Dhaka, Jan. 30 -- The interim government has taken a key step towards allowing compensation and rehabilitation for victims of torture and enforced disappearance by withdrawing a long-standing declarat... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 30 -- A delegation of the China-Bangladesh Partnership Forum has met Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna. The delegation included senior Chinese academics, invest... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 30 -- The US Embassy in Dhaka has warned its citizens of potential violence before the parliamentary elections and the referendum on the implementation of the July National Charter. The e... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 29 -- A Facebook post by BRAC Executive Director Asif Saleh on the referendum on implementing the July National Charter has sparked discussion and criticism across social media. In the po... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 29 -- Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus has said that the repatriation of more than 1 million displaced Rohingya people to their homeland in Myanmar's Rakhine State remains the only viable and ... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 29 -- The 3-year-old boy abducted by a battery-powered rickshaw driver has been rescued from Gainbandha. CID Special Branch Superintendent of Police Badrul Alam Molla said on Thursday tha... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 29 -- An international tribunal has ordered Canadian oil and gas firm Niko Resources to pay $42 million in compensation to state-run Petrobangla over two gas field blowouts in Chhatak, Sun... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 29 -- Economist Rehman Sobhan has expressed doubts over whether the government is pursuing a referendum simply to appease former interim minister Mahfuj Alam and his colleagues. On Thursd... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 29 -- Bangladesh has resumed direct flights from Dhaka to Karachi after a long pause. On Thursday at 8:15pm, a Biman Bangladesh Airlines Boeing 737 took off from Shahjalal International A... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 29 -- US Ambassador to Bangladesh Brent Christensen has paid a courtesy call on Army Chief Gen Waker-Uz-Zaman. The meeting was held at the Army Headquarters on Thursday, according to a po... Read More