What’s next for Tigers?
The Bangladesh national cricket team has received a lengthy break following their T20I series against Pakistan, which concluded last Thursday...
The Bangladesh national cricket team has received a lengthy break following their T20I series against Pakistan, which concluded last Thursday...
Iranian coach Saeid Khodarahmi will begin his mission to build the first-ever National Futsal Team of Bangladesh ahead of the AFC Futsal Asian Cup 2026 qualifiers, scheduled to be played across eight Asian countries from September 20 to 24...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Sunday said that the next edition of the NCL T20 would be held across three venues...
WHEN a new episode begins in Bangladesh, it often ends not in reform but in distortion. The story of higher education is no different. Public and private universities are said to be growing in number every few years. Yet in a country where even the four major autonomous public universities struggle to recruit talented and committed teachers, there is little...
A delegation of 21 physicians and nurses from Singapore, China and India, now staying in Dhaka to treat jet crash victims, met with Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday at the State Guest House Jamuna.
BANGLADESH is known as one of the most vulnerable countries to the impact of global climate change, but the country is moving fast from the vulnerability to a become climate-resilient society through various policy responses and climate actions at various levels. The country has formulated a set of policies, plans and strategies to address climate change through...
THIS is deplorable that the authorities have failed to address the issues that have rendered Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation Industrial Estate 2 in Rajshahi unattractive to entrepreneurs. Launched in July 2022 as a Tk 1.5 billion project, the estate was meant to create 10,000 jobs and stimulate small and medium enterprises in the region. It, however, remains...
The ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Bangladesh, Yao Wen, on Saturday attended the handover ceremony of China’s emergency medical supplies to Bangladesh for jet crash burn patients under treatment.
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday renewed his call for Malaysia to support Bangladesh’s bid to become a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...
The rate of dengue hospitalisations in Barishal division still remains high in comparison with the rest of the country as the authorities have failed to adopt timely measures to tackle the viral fever...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has reported a significant rise in income in its annual financial statement for 2024, with total earnings reaching Tk 15.65 crore, a sharp increase from Tk 1.10 crore in the previous year...
Foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain left Dhaka for New York on Sunday morning to attend the United Nations high-level international conference on the ‘Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution’...
Border Guard Bangladesh in a drive seized 31 gold bars worth Tk 5.83 crore at Maheshpur border in Jhenaidah on Saturday morning.
Chattogram-based politicians observed on Saturday that the country’s political parties had yet to formally adopt a gender equality charter to ensure women’s meaningful participation in politics and economy, despite women having historically played a central role in Bangladesh’s social and political movements...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has warned that those who destroyed environment would not get its nomination to contest in the next national elections.
A faction of Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday blocked the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Munshiganj, demanding punishment of those party leaders they had accused of forming local committees through irregularities and...
Border Guard Bangladesh on Saturday detained 11 people, including a broker, on charge of illegally entering the country from India through a border point at Baralekha upazila in Moulvibazar.
Green financing by banks increased in the January-March quarter compared with that in the previous quarter...
The International Chamber of Commerce – Bangladesh called for a strategic move to navigate the challenges the country might face in 2025...
Three years after it was declared ready for entrepreneurs, the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation Industrial Estate–2 in Rajshahi’s Paba upazila is struggling to attract investment due to the high price of plots and the absence of utility services...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said that there was a messy situation prevailing in the country, as some political parties were calling for elections in the proportional representation system even...
BANGLADESH has made significant progress in reducing childhood stunting over the past decade, thanks to improvements in healthcare, nutrition and public health initiatives. However, a new and silent threat is emerging that could jeopardise these hard-won gains: climate change. Recent research has highlighted a troubling link between extreme heat and stunted...
FOR millions of smallholder families, water remains a daily negotiation between hope and hardship. Whether tending boro rice on the dry soil of the Barind or collecting water for home use in flood-prone villages, such farmers balance survival against scarcity. Their water use reflects the resilience of rural Bangladesh and exposes systemic inefficiencies and an urgent need for smarter, equitable management...
THE death of Bangladeshis continues at the hands of India’s Border Security Force, with at least 34 having died, after being shot or tortured by the Indian guards, during one year of the interim government. Rights group Ain O Salish Kendra says that 15 died in firing and from torture by the Indian guards in January–June. Two were killed in January, one in February, three in...
Three-time national badminton champion Ayman Ibn Zaman has set his sights on winning gold for Bangladesh in next year’s South Asian Games, following a notable return to national competition after a nine-year hiatus.
Despite failing to qualify through the Men’s AHF Cup in April, the Bangladesh hockey team is expected to receive an opportunity to participate in the forthcoming Men’s Hockey Asia Cup, potentially replacing Pakistan, who may withdraw from the tournament.
Two students, who were injured in the Bangladesh Air Force jet crash into Milestone School and College premises in Uttara in Dhaka on July 21, were discharged from the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery on Saturday...
The second edition of the Women’s Kabaddi World Cup was postponed around an hour after the Bangladesh Kabaddi Federation announced a 15-member squad for the tournament on Saturday.
At least three more people died of dengue and 331 others were admitted to different hospitals across the country during the past 24 hours till Saturday morning...
Chinese medical team from Wuhan Third Hospital, currently visiting Bangladesh, continued their work at the Bangladesh Institute of Burns and Plastic Surgery...