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
UNB: Passengers will no longer be allowed to travel on top of trains in Bangladesh. In a landmark order aimed at curbing the menace, the High Court (HC) on Thursday asked the railway authori... Read more
Bangladesh authorities must thoroughly and swiftly investigate the disappearance and death of journalist Hasibur Rahman Rubel, determine if he was killed for his work, and hold any perpetrat... Read more
Tuhin Shubhra Adhikary, Dhaka: The comparatively short Eid vacation and the ban on motorcycles on the highways resulted in high demand for public transport before Eid. Taking advantage of th... Read more
Bangladesh News Desk: People of south-western districts residing in Dhaka and its adjacent areas have joined the Eid rush for village homes to celebrate the festival with relatives. Earlier,... Read more
Asif Showkat Kallol, Dhaka: The tanners have planned to buy hides and skins of the sacrificial animals at lower prices defying a commerce ministry guideline to this end, a commerce ministry... Read more
BSS: Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) is set to begin special bus service from Monday with the view to easing the movement of homebound people for celebrating Eid-ul-azha with th... Read more
Bangladesh Railway started selling advance train tickets on Friday (July 1) morning on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. Selling advance train tickets will continue till July 5. Tickets will be s... Read more
Tomorrow (July 1) is the sixth anniversary of the horrendous attack on Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan of the capital. On this day in 2016, five militants equipped with firearms, bombs and m... Read more
The incessant rain has started in Assam and West Bengal, which will cause onrush of upstream water to Bangladesh through Brahmaputra and Teesta rivers. According to the flood forecasting and... Read more
The home of Bayezid Talha, who has been arrested for removing nuts and bolts from a railing of Padma Bridge, in Patuakhali was vandalised on Monday. A group of people chanting slogans of Ban... Read more
Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) and Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) have expressed concern over attack on two journalists at their work station. The journalist leaders urged... Read more