Key stakeholders from government, private sector and financial institutions on Wednesday convened at a high-level roundtable hosted by Standard Chartered Bank to address challenges and opportunities in accelerating renewable energy adoption in Bangladesh.
Centre for Studies on Jogendranath Mandal鈥檚 Thoughts and Practices has been formed with the aim of practicing the political ideology and thoughts of the prominent politician of the undivided India and member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly...
The Anti-Corruption Commission will probe why experts, including Professor Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, found the electronic voting machines suitable, despite allegations of the substandard quality of the EVMs...
The son of Sri Lanka鈥檚 former president Mahinda Rajapaksa was banned on Monday from leaving the island nation following his arrest for alleged money laundering...
Security forces detained two suspected members of ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front during a special drive at Keplongpara area under Ruma upazila in Bandarban district Monday morning...
A group of entrepreneurs from Joyeeta Foundation on Monday demanded the rehabilitation in the foundation鈥檚 building after being instructed to vacate their spaces at Rapa Plaza by March 31.
A worker was killed as a wild elephant attack him in Lama upazila of Bandarban district early Saturday...
A group of students of Islamic University in Kushtia allegedly vandalised a bus of SB Paribahan early Thursday...
The Small and Medium Enterprise Foundation has called for regular budget allocations to implement the newly drafted SME Policy 2025 effectively, along with consistent monitoring of its progress...
Standard Chartered Bangladesh, in collaboration with Sustainable Agriculture Foundation Bangladesh, has developed two farming smart model villages in Rangpur district, said a press release...
Md Sarjis Alam, a key coordinator of the Students Against Discrimination platform, has resigned as the general secretary of the July Shaheed Smrity Foundation amid criticism...
ISSUES of worker welfare, which have largely been ignored by successive governments, have once again come to the fore with construction workers having pushed for a set of demands. The Building Construction Workers鈥� Union at a rally in Dhaka on January 18 demanded that the government should ensure fundamental rights of construction workers...
A LACK of initiatives to arrest student suicide is deplorable. When a few hundred students commit suicides and many more attempt it every year, it is worrying that authorities and educational institutions fail to take programmes that could contain such incidents. A report by the Aachol Foundation says that at least 310 students committed suicide...
Bangladesh has expressed confidence that border-related issues with India will be resolved through dialogue under the framework of the existing Land Boundary Agreement between the two neighbouring nations.
Nearly 58 per cent were schoolchildren among those who allegedly committed suicide in the past year, according to a report of volunteer organisation Aachol Foundation.
Three motorcyclists were killed in a road accident at Alikadam upazila of Bandarban Saturday afternoon....
National standards and regulatory body, Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution, is going to formulate minimum energy performance standards for LED lamps, focusing on the issue of electricity saving...
The national standards setting and regulatory body, Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution, is going to formulate 17 safety standards to prevent accidents in gas cooking used in households...
Janata Bank Staff College organised a 30-day Foundation Course for the first batch officers of the year.聽..
Standard Bank PLC on Saturday held its Annual Risk Conference-2025 at Radisson Blu Water Garden Dhaka, said a press release...
Morshed Ullah has been appointed as legal head of Standard Chartered Bangladesh, said a press release...
The Annual Business Conference-2025 of Standard Bank PLC was held on Saturday at Radisson Blu Water Garden in Dhaka with the slogan titled 鈥榊ear of Consolidation: Build Future Together鈥�.
foodpanda customers can now order from 100 CP Five Star outlets through the online food and grocery delivery platform, said a press release.
Standard Chartered Bangladesh and Bidyanondo Foundation have recently partnered to provide healthcare services to over 2,41,600聽 people from char and other hard-to-reach areas through Jibon Kheya floating hospital initiative, said a press release...
Tension gripped local villagers as the Indian Border Security Force on Wednesday again began constructing fence along the border in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj amid deployment of additional forces on both sides of the border...
The National Board of Revenue鈥檚 Customs division in a directive made physical inspection mandatory for a dozen imported products through the Benapole Land Port...
SUFFERINGS have intensified and despair has deepened for the people who became wounded in and for the families who lost their members to the July-August uprising, with the July Shaheed Smrity Foundation 鈥� set up to provide early health care, financial assistance and long-term, sustainable support for the martyrs and the victims of the uprising...
The first-phase final list of those who were martyred or injured during the historic-led mass uprising of July and August 2024 has been published on the official website, accessible at https://medical-info.dghs.gov.bd/public.
Standard Chartered Bangladesh and Ispahani Islamia Eye Institute and Hospital have partnered to set up 71 comprehensive eye health camps for adult beneficiaries and 1,667 student sight testing programmes for school-going children, said a press release.
