Dhaka, Feb. 12 -- Muhammad Yunus, chief advisor to the interim government, has said that the ousted Awami League government had established an "Ayyam-e-Jahilliyah" - referring to the "age of ignorance... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 12 -- Candidates whose appointments as assistant teachers at primary schools across Dhaka and Chattogram were scrapped by the High Court are continuing their protests for a third day at th... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 12 -- A Dhaka court has granted police 10 days to interrogate Nazrul Islam Mazumder, former chairman of Exim Bank and head of NASSA Group, in connection with two murder cases linked to the... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 7 -- Dhaka Metropolitan Police's Detective Branch, or DB, has taken actress and model Sohana Saba into custody from Dhaka's Dhanmondi. On Thursday night, DB detained and took her to their... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 7 -- Environment Advisor Syeda Rizwana Hasan has said elections alone cannot solve all of the problems besetting Bangladesh, structural reforms are also essential. Speaking at the "Nordic... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 7 -- The district Awami League office in Bogura has been attacked, vandalised, and set on fire, along with the offices of district JaSaD (Inu), Jatiya Party, and Jatiyo Sramik Jote. Altho... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 7 -- The government has formed a committee to investigate the reasons behind the "high airfare" and a 13-member taskforce to monitor ticket pricing. According to a press release from the ... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 6 -- Relatives of the victims of the July-August uprising have concluded a seven-hour sit-in at Dhaka's Shahbagh intersection, after blocking traffic in a demand for a speedy trial and rec... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 6 -- Police detectives have arrested actor and filmmaker Meher Afroz Shaon in Dhaka's Dhanmondi. Additional Commissioner Rezaul Karim Mallik of DMP's Detective Branch said she was arreste... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 6 -- The Bangladeshi government has named 15 recipients of this year's Ekushey Padak, the nation's second-highest civilian award. Among those awarded posthumously are poet Helal Hafiz, wr... Read More