Adviser for Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Wednesday urged united efforts to make Saint Martins Island, Kuakata and Sundarbans plastic and polythene-free...
The Transparency International Bangladesh on Wednesday gave to the interim government a reform agenda containing a 55-point recommendation, including a provision that would bar an individual from serving as prime minister for more than two terms...
A LARGE fire that burnt Gazi Auto Tyres Factory at Rupganj in Naraynaganj appears to be yet another case of vandalism. Hundreds of people reportedly broke into the factory on August 25, hours after the Gazi Group chair, a former Awami League lawmaker, had been arrested. Fire fighters, who could bring the fire under control in 21 hours, could not...
A vested quarter was spreading propaganda against media in the name of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, said chief adviser鈥檚 office in a message on Sunday.
Khandoker Rafiqul Islam, managing director of Designtex Group, has been appointed president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association after SM Mannan Kochi resigned from the post on medical ground...
A case was filed against 75 Awami League men, including former KCC mayor Talukder Abdul Khaleque, former parliament members - Begum Monnujan Sufian and SM Kamal Hossain with Khalishpur police station on charge of vandalism, arson and looting of Ward no-7 BNP office on August 27...
THE education ministry has decided not to hold the remaining Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examinations deferred in the changed reality that had emerged in the middle of July out of the student protests seeking reforms in civil service job reservations. The examinations were scheduled to begin on June 30 and end on August 21...
Mohammed Abdul Aziz has been elected chairman of Standard Bank PLC, said a press release...
Today is the seventh anniversary of the death of Independence Award-winning legendary actor Abdur Razzak...
The interim government has decided to set up a foundation to take care of the people who were wounded and the families of those killed in the student-led uprising in July-August 2024.
In the face of student protest, the government on Tuesday cancelled the postponed Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examinations.
Standard Chartered Bangladesh has signed a memorandum of understanding with Qatar Airways....
Miscreants vandalised the offices of East West Media Group PLC, including newspapers Bangladesh Pratidin and Kaler Kantho along with radio station Radio Capital FM 94.8 on Monday afternoon...
The foodpanda Bangladesh distributed umbrellas to students managing traffic in Dhaka recently, said a press release on Wednesday...
An open letter on Wednesday called on Indian media outlets to stop running false propaganda and misinformation campaigns about the recent mass uprising in Bangladesh and apologise to the brave Bangladeshi protesters...
The death toll from a garbage landslide in the Ugandan capital Kampala has risen to 23.
Education ministry officials on Saturday confirmed that a new school curriculum had not been suspended amid a confusion raised in this regard...
The National Freedom Fighters鈥� foundation in a statement on Friday congratulated Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus-led interim government...
The foodpanda Bangladesh provided food and drinks to students volunteering for traffic management across different roads in Dhaka on Friday, said a press release...
Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands made a late surge to win gold in the women's 10k marathon swimming at the Paris Olympics on Thursday.
Leaders of different political parties on Wednesday welcoming the victory of students鈥檓ovements called on the authorities concerned to take immediate steps to stop countrywide political and sectarian attacks on religious minorities and vandalisms...
VIOLENCE, vandalism and looting in many places across the country after the resignation of Sheikh Hasina on August 5 are shocking and unacceptable. The incidents have left a few dozen dead while many establishments and houses have been burnt. Awami League leaders and the police appear to have been particularly targeted by the mob while...
The resumption of Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examinations from August 11 is unlikely, according to education ministry officials.
A Dhaka court on Sunday sent six leaders of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami to jail in a case lodged over vandalising and setting Setu Bhaban in Dhaka on fire on July 18...
Mohammad Mohon Miah has been appointed as additional managing director of Standard Bank PLC, said a press release...
A Myanmar ethnic minority armed group said Saturday it had captured a regional military command after weeks of clashes, in what would be a major blow to the junta...
THE government is still showing an unwillingness to bring those responsible for the death of more than 200 students and people, including at least 16 children, mostly in indiscriminate police firing during the student protests to justice. The government is still continuing with the wholesale arrest of students and people in cases of 鈥榲andalism and violence鈥�...
The government on Wednesday granted early retirement to finance ministry鈥檚 internal resources division commissioner Md Matiur Rahman, who is facing corruption allegations...
THE wholesale arrest of dozens of students and hundreds of leaders, activists and supporters of opposition parties in cases filed in connection with violence and vandalism during the student protests for reforms in government job quota is another misstep of the government, the like of which forced a peaceful protest into a violent one...
The Bangladesh prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Saturday sought cooperation from Japan to reopen the two damaged metro rail stations at Mirpur-10 and Kazipara in Dhaka.