Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) continued its effort to revive the social interaction with community-based programme like Paara Utshob. In association with DNCC and Gulshan Society, ‘Her... Read more
BSS: The government has fixed an all-time record target of producing 73,523 tonnes of mustard from 49,290 hectares of land for Rangpur agriculture region during this Rabi season. Officials o... Read more
Railway authorities have decided to halt rail communication between Dhaka and Narayanganj for three and a half months. The decision will come into effect from December 4. Decision to halt ra... Read more
Mehedi Hasan, Dhaka: It was not very long ago when edible oil was out of the market. Consumers were not getting the oil in the markets as it was hoarded by unscrupulous traders across the co... Read more
A Dhaka court yesterday asked Rab to submit the probe report in the Sagar-Runi murder case by December 1. The date for submitting the report has already been extended 93 times. Another Dhaka... Read more
Our Correspondent, Patuakhali: Construction of the bridge over the Lohalia river on the Patuakhali-Dashmina road has not been completed even after 10 years. The structural work of the 576-me... Read more
BSS: A mobile court arrested 20 fishermen along with current nets, fishing boats and Hilsha for violating the government’s ongoing 22-day ban on Hilsha fishing conducting separate driv... Read more
Kishoreganj, Bangladesh: A daylong training workshop to increase the capacity of journalists in preparing human rights reports effectively was held in Kishoreganj. Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sa... Read more
Bangladesh News Desk: Disruption in power supply led to a chaotic situation in petrol pumps in Dhaka on Tuesday. According to petrol pump operators, soon after the national grid failed at 2.... Read more
Staff Correspondent: Some 10-15 fake currency rackets are producing and circulating counterfeit notes with a face value of upto Tk 15 crore across the country every month, say detectives. Th... Read more
BSS: Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today handed over the Shuddhachar (integration) Award for the 2021-22 fiscal to the selected employees of his ministry and its subo... Read more
BSS: A Police Freedom Fighters Memorial Museum has been opened here aimed at letting the present and future generations know about their greatest contribution and supreme sacrifice of the gr... Read more
Bangladesh News Desk: Food Friendly Programme (FFP) and Open Market Sale (OMS) of rice began across the country on Thursday to reduce the hardship of low-income people caused by the price hi... Read more
UNB: The workers of the country’s 167 tea plantations, including 92 in Moulvibazar, continued their indefinite strike for the 16th day Thursday demanding that they are paid Tk300-a-day wages... Read more
UNB: Tea garden workers, who rejected the wage hike by Tk 25 to Tk 145 a day staged demonstrations on Dhaka-Sylhet highway and Airport Road in Sylhet on Sunday demanding Tk 300 as their dail... Read more
The government has decided to increase the fare for vehicles to cross the ferries by 20 percent across the country due to the increase in the price of fuel. Chairman of Bangladesh Inland Wat... Read more
UNB: The body of a boatman was fished out of the Buriganga river at Bashpatti in Keraniganj early Wednesday, nearly four hours after he went missing, said police. The deceased was identified... Read more
Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) held a seminar titled “Right to Information (RTI) Act in Investigative Journalism” on Saturday. Some 30 reporters from newspapers, televisions and online news por... Read more
UNB, Thakurgaon: Forced by poverty, a day labour Matiur Rahman, 46, from Baliadangi upazila of Thakurgaon, has decided to sell his seven-month-old baby girl Sammi to arrange money to run his... Read more
UNB: Wasfia Nazreen has become the first Bangladeshi to scale Pakistan’s K2, the second-highest mountain in the world. The 39-year-old Wasfia completed this mission with 11 other summi... Read more
