Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal MP Shirin Akhter today demanded intervention of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to prevent implementation of the recommendation of a parliamentary committee to exclude women officers in giving ‘guard of honour’ to heroic freedom fighters after death.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen inaugurated the newly established Bangabandhu Lounge at the Bangladesh Permanent Mission to the UN in New York yesterday.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) submitted charge sheet against seven people, including five suspended assistant revenue officers, in a case filed over looting 20 kg gold from Benapole Customs House in 2019.

A Dhaka court today placed Azharul Islam, an organising secretary of hefajat’s previous central committee, on a five-day remand in a case filed with Jatrabari Police Station in Dhaka on March 27.

A Dhaka court today placed Uttara Club Limited's former president Nasir U Mahmud and his associate Tuhin Siddique Omi on a seven-day remand in a case filed under the Narcotics Control Act.

The government of Bangladesh has announced it will host the first ever virtual V20 Climate Vulnerables Finance Summit on July 8.

A woman died after gas cylinder of a truck exploded in Dhaka’s Hazaribagh Beribandh area early today.

Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Cote d'Ivoire have progressed the most on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) index score since the adoption of the 2030 global agenda in 2015, according to the Sustainable Development Report 2021.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has issued a notice asking Khandaker Enayetullah, secretary general of Bangladesh Transport Owners Association (BTOA), to submit his wealth statement.

A teenager was killed after he was hit by another bus in Malibagh area of Dhaka this evening.

Authorities have decided to impose a seven-day lockdown in several wards under Kurigram municipality from tomorrow in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus infection.

Two lawmakers, Workers Party’s Rashed Khan Menon and BNP’s Rumeen Farhana, in parliament today came down heavily on a section of bureaucrats for their involvement in corruption and harassing common people and journalists on different occasions.

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has found seven police officers of Pallabi police station from back then responsible for wrongly arresting Md Arman, a technician at a Benarasi Palli in Mirpur, and keeping him in jail for around five years instead of the original accused in a drug case.

Dhaka is again at the bottom of EIU’s Global Liveability Index -- this time ranking 137th out of 140 cities.

The High Court today cleared the way for holding the by-election to Lakshmipur-2 constituency, where Mohammad Shahid Islam known as Kazi Papul had been elected as an independent lawmaker, on June 21.

A group of researchers detected Chattogram's first cases of the Covid-19 Delta variant, which was first found in India.

The government should provide at least 80 per cent subsidy to farmers to bring agriculture machinery within their purchasing capacity.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Monday filed a case accusing six persons including a former ward commissioner of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) and three Rohingya on charge of issuing citizenship and birth certificates to Rohingya.

Employees of Bangladesh Railway in Chattogram today demanded reshuffling the mileage options at integrated budget and accounting system (IBAS++ software), which is going to be introduced from July.

New Zealand today announced NZ $8.25 million (US$5.89 million) in humanitarian assistance to support refugees and their host populations in Bangladesh and to support the need of internally displaced and conflict affected people in Myanmar.