Over 50,000 families in the country’s north-eastern region are without electricity since Tuesday evening after a power station in Sylhet city was submerged by floodwater.

The High Court yesterday scraped a lower court order that granted bail to expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat in a corruption case.

The technical evaluation committee of Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission yesterday recommended increasing the bulk electricity price by 58 percent.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the BNP has no right now to raise question about elections as it has a history of tainted polls.

The Awami League’s hints at an all-EVM national polls will only raise the BNP’s distrust of the ruling party, political analysts have said.

Volatility in the country’s foreign exchange market yesterday intensified further amid scarcity of the greenbacks, forcing travellers to buy a US dollar at up to Tk 102, the highest in Bangladesh, in open markets.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon the people to practise austerity and be careful about spending in the face of a global economic slowdown.

Bringing PK Halder back to Bangladesh may take time as it involves legal procedures, said Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Kumar Doraiswami yesterday.

Tamim Iqbal’s 10th Test century gave Bangladesh a brilliant platform to take a first-innings lead over Sri Lanka as the Tigers trail by 79 runs with a score of 318 for three at the end of the third day of the first Test at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram yesterday.

The government is trying to import wheat from five alternative sources on a government-to-government basis after India banned the export of the food grain, said Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi yesterday.

Bangladesh’s Interpol desk has requested its Indian counterpart to extradite PK Halder and five others arrested by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED).

The government’s a2i programme is set to become a full-fledged agency, entering the software and digital innovations industry as a government-subsidised player, but creating uncertainty for local tech companies.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government have declared zero tolerance against narcotics. But the ruling Awami League has picked a top listed patron of the illegal drug business as its mayoral candidate for the Cumilla city polls.

Pragmatism was the order of the day when the finance division sat down to draft the development budget for fiscal 2021-22.

Indian investigators are trying to trace how much money PK Halder, allegedly involved in over Tk 10,000-crore loan scams in Bangladesh, laundered to India and the amount of wealth he obtained through it.

Prashanta Kumar Halder, who has been on the run from facing charges of money laundering since 2019, was arrested along with an associate in West Bengal yesterday.

After edible oil, wheat, the second-most consumed cereal in Bangladesh, is posing to be the next pressure point for food inflation, which in March leapt to its highest level since October 2020.

Journalism in Bangladesh is under siege on the digital front, beginning from surveillance to draconian laws.

Bangladesh will be desperate to start the process of transforming themselves into a proper Test unit when they face Sri Lanka in the first match of the two-Test series at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram today.   

Amid the struggle to cope with the record hike in edible oil prices, a fresh surge in prices of other daily essentials has dealt a further blow to those with low incomes.