Two refrigerators used for storing coronavirus vaccines, caught fire at the Barguna civil surgeon’s office early today.

A goods train, carrying wheat and boulders, is expected to travel from India’s Haldibari into Bangladesh on August 1 (Sunday) -- on a rail route revived by the two countries after 56 years.

Although the deadlines expired, none of the three probe bodies, formed to investigate the fire incident at Hashem Food and Beverage factory in Narayanganj, submitted their reports.

India reacted sharply against UN Secretary General U Thant’s proposal which suggested posting observers in both India and East Pakistan. The Indian government considered the proposal as a design to divert the world’s attention from the real issue and depicted it as one between India and Pakistan.

A case has been filed against a journalist under the Digital Security Act in Jhalakathi over making comments on a Facebook post. 

Rangabali upazila, formed on February 5, 2012 comprising five unions, is isolated from the mainland.

This season, the country produced a lot of mangoes. I have offered mangoes to my relatives, friends, and office colleagues as gifts. In the last four decades of my journey in agricultural journalism,

Only 20.3 percent of the funds in government support programmes in response to the pandemic was directly targeted towards protecting the poor.

Police recently submitted a probe report without conducting a DNA test of the lone accused in the case filed over abetting the death by suicide of a college student, even though male DNA was found on the victim’s body.

The Editors’ Council, suddenly faced with a crisis arising out of Naem Nizam’s unilateral public announcement of resignation from the post of its general secretary on July 27, and that too from abroad, on grounds of differences of opinion with the president and the subsequent public response of the president the next day, held an emergency virtual meeting of its members yesterday afternoon to address the issue.

Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission hiked the prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sold by private companies.

Ismail Hasan Furkan, the key explosives expert and trainer of Neo-JMB, is at the top of the law enforcers’ wanted list as he continues to make most of its members efficient in producing bombs.

Bangladesh Bank has once again said today that it does not allow holding or trading of any kind of virtual coin or cryptocurrency in the country.

Former Finance Minister AMA Muhith, who tested positive for Covid-19 three days ago, has been admitted to Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka for better treatment.

Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) thinks the monetary policy announced today for fiscal year 2021-22 is more or less expansionary and accommodative but a conventional one considering the current Covid-led economic situation.

Two hundred and thirty-nine people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8am today, said a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

A farmer from Bhola Sadar upazila has set a record producing 23 mounds of Aus paddy per bigha by cultivating BRRI Hybrid-7 variety this season.

Fifty houses belonging to 30 families were damaged as tornado hit two villages in Faridpur’s Bhanga upazila early today.

Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), in collaboration with the government of Bangladesh and the NGO Affairs Bureau, granted Masters scholarships to 11 eligible government and non-government officials for 2021.

Bangladesh Bank today declared another expansionary monetary policy with a view to injecting required money into the productive sector.