The stock market regulator today approved the amalgamation of Bangladesh Steel Re-Rolling Mills (BSRM) Ltd and its sister concern BSRM Steel Mills Ltd.

A mild earthquake jolted Sylhet this evening.

The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) thinks there are some inconsistencies in the present laws on value-added tax and income tax.

The Ministry of Information has served a notice to Robi Axiata Limited, seeking its explanation in seven working days, for using Rabindranath Tagore’s image instead of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam in a social media post dedicated to the latter on his birth anniversary.

The Jatiya Sangsad today passed the supplementary budget of Tk 13,987.27 crore for 2020-21 fiscal to meet the increased expenditures under 19 different ministries and divisions.

Three Bangladeshis returned home through Benapole check point after serving in Indian prison for two years.

The authorities have imposed restrictions on movement and activities in Kushtia district from June 6 midnight till June 16 midnight to check transmission of Covid-19.

Pipeline work of an underground and river water treatment plant has started in Manikganj today. The Department of Public Health Engineering’s project will supply clean water in 37 districts.

Nazma Begum Shopna was weeping outside the Sattola slum and trying to go to her shanty for her belongings -- all burnt in the fire at Dhaka’s Mohakhali this morning.

A 33-member new committee of Hefajat-e-Islam was announced today, dropping all leaders involved in violent protests at different parts of the country from March 25 to 28.

Asian Development Bank (ADB) must now prioritise climate change, while continuing to support economic recovery and the Covid-19 vaccination programme in Bangladesh, says a report released by ADB’s Independent Evaluation Department (IED).

Over 500 shanties were gutted as a fire broke out at a slum in Dhaka's Mohakhali area early today.

“One of my eardrums was ruptured due to the torture. Now a special device has been placed in that ear. I still can't walk properly due to pain in my legs. I had an eye surgery recently... Not just signs of torture, I'm living with the pain of a monstrous blow,” says Cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore.

Police claimed to have arrested nine members of a bike-stealing gang along with 11 stolen motorcycles from different parts of Brahmanbaria’s Sadar upazila.

Multiple critical embankments in Koyra upazila are damaged because of Cyclone Yaas' impact, leaving thousands of people waterlogged. As there were no immediate and effective initiatives from the administration, the locals themselves are now working hard to repair those embankments.

The government has extended the ongoing countrywide restriction on public movement and transport till June 16 amid a surge in the Covid-19 cases.

The old-age allowance of 104-year-old Lokman Hossain Mondol, from Pabna’s Sujanagar upazila, has been halted by the local office of Social Welfare Department as the Election Commission’s updated voter list marked him as “deceased”.

Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora, additional director general (planning and development) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), today made an official visit to Chapainawabganj amid alarming rise in the number of Covid-19 cases in the district.

Tk 6,434 crore has been collected as toll so far from Bangabandhu Bridge since its inauguration in 1998, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader told the parliament today.

Seventeen more people have been diagnosed with coronavirus in Thakurgaon district in 24 hours, till this morning -- showing a sharp rise in the number of Covid-19 cases.