The OECD countries will be happy if next general polls are held in an inclusive, acceptable, and free and fair manner, said Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal.

The transmission of coronavirus has increased as the positivity rate yesterday increased to 15.53 percent from 13.22 percent.

As the Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga expressway was opened to traffic in March 2020, the Roads and Highways Department had over two years to introduce an automated toll collection system for motorists.

The long-awaited Tk 727 crore National Household Database that is expected to be delivered later this year will not yield the desired outcome for which the project was implemented, said a recent report of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division.

Three men gangraped the mother of a four-month-old baby in the cabin of a launch heading towards Dhaka from Barishal at night on June 23.

Rehabilitation of around four lakh people, who were worst hit by the floods and lost their homes, is the biggest challenge in the government’s recovery efforts.

The yard and kitchen of Aparna Rani Das’s house in Gagra village, on the edge of Hakaluki haor in Moulvibazar’s Barlekha upazila, is submerged in knee-deep water since June 17.

Every year on July 1, Dutch national Mack visits the place where the Holey Artisan café once stood. He lost his two Italian friends in the horrific carnage that took place there six years ago.

Ninety-five food companies have got the permission to import a total of 4,09,000 tonnes of rice as the government tries to lower the prices of staple grain by increasing supply.

Bangladesh Bank yesterday attached the highest importance to curbing inflation in its monetary policy for fiscal 2022-23 but didn’t deploy major tools needed to ride out the current economic challenges.

“How much more can we take?”

The evening of July 1, 2016, -- a Friday near the end of Ramadan -- had descended quietly on the Holey Artisan Bakery as the busy capital settled down after breaking the day’s fast.

The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit is going to start a long-overdue process of deradicalising militants inside prisons from this month.

Militant group Neo-JMB, which carried out a deadly attack at a Gulshan restaurant in 2016, currently has no strength to carry out another attack, but officers and security analysts see several other groups as threats.

The generous tax amnesty campaign proposed by Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal for those with undisclosed assets abroad has been pared back in the face of harsh criticism from all quarters.

People of the northern and northeastern districts are fearing a second spell of floods as major rivers continue swelling amid torrential rain and onrush of water from upstream.

The student in Ashulia who bludgeoned a teacher to death with a cricket stump was finally arrested yesterday, five days after the assault.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday told parliament that the budget has attached the highest importance to measures to control inflation in the upcoming fiscal year.

The government is making significant investments in public infrastructure projects (PIPs), but a lack of good governance in project implementation undermines their efficiency, the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) said yesterday.

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission yesterday banned Grameenphone from selling new SIM cards for what it said was the operator’s failure to provide quality service.