The Bangladesh Vegetable Oil Refiners’ and Vanaspati Manufacturers’ Association has set the highest retail price of each litre of loose oil at Tk 180, down from Tk 185.

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

It costs Tk 400 (Tk 200 per head) to rent a motorbike to cross the Padma Bridge. Many motorbikes, however, were seen carrying more than two people on the Padma Bridge.

Rafiq Islam (45) works at an electric shop in Dhaka. His village home is in Angaria union of Shariatpur Sadar upazila. He bought the first bus ticket from Shariatpur to cross the Padma Bridge and became a part of the nation’s road communication history.

Declaring BNP's acting chairman Tarique Rahman and his wife Dr Zubaida Rahman as "fugitives", the High Court today (June 26, 2022) rejected their writ petitions challenging the initiation and filing of a Tk 4.82 crore corruption case filed during the caretaker government in 2007.

Rapid Action Battalion arrested a former local BNP leader – a death row fugitive in a case filed over the attack on a train carrying then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina in 1994 in Pabna.

The UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Irene Khan, has said Bangladesh’s Digital Security Act imposes draconian punishments for a wide range of vaguely defined acts.

A man allegedly hacked his wife and two in-laws to death and injured three others in Sherpur’s Sreebordi upazila last night (June 23, 2022).

At least 1,685 new Covid-19 cases were recorded in 24 hours till 8:00 am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

It took around 2,765 days or 7 years 6 months and 27 days to complete the construction of the Padma Bridge.

Five people, including four school and madrasa teachers, were killed after a CNG-run auto-rickshaw carrying them was hit by a truck in Sadar upazila of Naogaon this morning.

The US has congratulated Bangladesh on the momentous occasion marking the opening of Padma Bridge tomorrow.

The authorities of Evercare Hospital in Dhaka will hold a press conference this afternoon to give updates about Khaleda Zia’s health condition.

How can BNP leader Tarique Rahman lead the party when he does not even dare to return home, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said.

An elderly woman was found dead with her hands and legs tied up in a house in Dhaka’s Hazaribagh this morning.

The economic potential of the Padma Bridge is important to change the fates of millions of people of the southwestern parts of Bangladesh as the much-awaited bridge will connect more than 30 million people of 21 Southern districts, economists said today.

Bangladesh and the European Union today agreed to form a joint committee to find out the challenges standing in the way of smooth customs clearances and the opportunities a simplified procedure can offer for both express and non-express air cargoes.

The Bangladesh Bank today removed SM Shamsul Arefin from the post of managing director of Uttara Finance and Investments Ltd (UFIL) for his alleged involvement in financial irregularities.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today told parliament that as democracy is continuing in the country, Bangladesh is developing.

Mobile financial service provider upay today signed an agreement with Pran-RFL Group to facilitate salary disbursement and merchant payment.