The stock market continued to bleed today as the benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) slid to a three-month low.

Bangladesh delegation to visit the Netherlands, UK to increase agricultural exports

Jahangir Alam Akanda Nannu, a newly elected mayor of Bogura’s Sonatala municipality, was arrested in a case filed over a post-election violence.

Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity today alleged that the government has increased bus and launch fares to give the transport owners a chance to make hefty profits.

Behind all success stories of sustained economic development, there is a common factor -- ensuring accountability at all tiers of governance.

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday alleged that no step is being taken to alleviate public sufferings and control the price hike of daily essentials since an “unelected” government has been in power.

Pakistan President Yahya Khan was today quoted as saying that China would intervene in the event of an Indian attack on Pakistan.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked Bangladeshi diplomats to work sincerely so that the expatriates across the world can avail of proper services from them.

User-friendly and functioning without any major hiccup, vaccine registration app “Surokkha” is a small statement of capabilities of homegrown information technologists. 

Affluent people and political leaders, instead of the poor, are often the beneficiaries of the Dhaka city mayors’ discretionary funds that the mayors set up going beyond the city corporation act. 

The researches related to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) done by different entities during the coronavirus pandemic have played limited roles in taking time-befitting policy measures to tackle the situation, the Centre for Policy Dialogue said today.

The benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) dropped to a two-month low today as investors remained on the sideline.

Slow response from the government left the general public suffering for a second consecutive day as buses and trucks stayed off the roads protesting the fuel price hike.

Prices of many daily essentials, especially vegetables, have shot up further in the kitchen markets after transport workers enforced a strike and increased their fees in carrying goods to protest the recent fuel price hike.

Bangladesh will buy five naval ships from the UK to modernise the armed forces as part of the Forces Goal 2030 as the country aspires to become a developed nation by 2041.

Power and gas are likely to become pricier next after diesel, kerosene and liquefied petroleum gas as the government looks to calibrate the prices in the local market following a global price spiral since July.

A total of 51.7 percent of mother hilsa have laid eggs in rivers and estuaries of the country -- which is the highest ever.

The United States decided to cancel licences for the export of more than $3-million worth of military equipment to Pakistan. The action would in effect shut the controversial arms pipeline that supplied Pakistan with spare parts and other military goods even though the Administration imposed an arms freeze in April, 1971.

Six years ago, a group of schoolboys of Khalisha Belpukur village of Saidpur upazila, took an auspicious initiative to conserve birds setting artificial nests where their feathered friends could lay eggs and incubate them comfortably.

The Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) registered up to 50 per cent rise in sales of furnace oil, diesel and kerosene on November 3 just a day ago the newly hiked prices of the fuel oils came into effect.