Mayor of Barguna municipality Advocate Kamrul Ahsan Maharaj was injured as his car fell into a roadside ditch when he was going to attend the opening ceremony of coal-fired Payra power plant in Patuakhali today.

Death toll from Narayanganj launch capsize has raised to eight as two more bodies were recovered today.

Four people were killed and another injured as a truck rammed a private car on Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway in Lohagara upazila of Chattogram early today.

Around 25 to 30 officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, the civil aviation ministry, and two ruling party lawmakers from the parliamentary body on the ministry will be on Biman’s “experimental commercial” flight on the Dhaka-Toronto-Dhaka route on March 26.  

If one was to list the work Brac, the organisation Sir Fazle Hasan Abed built, has done or how it has contributed to Bangladesh’s development, the task would be next to impossible.

Amid high prices of daily essentials, many in need returned empty-handed from the TCB sales points outside the capital yesterday as they did not have “family cards”.

If you cruise through the Ujantia canal up to its estuary with the Matamuhuri river of Cox’s Bazar, you will see the last remnants of a mangrove forest, almost obliterated from the country’s south-eastern landscape.

Patuakhali’s Rangabali upazila, a coalition of 22 small islands in the Bay, did not have access to electricity just a year ago.

upazila has been in a dilapidated condition for long due to lack of care and maintenance.

Bangladesh has ratified the much-talked about International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention 138 to fix the minimum working age for any person at 14 years.

The government today reduced the retail price of bottled soybean edible oil to Tk 160 a litre, a cut by Tk 8 from the current rate of Tk 168 a litre.

The value-added tax (VAT) on beauty parlour services would not be reduced in the upcoming national budget, Abu Hena Md Rahmatul Munim, chairman of the National Board of Revenue (NBR), said today.

At least six peopele including three women were killed and 20 people still missing after a launch capsized in the Shitalakkhya River in Narayanganj Sadar upazila today.

The United States sees progress in terms of Rapid Action Battalion’s performance in the last three months since it imposed sanctions on the force and seven of its current and former officials.

The prices of rice, edible oil, beef, sugar, egg and onion have risen more in Bangladesh than that of the international markets, affecting the poor people who are already suffering from erosion of purchasing capacity for pandemic caused income losses, said the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) today.

Three of the four accused, including a UP member, who were arrested over the brutal torture of a young man and woman publicly in Jashore Sadar upazila on Friday, gets bail yesterday evening.

Eminent writer Dilara Hashem has passed away at her home in Washington, United States at the age of 86.

US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland today said the US wants Bangladesh on its side in the context of Russia-Ukraine.

He played a pivotal role at the crucial juncture in the country’s history, resolutely steering the nation’s transition to parliamentary democracy from an autocratic rule.

The Payra area in Patuakhali is going to be a major economic hub with a sea port, a special economic zone, an airport and the country’s biggest coal-fired power plant that will officially launch operation tomorrow.