Dhaka, Wednesday, Aug 26, 2026
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has asked the authorities concerned to take a pilot project to develop a ‘National e-Health Platform’ to bring the country’s healthcare under an integrated digital framew...
The government has decided to connect island district Bhola by road with Barisal and Dhaka.The decision was taken at a meeting at Prime Minister’s Office at Tejgaon with Prime Minister Tarique Rahman...
Bangladesh's economy is facing mounting stress from the region's highest inflation, a widening poverty rate, a sovereign credit downgrade and sluggish private investment, according to a biannual econo...
The Bangladesh Jewellers Association (Bajus) has again raised gold prices in the local market, increasing the rate by Tk 5,482 per bhori to set the price of 22-carat gold, including VAT, at Tk 2,46,11...
As many as 198 undocumented foreigners, including 148 Bangladeshis, were detained during an immigration raid at a workers’ accommodation in USJ 23 here early Saturday, with some suspects reportedly ju...
Foreign ministers of 12 countries, including Malaysia, Türkiye, Indonesia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, have strongly condemned Israeli airstrikes on the Abu al-Duhur military airbase in northwes...
President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday paid tribute to the martyrs of the Liberation War at the National Martyrs’ Memorial in Savar.The newly elected president arrived at the memorial at 10...
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has taken oath as the 23rd President of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.The oath-taking ceremony was held at the Darbar Hall of Bangabhaban at 7:30pm.Acting Speaker Bar...
The Ebola outbreak raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo has now killed more than 2,500 people, out of over 5,000 cases, the United Nations senior Ebola coordinator said Friday.The death toll in...
President-elect Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today paid his respects to BNP founder and Shaheed president Ziaur Rahman and former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia at their graves in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar...
President-elect Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir will take oath as the country's 23rd President at the Darbar Hall of Bangabhaban at 7:30 pm today. The Acting President, Prime Minister, Chief Justice, cabi...
The Election Commission (EC) on Thursday issued a gazette notification declaring BNP candidate Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir elected as the President of Bangladesh.The notification, issued under Section...
BNP candidate Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has unofficially been elected as the 23rd President of Bangladesh.Mirza Fakhrul won the presidential election, defeating his lone rival opposition Jamaat-led...
The government will take initiatives to raise farmers’ awareness and provide training to control pesticide use in a bid to ensure safe food production, Agriculture Minister Mohammed Aminur Rashid said...
The government on Thursday launched a Preventive Oral Cholera Vaccination (POCV) campaign aimed at protecting more than 5.1 million people across high-risk areas of the capital and three districts.Hea...
Voting for the country’s much anticipated Presidential election began this afternoon at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.The voting began at 2:00 pm and will continue till 5:00 pm without any break.At the be...
BNP presidential candidate Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday expressed his hope of seeing a happy, prosperous and welfare-oriented Bangladesh, where ordinary people would live with dignity, secu...
President candidate of BNP Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today made an emotional appeal to party lawmakers to vote for him in tomorrow’s presidential election.Recalling the party’s late chairperson Begu...
Sheuli Khanam, the only younger sister of BNP media cell member Shayrul Kabir Khan, died at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) here today. She was 57.She breat...
A Dhaka court today granted three days’ remand each for 15 accused arrested in a case for allegedly planning sabotage and terrorist activities in the capital’s Bashundhara Residential Area marking Aug...