SAFF winning girls get hero鈥檚 welcome
Rousing pageantry resounded all the way as back-to-back SAFF Women鈥檚 Championship-winning Bangladesh national team returned to a hero鈥檚 welcome on Thursday after...
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Full-time administrators for local govt bodies soon: adviser Ariff
Adviser to the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives, AF Hassan Ariff, announced on Tuesday that the government plans to appoint 鈥榝ull-time administrators鈥� for city corporations, municipalities, and upazila parishads to ease the challenges faced by service seekers...
Labour migration to major destinations still at halt
Labour migration from Bangladesh to over a dozen of destination countries that once employed millions of workers has remained suspended for up to five years for different reasons...
How BRICS redefines global cooperation
THE 16th BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, felt like a deliberate contrast to the annual IMF and World Bank meetings taking place in Washington. The timing couldn鈥檛 have been more telling. The optics of this contrast were hard to miss, giving off the impression of a bloc standing firmly apart from the US-dominated global order. While the West may see Kazan...
The US-Israel plan for the Gazans
DAN Cohen, an American Jew whose family in Lithuania had been wiped out by Hitler鈥檚 forces, is one of the great investigative journalists on Israel-Palestinian affairs, and he headlined on October 21, 鈥楿S authorizes CIA mercenaries to run biometric concentration camps in Gaza Strip.鈥� He opened:...
The case for Jamaat鈥檚 apology
SHOULD Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami be permitted to engage in politics without first addressing its role in the 1971 liberation war? This question takes on heightened significance in light of the 2024 mass uprising. If Jamaat is sincere about its desire to participate in the current political landscape, offering an apology appears essential. Without such...
India opens integrated check post, terminal at Petrapole
India on Sunday opened an integrated check post, passenger terminal building and a joint cargo gate named Maitri Dwar at the Petrapole in West Bengal to improve cross-border trade and immigration infrastructure...
Thousands of far-right protesters rally in London
Thousands of protesters marched through central London on Saturday calling for tougher immigration laws, in a heavily policed march after the arrest of a far-right leader...
FBCCI seeks information on people creating artificial egg, chicken crises
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry has sought information from traders about those creating artificial crisis in the egg and chicken markets.
Assessment of AI integration in Bangladeshi news media held
An assessment finding sharing meeting in Dhaka on Saturday revealed that many journalists in Bangladesh were leveraging artificial intelligence in their individual work but institutional use in newsrooms operations remained nominal...
OECD launches guidelines on living wage due diligence
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, has developed a handbook to guide companies in applying the OECD due diligence framework to support living incomes and living wages in global supply chains...
Shahjalal elected eGeneration chair
Mohammad Shahjalal has been elected as chairman of eGeneration PLC in the board of directors meeting held recently, said a press release...
Tabith new president of Bangladesh Football Federation
Tabith Awal has become the most important figure in the country's football after getting elected as the president of the Bangladesh Football Federation following a landslide victory in the BFF polls on Saturday.
BFF elections Saturday聽
The much-hyped elections of the Bangladesh Football Federation and its Annual General Meeting are scheduled to be held at the Intercontinental Hotel in the city on Saturday.聽
Russia to back Bangladesh鈥檚 enhanced role in BRICS
Deputy foreign minister of Russian Federation Sergey A Ryabkov has pledged to advance the relations with Bangladesh to a new height.
Bangladesh鈥檚 public administration reform commission gets 3 more members
Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government has reconstituted the public administration reform commission with the inclusion of three new members, raising the total number of commission members to 11.
Mizanur seeks presidency as protest against football moguls
Tabith Awal is a well-known figure in the country鈥檚 football fraternity, but his lone competitor for the Bangladesh Football Federation鈥檚 presidential post in Saturday鈥檚 elections...
I believe I鈥檓 the fittest person for BFF鈥檚 president post: Tabith聽
Former Bangladesh Football Federation vice-president Tabith Awal, one of two candidates running for the presidential post in Saturday鈥檚 BFF elections, believes he is the best person to lead the federation.
Mohammad Shahjalal elected chairman of eGeneration PLC
Mohammad Shahjalal has been unanimously elected as chairman of eGeneration PLC at the organisation鈥檚 board of directors meeting held recently, says a press release.
ACC summons ex-mayor Taposh, ex-DB chief Harun
The Anti-Corruption Commission summoned 13 people, including Dhaka South City Corporation former mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh and Dhaka Metropolitan Police additional commissioner...
26 students land in jail for secretariat demonstration
The police on Thursday filed a case with Shahbagh police station against more than 85 students for storming into the secretariat and staging protests there on Wednesday.
Tarafder pulls out of BFF elections
The election commission of the Bangladesh Football Federation on Sunday published the final list of candidates for the October 26 polls, with industrialist-turned-sports organiser...
FBCCI calls for market monitoring to control prices of essentials
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry administrator, Md Hafizur Rahman, called on district chambers to take proactive measures to manage commodity prices and ensure a steady supply of daily necessities on Sunday.
Depoliticising the administration
THE public administration ministry is called the nucleus of the secretariat. The people working in public administration have, however, always created a kind of power circle. In most cases...
FBCCI chief urges business community to make logical profit
The administrator of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Md Hafizur Rahman, on Thursday urged the business community to make logical profit for keeping stable the country鈥檚 commodity market.
Abu Sayeed passes NTRCA written test
Md Abu Sayeed, who was shot dead by police during the anti-discrimination student movement on July 16, has passed the written test of the 18th Non-Government Teachers鈥� Registration and Certification Authority...
Insufferable city roads cause sufferings
Prolonged sufferings of the Dhaka city residents become increasingly unbearable as the roads, streets and alleyways across the capital lie unrepaired and potholed, while in many other areas road excavation for development works goes on endlessly, flouting rules...
China, Russia pledge to strengthen military cooperation
The Chinese and Russian defence ministers pledged on Monday to deepen cooperation between their two countries鈥� militaries as they met in Beijing...
Tarafder not to run for BFF鈥檚 president post聽聽
Tarafder Ruhul Amin, who earlier announced to contest for the president post of the October 26 Bangladesh Football Federation elections, surprised everyone by collecting paper for the...
A possible defreezing
SINCE the ouster of the Hasina-led government, Bangladesh has strongly indicated that it wants to strengthen relations between the two countries to ensure a democratic South Asia while also resolving the issue of the liberation war of 1971 with Pakistan. Bangladesh-Pakistan relations were strained during Hasina鈥檚 15-year rule. However, the leadership...