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British Council celebrates achievements of Commonwealth scholars

The British Council Bangladesh has recently hosted an event titled Commonwealth Scholars Welcome Home to celebrate the achievements of Commonwealth scholars who recently returned after completing their studies in the United Kingdom...

KSA opens Mecca, Medina to foreign investors

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Monday said foreigners are from now on allowed to invest in Saudi-listed companies that own property in Mecca and Medina, Islam’s two holiest cities...

Teenage girl killed, mother injured in Narsingdi attack

A group of unidentified miscreants hacked a teenage girl to death and severely injured her mother after breaking into their house at Shekherchar-Baburhat market under the sadar upazila in Narsingdi on Monday night.

Three people killed, dozens injured in clashes in Raipura

Three people were killed and at least 15 others were injured in a violent clash between two rival groups over establishing supremacy in Raipura upazila of Narsingdi on Sunday morning...

KSA-bound passengers stage demo over vaccine crisis

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia-bound migrants and those intending to perform Umrah staged demonstration in Dhaka on Tuesday after failing to receive mandatory meningitis vaccination to travel the Middle East country...

Rupa Huq terms APPG report on Bangladesh as ‘one-sided’

British lawmaker Rupa Huq has criticised a ‘one-sided account’ of Bangladesh’s interim government, led by chief adviser professor Muhammad Yunus, alleging it was falsely presented under the banner of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Commonwealth, causing confusion...

Sand lifters shoot at mobile court

Illegal sand lifters allegedly shot at a mobile court from a dredger extracting sand from an illegal sand quarry during a drive in the Meghna River in Raipur upazila of Narsingdi on Thursday...

KILLING OF MUGHDHO, JAMAAT LEADER: Complaints filed with ICT

The elder brother of Mir Mahfuzur Rahman Mugdho, who was shot dead during the demonstrations of the Student Movement Against Discrimination on July 18, 2024, filed a complaint on Thursday with the International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor...

Putting migrants back in harness at home

MALAYSIA, Oman, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirate are all temporary homes to a large number of foreign workers and many of them are from Bangladesh. And, many of them are eager to get back home to live with the family and acquaintances and contribute to the local development. Some return to the country but many unfortunately...

UK to unleash AI to turbocharge economy

Labour administration said AI would be ‘unleashed’ across the whole of the country, with the ‘full weight’ of its half a million strong civil service getting behind the endeavour...

BUFT, MU Bigdata Tech sign deal on academic collaboration

BGMEA University of Fashion and Technology has signed an agreement with MU Bigdata Technology Co Limited on advance academic collaboration on Tuesday, said a press release...

Khaleda reunites with son Tarique after seven years

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia was directly taken to London Clinic after arriving at Heathrow International Airport in the United Kingdom on Wednesday...

Khaleda leaves for London for treatment

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia left Dhaka for London for treatment Tuesday night.

Yunus assures British lawmaker of free, fair elections in Bangladesh

Chief advisor Professor Muhammad Yunus on Saturday assured British parliamentarian Rupa Huq that the next general election in Bangladesh would be completely free and fair.

Tulip Siddiq interrogated in United Kingdom over corruption claims in Bangladesh

Tulip Siddiq, a United Kingdom labour minister and niece of Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, has been questioned over claims she and her family members embezzled £4b (around Tk 60,000 crore) from a power plant project in Bangladesh..

Chhatra Dal activist shot dead in Narsingdi

A local activist of Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chhatra Dal, student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, has been shot dead by miscreants in Narsingdi’s Sadar Upazila, police said.

Bangladeshi migrants in Malaysia can sue Dyson: UK Court

The United Kingdom Court of Appeal ruled on Friday that two dozen Bangladeshi and Nepali workers, allegedly subjected to forced labour in Malaysia, could sue Dyson, a British vacuum cleaner manufacturer in London...

UP member, woman killed in AL factional clash in Raipura

A former female union parishad member and a male running UP member were killed and at least 10 injured in a fierce clash between two rival groups of Awami League in Raipura upazila...

Police should put in more efforts to arrest jailbreakers

ABOUT 700 prisoners who escaped jails during the time of turmoil around the fall of the Awami League government, toppled on August 5 in a mass uprising that resulted from student protests spanning July, still being at large is worrying. The prisons directorate at a press conference in Dhaka on December 4, highlighting the directorate’s activities...

Businessman killed at home in Dhaka

The police recovered the body of a trader from his rented house in the Posta area in the capital’s Old town early Wednesday...

Bangladesh's GDP growth rate revised down at 5.2pc in FY25   

A meeting of the coordination council on macro-economy and resource management on Monday decided to revise down the growth rate of gross domestic product at 5.2 per cent from earlier 6.8 per cent in the current financial year.

Exports to major markets rise in July-Oct

Bangladesh’s export earnings from major markets, including the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom, grew in July–October of the 2024–25 financial year, driven by increased orders for readymade garments as global buyers shifted their focus from China...

Govt should double efforts for laundered money recovery

AN INVESTIGATIVE report by a British news agency once again shows that politicians and businesspeople linked to the deposed Awami League have laundered huge wealth off Bangladesh. The report, conducted by the Observer in collaboration with Transparency International that British newspaper Guardian published on November 30, shows that prominent Bangladeshi politicians and businesspeople own top-flight...

Politicians, businessmen from Bangladesh own £400m UK property: report

Prominent Bangladeshi figures, including politicians and business leaders accused of corruption, own UK properties worth approximately £400 million.

Unidentified teen’s body found in Mugda

Police recovered the body of an unidentified teenager from a lake in Green Model Town of Mugda area in Dhaka Wednesday night...

FY25 GDP growth likely to be 5pc  

The interim government is likely to revise down the growth in gross domestic products at 5 per cent in the current financial year ending in the next June, said officials.   

Govt appoints new press ministers in London, Delhi

The interim government has appointed press ministers to the foreign missions in New Delhi of India and London of the United Kingdom...

Starmer’s economic, foreign policy

IN THE first four months of his stint as UK prime minister, Keir Starmer has shown mixed results. His early tenure has already been tested by the August riots, a stark and unsettling episode triggered by the tragic murder of three young girls in Southport. The unrest has exposed underlying tensions — economic fragility, social divides, and the brittleness...

German GDP downgraded in new blow for struggling economy

German third-quarter growth was downgraded Friday with official data showing it expanded even more weakly than previously thought, in a new blow for Europe’s top economy as it battles multiple headwinds.