AI gives global stocks a lift, dollar mixed
Investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence helped lift Wall Street Thursday as Microsoft surfed a tech wave to pass $4 trillion in market value even as traders weighed Federal Reserve rates caution...
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Half of Dhaka trees, 60pc water bodies disappear in 44 years
A recent study has revealed that the Dhaka city has lost half of its trees and 60 per cent of its waterbodies over the past 44 years...
CUET holds tree planting programme 2025
Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology held a tree planting programme on the CUET campus in Chattogram on Sunday...
US stocks end at records as markets eye tariff deadline
Wall Street stock indices ended at fresh records Friday as US investors bet on additional trade deals following this week鈥檚 breakthrough with Japan...
End to businesses on footpaths, street parking in Sylhet city demanded
Leaders of three social organisations blocked the road in front of Nagar Bhaban in Sylhet city, protesting against businesses encroaching on footpaths and illegal car parking on streets across the city under the support of local administration and vested interests...
White House restricts WSJ access to Trump over Epstein story
The White House on Monday barred The Wall Street Journal from traveling with US president Donald Trump during his upcoming visit to Scotland, after the newspaper reported that he wrote a bawdy birthday message to his former friend, alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein...
Youth festival held at BRRI
A tree planting campaign was organised and saplings were distributed among the youth as part of the youth festival at the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute in Gazipur on Monday...
Safe cities for street children
IN THE crowded alleys and neon-lit corners of Dhaka, Chattogram, Khulna, and Sylhet, a vulnerable population often goes unseen 鈥� Bangladesh鈥檚 street children. They are the children who sleep under bridges, work at tea stalls, wash cars at intersections, and beg for survival. According to estimates by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and UNICEF, there are over...
Trump sues Murdoch, Wall Street Journal over Epstein sex bombshell
US President Donald Trump sued media magnate Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal on Friday over the publication of a bombshell report on his friendship with the infamous alleged sex trafficker of underage girls, Jeffrey Epstein.
Ansar, VDP DG inaugurates tree planting campaign
Director general of the Bangladesh Ansar and VDP Major General Abdul Motaleb Sazzad Mahmud inaugurated the tree plantation campaign 2025 on the premises of the force鈥檚 academy in Gazipur on Wednesday.
US stocks dip
Wall Street stocks fell early Friday as markets digested president Donald Trump鈥檚 latest tariff threats amid concerns about lofty equity valuations.
ISU VC inaugurates tree planting, clean-up programmes
Under the theme 鈥榣ive green, smile cleanly鈥�, International Standard University students have started tree planting and clean-up programmes on its campus and adjacent areas in Dhaka...
Army chief inaugurates tree planting campaign 2025
Chief of army staff General Waker-Uz-Zaman on Tuesday inaugurated the Bangladesh Army鈥檚 Tree Plantation Campaign-2025...
National Tree Plantation Campaign, Tree Fair preparatory meeting held in Kushtia
Kushtia District Administration and Social Forestry Department jointly held a preparatory meeting to organise the National Tree Plantation Campaign and Tree Fair at the deputy commissioner conference room in Kushtia on Monday...
400 trees felled in Patuakhali 鈥榦ver land dispute鈥�
At least 400 environment-friendly trees have been felled allegedly by rivals over land dispute at Diara Kochua village under Baufal in Patuakhali district...
BGB DG inaugurates tree plantation campaign at Pilkhana
Director general of the Border Guard Bangladesh, Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui, inaugurated the BGB鈥檚 weeklong Tree Plantation Campaign 2025 by planting a Bakul tree sapling at the BGB headquarters at Pilkhana in Dhaka on Thursday.
MPA chairman inaugurates tree plantation campaign 2025
Chairman of the Mongla Port Authority Rear Admiral Shaheen Rahman has inaugurated the Mongla Port Tree Plantation Campaign 2025 by planting a Delonix Regia sapling on the MPA headquarters premises in Bagerhat...
Street protests again if July declaration, charter delayed: NCP
National Citizen Party convener Nahid Islam on Tuesday said that any delay or evasion concerning the July Declaration and the July Charter would lead the students and people to take to the streets once again...
BUET-designed e-rickshaws to ply Dhaka streets
The Dhaka North and South city corporations are set to introduce battery-run e-rickshaw, designed by Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, in the capital from the first week in August in designated areas...
US stocks back at records
Wall Street stocks finished at fresh records Friday as US-China trade progress restored the market to its heights prior to a spring swoon brought by President Donald Trump鈥檚 tariffs...
Cultural organisations urge govt to stop felling trees
Cultural organisations on Sunday urged the government to stop felling trees in the name of development at Barsha Utsab, a festival to welcome the Bengali month of Asharh, the first month of the rainy season...
Apple plays it safe on AI despite Wall Street pressure
Apple on Monday remained on its cautious path to embracing generative AI even as rivals race ahead with the technology and Wall Street expresses doubts over its strategy...
Panthakunja Park should be restored
NEARLY six months have passed since the Bangladesh Tree Protection Movement began a sit-in inside the partially destroyed Panthakunja Park, one of the capital鈥檚 last parks, calling for a halt to the construction of a section of the Dhaka elevated expressway from the Film Development Corporation to the Plassey crossing. Protesters say that the construction of the elevated...
London solidarity rally supports women鈥檚 Moitree Jatra in Dhaka
A solidarity rally was held on Saturday at Altab Ali Park in London in support of Friday鈥檚 Moitree Jatra organised by women in Dhaka.
Green activists send letter to chief adviser seeking independent commission
On the 143rd day of its ongoing sit-in protest, the Bangladesh Tree Protection Movement (Bangladesh Gachh Raksha Andolon) on Monday sent a letter to the interim government chief adviser seeking an independent commission to probe over the demand to cancel the proposed link road of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway from FDC to Palashi.
Comprehensive support for street children a must
A SERIOUS lack of education for street children in Bangladesh, as child rights campaigners have pointed out on the occasion of International Day for Street Children, is worrying. The Bureau of Non-Formal Education and the Shishu Kalyan Trust programmes cover only 39,415 children against the total of 3.4 million street children. The Shishu Kalyan Trust also provides stipends...
Edn facilities for street children meagre聽
The existing government education facilities for the street children in Bangladesh are both inadequate and ineffective, observed educationists, child rights experts, and activists.
Two killed in clash over felling trees
Two people were killed and ten others injured in a clash between two groups over felling trees in Niamatpur upazila of Naogaon on Thursday...
Doughty Street Chambers, ICC communication and interim govt
THE recent move by the ousted Awami League leadership to engage the renowned British law firm Doughty Street Chambers, led by Stephen Powles, in drafting an Article 15 communication seeking an International Criminal Court investigation into Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government has reignited discussions about its potential impact in Bangladeshi politics...
Birth, death registration stressed to be completed on time
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...