Five development projects of Tk 3,445.17 crore got nod from the government’s top economic policy making body on Tuesday, including a Tk 2,600 crore project seeking to improve urban governance and i

MANIKGANJ: Erosion by the Jamuna River has taken a serious turn in the last few days, devouring vast tract of croplands in Shivalaya upazila in Manikganj district.

Rotary International has spent so far more than one billion dollar all over the world to eradicate polio.

The cabinet has finalised the “Formalin Control Act, 2014” without ascertaining as to the existence of what level of formalin in food will be treated as an offence.

Nearly three lakh people are infected with tuberculosis and around 66,000 of them die every year in the country, speakers at an orientation said.

Rajshahi Fruit Research Center has, so far, innovated six new more fruit varieties through intensive field-level research during the last 18 years.

Mirpur lawmaker Elias Uddin Molla and his business partner Saidur Rahman Sajal have allegedly grabbed a part of Turag river at Rupnagar thana in the capital.

The government on Tuesday okayed a Tk 289 crore project to excavate a new canal in Cittagong city in a bid to put an end to nagging water-logging in the port city.

Satkhira: At least 20 people were injured and over 300 thatched houses damaged as a tornado lashed across 10 villages in the costal area under Shyamnagar upazila of the district on Tuesday.

Tobacco claimed as many as 57,000 lives and crippled 3.82 lakh in the country every year, according to a written statement issued by Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance (BATA) on Monday.

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