BFF drops two football competitions for next season
The Bangladesh Football Federation decided not to run the Independence Cup and Super Cup in the following season due to the uncertainty of all club participation...
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12 city mayors removed
The interim government on Monday removed mayors of 12 city corporations, including two in Dhaka, from their posts with immediate effect.
5 retired addl secretaries appointed as secretaries
Five retired additional secretaries have been brought back and appointed secretaries on a contractual basis.
Services disrupted as city mayors, most councillors remain absent聽聽
Mayors and ward councillors of Dhaka South City Corporation and Dhaka North City Corporation have mostly been absent from work since the ouster of former prime minister...
All police stations resume operations in Bangladesh
All 639 police stations in Bangladesh resumed operations on Thursday, said authorities.
Revamp of constitution demanded
Speakers in a discussion on Wednesday demanded a revamp of the constitution to plug loopholes preventing any dictators from rising in future...
Appointments of NBR chairman, nine others cancelled
The contractual appointments of National Board of Revenue Chairman Abu Hena Rahmatul Munim and nine others have been cancelled.
An open letter to the US lawmakers
BANGLADESH鈥橲 youths have succeeded in toppling the Sheikh Hasina regime that was autocratic and utterly corrupt. The August 5 event has thus been appositely called the second liberation of Bangladesh. This revolution to topple a fascist regime could not have succeeded without the support enjoyed from all sectors within the broader Bangladeshi...
Adviser Farooq-e-Azam gets Ministry for Liberation War Affairs
Freedom fighter Farooq-e-Azam Bir Pratik has been given the charge of the adviser to the Ministry for Liberation War Affairs....
Theatre activists for democratic reform of BGTF, BPNP
Theatre activists on Monday demanded democratic reform of Bangladesh Group Theatre Federation, Bangladesh Path Natok Parishad and trial of recently resigned director general of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Liaquat Ali Lucky鈥檚 corruption...
Balance of power in administration
THE recently occurring revolution is one of the most significant events in the history of Bangladesh and South Asia. The aftereffects of the revolution have many challenging tasks for the newly formed interim government in Bangladesh. The first challenge that this government is facing is to bring about law and order in the country...
Football ultras demand Salahuddin鈥檚 resignation
A fan group demanded the resignation of Bangladesh Football Federation president Kazi Salahuddin on Sunday, amid growing sentiment for institutional reforms in the aftermath of the widespread...
Students urge civil, police admin to work for people
The coordinators of Student Movement Against Discrimination on Saturday urged the civil and police administrations to work for the people instead of party favouritism...
A new beginning: Lessons from Nelson Mandela
MOST people in present-day Bangladesh, including myself, belong to the post-1971 generation. We have only heard and/or read about the war that saw the birth of our country in 1971; we did not see or experience the liberation war or the jubilation over the victory that followed...
What is behind England鈥檚 riots
THE series of race and anti-migrant riots that have been sweeping across England鈥檚 vast deindustrialised regions in the North West, North East, Midlands and Yorkshire have been ineffably ugly to behold...
Students, people pay last respect to Shakil
Students and people paid their last respect to organising secretary of Dhaka City unit of Bangladesh Chhatra Federation Julfikar Ahmed Shakil at the Central Shaheed Minar in the capital on Thursday...
Swadhin Bangla Football Dal player Patel dies
Swadhin Bangla Football Dal player Saidur Rahman Patel breathed his last at a hospital in California, USA, on Thursday, confirmed the Bangladesh Football Federation through a media release...
Frustration grips police as fellows killed
Frustration has gripped the police force as their fellows were killed and police stations and their other establishments were rampaged and looted since Monday after...
Flight operation at Sylhet Airport suspended for six hours
Flight operations at Sylhet Osmani International Airport were suspended for six hours on Monday.
Long-route communication halted across Bangladesh amid deadly protests
Long-route communications across the country remained virtually cut off on Sunday, on the first day of the non-cooperation movement announced by the leaders of the Student Movement against Discrimination...
Protesters call for all-out聽non-coop聽from Sunday
The leaders of the Students Movement against Discrimination on Friday called upon the people to take part in an all-out non-cooperation movement from Sunday protesting at the...
New authority abolishing NTRC proposed
The government has taken initiative to repeal the Non-Government Teachers Registration and Certification Authority Act 2005 for forming a new authority to appoint eligible teachers to non-government educational institutions...
Univ teachers join students in protests
Teachers of different public and private universities joined the students in demonstrations on Wednesday, demanding justice for the killings in the recent protests and the resignation of the government...
Migration, politics and economics
ALTHOUGH this issue has not been discussed much, current political hostility may affect migration and its long- as well as short-term economics more than thought of now. The protests and subsequent jailing of protesting migrants in the United Arab Emirates have largely been forgotten now...
Univ teachers continue demos protesting at killings, arrests of students
Teachers of different universities, including Jahangirnagar and Rajshahi University, staged demonstrations protesting at police killings, arrests, oppression and harassment for the second consecutive day on Tuesday...
Offices to operate as per regular schedule from Wednesday: ministry
All offices in Bangladesh will run as per the regular schedule from Wednesday, said the public administration ministry on Tuesday.
Bangladeshi mangoes approved for export to China: embassy
China鈥檚 General Administration of Customs has made an announcement giving approval for Bangladeshi mangoes鈥� export to China...
China mediates Palestinian unity
IN AN unprecedented act of unity, 14 Palestinian factions, including Fatah and Hamas, signed the Beijing declaration on July 23, pledging to resolve their differences and bolster Palestinian solidarity. This landmark agreement concluded a three-day reconciliation dialogue held in Beijing from July 21 to 23, facilitated by...
BTUF condemns UAE for jailing 57 Bangladeshi
Bangladesh Trade Union Federation in a press release on Friday censured the government of the United Arab Emirates for jailing 57 Bangladeshi expatriates on...
ACC prosecutes BHBFC DGM
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against MM Jamil Ahmed, deputy general manager of the Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation in Barishal, on charges of obtaining a job as son of a freedom fighter though his father was not a freedom fighter...