Cold accompanied with thick fog started affecting the normal life in the northern districts as mercury dipped to 15.2 degree Celsius in Dinajpur yesterday.

Cultural workers and civil society members are ringing an alarm as the age-old moveable theatre stage ‘MT Hossain Institute’ of Lalmonirhat is being pushed to the brink of further destruction even though it was supposed to be protected as promised.

Default loans in the Bangladesh’s banking sector has gone past Tk 1 lakh crore despite relaxed loan classification policy taken by the central bank.

Three brokers, including a former employee of Election Commission (EC), were arrested with several national identity (NID)  applications and correction forms from Chattogram regional EC office.

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has decided to run a special audit on all the financial reports of People’s Leasing and Financial Services (PLFS) in the period of 2013 to 2021.

Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) today approved bonds of AB Bank and NRB Commercial Bank worth Tk 600 crore and Tk 300 respectively.

Ten-year-old Shikha Das has been living in a cage at home -- in Purbaful Kaunnail Rishipara under Kalukhali upazila of Rajbari -- for the last six years.

Olympic Industries—a listed food producer, which owns brands named Energy Plus, Tip, Nutty and Pulse—has announced that it will invest Tk 25.65 crore to expand production of bakery items to meet the growing demand.

At least 91 dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours, till 8:00 am today, according to DGHS. Of them, 16 are from outside Dhaka.

The government today okayed 10 projects worth Tk 29,344 crore in a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec).

Three people have 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).

Beximco Ltd’s stock experienced a price fall today although the company disclosed that its corporate director is going to buy 3 crore or 3.4 per cent of the entity’s total shares from the market.

A nine-member delegation of the International Chamber of Commerce Bangladesh led by its president, Mahbubur Rahman, went for Dubai on November 22 to take part in ICC’s 12th World Chambers Congress, a premier event of its kind bringing together chamber, business and government figures alike.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday instructed government officials to swing back to their pre-pandemic rhythm of work to offset the losses caused by the global public health crisis for the past 20 months.

The decision on whether legal steps would be taken against expelled Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) Mayor Zahangir Alam will be announced in a day or two, said Tazul Islam, the minister for local government and rural development (LGRD).

Bangladesh was classified as an “authoritarian regime” in a new report released by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, a Sweden-based intergovernmental organisation.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmed today called upon the people of Bangladesh to turn the current phase of the Liberation War into a decisive one.

A parliamentary body today wanted to know which type of fuel and how much of it is being used in public transport.

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) today demolished 34 structures built illegally on the bank of the Shitalakhhya river in Narayaganj’s Rupganj.

Police arrested a madrasa teacher on charges of raping a nine-year-old girl in Satkania upazila of Chattogram today.