After a mysterious fire gutted 15 buses of Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) inside one of its depots in the capital early yesterday, the government formed a high-powered committee to investigate the incident.

A revered flute player, Ustad AKM Sahabuddin Khan earned the title before his name as he teaches music at different institutions. He is also well-regarded as a gentle and distinguished personality in his home town Mymensingh.

The IMF has identified risk factors in Bangladesh economy, including political unrest related to national elections, the Rohingya situation and further deepening of crises in the state owned banks.

Spain coach Julen Lopetegui has warned his players that they must be ready to adapt to the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system during the World Cup in Russia.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia may have suffered a mild stroke in jail on June 5, her personal physicians said after meeting her at the Old Central Jail on Nazimuddin Road in Dhaka yesterday.

The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) has finally demanded exemplary punishment of those who looted banks in recent times in the name of loans.

Sharmeen (not real name), 35, of Munshiganj, returned from Saudi Arabia on May 24, five months after she had gone to the kingdom for work.

Detectives arrested a police constable for allegedly selling off seized yaba pills to an alleged drug dealer in Mymensingh Court area last night.

The proposed budgetary measures for fiscal 2018-19 will benefit the high and low income people, leaving the middle- and lower middle-class, which form the majority of Bangladesh's population, strained, said the Centre for Policy Dialogue yesterday.

Farhana Akhtar alias Papia married a drug dealer when she was just a teenager. She learnt the ins and outs of the illicit business pretty soon and expanded its network, especially by recruiting females.

With the budget implementation rate falling consistently for the last seven fiscal years, Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday said the government would achieve the targets in the proposed budget even though its execution starts in an election year.

Three more alleged drug peddlers were killed in “gunfights” in Rangpur, Thakurgaon and Dinajpur districts early yesterday amid the ongoing nationwide anti-narcotics drive.

Online shopping will be excluded from the purview of the 5 percent value-added tax that was proposed on virtual businesses in the budget for 2018-19.

A three-member BNP delegation is now in India and holding talks with the country's leading think-tanks over different issues, including the parliamentary elections of Bangladesh likely in December.

Iceland striker Alfred Finnbogason pointed to Argentina's failure to gel as a team during the qualifying campaign and said that his side were hoping to disappoint Lionel Messi and Co in the World Cup Group D opener on June 17.

Owners of two motor cars or residential property with a total area of eight thousand square feet in city corporations will have to pay a 10 percent surcharge on their income tax.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith said Bangladesh can attain 10 percent GDP growth through decentralisation of power by establishing autonomous local governments in districts and metropolitan cities.

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Customer will have to pay more for products and service bought from one's mobile phone as the government yesterday introduced a 5 percent value-added tax on those from next fiscal year and also raised the surcharge on handset imports.

Fy 2018-19...