BNP executive committee member Tabith Awal has won the party ticket for mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation.

The road authorities open the door to app-based transport service providers like Uber and Pathao but on two key conditions -- fares cannot be more than that of taxi services and security cannot be compromised. The government will fix or re-fix the fares if there is any discontent among passengers over those, according to the proposed guideline for the ride-hailing services.

Former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee reached Dhaka yesterday on a five-day private visit.

Persisting dense fog has been disrupting travel by air, river and road for the last four days.

One of the three suspected Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh operatives killed during Friday's Rab raid in the capital's Nakhalpara has been identified as Mezba Uddin of Comilla, said Rab.

The cold and fog may not allow the sun to shine bright on the skies of Dhaka today but the Tigers will be hoping for a bright start to the

The quality of medical care in the port city is getting a bad name in recent times, leading to immense patient sufferings. And the diagnostic centres are partly to blame.

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims raised their hands seeking divine blessings for mankind and forgiveness, as the first phase of the Biswa Ijtema concluded yesterday with the Akheri Munajat or final supplication conducted in Bangla on the Turag.

Former Awami League lawmaker Mockbul Hossain yesterday threatened that the heads of demonstrating students and interns of MH Samorita Medical College and Hospital would be blown off.

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The three-day first phase of the Biswa Ijtema, the second largest Muslim congregation after the Hajj, will end today with the Akheri Munajat (concluding prayer) in which devotees will seeking welfare of the Muslim Ummah and their spiritual well-being.

The BNP yesterday urged the government to hold talks with all stakeholders on the formation of the election-time government about which Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina spoke in her address to the nation on Friday.

Eight people -- four businessmen, three teachers and a poet -- yesterday collected forms from the Awami League seeking party ticket for Dhaka North City Corporation mayor race.

The economy has come under pressure due to the banking sector crisis, inflation and soaring imports amid inadequate export earnings and insufficient remittance inflows, the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) said yesterday.

Thousands of children saw horror unfolding in their homes in Myanmar and they fled to safety in Bangladesh after walking through jungles and hills for days.

Several thousand passengers on Paturia-Daulatdia and Shimulia-Kathalbari ferry routes were stuck for several hours on both sides of the Padma due to dense fog yesterday.

The three-day first phase of Biswa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of Muslims after Hajj, began on the banks of the Turag at Tongi after Fazr prayers yesterday.

Three suspected militants, who had holed up in a flat near the Prime Minister's Office in the capital, were killed in a Rab raid early yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday made it clear that the next general election would be held in line with constitutional provisions, meaning she would be holding office as the head of the government during the polls.

A Rohingya woman and her three children have been killed in a fire at a Rohingya transit camp in Kutupalong of Cox's Bazar.