Amid the criticism over the removal of two personal staff of two advisers from their posts, now the personal secretary to the energy, power and mineral resources adviser, Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan, has been removed from his post, citing no reason.
Pakistan鈥檚 army said Sunday its soldiers killed 54 militants who had tried to enter the country by crossing its northwestern border with Afghanistan...
Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba left Sunday for a four-day trip to Vietnam and the Philippines, as Tokyo seeks to shore up regional ties after Donald Trump鈥檚 tariff onslaught...
The Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs and the Ministry of Home Affairs, within the next couple of days, will start publishing on website the list of politically motivated cases recommended by a ministry-level committee for withdrawal.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu鈥檚 vehement opposition to a Palestinian state aligns perfectly with a long-standing Zionist ideology that has consistently viewed the establishment of a Palestinian state as a direct threat to Israel鈥檚 very foundation as a settler colonial project...
Pakistan鈥檚 foreign minister arrived Saturday in Afghanistan to meet Taliban officials after his country expelled more than 85,000 Afghans, mostly children, in just over two weeks...
The online registration for receiving scholarships and stipends from the Prime Minister鈥檚 Education Assistance Trust through Nagad began on Tuesday, said a press release...
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Wednesday that Iran鈥檚 enrichment of uranium as part of its nuclear programme was 鈥榥on-negotiable鈥� after US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff called for a halt...
Pakistan鈥檚 deputy prime minister and foreign minister Ishaq Dar is scheduled to come to Bangladesh on April 27 on a two-day visit...
The Ganatantrik Biplobi Party and the Biplobi Communist League demanded that the interim government, adopting only election-centric 鈥榚ssential鈥� reforms, must hold the national elections by December...
Four men were publicly executed in Afghanistan on Friday, the Supreme Court said, the highest number of executions to be carried out in one day since the Taliban鈥檚 return to power.
A photograph, capturing the historic moment of former prime minister of Bangladesh Khaleda Zia鈥檚 official visit to China in 1995, is now on display at the Museum of the Communist Party of China in Beijing...
The home ministry transferred six police officials, including two deputy inspectors general of police rank on Tuesday.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday filed a case against 11 people, including the former secretary of the Ministry of Public Administration and former president of Ideal School and College, Abu Hena Morshed Zaman and the school鈥檚 former principal Shahana Ara Begum on charges of admitting 107 students to the school illegally...
Four police officers and two suspected rebels have been killed in Indian-administered Kashmir during a drawn-out firefight that also left several police wounded, security forces said.
Afghanistan鈥檚 Taliban government released nearly 2,500 prisoners ahead of celebrations marking the end of Ramadan, the supreme court said on Saturday, in a country where the UN has warned of a growing prison population.
I WAS not surprised when Columbia University鈥檚 interim president Katrina Armstrong caved to the demands of the Trump administration. She agreed to ban face masks or face coverings, prohibit protests in academic buildings and create an internal security force of 36 New York City Police officers empowered to 鈥榬emove individuals from campus and/or arrest them when...
Bangladesh were drawn against Myanmar, Bahrain, and Turkmenistan in Group C of the forthcoming AFC Women's Asian Cup 2026 Qualifiers as the draw was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Thursday.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Sunday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze five bank accounts of former state minister for women and children affairs Meher Afroz Chumki and confiscate a flat owned by her in the capital Dhaka in connection with a graft case...
UK finance minister Rachel Reeves said Sunday she plans to cut the costs of running government by 15 per cent within four years, as she grapples with strained public finances...
鈥楢re you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?鈥� was the key question at the US House Un-American Activities Committee hearings during the 1950s McCarthy era. At the height of the anti-Soviet/Communist fear, HUAC cost thousands of people their jobs and created a powerful chill to freedom of speech and association. A similar chill with global...
PRICES of various brands of the same medicine vary. They vary depending on on the manufacturers. And, this suggests the absence of proper oversight on drug pricing. This remains a concern as the Directorate General of Drug Administration has only 117 essential drugs on its platter to set the maximum prices for. An earlier estimate shows that Bangladesh manufactures...
Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban鈥檚 oppression of women...
An inter-ministerial meeting on peaceful celebration of Bengali New Year will be held at the meeting room of cultural affairs ministry at the secretariat here at 12:00pm on March 23.
The World Health Organisation said Monday 80 per cent of services that it supports in Afghanistan could shut down by June due to a funding shortage...
The government has suggested withdrawal of 6,202 cases following recommendations from the seven-member central committee of the home ministry formed to select politically motivated cases.
The Communist Party of Bangladesh on Saturday held their scheduled rally braving threats issued on social media against the organisation...
The Ministry of Labour and Employment has instructed the factory authorities to pay all outstanding wages, bonuses, and dues to workers by the 20th of Ramadan...
THE interim government of Bangladesh formed an 11-member Administrative Reform Commission in October 2024, led by Abdul Muid Chowdhury, to recommend ways to make public administration more people-centric, accountable, efficient, and impartial. On February 15, the Commission submitted its recommendations, key among which is transitioning Bangladesh...
According to the Ministry of Labour and Employment, arrears of laid-off workers of 9 out of 14 closed factories of the Beximco Industrial Park have been cleared as of Monday...