This year’s Ramadan is still a couple of days away, but a segment of traders already appears eager to increase profit margins by raising the prices of different commodities. The government however claims to be on to them, and has taken various initiatives to keep the market stable during the holy month. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed officials to ...

Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the people of the country will never allow the BNP-Jamaat alliance to assume power again to play ducks and drakes with their fate. “Those who carried out bomb, grenade and bullet attacks, smuggled in 10-truck arms and misappropriated the money of the public and the orphans will never ...

606 more families of Sylhet are going to get houses under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s shelter project. The prime minister will inaugurate the program of handing over the house keys on March 22. The concerned said that Fenchuganj, Dakshin Surma, Kanighat and Jaintapur upazilas will be declared as ‘landless and homeless’ by providing land and houses to 606 families of ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said that India can use ports in Chattogram and Sylhet if they want. The Prime Minister said this while Member of the Governing Council of India Foundation, Ram Madhav, called on her at her official residence Ganabhaban. PM’s Deputy Press Secretary KM Shakhawat Moon briefed reporters after the meeting. Sheikh Hasina said that the ...

Biman’s Managing Director and CEO Shafiul Azim said they will not reduce the hajj airfare this year. He said the state-owned Biman Bangladesh Airlines will not slash this year’s hajj airfare despite calls from different quarters, including the religious affairs ministry, for reducing the ticket price. He said this at a press conference held at Balaka Bhaban in Kurmitola in ...

Bangladesh’s Hakim Ahmed Rubel and Diya Siddiqui won gold medal in the recurve mixed team event of the 2023 Asia Cup World Ranking Tournament, Stage-1 in Chinese Taipei on Sunday. Hakim and Diya’s pair beat their Kazakhstan opponents by 5-3 sets in the final of recurve mixed team event. Hakim and Rubel bounced back losing the first set by 38-36 ...

A Dhaka court on Sunday framed charges against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and four others in the Niko graft case. The trial of the case formally began today through charge framing. Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-9 Judge Sheikh Hafizur Rahman framed the charges and set May 23 for deposition in the case. Three other accused former acting secretary for energy ministry ...

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said traders have agreed to reduce the prices of sugar by Tk 5 per kg after the reduction in import duty on both raw and refined sugar last month. “As the import duty has been slashed, the prices of sugar can be reduced by Tk 4.5. However, we have requested the traders to reduce it by ...

Star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has completed his graduation from the American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB) and attended the convocation ceremony at the capital on Sunday. Just the day after achieving yet another milestone of scoring seven thousand ODI runs where Shakib scored a magnificent 93 run knock that helped Bangladesh to register their biggest win in ODIs over Ireland—the champion ...

Moulvibazar Correspondent : A fire incident occurred in Lawachara National Park in Kamolganj, Moulvibazar. Officials of the forest department initially believe that the fire on Saturday evening has burnt about one acre of various types of bushes and plants. The fire broke out at around seven in the evening yesterday in the north-west of the student dormitory lake of Lauachra ...