Bangladesh Bank has unearthed another string of scams at the Farmers Bank involving loans of around Tk 500 crore that were sanctioned to 11 companies in violation of banking norms and procedures. Of the amount, loans of more than Tk 367 crore that the bank's Motijheel branch gave to 10 of the companies from November 2013 to November last year have become defaulted. Some of the firms are either obscure or little-known.

Moments before impact, the pilot of the US-Bangla flight BS211 yanked the Bombardier Dash-8 to miss the Air Traffic Control tower

He wanted to be a banker but a single incident on this day in 2011 changed his life forever.

Giving credit to people for meeting the eligibility criteria for Bangladesh's graduation to a developing country, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the people can achieve anything. “It is an achievement of the people of Bangladesh. I think the country's people are the main source of all power. They can achieve anything,” she said.

March 23 is Pakistan Resolution Day and on this day, in 1971, Pakistan's flag was supposed to be hoisted atop buildings and

Pakistan's president Yahya Khan declared postponement of March 25 National Assembly saying it was deferred to create unity among

Six people were killed in two accidents involving as many trains in Feni and Rajshahi yesterday.

The government has chalked out a two-day programme from today to celebrate the country's eligibility to graduate to a

Thirty-two years ago, Abdul Kader was going to a local cattle market in Saatmile area of Jessore with two cattle he had brought from

In 2007, a villager was killed as two groups clashed over the theft of a cow in Companiganj upazila of Sylhet. It took one year to complete the investigation of the murder case. Another seven years was taken to finish the trial. The pursuit of delayed justice resulted in nothing; in the verdict delivered in 2015, no one was punished.

A Biman flight to Saidpur had to return to Dhaka and make an emergency landing at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport following a technical issue yesterday.

The identities of the three remaining Bangladeshi victims of the US-Bangla aircraft crash were confirmed yesterday.

A significant development of the day was the arrival of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Dhaka. The chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party had been asked by President Yahya Khan to come to Dhaka and join the negotiations the regime was conducting with the Awami League.

The police inspector who was shot by armed criminals in the capital's Pirerbagh early yesterday has died at a hospital.

The draft national defence policy provides for the formation of a national security committee headed by the prime minister to make necessary recommendations for the government to ensure state security.

Mosquitoes have developed no new “hyper-reproductive capacity” but they are being farmed in Dhaka. When Dhaka-dwellers are finding it hard to cope with the growing mosquito menace, eleven organisations have been found helping the insect population to rise by the millions every day.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who landed in jail on February 8 upon conviction in a graft case, has to wait for one and a half months more to know if she can enjoy her bail secured from the High Court a week ago.

The fourth meeting between Pakistani president Yahya Khan and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had begun, but under

Ever since the news of Pilot Abid Sultan's death in the US-Bangla plane crash came, all Tamjid, his only son, tried to do was make sure his mother was in a stable condition.

A small dot appeared in the sky above Dhaka and it gradually got larger. The plane carrying the bodies of Bangladeshi victims of last week's crash in Kathmandu arrived around 4:00pm yesterday.