A total of 10,202 individual taxpayers filed their income tax returns online on the very first day of the launch of the e-return filing process for the financial year 2025鈥�26, according to the National Board of Revenue...
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus will address the nation at 8.20pm today.
Dhaka鈥檚 air quality was categorised as 鈥榞ood鈥� on Tuesday morning...
A five-member delegation from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), headed by its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, will take part in the July Proclamation event to be held at Manik Mia Avenue in the Dhaka today.
The United States State Department said on Monday that some visa applicants will soon be required to pay bonds of up to $15,000 to discourage visa overstays as part of president Donald Trump鈥檚 crackdown on migration...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday filed a case against eight people, including former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque, over allegations of corruption and irregularities in allotting a plot of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha.
Two survivors of the 2024 July uprising violence gave testimonies before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Monday, accusing deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her two co-accused of ordering indiscriminate shootings and denying medical care to the wounded.
A study carried out by the Transparency International Bangladesh found that the promise of building a 鈥楴ew Bangladesh鈥� through state reforms was facing significant setbacks as the culture of corruption, grabbing, extortion, and politicising remained unchanged during...
The interim government is set to unveil the July Proclamation today, having kept most political parties in the dark about the document鈥檚 content by not having them involved in the processes of drafting and finalising the proclamation.
Bangladesh today celebrates the first anniversary of the fall of the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina, which was toppled on august 5, 2024 by a student-led mass uprising.
The interim government has checked to some extent macroeconomic headwinds it inherited from the ousted Awami League regime, but failed to infuse enough dynamism into the economy to overcome sluggish private sector investment and unemployment over...
Hundreds of retired Israeli security officials including former heads of intelligence agencies have urged US president Donald Trump to pressure their own government to end the war in Gaza.
A Rangpur court on Monday placed Habibur Rahman Selim, who was arrested for his alleged involvement in inciting violence during an attack on the homes of the minority community in Gangachara upazila of Rangpur, on a three-day remand...
The Liberation War Affairs Ministry has cancelled the recognition of eight individuals listed as 鈥楯uly martyrs鈥� in a gazette.
Russia urged caution on Monday after US president Donald Trump said he would deploy two nuclear submarines following an online row with former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev...
A Rajshahi court on Monday sent retired police inspector Faridul Islam Khan to jail in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission over the accumulation of illegal wealth worth Tk 1.54 crore.
The prices of 10 types of stents or rings imported from three companies to use in the treatment of heart disease in the country have dropped...
Officials of the state-owned banks and non-bank financial institutions will not get promotions if they are facing trials in criminal cases and investigations by the Anti-Corruption Commission...
Professor ABM Obaidul Islam, vice-chancellor of Bangladesh Open University, was elected as a council member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, one of the world鈥檚 most esteemed higher education networks, recently.
Teachers, students, and staff of Rabindra University, Bangladesh staged a street play and sit-in protest on the Dhaka-Pabna Highway, demanding immediate approval of the Development Project Proposal for the university鈥檚 long-awaited permanent campus, on Monday.
Law adviser Asif Nazrul on Monday in the city said that Bangladesh did not have any dignity to other countries in the 15 years of the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina, who fled the country on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising...
Young visual artist Mayesha Islam Abanti has depicted her painful journey when she had undergone treatment at her first solo exhibition at Safiuddin Shilpalay at Dhanmondi in the capital Dhaka...
The theatre department of Tagore University of Creative Arts premiered a play based on George Orwell鈥檚 famous novel titled 鈥楢nimal Farm鈥� at the National Theatre Hall of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Monday...
AS THE Zionist project devolves from apartheid and ethnic cleansing to the final solution of its decades-long genocide, we also commemorate 80 years since the August 6 and August 9 nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Let us consider what are the implications of remembering the nuclear genocide in this present moment of technogenocide in Gaza...
JULY of 2024 was a happening month, in national sphere, in the newsroom and in my personal life. It did begin as other months do, but, for me, three events happened 鈥� two, in fact, did and one did not. I did not anticipate the two that happened and I was eagerly looking forward to the one that did not happen. I stepped into the University of Dhaka in July 1989 and 34...
PUBLIC health system stands at a crossroads. For a country that has made significant strides in maternal and child health and lowered infectious disease burdens, a deep contradiction now threatens to jeopardise further progress: the paradox of low public financing coupled with low budget utilisation. In plain terms, not only is Bangladesh spending too little on health...
THE July uprising, a watershed moment in the nation鈥檚 history, will be remembered not only for its political ramifications but also for the powerful and defining role played by women, specifically mothers and daughters. Their collective action, a potent blend of seasoned wisdom and youthful idealism, became the uprising鈥檚 driving force, shaping its character...
THE heads of five commissions on tasked with making recommendations for reforms in labour rights, women鈥檚 affairs, public health, local government and the media, set up on November 18, 2024, on August 3 urged the chief adviser to the interim government to take steps for the implementation of the recommendations of the commission and secure commitment from the...
THE volume of non-performing loans has increased by Tk 745.7 billion in the January鈥揗arch quarter, taking the total to a record high of Tk 4,200 billion and the figure accounts for 24.13 per cent of the total outstanding loans, by far the highest in South Asia. Whilst this has happened, banks which have already identified more than 1,500 wilful defaulters, the borrowers...
The Money Loan Court on Monday ordered the attachment of Exim Bank鈥檚 Gulshan head office building in a case filed by Bank Asia over unpaid loans...