After around 11 and a half hours of effort on Sunday, the Dhaka North City Corporation rescued a cat that was trapped in a beam under the Dhaka Elevated Expressway, right above the Mohakhali Flyover in Dhaka.
A leader of Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, youth front of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was expelled from the organisation midnight past Friday on charge of demanding extortion from hawkers in Sylhet city...
Stocks has ended the week in positive territory as investors showed buying interest in particular large-cap scrips, especially the Bank stocks, as anticipation builds ahead of their year-end earnings and dividend declarations...
Southeast Bank PLC has signed a memorandum of understanding recently with NEXUS Group for providing workers鈥� wages and other banking services...
Exim Bank held its 130th shari鈥檃h supervisory committee meeting on February 27 at the boardroom of its head office in the capital Dhaka...
The Border Guard Bangladesh on Saturday launched its 64 Ukhiya Battalion in Cox鈥檚 Bazar amid rising tension between the Myanmar military junta and the Arakan Army along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border...
Armed criminals fired around 50 rounds at locals in Gajaria upazila of Munshiganj on Thursday after being confronted over illegal sand extraction, injuring at least one person...
The Kremlin on Thursday ruled out giving back Ukrainian regions it claims to have annexed as part of a future peace deal, setting out a major red line as Russian and US officials met in Istanbul for a new round of talks aimed at normalising relations...
Labour and employment adviser Brigadier General (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain on Thursday said that the government would pay the dues of the laid-off workers of 14 industrial units at the Beximco Industrial Park in phases from March 9...
The Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry signed an agreement at Sharjah chamber on Thursday with an aim to expand export of Bangladeshi products to Sharjah and increase bilateral investment...
Walton has launched digital signage display under CiNEXA brand, said a press release...
IT HAS the feeling of a ghastly ending, one pushed along by desperation and eagerness. First, levelling Gaza and turning it to an uninhabitable moonscape, with the promise of a territory free of Palestinians. Then, displacing and destroying the already precarious holdings of Palestinian residents in the West Bank, all the time subjecting them to curfews, arrests and...
Some staff of Narsingdi railway station have been physically assaulted allegedly by Mahmudul Hasan Chowdhury Sumon, convener of Narsingdi district town unit Juba Dal, for not paying extortion...
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked the second on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 192 at 9:25am on Thursday morning...
The police have arrested two more suspects in connection with the robbery and sexual assault case involving Rajshahi-bound bus...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party will hold an extended committee meeting today at the LD Hall premises of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban...
According to a statement from the labour and employment ministry, the advisory council committee for reviewing the Beximco Industrial Park鈥檚 labour and business situation will give a briefing at noon today at the Bangladesh Secretariat...
Textiles and jute adviser Sk Bashir Uddin on Wednesday said that some profit-mongers hampered the normal pace of country鈥檚 handloom industry misusing the government facilities given to this industry for its development...
The Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority is going to introduce a project named 鈥楨mployment Injury Scheme鈥� in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation to provide aid to the garment sector workers of Export Processing Zones, said a press release...
Southeast Bank PLC has recently organised a training workshop titled 鈥業mportance of timely and errorless reporting of Export transactions in Online Export Monitoring System鈥� for representatives of its exporter clients, said a press release...
DHAKA is home to millions. Yet, beneath its economic growth and cultural vibrancy lies a grim and unsettling reality 鈥� an alarming rise in rape and violent crimes. The growing incidence of sexual violence, particularly against women and children, poses a grave threat to public safety, human rights and the well-being of society as a whole. Addressing this crisis requires...
Mayer Dak, a platform of families of enforced disappearance victims, on Tuesday submitted formal complaints to the office of the chief prosecutor at the International Crimes Tribunal, about 100 cases of enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killing...
No case was filed till Tuesday night over Monday鈥檚 clash between Bangladesh Air Force personnel and locals reportedly over the construction of an airbase on Khas land in Samitipara area in Cox鈥檚 Bazar that left a man dead and scores of others injured...
Many primary and secondary level students across the country are going to over a month-long holiday while they have yet to get all free textbooks from the government.
Leaders of Garment Sramik Oikya Forum, a garment workers鈥� rights body, on Tuesday at a press conference demanded immediate release of its Ashulia thana committee president Khorshed Alam and Beximco garment factory workers as well as resolution to crisis of the factories...
The National Board of Revenue, in an instruction issued on Tuesday, clarified that supershops selling goods at the maximum retail price cannot charge an additional value added tax from their customers as the VAT will be included in the retail prices or MRP...
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked the third on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 187 at 9:00am on Tuesday morning...
The road transport and bridges ministry on Monday changed names of four highways and eight bridges across the country, including the name of the expressway on the Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga route...
London Grace International School, dedicated to fostering excellence in academics and athletics for 29 years, held its annual sports event at Strikers Field in Mohammadpur, Dhaka on Monday...
