Bangladesh must increase labour productivity by 1.5 per cent each year to fulfil its ambition of becoming a high-income country by 2050, as the country is expected to see its demographic dividend decline heavily due to an increased old-age dependency ratio, said a global report...
International Maritime Organisation secretary general Arsenio Antonio Dominguez Velasco is scheduled to arrive in Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Wednesday evening....
North Korea鈥檚 latest attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit ended in a mid-air explosion, Pyongyang said late Monday, hours after its announcement of a planned launch聽was criticised by Seoul and Tokyo....
The Chinese Island province of Taiwan continues to be targeted by the US and its political proxies through efforts to further consolidate political control over it and transform it into a geopolitical 鈥榖attering ram鈥� against the rest of China...
At least 16 people were killed and more than 3.7 million people were affected due to heavy rain and strong wind persisting until Monday night, more than 24 hours after the severe cyclonic storm Remal made landfall between the Bangladesh and West Bengal coasts...
Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industries president Mahbubul Alam has called on the government, private companies and industry owners to channel investments into industrialisation efforts...
North Gaza鈥檚 last two functioning hospitals, Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan, are barely operational, doctors and the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday with the Israel-Hamas war now in its eighth month...
At least five people sustained injuries after post-poll attacks allegedly by the supporters of a rival group in Satkhira鈥檚 Ashashuni upazila on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning...
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association President SM Mannan (Kochi) has urged the International Labour Organisation to take an initiative to establish such a code, stressing its significance for the benefit of all stakeholders - including buyers, manufacturers and workers worldwide...
Development activists on Sunday urged the government to sketch a roadmap to achieve the World Health Organisation鈥檚 universal health coverage by 2032 for attaining the United Nations鈥� sponsored Sustainable Development Goals...
Two paddy field workers were killed and 11 were injured when a truck overturned in Tala upazila of Satkhira district on Saturday...
WITH a membership of 57 states located across the world, the 54-year-old Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is the second biggest inter-governmental body after the United Nations. The grouping formally recognises itself as the 鈥榗ollective voice of the Muslim world.鈥� Established in Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco...
Cardiovascular disease is responsible for 40 per cent of deaths in Europe, the WHO said on Wednesday, urging Europeans to cut their salt intake...
The chief justice Obaidul Hassan said on Tuesday said that bureaucrats were dominating the National Human Rights Commission and the National Legal Aid Services Organisation, instead of the judicial officers...
Shahjahan Mahmood, chairman of the Bangladesh Satellite Company Ltd, has said that the deal for the second satellite will be finalised within 2-3 months and it will be launched in 2-3 years...
The Foreign Voluntary Organisations (Regulation of Acquisition of Immovable Property) Bill, 2024 was placed in parliament on Thursday putting a bar on foreign voluntary organisations to purchase, donate, exchange or otherwise acquire any immovable property within Bangladesh without the prior approval of the government...
Elon Musk鈥檚 Starlink satellite company has been granted business licences to operate in Indonesia, a senior communication and information ministry official said Thursday...
Director general of the International Organisation for Migration Amy Pope on Wednesday said that making the Rohingyas more self-reliant with a much more comprehensive approach did not mean that they would stay in Bangladesh forever...
ADOLESCENCE is an age of enthusiasm, liveliness and other kinds of exuberance. The age in the ranges of 10鈥�19 years is adolescence. It is during this period that many mental, physical and behavioural changes take place in the life of an adolescent...
BANGLADESH remains one of the top few countries to send migrants to join the international labour market, but remittance earnings compared with the number of migrants abroad are low. The International Organisation for Migration in...
The International Organisation for Migration, United Nations agency for migration, in a report revealed on Tuesday mentioned that Bangladesh remains as the...
The UK will be the worst-performing聽economy聽among the G7 next year because of lingering inflation and stubbornly high interest rates, said the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on Thursday...
Thursday marked an exhilarating conclusion to the second day of trials for the 鈥楿nited We Play鈥� programme, an ambitious initiative by Apollo Tyres in collaboration with English Premier League giant Manchester United.
The World Trade Organisation Secretariat and the Asian Development Bank have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at bolstering collaborative efforts to drive inclusive and sustainable development through trade and economic integration, including in Asia and the Pacific region...
THE purpose of the National Legal Aid Services Organisation 鈥� set up by the turn of the century to provide legal assistance for the poor, disadvantaged people by engaging lawyers or giving advice in legal matters...
World wine production dropped 10 per cent last year, the biggest fall in more than six decades, because of 鈥榚xtreme鈥� climate changes, the body that monitors the trade said Thursday.
Artistes from Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Art Research from India and Ensatt National School of Arts And Techniques from France staged the theatrical production titled 鈥楬e-Rose鈥� at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy...
Shares of the South Korean agency behind K-pop sensation BTS dropped nearly 10 percent this week after the company announced a probe into its powerhouse subsidiary and demanded the resignation of a star producer...
THE western discourse on the circumstances behind the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, 75 years ago, is hardly convincing...
Heat stress in Europe is increasingly threatening people鈥檚 health as global warming makes summers there hotter and deadlier, two leading climate monitors warned on Monday...