Acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party Tarique Rahman on Wednesday warned that any wrong decision by the interim government could put the country鈥檚 democratic journey at serious risk and open the door to the rise of fascism, extremism and radicalism...
Major political parties were divided on Wednesday over the procedures of implementation of the the July National Charter 2025...
FOR decades, countless US officials have proclaimed that the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable. Now, the ties that bind are laced with genocide. The two countries function as accomplices while methodical killing continues in Gaza, with both societies directly, and differently, making it all possible...
IN A sunlit classroom at Bangladesh Agricultural University, final-year students gather around a miniature canal model, tracing the path of water as it flows towards a simulated paddy field. It may seem like a simple academic exercise, but for these young engineers-in-training, it symbolises a quiet revolution. This is where Bangladesh鈥檚 future is being engineered...
POLITICAL parties appear to have made little or no progress in within-the-party practice of democracy or reforms in that direction whilst the government has been busy forging means to effect democratic reforms in state governance by holding dialogues with the political parties. Some political parties have even appeared to be rhetorical about such a democratic practice. It...
A formidable new radar satellite jointly developed by the United States and India launched Wednesday, designed to track subtle changes in Earth鈥檚 land and ice surfaces and help predict both natural and human-caused hazards...
Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, on Wednesday shifted its pre-announced student rally, to be held on August 3, from the Central Shaheed Minar to Shahbagh following a request from the National Citizen Party...
One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia鈥檚 sparsely populated Far East on Wednesday, causing tsunamis up to four metres high across the Pacific and sparking evacuations from Hawaii to Japan...
Banophool Adibashi Green Heart College celebrated the World Environment Day 2025 with a series of events under the theme 鈥楴o more plastic pollution, it鈥檚 time to stop it鈥�, reaffirming its commitment to environmental protection and sustainability on July 24...
The BNP is open to reforms and not afraid of change but it opposes the introduction of unfamiliar electoral concepts that does not align with the country鈥檚 political context or public understanding, said Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday...
The National Citizen Party considers Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani one of the founding fathers of Bangladesh, who fought for farmers, workers, and the mass people, said NCP convener Nahid Islam on Tuesday...
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and National Citizen Party representatives on Tuesday rejected the National Consensus Commission-drafted July National Charter 2025...
IN THE silent shadows of diplomacy and under the smoke of geopolitical cordiality, a darker truth is unfolding at the borderlands between Bangladesh and India. A truth so grotesque, so cruel and so systemic that one begins to question not only the morality of the world鈥檚 largest democracy, but also its very claim to being a civilised, law-abiding state. India, under...
National Consensus Commission vice-vhairman Professor Ali Riaz on Tuesday said all the issues on which consensus has been reached through talks should be finalised quickly.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said that internal divisions and unnecessary debates in political and social circles could cause setbacks for Bangladesh, warning that such divisions could...
National Citizen Party convener Nahid Islam on Sunday said that political parties could not even dream of elections without the July uprising and the country would have to wait for another four years for an election.
Political parties on Monday received the draft of the 鈥楯uly National Charter 2025鈥�, prepared by the National Consensus Commission, which would bind the parties to implement the consensus-based reforms within two years after the formation of the parliament.
The Criminal Investigation Department has frozen Tk 17.40 crore deposited in 17 banks belonging to former Awami League lawmaker for Cumilla-6 AKM Bahauddin Bahar and his daughter former Cumilla city mayor Tahseen Bahar Suchona, facing allegations of acquiring money through cheating, forgery, commission and laundering and receiving money through hundi...
THIS is unfortunate that the interim government, which assumed office after the overthrow of the Awami League government on August 5, 2024 in an uprising that began on July 1 that year as student protests against civil service job reservations, has yet to comprehensively enlist all who died and became wounded at the hand of law enforcers who were aided by the...
Standard Chartered Bangladesh and Khulna Mukti Seba Sangstha have partnered to support Jashore鈥檚 female farmers in entrepreneurial progress to cultivate high-value flower crops...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Monday staged a walkout from the reform dialogue during the discussion over the proposed appointment process for four key constitutional and statutory bodies...
A daylong art camp titled 鈥楶atar Chhabi鈥� was organised in Barishal on Saturday, which featured artworks of 50 students of Paschim Rajiher Government Primary School at Agailjhara upazila in the district...
In a pre-dawn attack on Sunday, homes and political offices belonging to Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders and activists at Ula village of Lohagara upazila in Narail, were allegedly vandalised by Awami League members...
A strong political commitment is essential to build the long-pending Padma barrage and the proposed second Padma bridge, said Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday...
The National Citizen Party on Sunday said that this time youths were not taking to the streets with any demand but they had come to take the responsibility to build the country for the people of all classes...
The interim government has failed to complete lists of the people who died and became wounded in the July-August uprising a year after the event...
TECNO has launched its SPARK 40 Pro Plus smartphone on the Bangladeshi market, said a press release...
The world urgently needs to find a global approach on regulating artificial intelligence, the United Nations鈥� top tech chief said this week, warning that fragmentation could deepen risks and inequalities...
At least 11 people were injured in a stabbing at a Walmart store in the Midwestern state of Michigan on Saturday, with police saying it appeared to be a random attack...
SMARTPHONES are now ubiquitous fixtures at emergencies and disasters. The moment something terrible happens, a bus crashes on a Dhaka highway, a school building erupts in flames, many bystanders reflexively raise their phones. Instead of rushing to help, some want to capture every horrifying detail for likes and shares...