Bangladesh has been paying around $400–500 million a year to India’s Adani Power, roughly 50 percent more than it should for electricity purchase, found the national committee to review power sector deals.

Jatiya Party is branded as criminals and collaborators if the party seeks the barred Awami League’s votes but not the BNP, Jamaat or the National Citizen Party, said its Chairman GM Quader.

Police have opened an investigation after recovering the charred body of a young mechanic from an automobile workshop in Narsingdi.

The body of a research and development coordinator at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) was found three days after he went missing.

Speakers at an event in Khulna on Saturday stressed the urgent need for an integrated water management approach to address the myriad water-related crises affecting the coastal belt in Bangladesh’s south-western region.

The High Court yesterday directed the Election Commission to accept the nomination paper of BNP candidate Md Mobasher Alam Bhuiyan and to allow him to contest the national election for Cumilla-10 constituency.

Bangladesh is among the countries worst affected by lead pollution, with millions of children exposed to hazardous levels, experts said at a workshop in a Dhaka hotel yesterday.

Today is the 17th death anniversary of Md Shahidul Islam Pannu, director of Sara Advertising Ltd, said a press release.

Detectives on Saturday arrested a person from Nagor Haula area in Gazipur over his alleged involvement in the killing of garment worker Dipu Chandra Das in Mymensingh.

Traders imported more food items during the July-December period last year than in the same period a year earlier, raising expectations of a stable market during Ramadan, which begins in the third week of February.

Bangladesh has drafted a national artificial intelligence (AI) policy to guide the use of AI across all sectors, aiming to become a producer of homegrown innovation, modernise public services, and promote inclusive economic growth.

The government has increased monthly allowances and expanded beneficiary coverage for 15 social safety net programmes (SSNPs) for the upcoming fiscal year 2026-27 (FY27), which begins in July.

Prices of essential commodities are expected to remain stable this Ramadan, and could even be lower than last year, thanks to higher supply and stability in domestic markets, Commerce Adviser Sk Bashir Uddin said yesterday.

Garment manufacturers and investors in export processing zones (EPZs) have warned that a three-day general holiday around the upcoming national election could disrupt production and hurt exports.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is moving to fully automate value-added tax (VAT) and income tax refunds to make the process faster, more transparent, and less burdensome for taxpayers, NBR Chairman Md Abdur Rahman Khan said yesterday.

Over the past decade, wheat acreage has fallen, giving way to more profitable crops.

Open-end mutual funds are gaining popularity in Bangladesh as retail investors look for diversification, liquidity and professional management.

Two witnesses to the killing of Alex Pretti have said in sworn testimony that the 37-year-old intensive care nurse was not brandishing a weapon when he approached federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday, contradicting a claim made by Trump administration officials as they sought to cast the shooting of a prone man as an act of self-defense.

US President Donald Trump on Saturday warned Canada that if it concludes a trade deal with China, he will impose a 100 percent tariff on all goods coming over the border.

The European Union has suspended its Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) tariff benefits for a wide range of Indian exports from January 1, a move expected to significantly raise duties on shipments to the 27-nation bloc and weaken India’s price competitiveness in key sectors, according to a report by The Hindu.