Muhammad Ayub Ali : Vegetable prices are soaring in Dhaka’s retail markets—almost four times higher than what farmers receive in producing regions. The steep price difference, experts say, stems from multiple handovers, extortion along...
AFP : An EU mission at the Rafah border point between Gaza and Egypt will resume following the ceasefire, with the pedestrian crossing due to reopen on October 14, Italy said Friday. The EUBAM...
Staff Reporter : Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam said that there was no uncertainty over the upcoming parliamentary election scheduled to be held in early February next year. He asserted that all doubts...
Staff Reporter : Syed Manzoorul Islam, emeritus professor of English at the University of Dhaka and a distinguished writer, passed away on Friday at the age of 74. He breathed his last at 5pm...
Tasnuba Akhter Rifa : Severe impacts of climate change hits Bangladesh with rising temperature that is increasingly crossing tolerable limits. Such warming caused national economic loss of Tk 21,000 crore annually in agriculture, industrial...
Staff Reporter : The interim government in Bangladesh led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is facing serious allegations of political repression after a surge in arrests under recently amended counterterrorism laws, said Human Rights...
Staff Reporter : A Dhaka court has ordered the freezing of three bank accounts belonging to former Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, who is currently under investigation for allegedly...
Agency : Star man Hamza Choudhury found the net and Canada-based midfielder Shamit Shome struck in extra time, but Bangladesh failed to get the better of Hong Kong, China, losing 4-3 in an entertaining...
Staff Reporter : Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam, along with a dozen international activists, who were detained from the Gaza-bound aid flotilla Freedom Flotilla, have been transferred to Ketziot Prison in Israel’s Negev desert. On...
Staff Reporter : The International Crimes Tribunal has sent arrest warrants for 30 individuals, including former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) in connection with two enforced disappearance cases....
Diplomatic Correspondent : Bangladesh has welcomed the ongoing dialogue between Hamas and Israel, describing it as a positive step toward ending the devastating war in Gaza. In a statement issued by Foreign Ministry on...
