A traditional 200-year-old 鈥楪azi Kalu-Champabati鈥� fair at Jagannathpur union under Kumarkhali upazila in Kushtia remained suspended since activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami clashed on May 20 over organising the fair.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday assigned secretary Md Ruhul Alam Siddique to carry out the routine works of the foreign secretary until further notice as foreign secretary left his responsibilities...
THE ongoing debate surrounding the Women鈥檚 Affairs Reform Commission in Bangladesh has largely centered around a handful of its 433 recommendations, particularly those deemed controversial by Islamist groups, rather than the full scope of reforms proposed. Much of the coverage 鈥� whether in news reports or opinion pieces 鈥� has focused less on what the...
Apparel manufacturing and technology department of BGMEA University of Fashion and Technology organised a day-long job fair, offering promising career opportunities for its students, at the Multipurpose Hall of the university in Dhaka on Tuesday...
THE recent release of the Women鈥檚 Affairs Reform Commission鈥檚 report has reignited the debate around women鈥檚 rights in Bangladesh. Several religious political parties have united in protest against the Commission鈥檚 proposal for gender-equal inheritance and other reforms, demanding its outright rejection. Ironically, the July uprising 鈥� once a platform for...
Bangladesh Krishak Majur Samhati on Thursday demanded the government ensure a fair price of boro paddy for farmers...
Leaders of the Left Democratic Alliance, a combine of six political parties, on Wednesday at a rally in Dhaka called on the interim government to take immediate steps to stop opposing women affairs commission report by some quarters...
Fifteen citizens, including activists, academics, lawyers and journalists on Tuesday expressed their concern over some Islamist groups and parties鈥� demand to cancel the Women Affairs Reform Commission and called on the government to clarify its position immediately.
The government has decided to introduce online application for dual citizenships certificate by annulling the existing offline provision from May 16 next.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday requested everyone not to trust, share, or engage with any posts or messages from its Facebook page, hacked on Saturday, until its full recovery...
The government on Friday said that retired major general ALM Fazlur Rahman鈥檚 recent social media remarks suggesting Bangladesh to occupy seven states in India鈥檚 northeast in case India would attack Pakistan were his personal views.
Law, justice and parliamentary affairs adviser Asif Nazrul on Monday inaugurated the National Legal Aid Fair and road show.
Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Sunday said Bangladesh agreed in principle to provide a humanitarian corridor to Rakhine in line with UN proposal.
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.
The Engineering University School and College held a three-day 13th Inter-School and College Science and Technology Fair-2025 concluded on its campus in Dhaka on Wednesday...
The admission fair for the summer 2025 semester of Manarat International University has started with a 50 per cent discount on admission fees...
THE recommendations that the women鈥檚 affairs reforms commission, set up on November 18, 2024, put forth on April 19 for the government to effect appear assuring in that they are mostly meant to do away with the discrimination that exists in society against women. The commission has made 15 specific recommendations, which include the provision for equal rights...
The Women Affairs Reform Commission on Saturday submitted 433 recommendations to the government, including the introduction of equal property rights for women, a uniform family code, and a separate and permanent women affairs commission.
The 4th Bangladesh Remittance Fair 2025 will begin in New York on Saturday with an aim to boost remittance flow from the US to Bangladesh...
Under a joint initiative of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation and Bangla Academy, 7-day Baisakhi Fair began on Bangla Academy premises in Dhaka...
BGMEA University of Fashion and Technology began a six-day admission fair for spring semester 2025 at its permanent campus of Nishatnagar under Turag in Dhaka on Tuesday...
Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation has organised a three-day Eid Fair with entrepreneurs from cottage, micro, small and medium industries of the country inaugurated on Sunday...
An inter-ministerial meeting on peaceful celebration of Bengali New Year will be held at the meeting room of cultural affairs ministry at the secretariat here at 12:00pm on March 23.
A five-day 鈥楳ultipurpose Jute Product Fair-2025鈥� kicked off on Thursday marking the National Jute Day. The jute fair, organized by the Department of Jute at Jute Diversification Promotion Centre (JDPC) at Monipuri Para in the city, will continue till March 10, said a press release of the Jute Ministry...
Eid handicrafts fair began at Autism Welfare Foundation鈥檚 permanent campus in Bosila, Keraniganj on Tuesday...
The curtain fell on the month-long Ekushey Book Fair 2025 on Friday with a large crowd at the fair on the last day.
Fiction writer Afsana Begum has brought two new literary works at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair...
Poet Hasan Roni鈥檚 debut collection of poems titled Pherar Marshum has hit the Amar Ekushey Book Fair...
Poet-essayist and translator Razu Alauddin鈥檚 four new literary works are available at the on-going Amar Ekushey Book Fair...
Twice-weekly tabloid Sare 3 Diner Patrika, three and a half days鈥� newspaper, is what has drawn a number of readers to the stall of the same name in the Suhrawardy Udyan ground of Amar Ekushey book fair this year. The month-long fair ends today...