A group of students and youths under the banners of the Private University National Association of Bangladesh and the July Revolutionary Alliance on Monday celebrated the ban on all activities of the Bangladesh Awami League by organising a programme at Shahbagh in the capital Dhaka...
Bangladesh University Grants Commission chairman Professor SMA Faiz has said that a decision will be taken soon on launching PhD programmes in private universities in the country...
A Dhaka additional chief metropolitan magistrate court on Monday sent to jail a female student accused in a case lodged over the brutal murder of Jahidul Islam, a student of the textile engineering department at Primeasia University in Banani, Dhaka on April 19.
The Investigation Agency of the International Crimes Tribunal on Monday submitted its investigation report against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan and former inspector general of police...
THE July uprising exposed harsh truth. One of the most painful aspects was that the police, once seen as protectors, become a symbol of repression. The realisation pushed police reforms into the national spotlight, prompting the interim government to establish the police reforms commission, one of the six set up in the early phase of the interim goverment. The recently...
THE issue of public service job reservation that initiated the July uprising has remained unattended since the uprising finally toppled the Awami League government. The students who took to the streets in July 2024, demanding a rational reform in the quota system, and the authorities have somewhat accepted the reform that the Awami League government announced days...
Some injured victims of July uprising are continuing blockade at Shahbagh crossing demanding immediate ban on the Bangladesh Awami League, issuance of July charter and assurance of treatment and rehabilitation of the injured victims...
Bangladesh Jewelers Association has reduced the price of gold by Tk聽1050 per bhori, to be effective from Sunday...
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Friday placed a female student on three-day remand in a case filed on charges of killing Primeasia University student Jahidul Islam Parvez in the capital鈥檚 Banani area on April 19.
Bangladesh Krishak Majur Samhati on Thursday demanded the government ensure a fair price of boro paddy for farmers...
Prime Bank PLC has signed an agreement with the Bangladesh Bank to implement an entrepreneurship development programme for CMSMEs as part of 鈥楽kills for Industry Competitiveness and Innovation Programme鈥� project funded by the Asian Development Bank, said a press release...
A court in Dhaka on Wednesday ordered to send actor Siddiqur Rahman alias Siddique to jail in a case filed for an attempt to kill a rickshaw-van driver Abdul Jabbar Howlader during last year鈥檚 student-led July-August mass uprising.
The private sector credit growth in Bangladesh increased to 7.57 per cent in March after hitting 21 years鈥� low in the previous month, according to available data...
Prime Bank PLC shareholders on Monday approved 17.50 per cent cash dividend and 2.50 per cent stock dividend for the year ended December 31, 2024, said a press release...
Coverage of the wars in Gaza and Sudan, and the attempted assassination of US President Donald Trump, dominated the Pulitzer Prizes announced Monday at Columbia University in New York.
US president Donald Trump said on Sunday he had directed officials to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz prison, the notorious federal jail based on a small island in California that closed six decades ago...
The assistant teachers of the government primary schools on Monday began a countrywide one-hour work abstention, demanding salary hike and promotion.
The price of a 12kg LPG cylinder has declined by Tk 19 to Tk 1431 from the existing price of Tk聽1,450 for the month of May...
Australia鈥檚 left-leaning prime minister Anthony Albanese basked Sunday in his landslide election win, promising a 鈥榙isciplined, orderly鈥� government to confront cost-of-living pain and tariff turmoil...
Voters have handed Singapore鈥檚 long-time ruling party a landslide election victory, offering prime minister Lawrence Wong a clear mandate to navigate the trade-orientated Southeast Asian nation through economic upheaval sparked by looming US tariffs...
Novoair, a Bangladeshi private airline company, shut down its operations from Friday (May 2) due to an internal financial crisis...
Prime Bank Investment Limited (PBIL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Prime Bank, commemorates its 15th anniversary as Bangladesh鈥檚 premier, full-fledged investment bank...
Journalist, artistes and academics were among 201 accused in an attempt to murder case of a madrassah student, Saifuddin Mohammad Emdad, during the student-led July uprising.
Prince Harry on Friday lost his appeal to restore his full UK police protection when visiting Britain.
A Dhaka court on Wednesday granted seven-day remand for actor Siddiqur Rahman Siddique in an attempted murder case of a van driver, Jabbar Ali Hawlader, during the July-August uprising in the Gulshan area.
At least 17 artistes, including actress and former Awami League lawmaker for reserved seat Suborna Mustafa, and actresses Apu Biswas and Nipun Akter, have been named in a case of attempted murder committed during the July-August mass uprising in 2024...
Banks rescheduled Tk 35,850 crore in defaulted loans during October-December period of 2024, with over 98 per cent of the rescheduling done by private banks...
Prime Bank PLC and ICB Asset Management Company Limited have signed an agreement to enhance sale of IAMCL鈥檚 open-end mutual fund units, said a press release...
The Detective Branch of the police on Tuesday arrested Rangamati additional superintendent of police Ishtiaq Ahmed in a case of crimes against humanity committed during the student-led mass uprising in July and August in 2024...
