The government will buy six lakh metric tonnes of paddy directly from farmers this Aman season, Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzak says.

The American Center at the US Embassy Dhaka announces the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (K-L YES) Programme for academic year 2020-21 for Bangladeshi students.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon all not to pay heed to propaganda, saying that ill efforts are being made to mislead the people through it (propaganda). Various kinds of propaganda regarding crisis of onion, salt, etc are publicised to confuse the people, she said.

Commuters in different parts of the country have been facing immense sufferings for the fourth consecutive day following the work abstention being observed by a section of transport owners and workers demanding amendments to the new Road Transport Act-2018.

Transportation of goods and containers to and from Chattogram port resumes after truckers and covered-van drivers called off their strike following a meeting with the home minister.

A Barguna court yesterday fixed November 28 for hearing on charge framing against 10 accused in the much-talked-about Rifat Sharif murder case.

A mobile court here on Tuesday night sentenced a wholesale trader and his two managers to one year’s imprisonment each for selling salt for unreasonable prices.

While the widening work of the national highway between Elenga and Jamalpur continues at a snail’s pace, no one seems to care about the health hazards as well as rampant accidents people are being subjected to.

Fishermen have set up a number of barriers blocking the natural flow of an important canal crucial to agricultural activities on about 20,000 hectares of land in two upazilas of Pabna.

A good number of farmers in Sundarganj upazila of Gaibandha are harvesting their onion a bit early this season as the prices of the cooking item is too high amid the present crisis in the markets across the country.

A Madaripur court yesterday sentenced two youths to life term imprisonment for killing a man in 2013.

Several hundred villagers yesterday formed a human chain in Dariapur union of Sakhipur upazila, demanding a bridge on Bangshai river.

A Primary Education Completion (PEC) examinee went missing after a passenger trawler capsized in the Sandha river yesterday.

At least 125 shops were burned down after a huge fire broke out at Nakaihat market in Gobindaganj upazila yesterday afternoon.

A missing NGO worker was found dead in Tangail yesterday while a lawyer, who went ‘missing’ from Lalmonirhat on Tuesday, is still traceless, report our correspondents.

Three people have been sentenced to death in separate cases for rape and murder of two women in Pabna and Kushtia.

Two minor boys drowned in a pond in Kalihati upazila of the district on Monday.

Emerging and developing economies are less well positioned to withstand a deeper global downturn, should it occur, than they were before the 2009 global recession, the World Bank says.

The owners and workers of truck and covered-van have withdrawn their indefinite work abstention across the country following the assurance by Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan to fulfill their some demands.

The High Court stays the trial proceedings against actress Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed in a case filed under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act, for allegedly spreading rumours on social media during last year’s student protests for safe roads.