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...
THE wave of protests taking place as elsewhere around the world as in Bangladesh in solidarity with Palestine, demanding an end to Israel鈥檚 genocide in Gaza and condemning US complicity in an expanding offensive in the Palestinian city, that too, in violation of a ceasefire is something that Israel and the United States should heed for them to act and the world community for it...
Bangladesh will participate in the inaugural edition of the Wheelchair Cricket World Cup 2025, which will be held in Lahore and Faisalabad in Pakistan, from September 30 to October 9.聽
Manufacturers in the country鈥檚 different sectors have warned that the hike in the prices of gas for new industrial and captive connections and for existing industrial connections in case of additional use would discourage new investments...
Towhid Hridoy, the Bangladesh batter and the captain of the Mohammedan Sporting Club, has been handed a further penalty for breaching the code of conduct in relation to criticising the umpire in public in the ongoing Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League.聽
Bangladesh鈥檚 gross foreign exchange reserves, calculated under International Monetary Fund guidelines, crossed $21 billion again, driven by strong remittance inflows and export earnings...
Bangladesh Bank on Sunday allowed Non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) to open bank accounts in all usable foreign currencies...
Unilever Bangladesh Limited (UBL), a leading UK-based multinational and the country鈥檚 largest fast-moving consumer goods company, welcomed Baroness Rosie Winterton, the UK government鈥檚 trade envoy to Bangladesh, and Sarah Cooke, the British high commissioner to Bangladesh, to its corporate headquarters in Dhaka...
Imtiaz Ibne Sattar (Imtiaz) has recently been appointed as the chief financial officer (CFO) of Summit Corporation Ltd, subsidiary of Singapore incorporated Summit Power International Limited (SPI), the largest independent power producer (IPP) and a leading LNG infrastructure operator in Bangladesh...
Md Shahadat Hossain, former president and council member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB), participated in the Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants (CAPA) Board meeting in Malaysia...
Canadian academic and international business education leader Professor Daniel W Lund joined the Independent University, Bangladesh as pro-vice-chancellor on Sunday.
Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) and Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) executive chairman Chowdhury Ashik Mahmud Bin Harun on Sunday said that the 鈥楤angladesh Investment Summit 2025鈥� had created immense potential to bring Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) side by side local investment.
An additional police superintendent stationed in Rangamati has been brought under the police custody to be produced before Bangladesh鈥檚 International Crimes Tribunal investigators in line with the tribunal鈥檚 order.
Twenty Bangladesh nationals, who were incarcerated in Myanmar for the past few months, left MITT Port in Yangon on Sunday for Chattogram by Bangladeshi naval ship....
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday issued a message greeting the countrymen on the occasion of Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla New Year 1432, to be celebrated on tomorrow.
鈥楤hasani Janashakti Party鈥�, a new political party, was launched by the Bhasani Anushari Parishad on Sunday, aiming to build a prosperous and just Bangladesh.
The government has reinstated 鈥榚xcept Israel鈥� inscription in Bangladeshi passports amid countrywide Anti-Israel protests for killing innocent civilians in Palestine鈥檚 Gaza strip.
The seventh meeting of the board of directors of Shippers鈥� Council of Bangladesh for the terms 2024 and 2025 was held on Sunday afternoon at the conference room of the organisation in Dhanmondi, Dhaka, says a press release.
The Islamic Foundation has urged the authorities concerned to hold the Jumma (Friday) prayers at the same time in all mosques across Bangladesh...
The High Court on Sunday ordered the government and the police to justify within four weeks the 30-day detention of model and 2020 Miss Bangladesh Foundation chairperson Meghna Alam, citing insufficient clarity regarding the grounds...
The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission on Sunday announced a 33 per cent increase in gas prices for industries planning to get new connections or expand with additional gas consumption.
Extensive security measures have been taken across Dhaka and the rest of the country over Pahela Baishakh to make sure that the celebrations are safer, smoother and more joyful than in previous years, said director general of the Rapid Action Battalion Shahidur Rahman on Sunday...
Rains may lash parts of the country in 24 hours commencing 9:00am on Sunday...
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 5th on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 179 at about 8:30am on Sunday morning...
At least 10 people were injured as two factions of Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders and activists at Baraigram upazila in Natore clashed over bringing out a procession to protest at the Israeli atrocities against Palestinian people on Friday evening.
The 1,496MW Adani power plant in India shut the other unit on Saturday citing technical glitches four days after its one unit went out of operation, hardening challenges to Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government to meet the country鈥檚 growing power demand as summer peaks.
Bangladesh Ambassador to Mexico Mushfiqul Fazal Ansarey has emphasised Bangladesh鈥檚 economic resilience, citing strong GDP growth, declining inflation and renewed investor confidence.
Economists and industry insiders urged the government to use the 90-day hiatus in the United States administration鈥檚 tariffs on exporting items to most countries, including Bangladesh.
Bangladesh Embassy in Yangon on Saturday handed over another consignment of humanitarian relief material from the government of Bangladesh to support those affected by the recent earthquake in Myanmar...
Dengue claimed two more lives and sent 22 people to hospitals across Bangladesh in 24 hours till Saturday morning, raising this year鈥檚 death toll to 16 and the total number of cases to 2,074, according to the Directorate General of Health Services...