The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh will resume selling essential commodities through trucks at 25 points across Chattogram city from Sunday, after a three-month break, to provide essentials at affordable prices to low-income groups.
Foreign secretary Asad Alam Siam emphasised enhanced collaboration between Bangladesh鈥檚 Technical Training Centres and Australia鈥檚 Technical and Further Education in skill development and language training for youths by sending Australian instructors to Bangladesh.
At least nine students from Jagannath University and two colleges were injured on Thursday night when a brawl broke out with the staff of a launch at Sadarghat terminal in Old Dhaka.
Senior civil servants and academics on Friday at a seminar said that the civil service was facing a huge image crisis due to the massive corruption and politicisation during the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime of 15 years.
A man, who had been allegedly defrauding people by impersonating an army officer, was arrested at Lalbagh in the capital Dhaka early Friday.
The Dhaka University unit of Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, on Friday announced its new convening committees for 18 residential halls of the university.
The interim government strongly rejected the observation of the Newspaper Owners鈥� Association of Bangladesh over press freedom in the country.
Bangladesh Awami League has opened a 鈥榩arty office鈥� and has been operating for months from the office at a commercial complex in a busy suburb on the outskirts of Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal, reported BBC Bangla on Friday.
Three death row inmates at the Kashimpur high security central jail in Gazipur attempted to escape by digging through the prison walls using improvised tools, according to prison authorities.
The National Citizens Party鈥檚 Sylhet district joint coordinator Abul Ahsan Jabur, also elder brother of ATM Turab, a journalist who was martyred during the last year鈥檚 July uprising, resigned from the party on Thursday night.
A private car driver was found dead with his throat slit beside his vehicle on the Lalpur鈥揃onpara road in Natore鈥檚 Lalpur upazila on Thursday night.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Major (retired) Hafizuddin Ahmed opposed the introduction of the Proportional Representation system in the next national election, saying that the people in Bangladesh had long been accustomed...
Amid rumours of a split in the Jatiya Party, some senior leaders of the party faction, led by Anisul Islam Mahmud, on Friday announced that the party鈥檚 10th national council session would be held at a community centre at Gulshan in Dhaka today.
Two people, including a businessman, were knifed to death by separate assailants in Sylhet and Moulvibazar on Thursday night.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested 17 individuals, including drug traffickers, snatchers, and other criminals, in special drives conducted in Mohammadpur and Adabar areas as part of the ongoing citywide crime control efforts.