The High Commission of India in Dhaka arranges a cycle rally to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

Dhaka dwellers welcomed the first day of monsoon today with light showers and thunderbolts. Today is the first day of Bangla month Ashar, and the welcome rain offered city dwellers a big relief from the scorching heat.

A house help was found dead in between two buildings in Sylhet city yesterday.

Chattogram Shah Amanat International Airport officials arrested a UAE-bound passenger with 60,000 dirham and US $300 yesterday.

A member of security staff at Chattogram Port was killed as he was hit by a crane on Thursday night.

An elderly man was arrested yesterday for raping a nine-year-old. The arrestee is Shamsu Mallik, 75, from Rupsha upazila in Khulna.

Kaimuddin was pulling his rickshaw-van with his wife Anwara Begum sitting on it. After receiving a loan from an NGO office, the couple was returning to their Kumrar Char village home in Panchagarh. When they reached Proshika intersection, a microbus hit the rickshaw-van from behind.

Police recovered the slit-throat body of a man from the driver’s seat of a car in the capital’s Uttara early yesterday.

Availability of date-expired medicines in the country’s drugstores is “not unusual” and there is “no reason to be worried”, said Nazmul Hasan Papon, president of Bangladesh Association of Pharmaceutical Industries, yesterday.

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Millions of migrant workers will be at risk of debt bondage in Malaysia if employers deduct 20 percent of their salaries to prevent them from fleeing workplaces, two rights bodies said in a statement on Thursday.

The budget for fiscal year 2019-20 is traditional, proposes an impossible revenue collection target and will be difficult to implement, three renowned economists of the country conveyed yesterday.

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The proposed national budget has offered 7.8 percent of total budget as climate financing in the coming fiscal, aiming at ensuring sustainable development, protection of environment, containing pollution, protection of biodiversity and tackling adverse impacts of climate change.

I recently attended my daughter’s graduation from Cornell University. The important day - one of pride and happiness for our entire family - recognized her four years of hard work in two fields: Mathematics and Statistical Science. For me it had additional significance. That’s because me and my son also graduated from the same university.

Main political opposition BNP terms the budget for fiscal 2019-20 highly ambitious.

Tahera Khandker has been appointed as the general manager for public relations of Biman Bangladesh Airlines.

The proposed national budget for 2019-20 fiscal year will ensure facilities only to high-income people, says Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) distinguished fellow Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya.

Bangladesh government has planned to build 60 thousand flats under the public-private partnership (PPP) system in Purbachal, which is a new city of Dhaka.

Passengers commuting on the roof of Chattala Express were robbed at knifepoint on Wednesday.