DNCC to give Citizen Award for efforts to make city livable
The Dhaka North City Corporation is set to introduce the 鈥楥itizen Award 2025鈥� to recognise individuals and organisations, contributing to making Dhaka a more livable city.
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DSE turnover reaches Tk 7.9b
Dhaka Stock Exchange turnover on Thursday reached Tk 7.90 billion, marking a 7.53 per cent increase from the previous session and the highest single-day figure in more than eight months.
Anyone aged 18 till election schedule to be voter
The interim government has granted final approval in-principle to the draft Voters鈥� List (Amendment) Ordinance 2025, allowing those who turn 18 before the announcement of the election schedule to register as voters.
Dhaka Regency Hotel introduces swimming course, physiotherapy services
Dhaka Regency Hotel & Resort has introduced swimming course and physiotherapy services, says a press release.
DU VC meets chief adviser
Dhaka University vice-chancellor Professor Niaz Ahmed Khan met the chief adviser Muhammad Yunus at the state guest house Jamuna in Dhaka on Tuesday evening.
Sohag killed over business rivalry: DMP commissioner
Scrap trader Lal Chand alias Md Sohag was killed in Old Dhaka over business rivalry, not for any political motive, Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Sheikh Md Sajjat Ali said on Wednesday...
DESCO holds 508th board meeting
Dhaka Electric Supply Company Limited on Monday held its 508th board meeting, said a press release...
Dhaka鈥檚 declining liveability demands urgent reform
DHAKA has slumped even further in the 2025 Global Liveability Index, now ranked the third least liveable city. Of the 173 cities assessed, only Damascus and Tripoli, both devastated by protracted conflict, fared worse than Dhaka. The city of 20 million people received a score of 41.7 out of 100, a decline from position of the sixth worst in the past index and the year before...
July uprising was against divisions in society: NCP聽聽
Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina had split the country using the freedom fighters versus Razakars divide and using 鈥楳ujibism鈥� for past 50 years the country was kept divided, while the July uprising was organised against such divisions in society and to build a new Bangladesh, said National Citizen Party convener Nahid Islam...
BSB Global Network chair Bashar on 10-day remand
A Dhaka additional chief metropolitan magistrate court on Tuesday placed BSB Global Network chair Khairul Bashar on a 10-day remand in police custody for interrogation in a case filed with the Gulshan police station over the allegation of laundering money.
Another arrested聽for Mitford murder聽
Another accused in the killing of Md Sohag, locally known as Lal Chand, near Sir Salimullah Medical College Mitford Hospital in the capital Dhaka was arrested from Bandar upazila in Narayanganj in the early hours of Tuesday.
JAL keen to assess Dhaka-Narita flight viability
Japan Airlines (JAL) has expressed keen interest in assessing the feasibility of operating direct flights on the Dhaka-Narita route to cater to the rising demand driven by expanding trade, business, and people-to-people ties between Bangladesh and Japan...
Bangladesh capital Dhaka ranks world鈥檚 3rd worst liveable city
Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, has moved three notches down in the Global Liveability Index of The Economist Intelligence Unit and now ranks the 3rd worst liveable city, next to war-ravaged Syria鈥檚 Damascus and Libya鈥檚 Tripoli.
Seven injured as train hits truck jammed on track in Khulna
At least seven people were severely injured, with about 50 slightly injured and rail communications between Dhaka and Khulna were disrupted for at least by over an hour when a train hit a truck stuck on tracks in Khulna on Monday night.
Perpetrators try to show murder as mob violence
Perpetrators involved in the July 9 killing of scrap metal trader Md Sohag, also known as Lal Chand, near Sir Salimullah Medical College Mitford Hospital in the capital Dhaka, allegedly created a plot to show the incident as the outcome of mob violence.
ACC allowed to seize ex-IGP Benazir鈥檚 assets in USA, Malaysia
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Monday allowed the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze four bank accounts and two properties of former inspector general of police Benazir Ahmed in the USA and Malaysia.
Govt to inaugurate July Memorial Museum Aug 5
The July Memorial Museum will be inaugurated on August 5 as the work of the museum is almost at its final stage.
MITFORD MURDER: HC drops writ seeking judicial commission
The High Court in Dhaka has removed from its cause list a writ petition that pleaded for forming of a judicial commission to investigate into killing of scrap metal trader Lal Chand Mohammad Sohag, also an activist of Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, the youth front of the BNP, in Mitford, Dhaka on July 9.
DU student found dead
The police recovered the blood-stained body of a Dhaka University student, Sanju Baraik, 23, from Jagannath Hall premises early Monday.
Heavy rainfall, waterlogging likely in Dhaka, Barishal, Khulna
Bangladesh Meteorological Department has forecast heavy (44-88mm /24hrs) to very heavy (> 88mm/24hrs) rainfall at places in three divisions due to a low over the Bay of Bengal...
Train communication with Dhaka, north halted as truck gets stuck on rail track
Train communication with Dhaka and northern parts of Bangladesh remained suspended for about an hour after a goods-laden truck got stuck on a rail track in Kaliakair upazila of Gazipur on Monday morning...
DU White Panel teachers demand trial of fellow Hasina collaborators
Dhaka University teachers, belonging to the pro-Bangladesh Nationalist Party White Panel, on Sunday demanded trial of ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her collaborators among fellow teachers for their role in crackdown on students during the July uprising...
Dhaka, Ctg stocks flat
Stock markets on Sunday finished the session of the week flat amid heightened intraday volatility as investors opted to lock in short-term gains from recently appreciated stocks while taking renewed positions on selected small-cap and blue-chip scrips...
Metro rail station on DU campus to be closed at 5:00pm Monday
The Dhaka University metro rail station will be closed at 5:00pm on Monday to facilitate the July uprising revival events on the campus.
Plot on to oust Tarique from politics: Fakhrul聽
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday claimed that a deliberate and orchestrated campaign was under way to destroy the country鈥檚 nationalist forces, commenting that the ongoing propaganda against the BNP was part of a planned conspiracy.
Juba Dal to organise nationwide protests over law, order
Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, the youth wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, will hold demonstrations across the country, including in Dhaka, on Thursday to protest against the worsening law and order situation.
DB files charge-sheet against Subrata Bain, 3 others in arms case
Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Sunday filed a charge sheet in an arms case against top terror and Subrata Bain, his close associate Molla Masud and two others.
Two more arrested from Netrokona over Old Dhaka murder
Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Sunday arrested two siblings from Netrokona district early Sunday in connection with scrap trader Shohagh killing near Mitford Hospital in Dhaka.
Young man killed in road accident near Dhaka airport
A 32-year-old man was killed in a road accident in front of Terminal-3 of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport under Airport Police Station on Saturday night...
Unidentified attackers hurl two crude bombs near BNP office
Unidentified attackers hurled two crude bombs in front of Bangladesh Nationalist Party鈥檚 Nayapaltan central office on Saturday night...