The Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Friday placed former chief election commissioner KM Nurul Huda on a four-day fresh remand for interrogation in a case filed over allegations of irregularities during the past three national elections.
The dissemination workshop titled Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Nutrition in Bangladesh was held at CORDAP in Dhaka on Thursday...
The country鈥檚 stock markets on Thursday witnessed the highest turnover of the month, accompanied by a notable rise in indices and gains in the majority of listed companies...
Legal efforts to block or unwind action on climate change are rising across the globe, new research showed Wednesday, particularly in the United States which leads the world on anti-green litigation...
Flooding in China鈥檚 southwest has driven more than 80,000 people from their homes, state media said on Wednesday.
Bangladesh鈥檚 gross foreign exchange reserves, calculated under IMF guidelines, soared to $22.65 billion on Wednesday amid fresh disbursements from the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and strong remittance inflows...
The Dhaka Stock聽Exchange and Chittagong Stock Exchange on Tuesday witnessed an聽upward trend like earlier as investors continued their buying spree on large-cap issues amid optimism...
Dhaka University professor emeritus and one of the most prominent public intellectuals of the country Serajul Islam Choudhury on Monday said that without the social revolution, the fate of the common people in the country could not be changed...
After witnessing a downward trend in the last two sessions, stocks on Monday rebounded in the Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges as investors remained active on sector-wise issues...
CLIMATE change has emerged as one of the most urgent crises of our time, bringing about widespread loss of human life and irreversible damage to nature. Extreme weather patterns 鈥� including rising temperatures, prolonged cold waves, water scarcity, wildfires, sea-level rise, flooding, polar ice melting, storms, landslides, hurricanes and a steep decline in biodiversity...
CLIMATE change is no longer a looming threat for Bangladesh. It has arrived, thick and heavy, in the very air we breathe. It lingers in our lungs, stings in our throats, and hangs over Dhaka like an oppressive curtain no one asked for. This is not some distant crisis forecasted by scientists; this is the reality of living in one of the world鈥檚 most polluted cities. And more than...
US President Donald Trump thinks Iranians should overthrow their government if it refuses to negotiate on its nuclear programme, but the US president is 鈥榮till interested鈥� in diplomacy, the White House said Monday.
The Dhaka Stock Exchange and the Chittagong Stock Exchange plunged on Sunday due to mainly price fall in large-cap securities...
After witnessing a downward trend in the last session, stocks on Wednesday rebounded in the Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges as investors remained active on sector-wise issues...
IN THE at-risk southern region of Bangladesh, fierce winds and rising rivers cause more than just home and farmland damage. Climate change, poverty, and social disintegration are quietly increasing crime, a worrying trend that is often overlooked. Policy responses prioritise rescue, relief, and infrastructure repair, but climate change-induced criminality is neglected...
Masrur Reaz, chairman and chief executive officer of Policy Exchange Bangladesh, said that the revenue collection target wasn鈥檛 set systematically or based on proper research into the economy...
Both the Dhaka Stock Exchange and the Chittagong Stock Exchange on Monday witnessed an upward trend like earlier as investors continued their buying spree on large-cap issues amid optimism...
The Hubei-Bangladesh Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Exchange Conference 2025 was held at the International Conference Hall of Daffodil International University at Daffodil Smart City of Savar in Dhaka on Sunday...
Trading on the country鈥檚 two stock exchanges resumed on Sunday with an uptrend in key indices, as investors returned after a 10-day Eid holiday...
Bangladesh鈥檚 overall Purchasing Managers鈥� Index聽score in May saw an increase of 6.0 points from April to reach 58.9...
THE people鈥檚 mandate at the general election seven months ago was for 鈥榮ystem change.鈥� The main hope of those who voted overwhelmingly for the National People鈥檚 Power was to improve the economic situation. Those who live in the north and east of the country, where the long civil war took place, voted along with their fellow citizens in other parts of the...
Greenland鈥檚 ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the past average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland, the scientific network World Weather Attribution said in a report Wednesday.
On a small farm in India鈥檚 Maharashtra state, Mirabai Khindkar said the only thing her land grew was debt, after crops failed in drought and her husband killed himself.
Dhaka鈥檚 stock market slipped further on Tuesday, the third trading day of the week...
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change adviser, Syeda Rizwana Hasan, on Saturday urged young people to work collectively to address the risks posed by climate change in the country...
A money exchange trader was shot and robbed of about Tk 22 lakh, including foreign currencies, in broad daylight in Dhaka鈥檚 Mirpur area Monday morning...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Sunday issued a travel ban on former minister for environment, forest and climate change Saber Hossain Chowdhury and his family members over allegations of corruption.
The week鈥檚 final trading day concluded on Thursday with a decline in both the Dhaka and Chattogram stock exchanges, as most listed companies saw their share prices fall...
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission will hold a consultation meeting with representatives of retail investor organizations on May 29 at 12:00pm...
