Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the need for carrying out research on demand, production, and marketing to develop the small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Indonesian police seized over half a million face masks from a Jakarta-area warehouse after the country’s first confirmed cases of coronavirus sparked panic buying and sent prices for prevention products skyrocketing.

The Indian Supreme Court yesterday asked the Delhi High Court to hear tomorrow a plea seeking lodging of FIRs against some BJP leaders for alleged hate speeches which purportedly led to recent violence here and said it may also explore the possibility of “peaceful resolution” of the dispute”.

The Chattogram Development Authority (CDA) has protested The Daily Star’s report titled “Nothing seems to deter it: CDA continues razing hills even after DoE fines it Tk 10 cr”.

A resurgent Joe Biden seized the momentum in the race to become the Democratic challenger to President Donald Trump with a string of Super Tuesday victories, including key prize Texas, against rival Bernie Sanders.

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday dissolved the party’s central committee amid expulsion and counter-expulsion of leaders by two groups.

Twelve cops, including two OCs of two police stations in the capital, were sued yesterday over sexual harassment of two women.

Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (Bapex) on Tuesday announced the discovery of a new gas field at Srikail in Cumilla’s Muradnagar upazila.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s five-day Soviet tour ends today. In his farewell message to the people and the government of the Soviet Union,

On the second day of an ongoing eviction drive yesterday, Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority ignored resistance from Dhaka lawmaker Aslamul Huq and continued recovering a large area of the Buriganga river in Charwashpur near Basila Bridge.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday questioned the independence of the judiciary after a former ruling party MP and his wife were granted bail hours after they had been ordered to be sent to jail in Pirojpur.

Jihadists killed four police officers and two civilian militiamen in an attack on a military base in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state yesterday, security sources told AFP.

Thousands protested on Monday in Albania’s capital city Tirana against a left-wing government that they accuse of trying to take control of the judiciary.

Hours after sending a former Awami League lawmaker and his wife to jail, a Pirojpur district and sessions judge was stand-released yesterday over corruption allegations and attached to the law ministry.

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) yesterday knocked down three single-storey buildings and the walls and storage tanks of a power plant belonging to a ruling party lawmaker, all of which had encroached on the Buriganga.

An activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir, who is also accused in the murder of a Chhatra League leader in Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila, was killed in a “gunfight” with police early yesterday.

Criminals fired about 20 blank shots at a hill near the refugee camps in the district’s Teknaf upazila yesterday, a day after seven suspected Rohingya robbers were killed in a “gunfight” with Rab there.

About 5.48 lakh tonnes of coal was misappropriated from the yard of state-run Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Ltd (BCMCL) in the name of system loss in 13 years since 2005, said an investigation commission.

“It is named after one of the most prominent wildlife scientists and conservationists in the country, it mimics the sound of crickets and it is tiny,” this is how the team of researchers who determined the presence of a new species of frog describe the amphibian.

The joint declaration signed in Moscow upon conclusion of talks between Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Soviet Leaders says, “Both governments have agreed to hold regular consultations between the two governments at various levels on all important matters involving the interests of both the states.”