The price of a 50 kg sack of flour increased from Tk1,850 to Tk2,200 in the last month, traders say Bangladesh News Desk: The prices of essential commodities, such as rice, flour, and mung d... Read more

Staff Correspondent, Dhaka: Readymade garment (RMG) workers have staged demonstrations in the capital’s press club area, rejecting the recently declared minimum wage scale for them. Un... Read more

Bangladesh News Desk: Miscreants have torched three buses in the city on Saturday evening ahead of BNP’s two-day blockade from Sunday. The incidents took part in the city’s New Market,... Read more

Bangladesh News Desk: Miscreants allegedly with ruling party connections attacked the readymade garments (RMG) workers who were demonstrating in Mirpur area today, demanding a wage hike. Sev... Read more

Staff CorrespondentDhaka: The Editors’ Council has condemned attacks on journalists centring the grand rally of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on 28 October. The Council has also express... Read more

Bangladesh News Desk: The garment factory owners proposed a minimum wage of Tk 10,400, which is half of that being asked by the workers. Sirajul Islam Rony, the workers’ representative... Read more

Bangladesh News Desk: Some eight people have succumbed to dengue fever in the last 24 hours until 8:00 am on Thursda, bringing the death toll to 1,214. An alarming 225 deaths have been recor... Read more

The Bangladesh government has taken a decision to rename the Dope Test as Drug Abuse Test, Cabinet Committee on Law and Order Chairman and Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque... Read more

Perpetrators of 55kg gold missing from Dhaka airport customs warehouse bought 150 bhories of the precious metal from Baitul Mukarram Market at Tk 1.50 crore and kept it in the vault again to... Read more

Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Imran Ahmed Bhuiyan has been removed from his post for breaching discipline by making remarks about statement on Dr Muhammad Yunus. The law ministry has issued... Read more

BSS: Farmers of Khulna become very happy as huge watermelon are growing during this off-season. Around five hundred hectares of land have been brought under watermelon cultivation exceeding... Read more

GBT Desk: A Dhaka court on Thursday awarded seven-year imprisonment to journalist Shafik Rehman, Daily Amar Desh acting Editor Mahmudur Rahman and three other people in a case filed for plot... Read more

UNB: Due to heavy rains and landslides, the local administration has banned movement of all types of water vessels in Rangamati’s Kaptai Lake until further notice. Rangamati Deputy Commissio... Read more

BSS: In the last couple of years, a silent revolution has happened in both farming and yield of mango in the region, including its vast Barind tract, vibrating the local economy. Witnessing... Read more

UNB: Addressing the paradigm-shifting roles of youths across the world and their impactful works, the 2023 Diana Award on Friday put the spotlight on over 189 youths including nine Banglades... Read more

Bangladesh News Desk: The third joint coordinating committee meeting of Dhaka Road Traffic Safety Project (DRSP) was held at Dhaka Metropolitan Police Headquarters (DMP) on Monday. The senio... Read more

If moon is sighted, Eid-ul-Azha will be celebrated on June 29. People will get advance bus tickets from June 13 for going home to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha with near and dear ones. Shuvankar Gho... Read more

BSS: Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim today said the government has declared the Halda River, the only natural fisheries breeding centre of the country, as “Bangabandhu... Read more

UNB: The Coast Guard on Wednesday rescued 21 fishermen who were floating in the Bay of Bengal for 15 days as their trawler engine failed in the middle of the sea while fishing. Lt Commander... Read more