Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) today gave go-ahead to the Pubali Bank's perpetual bond worth Tk 500 crore.

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

Two more dengue patients died in 24 hours till 8:00am today, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) has decided to operate 16-hour ferry service between Munshiganj's Shimulia and Shariatpur's Majhikandi waterway.

Mentioning that the Bangladesh-India relationship is anchored in history and culture, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the two countries now should concentrate on people-to-people contact, trade, business and connectivity as the issues became increasingly important for the two sides.

For expression of dissent there should be unqualified freedom to express oneself, and not having this is a significant retreat from the commitments made during the time of the country’s liberation, said Prof Rehman Sobhan, chairman of Centre for Policy Dialogue.

The government is set to extend the duration and budget for constructing 560 model mosques-cum-Islamic cultural centres all over the country for the second time by another three years.

Express-54, a survey ship of Belgium-based company Jan De Nul excavating the Rabnabad channel at Patuakhali’s Payra Port, capsized yesterday noon, following a leak.  

The UN General Assembly today held an emergency debate on the Indo-Pakistan war with Argentina proposing an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of troops of both sides.

Several brick kilns, set up on farmland or close to educational institution, destroying fertility of vast agricultural land in the district.

With the onset of winter, second-hand winter clothe traders have been making brisk business for the last one and a half months setting up makeshift shops on both sides of railway tracks near Saidpur Railway Station posing threats of fatal accidents anytime. 

Day after the coupling between a carriage and a running train gave away, five cars of Dhaka-bound intercity train -- Jayantika Express – got separated at Mantola Railway Station in Habiganj’s Madhabpur upazila this afternoon.

A Rajshahi court on Monday placed the mayor of Rajshahi's Katakhali Municipality Abbas Ali on a three-day remand in a case filed under the Digital Security Act (DSA).

A survey ship Express-54 of Belgium-based company Jandinul -- engaged in excavating the Rabnabad channel -- capsized due to a leak in Payra Port of Patuakhali today.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) arrested a man who has been accused in 27 cases, including rape and murder, during a drive at Salimpur in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram today.

The commemoration of the Bangabandhu centenary year and the celebrations centred around Bangladesh’s fifty years as an independent nation state will be reaching their conclusion at the end of the calendar year, 2021.

An Indian national was found dead in the border area on Falimari char of the Dharla river, under Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila, yesterday.

Despite having sufficient production capacity to meet the domestic demand, the country will buy 20 percent more electricity from an Indian supplier as part of a renewed power import deal.

Suitable weather for coconut cultivation has brought smiles to the farmers of Bagerhat, a district famous for the fruit.

“I simply cannot describe what I’m going through,” Tashdiq Hasan says, summing up his current financial pressure.