If one was to list the work Brac, the organisation Sir Fazle Hasan Abed built, has done or how it has contributed to Bangladesh’s development, the task would be next to impossible.

DS: Bangladesh’s priority in the dialogue will be withdrawal of the US sanctions on Rab and reinstatement of the Generalised System of Preferences facility that was suspended in 2013. Do you think that Bangladesh will be able to make any headway?

He played a pivotal role at the crucial juncture in the country’s history, resolutely steering the nation’s transition to parliamentary democracy from an autocratic rule.

Heading into 2022, expectations were that Bangladesh would try to find ways to rejuvenate their spirits after a dismal 2021. But three months into the year, Bangladesh have hit heights that few could have imagined.

The Payra area in Patuakhali is going to be a major economic hub with a sea port, a special economic zone, an airport and the country’s biggest coal-fired power plant that will officially launch operation tomorrow.

The prices of edible oil have gone up at the wholesale level yesterday despite the 30 percent tax exemption at the import and production stages.

Ukraine’s leader yesterday charged Moscow with building a new Cold War wall across Europe “between freedom and bondage”, as his government said Russian shelling had killed 21 civilians near one city.

The demand for the reintroduction of ration cards has been growing in recent times with the continued rise in the price of essentials.

Nasima Begum, in the advanced stages of pregnancy and carrying her two-year-old, was waiting for over two hours at the designated point in the capital’s Kazipara Bus Stand for a TCB truck to arrive with daily essentials.

New talk of compromise from both Moscow and Kyiv on a status for Ukraine outside of Nato lifted hope yesterday for a potential breakthrough after three weeks of war.

On a day in early 2017, an ACC commissioner (investigation) ordered an assistant director to rush to Narail’s Lohagara upazila and probe a graft allegation centring on the social safety net programme.

The birth of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on March 17, 1920, was a momentous occasion that coincided with the changing contours of the subcontinent.

As the prices of daily essentials continue to soar, the government has decided to sell several essential goods at subsidised prices to 88 lakh selected low-income families outside the capital from Sunday.

Even though the government on Monday partially removing VAT on edible oils, consumers have yet to get any relief as traders have not reduced prices as of yesterday. 

Three European prime ministers rode a train for Kyiv yesterday, the first visit by foreign leaders to the Ukrainian capital since Russia launched its invasion, and a striking symbol of Ukraine’s success so far in fending off Russia’s assault.

Russia continued its bombardment of Ukrainian cities, with two person killed in airstrikes on a block of flats in the capital Kyiv yesterday, as the Kremlin said it may still opt to take control of large cities.

Amid public outcry over the spiralling prices of edible oils, the government yesterday partially removed VAT on refined palm and soybean oil, but it is not likely to greatly ease the consumers’ burden.

Bangladesh women’s cricket team immortalised their maiden 50-over ICC World Cup appearance by overcoming Pakistan in a nine-run nail-biter as the Tigresses registered their inaugural win of the mega event in Hamilton yesterday.

In the history of Ponzi schemes, there is no example of equitable justice. There is only one outcome: the house of cards comes crashing down, the mastermind is hauled off to jail, and the victims are the ones hung out to dry.

A haha reaction on a Facebook post has led to a deadly clash in Gazipur, leaving a 17-year-old boy and two others dead and four injured on Saturday night.