Local-level government offices across the country remain largely unprepared for e-governance, held back by weak infrastructure, regional disparities and services that still require manual steps, a Centre for Policy Dialogue study has found.

In 2006, the then undivided Dhaka City Corporation established a community centre in Segunbagicha, one of the capital’s most densely populated neighbourhoods.

Allowing private companies to directly import and market refined petroleum products could lead to revenue losses, artificial shortages, hoarding, price volatility, substandard fuel and risks to national energy security, said a BPC committee.

The government yesterday approved the largest pay hike for civil service since independence, doubling the basic salary of top officials and raising the lowest pay by a record 142 percent.

Borrowers whose outstanding loan balance is Tk 1,000 crore or more will now be able to repay their loans over 15 years, including a two-year grace period, instead of 10 years.

United Healthcare yesterday performed what it described as the first two robotic surgeries in the country’s history, marking a milestone in the use of advanced technology in Bangladesh’s health sector.

Runa Khan, founder and executive director of non-governmental organisation Friendship, has won the 2026 Ramon Magsaysay Award for her decades of work improving lives in remote, river-eroded and climate-vulnerable areas of Bangladesh.

More than half of Bangladesh’s private universities are now facing the tax authority’s wrath for failing to file their tax returns in the last fiscal year.

An official inquiry into the toxic gas leak that killed 10 workers at Ferdous Steel Ship Recycling yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda has found that a hazardous cutting operation was treated as routine work without basic safety oversight.

Illegal sand extraction from the Mahadeo river in Kalmakanda upazila and the Someshwari river in Durgapur upazila of Netrokona continues unabated despite a ban, court directives and repeated administrative drives.

Newspapers must uphold the truth without bowing to vested interests and practise objective, independent and ethical journalism, guests said yesterday at an event marking the first anniversary of Times of Bangladesh at Dhaka Club.

A seminar, titled “Referral Pathway for Journalists and Human Rights Defenders in Bangladesh”, was held at a city hotel

Police suspect she was strangled to death

DPHE staff say executive engineer instructed them not to accept applications in his absence

Experts divided over whether Mecca Pact could become a ‘shadow alliance’ of NATO

Three-day festival to showcase traditional sweets, Tangail sarees and local products

Tourism resumes alongside fishing as Forest Department stresses conservation

Khalilur is scheduled to remain on the visit from August 31 to October 21

A key bridge on the main road connecting at least six villages in Maharajpur and Kumrabaria unions of Jhenaidah Sadar upazila has remained without repairs since it collapsed a year ago, causing thousands of locals to suffer.

Bangladesh sees no risk in joining the Mecca pact, as the country will continue to maintain balanced relations with various international partners, said Humaiun Kobir, state minister-1 for foreign affairs.