Dragon Sweater Bangladesh Ltd has sent a rejoinder to a report headlined “Jobs Taken, Benefits Too” published in The Daily Star on April 27.

As the entire country celebrated mother’s day on May 9 with pictures, felicitations and tributes to the women who raised them, National Award winning actor Chanchal Chowdhury was harassed on his Facebook account for following a different religion.

The country is likely to experience medium to heavy rains today and tomorrow following a brief spell of rain that brought relief from the scorching heat in the capital and elsewhere yesterday.

The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) yesterday got a new president for the period of 2021-23.

The holy Shab-e-Qadr, also known as Lailatul Qadr, will be observed across the country tonight.

The appointment of a former additional secretary as treasurer of Bangamata Sheikh Fojilatunnesa Mujib Science and Technology University in Jamalpur has irked teachers of public universities.

Freedom fighter and Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra artiste Anup Bhattacharya passed away at a city hospital around 7:30pm yesterday. He was 77.

The United Nations warned Wednesday that the world faces an acute shortage of midwives, saying millions of lives could be saved if the shortfall were addressed.

The government approved a proposal to extend the deadline for the much-talked-about Padma bridge project to June 23, 2022.

The country’s apex trade body FBCCI has constructed a multi-storey building in Old Dhaka’s Hatkhola without an approved design and that’s why it could not use the high-rise for a long time.

Billionaire benefactors Bill and Melinda Gates, co-founders of one of the world’s largest private charitable foundations, filed for divorce on Monday after 27 years of marriage but pledged to continue their philanthropic work together.

Authorities of the Padma Bridge Rail Link Project (PBRLP) are likely to start installation of rail track on the Mawa-Bhanga section from July in a major development for the fast-track project being implemented by Bangladesh Railway.

Eight global and regional human rights bodies yesterday wrote a letter to the UN human rights chief, expressing concerns over the state of media freedom in Bangladesh and urging authorities to protect and respect freedom of expression.

A third gender family filed a case against a group of village arbitrators who they claimed forced them to leave their inherited house at Charghatina village in Sirajganj’s Ullapara upazila.

American astronaut Michael Collins, who flew the Apollo 11 command module while his crewmates became the first people to land on the Moon on July 20, 1969, died yesterday after battling cancer, his family said.

Bangladesh Railway has started using the 10 locomotives that a South Korean company supplied breaching contract. The move comes even when a BR body is evaluating if those engines should be used.

Although the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh is set to expire on May 31, no brand has yet agreed to re-sign the agreement.

Renowned actor Wasim passed away in a city hospital early yesterday.

Prof Shamsuzzaman Khan, president of Bangla Academy, passed away Wednesday afternoon with Covid-19 infection.

The body of a madrasa student was recovered from his madrasa in Cumilla city’s Sangraish area on Sunday night.