Consumer prices in China remained stable in July, official data showed Saturday, providing a respite for the world鈥檚 second-largest economy, which is facing strong deflationary pressure and fragile domestic demand...
Prime Bank PLC, in collaboration with Jashore University of Science and Technology and its JUST Career Club, recently organised a seminar on the university campus titled 鈥楩inancial Inclusion: Engaging and Inspiring Youth in Banking鈥�...
PRICES of onions, eggs of farm chickens and vegetables registered a fresh increase on the kitchen market in Dhaka in the past week. Prices of onions registered the highest increase of Tk 20 a kilogram, that too, in a couple of days. Onions on August 8 sold for Tk 80鈥�85 a kilogram, up from Tk 60鈥�65. The prices, however, ranged between Tk 65 and Tk 70 on the wholesale market...
Onion prices in Bangladesh have spiked sharply, climbing by up to Tk聽15 per kilogram, a 24 per cent increase, within just a week, causing financial strain to consumers...
Over 700 cases have been filed with 50 police stations across Dhaka till August 5, 2025, in connection with the killing and attempted killing incidents during the July-August mass uprising that toppled the Awami League government.
Police in Indian-administered Kashmir raided bookshops on Thursday after authorities banned 25 books, including one by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, saying the titles 鈥榚xcite secessionism鈥� in the contested Muslim-majority region...
Bangladesh Maritime University observed the July Mass Uprising Day 2025 at the auditorium of temporary campus of the university in Dhaka on Tuesday.
The interim government has neither carried out any reform in the foreign policy of the country nor has it been able to establish its external ties in keeping with the aspirations of the mass uprising in July 2024.
OpenAI on Wednesday said it was letting the US government use a version of ChatGPT designed for businesses for a year, charging just $1 for the service...
Prime Bank PLC has recently signed an agreement to provide payroll banking services to Eco-Social Development Organisation, said a press release...
For now, exactly a year after the formation of the interim government, it is disappointing to see the government that was installed through a bloody mass uprising has failed its people and is behaving more following the impulse of the Facebook response than acting on its political vision and commitment to principles of equality and justice. The way the interim...
I MOSTLY head home from the office and back to the office from home, which has been a routine for long but for a few erratic days when I have ventured out in other directions, mostly before and after work hours. But it gradually became challenging, risky too, to shuttle between the office and home, let alone darting out here and there even when the need was pressing as violence broke out with student protests...
Five central leaders of the National Citizen Party on Thursday responded to the show-cause notices served on them for their recent Cox鈥檚 Bazar trip.
The bodies of six individuals killed during the past year鈥檚 July uprising, were handed over to Anjuman Mufidul Islam, a charity organisation, on Thursday for burial as unclaimed bodies.
July uprising protesters who were imprisoned during the uprising last year have demanded a list from the government of those who were incarcerated and also pressed for reforms in the Jail Code...
In light of Bangladesh鈥檚 recent political landscape and the anniversary of the July uprising, the Centre for Peace Studies at North South University and Germany鈥檚 Arnold Bergstrasser Institute jointly organised a special dialogue and a three-day photo exhibition at the NSU in Dhaka on Wednesday...
Artists can play a vital role in protecting the environment while public art can ensure coexistence of ideas in a democratic society following the student-led mass uprising, said speakers at an event on Wednesday...
Police Headquarters in a release on Wednesday said that the police submitted charge sheets in 19 cases, including eight murder cases so far, filed over the incidents of July Uprising that toppled Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 authoritarian regime...
One year after the July uprising, the country鈥檚 news media still continued to experience political and corporate pressure and a lack of financial and legal protection, discussants expressed their concerns on Wednesday...
The Bridges division and Bangladesh Bridge Authority jointly held a discussion and a prayer session to mark the July uprising anniversary at the Setu Bhaban Mosque in Dhaka on Tuesday...
Al-Arafah Islami Bank PLC on Tuesday organised a rally as part of its celebration of 鈥楾arunner Utsab 2025鈥� commemorating July Uprising Day, said a press release...
Sonali Bank PLC, Agrani Bank PLC, Janata Bank PLC and Rupali Bank PLC on Wednesday organised tree plantation programmes as part of their 鈥楯uly Revival and Youth Festival-2025鈥� celebrations, commemorating July Uprising Day, said the four banks鈥� press releases...
IT WAS quite challenging to have covered the uprising events, each bloody day especially after July 16, when six of the protesters were left dead, with a handful of reporters. It was a small group, composed of, alphabetically ordered, Ahammad Foyez who on December 5, 2024 was appointed to the press wing of the chief adviser to the interim government as...
THIS is welcome that the chief adviser to the interim government has announced the date of the 13th national elections. The chief adviser, in his address to the nation marking the first anniversary of July Mass Uprising Day on August 5, unambiguously said that he would write to the chief election commissioner to make all preparations for holding the next national...
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi warned Wednesday, on the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, that the 鈥榯emptation鈥� for countries to pursue nuclear arms was growing...
The National Citizen Party on Wednesday served show-cause notices on its five central leaders as they went to Cox鈥檚 Bazar on a personal trip on Tuesday, the day when the nation was celebrating the first anniversary of the July mass uprising, without informing the party鈥檚 鈥榩olitical council鈥�...
Gazipur Agricultural University commemorated the July uprising day with various programmes at the GAU in Gazipur on Tuesday.
Families of the five journalists, killed during the past year鈥檚 July mass uprising, said that justice for the martyrs seemed elusive as there had been no progress in the process even after a year since the uprising...
At least 10 people, including a boy and an adolescent, were injured on Tuesday in Dhaka city when a fire broke out from the explosion of a gas balloon during the celebration of the first anniversary of the July uprising on Manik Mia Avenue...
Different organisations on Tuesday observed July Mass Uprising Day through different cultural programmes in the capital Dhaka...