Twenty-nine bankers from 8 banks and two from BIBM attended ICC Academy Supply Chain Finance Summit 2025 held in Singapore as part of a delegation of ICC Bangladesh, said a press release...
The British Council has recently announced the recipients of its Connections Through Culture Grant Programme 2025, which supports collaborations between artists and cultural practitioners in the United Kingdom and internationally, says a press release.
Stock markets fell Thursday as traders digested a high-stakes meeting between the US and Chinese presidents, mixed company earnings and uncertainty over further US interest rate cuts...
The Israeli military聽on Thursday killed a municipal worker in a raid in southern Lebanon, prompting Lebanese president Joseph Aoun to order the army to confront such incursions.
UCB Investment Limited and Brain Station 23 PLC have recently signed an issue management agreement related to the company鈥檚 upcoming initial qualified investor offer or IQIO, said a press release...
HONOR has announced a strategic partnership with BYD, a leading new-energy vehicle manufacturer, to enhance consumer experience with AI-powered, human-centric mobility solutions, said a press release...
Dhaka Bank PLC on Monday donated two patrol vans to Bangladesh Police at Araihazar Thana in Narayanganj, said a press release...
Pubali Bank PLC鈥檚 ICT Operation Division recently arranged a virtual workshop on 鈥楥yber Security Awareness,鈥� said a press release...
Bangladesh incurred a staggering loss of $24 billion in potential income in 2024 due to heat-related productivity losses, according to the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change report.
BANGLADESH has since the early 2020s enjoyed demographic dividend as 65.08 per cent of its population falls in the working age population group, according to a report published by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics in 2023. Demographic dividend depicts the economic growth potential that arises when a country鈥檚 working age population, people aged 15鈥�65 years...
IN RECENT months, Bangladesh鈥檚 news media have been describing Sheikh Hasina in multiple ways: 鈥榝ormer prime minister,鈥� 鈥榦usted prime minister,鈥� or 鈥榯hen-prime minister.鈥� Technically, such phrasing isn鈥檛 wrong: even though the elections from 2014鈥�24 were widely condemned as fraudulent, in 1996 and 2008, she was in fact elected. But the core question is: is it...
BANGLADESH is a land of rivers, tides, and storms. Women here have always moved with the pulse of the delta 鈥� planting rice before dawn, carrying water through monsoon rains, leading classrooms and communities, raising voices in the streets. Their dignity was never measured by the width of a scarf or the color of a cloth. And yet today, a simple piece of cloth...
IN BANGLADESH where agriculture is the backbone of the economy and livelihood, a pivotal moment has arrived, not just to grow more but to grow differently. From the soggy rice of the Barind Tract to the fertile alluvial soils of the Meghna basin, the traditional model of high-input farming is increasingly showing its cracks: soil degradation, nutrient imbalance...
Bangladesh interim government commerce adviser S K Bashiruddin said on Thursday that the investigation into the recent fire at the Cargo Village of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport is still under way and the government will make the findings public once the probe is completed.
The government formed a 鈥楶ress Accreditation Appeal Committee鈥� so that journalists can file appeal after being aggrieved by the decision of 鈥楶ress Accreditation Committee鈥� that entitled to issue accreditation cards against journalists to enter secretariat for professional purpose.
Real Madrid and Super League promoters are seeking more than $4 billion in damages from UEFA, which they accuse of unfairly torpedoing the breakaway competition, a source told AFP on Thursday.
The law adviser, Asif Nazrul, on Thursday said that the chief adviser, Muhammad Yunus, would soon make a decision on the July Charter implementation and the time for the referendum.
Internet privacy company Proton launched a new service on Thursday designed to uncover cybercrimes by tracking data breaches and revealing when stolen information surfaces on the dark web.
The Election Commission has added 鈥榳ater lily bud鈥�-- 鈥榮hapla koli鈥� IN Bangla -- to its list of designated election symbols.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday said that the interim government did not have the authority to provide a legal basis for the July Charter.
Eight students of a women鈥檚 madrassah sustained burn injuries when an electric transformer exploded near the institution in Brahmanbaria Sadar on Wednesday...
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked sixth on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 157 at 9:30am on Thursday morning...
The Asian Development Bank has proposed a Tk 4,200 crore project to modernise and enhance the production capacity of the country鈥檚 largest Saidpur Railway Workshop...
The Border Guard Bangladesh has detained 10 Bangladeshis on charges of illegally crossing the border at Maheshpur in Jhenaidah...
Two more people died of dengue in the past 24 hours till Wednesday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in the country to 275 this year...
AT LEAST six people were injured as leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party clashed with the activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami at Maheshpur in Jhenaidah Tuesday evening...
Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigosthi on Wednesday premiered a street play titled 鈥楲al Shahar鈥� at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka to mark the organisation鈥檚 57th founding anniversary...
The International Monetary Fund mission on Wednesday began its fifth review of the IMF鈥檚 ongoing $5.5 billion loan programme to Bangladesh.
Police on Wednesday arrested eight youths in connection with the killing of a Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatra Dal activist, Md. Alam, during a factional clash between two groups of the Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Juba Dal in Chattogram鈥檚 Bakalia area.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday approved two separate charge sheets against 13 people, including former National Bank Limited directors Ron Haque Sikder and Rick Haque Sikder, in two cases filed on charges of money laundering and corruption.
