A Dhaka court defers the hearing on charge framing against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and 16 others in Gatco graft case till July 15, as the BNP chief was not produced before the court due to illness.

Hilsa production has increased by more than two and a half fold in the last fifteen years due to different efforts of government including imposing ban on catching brood hilsa and jatka (hilsa fry), State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Ashraf Ali Khan Khasru has informed parliament.

Taro, commonly known as taro root, is the thick, tuber stalk of the taro plant. It is usually prepared like a potato, as it is equally starchy and similar in flavour.

More than 35.82 lakh cases are now pending with the higher and lower courts across the country, according to statistics placed by Law Minister Anisul Huq in the parliament.

Commonly known as lau, bottle gourd or calabash has gained so much popularity in the Bangladeshi cuisine that there are even songs about the vegetable! It is usually cooked as a curry with shrimp in light gravy or julienned and then fried; in both forms it is exquisitely delicious. It can be sautéed, fried, pickled or grilled. The bottle gourd is a commonly cultivated plant in the tropical and subtropical areas of the world.

A fire that broke out at a petrol pump in Kalyanpur area of Dhaka this afternoon has been brought under control.

All Bangalees are familiar with the phrase, “Tok, jhal, mishti” (sour, spicy, sweet). This is a flavour combination sent from the heavens.

State Minister for Post, Telecommunications and Information Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak has requested National Board of Revenue (NBR) to withdraw 7.5 per cent VAT from e-commerce businesses.

Facebook is set to unveil a bid to bring cryptocurrency payments into the mainstream, reportedly with the endorsement of governments and financial giants.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrest three people for allegedly killing a youth in Dhaka’s uttarakhan area.

The High Court summons a forensic doctor to appear before it for making “unusual” delay in preparing a report on medical checkup of a rape victim in Rangpur.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on June 18, 2019

A local ridesharing platform, Piickme, says additional taxes on vehicles’ owners and value added tax (VAT) on every ride will increase the cost of ride.

A New Zealand man has been sentenced to almost two years imprisonment for sharing a video of the Christchurch mosque shootings that killed 51 people including five Bangladeshis.

Two terrorists and an Indian soldier were killed in a gun battle in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir today, police say.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam apologises again day and says she had heard the people "loud and clear" after some of the most violent protests in the Chinese-ruled city against an extradition bill that she promoted and then postponed.

The High Court refuses to accept a report of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) about their action against use of chemicals in fruits.

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party effected a top-level organizational change on Monday night appointing former federal Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda as its Working President, a post created for the first time in the party.

Inflation rises in the month of May to 5.63 per cent, mainly because of a rise in the prices of commodities of non-food items in the market.

Parts of Dhaka Elevated Expressway (airport to Moghbazar) will be opened after the second phase of public-private partnership project (PPP) finishes by December 2020, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says.