Stocks fell today, breaking an eight-day winning streak as investors booked profits.

Bangladesh's frozen shrimp processing industry is in a dismal state.

After 543 days of closure due to Covid-19 pandemic, schools and colleges across the country reopened today.

The fate of over 3,500 licences in the energy sector has become uncertain as they were provided under a regulation deemed illegal by the law ministry.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to inaugurate today five power plants that have a total production capacity of 779MW.

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud yesterday said the radio transmitter used in making the declaration of the country’s independence would be reinstalled at Kalurghat radio station, removing it from the Zia Memorial Museum in Chattogram.

On the occasion of the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of monarchy in Iran, there rose a possibility that the Shah of Persia would try to bring about a rapprochement on Bangladesh between India and Pakistan with blessings from the Nixon

In a display of downright disregard for safety of citizens, the Power Development Board (PDB) in Barlekha upazila is yet to rectify a risky and un-insulted powerline that was installed about a decade and half ago, using trees and bamboo poles through different villages.

As schools nationwide are set to reopen tomorrow after one and half years, parents of English medium students today demanded that the reopening happen in phases -- on the basis of vaccination and reliable safety measures at the educational institutions.

The government should take steps to ensure that people with disabilities are properly included in the labour market, experts said today at a webinar organised by The Daily Star and Bangladesh Business and Disability Network.

A local leader of Awami League was sent to jail today in a case filed over attempting to rape a college student in Shivalaya upazila of Manikganj.

Padma river's erosion swallowed more than 50 houses in Chapainawabganj. The locals complain that the Water Development Board did not take effective measures to prevent erosion and that soil was used in geo bags for revetments instead of sand.

A former captain of Bagerhat district cricket team was dead after a truck hit his motorcycle in Sadar upazila of Bagerhat today.

Department of Environment (DoE) in Chattogram (metro) has filed a case against a firm for cutting a hill while building a government office in the port city.

French naval officer, explorer and conservationist Jacques-Yves Cousteau was not wrong when he said, “The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.”

Bangladesh and the United Kingdom have agreed on the importance of free and fair elections and vibrant civil society to promote accountable governance and institutions ensuring freedom of expression and religion.

Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister Khandaker Mushtaque Ahmed would present the case of Bangladesh before the UN General Assembly.

Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed was scheduled to leave home for the USA early today on an official visit at the invitation of the US Army.

Thailand plans to reopen Bangkok to fully vaccinated visitors in October, officials said Friday, as the kingdom seeks to salvage a tourism industry hammered by the pandemic.

54 lakh doses of Sinopharm’s Covid-19 vaccine will arrive in Dhaka early tomorrow morning.