Stock investors are hopeful about the potential of Robi Axiata in the coming years as only 37,200 shares worth Tk 5.6 lakh were traded on its debut in the stock market.

Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Ito Naoki today said they want to see the start of Rohingya repatriation process next year.

The High Court has directed the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to take necessary steps for providing training to the investigation officers concerned in order to complete probes into cases filed under Digital Security Act in 75 days.

AKM Bahauddin Bahar, lawmaker of Cumilla-6 constituency, threatened an official of Department of Environment (DoE) with dire consequences after she inspected a hill-cutting project by Roads and Highways Department (RHD) and prepared a damage assessment report.

One hundred and sixty-five passengers including 5 infants have been cleared from Sylhet Osmani International Airport this afternoon after the authorities concerned verified their Covid-19 negative certificates.

Bangladesh will suspend air communication with the UK if necessary, state minister for civil aviation M Mahbub Ali said today.

Covid-19 strain, similar to that recently found in the UK, was detected in Bangladesh around two months back, researchers said.

China has launched an antitrust investigation into Alibaba Group and will summon the tech giant’s Ant Group affiliate to meet in coming days, regulators said on Thursday, in the latest blow for Jack Ma’s e-commerce and fintech empire.

Moderna Inc said on Wednesday it expects that the immunity induced by its Covid-19 vaccine would be protective against the coronavirus variants reported in the UK.

Eleven new 10-storey buildings are going to be constructed on the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) campus to provide improved facilities to teachers, researchers, students and others concerned.

Gunmen killed more than 100 people in a dawn attack in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia on Wednesday, the human rights commission said, as residents described fleeing the latest deadly assault in an area bedevilled by ethnic violence.

Singapore has confirmed its first case of the new coronavirus variant found in the United Kingdom, the city-state said, while 11 others who were already in quarantine had returned preliminarily positive results for the new strain.

Argentina football legend Diego Maradona was suffering from liver, kidney and cardiovascular disorders but there were no signs of alcohol or narcotics consumption in his autopsy, the public prosecutor said on Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump issued new pardons Wednesday for allies including the father of his son-in-law Jared Kushner and two people caught up in the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election that brought him to power.

Noted industrialist, former lawmaker and Partex Group’s founding Chairman MA Hashem passed away today at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka. He was 78.

The Ministry of Textiles and Jute formed a nine-member inter-ministerial working committee to examine and consider the proposal received for re-introducing BJMC’s closed mills under private management on lease basis.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the finance ministry and related ministries and divisions to formulate another financial stimulus package plan ahead of the second wave of Covid-19.

Israel is working towards formalising relations with a fifth Muslim country, possibly in Asia, during US President Donald Trump’s term, an Israeli cabinet minister has said.

Police today recovered the body of an office assistant of Cox's Bazar District Council from its bungalow.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called for Turkey’s engagement in the sustainable repatriation of forcefully displaced Rohingyas to their homeland Myanmar.