The duty proposed on smartphones will push up illegal imports and cause big revenue losses for the government, industry stakeholders say.

Alphabet Inc’s Google Calendar app users were unable to access their schedules on Tuesday as the app faced technical issues globally.

ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR), Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) and Progressive Voice today said Myanmar must ensure that human rights of the Rohingya community are protected and respected while safe conditions should be in place in Rakhine State before any refugees are repatriated from Bangladesh.

A special committee led by Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon has been formed to remove illegal vehicles off the streets and free footpaths from grabbers in next two months.

The High Court grants bail to former Awami League lawmaker from Tangail-3 Amanur Rahman Khan Rana in a murder case clearing the way for his walk out of jail.

Om Birla, a two-time lawmaker of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, has been elected as the Speaker of the new Lok Sabha.

More than 70 million people were counted last year as displaced from their homes, a record that underestimates the real number of refugees and asylum seekers, the UN says.

BNP Vice-Chairman Selima Rahman and Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku are appointed as members of the party’s standing committee.

Ten persons have been handed two-year jail terms each for producing poultry feed using leather waste treated with toxic chemicals.

A fire that broke out on the ground floor of the Baitul Mukarram market in Dhaka was completely doused after around 40 minutes of frantic efforts.

Vehicular movement on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway remains suspended after railings on the fourth span of the Shahbazpur Bridge on the Titas river in Brahmanbaria has broken.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi extends greetings to Congress President Rahul Gandhi on the latter’s 49th birthday, wishing him “good health and a long life.”

Bangladesh and Rwanda have the highest level of trust in vaccines globally while France has the lowest of confidence in them, according to the world's biggest survey on public attitudes toward health and science.

The telecom regulator directs all the mobile phone operators in the country to reduce the charges of each local SMS to Tk 0.25 that are written in Bengali alphabet, aiming to promote the mother language.

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The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry Of Science And Technology expresses dissatisfaction over irregularities in purchasing furniture and other household products for officials and employees of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna.

Bangladesh embassy in Washington DC has screened a documentary ‘Voice of Conscience’ on Monday to garner world’s recognition of the genocide took place during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.

Imposing 15 per cent tax on retained earnings of the multinational companies and their stock dividends will affect the inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as the companies will feel discouraged to reinvest from their earnings, says the official of a leading trade body.

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has said mobile financial service (MFS) users would not bear any extra cost for balance check.

Lawmakers from treasury and opposition benches in the parliament demand strong measures for realising the defaulted loan to control the flow of black money and siphoning it off abroad.