IFIC Bank has decided to raise Tk 1,000 crore by issuing perpetual bond to maintain the bank's capital complying with the BASEL-III norms.

District administration has imposed a seven-day “strict restriction” on transport and public movement in Tangail and Elenga municipality areas due to spike in coronavirus cases there.

Youngone Corporation, the Korean multinational conglomerate in Bangladesh, today launched country’s largest rooftop based solar electricity system in its Korean Export Processing Zone (KEPZ) in order to meet part of its power demand through renewable sources.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the government, with its limited resources, is trying to improve the lives of people at the grassroots.

Dr David Brewster, a senior research fellow at Australian National University's National Security College and an expert on Indian Ocean security, has referred to Bangladesh’s economic growth and described how the country is becoming an increasingly influential state in the region.

Five people including a mother and her two children died and seven others were injured as a truck hit a microbus in Narsingdi.

The governments should increase the spending in the economy for quick recovery from the fallouts of Covid-19 as some countries have been enjoying the benefit of increased public spending, said an economist on Saturday.

Khaleda Zia's condition is stable but she is yet to recover fully, said her physician and member of the medical team formed for her treatment, Dr FM Siddique.

Bangladesh expressed deep disappointment during adoption of the resolution on the situation of Myanmar, which it said, failed to adequately reflect on the Rohingya crisis and in recommending any action to resolve that crisis.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today filed case against two officials of Dhaka Bank’s Bangshal branch over Tk 3.77 crore that went missing from the bank’s vault.

A fugitive was seen at the inauguration of a mural of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Munshiganj where Liberation War Affairs Minister, two MPs, deputy commissioner were also present.

There is no alternative to installing pre-paid metres in residential areas to stop illegal gas connection and save energy for future, experts said at a virtual webinar today.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has returned home this evening from Evercare Hospital after almost two months, said Syrul Kabir Khan, an official of Khaleda's press wing.

Prime Minister’s Private Industry and Investment Affairs Adviser Salman F Rahman said the country's stock market has a good future.

A worker was killed and three others were injured in a blast at a shipyard in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram this afternoon.

Bangladesh has been elected member of FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) Council from the Asia Region for the term 2022-2024. FAO is the specialised UN agency that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.

Many of the 137 unlawfully recruited staffers at Rajshahi University locked university's administrative buildings, senate building and vice chancellor’s residence today in order to stop finance committee meeting from being held.

Radwan Mujib Siddiq has said it is time to move on from referring to the "Bangladesh Miracle" and start focusing on the "Bangladesh Model", as the country seeks to consolidate its position as a middle-income country.

A head-on collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw left three people dead in Bogura’s Shibganj upazila this morning.

Islamic preacher Abu Taw Haa Muhammad Adnan, his two companions, and driver of the car they were in were "in hiding" in Gaibandha, detectives in Rangpur said today.