The Daily Star journalist Ahsan Habib won the Best Reporting Award-2021 in the print media category given by the Capital Market Journalists’ Forum (CMJF) today.

The stock market regulator has given go-ahead to EDGE Asset Management to launch an open ended mutual fund named EDGE High Quality Income Fund.

The local jewellery makers’ body has cut gold prices by Tk 100 per gram as the global price of the precious metal declined thanks to the emergence of Omicron, new coronavirus variant.

The government will start administering booster doses of Covid-19 vaccines in the next 7-10 days, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today told the visiting Indian President that Bangladesh does not treat anyone as minority and that all Bangladeshis have equal rights as citizens.

City Bank today launched a collateral-free loan product named ‘Digital Nano Loan’ for bKash users, after the successful completion of a yearlong pilot project.

The government will develop an open national “Artificial Intelligence (AI)” platform in order to showcase the progress the local software industry has achieved so far in the global sphere, State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak said today.

Twenty-seven dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours till 8:00 am today, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Md Saiful Islam has been elected as the president of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka (MCCI) for 2022.

Four people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00 am today, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The Chattogram customs house today seized 3.2 crore pieces of fake tax stamps that were brought in illegally to the port city through a container under the declaration of having papers from China.

Fareast Islami Life Insurance allowed its former chairman and directors to commit serial financial crimes and siphon off policy holders’ funds worth more than Tk 2,100 crore between 2010 and 2020, found an audit recently.

The US on December 10 imposed sanctions on Rab and its seven current and former top officials on human rights grounds.

The United Nations Foundation conferred this year’s Champion of Global Change Award to two eminent personalities -- Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director general of the World Trade Organization.

In a letter dated December 15, 1971, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi expressed her deep frustration to US President

Paying tributes to the “brightest minds of this soil” on the Martyred Intellectuals Day, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy has said Bangladesh could even surpass where it is now had they been alive today.

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today paid glowing tributes to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, terming him as the guiding light for the people of his country.

President Abdul Hamid is scheduled to initiate a dialogue with political parties next week to discuss issues related to the reconstitution of the new Election Commission (EC).

A seven-year-old girl was strangled to death while playing on a swing made of clothes in Pirojpur’s Nesarabad upazila today.

The government will sign a preferential trade agreement (PTA) with Nepal soon to boost trade between the two South Asian nations, Commerce Secretary Tapan Kanti Ghosh said today.