Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives today to join the celebrations of Mujib Borsho and golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon people to take a vow on the auspicious moment of the Golden Jubilee of Independence that no one could play with their fate.

The state coffer was empty after Bangladesh’s nine-month-long Liberation War. Poverty, hunger, natural disasters, famine, crumbling infrastructure, political turmoil, and coups in the first decade of Bangladesh’sinception did not paint a picture that would radiate hope.

Newspaper owners yesterday urged the government to waive import duty on newsprint and cut corporate tax on the industry for the next fiscal year.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged political leaders and policymakers of South Asia to work in unison.

Sazzad Hossain was waiting to buy food for his family of four at a restaurant in Mohammadpur’s Zakir Hossain Road. They could not cook anything at home because of a gas crisis.

The Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine is safe and effective and has no serious side effect like blood clot, says Bangladeshi-born British scientist Dr Khondoker Mehedi Akram.

In the wake of the second Covid-19 wave in the country, the government’s efforts to check virus transmission and ensure treatment are still inadequate in view of the ground reality.

The government has plans to build an underground railway network with 258 kilometres of tracks in Dhaka and ease congestion on the roads.

Three people were killed in an explosion inside a house in Gaibandha’s Gobindaganj upazila yesterday afternoon.

At least 25 protesters and two photojournalists were injured as Chhatra League men on the Dhaka University campus yesterday attacked a demonstration protesting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming visit to Bangladesh.

Over the last few months, plagiarism at the country’s premier university has been a hotly debated topic in the world of academia.

A Dhaka tribunal yesterday sentenced 14 militants to death and ordered that they be “publicly” executed by the firing squad for attempting to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2000.

The health directorate yesterday reported the highest number of new Covid-19 cases in nearly nine months.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a bilateral meeting with her Bhutanese counterpart Dr Lotay Tshering at her office today to discuss ways of enhancing connectivity.

A little-known temple in a remote village in the country’s southern district of Satkhira suddenly came under the spotlight when the itinerary of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi included the sacred place for the Hindus.

Fleeing a crackdown by the Myanmar military, 35-year-old Chubera Begum, along with her four children, arrived in Ukhiya from Rakhine State in August, 2017. She then found shelter in a tent at Balukhali camp, the largest refugee camp in the world.

Dhaka Wasa has again proposed hiking water prices by five percent for residential and commercial uses from July 1.

As deaths from Covid-19 and the number of new cases continue rising, experts fear the transmission rate may rise further in the coming weeks.

Eminent journalist and Editor and Publisher of the daily Janakantha Mohammad Atiqullah Khan Masud passed away yesterday morning.