Unnecessary, politically motivated projects to be chopped
Planning and education adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud on Monday said that projects awaiting approval of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council...
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Global stocks diverge as US inflation data raises rate cut hopes
Global stock markets聽diverged on Wednesday after data showing US consumer price inflation eased last month raised the prospect of a September interest rate cut...
Two workers electrocuted in Narsingdi
Two workers were electrocuted and five more injured while installing new poles for Palli Bidyut at Raipura upazila in Narsingdi on Tuesday...
Power cut doubles in Bangladesh for LNG pipeline leak
A leak in the pipeline supplying liquefied natural gas at Anwara in Chattogram more than doubled load shedding on Wednesday compared with the day before...
Five-member probe committee formed over deaths during Rath Yatra
A five member committee has been formed to investigate the deaths of five people from electrocution during Rath Yatra (a Hindu religious festival) in Seujgari Amtai intersection of Bogura district town on Sunday...
Five die from electrocution in Ratha Yatra
At least five Hindu devotees were killed and fifty more were injured in electrocution while they were participating in a Ratha Yatra procession in Bogura district on...
Belal elected MBL executive committee chair
MA Khan Belal has been elected executive committee chairman of Mercantile Bank PLC鈥檚 board of directors during the bank鈥檚 443rd board meeting held on June 30, said a press release...
56-year-old woman electrocuted in Lalmonirhat
A woman died after being electrocuted in Lalmonirhat鈥檚 Aditmari upazila on Thursday.
Finance minister criticised in JS for agriculture subsidy cut
Independent lawmaker Md Nasser Shahrear Zahedee on Thursday criticised finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali for reducing subsidies in agriculture in the proposed budget for the financial year 2024-25...
Heat, power cuts likely to ruin Eid holiday聽
This Eid vacation is likely to be spent in discomfort and suffering as conditions become favourable for the ongoing humid heatwave to intensify over the period amid crises severely restricting power generation capacity...
Biden鈥檚 son convicted on all charges in gun case
A jury found Hunter Biden guilty on Tuesday of federal gun charges in a historic first criminal prosecution of the child of a sitting US president...
Executions in 2023 highest in nearly a decade: AI
Executions around the world rose to their highest number in nearly a decade in 2023, with a sharp rise in the Middle East, Amnesty International said on Wednesday...
PM Hasina witnesses draft copy of documentary 鈥楳ujib in Calcutta鈥�
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday witnessed the draft copy of the documentary titled 鈥楳ujib in Calcutta鈥� made projecting the Kolkata part of Bangladesh鈥檚 founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman鈥檚 life.....
Construction worker electrocuted to death in city
A construction worker was electrocuted to death while doing plaster works in an under-construction building in the capital鈥檚 Kalabagan area on Tuesday...
Iran hangs two women as surge in executions intensifies
Iran on Saturday hanged at least seven people, including two women, while a member of its Jewish minority is at imminent risk of execution as the Islamic republic further...
7 million face 鈥榓cute鈥� food insecurity in S Sudan: UN
More than seven million people in fragile South Sudan are at risk of acute food insecurity in the coming months, including tens of thousands at a 鈥榗atastrophic鈥� level of famine, the United Nations warned on Tuesday...
PM for divesting shares of state-owned companies
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday directed off-loading shares of the state-owned companies into the stock market...
282m faced acute hunger in 2023: UN
Food insecurity worsened around the world in 2023, with some 282 million people suffering from acute hunger due to conflicts, particularly in Gaza and Sudan, UN agencies and development groups said on Wednesday...
Load-shedding more frequent in villages
Power cuts remain far more frequent in villages than in cities, with a massive heatwave sweeping Bangladesh for about two weeks now, corroborating the...
Illegal hill cutting, grabbing of forest land must stop
THE death of a forest official at the hands of a group of soil lifters at Harinmara in Cox鈥檚 Bazar on March 31 shows the extent of the dominance of people involved...