Reforms needed to sustain growth

Bangladesh needs to come up with reforms at the earliest to sustain the growth momentum which has landed it among the five fastest growing economies in the world, the World Bank said yesterday.
4 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Negotiations, not conflict

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said Bangladesh would keep up its efforts to repatriate displaced Rohingyas through negotiations and not by engaging in conflict with Myanmar.
4 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Press charge if AL leader works against narco drive

Charges should be pressed against any ruling party men who would lobby for not taking action against drug dealers, Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder told a views-exchange meeting yesterday.
4 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Crazy pills spill via new routes

A new strategy of yaba smuggling, involving fresh routes and hundi traders, has been at work since the surrender of 102 godfathers and dealers in Cox's Bazar in February.
4 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Police, jute mill workers clash in Khulna

The three-day countrywide work abstention of workers of different state-owned jute mills ended yesterday amid violence when police and workers clashed in Khulna, leaving 16 people injured.
4 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Ripped off by a syndicate

A syndicate in Biman had been blocking the sale of tickets online and channeling those to the black market with the help of some unscrupulous travel agents, a civil aviation ministry probe revealed.
4 April 2019, 18:00 PM

128 shops burnt in Khilgaon market fire

At least 128 shops were gutted in a fire that swept through Khilgaon City Corporation kitchen market in the capital early yesterday, said traders.
4 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Rangamati 7-Murder: Suspect killed in ‘shootout’

A suspect in the Rangamati seven-murder was killed in a “gunfight” with members of joint forces in Naikhongchhari upazila yesterday.
3 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Don't raise prices of essentials in Ramadan

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon the businessmen not to raise the prices of essentials, including sugar and edible oil, during the upcoming Ramadan.
3 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Locals face graver food insecurity

Locals in Cox's Bazar are facing increased food insecurity as an impact of the influx of Rohingya refugees, according to a global report released yesterday.
3 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Air pollution killed 1.23 lakh in 2017

Indoor and outdoor air pollution led to 1.23 lakh deaths in Bangladesh in 2017, according to a new study on global air pollution.
3 April 2019, 18:00 PM

From digital to manual

Fitness checks of all buses and trucks registered with BRTA Mirpur office are being done manually, as the only automated vehicle inspection system that had been working broke down three months ago.
3 April 2019, 18:00 PM

BCL activists assault Ducsu VP Nur

Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists yesterday assaulted Ducsu vice-president Nurul Haq Nur and confined him for at least two
2 April 2019, 18:00 PM

No tax hike in next budget

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal yesterday outlined an ambitious budget plan for the next fiscal year without putting extra burden of tax on people.
2 April 2019, 18:00 PM

2 Bangladeshis on Forbes 30 Under 30 list

This year's Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list, prepared by Forbes magazine, announced the names of young trailblazers yesterday, in 20 industries and categories.
2 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Rajib's Death in Race of Buses: No compensation, no justice yet

One year has gone by but the family members of Rajib Hossain, who died after losing his hand that got stuck between two buses in the capital, neither got justice nor any compensation.
2 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Subarnochar Rape: Three more accused arrested

Three more accused were arrested yesterday in connection with the latest “gang rape” of a mother of six in Noakhali's Subarnachar upazila on Sunday.
2 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Buildings outside Dhaka risky too

Some recent fire tragedies in the capital, including the one that left 26 people dead in Banani on March 28, once again exposed an abysmal fire safety in the city.
2 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Planning goes haywire

Rajuk is approving commercial buildings in the residential areas of Gulshan and Banani with virtually no height limits and experts are calling it illegal and a recipe for disaster.
1 April 2019, 18:00 PM

'Gang rape' again at Subarnachar

A mother of six, aged about 48, was allegedly gang-raped in Noakhali's Subarnachar upazila on Sunday evening over “campaigning for an upazila vice chairman candidate”.
1 April 2019, 18:00 PM