One more death was reported from dengue in 24 hours till Saturday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 8 this year. The death has been reported in the Dhaka South City Corporation (DNCC), according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). During the period, 40 more patients were hospitalised with viral fever, ...

BNP paid homage to its founder and former President Ziaur Rahman on Sunday on the occasion of his 89th birth anniversary. Thousands of BNP leaders and activists, led by its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, placed wreaths at Zia’s Sher-e-Banglanagar grave around 11:15am They later offered fateha following a special munajat seeking salvation of the departed soul of Zia. ...

The 89th birth anniversary of the architect of multi-party democracy and founder of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman is being celebrated today. The valiant freedom fighter Ziaur Rahman, Bir Uttam, was born on this day in 1936 in Bagbari village under Nashipur Union in Gabtoli of Bogura district. Ziaur Rahman was the second of five sons of ...

Digital driving licences are to be introduced in the UK as the government looks to use technology to “transform public services”. They will be accessed on a new government smartphone app and could be accepted as a form of ID when buying alcohol, voting, or boarding domestic flights. Physical licences will still be issued, but ministers believe the voluntary digital ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has urged the interim government to focus on reducing unnecessary development activities and expenses of the government and budgetary allocation for loans to autonomous bodies instead of increasing value added tax (VAT) and supplementary duty. He made the call at a press conference titled ‘Taxes and VAT imposed by the interim government will ...

A court in Dhaka has sent former member of National Board of Revenue (NBR) Md Ratiur Rahman to jail in an arms case filed with the Bhatara police station. Metropolitan Magistrate Naznin Akhter passed the order on Saturday as Sub-Inspector Belal Hossain of the Detective Branch (DB) of police produced Matiur before the court after the expiry of a three-day ...

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Israel’s government has approved the new Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal with Hamas, paving the way for it to take effect on Sunday. The decision came after hours of discussions that continued late into the night. Two far-right ministers voted against the deal. The security cabinet earlier recommended ratifying the agreement, saying it “supports the achievement of the objectives ...

A woman was stabbed to death allegedly by her brother-in-law at Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar. The victim, Karima Begum, 42, was attacked around 7:00 PM in the market line area of Patrakhola Tea Garden under Madhabpur Union. She was the wife of Mortuz Mia and a resident of the Purbapara No-2 area in the tea garden. Police stated that the ...

Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya has said that value-added tax (VAT) has been increased ‘inconsiderately’. “We are astonished to see how inconsiderately the value-added tax was increased,” he said while delivering his introductory speech at a symposium titled ‘White Paper and Thereafter: Economic Management, Reforms, and National Budget’ at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) on Saturday. “We did not see any ...