Dhaka, Wednesday, Oct 21, 2026
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...
Bangladesh cricketers made significant gains in the latest ICC Test rankings following their landmark nine-wicket victory over Australia in Darwin.Coming to tour for a Test series Down Under for the f...
Law enforcers have arrested 238 individuals during their anti-drug operations across the 11 districts in the Chattogram division over the 24 hours on Tuesday.During the drives, 74,276 yaba pills, 19.5...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) today arrested a man with three gold bars weighing 397.87 grams during an operation at Putkhali border in Sharsha upazila of the district, a BGB press release said.A patr...
A Parliamentary Party meeting of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has began at the Sangsad Bhaban here ahead of tomorrow’s presidential election.The meeting of the BNP Parliamentary Party...
Five Bangladeshi nationals were among nine people killed in a devastating fire that broke out at a hotel in Kolkata, West Bengal, early today, said the foreign ministry here. Local police have confirm...
A meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) was held today with Prime Minister Tarique Rahman in the chair.The meeting was held at the Planning Commission in city's...
Bangladesh and Qatar have discussed issues of mutual interest and explored ways to further strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries.The discussions took place during a meeting between...
India on Tuesday reiterated its desire to build positive, constructive and forward-looking relations with Bangladesh, with the relationship grounded in mutual interests and reciprocity.Indian Ministry...
Dhaka now ranks 171st among 173 cities on the Global Livability Index, planners said Tuesday, warning that unplanned urbanisation, environmental degradation and weak governance have pushed the capital...
The Bangladesh Institute of Planners (BIP) on Tuesday proposed a seven-point roadmap for sustainable urban development, urging the government to make continuity of planning immune to political and adm...
Business leaders from Bangladesh and India have agreed to form business-to-business (B2B) task forces to address trade and investment barriers and strengthen bilateral commercial cooperation.The decis...
Four newly appointed members of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) National Standing Committee today met Prime Minister Tarique Rahman at his office in the Bangladesh Secretariat here.The four lea...
Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed today said the government will gradually introduce an artificial intelligence (AI)-based automated fine system on all highways across the country after evaluating the pe...