Dhaka, Jan. 8 -- The Bangladesh government has expanded its list of essential medicines to 295 by adding 135 more drugs and has decided to fix their selling prices, aiming to improve access to treatme... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 8 -- The Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources has recommended cutting value-added tax (VAT) on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) imports to below 10 percent by reinstating a 15 perc... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 8 -- Eastern Bank PLC (EBL) has launched a month-long Entrepreneur Development Training Program as part of its ongoing efforts to support entrepreneurship in Bangladesh. The program is be... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 8 -- The Bangladesh government has issued the Forest and Tree Ordinance 2026 with the aim of preventing the occupation of forest land, regulating the use of forest land for non-forest purp... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 8 -- A man has been killed in a crude bomb explosion in Zajira upazila of Shariatpur. Police believe the man died while making a crude bomb when it exploded early Thursday in the Mulai Be... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 8 -- Dhaka University's top policy-making body, the syndicate, has recommended the senate to rename five campus facilities named after Sheikh Hasina's family, including two residential hal... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 8 -- Mobile internet subscriptions in Bangladesh declined to their lowest level in more than two years in November 2025, highlighting a growing disconnect between headline mobile connectiv... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 8 -- Labour leaders have proposed a 15-point workers' manifesto to political parties, urging them to prioritise workers' rights in their respective election manifestos for the upcoming nat... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 8 -- Candidates backed by Islami Chhatra Shibir have captured all three top posts in the Jagannath University Central Students' Union (JnUCSU), cementing the group's dominance in campus po... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 8 -- A higher inflow of remittances prompts the central bank to scale up intervention in the foreign-exchange market to forestall any imbalance in dollar-taka exchange rates and avoid its ... Read More