Covid-19 testing will resume at four major hospitals in Dhaka and Chattogram from tomorrow, following a recent rise in infection rates in Bangladesh and neighbouring countries.

The finance ministry has identified seven major challenges including tight monetary and fiscal policies, taken to tame elevated inflation levels for more than three years, in next fiscal year that may increase unemployment.

As Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus and BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman meet today in London, many hope the stalemate over the timing of the next election will finally end.

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus yesterday received the prestigious ‘’King Charles III Harmony Award 2025”, a special honor to recognise long-term commitment to creating a world where people, places and the planet can live in harmony.

There is no obstacle to BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman returning to Bangladesh, said Home Affairs Adviser Jahangir Alam Chowdhury yesterday.

At least 84 people were pushed into Bangladesh from India through different border points in Sylhet, Sunamganj and Lalmonirhat between Wednesday night and early yesterday.

A high-level delegation of the BNP, led by the party’s secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, is scheduled to visit China at the end of this month at the invitation of the Communist Party of China.

Bangladesh Bank Governor Ahsan H Mansur said the central bank may pursue financial settlements with business tycoons accused of syphoning off money abroad when Sheikh Hasina was in power, according to a report by Financial Times (FT).

Efforts are underway to arrest the remaining accused, police say

Two children died by drowning in a pond at Ramkantapur in Saltha upazila of Fairdpur this morning.

Two others are still missing

Locals believe the mortar shells may date back to the 1971 Liberation War

BNP and like-minded parties have been demanding the elections by December, while others including the newly-formed National Citizen Party has demanded reforms before the polls

Police arrested a man on charges of attempting to rape a 5-year-old girl in Kurigram’s Phulbari upazila

Police recovered the throat-slit body of a cosmetics shop owner from a bamboo cluster in Panchagarh's Debiganj upazila

Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus and BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman are set to meet there on Friday evening

He offers support to the country after Ahmedabad tragedy

The reallocation within labour programmes reflects a clear policy shift

An "Audience" is simply a one-to-one meeting with The King

The return phase commenced on June 10 and will continue until July 10