Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the new Election Commission will be constituted through a search committee to be formed by the president.

In the full text of Jhumon Das’s bail order, the High Court observed that invoking the three sections of the Digital Security Act, for which he was in jail over six months, was debatable.

There is no legal scope to appoint a chief election commissioner and election commissioners with recommendations from a search committee bypassing the country’s constitution, eminent citizens said yesterday.

The reopening of educational institutions last month brought a ray of hope to Kaiser Ahmed’s life that was turned upside down in the 18-month-long Covid-19 induced school closure.

Prices of almost all daily essentials have shot up in the kitchen market, adding woes to the fixed-income people who are reeling from the economic slowdown caused by the pandemic.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a proposal to suspend US aid to Pakistan. The provision, already voted by the House of Representatives,

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went offline for users across the globe, the social media giant said yesterday, as it worked on restoring its services.

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud yesterday said there was no bar to air the 24 ad-free foreign channels.

Bangladesh’s stock market is not overvalued because it did not soar as fast as the economy rose over the years, said Prof Shibli Rubayat Ul Islam, chairman of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC).

The Asian Development Bank is providing $1.78 billion in loans to Bangladesh under the multi-tranche financing facilities, making it the highest proposed financing from the Manila-based lender against any single project.

The 17th edition of the Dhaka Travel Mart, an international tourism fair, is expected to start at Pan Pacific Sonargaon in Dhaka on March 10 next year.

Bangladesh Bank has extended the loan repayment deadline until December this year for borrowers who had rescheduled their defaulted loans under relaxed rules issued in 2019.

The stock market fell today after rising for five consecutive days, although the turnover rose at the premier bourse.

Authorities of Rajshahi University are considering holding admission tests in all divisional cities, like Dhaka University did on October 1.

Bangladesh has recorded the highest ever single month export earnings of $4.16 billion in September thanks to the strong rebound of garment shipment.

Admission tests for Rajshahi University’s academic session 2020-2021 started this morning.

The truth always comes out, and this is what the top brass of Eorange, one of the many Evaly imitations, has found out recently.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud yesterday slammed cable operators who stopped the operations of 17 ad-free foreign channels and said they would be charged for violating rules.

Humayun Rasheed Choudhury, minister-counselor and head of chancery in the Pakistan high commission in New Delhi, today

The telecom regulator blocked 81,868 new handsets as of Saturday evening from connecting to mobile networks as the devices were not registered with the National Equipment Identity Register.