BANGLADESH鈥橲 2025 Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examination results have delivered a quiet but seismic shock to the country鈥檚 higher education system. Only about 58.8 per cent of students passed this year, down sharply from 77.8 per cent in 2024 and 78.6 per cent in 2023...
Leaders of the National Citizen Party and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Wednesday called on chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus to issue a constitutional order to give the July National Charter a firm legal and institutional foundation...
AS BANGLADESH observes National Road Safety Day 2025, the grim reality on its roads exposes the hollowness of official slogans and failures of successive governments to make meaningful changes. Despite repeated promises and millions of takas spent on awareness campaigns, roads remain death traps 鈥� chaotic, corrupt and criminally neglected. Over the past...
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology student Sreeshanto Roy was sent to jail after he was arrested on Wednesday morning amid student protests...
Leaders of the National Citizen Party met with Professor Muhammad Yunus, the chief adviser of Bangladesh interim government, on Wednesday.
Newly appointed German ambassador to Bangladesh Rudiger Lotz on Wednesday paid a courtesy call on chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna in Dhaka.
The High Court on Wednesday acquitted all 46 accused, including former Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawmaker Habibibul Islam Habib in a case filed over the attack on the motorcade of then then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira district on August 30, 2002...
Two more deaths from dengue were reported in the 24 hours till Wednesday morning, bringing the total number of deaths from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 255 this year.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party has appointed Humayun Kabir, an adviser to the party鈥檚 acting chairman Tarique Rahman, as one of its joint secretaries general...
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked fifth on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 164 at 9:35am on Wednesday morning...
Chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Wednesday said that the commission would not bow to any pressure during the upcoming national election...
Students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology staged demonstrations from 9:00pm till midnight on Tuesday, demanding the expulsion and punishment of a fellow student over the allegation of raping a female student...
Rights organisations on Wednesday urged the government to stop giving privileges to accused in enforced disappearance cases...
Fifteen serving army officers, accused in an enforced disappearance case, were produced before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 amid tight security in Dhaka on Wednesday morning...
The Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation on Tuesday observed World Iodine Deficiency Day 2025 at its headquarters BSCIC Bhaban at Tejgaon in Dhaka city with a seminar and the inauguration of its 鈥楽alt Cell鈥�...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday called upon the interim government to adopt a fully-fledged caretaker government mode...
Bangladesh Navy swimmer Samiul Islam Rafi continued his domination as seven new national records were made on the second day of the 34th National Swimming, Diving and Water Polo Championships at the National Swimming Complex in the city on Tuesday...
Five-time Bangladesh Football League champions Bashundhara Kings left home for Kuwait on Tuesday to take part in the Group B phase of the AFC Challenge League, scheduled to be held at the Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah Stadium from October 25 to 31.聽..
Bangladesh will play a friendly match against Afghanistan ahead of their AFC Asian Cup 2027 Qualifiers Group C tie against India, next month...
The devastating fire at the cargo village of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport has dealt a major blow to Bangladesh鈥檚 pharmaceutical industry. The sector is likely to face losses exceeding Tk聽4,000 crore...
Card-based transactions in Bangladesh have surged by 172 per cent over the past five years, driven by growing consumer confidence in digital payments, rapid expansion of e-commerce, and widespread adoption of point-of-sale (POS) and online payment systems...
Independence for Bangladesh Bank is essential to restore the country鈥檚 economic health, said experts at an event organised by the Policy Research Institute...
The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) has called on South Korean investors to capitalize on Bangladesh鈥檚 dynamic investment landscape, highlighting the country鈥檚 competitive advantages and ongoing reforms to facilitate foreign direct investment...
Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC on Tuesday held its board meeting at Islami Bank Tower in the capital, said a press release...
Under the Bangladesh Insurance Sector Development Project, financed by the government of Bangladesh and the World Bank, package-based automation activities are ongoing at Sadharan Bima Corporation...
Two books written by Bangladeshi content creator and educator, Obidur Rahman, popularly known as RobinRafan, were displayed at the Frankfurt International Book Fair 2025.
West Indies prevailed over Bangladesh in super over after the second of the three-match ODI series ended in tie at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur on Tuesday.
THE global call for sustainable food systems resonates powerfully through this year鈥檚 World Food Day theme: 鈥楬and in hand for better foods and a better future.鈥� Nowhere is this message more relevant than in Bangladesh鈥檚 livestock sector, a critical yet climate-vulnerable industry standing at the crossroads of opportunity and risk. The sector sustains millions of rural...
EVERY day, 66 lives are lost on Bangladesh鈥檚 roads. The number is not just a statistic. It is a collective national tragedy unfolding with disturbing regularity. Families are torn apart, children are orphaned and the country鈥檚 human capital continues to erode silently under the crushing weight of road crashes. The sheer scale of the carnage reveals a crisis that has long escaped serious political attention, despite its devastating human and economic consequences...
Bangladesh interim on Tuesday promoted 80 police officers of the rank of inspectors to assistant superintendent of police in the Bangladesh Civil Service (Police) cadre...
