The commerce ministry should form a special panel to immediately recover the money that got stuck because of Evaly, a group of the merchants and consumers of the e-commerce platform said today.

Remittance fell to a 16-month low of $1.72 billion in September, as money transfers through informal channels such as “hundi” might have increased.

Brac Bank has created employment opportunities for transgender people and people with physical challenges in its fleet as coworkers.

The honors 1st year admission exam for 2020-21 at Rajshahi University has been scheduled for the first week of October despite halls being closed.

Nearly two days after shutting down foreign TV channels keeping viewers in the dark, cable operators yesterday said they would seek one or one and a half years from the government to ensure international advertisements are not aired in Bangladesh by those channels.

After Evaly, Dhamaka Shopping and Eorange, the jig seems to be over for another unscrupulous company, the social networking platform RingID, after one of its directors was arrested yesterday.

Bangladesh had at least 433 prisoners under the Digital Security Act as of July 11 this year, Amnesty International told the United Nations’ Human Rights Council (HRC) yesterday.

Jatiya Party Secretary General, and former MP and minister Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu died yesterday at a city hospital.

The First Secretary of the Pakistani Embassy in Katmandu, Mustafizur Rahman, switched his allegiance to the Bangladesh Government on October 3. Mustafizur Rahman, a 29-year-old Bangalee, who was also head of the chancery, told a news conference at his residence that he had taken this “bold” decision after six months of “the worst mental agony in my life.”

The Bangladesh cabinet met today to review the Kremlin meeting between the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and the Soviet leaders,

Hamida Wadud Poly, niece of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, breathed her last yesterday morning at the Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka. She was 68.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home last night from Washington DC via Helsinki wrapping up her US visit to attend the 76th United Nations General Assembly and other high level side events.

As the country’s cable operators stopped broadcasting foreign TV channels yesterday, viewers expressed anger as they were unable to watch their favourite shows.

Local syndicates are out again to grab swathes of the Buriganga riverbank in the capital’s Kamrangichar, blocking the natural flow of the river.

Students of Amar Ekushey Hall at Dhaka University forcefully entered the residential hall today after breaking the padlock at the entrance.

One dengue patient died while 165 people were hospitalised with dengue fever in the 24 hours preceding 8:00am today, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Think-tank Centre for Governance Studies says it tracked details of 668 out of more than 1,500 cases filed under the controversial Digital Security Act in the last 20 months or so, and found that only two of the cases have been disposed of.

A parliamentary body at a meeting yesterday recommended that the information ministry takes effective measures to stop the spread of rumours and fake news on social media.

“I don’t believe that expressing an opinion can be considered a crime. I still believe in freedom of speech.”

Illegal handsets will not get network connectivity from today as the government look to curb the menace of duty-dodging while importing mobile phones, which also undercuts the competitiveness of the locally assembled devices.