State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury today urged Eid 2022 home goers to avoid Shimulia ferry ghat and use Patuaria ferry terminal instead.

The authorities have warned those involved in smuggling of solid waste from BSCIC tannery industrial estate in Savar and issued directives for the owners.

Police have arrested a man for allegedly extorting money from various long route transport services ahead of Eid in Dhaka’s Savar.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday ordered keeping the Tentultala field in the capital’s Kalabagan area as a playground, bringing a happy end to environmentalists and locals’ protests of the construction of a police station on the ground.

A huge number of city dwellers left the capital yesterday as it was their last working day before Eid-ul-Fitr.

Miners of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited and their family members staged a protest in Dinajpur’s Parbatipur upazila yesterday demanding arrears and reinstatement.

Boro season is going on in Bangladesh and the harvest will start in full swing within a few days.

The draft data protection act should be amended to ensure that citizen’s rights to privacy are not violated, Amnesty International and Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) said in separate statements.

Can a parliamentary standing committee recommend a project directly to the prime minister without any due diligence? The law explicitly does not permit it.

India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar today stressed that Bangladesh features as the most important country in the Indian Foreign Policy objectives of “Neighbourhood First Policy”.

Ride-sharing service provider Pathao has rewarded its top three bikers for sharing the highest number of rides with motorbikes.

A day labourer was killed and 17 others injured as an under-construction bridge of Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) collapsed in Rangamati this morning.

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi today demanded fair prices from the global clothing retailers and brands as the local exporters have been facing uneven price competition in the international markets.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (April 28, 2022) emphasized the importance of improving connectivity between Bangladesh and India for mutual benefit, saying that steps have been initiated to reopen various cross-border roads between the two nations that were closed in 1965.

Beximco Pharmaceuticals earned Tk 61.92 crore as vaccine distribution fee in the first nine months of the current financial year.

MA Mannan, former mayor of Gazipur City Corporation, passed away at a hospital in Dhaka today. He was 72.

The Bangladesh Bank todays asked banks to provide online and internet-based banking services to clients round the clock during the upcoming Eid holidays.

Dhaka stocks finished the week with a fall thanks to a selling spree among investors ahead of the Eid-ul-fitr festival, which will be celebrated the next week.

The Bangladesh Bank today asked banks to keep their doors open and run operations on a limited scale on April 30, a public holiday, in order to settle the increased number of financial transactions ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr.

Banglalink posted 8.6 per cent year-on-year rise in revenue in the first quarter of 2022 on the back of strong data sales.