Bangladesh has 1.21 crore sacrificial animals available this year for the Eid-ul-Azha, Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim said today.

The government should focus on restoring macroeconomic stability, containing inflation and keeping the foreign exchange market stable this year, economists said in a webinar today.

The districts are Sylhet, Sunamganj, Moulvibazar under Sylhet division and Netrokona under Mymensingh division, Md Dilder Hossain, project director of the census, told The Daily Star today.

The admission test result (General Knowledge) of Dhaka University's "Cha" unit under the Faculty of Fine Arts for the 2021-22 academic session was published yesterday (June 22, 2022).

At least 1,319 new Covid-19 cases were recorded in 24 hours till 8am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) has decided there will be no classes on June 25 to give students a chance to see the opening of the Padma Bridge.

At least 29 dengue patients were hospitalised in hospitals across the country over 24 hours till 8am today, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Paper importers and business leaders today urged the government to cut import duty for the sector by 20 percentage points to 5 per cent.

Bangladesh Bank today instructed banks to take special measures to provide priority banking services to valiant freedom fighters, old, widows and differently-abled customers.

Shares on the Dhaka Stock Exchange ended marginally higher today, breaking a three-day losing streak.

Seventeen Bangladeshi textile and garment companies took part in three international summer exhibitions -- Techtextil, Texprocess and the Heimtextil -- in Germany’s Frankfort.

The government will inspect multi-storied commercial buildings (market buildings) in areas under Dhaka North and South City Corporations to strengthen the building safety measures.

Inspector General of Bangladesh Police IGP Benazir Ahmed today (June 22, 2022) inaugurated the country's first “Bangladesh Police Museum” at Hatibandha Police Station premises in Lalmonirhat.

A school teacher has drowned in flood water, in Madan upazila of Netrokona.

Bangladesh Railway will start selling advance train tickets from July 1, ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha.

Japanese Ambassador Ito Naoki has said his country is keen to join Bangladesh government’s ongoing construction efforts of second Padma Bridge while the first one was built due to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s “far-sighted vision and political astuteness”.

US Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing over Tk 2.3 crore ($244,680) of emergency funding to deliver critical relief to families and communities hit hardest by floods.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed police to grow as the last resort of the people who seek protection for their lives and dignity.

The envoy expressed her country’s willingness in a meeting with Bangladesh’s Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque at the secretariat in Dhaka.

The Bangladesh currency today depreciated further against the US dollar, hitting Tk 92.95 on the interbank platform.