Different security organisations of the government picked up Students Movement Against Discrimination coordinators Nahid Islam, Abu Bakar Mazumdar and co-coordinator Asif Mahmud from the Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital in Dhanmondi, Dhaka on Friday afternoon.
State minister for finance Waseqa Ayesha Khan on Monday said that international trade digitalisation would play an important role in expansion of international trade and ensuring sustainable and inclusive development of Bangladesh....
The World Health Organisation chief has warned that a dire lack of fuel could have a 鈥榗atastrophic鈥� impact on already devastated health services in the war-ravaged...
For the third consecutive day, students blocked Dhaka鈥檚 Shahbagh intersection around 11:45am on Thursday protesting the High Court鈥檚 decision to reinstate the quota system in government jobs....
Professor Satya Prasad Majumder has been reappointed as vice-chancellor of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology for the second terms...
The number of international patent filings for innovations using cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence have surged eightfold in six years, the UN said Wednesday, the majority from China-based innovators...
The leaders of Russia and China were in Kazakhstan on Wednesday for a regional summit, seeking to harden anti-Western alliances and press their influence in the Central Asian region....
A study unveiled on Tuesday projected that if the current trends of temperature hike persisted in the country, it could exceed 45 degree Celsius temperature by 2030...
Chinese president Xi Jinping arrived in Kazakhstan for a state visit on Tuesday....
An 18-year-old Rohingya youth was shot to death during a violent clash between the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army and the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation at a camp in Ukhiya, Cox鈥檚 Bazar...
The government on Sunday reduced rates of cash incentives against exports for all 43 categories up to 50 per cent for the financial year 2024-25 that begins today...
鈥楢dvancing Decent Work in Bangladesh鈥� project, a collaborative initiative between Bangladesh and the International Labour Organisation, was launched on Thursday to support the implementation of the government鈥檚 labour sector reform...
Alcohol kills nearly three million people annually, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday, adding that while the death rate had dropped slightly in recent years it remained 鈥榰nacceptably high鈥�...
A section of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology staff members on Monday confined the university鈥檚 outgoing vice-chancellor professor Satya Prasad Majumder in his office protesting scraping of BUET guidelines on promotion...
A six-year-old boy died, and 70 devotees fell ill after consuming Khichuri at Baniajangal Basanti Temple in Bishnupur of Satkhira鈥檚 Kaliganj upazila....
A French-Chinese satellite will blast off Saturday on a hunt for the mightiest explosions in the universe, in a notable example of cooperation between a Western power and the Asian giant.
Future Supplier Initiative has launched its inaugural collective financing model in Bangladesh, partnering with four leading fashion companies worldwide to bolster apparel suppliers in their shift toward decarbonisation...
Three people, including an Indian national, lost their lives in separate road accidents in Satkhira on Wednesday night...
EACH year, the International Organisation for Migration releases its World Migration Report. Most of these reports are anodyne, pointing to a secular rise in migration during the period of neoliberalism...
Discussants at a programme said that the Academy Awards-winning legendary Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray portrayed crises and conflicts of people in his...
Some Gazans are now reduced to drinking sewage water and eating animal feed, the WHO鈥檚 regional chief said on Tuesday, pleading for increased aid access immediately to the besieged territory...
Transparency International Bangladesh on Monday demanded fair compensation for the individuals who were coerced by former police chief Benazir Ahmed into selling their land...
BLACKENED smoke in the background, the raging inferno ripped through tents long after Israel had bombed another designated 鈥榮afe鈥� zone for evacuated civilians from north of Gaza. A charred body, of a boy or a girl, pulled from the wreckage, still burning...
WE RECENTLY travelled to villages in Satkhira and Patuakhali and stayed there for a few days during a heatwave. The electricity frequently went out, leaving us without fans or air conditioning. The stillness of the air made it unbearable, and almost everyone became tired and sick. Women, who cook and...
THE world鈥檚 first global carbon price is getting closer to becoming a reality...
Speakers, including academicians and intellectual property specialists stressed on the intellectual property awareness and its benefits the inaugural ceremony of a four-day...
Foreign minister Hasan Mahmud sought continuous support from the member states of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation for ensuring the safe and sustainable repatriation of nearly 1.3 million forcibly displaced Rohingyas from Bangladesh to Myanmar....
The presence of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl, a diverse group of chemicals harmful for humans and the environment, in rivers and, even, supply water at a dangerous level is alarming. A study, conducted by the International Pollutants Elimination Network and the Environment and Social Development Organisation...
The shooting of the film on Bengali mathematician and theoretical physicist Satyendra Nath Bose titled 鈥楾he Man Who Pervades the Universe鈥� is scheduled to begin today...
Grameen America, the fastest-growing nonprofit microfinance organisation in the United States of America, plans to invest $40 billion of loan capital in underserved women entrepreneurs by 2033, according to a press release...