The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday filed two cases against former Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh and his wife Afrin Taposh on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 80 crore and suspicious transactions of Tk 615 crore in their bank accounts...
Joint forces in a drive on Sunday afternoon detained ousted Awami League government’s former fisheries and livestock minister Abdul Latif Biswas from his residence at Belkuchi upazila in Sirajganj district.
The lower five floors of the damaged secretariat building have been opened to offices on Sunday, 10 days after the fire incident...
Sacked trainee police sub-inspectors on Sunday formed a human chain in front of the secretariat demanding reinstatement of their jobs...
Shanto-Mariam University of Creative Technology held a fresher’s reception of winter and spring semesters on its campus in Uttara, Dhaka on Saturday.
A youth was arrested in Sylhet early Saturday on charges of cheating people by impersonating son of Mushfiqul Fazal Ansari, who is serving as the ambassador of Bangladesh to Mexico.
A thief gang stole 159 bhari of gold ornaments in just about seven minutes from a shop at Shimanto Square Shopping Mall in the capital’s Dhanmondi during Friday prayers and fled the scene, said the police.
Gono Odhikar Parishad senior vice-president Faruk Hasan was stabbed allegedly by activists of newly formed political party National Revolutionary Council after addressing a rally at the...
About 150 local leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami in Gazipur on Friday evening allegedly took position in and around Joydevpur police station demanding release of an arrested Awami League local leader.
The Student Movement Against Discrimination and Jatiya Nagorik Committee on Saturday jointly announced ‘Proclamation Week’ from January 6 to 11, urging the interim government to formally...
The coldest month of January, for the second straight year, marked an extreme change in weather, triggering an abnormal drop in day and night temperature.
Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed has constituted a nine-member taskforce to strengthen fire safety measures in the Supreme Court compound, including the International Crimes Tribunal, the Office of the Attorney General, the Supreme Court Bar Association building. The initiative comes in response to a devastating fire at the Secretariat on December 26, 2024...
The interim government is likely to project the annual development programme at Tk 2,70,000 crore for the forthcoming 2025-26 financial year amid shortage of resources.
Banned student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League observed its founding anniversary in several districts on a limited scale on Saturday...
An Awami League leader was beaten after being tied to an electric pole at Puthia upazila in Rajshahi on Saturday...
Leaders of Ganosamhati Andolan on Saturday at a dialogue on current political issues in Dhaka called on all to work for implementing the spirit of the July movement for establishing a democratic Bangladesh...
Politicians, academics, labour leaders and people from all walks of life Saturday morning paid tributes to veteran labour leader and freedom fighter Shahidullah Chowdhury at the Central Shaheed Minar in the capital Dhaka...
The students of the seven colleges affiliated to Dhaka University on Saturday demanded that the authorities must not hold any further admission tests as long as they were affiliated to the university...
Film artistes and various film organisations paid last respects to National film award-winning actress Anjana Rahman on the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation premises in Dhaka on Saturday...
The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested Sajibur Rahman Sajib, a leader of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League, in a case filed over an attack on students during the quota reform movement on the Dhaka University campus in July 2024...
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University held a meeting with the Information and Communication Technology Cell with the aim of strengthening online appointment services for the benefit of patients at the BSMMU in Dhaka on Saturday...
Private sector credit growth in Bangladesh fell sharply to 7.66 per cent in November, the lowest in 41 months, intensifying challenges in the banking sector and the broader economy...
Chief adviser’s special envoy Lutfey Siddiqi on Saturday invited British businessmen and businesswomen, including people of Bangladeshi origin, to invest in Bangladesh, saying the Interim government has undertaken sweeping reforms to attract foreign direct investment...
Bangladesh Bank has identified Tk 82.44 lakh missing from the vault of BRAC Bank’s Chokoria branch in Cox’s Bazar...
Dhaka stocks increased slightly in the past week, after a decrease in its indices in the previous week, as opportunistic investors bought shares of banks hoping to make profits amid renewed optimism after the year end closing...
A 123-member committee of the Nationalist Bankers Association Sonali Bank PLC has been formed...
Ghanaian forward Samuel Boateng became only the second footballer in Bangladesh’s top-tier football to score six goals in a match as Rahmatganj Muslim Friend Society crushed newcomers...
Chief advisor Professor Muhammad Yunus on Saturday assured British parliamentarian Rupa Huq that the next general election in Bangladesh would be completely free and fair.
