Victim slipped while lifting table on roof, says brother

Inaugurates pilot programme providing monthly honorariums to religious leaders

Protest created traffic congestion on the highway for 20 minutes

New Cumilla well to add 8–10 mmcfd gas as part of 180-day plan to increase supply

Wants govt to convene session in parliament by tomorrow

Sadar Ali from Habiganj among Bangladeshis killed in Maldives fire

Fish of the Habiganj river carry 1.7 microplastic particles on average, it says

Five Bangladeshi migrant workers in the Maldives were killed and two other fellow countrymen were critically injured in a fire that broke out at an expatriate accommodation block early yesterday morning on Dhigurah Island, about 100 kilometres from capital Malé.

A heavy cloud of shock and sorrow hung over Shehla Buniya village under Bagerhat’s Mongla municipal area yesterday.

Bangladesh should immediately cancel the recently signed trade deal with the US because the terms and conditions of the agreement hardly protect the interests of the country, said noted economist Anu Muhammad yesterday.

The government has finalised a plan to import five lakh tonnes of urea fertiliser as a precautionary measure amid fears that a prolonged US-Israel war on Iran could disrupt Bangladesh’s fertiliser supply after June.

A group of 41 eminent citizens, the Gonotantrik Jukta Front, and the Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigoshthi yesterday strongly condemned a condolence motion in the 13th Jatiya Sangsad that honoured “Razakars (collaborators of the Pakistani army)” and others convicted of crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.

Sudden hailstorms hit parts of the capital yesterday, accompanied by strong winds and rain.

Bangladesh has called upon the Japanese side to promptly submit a revised proposal on the operation and maintenance of the third terminal at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. T

Nur Mohammad Nayeem had boarded the Lalmoni Express from Joydebpur Railway Station on the night of March 5.

Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmed yesterday said parliament will be centerpiece of building a prosperous state by implementing the goals including equality, human dignity and social justice of the Liberation War.

The brain surgery on Mirza Abbas, a member of the BNP Standing Committee and political adviser to the prime minister, has been successfully completed.

The United States Trade Representative (USTR) yesterday announced investigations into 60 economies, including Bangladesh, in relation ​to what it called failures to take action on forced labor.

On a recent Thursday afternoon, traffic pressure was high at the Sonargaon intersection in Dhaka.

Low prices through the end of this decade may make liquefied natural gas (LNG) temporarily more attractive, but they could obscure the long-term risks for developing economies like Bangladesh, according to the latest briefing by the Global Energy Monitor (GEM).