‘Some traders exploiting onion price differences of India, Bangladesh’
11 December 2023, 13:09 PM
Business
Provati Insurance enters securities trading business
11 December 2023, 11:38 AM
Business
'Onion hoarders will be punished'
11 December 2023, 10:04 AM
Business
1.7 tonnes of onion found in shop with ‘No onion’ sign
10 December 2023, 15:20 PM
Business
Highest VAT depositor nine firms honoured
10 December 2023, 11:58 AM
Business
Renata all set to enter Australian pharma market
10 December 2023, 11:28 AM
Business
Single point mooring transports 60,000 tonnes diesel in 35 hours
9 December 2023, 14:17 PM
Business
ASM Mohiuddin Monem again becomes Cumilla’s top taxpayer
9 December 2023, 12:26 PM
Business
BB withdraws interest rate spread limit
29 November 2023, 16:21 PM
Business
Gold hits all-time high of Tk 109,000 a bhori
29 November 2023, 13:28 PM
Business
Illegally-recruited staffers at RU lock buildings, finance committee meeting suspended
Many of the 137 unlawfully recruited staffers at Rajshahi University locked university's administrative buildings, senate building and vice chancellor’s residence today in order to stop finance committee meeting from being held.
19 June 2021, 10:11 AM
Bodies of parents, daughter recovered from flat in Dhaka's Kadamtali
Police today recovered the bodies of three members of a family from a flat in Dhaka’s Kadamtali area.
19 June 2021, 09:19 AM
Time to focus on the 'Bangladesh Model' that embraces people-centric policies: Radwan Mujib
Radwan Mujib Siddiq has said it is time to move on from referring to the "Bangladesh Miracle" and start focusing on the "Bangladesh Model", as the country seeks to consolidate its position as a middle-income country.
19 June 2021, 06:20 AM
Collision between bus, three wheeler in Bogura leaves 2-month-old, his grandparents dead
A head-on collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw left three people dead in Bogura’s Shibganj upazila this morning.
19 June 2021, 05:54 AM
Govts of South Asian countries fail to devise Covid-19 recovery solutions: experts
The governments of South Asian countries, including Bangladesh, have failed to play their roles in controlling the spread of the coronavirus and come up with sustainable and effective recovery solutions to the pandemic induced crisis.
19 June 2021, 05:38 AM
2 killed, 10 injured as two buses collide head-on in Chattogram
Two people were killed and 10 passengers injured when a BRTC bus collided head on with another bus in Chattogram this afternoon.
18 June 2021, 13:54 PM
Abu Taw Haa was 'in hiding' for personal reasons: DB
Islamic preacher Abu Taw Haa Muhammad Adnan, his two companions, and driver of the car they were in were "in hiding" in Gaibandha, detectives in Rangpur said today.
18 June 2021, 13:43 PM
6 held after Rab raid of ‘meth lab’ in Uttara
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members detained six drug peddlers with crystal meth, also known as ice, from Dhaka’s Uttara area today, according to a press release by Rab.
18 June 2021, 13:17 PM
Soldiers of sanitation: when will their plight end?
Sanitation and waste workers clean toilet pits, septic tanks; they enter manholes and sewers to unblock them; they make sure houses, schools, offices, streets -- the entire city remains clean and healthy. However, their health and safety remain under the grime of prejudice and neglect.
18 June 2021, 12:32 PM
Dhaka seeks incentive-based package for sustainable graduation of LDCs
Bangladesh has called for an incentive-based and long-term graduation package for graduating and already-graduated countries from LDCs as they are at a high risk of sliding back -- both due to the Covid-19 impacts and the loss of LDC specific support measures.
18 June 2021, 11:29 AM
Abu Taw Haa taken to DB office in Rangpur
Islamic preacher Abu Taw Haa Muhammad Adnan has been taken to the office of Detective Branch of Police in Rangpur after he was found earlier in the day.
18 June 2021, 09:28 AM
Migrants listed in category-3 of priority list for Covid-19 vaccine
Migrant workers bound for foreign countries have been enlisted in the third category on the priority list to get Covid-19 vaccine shots.
17 June 2021, 14:46 PM
BSEC removes floor price from all listed companies
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) today lifted the floor price from all listed companies as it moved to halt its efforts to intervene in share price mechanism.
17 June 2021, 14:36 PM
IFAD Autos gets 30-acre land inside Bangabandhu Shilpa Nagar
IFAD Autos has recently been allotted 30 acres of land by Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (Beza) to set up an industrial complex.
17 June 2021, 14:14 PM
UGC approves Tk 10,000 crore budget for public universities
University Grants Commission (UGC) today approved a budget of Tk 10,032 crore for 49 public universities of the country for 2021-22 fiscal year.
17 June 2021, 13:40 PM
ACC sues 17 more people for issuing NIDs, passports to Rohingya refugees
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today filed another case accusing 17 people including three inspectors of Bangladesh Police, a senior election official, and 13 Rohingyas on charge of providing Bangladeshi passports and NIDs to Rohingya refugees using fake documents.
17 June 2021, 12:51 PM
Shatranji gets GI recognition
After Jamdani, Shatranji, a traditional fabric of Rangpur, has now been recognised as a Geographical Indication (GI) product of Bangladesh.
17 June 2021, 12:23 PM
Khaleda in vulnerable state: Fakhrul
BNP today urged the government to allow its chairperson Khaleda Zia to receive advanced treatment abroad, shunning “politics of vengeance”, as she is in a vulnerable state with various health complications.
17 June 2021, 12:15 PM
Covid-19 toll on the rise: 63 deaths, 3,840 cases in 24 hours
Sixty-three people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
17 June 2021, 12:08 PM
BIWTA drive at Shitalakkhya river: More than 50 illegal establishments evicted
Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has evicted more than 50 illegal establishments including dockyard, buildings, and mud-houses on the bank of Shitalakkhya river in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj today.
17 June 2021, 11:32 AM