Local jewellers today reduced gold prices by Tk 2,916 to Tk 79,548 a bhori or 11.664 gram as the prices of the precious metal fell on the global market.

The Bangladesh Bank today asked banks to suggest uniform exchange rates of the taka against the US dollar in order to bring back the stability in the country’s foreign exchange market.

Bangladesh Bank has formed a Tk 2,000 crore refinance scheme to ensure sustainable development of the shipping industry, increase export earnings and employment and gradually reduce import dependence.

Counterterrorism officials claimed to have arrested two members of the banned militant group Ansar al Islam in Dhaka’s Sher-E-Bangla Nagar area last night.

No Covid-19 deaths were reported in 24 hours till 8am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

A journalist says he was beaten up while covering the clash between activists of Chhatra League and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal on High Court premises near Dhaka University (DU) area today.

The Parliament Secretariat is returning Tk 80 crore to the government, thanks to fewer parliament sessions, foreign tours, and training programmes amid the coronavirus pandemic, Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury said yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed authorities concerned to pay attention to environment and ecology while taking up any development project.

Law Minister Anisul Huq has said the government has taken necessary steps to ensure the best practices of the Digital Security Act, as this law has been misused and abused “to some extent”.

The Bangladesh Bank will sit with the Association of Bankers, Bangladesh (ABB) tomorrow to discuss the ongoing foreign exchange volatility in the country's banking sector.

A Dhaka court today directed the authorities concerned to publish a gazette asking former managing director of NRB Global Bank Prashanta Kumar Halder, better known as PK Halder, and seven others to appear before it in a case filed over laundering Tk 80 crore to Canada and amassing about Tk 426 crore illegally.

Police recovered bodies of two youths from a house in Dhaka’s Kamrangirchar area this morning.

Police arrested a youth last night (May 24, 2022) in a case filed over gang-rape of a 25-year-old woman in Savar.

A senior secretary embarked on a study tour in Europe just before retiring from his job.

The government has ramped up its measures to contain the pressure on foreign currency reserves and inflation, drafting an action plan to discourage non-essential imports and bring relief to the poor and the vulnerable from the spiralling cost of living.

Expressing concern over the two proposed acts relating to media freedom, US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas feared that some of the provisions in the draft acts could be used to intimidate journalists.

Chapainawabganj and Rajshahi today secured their names as producing regions of Fazli mango meaning that the northern districts will be able to use its Geographical Indication (GI) tag, which will enable growers to brand the popular mango better at home and abroad.

Agriculture engineers of Bangladesh Sugarcrop Research Institute (BSRI) have come up with a new technology of cultivating paddy as co-crop with sugarcane.

The investors came up with the allegation in a press briefing at the office of the Capital Market Journalists’ Forum in Dhaka.

The Prime Minister’s Office has sternly warned Biman and others concerned about disruptions to hajj flights and asked them to remain extremely vigilant so that there is no fiasco.