Dhaka: Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi emphasized the importance of progressing in the India-Bangladesh relationship by acknowledging the challenges faced by both nations. He underscored that remaining fixated on past issues coul…
Dhaka: President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has urged the members of Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party (VDP) to assume a more significant role in maintaining law and order at the grassroots level while contributing to nation-building activit…
Dhaka: Six more children succumbed to measles-like symptoms within 24 hours until 8:00 am on Tuesday, escalating the nation’s combined number of confirmed and suspected measles-related fatalities to 979 this year.
According to United News of Bangla…
Dhaka: As food prices rise, low-income workers in Dhaka are quietly giving up the fish and meat they once ate regularly. At lunchtime, a small roadside eatery near the Azimpur Etimkhana intersection fills with rickshaw pullers and other low-income wor…
Khulna: Fifty-two members of four notorious robber gangs in the Sundarbans have formally surrendered, pledging to give up arms and return to a normal life amid continued operations by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) to make the forest safer.
Accord…
Dhaka: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has called upon the Election Commission (EC) to permit private teachers enlisted under the Monthly Pay Order (MPO) scheme to participate in local government elections. The party also urged the EC to prevent leaders an…
Dhaka: Prime Minister’s Adviser on Information and Broadcasting, Dr. Zahed Ur Rahman, clarified on Tuesday that merely supporting or speaking in favor of the deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina cannot be considered a criminal act unless a specific la…
Dhaka: Businesses and companies with annual turnover of up to Tk 2 crore will no longer have to pay turnover tax, offering relief to small businesses. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) issued a notification on Tuesday, introducing the exemption and …
Washington: US President Donald Trump has expressed hope of meeting Prime Minister Tarique Rahman soon, saying he believes Bangladesh and its people have a very bright future under his leadership. In a letter sent to the Prime Minister on Monday, Trum…