The stock market index dropped today after a rising for six continuous days thanks to the profit-booking trend among investors.

Foster Corporation will start providing refunds from tomorrow to Qcoom customers whose advance payments got stuck with the payment gateway for non-delivery of products by the e-commerce platform.

A man has been arrested on charge of beating up Chattogram’s Banshkhali Municipality Mayor Selimul Haque Chowdhury.

Education Minister Dipu Moni today told the parliament that it is essential to bring the country’s religious educational institutes, including Qawmi madrasas, under the registration process of the government.

The High Court today cleared the way for a lower court concerned to run the trial proceedings of a case filed over forging design of FR Tower that was ravaged by fire in Dhaka’s Banani in 2019.

Steps will be taken to solve the tax and stimulus related problems of the district level members of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry if they share the issues in written form, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said today.

The government today gave go-ahead to five projects involving Tk 1,022 crore.

The rules set by the government for people’s movement during the pandemic will leave little impact on the economy and the lives of the general mass, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said today.

The current cold wave that has been sweeping through the country’s northern region may continue for the next few days.

The much talked about “Appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners Bill-2022” will be placed in parliament today.

Tania Jasmine, the proprietor of a modest beauty salon in Chattogram’s Rangunia upazila, and her husband own just one car. But the National Board of Revenue’s database shows she owns a mindboggling 103 vehicles -- an alarming record for anyone to have.

Judicial functions at all lower courts will run virtually as well as physically from today, said a notification issued by the Supreme Court administration yesterday.

Former law minister Shafique Ahmed has been brought to the ICU of LabAid Hospital in Dhaka after he was admitted there with liver problems.

Academy Award winning Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who is an outspoken climate activist, has congratulated the government of Bangladesh on the recently established “marine protected area” around Saint Martin’s Island.

Prices of edible oil further increased at retail yesterday amid refiners move to sell the essential commodity at higher rates.

Leading local pharmaceutical company Incepta Pharmaceuticals Ltd has announced the receipt of a sublicence from the Medicine Patent Pool (MPP), on behalf of originator company MSD, to produce Covid-19 oral drug “molnupiravir”.

The businessmen from Dhaka and district levels have urged the government to save them from the pressure that the VAT and income tax officials are putting on them for tax collection even during the Covid 19 fallouts.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said that it is the United States that trained Rab on their rules of engagement, how to behave with people and how to interrogate.

Khandaker Shakhawat Alim Nobel has given a confessional statement saying that he, along with his friend SMY Abdullah Farhad, killed his wife, film actress Raima Islam Shimu over domestic dispute, court sources said.

All exams of the National University have been suspended following a sharp rise in Covid-19 infections in the country.