Cashing in on the growing demand for spices ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of the country, traders have increased prices of spices to earn some extra buck.

Workers of two readymade garment factories in Chattogram ended their demonstration yesterday around 15 hours after the authorities began paying due salaries.

With Eid-ul-Azha just days away, cattle markets in the port city are seeing impressive turnouts -- with sale of sacrificial animals reaching its peak.

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Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claimed to have detained two people along with 31,500 yaba pills from a microbus on Mariners’ Road in the port city on Thursday night.

Cumilla is facing a shortage of 60,000 sacrificial animals this year. Cumilla livestock officer Dr Nazrul Islam hopes that animals from other districts would fill the deficit.

Shokalia is all set to host the largest congregation during this Eid-ul-Azha, scheduled to be celebrated on Monday.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammad Javed Patwary yesterday directed all police units to undertake awareness programme on dengue fever.

At least six people were killed and nine injured in road accidents across the country yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents and news agencies.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare withdrew its transfer order for Dr AKM Rezaul Karim of Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) on Thursday.

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Brac has allocated Tk 3.5 crore to fund its post-flood relief and rehabilitation efforts in addition to its prior (July) allocation of Tk 50 lakh.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has taken adequate security measures ahead of Eid-ul-Azha at various points, including cattle markets, bus terminals, and railway stations, in the capital and elsewhere to prevent unlawful incidents, its Director General (DG) Benazir Ahmed said yesterday.

A mobile court of Rapid Action battalion (Rab) today sent a cattle trader to jail for using injections for fattening his cows at Gabtoli cattle market in capital Dhaka.

Rifat Hossain, a schoolboy of Dhaka’s Mugda area, had desired to celebrate Eid at ancestral home in Cumilla but he lost battle for life at a hospital in Dhaka.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) has delivered 16 directives for its High Court Division regarding granting anticipatory bail, saying that accused of the cases involving grave offences like murder and rape will not be granted anticipatory bail.

The government has asked all the district administrators, police superintendents and mayors across the country to keep their close watch on the cattle markets sensing chances of increasing mosquitoes breeding from the markets.

The first on-demand online food delivery company of Bangladesh ‘HungryNaki’ is completely changing its delivery fleet to clean, eco-friendly electric vehicles to deliver food to its customers.

Police claim to have arrested five suspected “self-radicalised” members of what they say a “wolf-pack of Neo-JMB” in Dhaka for allegedly planning to launch attack on law enforcers.

A physician died from electrocution during rain on the capital’s Green Road yesterday.