Teenage boy found dead in city
Police recovered the hanging body of a teenage boy from a house in Uttar Badda area in the city on Monday. The deceased was identified as Shahed, 16, a class…
Fish and Fish Products Bill passed with harsher punishment
The Fish and Fish Products (Inspection and Quality Control) Bill, 2020 was passed in Parliament on Monday, aiming to ensure harsher punishment for marketing and exporting fish or fish products…
Parliament passes Marine Fisheries Bill
The ‘Marine Fisheries Bill, 2020’ was passed in Parliament on Monday with a provision for maximum three-year imprisonment or Tk 5 crore fine or both for fishing illegally within Bangladesh’s…
UGC asks private universities to update syllabuses
University Grants Commission (UGC) has called on the private universities to step forward to update the syllabus of their ongoing academic programs. UGC made the call on Monday in an…
Former Bangladesh U-19 batsman commits suicide
Former Bangladesh U-19 batsman Mohammad Sojib Hossain killed himself on Saturday at his Rajshahi residence. Police confirmed that the cause of the 21-year-old's death was suicide. However, what made him…
Bangladesh records 2,139 new cases, 21 deaths from Covid-19
Bangladesh reported 2,139 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours until Monday, raising the caseload to 434,472. Besides, 21 more patients died from the virus infection during the period which took…
How gaps in probes stall Dhaka’s fight against black money
Bangladesh's National Board of Revenue (NBR) seems to have all the elements in place, except the investigation. In five years since 2015, when the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID)…
BB bringing micro businesses, professionals under digital payment ecosystem
Bangladesh Bank has moved to introduce personal retain account (PRA) with banks and mobile financial service (MFS) providers to bring micro businesses under a digital payment ecosystem. The central bank…