A new rail route from Chattogram’s Dohazari to Cox’s Bazar will open on December 16 the next year, Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan said today.

Retired schoolteacher Maya Rani Ghose was strangled to death at her Rajshahi city home by one of her former students -- apparently for her gold jewellery.

The commerce ministry will have to take the primary responsibility to help the customers conned by some rogue e-commerce firms get refunds, said Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal.

Bangladesh’s gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow by 6.8 per cent in fiscal year 2022, according to the latest Asian Development Outlook 2021 released today by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

The stock market index dropped today just after touching a record high a day earlier.

Meigo (Bangladesh) Ltd, a fully foreign owned Chinese company, is going to establish a toy manufacturing factory in Dhaka Export Processing Zone with an investment of $6.55 million.

Some locals allegedly beat up a teenager and shaved his head for “singing baul songs and lighting candles in the house” in Bogura’s Shibganj upazila.

Abul Fateh, one of the principal delegates of Bangladesh to the UN, told a news conference in New Delhi today that nothing

Over two weeks after the prime minister instructed to set up RT-PCR laboratories at the Dhaka airport within two to three days, two ministers said yesterday that the current venue is not suitable and will be shifted elsewhere in the airport.

Fairooz Faizah Beether of Bangladesh has been announced the winner of 2021 Goalkeepers Global Goals Changemaker Award by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has underscored the need for charting out a bold and ambitious global roadmap to put the world back on the SDGs track so that no one is left behind as the pandemic has pushed many countries way behind from the goals.

The health ministry has cancelled the process for appointing 2,839 for the posts of medical technologists, technicians and cardiographers due to “ambiguity in the answer scripts of the written test”.

The broadcasting services of Bangabandhu-1 satellite may get disrupted for eight days starting from September 29 because of sun outage, which means the interruption in or distortion of geostationary satellite signals caused by interference of the sun.

Ruling Awami League (AL) candidates have won 76 percent chairman posts in 156 Union Parishad elections held yesterday.

The government has reduced the interest rates on savings certificates and wage earners development bond by 1 to 3 per cent.

Policymakers need to revisit their assumptions and undertake a more detailed analysis of who and what makes Bangladesh tick as the country looks to emerge stronger from the global pandemic, says Bangabandhu's grandson Radwan Mujib Siddiq.

The stock market continued rising again for the second consecutive day with the prime index of the Dhaka bourse hitting its highest ever points level today.

Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad and Health Minister Zahid Maleque today could not say exactly when the RT-PCR lab for Covid-19 tests -- for migrant workers going to United Arab Emirates (UAE) -- would open at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

SM Amjad Hossain, chairman of South Bangla Agriculture and Commerce Bank, has expressed his intention to resign, citing illness.

UN-sponsored Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) has conferred Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with "SDG Progress Award" for Bangladesh's steady course in responding to the universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure peace and prosperity for all.