THE rate of tobacco use in Bangladesh is alarmingly high, posing significant challenges to public health, the economy and the environment. According to the World Health Organisation, tobacco-related diseases are responsible for eight million deaths annually, with 1.3 million of these attributed to passive smoking. In Bangladesh, 35.3 per cent of adults use tobacco, with...
A man was killed after being hit by a picnic bus in Dhamoirhat upazila of Naogaon, police said on Thursday...
Experts at a conference on Monday laid emphasis on engaging proactively with the European Union to secure enhanced GSP+ benefits including duty-free access for garments...
Two people were killed and six others were injured injured in a road accident involving a microbus, an authorickshaw and a motorbike in Sherpur Sadar upazila on early Sunday, police said...
At least 14 people, including two children, were killed and 16 more were injured in road crashes that took place in six districts in the country on Friday and Saturday.
Three passengers of a battery-powered auto-rickshaw were killed, and three others were injured when a truck hit their vehicle in Dupchanchia upazila of Bogura on Friday night...
Twelve university students died and 21 were injured in a collision between a bus and a truck in Brazil鈥檚 state of Sao Paulo, officials said Friday....
A day labour and a child were killed in separate road accidents in Magura on Friday, the police said....
SM Shawon Mahmud and Md Mashiur Rahaman have been elected chairman and secretary respectively of Dhaka Branch Council of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh for the year 2025, said a press release...
Ice loss from the world鈥檚 glaciers has accelerated over the past decade, scientists said on Wednesday, warning that melting may be faster than previously expected in the coming years and drive sea levels higher...
Two youths were killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Shayestaganj upazila of Habiganj on Wednesday night, said police on Thursday morning...
Terming the government鈥檚 attempt to appoint an officer accused of graft in the ACC unacceptable, the Transparency International Bangladesh on Wednesday raised a question whether efforts were being made to make it ineffective from within the government...
Fisheries and livestock adviser Farida Akhter on Monday said that the government was working to formulate a policy for controlling the production and cultivation of tobacco...
A Dhaka court on Wednesday passed an order to freeze 20 bank accounts of former state minister for power, energy and mineral resources Nasrul Hamid and his wife Seema Hamid...
A woman was killed, and two others were injured in a collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Umanpur on the Sylhet-Tamabil highway....
The Dhaka Special Judge Court-4 court on Wednesday acquitted Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia and seven others in the Niko corruption case...
A covered van driver was killed and at least 15 people were injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a covered van in Kashiani upazila of Gopalganj on Wednesday, police said...
Transparency International Bangladesh has expressed concern over the government鈥檚 decision to appoint Amin Al Parvez, an accused in a graft case, as a director of the Anti-Corruption Commission....
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday filed four separate cases against former lawmaker Ranjit Kumar Roy, his wife Niyoti Rani Roy, and their two sons over allegations of accumulating illegal assets worth Tk 15.5 crore and suspicious transactions of Tk 218 crore....
At least six people were killed in road accidents in Dhaka, Kishoreganj, Sylhet and Chattogram on Tuesday....
Masuma Islam, a Rajshahi-based reporter of private television channel Ekhon TV, who received injuries in a road accident on Friday, passed away early Tuesday while undergoing treatment at a city hospital in Dhaka...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday said that 175 people were secretly given appointment letters by Bangla Academy ahead of more deserving candidates based on the written, practical and oral examinations.
At least nine people were killed in road accidents in Pirojpur, Dhaka and Feni on Monday.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday summoned Islami Bank Bangladesh鈥檚 12 former and servicing officials, including its former chairman Ahsanul Alam, to appear at the commission for interrogation in connection with...
A couple was killed and their daughter was injured after a pickup van hit them while they were crossing the road in the capital鈥檚 Jatrabari on Monday...
At least 20 people were injured in an accident involving five vehicles on Dhaka-Mawa Expressway near Kamarkhola area in Munshiganj on Monday morning, fire service said...
Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti on Saturday celebrated its 53rd founding anniversary renewing the call to implement the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord as hill people鈥檚 fate remained unchanged even after signing of the accord in 1997.
At least 12 people were injured in an accident involving three vehicles on Dhaka-Mawa Expressway near Nimtali bus station in Sirajdikhan upazila in Munshiganj on Saturday...
At least 30 people were injured when a bus carrying wedding guests fell into a roadside ditch in Bhobukdia area of Nagarkanda upazila on Dhaka-Barishal highway on Friday night...
British American Tobacco shares slumped on Thursday as it warned of tougher regulatory headwinds in Australia and Bangladesh after a sizeable writedown in Canada dampened its return to profit...