There will be moderate to heavy rainfall in Dhaka and the southern part of the country today and tomorrow due to deep depression caused by cyclone Jawad in the Bay of Bengal.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has failed to provide the High Court with a report on whether the Bangladeshi nationals who own properties abroad -- including Canada, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia -- had made the purchases with laundered money.

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.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) told the High Court today that it failed to find out whether any Bangladeshi nationals bought houses and flats in foreign countries with laundered money.

Some students of different educational institutions today staged a demonstration in the capital’s Shahbagh demanding announcement of issuing a gazette notification for half bus fare across the country without any conditions.

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

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the global community to use resources for universal and sustainable development, not for arms, at this critical juncture of the Covid-19 pandemic.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday urged the world leaders to work for ending discriminations based on race, faith, colour, religion and ethnicity and ensuring equal opportunities for all.

The birth of icddr,b almost coincided with the seventh cholera pandemic that according to the World Health Organisation began in South Asia in 1961.

The Soviet Union vetoed today in the UN Security Council an American resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Indian-Pakistani conflict and for the withdrawal of the armed forces of both the countries to their own side of the border.

The 58th death anniversary of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, one of the greatest leaders of undivided India, is being observed in the country today with due dignity.

The Golden Jubilee of the Bangladesh Army was celebrated in a befitting manner across the country on Friday.

AK Azad, publisher of Samakal, has been elected president of the executive committee of Newspaper Owners’ Association of Bangladesh (Noab) for the second time in a row.

A man was killed yesterday after a private car crashed into his bicycle in Bashundhara Residential Area of Dhaka.

The deep depression over west-central Bay and adjoining area moved northwards further intensifying into a cyclonic storm ‘Jawad’ around noon yesterday, the Met Office said in a weather bulletin.

The Mitro Bahini (India-Bangladesh Joint Command) swung into action against Pakistan today. The air force of the Joint Command

Malaysia is going to recruit security guards from Bangladesh, the second country after Nepal that has so far been allowed to send people to the Southeast Asian nation for the sector.

Bangladesh is now cited by many as a country producing billionaires as its high economic growth is increasingly becoming unequal, which undermines the vision of equitable growth to become a rich nation in the next 20 years, Prof Wahiduddin Mahmud has told a development conference.