A parliamentary body today said 23 more tannery industries, causing high levels of pollution, will be shut down while utility services of seven tanneries have already been disconnected due to the environment pollution.

Bangladesh, India and Nepal have finalised an enabling memorandum of understanding (MoU), to be signed by the three countries, for implementation of the much-awaited BBIN Motor Vehicles Agreement (MVA), pending its ratification by Bhutan, to facilitate movement of passenger, personal, and cargo vehicular traffic.

The High Court today fixed March 13 to issue an order on a writ petition that sought a directive to conduct an independent inquiry into the allegations and counter allegations over the termination of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) official Md Sharif Uddin.

US-Bangla Airlines has decided to increase number of flights on Dhaka-Chennai and Dhaka-Male routes due to growing number of passengers.

At least 446 new infections were recorded and seven 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).

Stocks in Bangladesh returned to the positive territory today after experiencing a consecutive fall of four days amid the fear of gloomy world economic condition.

Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has lowered the circuit breaker limit to 2 per cent from the existing 10 per cent with effect from tomorrow in order to curb the free fall of the stocks amid the war between Russia and Ukraine.

In a chilly winter morning, a teenage girl was busy serving customers with tea at a roadside stall in Tangail Sadar upazila’s Khudirampur area.

A section of traders is cashing in on the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war to hike  prices of essentials that were already becoming costlier, market  insiders said.  

Mahfuz Anam, editor and publisher of The Daily Star, has been re-elected as the president of the executive committee of Shampadak Parishad (Editors’ Council).

In 2015, 15-year-old Tania Yeasmin of Pabna was waiting for her SSC results, brimming with hope for her future.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday blamed the pandemic fallouts and the Russia-Ukraine war for the soaring prices of basic commodities.

Born in Khulna’s Khalishpur in 1988, Shobha, earlier known as Shubho, began feeling out of place during her adolescence.

The central effluent treatment plant (CETP) at the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate with fundamental flaws and jaw-dropping inadequacies, reflects extremely negatively on how this project was planned, designed and implemented, said Saber Hossain Chowdhury, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on the environment, forest and climate change ministry.

A seven-month-old girl was burned to death after a fire broke out in a house in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali this afternoon.

Police arrested a man over case filed in connection with the rape of a nine-year-old girl in Netrokona’s Durgapur upazila today.

At least 436 new infections were recorded and four 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).

Oil prices soared and shares sank in frantic trading on Monday as the risk of a US and European ban on imports from Russia and delays in Iran's renewed nuclear talks boosted commodities and threatened a stagflationary shock for world markets.

The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) today urged the government to withdraw the VAT on import of edible oil to bring back normalcy in the skyrocketing prices of the cooking oil in the country.

Leaving behind horrors of war, the 28 Bangladeshi crewmembers safely reached the Romanian capital, Bucharest, yesterday after they were rescued from a ship attacked at a Ukrainian port on March 2.