Launch operators blame Padma Bridge, bad weather and safety fears for sharp drop in passengers

Thousands of tea workers at four gardens stop work, management says wages halted over delayed bank loan

A 240-ton shipment of essential food items is being dispatched as a gesture of solidarity

Doctors say infant may have suffered cardiac arrest triggered by lightning shock

Commuter pressure surges as 45% of Gazipur garment factories go on holiday, worsening congestion and waterlogging on key routes

Traders fear delayed tannery payments and rising costs could devastate Balikandi’s seasonal economy

Across Rangpur division, farmers face mounting losses as Eid markets remain sluggish despite massive oversupply

They discuss $1.4 billion loan agreements and future cooperation programmes

Over 13,000 sanitation workers and 2,117 vehicles to be deployed across Dhaka South

Twenty-one candidates, who contested the 13th National Parliamentary Election, have yet to submit their election expenditure accounts to the Election Commission, prompting it to extend the deadline until June 14.

ICT Chief Prosecutor Md Aminul Islam yesterday said anyone found to have involvement in crimes against humanity, including journalists, will be brought to justice.

M Zubaidur Rahman, independent director and chairman of Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC, resigned yesterday, citing personal reasons, amid growing tensions surrounding the country’s largest private-sector lender.

Bangladesh and India need a new, future-oriented agenda that is aligned with their new capabilities, aspirations and new national development priorities for engagement, said outgoing Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma.

Scheduled banks have been asked to extend banking services from 10:00am to 10:00pm through branches and sub-branches located near designated cattle markets in the metropolitan areas of Dhaka, Chattogram, Khulna, Rajshahi and Rangpur.

Five people, including four members of the same family, were killed when an ambulance carrying a paralysed patient collided head-on with a BRTC bus in Faridpur’s Nagarkanda upazila yesterday, leaving an entire village in mourning.

The sale of sacrificial animals at various makeshift cattle markets across Dhaka began yesterday, with a good number of animals having arrived already.

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman yesterday said Bangladesh is steadily moving towards clean energy, a green economy and a self-reliant energy system.

Sixteen more patients died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, raising the death toll from measles and measles-like symptoms to 528.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide Bangladesh with $1.4 billion in funding, including $1 billion in budget support, in response to the government’s call for support amid the economic situation over the Middle East war.

Their families do not know whether they are being kept in detention camps or traffickers’ hideouts in Libya or drowned in the Mediterranean during perilous journeys to Europe.