Processors have hiked edible oil prices to Tk 153 per litre, over a 6 per cent increase from the current price.

Bangladesh Navy has started emergency relief operation at Mongla and surrounding areas following the landfall of Cyclone “Yaas”.

Three autorickshaw passengers were killed today as a bus hit two three-wheelers on a highway in Ghuingarhat area of Bhola’s Charfashion upazila.

A Dhaka court today placed Md Babu alias Kala Babu on a three-day remand in a case filed over murder of trader Shahinuddin in the capital’s Pallabi area on May 16.

A 13-month-old boy from Barguna's Amtali municipality area died after choking on a litchi.

Bangladesh government has decided to arrange hotel facilities and partly subsidising it for Saudi-bound workers who are required to stay in quarantine for seven days after landing in the Kingdom, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said today.

The Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) has issued emergency use authorisation (EUA) to the Pfizer mRNA Covid-19 vaccine in the country today.

The government is taking initiatives to provide loans to farmers to buy agricultural machinery, Agriculture Minister Mohammad Abdur Razzaque said today.

There is a lack of integrated national-level database, which is required for effective distribution of relief among the poor and vulnerable sections of the population, experts said at a webinar.

Two points on the Carebazar to Sanyasi Bazar road in Morrelganj upzalia of Bagerhat have been badly damaged by tidal water, caused by impact of Cyclone Yaas.

The upcoming national budget for fiscal 2021-22 will be a deft exercise on saving lives while creating more avenues for livelihoods to cope with the fallout caused by Covid-19 pandemic.

The Supreme Court today stayed the High Court orders that granted bail to seven convicts in a case filed over the attack on motorcade of the then opposition leader and current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira in 2002.

The High Court today cleared the way for authorities concerned to continue the MBBS admission process for the academic session 2020-21.

The government has approved a proposal for purchasing 1.5 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines from China at USD 10 per dose.

A virtual court in Dhaka placed Rafiqul Islam Madani, widely known as "Shishu Bokta", on a three-day remand today in a case filed with Paltan Police Station over the March 26 violence in Dhaka centering Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit.

A worker of a shipbreaking yard died after falling from a ship in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram this morning.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the country’s postal services to go for online business to deliver perishable goods to the doorsteps of people.

The Supreme Court observed today that Mahbubul Haque Chisty, former chairman of Farmers Bank audit committee, used his entire family in “criminal activities of money laundering”.

At least four persons, including two students, were killed and three others injured in separate road accidents in Dhaka.

Detectives claimed to have seized Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) for the first time in the country during a raid in Dhaka yesterday.