BANGLADESH lives with the harsh reality of climate change every day. In recent years, the country has faced more intense floods, heatwaves, storms and droughts. Climate change is not some distant threat; it is already here, reshaping millions of lives. In rural communities, farmers are struggling to grow crops, coastal families are losing their homes, and children are...
鈥楤IG brother is watching you.鈥� What George Orwell wrote in聽1984聽as a work of dystopian fiction has, for many, come uncomfortably close to reality in Bangladesh. The sense of being watched, tracked and recorded is no longer just paranoia. It is institutionalised, systematised and, most alarmingly, legalised. Surveillance in Bangladesh has not only survived political...
THE earliest few steps that the environment adviser to the interim took were about reducing plastic pollution, but the pollution continued unabated. A photograph that 抖阴精品 published on August 23 shows how the original channel of the River Buriganga is clogged with plastic wastes at Islambagh in Dhaka. Most of the city canals, meanwhile, lost their water flow because...
India鈥檚 national investigative bureau opened a criminal case against tycoon Anil Ambani after receiving a complaint from the country鈥檚 biggest bank alleging fraud, the agency said Saturday...
Rubya Haider, Nishita Akter, and Sumaiya Akter made the cut as the Bangladesh Cricket Board announced a 15-member squad for the forthcoming ICC Women鈥檚 Cricket World Cup on Saturday.
Bangladesh national team鈥檚 specialist batting coach Julian Wood stated on Saturday that the inability of Bangladeshi batters to hit big was a myth. But he reminded everyone that the batters need to know how to use their power.
Manchester City's troubles from last season were exposed once more in a humbling 2-0 home defeat to Tottenham on Saturday that raised questions over their quest to regain the Premier League title.
The inclusion of Nurul Hasan and Saif Hassan in Bangladesh鈥檚 Asia Cup squad was the result of selectors鈥� deep dive thinking, said chairman of the national selection committee Gazi Ashraf Hossain on Saturday.
Bangladesh 鈥楢鈥� team finished the Top End T20 Series with a seven-wicket defeat to Adelaide Strikers Academy at the Marrara Cricket Ground in Darwin on Saturday.
No signs of external or internal injuries were found on the body of senior journalist Bibhuranjan Sarkar, his autopsy report said...
Harry Kane hit a hat-trick, Michael Olise a double and newcomer Luis Diaz also scored as Bayern Munich made a 鈥榮tatement鈥� against RB Leipzig 6-0 at home in the Bundesliga season opener on Friday.
A leader of Juba dal, youth wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was hacked to death by unidentified assailants in the Atharo Mile area under Dumuria in Khulna on Friday night.
Bangladesh and Pakistan are set to hold a foreign minister-level bilateral meeting in Dhaka today after more than a decade in a move to boost cooperation in trade, connectivity and other areas between the two nations.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party Standing Committee member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury on Saturday said that their party will form a commission to ensure free and transparent journalism if it returns to power...
Dhaka鈥檚 air quality continued to be in the 鈥榤oderate鈥� zone on Saturday morning...
The death toll from the July 21 fighter jet crash on the Milestone School and College premises in Dhaka city reached 36 as one more student died from her injuries on Saturday morning.
President Donald Trump on Friday tapped close political aide Sergio Gor as US ambassador to India, sending one of his feared enforcers at a delicate time in ties with New Delhi.
Director general of the Bangladesh Water Development Board Md Enayet Ullah said that the government had initiated a feasibility study to resolve the long-standing water stagnation problem in Beeldakatia.
Leaders of the Communist Party of Bangladesh at a programme in Dhaka on Friday called on the interim government to take steps for the democratic transition of the country holding next general election in February.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami nayeb-e-amir Syed Abdullah Muhammad Taher on Friday said that without actual reforms public confidence in elections would be undermined.
The criminal investigation department submitted a final report to court, recommending exemption of late Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury from a money laundering case filed in 2010, as investigators found no evidence to substantiate the charges.
The Bangladesh Bridge Authority cancelled the flat allocation for its officials and employees, following an investigation into allegations of illegal construction and allocation within an under-construction housing project.
Azizur Rahman Bacchu Molla, father of information and broadcasting adviser Mahfuj Alam, has been elected as general secretary of the Ichapur union committee under Ramganj in Lakshmipur of Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
The Indian Border Security Force returned a Bangladeshi farmer to Border Guard Bangladesh after a flag meeting at the Kathuli border area of sadar upazila in Meherpur early Friday.
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD president and freedom fighter ASM Abdur Rob on Friday said that the signs of the rise of fascism were being seen again in the country after the victory of students and people鈥檚 mass uprising on August 5, 2024.
A Tk聽90-lakh tourism development project at Shilaidaha Rabindra Kuthibari has come under scrutiny after Tk聽21 lakh went unaccounted for, raising concerns about financial irregularities.
A 15-year-old schoolboy was beaten to death over an allegation of theft in the Cheingar Bridge area under Fatikchhari upazila in Chattogram on Friday.
The Asia Development Bank approved a $410 million package for developing Pakistan鈥檚 Reko Diq copper and gold mine on Friday, as the country鈥檚 rare earth deposits draw foreign interest and human rights concerns.
Shahjalal Islami Bank PLC has achieved sustainability award from the Bangladesh Bank for Sustainable Rating-2024, said a press release.
Mobile financial service provider bKash and Sylhet Range Police have recently hosted a joint workshop on prevention of MFS abuse in Sylhet, said a press release.