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Banks, NBFIs borrow Tk 255b in a single day from BB

Dhaka, July 25 -- Post-closure pressure for cliental rush sends commercial banks and nonbank financial institutions into a frenzy of borrowing from the central bank, some Tk 255.21 billion in a single... Read More


Judicial commission to probe death of six people only

Dhaka, July 25 -- The judicial inquiry commission formed by the government will investigate only deaths of six people reported on July 16 during the quota movement. Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman, he... Read More


Perpetrators won't be spared: DMP

Dhaka, July 25 -- Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has started arresting the persons involved in violence and arson acts during the students' quota reform movement recently, said a high official on Wed... Read More


BNP leader Annie detained

Dhaka, July 25 -- Police have arrested BNP joint secretary general Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie on Thursday afternoon, the party says. He was arrested from a residence on Elephant Road in the capital... Read More


Prisoners of technology, are we?

Dhaka, July 25 -- Sometimes you tend to miss the old days. Life was much easier. There was no internet, no technology in that modern sense of the meaning. Not much of tension was there. In broad terms... Read More


Monsoon memories: a tribute to Qazi da & Humayun

Dhaka, July 25 -- As Shrabon clouds shroud the sky and stir a sense of nostalgia among us, today marks the arrival and departure of two literary giants: the birthday of Qazi Anwar Husain and the death... Read More


BTRC instructs IIGs to increase internet speed across country

Dhaka, July 25 -- Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has directed International Internet Gateway (IIG) operators to increase internet speeds across the country. The decision was... Read More


So near, yet so far in creation

Dhaka, July 25 -- They were the common inhabitants of one world, and they are still there even after their passing into eternity. They had many things in common, and at the same time, there were many ... Read More


Trump, Reagan and America's assassination history

Dhaka, July 25 -- It has happened again. America's gun culture has been at work yet once again. The assassination attempt on Donald Trump reveals with disturbing clarity how a society which permits pe... Read More


BTRC to summon Facebook, Tiktok authorities

Dhaka, July 25 -- The telecom regulator of Bangladesh will summon Facebook and TikTok authorities to inquire about the measures they have taken on their platforms to prevent 'rumours, defamation, hara... Read More