Despite record imports of soybean oil in the first quarter, consumers are having to pay an additional Tk 36-38 for every litre of non-bottled soybean oil over the price set by the government.

Dhaka Tannery Industrial Estate Wastage Treatment Plant Company Ltd has sent a rejoinder to a report run by The Daily Star on January 12 under the headline “Buriganga suffering, Dhaleshwari worse off”.

Russian air raids and missile strikes hit Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and other major cities yesterday as Moscow launched more long-range attacks following the sinking of its Black Sea Fleet’s flagship.

“We, the family members of the victims of enforced disappearance, have been leading a miserable life.

Amid threats of airstrikes, a turning point in the history of an independent nation was about to unfold and the stage was almost set for a defining moment in Bangladesh’s Liberation War.

An amusing incident unfolded on March 30 at Farhana Rajib’s home in Minneapolis, US. Her mother-in-law Shawkat Ara Begum received a note from her 12-year-old granddaughter Ella Rajib. Handwritten in Bangla, the note read: “Dida darun boka” (Grandma is very silly).

Between August 2018 and September 2020, Dhaka-based Mamun Enterprise has drawn over Tk 6.2 crore in incentives against agro exports.

Rab, at long last, has arrested Mufti Shafiqur Rahman, a former chief of banned militant outfit Huji-B, who dodged law enforcers for over a decade.

Russian strikes pounded a military factory near Kyiv that makes the missiles Ukraine claims it used to sink the Moskva naval flagship, with Moscow yesterday vowing renewed attacks on the capital.

Expatriate worker Abu Jaher met his four-year-old daughter Tasfia Akter for the first time after returning home recently to Noakhali’s Begumganj from Saudi Arabia.

If there is one thing that Humayun Azad embodied, it was the secular ethos of an independent nation. Hence his life and works could be summed up as a man’s struggle against religious extremism.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday reaffirmed that her government remains cautious so the loans do not become a burden.

With the first rays of the morning sun, the nation, after two long years, is set to usher in Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla New Year and the biggest secular festival for Bangladeshis.

Four members of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were sentenced to death yesterday for killing Prof Humayun Azad 18 years ago.

The Bangladesh government has taken a few measures to investigate and prosecute cases of corruption, abuse and killing by security forces, said the US State Department in its annual human rights report.

A Dhaka court is set to deliver verdict over the murder of Prof Humayun Azad after 18 long years as the alleged negligence of investigators and prosecution delayed the trial completion.

Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) supremo Shaikh Abdur Rahman had directed his younger brother and the outfit’s military commander Ataur Rahman Sunny to kill Prof Humayun Azad for writing the book “Pak Sar Jamin Sad Bad”.

When Bangladesh agreed to provide $250 million to Sri Lanka last year, little did it think that it would become a side character in the horror show that is unfolding in the island nation.

In a sigh of relief, the runway at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport will remain operational for 24 hours from next month instead of June.

SSC, HSC and their equivalent exams for 2023 will be held on all subjects with full marks but on curtailed syllabuses, according to a government decision.