Speakers at a workshop on Wednesday said that one in every four people in Bangladesh suffered from high blood pressure, stressing the urgent need to ensure uninterrupted availability of medicines at all health centres across the country...
Banks鈥� corporate social responsibility spending dropped by 50.8 per cent in January-June period compared with that in the previous six months...
Sunsilk Bangladesh is bringing one of South Asia鈥檚 most popular actresses, Hania Aamir, to Dhaka for her inaugural visit.
At least eight people were killed in road accidents in Sunamganj, Sylhet, Lakshmipur, Chattogram and Mymensingh districts from Friday night to Saturday.
The Finance Division on Thursday warned that if ministries and divisions failed to comply with the budget implementation measures, they would face fund suspension, officials said...
Dhaka division has the highest unemployed people of 6.87 lakh people Mymensingh division the least unemployed people of 1.04 lakh, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics...
The High Court鈥檚 order to halt the construction of the elevated expressway extension through Panthakunja Park and Hatirjheel, while directing the government not to block public access to the vital urban spaces, is welcome. The ruling follows a writ petition filed by green activists, university teachers and Bangladesh Tree Protection Movement members. It reaffirms what...
Sri Lanka鈥檚 parliament voted on Wednesday to evict former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and two others from state-owned mansions under austerity measures introduced by the new leftist government...
Sweden鈥檚 government announced plans Wednesday to reduce the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 13 to combat the soaring recruitment of children to carry out shootings and bombings for organised crime networks...
United Nations resident coordinator Gwyn Lewis met chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Thursday and said that the UN fully supported the February general elections in Bangladesh...
The Advisers鈥� Council on Thursday approved Telecommunication Network and Licensing Policy 2025, a landmark move aimed at dismantling monopolies in the country鈥檚 telecom sector, introducing greater deregulation and fostering private investment...
At age 70, Pete Maie appears nervous at the start of a job interview to work as a part-time parcel delivery driver for a German logistics company...
The Roads and Highways Department coming to suspend its eviction drive to reclaim grabbed land after one of its surveyors was attacked by illegal occupiers speaks of the sorry state of reclamation efforts. The surveyor came under attack on September 2 during a drive to demolish illegal structures beside the Dhaka鈥揗ymensingh Highway at Sripur in Gazipur. Officials of...
Green Delta Insurance PLC completed Bangladesh鈥檚 first-ever dairy heat index insurance claim settlement recently in Mymensingh, said a press release...
Israel intensified its military build-up on Tuesday as reservists began responding to call-up orders ahead of a planned offensive to capture Gaza City, nearly two years into a devastating war...
THE call that government officials, development partners and rights activists have put out for a comprehensive social protection system covering all marginalised groups to build an equitable society is what the government should heed, especially at a time when Bangladesh, now a lower middle-income country, is set to graduate out of the bloc of least developed...
Students of the Bangladesh Agricultural University continued their protests for the third consecutive day on Tuesday by blocking the Dhaka-Mymensingh rail tracks following an attack on them.
The students of Bangladesh Agricultural University continued their protests for the second day running on Monday, demanding apology from the vice-chancellor, resignation of the proctorial body and action against outsiders and some teachers for...
Students of different agricultural universities in different districts on Sunday enforced an 鈥楢gri Blockade鈥� by blocking roads and rail lines, demanding reforms in the recruitment and promotion systems of agriculturists in the public service.
The police have detained two physicians over allegations of wrong treatment following the death of a six-year-old girl who never woke up after she was anethetised for an operation to remove her tonsils.
A seminar titled Remote Sensing of the Earth鈥檚 Ionosphere was held at the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology in Chattogram on Tuesday...
Jamuna Bank PLC recently organised its Managers鈥� Meeting for the Dhaka North and Mymensingh zones at a hotel in the capital...
THE findings of a multidimensional survey that the finance ministry has funded to assess how families coped with issues of income, employment, expenditure, financial resilience and digital participation in one year since the 2024 uprising are worrying. The poverty rate increased to 27.93 per cent in May 2025, as the survey that research and policy advocacy organisation Power...
The Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority has witnessed a sharp rise in Chinese investments over the past 14 months, due to China鈥檚 shift to high-value products and the ongoing US-China tariff tensions...
Women artists鈥� group Konna has organised its 10th group art exhibition titled 鈥楰ajol Rekha鈥檙 Deshe鈥�, painting Kajol Rekha, a women character in Maimansingha Gitika, and her struggle at Safiuddin Shilpalay at Dhanmondi in the capital Dhaka...
China lashed out at Germany on Monday, warning Berlin against 鈥榠nciting confrontation and hyping up tensions鈥� after its foreign minister said Beijing was 鈥榠ncreasingly aggressive鈥� in the Asia-Pacific region...
Hundreds of thousands of Libyans are voting Saturday in the second phase of municipal elections, held under tight security after incidents and irregularities forced delays at several stations...
The Israeli military said on Wednesday it had approved the framework for a new offensive in the Gaza Strip, as Hamas condemned what it called 鈥榓ggressive鈥� Israeli ground incursions in Gaza City...
The government has turned down the World Bank鈥檚 proposal to conduct a forensic audit of six state-owned banks, a move that has raised concerns over its commitment to full transparency in addressing the sector鈥檚 deep-rooted problems...
