South Asia affairs expert Michael Kugelman has said that Bangladesh will go through a major test for a post-Hasina era as the interim government unveiled its plan to host the next national election in February next...
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 127 at 10:00am on Thursday morning...
The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Wednesday night took Sumaiya Jafrin, wife of a major of the Bangladesh Army, into custody in connection with a secret meeting held in the capital鈥檚 Bashundhara area with Awami League members on 8 July.
The Milestone School and College resumed classes partially on Wednesday 15 days after a Bangladesh Air Force fighter jet crashed into it, killing at least 34 people, most of them primary-level students of the educational institution located in the capital鈥檚 Uttara...
In light of Bangladesh鈥檚 recent political landscape and the anniversary of the July uprising, the Centre for Peace Studies at North South University and Germany鈥檚 Arnold Bergstrasser Institute jointly organised a special dialogue and a three-day photo exhibition at the NSU in Dhaka on Wednesday...
A one-day China-Bangladesh Health and Medical Exhibition is scheduled to be held in the capital on August 8...
Rabindra University, Bangladesh on Wednesday observed the 84th anniversary of the death of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali polymath who worked, among others, as a poet, writer, playwright and composer...
A daylong international workshop titled EdTech Futures: Bridging Innovation and Impact in Bangladesh has recently been held at the CIRDAP Auditorium in Dhaka recently...
Vice-chancellor of Pirojpur Science and Technology University Professor Md Shahidul Islam at a programme on Tuesday urged the people of the country to build a corruption-free, discrimination-free, happy, prosperous and self-reliant Bangladesh...
The advisory and convening committees of the Bangladesh Water Development Board Engineers鈥� Association have recently been formed...
Secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday welcomed the announcement to hold the next national election in February 2026, saying that the party saw it as a step towards restoring democracy in Bangladesh...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Wednesday urged all to remain united for the sake of national interest...
The Bridges division and Bangladesh Bridge Authority jointly held a discussion and a prayer session to mark the July uprising anniversary at the Setu Bhaban Mosque in Dhaka on Tuesday...
Forward Sagorika continued her rich vein of form in front of goal as Bangladesh got off to a winning start in their AFC U-20 Women鈥檚 Asian Cup Qualifiers with a 3-1 win over hosts Laos in their Group H fixture at the Lao National Stadium in Vientiane on Wednesday...
Bangladesh 鈥楢鈥� captain Nurul Hasan stated on Tuesday that their objective in the upcoming Top End T20 Series in Australia is to win the trophy, as the representative team from Bangladesh will be participating in the tournament for the second time...
The readymade garment exports to the United States from Bangladesh witnessed a robust growth of 25.13 per cent to $4.25 billion in the first half of 2025, from January to June...
Daraz Bangladesh has launched its 鈥�8.8 Monsoon Madness鈥� campaign that will run from August 8 to 14, said a press release..
Finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Wednesday said that the country still had the scope for bargaining over the tariff rate the United States imposed on Bangladeshi exports to the US.
THE news from the US trade office was better than expected. Sri Lanka which had been shocked by the sudden imposition of a 44 per cent tariff by the US authorities in April 2024 has seen it reduced to 20 per cent. This is a major concession for a country that is perceived to have strong trading and political ties with China, which the United States views as its main...
The Chief Adviser鈥檚 Office on Wednesday sent a letter to the Election Commission鈥檚 senior secretary to make arrangements for the next national election in February, before the month of Ramadan...
The Livelihoods Carbon Fund 3, in partnership with ATEC Global, is implementing a large-scale clean cooking initiative aimed at transforming energy access in rural Bangladesh, says a press release.
BANGLADESH is at the forefront of climate chaos. From scorching heatwaves to unrelenting floods, environmental stresses are remaking the nation鈥檚 social and economic fabric. Women, particularly poor and rural women, bear the brunt. But they are seldom viewed as the heart of climate leadership. In a world heating faster than expected, an equitable climate future...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Wednesday said no one is safe if there is no democracy and rule of law in the country.
Chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Wednesday expressed hope that the Election Commission would soon receive a letter from the interim government about the timeframe to hold the next general election in early February, 2026...
Three more deaths were reported from dengue in the past 24 hours till Wednesday morning, raising the total fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 92 this year...
Home adviser Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury at the home ministry in Dhaka on Wednesday said that they would transfer SPs and OCs through a lottery before media representatives prior to the announcement of the election schedule...
Andr茅 Carstens, the head of mission of the embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, paid a farewell call on chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna in Dhaka on Wednesday...
Nearly 98 per cent of children living in Dhaka are exposed to a high level of lead poisoning, according to a study conducted by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh...
The Milestone School and College will resume classes partially today 15 days after a Bangladesh Air Force fighter jet crashed into it, killing at least 34 people, most of them primary-level students of the educational institution located in the capital鈥檚 Uttara...
