Moosa wants to bring €20b in Bangladesh

Private business firm DATCO chairman Moosa Bin Shamsher, who grabbed the headlines time and again claiming to be a multi-billionaire, has applied for permission to bring about €20 billion to Bangladesh claiming that international arms business earned him the money.

RIDESHARING SERVICES Accidents on rise, guideline not implemented

An increasing number of fatal road accidents in Dhaka are being attributed to ridesharing services by experts because of poor safety gears, untrained and unskilled drivers and riders and lack of monitoring while their scope of operation across the country is expanding.

Six killed as bus hits tree in Bagerhat

At least six people were killed and nine others injured after a bus crashed into a roadside tree in Fakirhat upazila on Saturday morning.

Most city public transports charging exorbitant fares

Most city bus operators and the drivers of CNG-fuelled auto rickshaws and ridesharing motorcycles have been charging exorbitant fares from the passengers in the capital since the beginning of Ramadan, says a study report. \

Probe initiated as abnormal purchase prices go viral

The government has initiated a probe into ‘abnormal’ high price paid for household articles to furnish apartments in multi-storey buildings under the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Project in Pabna.

Silk Road Forum launched

Chinese ambassador Zhang Zuo on Saturday said that the Belt and Road Initiative undertaken by China would help establish a new type of international relations for creating an inclusive world with shared prosperity.

LOW PRICE OF UN-HUSKED RICE Growers count heavy losses

Growers are incurring heavy losses being compelled to sell un-husked boro rice below the production costs.

ROHINGYA CRISIS ASEAN team to visit Rakhine, Cox’s Bazar soon

Indonesia on Friday informed Bangladesh that a comprehensive response team of Association of Southeast Asian Nations will soon visit Rakhine State and Cox’s Bazar to prepare a comprehensive need assessment.

Govt agencies should be divided: Khokon

Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon on Friday said that the government agencies providing various services in the capital should be divided into two parts like the city corporation.

3 held for human trafficking to Europe

The Rapid Action Battalion arrested three suspected members of a human trafficking gang from the capital on Friday.