FOUNDATIONAL learning, the acquisition of basic literacy and numeracy skills, is the cornerstone of a child鈥檚 educational journey. It lays the groundwork for lifelong learning, critical thinking and opportunities. In Bangladesh, a country with a young and dynamic population, ensuring that every child achieves foundational learning is not just an educational goal but...
In an effort to create a safer digital environment for the youth of Bangladesh, the JAAGO Foundation and the TikTok jointly organised a roundtable discussion titled National Dialogue on Youth and Online Safety at the Platinum Grand of Banani in Dhaka on Thursday...
This is welcome that the central bank has adopted international loan classification standards and changed classification policies to get the actual picture of default loans. But a lack of measures to recover defaulted loans is worrying. The central bank has reduced the timeframe to classify loans as defaulted from the previous 270 days to 180 days. Since the adoption...
Industry adviser Adilur Rahman Khan said that the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institute had conducted drives against 15 online organisations based on various complaints of selling fake and illegal products...
DONALD Trump in the United States is showing how, in a democratic polity, the winner of the people鈥檚 mandate can become an unstoppable extreme force. Critics of the National People鈥檚 Power government frequently jibe at the government鈥檚 economic policy as being a mere continuation of the essential features of the economic policy of former president...
Sabah Saleheen Azim has been appointed as head of markets and corporate sales of Standard Chartered Bangladesh, said a press release...
Masato Kanda today officially assumed office as the 11th President of the Asian Development Bank...
Bangladesh Catholic Education Board on Sunday urged the education ministry to change the date of an examination under the forthcoming Secondary School Certificate and its equivalent examinations as it was scheduled to be held on Easter Sunday.
Bangladesh Submarine Cables PLC on Wednesday deposited Tk 1.06 crore to Bangladesh Labour Welfare Foundation聽fund from its profits of the 2023-24 financial year under Section 238 of Labour Act, 2006, said a press release...
The Secondary School Certificate and its equivalent examinations are going to start on April 10 and conclude on May 22 across the country as per a revised routine published by the Inter-Education Board Examination Regulatory Committee on Wednesday...
Twenty-six workers who were reportedly kidnapped from remote rubber plantations at Lama upazila in Bandarban were released in the early hours of Tuesday....
The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has committed 鈥榮ummary executions鈥� of children in Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said Tuesday.
Today is the 126th anniversary of birth of one of the greatest poets of Bangla literature Jibanananda Das.
An unidentified armed group reportedly kidnapped 26 workers from remote rubber plantations in Murungjhiri area of Lama upazila in Bandarban district in early hours of Sunday.
Police filed a case against 2,500 unidentified people on charges of arson, vandalism, looting of government weapons and ammunition and attacking policemen of Bishwanathpur police station in Sylhet on August 5 after the fall of the fascist amid the student-led mass uprising...
The Shanto-Mariam Foundation Day 2025 and the 71st birth anniversary of the founder chairman valiant freedom fighter late Md Imamul Kabir Shanto, were observed on Tuesday...
The Physically-Challenged Development Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to empowering young people with disabilities, on Monday announced its new 21-member executive committee for the Dhaka University unit (DUPDF)...
The Islamic Foundation board of governors on Tuesday took a decision to establish book corners in all educational institutions with the books published by the foundation....
The National Board of Revenue issued a gazette notification on Monday, scrapping two statutory regulatory orders granting tax waivers for Saima Wazed Putul鈥檚 Shuchona Foundation...
The Supreme Court authorities have tightened security in the court compound, deploying army, Border Guard Bangladesh and law enforcement members following intelligence reports that a group of lawyers might attempt to vandalise a mural of the country鈥檚 founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman installed in the court鈥檚 inner garden...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh detained 33 Rohingyas from Alikadam in Bandarban district early Saturday while they were entering Bangladesh illegally...
Online delivery platform foodpanda has introduced the Pau Pau Plushie Quest campaign, allowing customers to receive a limited-edition Pau Pau plushie by completing seven food orders...
MOTORCYCLES remain a cause for concern in traffic management as illegal, reckless and unlicensed driving continues, riding on the wings of policy flaws of the government. The situation, which is almost similar both in metropolitan cities and in outlying areas, has not only added to the incidence of traffic rules violation but also remained a major cause...
The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group were threatening another key town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday as the United Nations warned the risk of violence spreading regionally had 鈥榥ever been higher鈥�.
Bangladesh interim government in a statement on Friday said that it would strongly resist any attempts of vandalism and arson in the country.
The Forest Department and the Dhaka district administration on Thursday arrested three individuals and seized 11 endangered capped langurs (Trachypithecus pileatus) during a raid in Jatrabari鈥檚 Matuail Shamimbagh area...
Standard Chartered Bangladesh, in collaboration with the Japan External Trade Organisation and the Japan-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry, recently hosted an exchange session titled 鈥楩orging a Shared Future鈥� at the Westin in the city...
Rwandan-backed M23 said Thursday it wanted to 鈥榣iberate all of the Congo鈥� in its first public meeting since seizing the eastern city of Goma after deadly clashes, as its fighters advanced towards another regional capital.
THE vandalisation of the historic Dhanmondi residence of Bangladesh鈥檚 founding president, the late Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, on February 5 appears to have been a direct result of the indirect provocation of the fallen prime minister Sheikh Hasina and the reactive political behaviour of a section of the agitating students who led the democratically oriented...
Nissan shares plunged on Wednesday as reports said the struggling Japanese carmaker was walking away from merger talks with rival Honda...