Dhaka September 20, 2024, 3:46 pm
A fire broke out in a multi-storied building at Elephant Road area in the capital on Monday afternoon.
A supply crunch has pushed up onion prices by an average of 80 percent in Dhaka’s kitchen markets compared to last year.
Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) started cleaning the Turag River on Friday morning to save the water body.
Bangladesh and the European Union (EU) must continue to work together on labour reforms, State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam has said.
Fire service and civil defence divers have recovered the body of a 6-year-old girl, five after she drowned in the DND canal in Dhaka’s Kadamtoli
A process is underway to set up a 10MW floating solar power plant at Mongla as a Mujib Borsho gift for the people of the area.
State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock M Ashraf Ali Khan Khosru on Monday informed parliament that 64 species of fresh water fish in the country face extinction.
Chairman of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Md Jahurul Haque on Monday said they will appoint an administrator to mobile phone company Grameenphone if it fails to pay the dues by the stipulated t
Regular stress of city life tends to suck the energy out of the soul pushing people towards chronic anxiety. Every once in a while,
The tiny Indian Ocean island has become a destination for the rich and powerful to avoid taxes with discretion and a financial powerhouse in its own right
Journalists explored more than 200,000 records, ranging from tax advice from major audit firms to audio recordings.
Elections to both the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) will now be held on February 1 instead of January 30.
A court here on Thursday issued a warrant for the arrest of Prothom Alo editor Matiur Rahman and deputy editor Anisul Hoque in a case filed over the death of Dhaka Residential Model College student Nayeemul Abrar Rahat from e
The Amar Ekushey Book Fair, one of the biggest and most popular festivities in Bangladesh ever since its humble inception in 1972, is at good hands, Bangla Academy, according to one of its key directors.
Today 12 January 2020, in a seminar, civil society organizations and climate networks have urged government to decentralize budgetary resource for sustainable Embankment repair & management to climate resilient.
The World Bank has projected 7.2 percent GDP growth for Bangladesh in the 2019-20 current fiscal year while 7.3 percent in the following fiscal year.
The export volume to India through Benapole land port has doubled in five years, creating job opportunities and boosting foreign currency earnings, a customs official said.
The bank recently filed a lawsuit against the defaulting financial institution with the court to this effect
Google Doodle made alteration on its Bangladeshi homepage on Sunday showing the great artist painting Google sitting under a tree with his brush while another man passing by carrying two pots
All banks in Bangladesh will charge maximum 9 percent interest rate in providing industrial loans from January 1 next.