Political unrest during January to mid March of the current year has caused for a gross domestic product (GDP) loss of 0.55 percent or Tk 4,900 crore, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).

The death toll in Bogra has reached 19 as nor’wester lashed different areas of the district last evening.

BNP chief Khaleda Zia will return to her house tomorrow after 91-day stay at her Gulshan office. Before that she will go to court at 9:30am, a media wing staff says.

Authorities reject BNP leader Abdul Awal Mintoo's appeal challenging cancellation of his nomination for Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral race.

A construction worker dies after falling from an under-construction 10-storey building at Banasree in Dhaka

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will appear before a Dhaka court on Sunday to seek bail in Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust corruption cases, her counsel Sanaullah Miah says.

An out of control bus kills two workers and injured one at the Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover construction site in Dhaka.

Customs intelligence detain a cabin crew of Kuwait Airways with over 500 grammes of gold at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

Two turbo-prop Dash 8-Q 400 aircraft that Biman Bangladesh Airlines leased to resume its domestic operation arrived in Dhaka.

Customs officials seize 12 gold bars, weighing around 12 kilogrammes and worth around Tk 6 crore, from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

A group of auto-rickshaw drivers beat up a traffic police constable allegedly for seizing a battery-run auto-rickshaw at Meradia of Khilgaon in Dhaka

Dhaka is sending a two-member team, comprising of the counsellor at Bangladesh Embassy in Kuwait and a staff, to Yemen today to help repatriate the Bangladeshi nationals trapped in the war-torn country.

At least 100 workers of a readymade garments factory fell sick and were hospitalised after eating the food provided to them in Gazipur’s Kashimpur.

Chief instructor of Bangladesh Flying Academy, who was wounded in a plane crash in Rajshahi yesterday, was flown to Singapore from Combined Military Hospital of Dhaka for better treatment.

A female trainee pilot dies as a training aircraft of a flying institute crashed on the runway of Shah Makhdum Airport in Rajshahi this afternoon.

A tribunal in Dhaka initiates contempt of court proceedings against 23 eminent persons for a statement they issued expressing concern over sentence of Dhaka-based British journalist David Bergman for demeaning it.

A nor’wester hit Dhaka triggering a thunderstorm accompanied with sudden torrential downpour that beat down heat in the city ahead of summer.

Posing as guest, a man enters the house of BRTA deputy director in Mohammadpur and attacks the family members, leaving the official’s wife dead. The severely injured BRTA official and their two daughters are now undergoing treatment at hospital.

France condemns the killing of blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, who was brutally hacked by cleaver-wielding youths under broad daylight in Dhaka.

Customs Intelligence seize 3.24 kilogrammes of gold from the possession of two Bangladeshi passengers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.