The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed and 27 others over the embezzlement of Tk聽15 crore from United Commercial Bank PLC (UCB), allegedly using fake business entities...
TWO-THIRDS of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities having no access to education points to the neglect and systemic barriers that the children continue to face. A survey report, made public on July 29, also finds that four-fifths of adults with neurodevelopmental disabilities remain excluded from employment opportunities. The study, conducted in July 2023鈥揓uly...
Findings of a research on neurodevelopmental disabilities in the country on Tuesday revealed that only around one-third of them had access to education...
At least 18 people were killed in eastern India on Tuesday after a bus ferrying Hindu pilgrims collided with a truck loaded with cooking gas cylinders, officials said...
Prime Bank Investment, investment-banking arm and wholly-owned subsidiary of Prime Bank, has been named Best Bank for Securities Services and Best Investment Bank for Mergers & Acquisitions in Bangladesh at the Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2025, said a press release...
ROAD safety has continuously been put at bay as the number of fatal accidents has only increased for seven years since the road safety movement in 2018 after a bus killed two college students in Dhaka on July 29 that year. The government made the Road Transport Act 2018 in September that year. Police data show that 2,635 died in road accidents...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday said that there was no bar on inquiry against the leaders and activists of the Students Against Discrimination if specific allegations of amassing illegal wealth were found against them.
Only a little more than 4 per cent road accident victims and their families have been given compensation after the scheme was introduced two and a half years ago, shows government data.
Fatal road crashes have been on the rise in Bangladesh over the seven years since students erupted in massive protests after two college students died as a bus rammed them to a wall in the capital on July 29, 2018.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday filed two separate cases against former Air Chief Marshal Shaikh Abdul Hannan and his wife Tahmida Begum on charges of amassing Tk 5.20 crore illegally...
A teenage boy was killed in a road crash after being hit by a truck at the Bangabhaban intersection under Paltan Police Station in the capital on Saturday night...
The United Arab Emirates will host this year's T20 Asia Cup tournament in September, organisers said Saturday, ending the uncertainty over its fate amid spiralling tensions between India and Pakistan.
At least seven people were killed and 41 others injured in road accidents in Faridpur, Sunamganj and Madaripur districts on Thursday...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday filed a case against former land minister and Awami League leader Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed, his family members and several senior officials of United Commercial Bank PLC and Aramit Group on charges of embezzling and laundering Tk 25 crore from UCB...
The decision regarding the forthcoming Asia Cup would be announced soon, said chairman of the Asian Cricket Council, Mohsin Naqvi, after its Annual General Meeting in Dhaka on Thursday.
At least three people were killed and 10 others were injured in a head-on collision between two buses in the Karimpur area on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Faridpur on Thursday morning...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board are in an uncomfortable position as they are set to host the Annual General Meeting of the Asian Cricket Council starting today in Dhaka despite the Board of Control for Cricket in India鈥檚 boycott...
An elderly couple, their four female relatives along with another woman and the driver of the microbus they were travelling on were killed in a head-on collision with a truck on Bonpara-Hatikumrul Highway at Baraigram upazila in Natore on Wednesday...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday sent letters to all 64 districts across the country, seeking detailed financial records related to the nationwide observance of 鈥楳ujib Borsho鈥� or 鈥楳ujib Year鈥� on the occasion of birth centenary of the country鈥檚 founding president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and the construction of over 10,000 murals and sculptures during the period...
IN THE misty hills of Bandarban, the southern part of Chittagong Hill Tracts, an indigenous Marma family was torn apart by a war not of their making. Two brothers, raised side by side, found themselves on opposing sides of a battlefield: the elder in the military and the younger with the Shanti Bahini, fighting for the political rights of the indigenous peoples. The...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday approved the charge sheet of a case against former state minister Mannujan Sufian and a director of the labour directorate Mizanur Rahman in a corruption case...
Online privacy campaigners filed fresh complaints against social media giant TikTok and two other Chinese-owned companies on Thursday, saying they had failed to comply with data access requests...
Foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Saturday said that the challenges over the implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord would be identified and efforts will be make to resolve those through constructive discussions with all stakeholders...
Two leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami were killed and at least eight others were injured in a road accident in Bhanga upazila of Faridpur district on early Saturday on their way to attend the party鈥檚 rally in Dhaka...
At least six people, including three members of a family, were killed in road accidents in Gazipur and Sylhet districts between Thursday night and Friday afternoon.
The Anti-Corruption Commission has submitted a supplementary charge sheet against 22 people, including former Bangladesh Bank governor Fazle Kabir and former chair of the board of directors of Biman Bangladesh Airlines retired...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed four separate cases against the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 security adviser, retired Major General Tarique Ahmed Siddique, his wife Shaheen Siddique and their two daughters on...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday filed two separate cases against former Narayanganj-4 lawmaker Shamim Osman and his wife Salma Osman on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 9.38 crore...
BRAC Bank has introduced 鈥楾ARA Homemakers Savings Account,鈥� a dedicated banking product designed exclusively for women outside the formal workforce, said a press release...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Monday allowed the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze four bank accounts and two properties of former inspector general of police Benazir Ahmed in the USA and Malaysia.