Dhaka, Sunday, Aug 30, 2026
The Bangladesh Jewellers’ Association (BAJUS) has raised gold prices by Tk 4,618 per bhori (11.664 grams), setting a new record in the country’s market.According to a BAJUS press release issued Monday...
Bangladesh has called for fair and cooperative management of shared water resources, highlighting the vital role of rivers in the country’s survival and development, Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan said a...
The price of edible oils in the country has increased, with bottled soybean oil rising by Tk 6 per litre, loose soybean oil by Tk 8 per litre, and palm oil by Tk 13 per litre.On Monday evening, the Ba...
-1760360961.webp "Nobel 2025 honors breakthroughs from immunity to innovation")
The 2025 Nobel Prizes concluded this week, celebrating transformative achievements across medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and economics — underscoring the power of human ingenuity, re...
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt have jointly won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their groundbreaking research on how innovation and the forces of “creative destruction” dr...
The Maheshkhali Integrated Development Authority (MIDA) has identified deep-sea fishing and Blue Economy expansion as the new frontier for Maheshkhali’s transformation, placing the sector alongside in...
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After five consecutive sessions of decline, Dhaka’s stock market returned to the green on Sunday, with key indices and most share prices edging higher.At the end of the day’s trading, the benchmark DS...
The government has declared a building in Dhaka Cantonment as a temporary jail.The notification was issued on Sunday, and the Prison-1 branch of the Ministry of Home Affairs informed about it on Monda...
A new survey reveals that 76% of women in Bangladesh have experienced some form of violence by their husbands or intimate partners, with 49% facing it in the past year alone.The Violence Against Women...
Hamza Choudhury has emerged as the new poster boy of Bangladeshi football. The English Premier League star has already played four matches for Bangladesh, scoring two goals — one of them a stunning fr...
-1760344933.webp "Ragging Allegations Resurface at Jahangirnagar University")
Fresh allegations of ragging have surfaced at Jahangirnagar University (JU), where several senior students of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB) have been accused of subjecting...
The results of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations will be published on October 16, according to Professor Dr Khondoker Ehsanul Kabir, chairman of the Bangladesh Inter-E...
Canadian-born Bangladeshi entrepreneur Somaya Harun has been crowned Miss Bangladesh 2025, taking up the role of the nation’s new beauty ambassador as the foundation’s chairperson Meghna Alam faces le...
Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has urged the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to create a social business fund to support young agricultural entrepreneurs, women, farmers, and...
The Ministry of Finance has warned everyone to stay alert against a smear campaign on social media by a vested quarter regarding the ongoing bank merger process.In a press release issued on Monday, th...
Hamas on Monday released seven hostages into the custody of the International Committee of the Red Cross — the first group freed under a breakthrough ceasefire agreement that brought an end to two yea...
The Law Ministry has temporarily suspended Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Rezaul Karim on allegations of corruption.The matter came to light on Monday (13 October), following confirmation...
At least 27 people have been killed in fierce clashes between Hamas fighters and a powerful clan in Gaza City, marking the deadliest internal fighting since Israel scaled back its major military opera...
After a day of road blockades, clashes with police, sound grenades, tear gas, baton charges, arrests, and injuries, MPO-listed teachers have announced a work stoppage starting Monday morning until the...
Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has arrived in Rome, the capital of Italy, on a four-day official visit.He landed at Rome’s Fiumicino International Airport around 5 pm local time on Sunday, where Ba...