A former coordinator of the Student Movement Against Discrimination, a platform which spearheaded the July uprising ousting the Awami League regime, urged Rajshahi University authorities to allow students whose enrolment expired before August 5 to participate in the coming central students鈥� union elections...
Political parties of Bangladesh are consolidating their positions and pursuing at least four election alliance initiatives ahead of the national elections likely to be held in mid-February, 2026.
The body of a youth, who went missing following a ferry-trawler collision on the Rupsha River on Thursday night, was recovered on Saturday morning...
Dhaka Bank PLC, in collaboration with Mastercard, has recently launched an exclusive co-branded credit card for members of the Institute of Architects Bangladesh, said a press release...
EARLIER this month, scholars working at the London School of Economics argued, 鈥業t鈥檚 time to face up to power in the debate about wealth inequality.鈥� The authors note that of the various ways we could frame the problem of inequality, the framing that has most resonance with people 鈥榝ocuses on the problem of Unfair Influence. That is, it places the emphasis on...
THE government has set an ambitious target of administering typhoid vaccines to 50 million children and adolescents, aged between nine months and 15 years, under an Expanded Programme on Immunisation campaign that would begin on October 12. But the response to the campaign has so far been reserved. The Directorate General of Health Services says that..
The Indian Border Security Force returned a Bangladeshi farmer to Border Guard Bangladesh after a flag meeting at the Kathuli border area of sadar upazila in Meherpur early Friday.
Germany鈥檚 economy shrank more than expected in the second quarter as US tariffs battered exports, official data showed Friday, ramping up pressure on chancellor Friedrich Merz to turn Europe鈥檚 top economy around.
Shafiur Rahman Farabi, who was sentenced to life term imprisonment in the case of killing writer and blogger Avijit Roy, was on Friday released from Kashimpur High-Security Central Jail on bail.
Crystal Palace鈥檚 Eberechi Eze appeared to be moving closer to a transfer to Arsenal worth a reported 拢60 million ($81 million) after the England international was left out of the Eagles鈥� team for their European tie on Thursday.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said he could meet with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, but only after his allies agree security guarantees for Ukraine to deter future Russian attacks once the fighting stops...
Myanmar鈥檚 ruling junta released details of its long-awaited December election on Thursday, saying the first voting phase would cover about a third of the nation鈥檚 townships 鈥� despite the conflict raging around the country...
Marking the International Youth Day, Ministry of Youth and Sports and the United Nations system launched the design phase of a Youth Voice Mechanism at the ministry鈥檚 conference room in Dhaka on Thursday...
BGMEA University of Fashion and Technology held a commemorative programme to honour the memory of a martyred in the July uprising, Md Selim Talukder, a BUFT alumnus, at the BUFT auditorium in Dhaka on Thursday.聽..
Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Thursday stressed the urgent need to combat disinformation...
The two-day 2nd International Conference on Recent and Advanced Fiber and Polymer Materials will begin on August 26...
Arsenal are poised to snatch Eberechi Eze from under the noses of arch-rivals Tottenham Hotspur in what could be one of the most audacious moves of the Premier League鈥檚 summer transfer window, it was reported Wednesday.
Bangladesh and Pakistan on Thursday agreed to revitalise the joint economic commission and establishment of a trade and investment body to bolster economic cooperation between two nations separated after 24 years of co-existence in 1971...
A German company is putting used electric vehicle batteries to new use by stacking them into fridge-size units that homes and businesses can use to store their excess solar and wind energy...
Rupali Bank Securities Limited on Thursday held its 12th annual general meeting, said a press release...
Huawei has been recognised with 鈥楥ustomers鈥� Choice鈥� for the fifth time in a row by Gartner, a global research firm, for its Software-Defined Wide Area Network Solution, also called SD-WAN, said a press release...
THE world is going through a major crisis, with more than 120 million people forced to leave their homes because of war, violence, climate change and poverty. According to the UNHCR鈥檚 latest report, over 43 million of them are refugees who have crossed into other countries looking for safety and a better life. From Syria and Sudan to Venezuela and Myanmar...
Speakers at a dialogue on Wednesday said that administrative and development decentralisation was imperative to ease the population pressure on Dhaka city and make it more liveable...
Three hundred and fifty-six more new dengue cases were reported in the 24 hours leading up to Wednesday morning, bringing the total number of cases to 27, 471 this year...
The Bangladesh Election Commission is set to publish the draft list of polling centres for the forthcoming 13th parliamentary elections on September 10...
Russia said on Wednesday it had to be part of any discussion on security guarantees for Ukraine and downplayed the likelihood of an imminent summit with president Volodymyr Zelensky, tempering hopes for a quick peace deal...
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday said that the joint declaration signed on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases would be a new milestone for health protection as it would help achieve the health-related sustainable development goals...
At least 10 panels and independent candidates are going to contest in the Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union elections as the timeline for submitting nomination papers ended on Wednesday...
The Rajshahi University authorities on Wednesday announced a revised schedule for the central students鈥� union elections, a day after abruptly suspending the pre-set schedule for distributing nomination papers, drawing stern criticism from the students...
A doctor on Wednesday testified before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that plainclothes police, identifying themselves as Detective Branch officers, asked the doctors and medical staff not to treat injured student protesters during the July 2024 uprising...
