Britain's Queen Elizabeth spoke of the loss of her husband Prince Philip on Saturday, remembering the "mischievous twinkle" in his eyes in an unusually personal Christmas message to the nation....
পর্যটন নগরী কক্সবাজারে স্বামী-সন্তানকে জিম্মি করে এক নারীকে সংঘবদ্ধ ধর্ষণের প্রধান আসামি আশিকুল ইসলাম গ্রেপ্তার হয়েছেন। তাকে মাদারীপুর থেকে গ্রেপ্তার করা হয়েছে বলে র্যাবের আইন ও গণমাধ্যম শাখার সহকারী পরিচালক...
The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Sunday the Iran-aligned Houthi group had fired 430 ballistic missiles and 851 armed drones at Saudi Arabia since the war started in...
রোববার চতুর্থ ধাপে ৮৩৬ ইউনিয়নে দিনভর ভোটগ্রহণ শেষে নির্বাচন কমিশন সচিব হুমায়ুন কবীর খোন্দকার জানিয়েছেন, আনন্দমুখর পরিবেশে ভোট হয়েছে। তবে, গোলযোগের কারণে ১৫টি কেন্দ্রে ভোটগ্রহণ স্থগিত হয়েছে বলে জানান ইসি...
Opener KL Rahul showed superb application to score a seventh test century with an unbeaten 122 and steer India to a commanding 272 for three at the close of play...
The Bangladesh capital has the dubious reputation of recording the highest level of hazardous air quality for nearly a decade. This infamy has been perennial with one or another city...
Injury to eye is a major cause of vision loss or blindness. A review completed for the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1998 estimated that eye injuries caused 1.6 million...
If Cox's Bazar is the country's prime tourist spot, it is also one of the most crime-ridden areas. A must-visit site like the Sunderbans is not for family tours, particularly...
China reported its highest daily rise in local COVID-19 cases in 21 months as infections more than doubled in the northwestern city of Xian, China's latest COVID hot spot. The...
Veteran journalist Reazuddin Ahmed was laid to eternal rest in Dhaka on Sunday. He was buried at Banani Graveyard after his third and final Namaz-e-janaza on the premises of a...
The vast majority of businesses in the world are small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). They are the backbone of any economy and play a substantial role in developing economies in...
Most stock markets in the Gulf ended lower on Sunday, with the Saudi index shedding the most as rising coronavirus cases across the region weighed on investor sentiment. Covid-19 infections...
Bangladesh National Awami Party (NAP) has placed a seven-point proposal, including enactment of permanent law in line with article 118 of the Constitution to form an acceptable Election Commission (EC)....
Two people were killed after a train slammed into a bus at a level crossing in Narayanganj on Sunday. Five others were injured in the incident that took place at...
President of FBCCI Md Jasim Uddin sought loan moratorium facility to June 2022 as economic activities are yet to become normal and affected traders are still in dire straits. He...
নারায়ণগঞ্জ শহরে একটি রেল ক্রসিংয়ে যানজটে দাঁড়িয়ে থাকা বাসে ট্রেনের ধাক্কায় দুই জন নিহত হয়েছে; আহত হয়েছে আরও অন্তত পাঁচ জন। শহরের ১ নম্বর রেলগেইট এলাকায় রোববার সন্ধ্যায় এই দুর্ঘটনা...
Bangladesh convened the World Peace Conference-2021 in Dhaka on 4 and 5 December. It was attended by diplomatic representatives from many countries, from international civil society members as well as...
As rescuers continued to search for the missing or dead from the launch fire in Sugandha River on the third day Sunday the authorities could not determine the exact number...
As the 'super mutant' Omicron strain of Covid-19 is spreading fast in many countries displacing the previously dominant Delta variant, experts warned that Bangladesh is all but certain to see...
Two members of the international humanitarian group Save the Children are missing after Myanmar government troops rounded up villagers, some believed to be women and children, fatally shot more than...
Nine more dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours till Sunday morning, health authorities said. Fatalities from dengue remained unchanged at 104 as no new death was reported during the...
2021 has been an excellent year for Football lovers. With an exciting transfer window and some twists and turns of events on the international stage, this certainly is one of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will return home on Monday afternoon wrapping up her six-day bilateral visit to the Maldives. "A special VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying Prime Minister...
বছরজুড়েই নানা আলোচিত সমালোচিত ঘটনার দরুন সামাজিক যোগাযোগের মাধ্যমগুলো ছিলো সরগরম। নাসির-তামিমার বিয়ে থেকে হালের ভুবন বাদ্যকারের ‘বাদাম বাদাম’ গান – এমন বেশকিছু ট্রেন্ড এ বছর মাতিয়ে রেখেছিল অন্তর্জালের দুনিয়াকে।...
মাদারীপুরে ইউপি নির্বাচনের একটি ভোট কেন্দ্রে বাংলাদেশ ছাত্রলীগের সাবেক সাধারণ সম্পাদক গোলাম রাব্বানীকে কুপিয়ে জখম করার অভিযোগ পাওয়া গেছে। রোববার বিকাল সাড়ে ৩টার দিকে রাজৈর উপজেলার ইশিবপুর ইউনিয়নে এই হামলা...
The results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations will be published this week. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will announce the results after returning home from her...
ঝালকাঠিতে অভিযান-১০ লঞ্চে অগ্নিকাণ্ডে হতাহতের ঘটনায় মালিকের ও মাস্টার-ড্রাইভারের অবহেলার ‘প্রমাণ পাওয়ায়’ ঢাকার নৌ আদালতে মামলা করেছে সমুদ্র পরিবহন অধিদপ্তর। সেই মামলার প্রেক্ষিতে লঞ্চের অন্যতম মালিক হামজালাল শেখসহ আট জনের...
A writ petition has been filed with the High Court seeking its directions on the authorities concerned to ensure payment of Tk 5.0 million for the families of the dead...
People in Switzerland will be able to legally change gender by a visit to the civil registry office from January 1, putting the country at the forefront of Europe's gender...
Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has been released from the hospital after his recovery from sickness. The ruling party leader left Bangabandhu Sheikh...
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