The interim government appointed journalist Mushfiqul Fazal Ansarey on Monday as an ambassador of Bangladesh mission abroad with the rank of senior secretary for three years.
The commerce ministry on Sunday appointed Md Anwar Hossain, vice-chairman of the Export Promotion Bureau, as administrator to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association.
THE public administration ministry is called the nucleus of the secretariat. The people working in public administration have, however, always created a kind of power circle. In most cases...
Bangladesh's home affairs ministry on Thursday night gave approval to arrest four police officials accused in cases of assaults and killings filed over the recent student-led mass uprising.
A diplomatic falling out between India and Canada over allegations that New Delhi was behind the killing of a Canadian Sikh activist threatens to overshadow increasingly close trade and investment ties between the countries.
Edible oil traders of Bangladesh on Tuesday proposed waiving the existing 5% import duty on soybean and palm oil and removing all value-added taxes imposed on producers and traders.
Bangladesh鈥檚 six major state-owned banks Sonali, Janata, Agrani, Rupali, BASIC and Bangladesh Development Bank have been operating without managing directors for nearly a month.
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused India Monday of making a 鈥榝undamental error,鈥� as an escalating row over the killing of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil last year saw both countries expel each other's ambassadors.
Afghanistan鈥檚 Taliban morality ministry pledged Monday to implement a law banning news media from publishing images of all living things, with journalists told the rule will be gradually enforced...
The police arrested Awami League presidium member and former agriculture minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque at Eskaton in the capital on Monday...
The Ministry of Home Affairs has ordered the authorities concerned to refrain from suing, arresting and harassing those involved in the July-August mass upsurge...
Bangladesh on Friday lodged a protest with the Government of Myanmar over the killing of a Bangladeshi fisherman, Usman, 60, an inhabitant of Kona Para neighbourhood of...
The police recovered the body of Salah Uddin Mahmud, a former additional secretary to the Ministry of Industries, from Balishira Resort at Srimangal in Moulvibazar on Thursday...
Left political leaders on Wednesday at a commemoration meeting in Dhaka said that former general secretary of Communist Party of Bangladesh Mohammad Farhad worked for establishing an exploitation-free society...
鈥楤E READY, there is a chance that they can take you away any day now.鈥� This was the warning my editor, Nurul Kabir, gave me after more than two decades of career as editorial cartoonist at the daily 抖阴精品. It was July 23, and by then, the student鈥檚 movement for reforms in the quota system in public services had already...
The Anti-Corruption Commission has found illegal assets worth Tk 60.55 crore amassed by former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, his wife, and two...
The interim government has taken an initiative to ensure the safe return of Bangladeshis from Lebanon, said the foreign affairs ministry.
Indian-administered Kashmir elected on Tuesday its first government since the restive Himalayan territory was brought under New Delhi鈥檚 direct control, as voters backed opposition parties...
The ministry of shipping has launched an investigation against five officers and employees, including chief examiner and chief nautical surveyor (current charge) captain Gias Uddin Ahmed of the...
Pakistan鈥檚 government has banned an ethnic Pashtun rights movement that has accused the military of a heavy-handed crackdown on civilians in the border regions with Afghanistan.
Foreign ministry鈥檚 secretary for maritime affairs unit retired rear admiral Md Khurshed Alam, whose contractual appointment was extended on occasions, has resigned...
Russia鈥檚 foreign minister Sergei Lavrov called on Friday for the West to lift sanctions on Taliban-led Afghanistan and take 鈥榬esponsibility鈥� for reconstruction efforts in the country.
Malaysian prime minister Anwar Ibrahim after a bilateral meeting in Dhaka on Friday announced that they had agreed to consider issuing 18,000 work visas for those Bangladeshis who...
Md Ruhul Amin Khan joined as chairman of Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation, an organisation under the Ministry of Agriculture on Thursday...
Bangladesh鈥檚 public administration ministry senior secretary Md Mokhlesur Rahman on Thursday dismissed the allegation of bribery related to deputy commissioner appointment as 鈥榖aseless鈥� and labelled a recent article published in a national daily as 鈥榝ake鈥�.
Indian-administered Kashmir was voting Tuesday in the third and final round of polls to elect its first government since the insurgency-wracked territory was brought under...
A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed former secretary of the Election Commission (EC) Secretariat and home ministry Md Jahangir Alam on five-day remand in connection with a case filed over the killing of a teenager Abdul Motalib during student-led mass uprising on August 4.
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 High Court on Monday removed the Rapid Action Battalion from the investigation into the murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi and directed the...
Bangladesh will play a three-match, one-day international series against Afghanistan in the United Arab Emirates in early November.