Newspaper owners yesterday urged the government to bring down the taxes in the next national budget as the sector looks to stage a comeback after being battered by the pandemic.

A one-litre bottle of soybean oil will now cost Tk 168, as the commerce ministry yesterday agreed to the refiners’ proposal of hiking the prices of edible oils.

Prof Zahir Uddin Ahmed is relieved from his position of the director of students counselling and guidance at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.

A Dhaka court today granted permanent bail to actress Sabnam Faria in a fraud case filed for her involvement with E-commerce platform Evaly.

Steps will be taken against those involved in negligence that caused deaths of 11 zebras, and a lioness at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Gazipur, Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Md Shahab Uddin said today.

Relatives of a war criminal allegedly grabbed land of Birangana Jamina Begum in Patuakhali.

The commerce ministry today launched the digital business identification (DBID) for the e-commerce companies with a view to check irregularities in the sector.

President Abdul Hamid has formed a six-member search committee, led by Justice Obaidul Hassan, in line with the new law on forming the Election Commission.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said the country’s law enforcement agencies are not involved in enforced disappearances.

Around 11:30am, (on February 21, 1952) police fired tear gas as students started coming out of the university in groups. Initially, we kept a list of those who were coming out as well as those who were arrested. But it was no longer possible after a while as students rushed out in large numbers.

The new Paxovir will be a game changer in treating Covid-19 patients with mild to moderate symptoms as it reduces the need for hospitalisation and risk of death by almost 89 percent, said speakers at a scientific seminar yesterday.

Terminating the candidature of Zayed Khan, an appellate department yesterday declared Nipun Akter the new general sectary of Bangladesh Film Actors’ Association.

‘Doi Mela’, a century-old yoghurt fair on the occasion of the ‘Swarashwati Puja’ held every year in Sirajganj’s Tarash upazila, has become the biggest festival for years for the people in the Chalanbeel area.

Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) ordered managing director of NRB Bank to take department action against its chief financial officer, Kamrul Hasan, and all officials of its investment banking unit for their involvement in illegal share business.

Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one, said the seminal American president Abraham Lincoln.

A woman, who sold her newborn to pay the hospital bill for childbirth, has got back the baby.

A man was dead after a train hit him in Rail Gate area of Jashore town this morning.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion in a drive last night arrested a death row convict of the gruesome Jane Alam murder, who has been absconding for 20 years, from Chattogram city’s Nimtala area.

At least 9,052 new infections were recorded and 30 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).

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) recovered the body of a teenage boy eight days after he went missing in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj early today.