The stock market index continued to rise for a second consecutive day today on the eve of a meeting between the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) and stakeholders on the market’s current condition.

Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder told the parliament today that there is no apprehension about food shortage in the country in the current fiscal year.

Bangladeshi and Malaysian businesses can now take trade benefits of the two countries as both of them have opened doors for investment now, experts said today.

US Ambassador to Bangladesh, Peter Haas, has announced USD 152 million in new humanitarian assistance for nearly one million Rohingyas and host communities.

The country’s national safety committee has so far inspected 5,200 factories to ensure occupation safety, said Salman F Rahman, the prime minister’s adviser on private industry and investment.

A court in Khulna today sentenced four people to death in a case filed over the murder of a man in 2016.

At least 69 new infections were recorded and one person died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8 am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday came down heavily on the US for imposing sanctions on Rab and some of its officials saying that this has been an abominable move.

Bangladeshi journalist Zahidur Rahman and expatriate engineer Saiful Islam Tipu, who went missing in Tripoli on March 23, are now in the “safe custody” of the Libyan authorities.

Mass Media Employees (Services Conditions) Bill-2022 was placed in parliament yesterday, which stipulates the job facilities of journalists and employees of media outlets.

The cabinet yesterday approved in principle a bill that carries up to capital punishment for any Ansar member taking part in a mutiny, provoking it or conspiring to do so.

Work hours at government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous institutions during Ramadan will be from 9:00am to 3:30pm.

Sonar Manufacturing Limited, a sister concern of Bitopi Group, is going to establish a readymade garment industry in Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) with an investment of $9.58 million.

Summit Group Chairman Muhammed Aziz Khan has pledged to donate $1 million to the endowment fund of icddr,b Hospital.

Bangladesh today rolled out the second round of its mega Covid vaccination drive without any registration, aiming to achieve the target of vaccinating 90 percent people of the country.

Masum alias Akash, who allegedly shot and killed Awami League Leader Jahidul Islam Tipu and college student Samia Afran Prity in Dhaka's Shahjanpur area, was arrested in from an unpopular hotel in Bogura's Charmatha area when he was in sleep.

The pace of fund disbursement from India under its line of credit (LOC) programme has nearly doubled in a year and the amount will soon reach the $1-billion milestone, the Indian high commission in Dhaka said today.

A Dhaka court today placed Masum Mohammad alias Akash on a seven-day remand in the case filed over killing two people, including former general secretary of Motijheel Awami League Jahidul Islam Tipu in Dhaka's Shahjahanpur on March 24.

Police recovered the body of a schoolgirl from a paddy field in Satkhira’s Kalaroa upazila this morning, hours after she went missing.

A fire that broke out at a building in old Dhaka’s Islampur this afternoon, has been brought under control after half an hour.