The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) asks all the concerned officials across the country to implement the policy to stop teachers from doing coaching business.

Parliament unanimously passes two bills increasing the remuneration and privileges of the president and the prime minister.

The Sundarbans will not face any environmental hazard due to the establishment of coal-based Rampal Power Plant, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid tells the parliament.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina rules out any possibility of increasing the age limit in the government services from 30 years.

The government has taken initiative to form a “media monitoring centre” to monitor news items published in different media, the information minister tells the parliament.

Bangladesh and Kuwait today inked four agreements in military cooperation, road communications, investment protections and diplomatic visa exemptions.

While there is no gainsaying that there is no ‘physical presence’ of IS in this country, the fact that the terrorist organisation has brought this country under its radar is a matter that the security agencies in Bangladesh cannot overlook.

A Dhaka court has placed five alleged militants, who were deported from Singapore, on seven-day remand each in connection with a case filed under the anti-terrorism act.

Bangladesh, India and Myanmar have agreed to work together for collaborative efforts to conserve Hilsa, the national fish of Bangladesh.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police will not allow use of stickers on vehicles identifying various professions like journalists, police and lawyers.

Bangladesh left-arm wonder Mustafizur Rahman is chosen by Cricket Australia in their IPL team of the tournament.

BNP chairperson’s adviser Osman Faruk has denied allegations of anti-liberation role, terming those “totally false and baseless”.

Bangladesh will prepare for day-night Test matches from next season, according to Nizamuddin Chowdhury, the BCB CEO.

Water scarcity, exacerbated by climate change, could cost some regions up to 6 percent of their GDP, spur migration, and spark conflict, World Bank says in a report.

Investigators have found evidence against 13 suspects of Mymensingh, Jamalpur and Patuakhali for their alleged crimes against humanity committed during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

The High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Singapore has urged his compatriots here to report their peers if they suspect them to be extremists.

Around the time that Singapore announced in January the arrest and deportation of 27 radicalised Bangladeshis under the Internal Security Act (ISA), S-Pass holder Rahman Mizanur, 31, came up with plans for an extremist group and began recruiting his countrymen.

Mahfuzur Rashid Ferdous, a teacher of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology in Dhaka, has been placed on a two-day remand in a case filed over sexual harassment.

Fire that broke out at a slum in Dhaka’s densely populated East Raja Bazar neighbourhood has been brought under control after around one and a half hours.

The government yesterday slashed the fare for long-haul buses by 3 paisa per kilometre, drawing criticism from