Bangladesh's Sonali Bank fined £3.3m

The UK operations of Bangladesh's biggest bank, Sonali Bank, have been banned from accepting deposits from any new customers for 24 weeks.

Five Bengali orgs call strike for Thursday, Sunday

Five organisations of Bengalis in the Chittagong Hill Tracts again on Wednesday called general strikes in the hill districts for Thursday and Sunday protesting at the CHT Land Dispute Resolution Commission (Amendment) Act 2016 and arrest of a leader in Bandarban.

Bangladesh gets first Catholic cardinal

Archbishop of the archdiocese of Dhaka, Patrick D'Rozario, has been selected as cardinal by Pope Francis on Sunday.

Durja Puja ends amid festivity

The five-day Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Bengali Hindu community, ended on Tuesday through observance of Bijaya Dashami in the capital and elsewhere across the country. The celebration ended with solemn immersion of Goddess Durga’s deity in water-bodies.

One girl under 15 married every seven seconds

One girl under 15 is married every seven seconds, according to a report by Save the Children released on Tuesday, with girls as young as 10 married off - often to much older men - in countries including Afghanistan, Yemen, India and Somalia.

Five of a family burnt dead as live wire falls on house

Five members of a family were burnt to death and another received burn injuries as a fire broke out at their house from a snapped electric wire at Jongaon village in Pirganj of Thakurgaon early Tuesday.

Exports to northeast India thru Akhaura fall sharply

Bangladesh’s exports to northeast India through Akhaura land port fell sharply since India began availing transit through Bangladesh for shipment of consignments to its northeastern provinces in June.

Cabinet okays draft bill to ensure quality of higher education

The cabinet on Monday approved the draft of ‘The accreditation council bill, 2016’, aiming to ensure the quality of tertiary education, particularly the university one, in Bangladesh.

PM inquires about ‘spent fuel management’

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Monday inquired about the modalities of the ‘spent fuel management’ of the $12.65 billion Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Project being implemented with the technical and financial supports from Russia.

Capital offers no facilities to physically challenged people

The capital provides no facilities to people with disabilities.Rights groups said that the government took no interest to create disabled friendly facilities in the capital.