The government yesterday announced names of 24 eminent citizens this year for the Ekushey Padak -- the country’s second highest civilian award after Swadhinata Padak -- for contributions in their respective fields.

As soon as Samad and I reached the university (February 21), students asked us: “What have you decided?” We said you can take a decision independently.

The government could not control rice price although it had the highest ever rice stock and record production of Aush, Aman and Boro varieties, said Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque.

Today is the 25th death anniversary of Dr AR Mallick, an eminent educationist and the first technocrat finance minister of the country.

Artisans in Thakurgaon are worried about making desired profit supplying idols of Swaraswati, the goddess of learning, as they are yet to get good response from clients for the closure of educational institutions due to coronavirus.

Two groups of villagers are divided over demolishing a Mughal-era mosque and building a new one in place of it.

A motorcyclist was killed after being hit by a passenger bus at the Derboalia area on Khulna-Mawa highway in Bagerhat this evening.

An African lioness died today due to sickness at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Gazipur’s Sreepur.

The Bangladesh Bank today instructed banks to continue running their operations with 50 per cent of employees until February 21 in order to tackle the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) last night rescued a madrasa student seven days after his abduction in Feni Sadar upazila.

The government is preparing a roadmap to increase rice production in the next two years, as the country is still struggling to contain the staple food’s price despite achieving record production, Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque said today.

At least 11,596 new infections were recorded and 33 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).

In January 1952, I was the vice-president of the East Pakistan Muslim Chattra League. After Nazimuddin’s speech at Paltan Maidan (January 27, 1952),

A faction of the country’s petrol pump owners yesterday threatened to go on strike from February 17 across the country if the government does not increase their commission.

The holy Shab-e-Meraj will be observed in the country on the night of February 28.

Bangladesh Satellite Company Ltd (BSCL) yesterday signed a cooperation contract with Russian company Glavkosmos for launching Bangabandhu Satellite-2 within December next year.

Bangladeshi automobile makers do not have proper policy support, design and drawing to locally produce two-, three- and four-wheelers, businesses said today.

The local garment exporters are not worried about the sanction on some officials of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) as that move has not yet affected apparel shipment to the USA and other countries.

Police today arrested the prime accused – a microbus driver – in a case filed over the death of a child, a cancer patient, who died in an ambulance during a scuffle between the accused and the ambulance driver.

Mollah Rezaul Karim, Dhaka’s Forest Conservator of Wildlife and Nature Conservation Circle, has been appointed as the project director of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila.