Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC and Dhaka Commerce College signed a corporate agreement on Tuesday. Under this agreement, students of this college can pay all kind of academic fees at Islami Bank branches, sub-branches, agent outlets and through the Cellfin app and mCash...
Asia Insurance PLC has approved 10 per cent cash dividend for the year ended December 31, 2024 in its 25th annual general meeting held on Tuesday virtually by using digital platform...
The 25th annual general meeting of Global Insurance PLC, held recently through hybrid system, approved 10 per cent cash dividend for the shareholders for the year 2024...
MetLife Bangladesh has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Chuti Resort. Through this MoU, policy-owners of MetLife Bangladesh will benefit from a discount of 50% on room rates and 5% for daylong packages in three Chuti Resort locations 鈥� Gazipur, Purbachal and Aronnobash, says a press release.
Saif Hasan, who has been called up to the Bangladesh national cricket team for the forthcoming Netherlands series and the Asia Cup, has had an interesting career in T20Is so far...
AS THE Shanghai Cooperation Organisation prepares to convene its 25th Heads of State Council summit in Tianjin on August 31, 2025, the mood is one of cautious optimism, shaped by geopolitical turbulence, but anchored in a sense of historical inevitability. Under China鈥檚 rotating chairmanship, the SCO has not only survived the headwinds of global disorder but...
A TEACHER from Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology recently said that his high school headmaster had stopped talking to him after his admission into a polytechnic institute in the 1980s. The headmaster started talking to him only after he was admitted into a bachelor鈥檚 engineering programme at DUET...
EDUCATION in Bangladesh has lost its way. Instead of helping young people grow, think and create, it has become a system obsessed with exams, grades and rote memorisation. Students spend their childhoods preparing for tests rather than for life. The result is a generation holding certificates yet lacking the skills, creativity and confidence to thrive...
WHEN the chief adviser to the interim government Muhammad Yunus has presented his seven-point road map for the Rohingya repatriation in Cox鈥檚 Bazar, the stage was set for optimism. In the presence of diplomats and aid officials, Yunus has called for what seemed self-evident: a safe, dignified, voluntary and sustainable return of more than 1.3 million...
THIS is worrying that incidents of sexual violence and rape are increasing. The Bangladesh Women鈥檚 Council reported a rise in gender-based violence in 2024, with the majority of the victims being girl children. There is an alarming surge in child marriage too. In 2024, about 20 cases of child marriage were reported whereas in the first six months of this year, the number is...
THE University of Dhaka authorities鈥� decision to deploy the army as a 鈥榮triking force鈥� during the Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union elections, scheduled for September 9, is both humiliating and alarming. The announcement came at an exchange of views between the returning officers and the candidates for the positions of vice-president, general secretary and...
The Bangladesh interim government information and broadcasting adviser, Md Mahfuj Alam, has said the goal of the interim government formed through the July Mass Uprising is to eliminate inequality and establish a new political arrangement in Bangladesh that will strengthen the democratic system.
At least eight members of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police were injured on Wednesday afternoon during the protest of engineering students.
The parents of a 16-year-old California boy who died by suicide have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the company鈥檚 ChatGPT chatbot provided their son with detailed suicide instructions and encouraged his death.
Sauravi Akhanda Prity struck a hat-trick as Bangladesh beat Nepal 4-1 to keep their hopes alive of becoming champions in the SAFF Under-17 Women's Championship 2025 at the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu, Bhutan, on Wednesday.
Additional deputy commissioner of police Md Shafiqul Islam has been appointed as the chief of the Detective Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police...
An independent vice-president candidate in the upcoming Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union elections, Jalal Ahmed Jalal, was expelled from Haji Muhammad Mohsin Hall early Wednesday after he allegedly stabbed his roommate...
Netherlands cricket team arrived in Bangladesh on Wednesday to play a three-match T20I series starting on August 30 at the Sylhet International Stadium.
Standard Chartered Bangladesh and UNICEF had joined forces to train 30,000 young people in financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and sales skills, said a press release on Wednesday...
Fortify Rights and 57 other groups in a joint statement on Wednesday said that the United Nations member states must pursue accountability for genocide and other atrocities committed against ethnic Rohingya civilians in Rakhine State, Myanmar...
The Bangladesh聽interim government on Wednesday instructed the authorities concerned to take immediate action if signs of provocative activities were noticed centring the Chandranath temple in Chattogram...
Fortify Rights has said the Bangladesh government must ensure accountability for cases of enforced disappearances during the brutal rule of the country鈥檚 deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and provide reparations for victims鈥� families and survivors...
Indian spin great Ravichandran Ashwin on Wednesday announced his retirement from the Indian Premier League and plans to play in other global franchise tournaments.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Bangladesh Nationalist Party to appeal against its 2011 verdict that abolished the non-party caretaker government system...
Law enforces charged batons and fired teargas on the students of engineering universities when they were marching towards state guesthouse Jamuna to press their three-point demand on Wednesday...
A schoolboy was killed and two others were injured in a high-speed motorcycle accident in Gangni upazila of Meherpur on Tuesday evening...
Students of engineering universities, including Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, again blocked Shahbagh crossing on Wednesday, pressing for reforms in the recruitment and promotion system of engineers in the public service...
All buses in Dhaka city will be run under a unified system to bring back order on the road and reduce traffic congestion, according to a post shared on the verified Facebook page of the chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday night...
The European Union has said it believes in empowered and representative Rohingya voices and supports efforts that drive sustainable solutions...
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 18th on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 81 at 9:40am on Wednesday morning...