Bagda Shrimp has got GI certificate as a geographical indication product of Bangladesh. Recently, it has been recognised by the Department of Patents, Designs and Trademarks. The registrar o... Read more
Mehedi Hasan: Kamrul Hasan, an executive of a private company, lives along with his four-member family in the capital’s Mirpur area. He needs five to seven litres of soybean oil per month. B... Read more
BSS: Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) has setup a rice museum, which is first of it’s kind in the country, at BRRI premises in Gazipur aiming to equip people with modern rice farmin... Read more
Bangladesh News Desk: Jatiya Party (JaPa) lawmaker Syed Abu Hossain said the state has failed to ensure the natural death of an innocent girl even after 50 years of independence. “Why... Read more
Bangladesh News Desk: Chief of Army Staff General S M Shafiuddin Ahmed has become the ‘Ninth Colonel of the Regiment’ of the Regiment of Artillery of the Bangladesh Army. The attractive and... Read more
Violence against women and girls may be the world’s “longest, deadliest pandemic,” the UN chief has said during an event focused on the role boys and men need to play, to help eliminate gend... Read more
The place will be open to public from morning till 10pm every day Nafiu Nabil, Dhaka: A once abandoned area littered with trash has been revamped into a beautiful open space for book lovers... Read more
A billion-year-old black diamond, believed to be the world’s largest cut diamond, has sold for £3.16m ($4.3m). Named The Enigma, the 555.55 carat gem, which weighs about the same as a... Read more
UNB: With about 24,00km of waterways Bangladesh boasts of a wide network river routes. Waterways have been the common, traditional and cheaper mode of transportation for the people here. But... Read more
UNB, Chandpur: An inter-city train service between Chandpur and Sylhet has long been a demand for the people of the country’s south and south-western region. Thousands of people from the reg... Read more
BSS/AFP: Archeologists in Peru working on a site in the outskirts of the capital Lima have unearthed a mummy believed to be between 800 and 1,200 years old – and, surprisingly, bound w... Read more
UNB: Tashnuva Anan Shishir, who made history in becoming Bangladesh’s first-ever transgender woman news presenter on a television channel, has been featured in the prestigious Time Magazine... Read more
About 326 pirates operating in the Sundarbans surrendered their weapons and ammunition to Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from 2016 to 2018. The government will now provide them with houses and... Read more
Government officials argue the move is meant to “improve BSF’s operational efficiency” and “crack down on smuggling rackets”, drawing sharp criticism from West Bengal and Panjab minist... Read more
This is the peak period when the marine fish swims against the tide to spawn in rivers Dhaka Tribune: A 22-day ban on catching, selling, hoarding, and transporting of ilish or hilsa will com... Read more
UNB, Rajshahi: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members arrested Roushan alias Uday Mondol, death row convict in JSD leader Kazi Aref Ahmed murder case, at Bharalipara in Rajshahi city on Wednes... Read more
The world has changed a lot since the first user got registered for Facebook. Today there is hardly any area that has not witnessed change after the surge of social media. Agriculture is no... Read more
UNB, Dhaka: Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has arrested four alleged members of an international women trafficking gang, including its ring leader Ashraful Mandal alias Boss Rafi and his close... Read more
A 12 kg LPG to be sold at Tk 842 instead of Tk 906 UNB, Dhaka: The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has re-fixed the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) of private companies... Read more
UNB, Cox’s Bazar: The carcass of a humpback whale washed ashore on the Himchhari beach adjacent to Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf marine drive on Friday morning. Locals found the rotting carcass w... Read more
