The consumers have expressed their anger just after the government hiked prices of diesel and kerosene by 23 per cent or Tk 15 a litre as the spike will upend their living cost the time when they are still reeling from the pandemic induced economic downfall.

The turnover at the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) fell to a seven-month low today because of thin participation of investors.

A High Court bench today observed that loan defaulters cannot have legal rights to contest in elections.

Some 43.50 percent of 45 female upazila nirbahi officers in the country have faced various obstacles while taking action against corruption, says a new report of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB).

The wars of the 21st century will be fought over water, the former World Bank Vice-President Ismail Serageldin had predicted in 1995. And a recent visit to the Chattogram Hill Tracts suggests the region is inching that way.

Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi called on US president Nixon today at the White House. The two-hour talk covered the Bangladesh issue in substantial detail.

A petition was filed on Sunday with the deputy commissioner of Patuakhali, seeking protection and recovery of endowed property of a century-old Buddhist temple, belonging to the Rakhine community in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali.

Diesel and kerosene are 23 percent costlier at Tk 80 per litre from today as the government moved to recover the losses of the state-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) from the surging global energy prices.

The nation solemnly commemorated the 46th anniversary of the killing of four national leaders inside the old Dhaka Central Jail yesterday.

The headmaster of a government primary school in Munshiganj has been suspended on charges of sexual harassment and offensive behaviour with three female teachers of the school.

Armed Police Battalion (APBn) members today arrested a man for strangling his wife to death in a Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar.

Two more dengue patients died while 177 patients were hospitalised in 24 hours till 8:00am today, according to Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Seven 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).

Police fired rubber bullets, tear shells and charged baton on garments workers who were demonstrating against the termination of 85 operators in Gazipur’s Kaliakair upazila.   

The stock market continued to bleed for the third consecutive day and the turnover also dropped to a four-month low today.

The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has asked banks to send account information of 23 digital platforms, including Daraz and Priyo Shop and 29 executives related to the firms.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said structural inequalities in human society along with inherent social customs were causing disproportionate impacts of climate change on women.

Prothom Alo journalist Rozina Islam, who faced threats and harassment and was also imprisoned for writing investigative reports on irregularities in the health sector during the Covid-19 pandemic, received the Free Press Award.

The clock struck around four in the morning.

The US President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs Henry Kissinger, in a memorandum sent today, informed President