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The Bangladesh Telecom-munications Regulatory Commission has blocked 113,880 SIMs of different phone operators for using illegal call

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to set up an information and communication technology (ICT) wing to ensure a hassle-free environment for taxpayers and net more tax

Healthy people taking a daily dose of aspirin to prevent heart attacks may be doing themselves more harm than good, according to a new study by British

He fails to upgrade SSC results of Liton’s daughter, gets threats on his life; mayor now accuses him of defaming Bangabandhu Rajshahi Education Board Chairman Dipakendranath Das left the city Saturday night for Dhaka after filing general diaries with two police stations following threats on his life allegedly from the city Mayor

Experts say virus now quickly spreading in wider community; 31 new cases confirmed Thirty-one new cases of swine flu were detected yesterday with experts warning Bangladesh’s alert level may soon be upgraded to “level 3” as the virus is quickly spreading from small clusters to the wider

Swine flu spreads four times faster than other viruses and 40 per cent of the fatalities are young adults in good health, the world’s top health official warned in an interview appearing Saturday. ‘This virus travels at an unbelievable, almost unheard of speed,’ the World Health Organisation

Each avoids other’s party Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia played truant with their invitation to each other for iftar yesterday as the two political camps virtually ignored the exchanged overtures. Neither the Prime Minister nor the

DTCB plans to discourage cars for school runs, reduce traffic jams The government is going to introduce exclusive bus services for school children by late October as part of its effort to ease terrible traffic jams that waste valuable time and energy of people living in

The project for construction of a friendship road between Bangladesh and Myanmar, undertaken in 2004 in line with the country’s ‘look east policy’ is in a state of limbo because of non-cooperation from the Yangon

A total of 3.34 lakh Solar Home System (SHS) installed in the rural and urban areas in the country, are producing 18MW of electricity everyday. The SHS covers at least 1.7 million people mainly in remote rural areas across the country,

Police inaction alleged Thugs beat up an Iranian national and snatched her cash and jewelries on August 26 while she was traveling on a taxi. The victim Ashraf Aghazadeh alias Mina is the vice-principal of Bailey Road branch of Gateway

He terms it conspiracy Police arrested Managing Director of triple super phosphate (TSP) fertiliser factory Zahirul Haq from his residence in the city early yesterday on charge of raping a domestic

Law enforcers neither brought any specific charges against the Azad Group chairman, Abul Kalam Azad, also the managing director of the company, nor produced him in court even after the expiry of his remand

The Rapid Action Battalion arrested Khawaja Habibullah, a ward commissioner of Dhaka City Corporation, and one of his associates along with 1,500 pieces of contraband Yaba tablets in Paribagh area of the city Saturday

Ansar-VDP assigned to monitor militancy at grassroots; imams join campaign Recognising the fact that anti-militant drive is not enough to uproot the evil of extremism from the society, the government has launched a massive socio-political campaign, involving 14 different agencies, to educate people and

The government owes a whopping sum of Tk 30,832 crore as debt service liabilities to lenders, including foreign donors, for the power sector since 1972, though such massive funding failed to yield the desired improvement

The authorities of Biman Bangladesh Airlines yesterday cancelled two of its international flights and changed timetable of all its flights even three or four times in last

Finance and commerce ministers have pinned the blame on the media for the price hike of essentials after much-hyped market monitoring and TCB’s sales drives failed to prevent food prices from

People from all walks of life in the city yesterday thronged before the Iftar markets for purchasing Iftar items for breaking the first day’s fast of the holy month of Ramzan with their family

With the sale of various conventional iftar items, the seasonal street vendors and wayside restaurants yesterday made a brisk business on the first day of the holy month of