Transport workers in Rajshahi have temporarily withdrawn their strike, allowing buses to resume operations on the Rajshahi–Dhaka route.  However, they have issued a three-day ultimatum for raising the ...

BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia expressed concern over the plight of the Palestinian people and conveyed her hope to stand by them. She expressed her solidarity when Palestinian Ambassador to Dhaka ...

The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) will make the process of obtaining security clearance for new work permits fully digital from today (1 October). From this date, foreign ...

Bangladesh’s low rates of birth and death registration leave millions of citizens legally invisible, undermining rights, protections and development planning. Urgent legal reform and effective impleme ...

By December 2025, necessary legal measures should be taken to ensure that no members of Awami League or its associate organisations can remain in public within the SMP jurisdiction. ACs, ADCs, and DCs ...

The issuances come as banks face rising pressure to maintain stronger capital buffers under the Basel III framework, which Bangladesh adopted in 2015 ...

Addressing a room full of America's top generals and admirals, summoned from around the world without explanation last week, Hegseth defended his firings of flag officers, which include the top US ...

President Donald Trump said he would meet with top US military leaders today (30 September) and that he would fire any of them on the spot if he didn't like them. "I'm going to be meeting with ...

Prof Hossain revealed that the average annual salary of a doctor in Bangladesh is only Tk3 lakh, compared with Tk98 lakh in the UK and Tk11 lakh in Singapore.

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This building houses offices of the youth development department, social services department, project director’s office of the Chattogram Hill Tracts development board, women’s affairs office, tathyo ...

Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) will set up more than 500 solar-powered desalination plants in the coastal areas of Bangladesh to mitigate the acute drinking water crisis.  Using Reverse Osmosis ...