The government plans to introduce three VAT rates of up to 10 percent instead of the current single rate of 15 percent.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the country's affluent people to come forward for the welfare of the distressed people following the example set by Ranada Prasad Shaha through his philanthropic activities.

The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police yesterday pressed charges against six people in the sensational murder case of blogger Avijit Roy.

Ten Saudi women appeared in court Wednesday for the first time since being detained last year in a sweeping crackdown on activists, ratcheting up scrutiny of the kingdom's human rights record.

The Chittagong University authorities have terminated a professor of of Sanskrit Department over allegations of forgery in examinations.

A fast-track project of the government -- establishment of the country's third deep-sea port proposed at Cox's Bazar's Sonadia -- has plunged into uncertainty.

US President Donald Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort, sentenced to 47 months in prison last week for tax and bank fraud, returned to court yesterday to find out whether he faces even more jail time.

Reporters Without Borders said Tuesday it had asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the murders of 102 journalists in Mexico from 2012 to 2018, calling the rash of killings a crime against humanity.

At least 18 construction workers were injured in Tangail as a 26-feet tall porch of an under-construction building at Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University collapsed on them early yesterday.

What was recovered from Polash Ahmed, alleged hijacker of a Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft, is a useless plastic toy gun, a ballistics test finds.

British lawmakers were yesterday set to stave off the threat of a no-deal exit from the European Union on March 29 but the second defeat of Prime Minister Theresa May's divorce treaty has left the country heading into the Brexit unknown.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon all not to put extra pressure on the children for studying instead of making education interesting and delightful to them.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader was shifted to a cabin from the ICU at Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital yesterday after his condition improved further.

The Water Development Board (WDB) is implementing an embankment project along the Halda river causing severe damage to the natural breeding ground of carp fish.

A quarter of all premature deaths and diseases worldwide are due to environmental pollution and climate change, says a landmark report of the United Nations.

Policemen would also face dope tests if suspected of being drug addicts, said Mohammad Javed Patwary, inspector general of Bangladesh police.

The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) and a number of other trade bodies yesterday joined a growing list of groups and people who are demanding scrapping of the government's plan to increase gas price further.

Air pollution causes 790,000 premature deaths every year in Europe and 8.8 million worldwide, doubling recent assessments, according to a study released Monday.

Four independent candidates, who lost in Monday's Ducsu election, began a fast unto death yesterday at the base Raju Sculpture on the Dhaka University campus, demanding re-elections and resignation of the vice-chancellor.

Turkey yesterday denounced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "blatant racism" after he called Israel the nation-state of "the Jewish people" only, not all its citizens.