State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has said the government's emphasis is now on increasing the share of renewable energy in total power generation.

The government has decided to lift the restriction on age limit for diploma course admission at polytechnic institutes, Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni says.

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi inaugurates a specialised hospital for people infected with coronavirus in Export Processing Zone area of Chattogram.

The European Union has announced €32 million (around Tk 304 crore) for some one million Rohingyas sheltered in Cox’s Bazar and Bangladeshi host communities, an EU Delegation in Dhaka said in a statement today.

With an aim to turn police into a people-friendly force, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed has started collecting suggestion from all rank officials, especially those working in the field.

Flood-hit people in the northern and north-eastern districts of Bangladesh are passing difficult days as they suffer from a lack of food, drinking water and other essentials. Many have said they did not get any relief from the government during this period.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has sought strong partnership with the United Nations as he feared that Covid-19 may impede the progresses in the area of SDG achievements and the country’s graduation trajectory from LDC status.

Police have recovered the bodies of two brothers in remote Ruma upazila of Bandarban, two days after they were killed in a clash between villagers.

Five port users' organisations have suspended import of Indian goods through Benapole port for the second day today, protesting India's refusal to accept Bangladeshi exported goods.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) today gave three months more time to renew trade license and pay holding tax without any surcharge or fine.

A group of teachers today said that introduction of online classes in an unplanned and unprepared manner at universities will be suicidal and will create further discrimination among students.

Four people were killed and two others injured in separate incidents of lightning strikes in Lalmonirhat today, said police.

Workers of Bangladesh Gas Fields Company Limited in Brahmanbaria staged a demonstration this morning, to protest a decision of the authorities to slash Eid bonuses of their second and third class employees.

Both affluent and marginalised people can be vulnerable to involvement in terrorism as terrorists do not pursue violence simply based on ideology, according to a study.

The country’s earnings from garment export in the outgoing 2019-20 fiscal year declined to 27.83 billion USD – an 18.45 percent decline compared to the previous fiscal year.

Patients face untold sufferings as all the three ambulance drivers of Pirojpur District Hospital and Pirojpur Mother and Child Welfare Centre (MCWC) in the town have gone into hiding after two of them were sued in separate murder cases.

A specially designed ‘safety chamber’ in Tangail’s Kalihati Upazila Health Complex, set up for ensuring protection from coronavirus infection during treatment of general patients at the outdoor, has received appreciation from all concerned.

Thousands of people in five upazilas of Bagerhat -- a coastal district where fresh drinking water is scarce due to high salinity in groundwater -- are once again getting their hopes up on a probable solution to their longstanding water crisis.

Police in a drive seized huge quantity of government medicines from the house of a medicine shop owner in Wireless Colony area of the town on Tuesday.

Police recovered the body of a youth from Naobhangachar area in Jamalpur municipality yesterday, six days after he went missing on Thursday.