Bangladesh Textile Mills Association has requested the Bangladesh Bank to increase their ceiling of loans from the Export Development Fund (EDF) given the price hike of raw materials in the global market.

The increased toll rate for Bangabandhu Bridge -- connecting Sirajganj and Tangail -- and Mukterpur Bridge in Munshiganj will not be effective immediately but at a later date.

A Dhaka court today framed charges against 16 people, including Rupayan Group Chairman Liaquat Ali Khan Mukul, in a case filed over forging the design of FR Tower in Dhaka’s Banani that was ravaged by fire in March 2019.

Dhaka has sought Abu Dhabi’s support for duty- and quota-free access to the markets of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries to reduce trade gap with the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

At least 140 patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8:00am today, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Jatiya Party Secretary General and lawmaker Mujibul Haque Chunnu today told the parliament that local MPs of Awami League and its leaders are putting pressure on JP candidates to withdraw from Union Parishad elections.

Plaster broke off from a portion of the Tongi bridge of Dhaka-Mymensing highway last Tuesday. BRT authorities halted vehicular movement on the Dhaka-bound lane of the bridge for safety concerns.

The stock market gained in the first two hours of trading today.

Three rights organisations yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court challenging the legality of two sections of the Evidence Act that allow questioning the “character” of rape victims.

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association yesterday served legal notice on the authorities concerned seeking cancellation of the status change of Chattogram’s harmful shipbreaking industry from red to orange.

Bangladesh does not want dominance of any single country or group in Indo-Pacific. It wants a free, open and secure region for promotion of sustainable blue economy, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen.

A total of 550 houses under 55 barracks constructed for the shelterless people in Barguna’s Amtali upazila have become unlivable due to lack of renovation and most of the houses are lying empty as the occupants have moved elsewhere.

Cybercriminals have once again breached the National Board of Revenue’s highly-sensitive server system and made away with at least 153 tonnes of goods worth crores of taka from the Chattogram port.

Parliament yesterday witnessed heated debate on the large number of union parishad chairmen and members getting elected unopposed and the diesel price hike.

Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Sultan Khan called on US President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs Henry Kissinger today.

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind is scheduled to visit Bangladesh on December 16 and 17, to attend the Victory Day celebrations at the invitation of Bangladesh.

A bill titled “Bangladesh Patents Bill, 2021” was placed in the parliament today aiming to make the century-old patent law a more time-befitting one for strengthening the safeguard of intellectual property rights.

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) today sent a legal notice to the authorities concerned seeking cancellation of the downgraded status of the harmful shipbreaking industry in Chattogram from "red" to "orange".

A Filipino who settled down in Bangladesh a decade ago has won the Union Parishad election.

Activists of Awami League backed and independent chairman candidates today exploded several hundred crude bombs in seven villages of Mollakandi union of Munshiganj centring the UP election scheduled to take place on November 28.