Dhaka: Two young men, including a member of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), have gone missing following the collapse of a section of the Meghna riverbank in Bhola Sadar upazila. The incident took place on Wednesday night while they were sitting wit…
Dhaka: Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed on Thursday informed Parliament that the government is redesigning the Development Project Proposal (DPP) for a project aimed at bringing the entire Dhaka city under a CCTV monitoring system. ‘Following the decisi…
Port moresby: Bangladesh Bank has won two international awards-the ‘AFI Maya Declaration Commitment Award 2026’ and the ‘AFI Gender Inclusive Finance Champion Institution’-for its outstanding contributions to advancing financial inclusion and empoweri…
Hong kong: Bangladesh will soon send a trade delegation to Sri Lanka to assess the market potential for exporting potatoes and explore opportunities to export onions, Commerce Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir announced on Thursday. The decision was m…
Dhaka: BNP Acting Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi stated on Thursday that despite the presence of numerous television channels and newspapers in Bangladesh over the past 17 years, freedom of expression was effectively restricted to one individual …
Dhaka: The High Court has ordered Grameen Kalyan, a not-for-profit social business company founded by former interim government Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus, to pay Tk 666 crore in taxes. This decision comes after the court dismissed a writ petit…
Dhaka: Tobacco and nicotine products remain a major obstacle to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly the target of reducing premature deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), experts have said at a roundtable recently….
Dhaka: Leader of the Opposition Dr Shafiqur Rahman on Thursday stated they aim to play a constructive role in Parliament rather than acting as a conventional opposition. “We want to play a positive role as a constructive opposition. We do not want to …
Thakurgaon: The by-election for the Thakurgaon-1 constituency is set to take place on October 29, following the announcement of the election schedule by the Election Commission on Thursday. The announcement was made by EC Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed…