The UK government hosts international business leaders on Monday to try and secure much-needed investment for Britain but the build-up has been chaotic with a major firm reportedly threatening to shelve a project...
The Young Activists Summit will honour five outstanding young people who have inspired and mobilised their communities to create meaningful change on November 19, 2024.
The National Citizens鈥� Committee, a recently launched platform of citizens who were directly involved in the July student-people movement that ensured the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime on...
Summit LNG Terminal II Co Limited, a unit of the Summit Group, has urged the government to reverse its decision to terminate the third floating storage and regasification unit project in the country...
Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government has cancelled the deal with Summit Group over setting up of a new floating storage and re-gasification unit, known as LNG terminal.
The Executive Committee of National Economic Council on Monday approved a Taka 11,560.77 crore new rail-cum-road bridge project over the River Karnaphuli at Kalurghat beside the existing old bridge to ensure smooth and uninterrupted communication system between Chattogram and Cox鈥檚 Bazar.
The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit on Monday instructed banks to freeze the accounts of Summit Group chairman Muhammad Aziz Khan, his brothers, and other family members.
Bhabadah Water Mitigation Movement Committee on Sunday held a sit-in on the premises of the Jashore deputy commissioner office, demanding the solution to water strangulation problem...
Renowned singer Hassan Abidur Reja Jewel was remembered on Saturday at a commemorative programme held at the Nilima Ibrahim Auditorium of Bangladesh Mahila Samity in the capital...
Nagad has offered cash bonus to its customers on receiving remittances sent by Bangladeshi expatriates living abroad, said a press release...
The Democratic Rights Committee on Saturday presented 13 proposals to the interim government to restore stability and resolve the ongoing crisis in the country...
A group of readymade garment exporters on Saturday issued a warning to Expo Freight Limited, a freight forwarding company, saying that they would file a lawsuit if the company fails to pay $10.21 million in outstanding arrears within the next 15 days...
The Parbatya Charrogram Janasamhati Samiti, a regional political party in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, on Thursday demanded a judicial inquiry into the incidents of sectarian attacks in Khagrachari and Rangamati in September 18鈥�20...
ISSUES of national education have recently come to the fore, with the cancellation of a textbook review and revision committee on September 28 apparently amidst opposition by some right-wing Islamist groups after it was formed on September 15. The process of national education also came to be questioned when the authorities cancelled the...
Smart Technologies (BD) Limited has been honoured as the best performer on data centre solution and storage among 12 countries of South Asia and emerging market at Dell South Asia Partner Summit 2024 held at The Athene Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand on Wednesday, said a press release...
Egypt has invited chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus to attend the D-8 Summit which will be held later this year...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has decided to form six shadow reform committees to place proposals to six reform commissions constituted earlier by the interim government...
Walton Digi-Tech Industries Limited has launched solar hybrid IPS that ensures environment friendly, renewable and affordable power supply, said a press release...
The committee appointed to review the age limit for entry into the civil service jobs has expressed positive views about raising the limit as demanded by a section of students...
Remittance inflow to Bangladesh soared by more than 80 per cent in September compared with that in the same month of the previous year, as expatriates sent more money through formal channels following major political shift in the country...
Mohammd Jahirul Islam has been re-elected chairman of Popular Life Insurance Company Limited, said a press release...
Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government chief adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi are likely to have a meeting on the sidelines of the Bimstec Summit which is expected to take place next month in Bangkok, Thailand.
Union Capital Limited held its 26th annual general meeting in a hybrid manner at Gulshan Shooting Club, Gulshan-1 in Dhaka on Monday, said a press release...
Some students of Dhaka University have protested against the cancellation of the textbook revision committee and labelling Professor Samina Luthfa of sociology department of the university as 鈥榓nti-Islam鈥� on Monday.
The police on Monday afternoon lobbed tear gas shells and baton-charged the protesters who blocked the interim government chief adviser Muhammad Yunus鈥檚 official residence...
Transparency International Bangladesh on Monday said that the interim government has set a worrisome and risky precedent by compromising policy decisions in response to self-interested radical threats.
A four-member fact-finding committee was formed on Sunday evening by the vice-chancellor of Dhaka University, Niaz Ahmed, to identify those involved in the violent incidents that took place on Dhaka University campus during student-led mass uprising between July 15 and August 5, 2024.
Member secretary of the National Citizens鈥� Committee and former social welfare secretary of Dhaka University Central Student Union, Akhter Hossen, at a rally on Sunday said that India used to open barrage on Teesta without prior notice...
THE dissolution of the textbook review and revision committee, formed on September 15, and the criticism, controversy, demands and counter-demands that led to the dissolution is concerning on a few counts. The Secondary and Higher Education Division on September 28 dissolved the 10-member committee meant to review textbooks of the...
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...