Chief election commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal sat with deputy commissioners and superintendents of police on Saturday to discuss issues related to the next general elections expected to be held late
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday paid rich tributes and offered prayers at the mausoleum of Bangladesh’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Tungipara. Accompanied by her younger sister Sheikh
Dhaka’s air quality has turned ‘moderate’, due to monsoon showers in different parts of the country. With an air quality index score of 56 at 09:08am on Thursday, the metropolis
Durga puja, the largest religious festival of the minority Hindus, will culminate in Bangladesh, with the immersion of idols on Wednesday evening. On the last day of the puja, devotees
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday urged the countrymen to abstain from saying anything hurtful to the religious sentiments and magnifying any incident that goes against any religion, rather look
Power supply is likely to be restored in all areas of Dhaka city by 8:00pm while in Chattogram by 9:00pm on Tuesday, said ICT state minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak. The
Bangladesh authorities rescued 31 Rohingya people on early Tuesday while they were on their way to Malaysia from Cox’s Bazar using the sea route. The rescued ones include women and
Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paaabo, who sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal and discovered the previously unknown hominin Denisova, on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize. ‘By revealing genetic differences that
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has left Washington DC for Dhaka wrapping up her 18-day official visit to the United Kingdom and the United States. A VVIP chartered flight of Biman
Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Saturday that the Rapid Action Battalion was always going through reforms and modernisation. The minister said that they were studying and securitising the United
