Bangladesh Railway yesterday reinstated the job of the TTE who fined three individuals travelling on a train without tickets and claiming to be the railways minister’s relatives.

It appears normal service will resume with fiscal 2022-23’s budget, which will see the return of double-digit growth in size -- a practice introduced by former finance minister AMA Muhith.

After the new prices came into effect, edible oil companies started supplying bottled, loose soybean and palm oil through distributors from Saturday.

A college student was allegedly picked up by Rab and released 12 days later yesterday in the capital.

Bangladesh is now ranked first out of eight countries in South Asia and fifth out of 121 countries across the globe on Nikkei’s Covid-19 Recovery Index.

The government will make all-out efforts to bring opposition BNP to the next parliamentary election, slated for late next year.

Thousands of people returning to Dhaka after the Eid holidays suffered immensely at ferry terminals on the Padma over the last two days.

Every year, the budget gets bigger, and like clockwork, gets revised down -- much. But not this year.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed Dhaka College student Mahmudul Hasan Siyam on a three-day remand in a case filed over the death of Nahid Mia during a clash between students and shopkeepers in New Market area.

The Bangladesh Railway will likely miss completion deadlines for 14 of the 20 projects scheduled to end this fiscal year.

World food prices fell slightly last month after hitting a record in March, thanks to a 5.7 percent drop in vegetable oil prices, UN food agency said yesterday.

With the Eid holidays ending, a large number of people returned to the capital yesterday after celebrating the festival with near and dear ones in their village homes.

Edible oil prices see the biggest increase in Bangladesh’s history as the government moves to put an end to the unprecedented crunch of the essential cooking item.

Rab on Wednesday night arrested a Dhaka College student on charges of attacking Nahid Mia who was beaten and hacked to death during last month’s clash between students and shopkeepers of New Market.

Fearing possible gridlock on highways, Rashidul Hasan had decided to travel to Khulna alone to be with his ailing father this Eid. He thought leaving his wife and children in the capital would be the right decision.

Gas supply to different areas of Dhaka and Manikganj will be suspended for 48 hours from 10:00pm on May 3 while residents of some areas of the capital will experience low gas pressure, said Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd.

A banker in Naogaon did not find soybean oil in the local market. A woman in Natore was lucky to score a one-litre bottle for an unusually higher price. A private firm employee in Chattogram decided to make do with mustard oil after failing to find soybean oil in her neighborhood.

Over the last 50 years of Bangladesh’s existence, we have seen many finance ministers. AMA Muhith was among those few who this nation will remember for making the job appear joyful and free from the pains of balancing difficult trade-offs amid resource constraints.

When Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina defiantly announced in 2012 that the Padma bridge would be built after the World Bank pulled out of the project, her gumption was not irrational.

Congestion on highways during the Eid rush has not been as bad as feared earlier with thousands leaving the capital yesterday without much trouble.