The High Court on Tuesday removed the state-appointed receiver from Teesta Solar Limited, a 200MW solar power plant operated by Beximco Group and the largest solar-based power station in Bangladesh, located along the Teesta River in Gaibandha.
DIPLOMACY often walks the fine line between principle and pragmatism, revealing how nations adapt to shifting power structures. India鈥檚 recent high-level meeting with the Taliban is one...
Afghanistan鈥檚 Taliban government said on Friday an arrest warrant sought by the International Criminal Court for its leaders was 鈥榩olitically motivated鈥�.
The International Criminal Court鈥檚 chief prosecutor on Thursday said he was seeking arrest warrants against senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan over the persecution of women, a crime against humanity...
Seventeen land and human rights organisations on Tuesday demanded punishment for those involved in land grabbing from the Santal community and the arson attack on a Santal house in Gobindganj of Gaibandha...
The Taliban government said on Tuesday it had released two American citizens from prison in return for an Afghan fighter held in the United States, in a deal brokered by Qatar.
A fire that broke out at warehouses in the capital鈥檚 Hazaribagh area on Friday was doused after about five hours of effort by 11 firefighting units.
Three people, including a woman, have been arrested at a location in Moulvibazar in connection with the murder of Golam Rabbani Tipu, a former councillor of the Khulna City Corporation...
The Students Against Discrimination and the Jatiya Nagorik Committee on Friday distributed leaflets and conducted nationwide mass contact programmes as part of their weeklong campaign...
Cultural troupe Bibartan Sangskritik Kendra premiered its production titled Kritadas Katha at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in Dhaka on Tuesday...
YET another attack on a Santal family shows that the authorities have failed to protect and ensure the rights of the community. A union council chair and his associates reportedly attacked members of a Santal family, including a woman, over a land dispute at Gobindaganj in Gaibandha on January 3. The Rajahar union council chair and his associates...
A Union Parishad chairman has been arrested in a case involving the torture of a Santal woman and her house set on fire in Gobindaganj of Gaibandha...
Jiban Bima Corporation managing director Md Muhibuzzaman on Tuesday launched an initiative to collect insurance premium through Sonali Bank PLC, said a press release...
At least five people were killed and four more were injured as a microbus fell into a rail trackside pond after it was hit by a passenger train in the Munshibazar area under the sadar upazila in Faridpur on Tuesday.
Rajshahi people on Monday formed a human chain in the city protesting against the physical assault on a Santal woman and setting her house on fire at Rajabirat village of Gobindaganj upazila in Gaibandha....
Two Santal families鈥� houses were attacked and set on fire by a local Union Parishad chairman on Friday night, at a Santal village in Gobindaganj, Gaibandha. Senior police officers visited the area on Saturday...
UN human rights chief Volker Turk said Tuesday that Afghanistan鈥檚 governing Taliban authorities must reverse their ban on Afghan women working for NGOs...
A recent study revealed that children in riverine areas were disproportionately unable to attend school due to natural disasters.
The Taliban鈥檚 supreme leader has issued an order banning the construction of windows in residential buildings that overlook areas used by Afghan women and saying that existing ones should be blocked.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed a brazen overnight raid on an army outpost near the border with Afghanistan on Saturday, which intelligence officials said killed 16 soldiers and critically wounded five more.
Two bus accidents involving a fuel tanker and a truck on a highway through central Afghanistan killed 52 people and injured 65, the Taliban government spokesmen said on Thursday...
Russia鈥檚 parliament on Tuesday approved a bill that could pave the way for Moscow to lift its designation of the Taliban as a banned 鈥榯errorist鈥� organisation.
Residents of all unions in Gaibandha district can now digitally pay their holding tax and trade licence fees exclusively through Nagad, the digital financial service of the Bangladesh Postal Department, said a press release...
Two people were killed in a fire that broke out at Moulvibazar district Juba League vice-president Sheikh Rumel Ahmed鈥檚 house in the early hours of Sunday...
Jiban Bima Corporation on Thursday approved policy bonuses and claim settlements worth Tk 600 crore at different rates in favour of policyholders, said a press release.
The police arrested the driver and the assistant of a Shyamoli Paribahan bus that killed a flower trader by hitting him at Shahbagh in the capital on Thursday...
The UN mission to Afghanistan on Wednesday urged the Taliban government to reconsider a reported plan to ban women from attending medical training institutes, in the latest move to restrict women鈥檚 education...
Tokyo鈥檚 governor wants to introduce a four-day workweek for government staffers in the capital as part of a nationwide push to encourage parenthood...
An Afghan environment official on Sunday said the country must be allowed to participate in future global climate talks, after returning from COP29 in Baku where Taliban officials attended for the first time...
More than 300 Afghan journalists have suffered rights breaches since the Taliban surged back to power in 2021, a United Nations report said Tuesday, documenting dozens of cases of torture and arbitrary arrest...