INDIAN nationals occupying almost all top positions at the Bangladesh India Friendship Power Company that runs a 1,320MW coal-based power plant at Rampal, Bagerhat and drawing heftier salaries and benefits than their peers is surprising. According to a financial review by the Bangladesh Power Development Board, 32 of the top 40 positions are occupied by Indians...
Newcastle ended their 56-year trophy drought in stunning style as Dan Burn and Alexander Isak sealed a 2-1 win against Liverpool in the League Cup final on Sunday.
Economists in a pre-budget discussion on Sunday in the capital Dhaka suggested employment generation schemes, expansion of social spending and maintenance of a high food stock in the forthcoming financial year...
All coaching centres across Bangladesh will remain closed during the Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations to check the question leak, said officials of the education ministry on Sunday...
The net sales of national savings certificates (NSCs) continued their downward trend in the first seven months of the current financial year, reflecting the impact of prolonged inflation and shifting investment preferences...
International School Dhaka has recently hosted its annual student-led iftar party on the school campus in Dhaka.
Teachers, students and staff of Pirojpur Science and Technology University formed a human chain, demanding exemplary punishment for rape and violence against women, in front of the administrative building of university in Pirojpur on Thursday.
National Board of Revenue chairman Abdur Rahman Khan said that the tax on taxpayers who had been enjoying the reduced rate will gradually increase...
Bangladesh Submarine Cable PLC has revised its financial statements for the first and second quarters of the 2024-25 financial year, citing miscalculations in its previously reported figures...
Speakers at a workshop on Thursday stressed the importance of completing the mandatory birth and death registration by the specified time as the certificates are essential for accessing various services, including school admission...
The Appellate Division on Thursday ruled that headteachers of all government primary schools must receive salaries as Class II officers under the Selection Grade X pay scale, effective from March 9, 2014.
The police dispersed a section of teachers of non-government primary schools on Wednesday using water cannon and charging batons on them in the capital as they tried to go to the chief adviser鈥檚 official residence Jamuna...
The MNRS Trust has recently awarded certificates and prizes to meritorious students, who received the MNRS Trust scholarship 2024, at an event at the Kamaluddin Auditorium of the permanent campus of Milestone College at Diabari of Uttara in Dhaka...
The students of theatre and performance studies department of Dhaka University on Wednesday staged a protest event against rape at the anti-terrorism Raju Memorial Sculpture of the university.
Speakers at a discussion in Dhaka on Monday said that to eliminate discrimination against women, women鈥檚 work must be recognised and women鈥檚 family and social status must be ensured...
The industrialists in the leather goods and ceramic sectors, real estate businesses and reconditioned car traders demanded various tax cuts and duty benefits in the upcoming national budget for fiscal year 2025-26...
A student of International School Dhaka, Aditya Varshney, has recently secured third place in a global competition titled Global Change It Challenge 2025...
Students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology on Monday issued a 48-hour ultimatum demanding the abolition of all irrational quotas, including the ward quota...
The High Court is set to hear a writ petition today challenging the legality of the Supreme Judicial Appointment Council, established under the Supreme Court Judge Appointment Ordinance, 2025...
Enzo Maresca slammed criticism of Chelsea's scrappy 1-0 victory against Leicester as the Blues boss claimed winning in the Premier League is not as easy as it looks on a 鈥楶layStation鈥� console.
A Dhaka court on Saturday sent 14 people, including a leader of Student Against Discrimination, to jail over allegations of vandalising and looting a construction office for extortion Friday afternoon.
Scientists rallied in cities across the United States on Friday to denounce efforts by the administration of US president Donald Trump to eliminate key staff across multiple agencies and curb life-saving research.
Joint forces arrested 14 people, including the Student Against Discrimination Kalabagan Thana unit convener Salahuddin Salman over allegedly vandalising and looting a construction office for extortion on Friday evening in the capital鈥檚 Kalabagan area.
The Chattogram Metropolitan Police arrested four individuals in connection with abduction of a garment factory official and his driver, who were taken hostage for ransom by perpetrators posing as representatives of the Student Against Discrimination.
The protesting non-government teachers under the Monthly Payment Order scheme on Thursday postponed their ongoing strike on the 23rd day till the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha...
National Board of Revenue Chairman Md Abdur Rahman Khan on Wednesday hinted that the tax exemption system might be removed in the forthcoming national budget...
European nationals can apply for a digital travel permit to enter the UK starting from Wednesday, in the latest step taken by Britain to digitise its borders...
鈥業 AM worried.鈥� Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen鈥檚 recent observation on Bangladesh鈥檚 post-fascism situation, for understandable reasons, has received wide publicity. Sen made this comment in an exclusive interview with the Press Trust of India (PTI)...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday filed a case against four people, including two former vice-chancellors of the Jashore University of Science & Technology, on charges of irregularities and corruption in recruitment at the university...
US president Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he will cut funding for schools that allow 鈥榠llegal protests,鈥� his latest threat to turn off the flow of federal money to the country鈥檚 education system...