The government is considering an option to export rice to benefit the farmers, Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque says.

The severe cyclonic storm Fani that hit the country's coastal areas on May 4 last damaged crops on some 63,063 hectares of land in 209 upazilas of 35 districts, Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzak says.

A police station in northeastern Paris had to be evacuated after it was invaded by fleas, a police union say.

Dhaka dwellers demand safe water from the state-run agency Wasa at a mass hearing organised on the quality of supply water.

The era of doctors prescribing patients powerful antibiotics while they wait for lab reports could soon be numbered, with a new device returning results within minutes instead of days.

Fire at apparel scrap storage facilities in Gazipur’s Tongi has gutted at least 29 tin-shed warehouses.

The Dhaka South City Corporation will closely monitor the price situation at different markets in the capital from today in order to contain the price hike of the essentials into a tolerable limit on the occasion of the holy Ramadan.

All suspected plotters and those directly linked to Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombings have either been arrested or are dead, the country's acting police chief says.

Mild heat wave is sweeping over Rajshahi and Khulna divisions and the regions of Tangail, Dinajpur and Sayedpur and it may continue and spread, says a met office release.

Jute mill workers block roads in Dhaka’s Jatrabari and Demra and also staged sit-in in Khulna, demanding their arrears.

A 25-year-old woman throws an egg at Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on the campaign trail ahead of the country's May 18 election, and is arrested, New South Wales state police says.

Three people including two alleged drug traders are killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers in Dhaka, Munshiganj and Rangpur districts.

Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the outskirts of Yangon on Tuesday after spending more than 500 days behind bars.

Renowned singer and composer Subir Nandi passes away at a hospital in Singapore. His body will be brought to Dhaka tomorrow morning and kept at Central Shaheed Minar to allow a last homage to the singer.

A teacher of a madrasa has been suspended for sexually harassing three minor students of his institution in Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur, the madrasa authorities say.

Hello readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines so far on May 6, 2019

An essay competition is going to be launched in honour of renowned journalist, politician and litterateur Abul Mansur Ahmad.

Bangladesh Brand Forum initiates a new dialogue series named ‘Long Horizon Dialogue’.

University Grants Commission (UGC) approves a budget of Tk 8088.49 crore for 2019-20 fiscal year for country's public universities and itself.

Andaleeve Rahman Partho, chairman of Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP), one of the components of BNP-led 20-party alliance, announces to stay aside from the coalition.