The Democratic Student Alliance, a combine of seven student wings of left leaning political parties, on Tuesday held a protest march towards the chief adviser’s office, pressing for a five-point demand, including the withdrawal of the Value Added Tax recently imposed on over 100 commodities......
Six more witnesses testified on Tuesday in the Niko corruption case filed against Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia and seven others......
Bangladesh University Grants Commission chairman Professor SMA Faiz at a conference in Pakistan on Tuesday called for joint work to build an effective ecosystem for research and innovation in higher education institutions in the South Asian region......
US president-elect Donald Trump would have been convicted for his alleged effort to overturn the 2020 election result if he hadn’t been elected four years later, said a report by then special counsel Jack Smith released early on Tuesday......
The 21st anniversary of the death of Manik Chandra Saha, a freedom fighter and Ekushey Padak-winning journalist, will be observed today......
Ukraine carried out its largest aerial attack on Russian territory of the nearly three-year war overnight, Kyiv said on Tuesday, hitting factories and energy hubs hundreds of miles from the frontline.......
The birth centenary of Language Movement hero and former lawmaker Mohiuddin Ahmed will be celebrated today......
Slum dwellers in Mirpur 12 resisted a drive to disconnect illegal utility connections, including gas, electricity, and water, Tuesday morning......
Brazilian teenager Joao Fonseca stunned ninth seed Andrey Rublev in a major Australian Open shock on Tuesday as racquet-smashing 2024 finalist Daniil Medvedev narrowly avoided the same fate....
Fortis Football Club suffered their first defeat of the Federation Cup when they lost to Brothers Union 1-0 in their final Group A match at the Rafiq Uddin Bhuiyan Stadium in Mymensingh on Tuesday....
A woman, impersonating a doctor, was arrested at the burn and plastic surgery unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Tuesday......
Rangpur Riders made a remarkable turnaround against Khulna Tigers to close off the Sylhet phase of the ongoing Bangladesh Premier League as they defended 12 runs in the last over on Monday. ...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing on a plea filed by the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami till January 21, challenging the judgment of the High Court that declared the registration of the party illegal.......
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday conducted a drive in the Barind Multipurpose Development Authority building in Rajshahi city over the irregularities in recruiting deep tube well operators and an irrigation project.......
Young artist Mumtahina Binte Sultan has depicted folk culture and nature in her artworks in her maiden solo exhibition titled Whisper of Folklore under way at the Zainul Gallery of Dhaka University.......
Melania Trump signalled she intends to mostly live in the White House when she returns to Washington as first lady next Monday, squelching speculation that she might split time between other residences....
The number of people in Haiti who have fled their homes due to gang violence has risen threefold in the last year to over one million, the UN said on Tuesday....
A worsening crackdown on independent media by Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega’s government saw 46 journalists forced into exile and several arrested last year, a Costa Rica-based NGO reported on Monday....
Greenland’s prime minister on Monday said that the Danish autonomous territory was open to closer ties with the United States, in areas such as mining, a Greenlandic broadcaster reported....
US president Joe Biden announced Monday that two of the Navy’s future aircraft carriers will be named for former commanders-in-chief Bill Clinton and George W Bush....
Sudanese volunteer rescuers said shelling of an area of Omdurman, the capital Khartoum’s twin city just across the Nile River, killed more than 120 people....
Lebanese president Joseph Aoun on Monday picked international jurist Nawaf Salam to form a government to pull the war-scarred country out of economic crisis....
South Korea’s Constitutional Court opened the impeachment trial of president Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday over his failed martial law bid, but quickly adjourned the first hearing after the suspended leader didn’t show up....
BANGLADESH is grappling with overdue fertiliser and energy bills, driven by $800 million in unpaid dues to international suppliers and compounded by limited foreign reserves and inflation. These challenges, worsened by poor decisions of the previous government, such as costly, poorly planned projects like the Adani Power deal and the......
Iran and European powers said they held ‘frank and constructive’ talks on Monday about Tehran’s nuclear programme, just a week before US president-elect Donald Trump takes office....
The Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation has decided to import 1,30,000 tonnes of diesel from India’s Numaligarh Refinery Limited at an estimated cost of Tk 1,137 crore......
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday suspended share subscription of qualified investor offer of Doer Services amid various allegations......
The Bangladesh Textile Mills Association has demanded the government to extend the usance period for payments on import of industrial raw materials......
Anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq resigned from the United Kingdom government Tuesday after being named in graft probes in Bangladesh launched when her aunt, Sheikh Hasina, was ousted as the country’s leader....
Walton Plaza Challengers’ Summit-2025 was held on Tuesday at Walton Hi-Tech Park at Chandra in Gazipur, said a press release......
Morshed Ullah has been appointed as legal head of Standard Chartered Bangladesh, said a press release......
Xiaomi has launched Redmi Note 14 smartphone on the Bangladesh market, said a press release......
Shares worth approximately Tk 6,800 crore linked to Salman F Rahman, former adviser to ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, have been frozen amid mounting investigations into his financial dealings......
The interim government will sit with all political parties and stakeholders on Thursday to finalise the July mass uprising proclamation. ...
Bangladesh tennis players’ Kabbo Gayan and Akash Hossain advanced to the boys’ singles quarter-finals of the ITF Asia Under-14 Development Championship 2025 after beating their respective rivals in the round of 16 in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Tuesday. ...
Reform commissions have made proposals for introducing bicameral legislature to make the parliamentary system more accountable and freeing police of lethal weapons as four out of......
Bangladesh interim government home ministry on Tuesday urged foreigners, who have been staying in Bangladesh illegally, to collect necessary legal documents by January 31....
A Dhaka court on Tuesday acquitted former MP Golam Faruk Ovi in a case over the murder of model Syeda Tania Mahbub Tinni in 2002....
Former Bangladesh Bank deputy governor SK Sur Chowdhury, also known as SK Sur, was arrested and was sent to jail later on Tuesday in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission....
The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh, Gwyn Lewis, on Tuesday said the timing of Bangladesh’s upcoming national election would be determined by the interim government and the political parties....
The Premier League will not issue any fresh charges against clubs over breaches of its financial rules after all were deemed compliant for the 2023/24 campaign, though Leicester could still be sanctioned over a charge brought last season....
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge’s court on Tuesday ordered the seizure of 68 bank accounts and 16 properties of S Alam Group chairman Mohammed Saiful Alam and his family....
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday demanded general elections by the middle of the year and urged the interim government, the Election Commission and political parties to reach a consensus on the issue....
England\'s record Test wicket-taker James Anderson has agreed a new one-year contract with Lancashire that takes him past his 43rd birthday, the county side announced on Monday. ...
Barcelona president Joan Laporta defended his handling of the Dani Olmo registration issue and lashed out at enemies attacking the club in a fiery speech on Tuesday....
The sales of all types of savings certificates which remained suspended since last Thursday due to software upgrades are likely to resume on Thursday....
Mikel Arteta said Tuesday that Arsenal are ‘actively looking’ to improve their squad, revealing the club are ‘very worried’ about an injury to Gabriel Jesus, who has reportedly ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament....
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday asked the authorities to bring all the investment promotion agencies under one umbrella to attract more foreign investment in the country......
Daniil Medvedev faces a hefty fine after mangling his racquet and a net camera in an epic temper tantrum before battling through a five-set roller coaster to start his Australian Open on Tuesday....
The wife of Arsenal forward Kai Havertz has shared screenshots of ‘shocking’ abuse she received on social media, including threats to the couple\'s unborn child, after the Gunners\' FA Cup defeat by Manchester United....
Colombia captain and ex-Real Madrid star James Rodriguez has joined Mexico\'s Club Leon after a brief and unsuccessful stint with La Liga side Rayo Vallecano, the clubs announced on Monday....
The High Court on Tuesday acquitted former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and four other life-term convicts in the arms case linked to the 2004 Chattogram 10-truck arms haul, paving......
Nottingham Forest boss Nuno Espirito Santo warned that too much praise is not good for his players ahead of Tuesday\'s clash with Premier League leaders Liverpool....
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s detective branch chief, Rezaul Karim Mallik, on Tuesday said that top criminals, including Imam-ul-Hasan alias Picchi Helal and Sanjidul Islam Emon, would be brought to book....
Six more witnesses testified on Tuesday in the Niko corruption case filed against Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia and seven others......
Sacked trainee police sub-inspectors continued their fast unto death programme for the second consecutive day on Tuesday in front of the secretariat, the country’s administrative headquarters, in Dhaka, demanding reinstatement of their jobs......
The Anti-Corruption Commission has launched an investigation into allegations of daily extortion amounting to Tk 1.5 crore by Khandaker Enayet Ullah, the general secretary of Bangladesh Road Transport Owners Association......
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has again topped the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 239 at 8:33am on Tuesday morning......
In recent years, Washington has expanded its efforts to curb exports of state-of-the-art chips to China, which can be used in AI and weapons systems, as Beijing’s tech advancements spark concern among policymakers......
‘In the war between Israel and Hamas, we’re on the brink of a proposal that I laid out in detail months ago finally coming to fruition,’ Biden said in a farewell speech at the State Department......
The government has cancelled the appointment of six members of the Bangladesh Public Service Commission......
All set to interrogate major general (sacked) Ziaul Ahsan and former deputy commissioner of the detective branch of police’s Lalbagh zone Moshiur Rahman in the case lodged over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Nahar Runi......
One was killed and 18 others were injured in a clash between the supporters of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jamaat-e-Islami over an enmity of electing the president of the school managing committee at Mirpur upazila of Kushtia on Monday......
The ministry of home affairs has transferred 50 superintendents of police and 24 additional superintendents of police......
Indian troops killed at least five Maoist guerillas in the latest push to crush the long-running insurgency, with a separate bomb blast wounding two policemen, officers said on Sunday......
Several hundred workers of a readymade garment factory at Ashulia, on the outskirts of the capital, on Monday blocked the Dhaka-Tangail Highway for five hours demanding their termination benefit......
Firefighters were battling massive wildfires on Monday that have ravaged Los Angeles and killed at least 24 people, with officials warning of incoming dangerous winds that could whip up the blazes further....
The students of Jagannath University on Monday continued their hunger strike for the second day running and later in the afternoon marched and blocked the road in front of the secretariat for about......
Small and medium enterprises entrepreneurs at a workshop on Sunday emphasised the need for taking anti-corruption measures and supportive policies for the flourishing of this sector, saying that they are bearing the brunt of corruption when it comes to doing their business.......
A youth was killed in a landslide while he was extracting stone digging earth at Companiganj upazila in Sylhet on Monday morning.......
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday filed four separate cases against 11 people including Gazi Hafizur Rahman Liku, a former personal assistant to deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina on charges of corruptions.......
At least three people were killed and five members of a family were injured in road accidents in Lakshmipur, Bogura and Lalmonirhat on Monday. ......
The government has appointed deputy inspector general of police Md Golam Rasul as chief of special branch......
The country’s overall external debts remained over $100 billion at the end of the first quarter of the 2024-25 financial year despite the credit growth rate falling to almost one per cent, and the concerns over payment obligation loom large....
EARLIER on January 8, I saw a prominent Zionist commentator and X (formerly Twitter) user post, ‘Has Greta Thunberg taken her keffiyeh off to address the fires in LA yet or are there too many Jews living here for her to be concerned?’ The weird implications about a mythical anti-Semitic malice that climate activist Greta Thunberg has to supposedly fuel......
MIRPUR is one of the most densely populated urban areas in the country. Home to over three million residents, its neighbourhoods span Sections 1 to 14, Kazipara, Shewrapara, Kafrul, Paikpara, Pirerbag, and Kalyanpur. Despite its size and significance, Mirpur lacks a crucial piece of infrastructure — a public town hall. This absence is felt even more acutely......
JOHN Mearsheimer, a noted political thinker, argued that as long as countries exist, they will constantly compete for power. After World War II and the establishment of the United Nations, many hoped that the era of imperialism was behind us. However, Niall Ferguson pointed out in his book Colossus (2004) that modern superpowers, particularly the US......
MALAYSIA, Oman, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirate are all temporary homes to a large number of foreign workers and many of them are from Bangladesh. And, many of them are eager to get back home to live with the family and acquaintances and contribute to the local development. Some return to the country but many unfortunately......
BANGLADESH is scheduled to graduate out of the least developed country status in November 2026. An LDC’s graduation status depends on meeting the threshold in terms of income, human asset and vulnerability (economic and environmental)......
THE police personnel who lost their job during the 15 years of the authoritarian Awami League regime, toppled in a mass uprising on August 5, 2024, have held protests for a couple of days seeking their reinstatement in the job. The sacked police personnel also held a protest in front of the police headquarters in Dhaka on January 12 to press home their......
THE non-compliance of the authorities to adequately enforce the nine directives that the High Court issued in January 2020 to curb air pollution in Dhaka is unacceptable. The non-compliance has contributed to the worsening of Dhaka’s air, routinely ranked in the worst category in the world. The High Court, which expressed dissatisfaction about the......
