A 25-member South Africa Twenty20 Cricket squad led by its skipper Faf du Plessis arrived in Dhaka to play a full-fledged series against the hosts Bangladesh…

With a view to meeting the ever-increasing demand for gas, the government is going to grant permission to Gazprom International Investment B.V., a Russian gas exploration company, to drill five wells in Srikail, Bakhrabad and Rashidpur gas fields for immediate production of gas. The Russian company…

Greece confirmed it would fail to make a key IMF repayment due on Tuesday, fanning fears of a chaotic eurozone exit on the same day the country's international bailout expires. At the same time the European Commission said it had offered an eleventh hour deal to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to…

The demolished perimeter wall of the 16th century Mughal-built Lalbagh Fort will be rebuilt. Work on a parking lot inside has been stopped, in compliance with a High Court order on Sunday. "We stopped all work on the parking lot on Friday," Altaf Hossain, director  general of the Department…

A Chittagong court yesterday placed Golam Mostafa Sohel, manager of Khan Jahan Ali limited, on a five-day remand in a case field over the seizure of cocaine in an edible-oil consignment at Chittagong Port. Khan Jahan Ali  limited imported the consignment from Bolivia. Metropolitan Magistrate Farid…

Two female garment workers, who sustained burn injuries in a fire that broke out at a house in the EPZ area of Chittagong on June 25, have died at Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH), raising the death toll from the incident to three, reports UNB.   The deceased were identified as Kohinoor…

The Dhaka University (DU) authorities yesterday terminated Professor Saiful Islam of Theatre and Performance Studies Department for ‘sexually harassing’ a female student of the department. The decision was taken at a syndicate meeting and DU Vice-Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique confirmed…