10 people sustain burns after fire breaks out at Manik Mia Avenue
At least 10 people were injured after a fire broke out at the celebration event of the first anniversary of the July uprising at Manik Mia Avenue on Tuesday...
Tags : b
10,202 taxpayers file returns online on first day of E-return launch
A total of 10,202 individual taxpayers filed their income tax returns online on the very first day of the launch of the e-return filing process for the financial year 2025鈥�26, according to the National Board of Revenue...
Bangladesh interim govt chief to address nation at 8.20pm
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus will address the nation at 8.20pm today.
Dhaka鈥檚 air quality categorised as 鈥榞ood鈥� this morning
Dhaka鈥檚 air quality was categorised as 鈥榞ood鈥� on Tuesday morning...
Five-member BNP delegation to attend July Proclamation event
A five-member delegation from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), headed by its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, will take part in the July Proclamation event to be held at Manik Mia Avenue in the Dhaka today.
Court orders exhumation of 114 bodies from Rayerbazar mass grave
A Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Monday ordered authorities concerned for the exhumation of 114 unidentified bodies buried at the Rayerbazar graveyard in Dhaka city.
Hasina ordered 鈥榥o treatment, no聽release鈥�: witness
Two survivors of the 2024 July uprising violence gave testimonies before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Monday, accusing deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her two co-accused of ordering indiscriminate shootings and denying medical care to the wounded.
Corruption, extortion unchanged: TIB
A study carried out by the Transparency International Bangladesh found that the promise of building a 鈥楴ew Bangladesh鈥� through state reforms was facing significant setbacks as the culture of corruption, grabbing, extortion, and politicising remained unchanged during...
First anniv of July uprising today
Bangladesh today celebrates the first anniversary of the fall of the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina, which was toppled on august 5, 2024 by a student-led mass uprising.
Rangpur journalist Selim put on three-day remand
A Rangpur court on Monday placed Habibur Rahman Selim, who was arrested for his alleged involvement in inciting violence during an attack on the homes of the minority community in Gangachara upazila of Rangpur, on a three-day remand...
Eight names removed from 鈥楯uly martyrs鈥� gazette list
The Liberation War Affairs Ministry has cancelled the recognition of eight individuals listed as 鈥楯uly martyrs鈥� in a gazette.
No promotion for bankers facing ACC probe, trial
Officials of the state-owned banks and non-bank financial institutions will not get promotions if they are facing trials in criminal cases and investigations by the Anti-Corruption Commission...
BOU VC Prof Obaidul elected as ACU council member
Professor ABM Obaidul Islam, vice-chancellor of Bangladesh Open University, was elected as a council member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, one of the world鈥檚 most esteemed higher education networks, recently.
Street play, sit-in demand Rabindra Univ permanent campus
Teachers, students, and staff of Rabindra University, Bangladesh staged a street play and sit-in protest on the Dhaka-Pabna Highway, demanding immediate approval of the Development Project Proposal for the university鈥檚 long-awaited permanent campus, on Monday.
Infusing uprising spirit into diplomacy urged
Law adviser Asif Nazrul on Monday in the city said that Bangladesh did not have any dignity to other countries in the 15 years of the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina, who fled the country on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising...
Art exhibition depicts painful treatment journey
Young visual artist Mayesha Islam Abanti has depicted her painful journey when she had undergone treatment at her first solo exhibition at Safiuddin Shilpalay at Dhanmondi in the capital Dhaka...
Tagore University of Creative Arts premieres 鈥楢nimal Farm鈥� at BSA
The theatre department of Tagore University of Creative Arts premiered a play based on George Orwell鈥檚 famous novel titled 鈥楢nimal Farm鈥� at the National Theatre Hall of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Monday...
Living through uprising days 鈥� I
JULY of 2024 was a happening month, in national sphere, in the newsroom and in my personal life. It did begin as other months do, but, for me, three events happened 鈥� two, in fact, did and one did not. I did not anticipate the two that happened and I was eagerly looking forward to the one that did not happen. I stepped into the University of Dhaka in July 1989 and 34...
Less public financing, even lower use
PUBLIC health system stands at a crossroads. For a country that has made significant strides in maternal and child health and lowered infectious disease burdens, a deep contradiction now threatens to jeopardise further progress: the paradox of low public financing coupled with low budget utilisation. In plain terms, not only is Bangladesh spending too little on health...
Govt should act on commissions so far apparently left out
THE heads of five commissions on tasked with making recommendations for reforms in labour rights, women鈥檚 affairs, public health, local government and the media, set up on November 18, 2024, on August 3 urged the chief adviser to the interim government to take steps for the implementation of the recommendations of the commission and secure commitment from the...
Deplorable central bank delay in getting at wilful defaulters
THE volume of non-performing loans has increased by Tk 745.7 billion in the January鈥揗arch quarter, taking the total to a record high of Tk 4,200 billion and the figure accounts for 24.13 per cent of the total outstanding loans, by far the highest in South Asia. Whilst this has happened, banks which have already identified more than 1,500 wilful defaulters, the borrowers...
Attachment of Exim Bank head office ordered
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...
Banks asked to record opposing views of board members
The Bangladesh Bank has made it mandatory for all banks accurately documenting the board members鈥� opinions, including dissenting views or Notes of Dissent, in the official minutes of board and committee meetings...
No positive response from India over Hasina鈥檚 extradition: Touhid
Foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Monday said Bangladesh is yet to receive any positive response from India regarding its request for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 extradition to face trial at home.
Administrator appointed at ATAB
The Ministry of Commerce has appointed its deputy secretary Mutakabbir Ahmed as an administrator to the Association of Travel Agents of Bangladesh...
Footfalls of 1/11 heard: Mahfuz Alam
Information and broadcasting adviser Mahfuz Alam on Monday said that the footfalls of 1/11 (the January 11, 2007, event)聽 were heard.
Lebanon president promises justice 5 years after Beirut port blast
Lebanese president Joseph Aoun on Monday vowed justice and accountability five years after a catastrophic explosion at Beirut鈥檚 port, as the investigating judge finished questioning defendants, a judicial official said.
Tourism boom sparks backlash in Athens
Surrounded by a hubbub of blaring music, restaurant terraces and rumbling suitcase wheels slaloming between overflowing litter bins, Giorgos Zafeiriou believes surging tourism has made his historic Athens neighbourhood unrecognisable...
BP makes largest oil, gas discovery in 25yrs off Brazil
Britain鈥檚 BP announced Monday it made its biggest oil and gas discovery in 25 years off the coast of Brazil, as it shifts back to its fossil fuel business...
Trump tariff rates unlikely to change
New US tariff rates are 鈥榩retty much set鈥� with little immediate room for negotiation, Donald Trump鈥檚 trade advisor said in remarks aired Sunday, also defending the president鈥檚 politically driven levies against Brazil...