A Chevron team will meet senior Petrobangla officials today to sort out the seven-month-old dispute over the former’s share transfer to a Chinese…

For the first time ever, Biman Bangladesh Airlines will carry Hajj pilgrims directly from Dhaka to Medina this year. These special Hajj flights will begin from July 24 and continue until August 26. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate Hajj Camp 2017 in the city’s Ashkona Hajj office on…

A team of the Anti-corruption Commi­ssion (ACC) yesterday arrested AKM Fakhrul Islam, chief engineer and chief ship surveyor of the department of…

The Election Commission (EC) plans to invite at least 50 eminent civil society personalities for a dialogue on July 31 to seek their opinions and suggestions regarding the 11thparliamentary polls. EC sources said the list would be finalised today and the invitation letters would be sent by July 20.…

The Detective Branch (DB) summoned and questioned writer and columnist Farhad Mazhar yesterday after they reportedly found ‘discrepancies’ in his confessional statement over his alleged kidnapping. Mazhar was questioned for over an hour—from 12 noon to 1.05 pm—at the office of…