A SHARP increase in the number of bank accounts having deposits exceeding Tk 1 crore in the last quarter of 2024 brings a number of issues and concerns to the fore. As Bangladesh Bank data show, the number of such accounts rose by 4,954 in the quarter, reaching 122,081 from 117,127 in September. While the rise indicates the restoration...
The number of bank accounts holding deposits exceeding Tk 1 crore increased by near 5,000 in December due to stagnant business environment in the country.
At least five people were killed and eight injured in road accidents in Gazipur, Munshiganj and Tangail on Saturday...
Four people were killed and several others injured in road accidents in Sylhet, Feni, Pabna and Jamalpur on Friday.
The Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority has signed a lease agreement with Allied Tobacco Company Limited, a Singapore-India-owned company, to establish a 100 per cent export-oriented cigarette manufacturing industry in the BEPZA Economic Zone...
At least three people, including two school-going siblings, were killed as a speeding bus collided with a battery-run auto-rickshaw at Chandanaish upazila in Chattogram on Thursday morning.
EVERY ministry, directorate, department, division, district and upazila administration office in Bangladesh now operates its own website. These websites were developed under the Access to Information programme of the former prime minister鈥檚 office, in collaboration with the Aspire to Innovation initiative of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology...
A member of Border Guard Bangladesh was killed and another was injured as a motorbike carrying them crashed into a roadside tree while chasing smugglers at Benapole in Jashore on Tuesday night...
At least six people were killed in road accidents in Barishal, Bogura, Gazipur and Lakshmipur on Wednesday...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday conducted a drive at the directorate of secondary and higher education鈥檚 Rajshahi zone office on charges of taking bribes from the teachers for approving and forwarding teachers鈥� MPO and pay arrears...
THAT pedestrians continue to constitute the largest group of road accident victims warrants special attention and specific measures are needed to protect them. In February, at least 114 pedestrians died in road accidents. In a road accident on March 10, a pedestrian died and another was seriously injured when a covered van ran over them at Banani in Dhaka. Both of them...
Bangladesh Road Transport Authority on Monday temporarily adjourned the registration of the pickup van which hit two readymade garment workers, leaving one dead and one injured in Dhaka city on the same day...
Three people were killed and three others were injured as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw crashed into a truck at village Chanpur Bridge in Phulpur upazila of Mymensingh on Monday...
Readymade garment workers on Monday blocked the airport road as well as the elevated expressway in Banani鈥檚 Chairmanbari area in the capital Dhaka, protesting at the death of a fellow worker in a road accident in the morning.
At least five people, including a freedom fighter, were killed in separate road accidents in Feni, Kurigram and Bogura between Saturday night and Sunday.
At least 578 people were killed and 1,327 more injured in 596 road crashes in the country in February, said a Road Safety Foundation report published on Saturday.
Two people were killed and three others injured in a triangular crash among two trucks and a motorbike on Jamalpur-Mymensingh highway at Jamalpur municipality area on Saturday...
The Anti-Corruption Commission has found suspicious transactions involving Tk 25,160 crore through bank accounts of Brahammandi union parishad chairman Md Luck Mia, his wife and one of his staff at Araihazar in Narayanganj.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday filed two separate cases against former textile and jute minister Golam Dastagir Gazi, and his wife, Hasina Gazi, on charges of amassing wealth beyond known sources of income and engaging in suspicious financial transactions...
Prime Bank PLC has launched 鈥楽adaqah Jariyah鈥� account, a new Islamic banking product that will allow customers to donate to charitable causes continuously, said a press release...
An insurance company employee was killed as a speeding trolley rammed into his motorbike in Shibganj upazila of Chapinawabganj on Wednesday...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday filed a case against four people, including two former vice-chancellors of the Jashore University of Science & Technology, on charges of irregularities and corruption in recruitment at the university...
At least five people were killed in road accidents in Dinajpur, Lakshmipur, Rajshahi and Chandpur districts between Monday night and Tuesday.
An 18-year-old college student was killed in a head-on collision between a motorcycle and an engine-run van in Mohonpur upazila of Rajshahi on Tuesday...
At least seven people were killed and four other injured in road accidents in Rajshahi, Munshiganj, Faridpur, Lakshmipur and Bogura on Monday.
At least three people were killed and three more were injured in a collision between an ambulance and a truck at Godagari upazila in Rajshahi on early Monday...
A Dhaka court on Sunday ordered to freeze 44 bank accounts of former industries minister and veteran Awami League leader Amir Hossain Amu, his wife Saida Haque and daughter Sumaia Hossain over graft allegations...
Azizur Rahman FCMA has been elected chairman of Khulna Branch Council of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh for the term 2025 in the 1st meeting of KBC held on Friday...
At least five people, including a teenager, were killed in road accidents in Lalmonirhat, Dhaka, Munshiganj and Jhenaidah on Friday.
BdREN has recently organised a seminar titled Access to IEEE Journals: BdREN Initiatives, bringing together librarians from public and private universities across Bangladesh in Dhaka...