A Canada-China owned company will invest $5.74 million to set up a diversified product manufacturing industry in Bepza Economic Zone.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday ruled out the possibility of an economic crisis like the one in Sri Lanka as the Bangladesh economy is in a sound state.

Macroeconomic stability, fiscal and debt management, and domestic resource mobilisation are the major areas Bangladesh need to keep its focus on, Asian Development Bank officials said yesterday referring to what the country can learn from the ongoing economic crisis in Sri Lanka.

The key indices of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) extended losses today as persisting uncertainty over the global economy and the commodity market volatility keep hurting investors’ sentiment.

Police have recovered bodies of two youths from separate places in the Dhaleshwari river under Sadar upazila in Munshiganj this morning.

A local court today sentenced four people to life imprisonment in a case filed over murder of an auto-rickshaw driver in Khulna in 2018.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia reached the city’s Evercare Hospital at 5:05 pm for a medical check-up.

Dhaka Wasa managing director said he gets foul-smelling tap water at home too but assured that it was harmless.

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday placed the Anti-Discrimination Bill 2022 in the parliament as the government looks to protect, uphold and ensure equal rights and dignity of all human beings.

The High Court yesterday questioned the legality of keeping convicts who got the death penalty in condemned cells before their cases are finally disposed of by the High Court.

There seems to be no let-up in the sufferings of the Hajong people for pure drinking water. The century-old suffering of the indigenous people living in Netrakona’s Kalmakanda upazila is yet to be mitigated despite umpteen pledges of the public representatives.

Bangladesh has huge potential in the blue economy and the country should work jointly with Sri Lanka for the development of the sector, Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Dhaka Sudharshan DS Seneviratne said today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed Water Development Board to shun the culture of dilly-dallying.

At least 36 new Covid-19 cases were recorded in 24 hours till 8:00 am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Managing Director of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) Taqsem A Khan today asked residents of the city to boil supplied water before drinking it.

The prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange dropped for the second consecutive day today when its turnover hit a one-year low.

Chinese company Xihe Textile Technology Bangladesh Ltd is going to set up a garments manufacturing industry in Mongla Export Processing Zone (EPZ) with an investment of $12.89 million.

The government has removed the upper ceiling of investment in two US dollar related bonds to enable non-resident Bangladeshis to invest as much as they want, according to a notification of the Internal Resources Division (IRD).

For the second day in a row, many neighbourhoods in the capital suffered an acute gas crisis yesterday, as the authorities struggled to fix the technical problems that occurred at Bibiyana Gas Field in Sylhet on Sunday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government has adopted plans to ensure better use of surface water and the reduction of its underground extraction.