Glenrich wins first place at STEM Innovation League 2025
Glenrich International School, Satarkul, has recently secured 1st prize in the engineering category at the STEM Innovation League 2025 held at American International School Dhaka...
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Hubei鈥揃angladesh STICE conference 2025 held at DIU
The Hubei-Bangladesh Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Exchange Conference 2025 was held at the International Conference Hall of Daffodil International University at Daffodil Smart City of Savar in Dhaka on Sunday...
JCD announces committees for 19 private univs
The Private University Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal on Thursday announced committees in 19 private universities...
SC judges rebuke HC judge Ashraful Kamal
Two Appellate Division judges, in the full verdict on the 16th Amendment review, have accused High Court judge Md Ashraful Kamal of judicial misconduct for making derogatory and politically motivated remarks about late president Ziaur Rahman, terming his language vulgar, indecent, and a violation of judicial conduct..
Deposits in 10 banks surge by Tk 32,000cr in 3 months
Deposits in 10 well-performing private commercial banks surged by Tk 32,000 crore in the three months ending in March 2025, as depositors moved their funds away from financially weak institutions amid growing fears of collapse, persistent fund shortages, and distrust in bank management...
Newsprint, ice cream, internet, electric vehicle, battery may be cheaper聽 聽
The government in its Tk 7,90,000 crore national budget for financial year 2025鈥�26 has proposed both reduction of VAT, tax and duties on a number of items, while their increase on some others.
BRAC Bank, DEG Impulse to set up SME Innovation Lab
BRAC Bank will partner with DEG Impulse, Germany, to establish the first-ever SME Innovation Lab in the Bangladesh banking sector...
People鈥檚 court for halting DEE link road thru Hatirjheel, Panthakunja
A people鈥檚 court on Friday ordered an immediate suspension of all activities related to the under-construction Dhaka Elevated Expressway link road through Hatirjheel and Panthakunja Park in the capital Dhaka.
Deadline for submitting VAT returns June 19
The National Board of Revenue has extended the deadline till June 19 for submitting VAT returns online through the Integrated VAT Administration System for the tax period of May, 2025.
Sri Lanka鈥檚 leftist govt begins privatisation
Sri Lanka鈥檚 leftist government said Tuesday it was selling a failed hotel project, marking its first privatisation move in line with an IMF bailout...
Mithamain elevated highway facing axe
The interim government has started a procedure for scrapping the costly and controversial project of constructing an elevated highway connecting Mithamain and Karimganj upazilas in Kishoreganj...
EZ products not exempted from VAT, rules AD
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has ruled that products, including edible oil, sugar, cement, and iron, manufactured in the country鈥檚 economic zones are not exempted from value-added tax, overturning a High Court verdict that had declared such taxation illegal...
Panthakunja Park should be restored
NEARLY six months have passed since the Bangladesh Tree Protection Movement began a sit-in inside the partially destroyed Panthakunja Park, one of the capital鈥檚 last parks, calling for a halt to the construction of a section of the Dhaka elevated expressway from the Film Development Corporation to the Plassey crossing. Protesters say that the construction of the elevated...
PANTHAKUNJA PARK PROTECTION: Protests on for months
More than five months on from the start of a sit-in programme against the construction of a Dhaka Elevated Expressway link road through the Panthakunja Park at Karwan Bazar in the capital Dhaka, conservationists are yet to receive any response from...
Private sector urges diplomatic action to settle US tariff issue
The country鈥檚 private sector urged the government on Saturday for immediate diplomatic response to settle tariff issues with the United States...
Agrani Exchange holds 23rd AGM
The 23rd annual general meeting and the 38th board meeting of Agrani Exchange House Private Limited, a subsidiary of Agrani Bank PLC based in Singapore, were held at a hotel located on Kitchener Road in Singapore recently...
Watching Gaza starve to death
THE situation in Gaza today starkly highlights Israeli exceptionalism. Israel is employing the starvation of two million Palestinians in the blockaded and devastated Gaza Strip as a tactic to extract political concessions from Palestinian groups operating there...
NBR officers, employees continue strike for second day on Thursday
Officers and employees of the National Board of Revenue continued their work abstention on Thursday, marking the second day of a three-day protest called by the NBR Reform Unity Council-a platform representing officials from the Customs, VAT, and Income Tax wings...
157 eminent citizens condemn destroying Panthakunja, Hatirjheel
Eminent citizens, politicians, rights activists, academics and cultural figures among them, issued a joint statement on Tuesday, demanding the cancellation of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway link road construction that has already led to the destruction of Panthakunja Park and a section of the Hatirjheel Lake...
SME Foundation seeks policy support, more allocation
The SME Foundation has proposed unified 10 per cent VAT for SME sector industries and 1.0 per cent surcharge on profit gain in the upcoming national budget of FY26...
AL activities ban celebrated with 鈥榖huna khichuri鈥�
A group of students and youths under the banners of the Private University National Association of Bangladesh and the July Revolutionary Alliance on Monday celebrated the ban on all activities of the Bangladesh Awami League by organising a programme at Shahbagh in the capital Dhaka...
UGC to decide soon on launching PhD progs in private univs
Bangladesh University Grants Commission chairman Professor SMA Faiz has said that a decision will be taken soon on launching PhD programmes in private universities in the country...
White smoke signals Catholic Church has new pope
White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, signalling that cardinals locked inside have elected a new leader for the world鈥檚 1.4 billion Catholics.
Pvt sector credit growth rises to 7.57pc
The private sector credit growth in Bangladesh increased to 7.57 per cent in March after hitting 21 years鈥� low in the previous month, according to available data...
Cardinals to move into Vatican on eve of conclave
Cardinals will on Tuesday begin moving into the Vatican accommodation where they will stay during the conclave, on the eve of their historic, secretive meeting to elect a new pope.
Green activists send letter to chief adviser seeking independent commission
On the 143rd day of its ongoing sit-in protest, the Bangladesh Tree Protection Movement (Bangladesh Gachh Raksha Andolon) on Monday sent a letter to the interim government chief adviser seeking an independent commission to probe over the demand to cancel the proposed link road of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway from FDC to Palashi.
Novoair stops flight operations for financial crisis
Novoair, a Bangladeshi private airline company, shut down its operations from Friday (May 2) due to an internal financial crisis...
Workers install chimney atop Sistine Chapel for conclave
Firefighters at the Vatican installed a chimney on top of the Sistine Chapel to be used during the conclave that begins May 7, an AFP reporter witnessed Friday.
Tk 35,850cr defaulted loans rescheduled in Oct-Dec
Banks rescheduled Tk 35,850 crore in defaulted loans during October-December period of 2024, with over 98 per cent of the rescheduling done by private banks...
Ministries to publish list of politically motivated cases recommended for withdrawal
The Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs and the Ministry of Home Affairs, within the next couple of days, will start publishing on website the list of politically motivated cases recommended by a ministry-level committee for withdrawal.