Not only the GDP growth rate, but also peoples’ wellbeing and the existing environmental situation should be considered as the indicators of development, Professor Wahiduddin Mahmud said today.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today filed a case against former managing director of NRB Global Bank, Proshanta Kumar Halder -- also known as PK Halder -- and 20 others for embezzling around Tk 34.35 crore from FAS Finance and Investment, a non-banking financial institution.

A lion has died due to old age complications at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Dulahazara of Cox’s Bazar.

A Dhaka tribunal today sentenced a man and three others to death for killing his wife in Gopalganj in February 2016.

The announcement of ending the first dose of vaccination after February 26 has caused crowds of people coming to the vaccination centres in Savar over the past few days. Besides allegations of administrative mishandling and untoward incidents have happened at the vaccination centres while trying to keep the crowds under control.

Students of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University in Gopalganj have been demonstrating, blocking Dhaka-Khulna highway since this morning -- protesting rape of a fellow student last night.

The long-awaited universal pension scheme, one of the pledges of the ruling party’s 2008 election manifesto, is expected to take off within a year.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked Biman Bangladesh Airlines to take effective measures to provide world class passenger and cargo services to make it more profitable.

I used to live in the railway colony. My father was a doctor. In 1948, I had seen those people, mostly students, participating in the procession.

A physically challenged minor girl was raped in Bogura’s Dhunat upazila yesterday.

A man was killed after being run over by a bus in Jhalakathi today.

A Dhaka tribunal today ordered to confiscate moveable and immoveable properties of five Ansar Al Islam members including Syed Ziaul Haque alias Major (sacked) Zia in a case filed over murder of blogger Nazim Uddin Samad in 2016.

A video of a 14-ft long python became viral on social media just a few days ago. The snake was rescued from Jagchara tea estate in Moulvibazar's Srimangal upazila by the forest department. Finally, last Monday the python was set free at Lawachara National Park.

Local administrations have shut down operations of a total 64 illegal brick kilns in the areas of Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT) in compliance with a High Court directive to curb pollution and to save the environment.

At least 1,298 new infections were recorded and five 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).

Three people died and two remained missing as a trawler capsized in Arial Khan river in Barishal today.

A human rights worker is under investigation after he filed a Right to Information request with police, asking for the number of people accused and arrested under the Digital Security Act between 2018 and 2021.

On February 20, 1952, I was busy all day with campaigning in different areas of the city to make the the next day’s progamme successful.

The Directorate of National Consumers Right Protection (DNCRP) will file cases against retailers found selling essentials at an inflated price ahead of Ramadan, as the government looks to rein in prices from spiralling out of the means for the poor and the fixed-income people.

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said the government will amend both the relevant sections of the Evidence Act in order to block all avenues of questioning the character of rape victims in court.