Expressing satisfaction at the arrest of Prashanta Kumar Halder, better known as PK Halder, in India on charge of laundering a huge sum of money, a High Court bench today (May 16, 2022) said the Indian government should be thanked for the arrest.

Prashanta Kumar Halder, better known as PK Halder, is the eldest of three sons of primary school teacher Lilabati Haldar and tailor Pralab Chandra Halder of Matibhanga union under Pirojpur’s Nazirpur upazila.

Three people, including an union parishad member, were dead after a truck hit the motorcycle they were on in Birol upazila of Dinajpur early today.

Several thousand villagers in six upazilas of Sylhet remained marooned as the flood situation worsened in the region.

The country will not face a food shortage and India’s restriction on wheat export will not affect Bangladesh, Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder said today.

Sustained interrogation of Proshanta Kumar Halder alias PK Harder – the arrested mastermind of Tk 10,000 crore banking scam in Bangladesh – by India’s Directorate of Enforcement has revealed that he possessed passports of Bangladesh, India and Grenada and that he allegedly siphoned off the money to various countries.

Assets of former NRB Global Bank Managing Director (MD) Proshanta Kumar Halder alias PK Halder will be confiscated, Attorney General AM Amin Uddin has said.

Three people including a woman and her daughter were killed today as a tractor rammed two motorcyclists on Rajshahi-Naogaon highway in Rajshahi’s Paba upazila.

After edible oil, wheat, the second-most consumed cereal in Bangladesh, is posing to be the next pressure point for food inflation, which in March leapt to its highest level since October 2020.

Journalism in Bangladesh is under siege on the digital front, beginning from surveillance to draconian laws.

Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, will be celebrated across the country today amid festivities after two years of Covid-induced restrictions.

Strange times are these in which we live when record subsidy allocation may still come short of what is needed.

Some 150 families are in fear of losing their homesteads in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila as part of a flood protection dam across the Teesta collapsed.

A trader was fined Tk 1 lakh for illegal stocking of soybean oil in his store at Manikganj today (May 13, 2022).

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).

Sri Lanka is going through a period of political unrest amid its ongoing economic crisis.

An aspiring Bangladeshi pilgrim will now have to spend a minimum of Tk 4,63,744 to perform hajj under private agencies -- around Tk 1,09,150 higher than that in 2020.

The government has ordered to stop overseas trips of government officials in the wake of the post-Covid economic recovery and the current global crisis.

Each members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Religious Affairs wants to send three representatives to Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj this year.

A nilgai was killed by locals at the Bharnia Mandalpara village in Thakurgaon’s Ranisankail upazila this (May 12, 2022) afternoon.