Bank directors seek longer loan tenures

The Bangladesh Association of Banks (BAB) yesterday asked the central bank to further relax the repayment tenure for term loans and working capital.
8 February 2021, 18:00 PM

ACC should not act like a toothless tiger: HC

The High Court yesterday observed that the Anti-Corruption Commission should not act like a toothless tiger in combatting corruption and irregularities.
7 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga Expressway: Toll collection likely to start from July

The government is likely to start collecting tolls from vehicles using the country’s first expressway -- Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga Expressway -- from July.
7 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Tusher-Wife Meet in Jail: Prison officials aided the crime

A probe has found that Hallmark General Manager Tushar Ahmed spent around two hours with a woman at a prison officer’s room in Kashimpur Central Jail-1.
7 February 2021, 18:00 PM

2.57 lakh acres of forest occupied

Over 1.60 lakh individuals and organisations have grabbed 2.57 lakh acres of forest land across the country, the forest department reported to a Jatiya Sangsad committee yesterday.
7 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Mayers scripts incredible win for Windies

What transpired on the fifth day of the first Test between Bangladesh and West Indies at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram yesterday will probably be regarded as one of the most amazing comebacks ever.
7 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Get vaccinated, protect people

Mehedi Hasan took his weak and elderly mother to the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University vaccination centre around noon yesterday.
7 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Mass Inoculation: Fanfare, hope mark first day

The Covid vaccination kick-started across the country yesterday amid much fanfare with ministers, freedom fighters, bureaucrats and eminent citizens joining the inoculation campaign.
7 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Ask delegation to explain

Seven human rights groups have urged the United Nations to use its meetings with senior Bangladeshi military officials next week to seek explanations regarding an Al Jazeera report that alleged controversial purchase of a highly invasive spyware from Israel.
6 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Coup in Myanmar: Military imposes internet blackout

Myanmar saw its largest anti-coup protests yet yesterday with young demonstrators spilling on to the streets to denounce the country’s new military regime, despite a nationwide internet blackout aimed at stifling a growing chorus of popular dissent.
6 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Akhaura-Sylhet Rail Line: Derailments all too frequent

After a freight train carrying diesel derailed at Gutigaon village of Sylhet’s Fenchuganj around Friday midnight, the fuel spilled from the tank wagons. Hearing the news, several locals rushed to the spot with whatever they had and started collecting the diesel.
6 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Daily Covid cases drop to 10-month low

The health directorate yesterday reported 305 new Covid-19 cases, the lowest daily number in 10 months after the first three cases were recorded in the country on March 8 last year.
6 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Put them before people’s court

The High Court has observed in a verdict that it is about time corrupt military and civil officials and staffers, and judges were put before the court of people in order to establish the rule of law.
6 February 2021, 18:00 PM

UK PM Boris Johnson may visit this year

Bangladesh is expecting visits by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and several other VVIPs to Bangladesh this year on the occasion of the country’s 50 years of independence and of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
6 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Mass Vaccination: Poor response poses a stiff challenge

The coronavirus vaccine is being rolled out across the country today amid lukewarm interest from the people in getting the shots.
6 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Coup in Myanmar: Protests grow amid arrests

Several hundred teachers and students protested at a Myanmar university yesterday as the military widened a dragnet against officials ousted in a coup that has drawn global condemnation and the threat of new sanctions.
5 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Compensation for Rape Victims: Crippled law cares little

Compensation for rape victims and their family members remains elusive in the existing criminal justice system, with a clear mandate absent in the relevant law, say legal experts.
5 February 2021, 18:00 PM

3 crushed to death in road accident

Three men were crushed to death in a road accident on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Narayanganj’s Kanchpur area yesterday.
5 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Tigers on top despite late stutter

Despite taking a big lead in the first innings, Bangladesh are still in some discomfort after West Indies managed to dismiss their top three batsman at the end of the third day of the first Test at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram yesterday.
5 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Kashimpur Central Jail: Govt sacks jail super, jailer

The home ministry sacked a senior jail superintendent and a jailer of Kashimpur Central Jail-1 for letting an inmate spend time with a woman inside a prison officer’s room.
5 February 2021, 18:00 PM