Eight persons have been made accused in a case filed over the fire and explosions at BM Container Depot in Chattogram's Sitakunda on June 4, 2022 night.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion have arrested 44 alleged members of mugging and dope gangs from different areas in Dhaka yesterday.

After 86 hours, the devastating fire at BM Container Depot in Chattogram’s Sitakunda has finally been doused, said Lt Col Ariful Islam, commander of the 18th Brigade of Bangladesh Army’s 24th Infantry Division.

Police recovered body of a producer of private TV channel DBC News from Hatirjheel lake near Police Plaza in Dhaka this morning.

The Gono Commission has recently been facing a backlash from religion-based organisations over submission of a “white paper” that named 116 religious leaders and Islamic speakers for their “involvement in laundering money, funding militancy and spreading communal hatred”.

If it does not add value, it is a waste, said the seminal American industrialist Henry Ford. And the quote best describes the situation the Bangladesh Power Development Board finds itself in with its deal with India’s Adani Power.

UN human rights experts have condemned the Myanmar military junta’s attempts to establish a “digital dictatorship” in Myanmar by imposing further restrictions on the access to internet, internet shutdowns, online censorship, surveillance and other barriers to internet access.

Two nurses at Chittagong Medical College Hospital came under the attack allegedly by Chhatra League activists over a trivial matter this (June 7, 2022) afternoon.

The local currency today depreciated further against the US dollar, hitting Tk 92 against each green back in the interbank platform.

The telecom operators owed Tk 13,068 crore to the government, Telecom Minister Mustafa Jabbar told parliament today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged people to take austerity measures amid the high inflation rate and price hike of goods across the world due to the Russia-Ukraine war and the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Turkish citizen, who was sent to a Dhaka hospital earlier this noon with rashes on his body, is not a monkeypox case, health officials said.

Under the agreement, LankaBangla will provide deposit pension scheme facility, credit card, and loan applications through Nagad in urban and remote areas.

Deputy Commissioner of Thakurgaon Md Mahbubur Rahman made the comment as the potato growers in Thakurgaon yesterday cordoned off the office of the deputy commissioner demanding a cut in the increased cold storage rents.

The historic Six-point Day, marking the demand for autonomy for the then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, is being observed across the country today.

The Bangladesh Bank today asked non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) not to write off default loans swindled by scammers.

The funds will come from an existing Tk 3,000 crore refinance scheme aimed at providing low-cost loans to farmers with a view to supporting production amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Bangladesh has become a lower middle-income country from a ‘bottom less basket’ in its journey in the last 50 years where the main hero were the labourers, economists said today.

The government will form a new wage board for the garment sector in response to the apparel workers’ continued unrest in the previous four consecutive days, Lawmaker Shajahan Khan said today.

Kabir Securities Ltd (KSL), a brokerage house, has launched artificial intelligence-backed trading chatbot Ninja.