Prime Minister Tarique Rahman yesterday directed officials to simplify the project approval process to attract both local and foreign investment.

Limon’s body was flown back to Bangladesh earlier today

High Commissioner Pranay Verma pays farewell call on Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman

Limon’s father says the family still does not know the motive behind the killing, wants the perpetrator to face the highest punishment

Victim rescued after husband called 999; police say one suspect still at large

Allows it to be placed before another HC bench

Protesters allege favouritism in the newly announced district committee

Stresses easing access to loans to boost private investment in closed state-owned mills and factories

Forty-nine newly elected women MPs took oath yesterday

Justice Nozrul forced to complete journey in police car

Traffic movement on both sides came to a halt in Muktagacha

Lawyer raises concerns over legality, national interest and constitutional compliance

Supreme Court lawyer seeks probe into Prof Muhammad Yunus

Family members break down at Dhaka airport as slain student’s body arrives from US

Remains reach airport this morning

Amid public anger over child deaths, key health adviser to interim govt says outbreaks usually result from several long-term factors and that vaccine procurement approvals were given on time

Forty-nine newly elected Members of Parliament from the reserved women’s seats of the 13th Jatiya Sangsad have taken their oath.

The National Human Rights Commission’s current inability to investigate disciplined forces remains a major structural barrier to eradicating state-sanctioned human rights abuses in Bangladesh, according to United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Dr Alice Edwards, who called for urgent legal reforms to align the body with global independence standards.

A group of journalists formed a human chain yesterday at the Supreme Court main gate, protesting the bar on reporters from entering the courtrooms of the Supreme Court.

Two farmers collapsed and died on the spot after witnessing their ripe paddy fields go under floodwaters in Brahmanbaria and Kishoreganj on Saturday.