The High Court today refused to grant bail to former superintendent of police Babul Akter in a case filed over murder of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu in 2016.

Online ticketing of Bangladesh Railway will remain suspended for five days – from early hours of March 21 – to facilitate smooth handover from the current vendor to the new one.

The Supreme Court today directed actors Zayed Khan and Nipun Akhter to strictly follow its chamber judge's order over holding office of general secretary of Bangladesh Film Artistes' Association (BFAA).

The High Court yesterday said monopoly and hoarding of daily essentials like soybean oil for profits is not acceptable.

Nearly 100 acres along the two banks of the Buriganga river remain filled up even after installation of  boundary pillars.

The jet fuel price has gone up for the 12th time in 16 months, in a development that is bound to cause further strain to migrant workers, who are struggling to foot the high airfares, particularly to the Middle-Eastern countries.

Bangladesh Bank today asked non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) to refrain from making extra spending to collect deposits from people and organisations.

The inclusion of private educational institutions under the government’s monthly payment order (MPO) will be done as per rules and their quality, Education Minister Dipu Moni said today.

At least 233 new infections were recorded and three people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00 am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Syed Nasim Manzur, managing director of Apex Footwear Ltd, has been elected as the new president of the Leathergoods and Footwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association of Bangladesh (LFMEAB).

A battery-run rickshaw puller died after a CNG-run auto-rickshaw hit his vehicle in Dhaka’s Elephant Road area early today.

When Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh closed its operations in the country in May 2020, more than 1,000 RMG units were “running behind schedule” in becoming “fully safe”.

The police are involved in more extrajudicial killings than the Rapid Action Battalion, found a report by the Centre for Governance Studies.

The American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) has agreed to work for the promotion of Bangladesh’s garment sector so that the south Asian country can reinstate the generalised system of preferences status to the US market.

The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry is going to set up a trade centre in Dubai to boost trade and investment with the UAE.

Mobile financial services (MFS) have tremendously benefitted people during the pandemic, former Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rahman said today.

Imran Ali, a farmer in Panchagarh, could barely get by with sugarcane cultivation in his 1.7 acres of land. Then, in 2005, he rolled the dice and switched to tea production, a gamble that went on to change his life forever.

It was an early January afternoon. A bus was trundling towards Mirpur-10 from Pallabi, picking up anyone who would raise their hands from the side of the road.

The body of engineer Md Hadisur Rahman, who was killed in a rocket attack on the Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) vessel stranded at a Ukraine port, is expected to reach Dhaka on March 13 or 14, said State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam yesterday.

Twelve business establishments were gutted in a fire at Shialkhowa Bazar in Kaliganj upazila of Lalmonirhat this morning.