Dhaka: Extreme heat is costing South Asia nearly the equivalent of 31 million full-time jobs every year and is on track to reduce the region’s economy by nearly 7 percent by 2050, according to a new World Bank report released. As South Asia prepares t…
Kuala lumpur: Malaysia will begin recruiting Bangladeshi workers across all sectors starting from the last week of August, announced Mahdi Amin, Adviser and spokesperson to the Prime Minister. This decision follows bilateral talks aimed at facilitatin…
Sylhet: A convoy carrying leaders of the National Citizen Party (NCP), including its Chief Organiser (Northern Region) Sarjis Alam, came under attack in Golapganj upazila of Sylhet district on Thursday, resulting in damage to one vehicle. The incident…
Dhaka: The High Court on Thursday disposed of 7,565 old criminal miscellaneous cases through its 14 Criminal Motion Benches as part of an ongoing special initiative to reduce the backlog of cases. This effort is a continuation of a special disposal pr…
Dhaka: The government has decided to keep retail prices of petroleum fuel unchanged for August, meaning consumers will continue to pay the existing rates for the next month too.
According to United News of Bangladesh, a notification issued by the En…
Dhaka: The flagship project of the Ministry of Commerce, ‘Export Competitiveness for Jobs (EC4J),’ has emerged as one of Bangladesh’s most successful export diversification initiatives. It has transformed non-RMG manufacturing industries, created near…
Dhaka: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has announced a groundbreaking initiative to establish modern language centres at 25 universities, both public and private, throughout Bangladesh. The aim of this initiative is to bolster the global compet…
Sunamganj: Two passengers were killed and four others, including the driver, were seriously injured after a CNG-run autorickshaw rammed into the rear of a parked truck on the Sylhet-Sunamganj regional highway in Chhatak upazila early Thursday. The acc…
Dhaka: National Citizen Party (NCP) Chief Organiser (Northern Region) Sarjis Alam on Thursday urged the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to take immediate steps to control its student wing, Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), warning that the organisati…