Bangla Academy has decided to hold this year’s Amar Ekushey Book Fair in December for the first time, breaking the tradition of holding it every February to commemorate Language Martyrs’ Day.The decis...
Lieutenant General (Retd.) Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, Adviser to the Ministry of Home Affairs, on Thursday said that the experience gained from university student union elections will be useful in e...
The first-year classes for the 2024-25 academic session of Jahangirnagar University (JU) will commence on September 21, the university administration confirmed on Thrusday.Deputy Registrar (Academic)...
Moyeen Khan, a member of the BNP’s Standing Committee said the ongoing political reform process itself needs reform, pointing out that the year-long process has so far failed to reach any meaningful s...
The first board meeting of the Bangladesh Climate Development Partnership (BCDP) on integrated climate finance was held Thursday at the Chief Adviser’s Office, aiming to chart a coordinated path for t...
Meta took the wraps off its latest hardware innovation — a new pair of Ray-Ban branded smart glasses equipped with a built-in display that shows apps, alerts, and navigation directly on the right lens...
For the first time in Bangladesh’s history, civil and criminal courts have been fully separated in a landmark move aimed at reducing the country’s mounting case backlog and expediting judicial proceed...
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have signed a landmark mutual defence agreement, deepening their decades-old security partnership and triggering fresh concerns in India about regional stability. The deal, s...
Nvidia, the global leader in advanced chip technology, revealed on Thursday that it will invest $5 billion in Intel as part of a strategic partnership aimed at strengthening artificial intelligence (A...
If you grew up in Bangladesh in the 1990s, chances are your childhood was filled with chalkboards, tin lunchboxes, outdoor games, cassette players, and Friday morning cartoons on BTV. You didn’t have...
In 2006, two young entrepreneurs in Sweden had a simple yet bold idea: what if listening to music could be as easy and legal as pirating it? Nearly two decades later, that idea, called Spotify, has gr...
The World Bank Group (WBG) has announced the launch of its highly competitive Young Professionals Program (YPP) 2025, calling for applications from outstanding individuals worldwide who aspire to shap...
Islami Andolan Bangladesh Senior Nayeb-e-Ameer Mufti Syed Muhammad Faizul Karim demanded a national referendum on whether the next parliamentary election should be held under the Proportional Represen...
The four-day “South Asia Trade Fair 2025” began in Dhaka on Thursday, bringing together top brands and entrepreneurs from SAARC countries under one roof with an aim to strengthen regional trade and ec...
Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) Chairman Mominul Islam on Thursday expressed optimism that quality companies will enter the capital market under the revised Initial Public Offering (IPO) system, while weak...
Fourteen years after the heart-wrenching killing of teenager Felani Khatun by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along the Kurigram border, her family has found a glimmer of hope in the most unexp...
A Dhaka court on Thursday sentenced Evaly Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mohammad Rassel and Chairperson Shamima Nasrin to three years of rigorous imprisonment in a fraud case filed over embezzling mon...
Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs Nasimul Ghani has made a sudden trip to Pakistan. He left Dhaka for Islamabad on Wednesday.Multiple senior officials at the Home Ministry confirmed the...
As Bangladesh heads toward the February 2026 elections, BNP acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Thursday said the party is rebuilding itself from the grassroots with a renewed emphasis on transparency,...
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) witnessed a marginal fall in key indices in the first hour of trading on Thursday, while the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) edged higher during the same period.On...