The Dhaka North City Corporation has finally taken possession of its share in the Sheraton Hotel building in Banani, Dhaka, bringing an end to a decade-long deadlock over share distribution in the Borak-DNCC.
FOOD adulteration is not merely a matter of consumer dissatisfaction. It is a pressing public health crisis in Bangladesh, where it causes widespread sickness, financial hardship and long-term damage to public trust in food safety. As an everyday...
Asian Football Confederation president Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa, on Saturday opposed a South American request to expand the 2030 World Cup to 64 teams, saying such increases in numbers would lead to 鈥榗haos鈥�.
Enhanced bilateral cooperation in logistics, infrastructure and investment topped the agenda during a meeting between the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a visiting Singaporean business delegation on Thursday...
Today is the 86th birthday of Rebeka Mohiuddin, one of the organisers of the Liberation War and a founder of Mahila Parishad...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday launched an inquiry against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana and some other people over allegations of wasting Tk 4,000 crore from state treasury for celebrating 鈥楳ujib Barsha鈥� in 2020...
US immigration authorities said Wednesday they will look at social media accounts and deny visas or residence permits to people who post content considered anti-Semitic by President Donald Trump's administration.
Abahani Limited advanced to the Federation Cup final after a hard-fought 4-2 win on penalties over defending champions Bashundhara Kings in the Qualifier-1 match at the Shaheed Dhirendranath Datta Stadium in Cumilla on Tuesday...
With the power demand rising amid heatwaves, the energy mix included more oil to boost electricity generation, leading the interim government away from its plan to reduce energy spending...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday filed a case against 11 people, including the former secretary of the Ministry of Public Administration and former president of Ideal School and College, Abu Hena Morshed Zaman and the school鈥檚 former principal Shahana Ara Begum on charges of admitting 107 students to the school illegally...
Sammilita Garment Sramik Federation urged the interim government to engage in diplomatic talks with the US over the reciprocal tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, emphasising the need for an acceptable solution to prevent negative impacts of the tariff on workers...
The members of erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles, who were dismissed and imprisoned after the 2009 BDR massacre, and their family members staged a demonstration in Jigatola area near Border Guard Bangladesh headquarters on Sunday demanding reinstatement of their jobs...
Long before Donald Trump鈥檚 鈥楲iberation Day鈥� announcement, the United States had toyed with imposing high tariffs throughout its history, with inconclusive鈥攁nd sometimes catastrophic鈥攔esults...
Former Bangladesh Football Federation president Kazi Salahuddin has become eligible to run as the president candidate in the forthcoming South Asian Football Federation elections 2026 after the organisation revoked the 70-year age bar in its congress on Friday.聽
India鈥檚 Maoist insurgents, cornered by an all-out military offensive, have offered to engage in peace talks but insist security operations must stop first, a condition authorities have rejected...
US president Donald Trump was poised to unveil sweeping new 鈥楲iberation Day鈥� tariffs on Wednesday, but kept the world guessing until the last minute about the scope of an onslaught that could spark a global trade war...
The Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigoshthi on Monday condemned Sunday鈥檚 demolition of a part of a liberation war mural in Lalmonirhat...
The authorities of the Rajshahi City Corporation have decided to dismiss a total of 120 employees from their jobs.
Several roads and structures under the Dhaka South City Corporation, including Mayor Mohammad Hanif Flyover, have been renamed...
I WAS not surprised when Columbia University鈥檚 interim president Katrina Armstrong caved to the demands of the Trump administration. She agreed to ban face masks or face coverings, prohibit protests in academic buildings and create an internal security force of 36 New York City Police officers empowered to 鈥榬emove individuals from campus and/or arrest them when...
The Election Tribunal in Dhaka on Thursday declared Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Ishraque Hossain as mayor of the Dhaka South City Corporation.
Dhaka district鈥檚 civil surgeon, Mohammad Zillur Rahman, faced strong criticism from valiant freedom fighters on Wednesday after comparing the July 2024 uprising to the 1971 Liberation War...
Political leaders say that the July uprising has paved the way for a discrimination-free society and democratic governance in line with the aspirations of the liberation war which have remained unfulfilled even 54 years after independence.
An individual named Ujjal Roy filed an application with the Election Commission on Tuesday to register a new political party named 鈥楢wami League.鈥�...
NINETEEN seventy-one arrived, not as a year, but as a violation, a savage tear in the thin skin of what we dared call life. I was a child, a splinter of a being, four years old, yet the tremors of that brutal rending still reverberate in the hollow spaces of my bones. They call it the Liberation War, a tidy phrase for a messy, monstrous thing. It was the air we choked on, thick with...
The Brazilian football federation unanimously returned Ednaldo Rodrigues to the role of president on Monday, confirming his re-election as the sole candidate after star ex-striker Ronaldo had already pulled out of the race.
Home adviser Lieutenant General Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (retired) on Monday said that the signing of the Standard Operating Procedure between Bangladesh and Australia marked as a milestone to prevent unlawful migration and human trafficking alongside strengthening bilateral relationship and partnership between...
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...
Bangladesh Mime Federation and Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Saturday jointly observed World Mime Day 2025 by organising a discussion and mime performance at Studio Theatre Hall of the BSA...
Last year was the deadliest year for migrants, with nearly 9,000 people dying worldwide, the United Nations said on Friday, calling the 鈥榯ragedy unacceptable and preventable鈥�.