Hoarding by small traders as well as large business groups has been causing rice prices to soar, giving low-income people a hard time.

Six people, including five members of a family, were killed and three others injured in a road accident on the Rajbari-Kushtia highway yesterday morning.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed satisfaction that the Awami League has been able to fulfil its election pledges to the people.

Just 22 years old and bedridden for the last six years, Mehedi Hasan Apurba had wished dearly to see Padma Bridge.

The prices of rice rose by Tk 8-10 per kg over the last two weeks even though it is the harvesting season and there is ample supply of paddy.

 After a proposal from Indian Railways (IR), Dhaka and New Delhi have agreed to work out the details of the possibility of India using rail transit through Bangladesh.

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said the government would, if necessary, bring changes to the Digital Security Act to ensure the best practice as the law was misused to some extent.

Amid a US dollar crunch in the domestic market, many banks failed to comply with the exchange rates set by Bangladesh Bank a couple of days ago. 

Washington wants Dhaka to ensure accountability and reforms in Rab for lifting the sanctions imposed on the elite force on December 10 last year over potential human rights violations.

Following a lot of criticism over his individual performance and that of the team in recent times, Mominul Haque yesterday revealed his desire to not continue as the Test captain of Bangladesh after a meeting with the Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hassan yesterday.

Awami League chairman candidate for Banshkhali’s Chambol Union Parishad said he would keep his men at polling booths to press EVM buttons if voters failed to do so.

The health directorate is seeing a barrage of applications from healthcare facilities for authorisation following the countrywide drive against unauthorised healthcare organisations.

Law enforcers yesterday arrested a woman who was allegedly involved in the assault on a female university student over her outfit at Narsingdi Railway Station about a couple of weeks ago.

Wishful thinking -- is what best describes the maiden tax amnesty campaign the government is planning to lure money back home next fiscal year.

Even before implementing the toll rate previously fixed for Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga Expressway, the government is planning to increase it, a move that will push up transport costs.

The cabinet yesterday directed authorities concerned to take action against companies involved in unauthorised rice trading and hoarding.

Doctors, nurses and other employees of a hospital in Narayanganj yesterday abandoned a mother and her newborn on an operating table after hearing that health directorate officials were raiding unlicensed hospitals in the area.

At least 15 people were injured in a clash between BNP and Awami League activists in Purbopara area of Bogura’s Gabtali upazila yesterday.

A victim of an alleged rape by a police officer has taken shelter in a government safehouse after the suspect, now on bail, allegedly threatened her with consequences for filing the case.

Located in the capital’s upscale neighbourhood of Baridhara, Wahab Medical Practice has been making medical assessments of people travelling to western countries, says its website.