Vice-chancellor of Bangladesh Open University Professor ABM Obaidul Islam has been elected as a trustee board member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, operating under the charity commission for England and Wales...
Greta Thunberg said she and a Palestinian activist group plan to sail a new flotilla loaded with humanitarian aid to Gaza to break the 鈥榠llegal Israeli siege鈥�.
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Wednesday that 20 people were killed when an aid truck overturned on a crowd of aid seekers in the central Gaza Strip...
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...
WaterAid Bangladesh organised an event to disseminating the findings of a study titled 鈥業mpacts of WASH on AMR and strategies to control AMR through WASH Interventions鈥� at a city hotel in Dhaka on Tuesday...
A new humanitarian aid convoy reached southern Syria鈥檚 Druze heartland on Monday, official media said, as the United Nations warned the humanitarian situation in Sweida province was critical after deadly violence.
Politician, social worker and writer Md Abdul Bari Sheikh died at Labaid Hospital at Dhanmondi in Dhaka on Sunday...
Aid groups warned of surging numbers of malnourished children in war-ravaged Gaza as a trio of European powers prepared to hold an 鈥榚mergency call鈥� Friday on the deepening humanitarian crisis.
A woman was killed after being run over by a train in Babra area under Kaliganj in Jhenaidah on Wednesday...
M Zubaidur Rahman has been elected chairman of Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC, said a press release...
Several hundred miners protested in Bosnia鈥檚 capital Sarajevo on Monday demanding back pay and contributions for their retirement as a process unfolds to close their coal mine...
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Sunday directed its Investigation Agency to submit the probe report by October 15 in the 2024 July鈥揂ugust crimes against humanity case against Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader and 44 others, mostly his party colleagues and political allies...
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd of Palestinians waiting to collect humanitarian aid in the territory鈥檚 north on Sunday, killing 57 people and wounding dozens more...
The authorities of Islamic University in Kushtia issued a public notice seeking information to aid the continual investigation into the death of a student, Sajid Abdullah, of the Al-Quran and Islamic studies department...
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said on Saturday that Israeli fire killed 26 people and wounded more than 100 near two aid centres, in the latest deaths of Palestinians seeking food...
THE global development landscape is at an inflection point. As multiple major donors slash official development assistance, with USAID鈥檚 closure as a symbolic turning point, the traditional north-to-south aid paradigm is disintegrating. The effects will be stark: many low- and lower middle-income countries face a sharp reduction in external support, risking...
Three people died and 15 others sustained injuries as a bus crashed into a battery-run van on Magura-Jhenaidah Highway in Magura Sadar upazila...
A Gaza-bound boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists and humanitarian aid left Sicily on Sunday, over a month after Israel detained and deported people aboard a previous vessel...
A farm worker has died after being injured during a raid by US immigration agents on a聽legal cannabis farm in California, his family said on Saturday...
A joint force arrested Bablur Rahman alias Ghena, an accused in a murder case, along with a foreign pistol at Kaliganj in Jhenaidah on Friday night...
China and Canada expressed their commitment to strengthening trade, investment, and humanitarian cooperation with Bangladesh while assuring continued support to address the protracted Rohingya crisis...
Bangladesh interim government in its bid to amend the Legal Aid Services Act, 2000, has issued the gazette of Legal Aid Services (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025.
Southeast Bank PLC and Khulna University have partnered to launch co-branded credit cards and prepaid cards, said a press release...
THE Legal Aid Act 2025, which mandates mediation before filing certain types of cases, is a significant reform aimed at alleviating the severe backlog in the justice delivery system. The government鈥檚 rationale is to promote speedy resolution, reduce costs and enhance the effectiveness of legal aid services, citing that a high percentage of disputes can be resolved...
Two murder cases were filed against deposed prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina and former ministers Obaidul Quader, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and AKM Mozammel Haque and 800 unnamed people in Gazipur Tuesday night...
More than 14 million of the world鈥檚 most vulnerable people, a third of them small children, could die by 2030 because of the Trump administration鈥檚 dismantling of US foreign aid, research projected on Tuesday...
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed another 21 people waiting for aid in the Palestinian territory on Tuesday, as rights groups and UN agencies slammed the US-backed system for distributing food there...
The Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council has suspended Bangladesh Medical University professor Mamun Al Mahtab Shwapnil鈥檚 registration with it for the death of a patient at Labaid hospital in 2023 due to his negligence.
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 72 people on Thursday, including 21 who had gathered near aid distribution sites as famine looms after more than 20 months of war...
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Israeli forces on Tuesday killed more than 50 aid seekers in the southern city of Khan Yunis, the latest deadly incident near an aid site in the Palestinian territory...