France鈥檚 prime minister on Wednesday urged voters to form a united front to block the far right in legislative elections, warning the anti-immigration party of Marine Le Pen was the only faction capable of winning an absolute majority...
Public administration minister Farhad Hossain told Jatiya Sangsad on Wednesday that the government had no plan to increase the age limit for entering government jobs to 35 years...
The leaders of Russia and China were in Kazakhstan on Wednesday for a regional summit, seeking to harden anti-Western alliances and press their influence in the Central Asian region....
Barrister Moin Ghani has been appointed as a member of International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce for the 2024-2027 tenure...
Chinese president Xi Jinping arrived in Kazakhstan for a state visit on Tuesday....
Students of different public universities including Dhaka University, Jahangirnagar University and Rajshahi University will hold demonstrations today demanding cancellation of the High Court order for the restoration of 30 per cent quota for freedom fighters鈥� children and grandchildren in government jobs...
Professor Abu Yousuf Md Abdullah has been appointed as the new drector of the Institute of Business Administration at the University of Dhaka, effective from Sunday...
The Bangladesh Football Federation awarded councillorship to four clubs that finished in the top four of the last edition of the Women鈥檚 Football League and...
Liberation War Museum distributed prizes among winners of a book reading competition organising a programme at its auditorium in the capital on...
Traders on Saturday called for providing equal opportunity to small and medium importers in importing essential commodities to lessen dependence on a few corporate companies...
Leaders of Bangladesh Garment Sramik Samhati on Friday at a protest rally in Dhaka called on the government to keep an allocation in the proposed budget for financial year 2024-25 for the introduction of a rationing system for garment workers....
The Chattogram City Corporation announced a budget of Tk 1981.52 crore for the financial year 2024-25 on Thursday...
The Dhaka North City Corporation on Thursday demolished parts of the Sadeeq Agro Farm structure allegedly built on the site of the Ramchandrapur canal in the...
The Dhaka North City Corporation decided to suspend the eviction activities of the Karwan Bazar kitchen market for a temporary period...
The government has increased the price of per kilogram rice and wheat rationing to 10 authorised entities by around Tk 9, but the new prices still remain below the price of rice distributed to destitute people...
THE Biden administration is in denial regarding the dangerous Cold War that currently exists between the United States, China, and Russia that qualifies as Cold War II. The current Cold War promises to be more dangerous, more costly, and more implacable than its predecessor, which dominated the 1950s and early 1960s...
JUNE 24 was a day when the demand for power fell 1.88GW short of the demand for 14.89GW, up from a shortage of 278MW against the demand for 14.38GW only 24 hours ago although the installed power generation capacity is 27.51GW. The ongoing mild-to-moderate heatwave that is reported to be sweeping over 31 districts in the divisions of Dhaka...
The National Garment Workers Federation on Monday demanded a special allocation in the proposed national budget for the financial year 2024-25 for introduction of rationing for the garment workersin Bangladesh....
Mobile courts, conducted by the Dhaka South City Corporation, on Sunday fined the owners of six buildings Tk 20,000 after finding Aedes mosquito breeding grounds on their premises...
Mohammed Salim has joined Eastland Insurance as chief executive officer, said a press release...
An alliance of Myanmar ethnic armed groups have accused the junta of repeatedly violating a China-brokered ceasefire in the north of the country this month and causing civilian casualties.聽
The Dhaka South and North city corporations claimed that they had cleared 鈥榗ent per cent鈥� waste generated from animal sacrifices from the total 129 wards on...
Dhaka North City Corporation mayor Md Atiqul Islam has announced Taka 1,000 incentive for slaughtering each sacrificial animal in DNCC鈥檚 designated locations....
The Dhaka South City Corporation in a drive on Saturday fined Tk 75,000 to 16 businesspersons for selling cattle in unauthorised markets in Jhigatala, Khilgaon, and...
The Left Democratic Alliance leaders on Friday at a protest rally called on the Dhaka South City Corporation authority to refrain from evicting the dwellers of the Miranzilla Harijan Sweeper Colony in the capital鈥檚 Bangshal area until their relocation...
Dhaka South City Corporation established a central control room for removing sacrificial animals鈥� waste and coordinating management activities of cattle markets...
WHOEVER designed Istanbul airport must have been inspired by the phrase: 鈥榃alk that extra mile鈥�. Passengers have to walk over endless travelators until they reach the immigration counters. Turkey admits only the fittest...
BANGLADESH having ranked among the 10 worst countries for working people in the 2024 ITUC Global Rights Index, which has been for the eighth consecutive year since 2017, is worrying in that it suggests that there has been no improvement in labour rights....
Research and Policy Integration for Development, a private think tank, has identified lack of proper policy direction in the proposed budget for the 2024-25 financial year against the government鈥檚 intent to address macroeconomic challenges...
Speakers, including academics, on Wednesday demanded an immediate high-level investigation into the abduction of Hill Women鈥檚 Federation organising secretary Kalpana Chakma, who was abducted in Rangamati鈥檚 Baghaichari on June 12, 1996...