A ‘discriminatory’ condition in a procurement process will cost Dhaka Power Distribution Company (DPDC) an additional amount of Tk 270 crore if it picks the lowest bidder for the job.

Giving an impression that one cannot proceed with business as usual, foreign affairs experts on Thursday felt the importance of engaging more deeply with Myanmar’s friends -- China, Japan, India and Russia -- taking advantage of the top UN court’s ruling on Myanmar without losing focus on the repatriation issue. 

He crossed the Atlantic to reach Bangladesh from the USA, but could not complete a 280-km journey from Dhaka to meet his mother in Beanibazar after long 24 years.

The Amar Ekushey Book Fair, one of the biggest and most popular festivities in Bangladesh ever since its humble inception in 1972, is at good hands, Bangla Academy, according to one of its key directors.

The condition of an ailing centenarian woman, who was rescued from a railway station 14 days after her relatives left her alone in bone-chilling winter, has improved slightly.

A wooden bridge over the Bhadra River, the lone means to cross the river, collapsed recently within a week of construction, causing extreme  sufferings to 10,000 residents of Shovona and Kharnia unions in Dumuria upazila.

Bangladesh’s time-tested friend Japan sees its high growth potential in the coming 20 years, but noted that Bangladesh’s growing economy needs to be backed by timely development of infrastructure and further improvement in investment climate.

Prices of onions have started to come down again in Dhaka kitchen markets.

The Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority (Sreda) has finalised a draft policy guideline for purchasing idle electricity from solar power plants now being used for running irrigation pumps.

The number of Braille books available in Bangladesh for the visually impaired and people with poor eyesight is still insignificant, experts say.