The government has approved a plan to establish the Savar City Corporation by merging the Savar municipality with Ashulia in an effort to strengthen urban governance and improve civic services in the rapidly expanding industrial belt on the outskirts of Dhaka...
Fisheries and livestock adviser Farida Akhter on Wednesday said that authorities received reports of Indian fishermen entering Bangladeshi waters in the Bay of Bengal during the temporary fishing ban imposed to protect hilsa breeding...
The advisory council committee on government purchase at a meeting on Wednesday approved three separate proposals to buy about 12.5 crore copies of textbooks at a cost of Tk聽443.87 crore...
The government is likely to make 60-hour training mandatory from a government recognised training institute for getting driving licence, said the interim government adviser to the road transport and bridges ministry Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan on Wednesday...
The police recovered the unidentified bodies of three males from the Dhanmondi, Shahjahanpur and Banani areas in the capital on Tuesday and Wednesday...
Politicians and labour leaders on Wednesday said that labour leader Shah Atiul Islam worked for establishing rights of the workers...
One hundred and four fishermen were detained for illegally catching mother hilsa in the Bay of Bengal as a 22-day ban has been in place, with effect from October 4...
Since the interim government on Wednesday ratified three conventions of the International Labour Organisation, chief adviser Muhammad Yunus described the day as memorable one in the history of realising the rights of working people in Bangladesh...
Metrorail authorities have announced that from now on, anyone entering stations without the purpose of traveling will have to pay Tk 100 when their rapid pass is scanned at the concourse floor...
A seminar titled Regional Geopolitical Landscape: Impacts on the Security Dynamics of Bangladesh and Ways Forward was held at the auditorium of Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies in Dhaka on Wednesday...
The 71st anniversary of the death of poet Jibanananda Das was observed in Barishal on Wednesday...
The British Council celebrated the academic accomplishments of 42 students from 23 English medium schools across Bangladesh at the British Council Scholars鈥� Award 2025 programme at the Radisson Blu Water Garden Dhaka on Tuesday...
The state-appointed defence for deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Wednesday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, who turned approver in the case, was trying to save himself by shifting responsibility for the July 2024 atrocities onto the two accused...
A faction of the Jatiya Party on Wednesday demanded a level playing field for all political parties before the next general election and holding the election in a free, fair and credible manner...
Shamsuddin Biswas, who took part in the World War II as a British soldier, died at about 5:00am at a private hospital in Jashore on Wednesday...
