People heading for northern districts to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha in their village yesterday faced suffering for want of vehicles, overcharging and traffic congestion on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway.

Water is going to be costlier for the city residents as the Dhaka Wasa has decided to increase the prices by 5 percent.

The power outages the people are enduring nationwide could go on until September, and the government may change office and school hours and reintroduce home office to reduce electricity demand.

It is not any other Eid for many middle and lower-middle income families. They are cutting down expenses for the festival in the face of spiralling living costs.

Expressing concerns over the recent attacks on teachers in Bangladesh, Unicef has called for ensuring their safety and security.

More than a week has passed since the Cabinet Division issued directives to check the spread of Covid, but those still remain unimplemented due to slack response from the ministries concerned.

Bangladesh’s national election next year will be critical in determining whether the country moves towards greater democracy or greater autocracy, said a recently released policy document of the US.

There is no plan to close classrooms for Covid-19, Education Minister Dipu Moni said yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said that running power plants with imported gas, oil, and coal has become a financial burden for the state.

Amid rising prices of food essentials and other basic necessities, the recent hike in prices of toiletries and other homecare products has added a new burden for people. 

A Chattogram court has awarded a schoolteacher with eight-year imprisonment for hurting religious sentiment.

A man died while working in a garments factory after the authorities allegedly did not allow him to take sick leave in Gazipur Sadar upazila yesterday.

Rab last night arrested Henolux Group Managing Director Nurul Amin and Director Fatema Amin at a flat in the capital’s Uttara on charges of instigating a businessman to die by suicide.

There is a new problem in Bangladesh’s edible oil market but as always, the consumers end up being the sufferers.

A businessman, purportedly out of frustration, tried to take his own life by setting himself alight in front of the Jatiya Press Club yesterday afternoon.

The mask mandate is being grossly violated at bus stops, shopping malls, markets and restaurants in the capital despite steeply climb of Covid cases and deaths almost every day.

People have been enduring severe power cuts for the last few days as electricity production was hampered mainly due to a shortage of natural gas supply.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked Awami League leaders and activists to make sure that no one suffers under the fallout of the pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war.

China has proposed to build the Dhaka-Chattogram Expressway under a government-to-government-Public Private Partnership (G2G-PPP) framework, bringing the project cancelled last year back into focus. 

In the end, it was not just lip service. Yesterday, on the first working day of the new fiscal year, the government rolled out a cocktail of austerity measures for its own administration that can conserve about Tk 60,000 crore -- for now.