Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal yesterday said they were in crisis over holding the next general election with two major political parties divided over taking part in it.

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva has cited the example of the unprecedented economic crisis in Sri Lanka to warn other countries that they could also face a similar situation in the face of high debt levels and limited policy space.

Despite an improvement in payment, the government still owes $1.5 billion to the private power plant operators for purchase of electricity, according to official sources.

Though a mob of several hundred people thronged the Sahapara village in Narail’s Lohagara upazila around 4:00pm on July 15, police reinforcement was nowhere to be seen until 11:00pm.

Uncertainty looms over the country’s fuel stock as the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation is finding it difficult to import fuel amid a dollar shortage at local banks.

Shibnath Saha’s life utterly changed on Friday evening.

The baby born miraculously at the site of accident and her two minor siblings from Mymensingh’s Trishal upazila will be taken care of by a relative.

The bottled soybean oil price has been reduced by Tk 14 a litre at retail.

An aircraft carrying training mortar shells procured from Serbia for the Bangladesh Army and Border Guard Bangladesh crashed in northern Greece on Saturday killing all eight crew members on board.

With the partial launch of the country’s first ever metro rail only five months away, the project cost is set to rise by more than half, and the deadline is also going to be extended by a year and half.

There was a fear that opening the Padma Bridge may worsen gridlocks at the entrance to the capital’s south due to a lack of planning to dealing with additional traffic.

College Principal Salim Reza admitted to a probe committee that he was indeed assaulted by Rajshahi lawmaker Omor Faruk Chowdhury at the latter’s chamber more than a week ago, according to two individuals who were present when Salim was talking to the committee members.

The birth of a baby is among the happiest moments in a parent’s life. But for Ratna Begum, her happiness was short-lived: she died soon after.

It was a deadly day on the roads yesterday as at least 29 people were killed and more than two dozens injured in crashes in 10 districts.

The government is going to introduce two-year pre-primary education at primary schools next year despite the fact that the pre-primary training programme could not prepare teachers for effectively teaching students in classrooms, especially considering the play-based approach towards education.

The government has handed over a part of Jungle Khuniya Palong reserved forest in Cox’s Bazar to the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) for building a residential training facility after de-reserving the 20-acre land. 

Sri Lanka’s parliament accepted the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday after he fled the country, paving the way for lawmakers to start repairing the island’s shattered politics and resume efforts to ease its economic crisis.

Six officials of Chattogram Water Supply and Sewerage Authority have made trips to the US and Turkey since May 12, when the government issued a restriction on foreign trips of government officials as part of an austerity measure.

The government has cut the expenditures of circuit houses in 63 districts as a part of exercising austerity to cope with the mounting pressure on the country’s economy due to the fallout of the pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war .

After high-speed rail and the research and development center of Bangladesh Railway (BR), China now wants to invest for building new rail lines connected to several economic zones, Chittagong Sea Port and new Teesta and Hardinge bridges.