Claiming that demolishing structures built illegally by influential quarters is a challenging task, the mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), Mohammad Sayeed Khokon, yesterday asked the Rajdhani Unnyan Katripakkha (RAJUK) to set an example by demolishing any building owned by an influential…

Business owners claimed that they have lost around Tk. 100 crore in the massive fire that swept through the Gulshan-1 Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) kitchen market and burned down at least 210 shops last Saturday. Nearly 300 businesspersons lost their investment in the fire, which originated before…

Just like the three previous phases of the fifth local body elections, the fourth-phase upazila parishad (UZ) elections were held by and large peacefully barring some stray incidents. A thin voter turnout, as in the past three phases, marked the fourth phase as well. After completion of the voting process,…

Expressing her government's firm stance to bring down the interest rate of bank loan to a single digit, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said…