The challenge of attracting private investment remains the same as the government in the proposed budget for 2016-17 fiscal year did not give any clear outline to boost confidence of investors, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) says in its budget reaction.

Agitated unemployed nurses boycott the recruitment test, continuing their protest at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) campus.

The first namaj-e-janaza of Syed Fahim Munaim, chief executive officer and chief editor at Maasranga Television, has been held on the premises of Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka.

Standard Chartered launches a new credit card in Bangladesh which will provide customers a host of attractive benefits including savings and cash-backs.

Ten people are killed and 12 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on Dhaka-Bogra highway in Sherpur upazila of Bogra.

In face of protests from businessmen, the government has decided not to implement a flat VAT rate for small traders and instead almost doubled the package VAT.

Despite Wednesday night's clash between police and nurses where at least 50 nurses were injured after cops charged batons

Supreme Court upholds High Court ruling that ordered demolition of BGMEA building in Hatirjheel area of Dhaka.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith has been unveiling Tk 340,605 crore national budget for the fiscal year 2016-17 – what is around 29 percent bigger from the current fiscal year.

A Dhaka court adjourns the hearing of trial proceedings till June 23 in Zia Charitable Trust graft case filed against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and eight others.

Hosts Bangladesh get off to a frustrating start in the Treat FIBA Asian U-18 Basketball Championship Qualifiers in Dhaka, losing their opening match against regional powerhouse India by 31-90 points.

A large number of subscribers of Airtel in Dhaka and 10 other districts faced network disruption for around 20 hours from 8:53pm Tuesday because of a technical glitch at its switches.

Dhaka South City Corporation has evicted 30 out of 134 illegal shops at AGB colony in the Dhaka’s Motijheel area.

Several lakh Airtel mobile subscribers are facing disruption in their network due to technical glitches at around 1,000 stations of the telecom company in Dhaka and six other districts in the country.

A special tribunal has found three brothers from Habiganj guilty of all the four charges brought against them and handed one death for war crimes. Two of his brothers have been given jail till death.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir secures bail in a case filed over the party’s anti-government road blockade in Dhaka in 2012.

Two people were crushed under the wheels of trains in separate incidents in Dhaka.

Customs intelligence seizes another luxury car, allegedly brought into the country by dodging tax worth Tk 1 crore, from Uttara area in Dhaka.

A Dhaka court places BNP leader Aslam Chowdhury on a seven-day remand in a sedition case filed allegedly for hatching a conspiracy with Israel's Likud Party and its intelligence agency Mossad to oust the government.

Miscreants hijack a sugar-laden truck after injuring its driver in Shyamoli area of Dhaka.