South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon yesterday assured Bangladesh of considering duty-free, quota-free market access for all Bangla-deshi products to their market as the bilateral trade is heavily tilted towards Korea.

Around 13 lakh people in the country’s north, north-eastern and hilly regions have been stranded in flooded areas amid heavy downpour and swollen rivers.

Deputy Commissioners want more power and benefits to have a stronger grip on the field-level administration. They have proposed that the government allow them to give executive magistrates powers that stem from some sections of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).

Cricket’s global crown will find a new resting place today when perennial bridesmaids England and New Zealand square off in the 2019 World Cup final at Lord’s. By the end of the final, cricket will have first-time world champions for the first time since 1996, when Sri Lanka etched its name into cricketing folklore.

Dhaka University researchers have once again found antibiotics in milk available in kitchen markets and grocery shops after conducting their second round of study unveiled yesterday.

Two people were killed and one injured in a landslide triggered by heavy rain in Rangamati’s Kaptai Upazila yesterday morning.

Abdur Rahman does not want to miss school for a single day. Playing with his friends and taking meals together during tiffin period are all he enjoys a lot.

Heavy rain turned many parts of the capital into swamps yesterday, paralysing normal life and creating a traffic chaos.

Bangladesh got about 19.3 million people out of poverty between 2004 and 2014, the fastest reduction in UNDP’s poverty index during that period.

England head coach Trevor Bayliss knows his side must shut out the noise of an expectant nation as they prepare for a first World Cup final in 27 years.

The country’s lone quality control authority for food has no mechanism to detect harmful agents like antibiotics and pesticides in any food items.

Investigation officials of the Anti-Corruption Commission are responsible for wrongly implicating jute mill worker Jaha Alam in graft cases, which resulted in him languishing in jail for three years, says an ACC probe report.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is going to reshuffle her cabinet for a second time by promoting a state minister to minister and inducting a new face into the incumbent 47-member council of ministers tomorrow.

In front of a raucously partisan crowd in Edgbaston, England ensured that the 2019 World Cup will see first-time champions crowned with a dominant eight-wicket defeat of five-time winners Australia in the second semifinal yesterday.

The Indian BSF has killed 294 Bangladeshi nationals in the last 10 years, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told parliament yesterday.

Mismanagement of rail lines maintenance was behind Wednesday’s derailment of the oil-carrying train in Rajshahi’s Charghat upazila, said a manager of Bangladesh Railway.

Users of two leading mobile phone operators –- Grameenphone and Robi -- are recently experiencing poor quality internet service across the country as the telecom regulator reduced their bandwidth to realise its claimed dues of Tk 13,446 crore that was found in audits, which are being contested.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday sued former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others for misappropriating and laundering about Tk 4 crore from the then Farmers Bank in 2016.

Terming Bangladesh the “best teacher” to learn from about adaptation, former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon yesterday said the achievement of the people and the government of Bangladesh in the practice of adaptation was nothing short of miraculous.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the environmental balance of Cox’s Bazar was under threat as hills and forests were being cleared to establish settlements for Rohingyas.