Dhaka, Feb. 16 -- Consumer prices in Bangladesh appeared to stabilise towards the end of 2023 but the trend did not continue into the new year. Headline inflation rose to 9.86 percent in January, up ... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 16 -- A motorcyclist has died after the two-wheeler collided head-on with a bus in Faridpur's Nagarkanda Upazila. The bus went up in flames immediately after the collision. Authorities id... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 16 -- At least seven people, including three family members, have died after a head-on collision between a bus and an autorickshaw in Mymensingh. They were all passengers on the autoricksh... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 15 -- Commercial banks will be allowed to deposit dollars and withdraw taka in an effort to meet their liquidity needs. Bangladesh's central bank informed banks of this new 'currency swap... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 15 -- The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent exams have begun at 3,007 centres across Bangladesh. As many as 2,024,192 candidates from 11 educational boards are sitting for... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 15 -- Walmart, the world-renowned chain store, wants to work more closely with Bangladesh, according to Salman F Rahman, the private industries and investment adviser to the prime minister... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 15 -- The Election Commission has set the dates for polls to 137 Upazila councils in the Chattogram and Sylhet Divisions. In the first phase, 45 councils will go to the polls on May 4. Su... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 15 -- The process of repatriating 330 people, mostly members of the Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) who fled into Bangladesh to escape an ongoing conflict between military forces and ins... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 15 -- The Russian Ambassador in Dhaka Aleksandr Mantytsky says he hopes Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's recent meeting with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will not affect the Ru... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 15 -- Love Scenes is a column recommending movies with intriguing takes on love and romance for the week of Valentine's Day. Sometimes it all gets to be too much. Events pile on themselve... Read More