The government has decided to provide essentials at a subsidised rate to one crore families through “family cards” from June 1, aiming to ease the pressure they are facing with prices hikes.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the BNP has no right now to raise question about elections as it has a history of tainted polls.

Following are the comments made by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina about The Daily Star Editor and Publisher Mahfuz Anam, while delivering a speech yesterday, marking her homecoming from exile in 1981. We publish it verbatim.

The 18th session of the 11th parliament will begin on June 5. It will be the budget session of this year.

The ICT Division and the World Bank will work jointly to build ICT infrastructure in Bangladesh to take the economic development to the next stage, said Junaid Kamal Ahmad, a vice president of the World Bank.

The cost of feasibility study for the construction of new international airport outside Dhaka has gone up by around 11 percent -- to Tk 129 crore.

Stocks continued to bleed today for the sixth consecutive day as the investors have been suffering from a lack of confidence because of the forex market volatility.

After Toulouse, a Shaheed Minar is going to be built for the first time in the French capital Paris.

More than three lakh children, aged less than five years, suffered from severe malnutrition across the globe, reads a report by Unicef.

The government today (May 17, 2022) asked North South University authorities to sell 10 luxurious cars through bidding and deposit it to the university general fund.

A joint operation by the Enforcement and Inspection Team of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-4) confiscated the handsets from eight shops at Mirpur Shopping Complex.

Extradition of PK Halder may take time as it involves legal procedures, Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Kumar Doraiswami said today.

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).

Shares on the Dhaka Stock Exchange fell massively today as well, as worries over the economy’s health weigh on investors’ minds.

Chattogram division is at high risk of being one of the world’s largest carbon catastrophes, said speakers at the launch of a study yesterday.

While the government is banking on a good harvest of Boro paddy to bolster its grain stock, experts fear a sole focus on local production may not help ensure the country’s food security in the foreseeable future.  

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said everyone can speak freely and participate in TV talk shows.

The Bangladeshi taka today faced a steep devaluation against the US dollar as the soaring import payments have created an acute shortage of the greenback in the banking sector.

The National Central Bureau (NCB), Interpol's regional office in Dhaka, has requested its Indian counterpart to extradite former NRB Global Bank managing director Prashanta Kumar Halder, better known as PK Halder, and five others who have been arrested by India’s Directorate of Enforcement (ED).

Spanish President Pedro Sanchez lauded the socio-economic development of Bangladesh achieved under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and its responsible, active and visible role in the regional and international arena, including the United Nations.