Shafiqul Alam returns to journalism, joins 'The Daily Waadaa' as editor
18 February 2026, 16:13 PM
Bangladesh
Jamaat-led alliance holds emergency meeting without key ally
15 January 2026, 15:11 PM
Politics
Bangladeshi-origin woman pulled from car by ICE agents in Minneapolis, says New York Post
15 January 2026, 12:51 PM
News
Tarique likely to meet CA Yunus today
15 January 2026, 12:35 PM
Bangladesh
Khaleda Zia’s legacy honoured in Washington National Press Club
13 January 2026, 23:10 PM
Yunus urges South Asian academics to align education with youth aspirations
13 January 2026, 23:02 PM
Surrendering to those obstructing reform is like walking backwards: Mahfuj Alam
13 January 2026, 22:55 PM
Selling diseased meat as 'beef' undermines public trust: Obhoyaronno
13 January 2026, 21:06 PM
Fakhrul condemns Chuadanga BNP leader’s death in custody, demands justice
13 January 2026, 16:17 PM
Old Dhaka readies for Sakrain as kites, lanterns and memories return to winter skies
13 January 2026, 16:06 PM
One-third Bangladeshis at risk of displacement: IMF
Bangladesh is considered especially vulnerable to climate change, with one-third of the population at risk of displacement because of rising sea levels, International Monetary Fund says.
20 September 2019, 06:47 AM
Bangladesh rural poor bear financial burden of climate change: Study
Poor, rural Bangladeshis are spending far more than the government and aid agencies to combat the impacts of climate change, diverting what little money they have away from basic needs, a study says.
19 September 2019, 04:42 AM
Bangladeshi refuses reward for €2,000 cash find in Rome
A Bangladeshi man who found a wallet containing €2,000 ($2200) in cash on the street in Rome reportedly refuses a reward after returning it to its owner.
17 September 2019, 05:11 AM
Masud Momen likely to become new foreign secretary
Masud Bin Momen, the current Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations, is likely to become the next Foreign Secretary.
9 September 2019, 05:58 AM
Rights group skeptical that Myanmar’s military seeks justice
Plans announced by Myanmar’s military to prosecute soldiers for actions at a village where security forces reportedly killed as many as 400 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority draws skepticism from the New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch.
3 September 2019, 07:11 AM
Bangladeshi shot dead in New York
A Bangladeshi youth has been shot dead by miscreants in Jamaica of New York.
3 September 2019, 06:54 AM
Dhaka betters, just a little
Dhaka stands as the fifth least safe city on the latest edition of the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) Safe Cities Index (SCI) as “the city fared poorly on digital security, health security, infrastructure security and personal security indicators”.
29 August 2019, 06:38 AM
Dengue: Scientists taking the fight to world’s most dangerous creature
Around the world, mosquitoes are winning their war of attrition. With the help from a tiny bacterium, scientists are fighting back.
28 August 2019, 05:47 AM
Japan exports air pollution by financing coal-fired power plants to countries including Bangladesh
Greenpeace in a report alleged that Japanese government is exporting air pollution by financing polluting coal fired power plants overseas, imposing a great heath risk to the people of those countries including Bangladesh.
20 August 2019, 09:36 AM
BGB, BSF exchange sweets, greetings on Eid day
The Border Security Force of India and the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) exchange sweets and wishes on the occasion of Eid-ul Adha at designated points along the 4,096-km frontier between the two countries.
12 August 2019, 13:11 PM
Joint technical committee to assess impact of Ganges Barrage
A joint technical committee of Bangladesh and India reaches a consensus to conduct a joint study on Ganges Barrage to assess its impact on the environment and livelihood.
8 August 2019, 15:51 PM
Chattogram Port 64th among world’s top 100 busiest container ports
Chattogram Port, the country’s premium sea port, has advanced six steps in terms of annual throughput of containers in this year’s Lloyd’s List, world’s oldest journal on port and shipping.
2 August 2019, 09:58 AM
17 Bangladeshis held in India for ‘illegal entry’
Seventeen Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested from an Indian village in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura district for entering and staying in India without valid documents, a senior police official says.
29 July 2019, 05:56 AM
Rohingya Crisis: Dhaka seeks NAM, ASEAN member states' role
Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations in New York Ambassador Masud Bin Momen urges the NAM member states including the ASEAN neighbours of Myanmar to remain engaged and put in more efforts so that Myanmar authorities do not fail in taking the Rohingyas back.
22 July 2019, 06:48 AM
PM reaches London
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reaches London on an official visit to the United Kingdom.
19 July 2019, 06:12 AM
‘Govt to provide full support to assess the state of Sundarbans’
Prime Minister’s Energy Adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury says that government would provide full support to the Reactive Monitoring mission of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and World Heritage Committee to further assessment of the state of Sundarbans.
10 July 2019, 15:51 PM
Ban Ki-Moon wants global adaptation centre in Bangladesh
Former UN Secretary-General, who is also the chairman of the Global Commission on Adaptation, Ban Ki-moon proposes setting up a global centre for adaptation in Bangladesh for the South and South-East Asia.
10 July 2019, 12:11 PM
Bangladesh is our best teacher in climate change adaptation: UN ex-chief Ban Ki-moon
Former United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon says Bangladesh is the best teacher in climate change adaptation.
10 July 2019, 05:20 AM
Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps: 2 killed, 3,400 houses damaged in 5 days’ heavy rains
Five days of heavy rains and winds have pounded Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, displacing over 2,700, damaging over 3,400 houses and leaving two people dead, says IOM in a statement.
8 July 2019, 18:19 PM
29 Bangladeshis return home from Libya
Twenty-nine Bangladeshi workers returned home willingly from volatile Libya on Tuesday.
2 July 2019, 07:14 AM