The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Wednesday set October 12 to begin hearing the arguments in the crimes against humanity case against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan and detained former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun...
The prosecution of the International Crimes Tribunals on Wednesday filed charges of crimes against humanity against 28 people including 25 former senior officers of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence and the Rapid Action Battalion, for their alleged roles in enforced disappearances and torture in custody under their command...
Berger Paints Bangladesh Limited on Tuesday entered into a strategic partnership with Building Technology & Ideas Limited...
Trust Bank PLC, in collaboration with the Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicles Importers and Dealers Association, its members and several brand-new car importers and assemblers, recently organised a knowledge sharing and recognition event...
Momtazul Karim N Ahmed has been appointed as deputy managing director of Meghna Bank, said a press release...
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited Bangladesh has been voted as the 鈥楤est Cash Management Bank鈥� in Bangladesh for the 16th time and 鈥楤est Cash Management Bank for Client Service鈥� in Bangladesh for the 8th time in a row...
Former national team captain Tamim Iqbal on Wednesday stated that he would have won easily in the recently concluded BCB elections but once again questioned the transparency of it...
THE government is investing its time and money in northern development in a way that no previous government has in a long while. The topmost leaders of the government no less, president Anura Kumara Dissanayake and leader of the house Bimal Rathnayake, have been spending a great deal of their time and effort in the north. During their visits they meet face...
THEY say it is a Bangladeshi airline, but most of the staff are not deshi. They are from a neighbouring country. In London, commands in Hindi surprised me, as if it were the only parlance for a bunch of Bangladeshi expatriates waiting to start a journey to their homeland. I was flabbergasted why a Bangladeshi airline is hiring foreign people, while some of her expatriates...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board reaffirmed their commitment to hold all leagues as scheduled after some Dhaka-based cricket organisers on Wednesday announced that they would not participate in any league after refusing to recognise the recently concluded BCB elections.
The Investigation Agency of the International Crimes Tribunals on Wednesday pressed charges of enforced disappearance against 28 individuals, including Bangladesh鈥檚 deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, and former defence adviser Major General (retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique...
The advisory council committee on government purchase on Tuesday approval a number of proposals including procurement of 2.20 lakh tonnes of wheat from the United States and 50,000 tonens of non-basmati rice from India...
Prime Bank PLC on Tuesday launched Bangladesh鈥檚 first-ever SME debit card with international remittance facility, enabling small and medium enterprises to make seamless international online payments for business purposes...
The government has issued the third amendment to the International Crimes Tribunal (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025, disqualifying individuals from contesting national or local elections or holding any public office once formal charges are framed against them...
The army chief has not made any statement about giving indemnity to anyone accused of enforced disappearances, murder, or other crimes against humanity, said a statement of the Inter Services Public Relations directorate on Monday...
A Chattogram court on Monday sentenced a Myanmar citizen to life imprisonment for trading yaba pills under Bakalia police station...
The three-day 7th Bangladesh International Marine and Offshore Expo will begin at the ICCB in Dhaka on October 30...
Essential Drugs Company Limited (EDCL) managing director Md A Samad Mridha said EDCL has been turned into a profitable institution and in near future it will produce and supply all the medicines the public hospitals distribute free of cost to the patients...
Sandhani Life Insurance Company Limited has recently handed over a maturity insurance claim cheque worth Tk 15,68,707 to a policyholder, said a press release...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited one of the country鈥檚 warships, saying the 5,000-ton destroyer should 鈥榩unish the enemy鈥檚 provocations鈥�, state media reported Monday...
The Buddhists will celebrate their second largest religious festival Prabarana Purnima countrywide on Monday with due solemnity and traditional enthusiasm.
A delegation of Buddhist religious leaders on Sunday exchanged greetings with chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on the occasion of Probarona Purnima, a religious festival of the community.
Financial Excellence Limited, a leading consultancy firm in Bangladesh鈥檚 financial sector, celebrated its 15th anniversary event at a hotel in the capital on Saturday night.
Kim Jong Un said North Korea deployed 鈥榮pecial assets鈥� in response to what he called Washington鈥檚 arms build-up in the South, state media reported Sunday.
Sanae Takaichi is poised to become Japan鈥檚 first female prime minister, but many of her positions are socially conservative in an often still deeply patriarchal nation.
The Investigation Agency of the International Crimes Tribunal is set to begin investigating a complaint filed in October 2024 seeking a probe into alleged crimes against humanity committed by the Awami League during the July 2024 mass uprising.
International Maritime Organisation secretary-general Arsenio Dominguez held a meeting with the shipping adviser M Sakhawat Hussain in Dubai.
High commissioners and ambassadors from the Small Island Developing States group participated in a special programme hosted by Abida Islam, Bangladesh high commissioner to the United Kingdom and permanent representative to the International Maritime Organisation, at the Bangladesh high commission in London...
Prime Bank has signed a strategic agreement with Go Girls, a women-centric travel agency, to provide the bank鈥檚 women customers with exclusive discounts on travel packages...
AFTER a long hiatus of 14 years, the primary scholarship examination returned to the education system in 2022 with brief examinations. After another suspension in 2023 and 2024, the examinations have now been reinstated in the comprehensive form. Government primary schools, Primary Teachers鈥� Training Institute-adjacent checking schools and primary schools...
