Bangladesh has the worst mobile internet speed among 110 surveyed by the recently published 2021 Digital Quality of Life index.

Speaking at a banquet hosted in his honour by Indian President VV Giri in Rashtrapati Bhaban in New Delhi, Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny today

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, now in Washington DC, has inaugurated the newly-constructed “Bangladesh House” in Maryland, US.

Speakers have called upon the government to increase its food storage capacity to ensure fair prices to farmers and reduce dependency on import.

A parliamentary body at a meeting today recommended the information ministry to take effective measures to curb rumours and fake news on social media.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) released Jahangirnagar University student Boni Amin, who was picked up on Tuesday, from their custody and handed him over to his family today.

Dr Pran Gopal Datta, Awami League lawmaker-elect from Cumilla-7 constituency, has taken oath today.

Bangladesh’s aviation sector will grow almost threefold over the next 15 years, State Minister for Civil Aviation Md Mahbub Ali said today.

Twenty-three people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8 am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

At least 190 patients were hospitalised in 24 hours preceding 8:00 am today, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Char people have reclaimed and repaired a govt road that was under illegal possession of a private solar power company at Char Sholmari on the Teesta river basin in Bhoatmari union under Kaliganj upazila of Lalmonirhat.

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) yesterday issued a statement demanding that authorities immediately drop their investigations into the bank accounts of 11 journalist leaders  and Prothom Alo’s senior reporter Rozina Islam.

Seven bodies, including that of a five-year-old girl, were recovered yesterday after two boats capsized in the Padma river and the Bay due to strong currents and inclement weather.

Foreign ministers of about 50 non-aligned nations today approved a communique that included a plea for international action on the Bangladesh refugee problem.

The next election commission should be formed on the basis of political consensus, said Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda.

“Why did I not hold her hand tighter?”

When open sewers in the port city have become a death trap claiming at least four lives in the span of just three months, the authorities concerned stay in a deep slumber instead of taking measures to prevent such deaths.

The secondary education sector is mired by various forms of corruption and irregularities including unauthorised financial transactions in appointing head teachers and assistant teachers.

A state minister yesterday said he could not get a piece of land registered because he did not pay bribes at the sub-registry office.

Construction of the Payra bridge, which a fourth-grade student Shirshendu Biswas demanded for in a letter to the prime minister in 2016, will be completed by 2025.