The Bangladesh Bank has been granted sweeping powers in the draft of Bank Resolution Ordinance, 2025, allowing it to take over crisis-hit banks, transfer their assets, and hand over operations to a Bridge Banks...
Walton on Wednesday launched 鈥楧igital Campaign Season-22鈥� with millionaire offer, said a press release...
A total of 33 joint secretaries, who served as Deputy Commissioners and Returning Officers during the controversial 2018 national election, have been designated as officers on special duty (OSD).
The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has committed 鈥榮ummary executions鈥� of children in Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said Tuesday.
Police arrested 20 Rohingyas, including women and children, after local residents detained them in Chattogram city early Monday...
Publishers and visitors on Monday said that the turnout of visitors at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 decreased due to a number of controversial incidents and mismanagement at fair venues...
THE Bangladesh Road Transport Authority鈥檚 hasty decision to cancel its order on enforcing a meter-based fare for CNG-run auto rickshaws, as stipulated in the Road Transport Act 2018, is yet another case of poor governance that has been plaguing the public transport sector. On February 10, the BRTA sent a letter to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, reminding them to file...
TikTok, in collaboration with the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, on Monday hosted 鈥楧igital Safety Summit Bangladesh 2025鈥� in the capital Dhaka, said a press release...
The 鈥楩estival of Youth 2025,鈥� which started on December 30 last year to motivate youth empowerment with a theme of 鈥楲et鈥檚 change the country, change the world,鈥� is coming to an end on Wednesday, said a press release from the chief adviser鈥檚 Press Wing on Monday.
Speakers including poets, activists and academics at a discussion held at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 on Wednesday, said that slogans during the student-led mass uprising depicted common people鈥檚 language and aspirations...
Last year was the deadliest for journalists in recent history, with at least 124 reporters killed 鈥� and Israel responsible for nearly 70 per cent of that total, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported Wednesday...
With an aim of building a new Bangladesh, the festival of youth 2025 is being celebrated across the country with the slogan of 鈥楲et鈥檚 change the country, change the world鈥�...
BANGLADESH has ranked the 151st, two steps lower than the 2023 rank, in the Corruption Perceptions Index 2024 that Transparency International released on February 11. The 2024 score is Bangladesh鈥檚 worst since 2012, which has identified the country with a 鈥榮erious corruption problem鈥� where the government loses the 鈥榗ontrol of corruption鈥�. It remains the second lowest...
The state-run Bangladesh Betar will celebrate World Radio Day 2025 with various programmes in Dhaka tomorrow...
The police on Tuesday tightened security at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 after a mob attack on a stall at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka city on Monday...
The Bangladesh Bank is not optimistic about the country鈥檚 economic outlook for the 2024-25 financial year as the central bank on Monday predicted economic growth would remain sluggish at about 4-5 per cent in FY25 due to a host of challenges...
The Bangladesh Bank is likely to reassess the mandatory 2 per cent shareholding requirement for becoming a director in a commercial bank, said BB governor Ahsan H Mansur...
The 17th International Plastic Fair-2025 is going to start from tomorrow, Wednesday, at the International Convention City Bashundhara in the capital Dhaka, said a press release...
The National Board of Revenue has asked for proposals and recommendations from chambers and trade bodies to improve tax regulations, including Value-Added Tax, for the upcoming financial year 2025-26 budget...
The Criminal Investigation Department on Monday claimed that they had found bones at a damaged building, located adjacent to the razed聽 Bangabandhu Memorial Museum building, at Dhanmondi 32 in the capital...
A large number of hawkers crowded the entry and exit points of the on-going month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 in the capital Dhaka on Sunday, disrupting the easy movement of the visitors...
At least 12 students were hurt as students of Ideal College and Dhaka City College clashed in the Science Laboratory area in the capital Dhaka on Sunday afternoon over allegations of stabbing an Ideal College student...
Bangladesh on Sunday reacted to India鈥檚 remarks over the demolition of historic Dhanmondi-32 residence and described those remarks from India as 鈥榰nexpected and undesirable鈥�...
The sales increased as visitors thronged bookstalls at the on-going month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 in the capital Dhaka on Saturday...
The Business Review Meeting 2025 of Rupali Bank PLC was held on Saturday with the participation of branch managers under the Comilla divisional office...
Tamim Iqbal at the start and Rishad Hossain at the end, trumped Parvez Hossain & Co. as Fortune Barishal beat Chittagong Kings by three wickets in a thrilling final to clinch their second successive title of BPL at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Friday.
Some political parties were on Thursday critical of the demolition of the Dhanmondi 32 residence of the country鈥檚 founding president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, while some others expressed reservations about commenting on the matter.
The two-day long AF Mujibur Rahman - Bangladesh Mathematical Society 3rd National Mathematics Conference 2024, organised by the mathematics department of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, began on BUET campus in Dhaka on Thursday...
Southeast Bank PLC, during its 754th board meeting, held detailed discussions on strategic business initiatives and roadmap for 2025 and reviewed its performance for 2024, said a press release...
The council of advisers on Thursday gave final approval to the draft ordinance of International Crimes (Tribunals) (Amendment) in principle with necessary amendments and subject to vetting by the legislative and parliamentary affairs division...