Dhaka, Monday, Oct 19, 2026
Japan will provide US$145,000 to expand mobile tuberculosis screening in Dhaka's slum areas, helping around 9,000 people annually access diagnostic services and connecting previously undiagnosed patie...
Bangladesh wants to raise bilateral trade with Indonesia to more than $10 billion, reduce the existing trade gap and expand exports of ready-made garments, pharmaceuticals and agricultural products to...
Lionel Messi brought the curtain down on his 21-year international career on Tuesday, bidding farewell to adoring Argentina fans in an emotional final appearance for the former world champions in Buen...
Physicist Francis Halzen has an impressively long list of academic accolades -- but every October, as the Nobel Prize rolled around, his failure to bag the biggest award of them all left him "miserabl...
Toyota Tsusho Corporation is eying to launch vehicle manufacturing in Bangladesh, as a high-level delegation of the Japanese company briefed Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on its investment plans on Tu...
The Customs, Excise and VAT Commissionerate, Narayanganj, Tuesday seized 24,021 kg of domestic and foreign yarn, worth an estimated Tk 82.68 lakh, in a raid on a warehouse in Araihazar.A preventive te...
Finance and Planning Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury Tuesday said no development project will be approved unless it meets four conditions: value for money, returns against investment, generation...
A delegation of the British Parliament's All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) Tuesday expressed interest in opening branches of British educational institutions in Bangladesh, as it met Deputy Speaker...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Religious Affairs Tuesday recommended taking up rooftop solar power projects at mosques and formulating a policy on electricity use by mosques a...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief Tuesday sought information on the existing preparedness to deal with earthquakes in Dhaka and other cities across...
Barrister Jahrat Adib Chowdhury, chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has been elected a member of the Executive Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary...
Commerce Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir Tuesday said the government will simplify and speed up processes for the shipbuilding and recycling industry and quickly set up a Treatment, Storage and Disp...
The Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) imposed fines totalling more than Tk 1 crore (Tk 1,00,65,000) on food establishments across the country in September under the Safe Food Act, 2013, and file...
Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Abdul Moyeen Khan today said there is a major mismatch between the country's actual population and the data held in the birth and death re...
Fisheries, Livestock and Agriculture Minister Mohammed Amin Ur Rashid Tuesday pressed for a bigger budget for the fisheries sector, but insisted that more money must come with strict transparency, acc...
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman's wife and Vice-President of the Ziaur Rahman Foundation Dr Zubaida Rahman today called for creating opportunities for every child to realise and showcase their immense p...
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi climbed a police barricade and waved the national flag during a protest by opposition parties in New Delhi on Tuesday, demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissi...
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has urged children to show kindness to all living creatures and care for nature and the environment, stressing that these values, alongside education and extracurricular...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Iceland late Monday at the start of a three-nation European tour to push for greater US influence in the Arctic after Washington sealed a pact on Greenland...
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Tuesday joined a programme marking Children’s Rights Day 2026 and the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh Shishu Academy.The three-day observance is being held at Banglades...