After around two decades and countless deadlines, a tannery estate with a fully functioning CETP that would ensure the environment is not ravaged by toxic waste is still a far cry from what was planned.

The competition for export orders intensified amid the pandemic and the airport authorities are not making the exporters’ lives any easier.

Making a vow to continue the country’s development spree, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon all to act cautiously keeping in mind the dangers of disasters.

Trimming millions of dollars from President Richard Nixon’s foreign aid requests, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Distressed Children & Infants International (DCI) and Rights and Sight for Children (RSC), in partnership with Faraaz Hossain Foundation, organized a free eye screening camp for the underprivileged people in coastal area of Patuakhali’s Bauphal upazila on Tuesday, marking the World Sight Day-2021.

A family with multiple disabled persons in the municipality area of Phulbari upazila in Dinajpur got a brick-built house after a philanthropist of Dhaka came forward to help them following a Facebook post depicting their inhuman living conditions for the shortage of places.

It might come as a surprise, but 13 out of around 440 railway stations in the country are still using night-time switching signal lights run by kerosene oil and manual track switching mechanisms -- all installed during the British era. 

The Foreign Investors’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) will organise a programme on November 21 to commemorate the 50 years of Bangladesh’s Independence.

A country like Bangladesh needs to harness digital advancements, build a cohesive ecosystem, and leverage high-speed connectivity to sustain digital lifestyle and welcome the fourth industrial revolution, Grameenphone CEO Yasir Azman said on October 12.

Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) today urged the European Union (EU) to continue providing trade benefit to Bangladesh for 12 years more after the country's graduation to a developing nation in 2026.

Profit taking tendency among stock investors continued for the last three consecutive days led by big paid-up capital based companies as the stockmarket fell today also.

Bangladesh is taking on increasingly higher levels of debt to fund its infrastructure spending, crucial for the economy to level up to a middle-income one by 2041.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was again admitted to Evercare Hospital yesterday for treatment and medical tests.

Highway theft is becoming a growing concern for garment exporters.

A Bangladeshi-origin man has been sentenced to more than five years in prison by an Australian court for planning a terror attack in Bangladesh, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.

Being popular in Bangladesh is not an arbitrary process. Rather, players such as state organs, international and national non-government organisations, finance and business groups, and the media decide what and who will be popular,

Sartiagazi and Pachh Arda still remained the two most neglected villages in southern part of Nagarpur upazila.

While commenting on Pakistan President Yahya Khan’s broadcast of October 12, 1971, a spokesman of the Government of Bangladesh stated today that the broadcast was another exposition of his own desperate situation in West Pakistan.

Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) and the Strengthening Urban Public-Private Programming for Earthquake Resilience Project (SUPER Project) have jointly established South Asia’s first disaster risk management centre titled “Private Sector Emergency Operation Center (POC)” in Bangladesh.

The government and private sector should work together for disaster risk management in the country, said Enamur Rahman, state minister for disaster management and relief.