The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has allowed Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, a Bangladeshi condemned war crimes convict living in London for decades, to revive his...
THE finance minister, Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, placed the budget for the 2024鈥�2025 financial year in parliament on June 6. This is his first budget as finance minister and the first for the incumbent government...
The United Kingdom is providing 拢500,000 or Tk 7.5 crores of vital humanitarian assistance to communities affected by Cyclone Remal in southwestern Bangladesh....
The government has set a target to limit inflation within 6.5 per cent in the financial year 2024鈥�25, although prices of food and non-food items keep rising over...
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Sunday urged the United Kingdom to import more from Bangladesh...
A former chairman of Meherpara union was stabbed to death by miscreants at Bhagirathpur in Sadar upazila of Narsingdi district on early Wednesday...
Australia, Canada, the European Union, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States reiterated their call on all states to prevent or cease the flow of arms or military and dual-use material, including aviation fuel to the Myanmar military....
United Kingdom鈥檚 prime minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday set a general election date for July 4, ending months of speculation but not the doom-laden forecasts about the size of the government鈥檚 expected defeat....
A vice-chairman candidate was killed in a clash between supporters of two vice-chairman candidates at聽 Mirerkandi village of Paratali union of Raypura upazila in Narsingdi...
A vice-chairman candidate was killed in a clash between his supporters and supporters of another vice-chairman candidate at village Mirerkandi of Paratali Union in Raypura Upazila of Narsingdi...
The country鈥檚 gross domestic product grew by 5.82 per cent in the outgoing financial year, despite slower growth in the agriculture and...
Bangladesh鈥檚 apparel exports to the United Kingdom in the first quarter (January-March) of 2024 fell by 23.61 per cent to 616.39 million pound compared with...
At least six people, including three of a family, were killed in lightning strikes in Narsingdi and Tangail districts on Saturday, as a wet spell set...
The United Kingdom is set to deport around 10,000 Bangladesh nationals who were unsuccessful in their asylum claims last year, according to a report by The Telegraph.
Bangladesh and the United Kingdom held their first-ever joint working group meeting on home affairs in London at the British home office and signed the standard operating procedures on returns...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday called upon the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to extend the time of visa approval for Hajj pilgrims so all of them could perform Hajj as its ambassador Essa Yousef Essa Alduhailan called on her in Dhaka...
A Supreme Court lawyer on Thursday filed a writ petition seeking a directive to investigate by the government authorities the reported Tk 2,770 crore property of former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury in the United Kingdom...
At least 19 people died when part of a highway collapsed in southern China鈥檚 Guangdong province on Wednesday, state media reported.......
The University of Glasgow of the United Kingdom has joined hands with Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University for the study of heart disease...
A RECENT study has warned that rapid and forceful climate change is affecting the economy, GDP growth, livelihoods of common people and human health, with growing gender inequity in developing countries, particularly among the...
The government鈥檚 performance is tellingly poor when it comes to the tax-to-GDP ratio. The ratio has remained static at about 8 per cent, one of the lowest even in South Asia, for the past decade as proposals and initiatives for augmenting...
Economists and professionals at a roundtable discussion on Sunday said that Bangladesh needed to increase its tax-GDP ratio, which was currently very low compared with that of neighbouring countries...
The late, sharp-witted economist Michael Mussa, my first boss at the International Monetary Fund, once told me that every statistic must pass the 鈥榮mell test.鈥� I recalled this sage advice recently when Indian authorities published the first driblets of a consumption survey...
Patients in the United Kingdom and European Union are facing shortages of vital medicines such as antibiotics and epilepsy medication, research published on Thursday found....
The International Monetary Fund again has revised downward the growth forecast of Bangladesh鈥檚 economy to 5.7 per cent for the current fiscal year of 2023-24....
The country鈥檚 growth in gross domestic product during the second quarter of the current financial year grew at a slower pace than in the past two...
A local union parishad member was shot to death allegedly by miscreants at Pakuria Bazar of Madhabdi upazila in Narsingdi on Monday...
THE United Kingdom has a historical link to the current Israel-Palestine conflict. With the Balfour Declaration in 1917, Britain pledged to establish a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine, despite Jews constituting...
A man suspected of stabbing a woman to death as she pushed her baby in a pram on a street in Bradford of the United Kingdom was arrested on Tuesday morning, BBC reported....
