It's a life-saving drug often prescribed by doctors for patients with serious kidney and liver problems and also for newborns with a blood-related disease. But to get this already pricey drug called albumin, patients will have to pay more, thanks to the imposition of 15 percent value added tax (VAT) on it on top of a 4 percent advance income tax (AIT) and 5 percent advance trade VAT (ATV).

Police yesterday pressed charges against five people, including prime accused Ahmed Shafat and Nayem Ashraf, in the sensational Banani rape case.

Gunmen and suicide bombers stormed Iran's parliament and the shrine of its revolutionary leader yesterday, killing 12 people in the first attacks in the country claimed by the Islamic State group. Dozens were injured in the attacks, which targeted two of Iran's most potent symbols: its parliament complex in central Tehran and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who led the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Bangladesh's exports in the first 11 months of the current fiscal year stood at $31.79 billion, 4.68 percent lower than the target of $37

Senior BNP leader Moudud Ahmed was evicted from his three-decade-long residence yesterday as he lost the legal battle over the ownership of the house worth Tk 300 crore in the capital's Gulshan.

Debris has been found in the sea near where a Myanmar military plane went missing with more than 100 soldiers and their families on

Pakistan put their miserable hammering by arch-rivals India behind them with a shock 19-run win over South Africa at Edgbaston that kept their Champions Trophy semi-final hopes alive.

Among the essential commodities, coarse rice price registered the highest rise in the last one year, according to the state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) which keeps track of prices of daily necessities.

The European Union has called on Bangladesh to show tangible progress on labour rights to avoid temporarily losing the generalised

The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh yesterday for the first time started using bomb detection dogs in cargo screening at Hazrat

The Jatiya Sangsad has ignored again its rules of procedure by denying a parliamentary body to examine the reasons behind Tk

Defending his proposal for higher excise duty on bank deposits, Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday said it was simply that the

Mark Wood took the key wicket of Kane Williamson as England booked their place in the semifinals of the Champions Trophy with an 87-run win over New Zealand at Cardiff on Tuesday.

The European Union has put Bangladesh on the list of high-risk nations in terms of operating cargo services by air and sea to the EU countries, said sources at the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh.

Arab nations including Saudi Arabia and Egypt yesterday cut ties with Qatar, accusing it of supporting extremism, in the biggest diplomatic crisis to hit the region in years.

Heading towards almost certain defeat Bangladesh are given a lifeline by the rainy London weather, which caused their Group A Champions Trophy match against Australia at The Oval yesterday to be abandoned and the points shared equally between the two sides.

Acknowledging the importance of the Sundarbans for the country's existence, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government took development projects keeping in mind that the mangrove forest should not be affected in any way.

British Prime Minister Theresa May blamed "evil" Islamist ideology yesterday for an attack by knife-wielding men who mowed down and stabbed revellers in London, killing seven, as police said they had arrested 12 suspects.

India captain Virat Kohli and Yuvraj Singh made Pakistan pay for fluffing catches with quickfire fifties as the holders launched their Champions Trophy title-defence with a rain-affected 124 run thrashing of their arch-rivals at Edgbaston yesterday.

Brac Onnesha, the first nano-satellite made by a Bangladeshi university, was launched into space from the Kennedy Space Center, US