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�.
Preparations for welcoming Bengali New Year 1432 began with an art workshop at the fine art faculty of Dhaka University on Thursday...
PRICES of various brands of the same medicine vary. They vary depending on on the manufacturers. And, this suggests the absence of proper oversight on drug pricing. This remains a concern as the Directorate General of Drug Administration has only 117 essential drugs on its platter to set the maximum prices for. An earlier estimate shows that Bangladesh manufactures...
The National Sports Council approved the ad hoc committees of the Bangladesh Cycling Federation and the Bangladesh Handball Federation, abolishing the prior committees, according to a circular issued on Wednesday...
The High Court on Tuesday issued a four-week rule asking the government and the Election Commission to explain why the commission鈥檚 recent notice 鈥� requiring new political parties to maintain offices in at least 22 districts and 100 upazilas for registration 鈥� should not be declared unlawful...
Officials and employees of the Election Commission have decided to postpone their previously announced 鈥榦perational halt鈥� programme, which was scheduled for Wednesday...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on Monday lowered its projections for global growth in 2025 due to 鈥榯rade barriers鈥� and 鈥榰ncertainty鈥�...
INDIAN nationals occupying almost all top positions at the Bangladesh India Friendship Power Company that runs a 1,320MW coal-based power plant at Rampal, Bagerhat and drawing heftier salaries and benefits than their peers is surprising. According to a financial review by the Bangladesh Power Development Board, 32 of the top 40 positions are occupied by Indians...
Economists in a pre-budget discussion on Sunday in the capital Dhaka suggested employment generation schemes, expansion of social spending and maintenance of a high food stock in the forthcoming financial year...
Dhaka North City Corporation administrator Mohammad Azaz on Saturday said that drives would be conducted after Eid-ul-Fitr to free footpaths from illegal grabbers.
The High Court on Thursday asked the director general of the Department of Immigration and Passports to collect the fingerprint of national minority rights activist Michael Chakma and consider issuing his passport within seven days...
The government on Thursday signed the record of discussion and terms of reference for the project 鈥楥apacity development for smart maintenance technology of bridges鈥� with the Korea International Cooperation Agency...
Syria鈥檚 interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa on Thursday signed the country鈥檚 constitutional declaration, which will be enforced throughout a five-year transitional period.
Speakers at a workshop on Thursday stressed the importance of completing the mandatory birth and death registration by the specified time as the certificates are essential for accessing various services, including school admission...
The declaration of the daily 鈥楯aiJai Din鈥� has been revoked by the office of the Dhaka district magistrate and deputy commissioner following an application by its former editor Shafik Rehman, sparking protests from the newspaper鈥檚 current management and journalists...
The country鈥檚 internet penetration rate has continued to decline gradually in the past three months...
Residents of 18 newly included wards in the Dhaka North City Corporation at a public hearing on Tuesday complained of grappling with water stagnation, poor waste disposal, and dilapidated roads, among other issues...
Additional secretary Md Salim Ullah has recently joined as chairman of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation...
Students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology on Monday issued a 48-hour ultimatum demanding the abolition of all irrational quotas, including the ward quota...
The Election Commission has called for applications from political parties seeking registration ahead of the forthcoming general elections...
THE Dhaka Shishu Park has been closed for children since 2019 for renovation and is unlikely to open its doors by 2026. The modernisation plan, initially taken by the liberation war affairs ministry at a cost of Tk 265.44 crore for the Liberation Monument project in Suhrawardy Udyan, was supposed to begin in January 2018...
A DEPLORABLE failure of urban waste governance has left large parts of southern Dhaka cloaked in toxic smoke for more than two weeks, as a fire at the Matuail landfill continues to spread palls of toxic smoke across densely populated neighbourhoods such as Jurain, Jatrabari, Sayedabad and Maniknagar. The...
A fire broke out at the generator room of the Liberation War Museum in the capital on Monday morning...
Bangladesh and Pakistan have agreed to enhance bilateral cooperation in all areas of mutual interest as the foreign ministers of the two South Asian countries met on the sidelines of the OIC meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Bangladesh Railway and the private bus operators are going to start selling advance train and bus tickets from March 14 ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr...
A sharp decline in women鈥檚 migration in 2023 raises a few issues left unattended for long. Female migration from Bangladesh has declined by 42 per cent in two years, as Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training figures say. The number declined from 105,466 in 2022 to 76,108 in 2023 and 61,158 in 2024. A lack of safe migration practices, high migration cost...
A group of students from Rajshahi University staged a demonstration on Wednesday by blocking the Dhaka-Rajshahi rail tracks at the university鈥檚 railway station, protesting at the dominance of Dhaka and Dhaka University in government bodies and policymaking...