The National Board of Revenue has initiated a plan to digitalise its tax audit selection process, replacing the long-standing manual method, to eliminate human interference and restore taxpayer confidence...
Smart Technologies (BD) Limited, distributor of GIGABYTE in Bangladesh, launched two new AI powered motherboards aimed at heavy gaming and multitasking in the capital Dhaka on Monday, said a press release...
IN AN increasingly interconnected world, outsourcing public services to foreign entities has become a growing global trend. Bangladesh, like many other nations, is embracing this shift, as seen in its recent decision to assign the printing and issuance of driving licenses to Madras IT. This decision, however, prompts a larger question: How much control...
PERSISTENT attacks on cultural and religious sites 鈥� shrines, darbar sharifs and baul establishments 鈥� are gravely concerning. At least, three attacks on such sites in September 29鈥�30 suggest that the government has not adequately addressed the issue. At least, 30 people, mostly followers of Sufism, were injured as a group of villagers attacked a shrine at...
Google plans to invest $1 billion to build digital infrastructure in Thailand, including a new data centre, the US tech giant has announced, saying the move would support 14,000 jobs in the kingdom.
A metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Monday placed former lawmaker Sultan Mohammad Monsur Ahmed on a five-day remand in a case filed over the killing of a Juba Dal leader, Shamim Mia, in the capital鈥檚 Paltan area...
A metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Monday withdrew its conviction warrant issued for sending journalist Shafik Rehman to jail to 7-year sentence on charge of conspiracy to abduct and kill deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 son Sajeeb Wazed Joy...
Justice seekers across the country are facing prolonged delays due to the persistent absence of public prosecutors and government pleaders, appointed under the overthrown Awami League regime, from lower courts since the fall of the AL government amid a student-mass uprising on August 5...
Police have arrested another suspect in connection with the lynching of former organising secretary Shamim Molla of Bangladesh Chhatra League鈥檚 Jahangirnagar University unit...
THE Rohingya crisis, which began in 2017 with the forced migration of over 700,000 Rohingya individuals from Myanmar to Bangladesh, continues to represent one of the most intricate humanitarian and geopolitical dilemmas in South and Southeast Asia. Bangladesh has been pivotal in offering sanctuary and addressing the challenges posed by this...
THE apparent indifference of the interim government to engage or coordinate with political parties to address the pressing issues that the country faces and the reforms that the country needs is concerning on a couple of counts. The distance between the government and the political parties also suggests a distance between the government and the...
The authorities of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology have banned student politics on its campus again...
Mohammad Mamdudur Rashid has been appointed as managing director and chief executive officer of United Commercial Bank PLC recently, said a press release...
The interim government has announced the withdrawal of all cases filed under the cybercrime laws during the 15-year tenure of Sheikh Hasina, who resigned as prime minister and fled to India on August 5 amid a student-mass uprising...
Jahangirnagar University at a meeting on Sunday announced an increase in the financial allocation for individual research projects to encourage researchers to conduct quality research...
Jahangirnagar University environmental sciences department students on Sunday staged a sit-in in front of the department, demanding punishment for a teacher of the department, Amir Hossain Bhuiyan, who is alleged to have sexually harassed several female students of the department...
THE dramatic fall of the authoritarian Awami League regime, driven by the unyielding energy and vision of Gen Z, marks a watershed moment in Bangladesh鈥檚 history. Like many, I have been both a witness to and an active supporter of this transformative movement, marvelling at how young students, popularly referred to as Generation Z, have ignited the...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday said that the 鈥榞hosts鈥� of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina were conspiring in different parts of the country and the biggest conspiracy was...
Donald Trump on Friday accused Google of showing only 鈥榖ad stories鈥� about him and vowed to have the tech giant prosecuted if he gets back in the White House...
Mahmudur Rahman, former acting editor of the daily Amar Desh, is likely to surrender to a Dhaka magistrate court Sunday in connection with a case...
Vietnam suffered $3.3 billion in economic losses as a result of deadly Typhoon Yagi, which swept across the country鈥檚 north earlier this month causing hundreds of fatalities, state media reported Saturday...
Britain鈥檚 Maggie Smith, the double Oscar-winner who shone on stage and screen for more than seven decades, has died in a hospital in London, her sons announced Friday, prompting a flood of tributes...
The chief security officer of Jahangirnagar University, Sudipta Shaheen, has been discharged from the duty for allegedly distorting the case statement on the lynching of...
Jahangirnagar University authorities reconstituted the probe body formed to investigate the lynching of a former student on the campus amid a series of protest against the previous...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday urged the interim government to hold a fair election after necessary reforms at the...
A group of Jahangirnagar University students demonstrated on the campus on Thursday demanding filing of a fresh case over the lynching of former Chhatra League leader...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that his party believes that the 鈥榠ce has started to melt鈥� with India after the takeover of an interim government...
The authorities of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology on Wednesday cancelled seats at residence halls of those students involved with the Bangladesh Chhatra League...
Rights activists at a dialogue on Wednesday called on the government to expand its social safety net programmes to reduce extreme poverty and vulnerability of the marginalised people...
Indian-administered Kashmir voted on Wednesday to elect its first government since New Delhi scrapped the Himalayan territory鈥檚 semi-autonomous status, sparking widespread protest in a region wracked by a decades-long insurgency...
