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Green chilli price doubles in Lalmonirhat markets

The price of green chilli doubled in local markets in the district yesterday, two days ahead of the holy month of Ramadan. One kg of
5 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Road Kill

The reason behind the head-on collision between a bus and a stone-laden truck on the Dhaka-Bogra highway on Friday is
4 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Muhammad Ali is no more

The man who “floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee” is no more. Muhammad Ali achieved what no other boxer had ever
4 June 2016, 18:00 PM

PBS official dies of heatstroke

An official of Noakhali Palli Bidyut Samity (PBS) died of heatstroke at Mymensingh PBS-1 office in Muktagachha upazila yesterday.
4 June 2016, 18:00 PM

[WATCH] India inaugurates ‘Eid Visa Camp’ for Bangladeshis

India launches ‘Eid Visa Camp’, the first of its kind, to ease Bangladeshi national’s travel to the country during the Eid holidays.
4 June 2016, 07:28 AM

Meeting the revenue target

The government's focus on mega projects, skills development and job creation are commendable.
3 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Illegal sand lifting

In a welcome move, the mobile court jailed and fined 14 people for illegally lifting sand near the Bangabandhu Bridge in Bhuapur upazila of Tangail.
3 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Terrorist attacks rise in Bangladesh in 2015, says US State Department report

Terrorist attacks and the total number of deaths increased in Bangladesh in 2015, according to the US State Department.
3 June 2016, 05:41 AM

Protesting nurses under the cosh

We are aghast by reports that at least 50 nurses were injured when the police charged batons and used water cannons on protestors who had attempted to lay siege on the health minister's residence in the capital.
2 June 2016, 18:00 PM

An ambitious budget

The finance minister has presented the 45th annual budget of Tk3.4 trillion that is 29 per cent bigger than the last fiscal.
2 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Failed chairman candidate lifts road bricks earlier set by him

The local administration stopped brick lifting by men of a defeated union parishad (UP) chairman candidate from a village road in Sadar
2 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Fahim Munaim to be buried tomorrow

Eminent journalist Syed Fahim Munaim, who died yesterday, will be buried at Banani graveyard in the capital tomorrow.
2 June 2016, 15:33 PM

Internet communications equipment to cost less

Internet use through WiFi and Wimax will get some boost as the finance minister proposes to reduce import duty on these products.
2 June 2016, 12:20 PM

Bondage perpetuates amid growth!

We are so engrossed in the exponential development figures that we hardly care about those people who are toiling in enslaved conditions to fuel the growth engine.
1 June 2016, 18:00 PM

S&P rating remains same

Despite scoring the same stable “BB-” in the long-term and “B” short-term sovereign credit ratings by S&P, a US-based financial services company for the last six years, the economy has witnessed steady growth with little fluctuation.
1 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Tributes pour in for Fahim Munaim

Facebook and Twitter are stirred with the tributes, obituaries and lamentations since morning after the news of the untimely demise of Syed Fahim Munaim spreaded.
1 June 2016, 12:46 PM

HC bars MPs from heading school committees

High Court declares illegal the rules that allow lawmakers to hold the chairman posts in governing bodies of non-government schools and colleges.
1 June 2016, 08:25 AM

Revenue collection shortfall anticipated

It is hardly surprising that a premier think tank in the country has once again calculated that the government in all probability will miss its tax collection target.
31 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Tobacco production kills

We are shocked at a report in this daily yesterday marking 'World No Tobacco Day', that has revealed that as many as 3000 children aged between seven and 15 work in bidi factories in Lalmonirhat.
31 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Bogra's Nawab Palace saved

Following a protracted campaign by Bogra civil society activists to preserve the town's iconic Nawab palace a signboard from the
31 May 2016, 18:00 PM