Dhaka, Sept. 22 -- The government will re-excavate 81.5 km of five rivers to address the longstanding waterlogging situation in Bhobdaha region of Jashore and Khulna, including mitigating the sufferin... Read More
Dhaka, Sept. 21 -- A court has ordered the "seizure" of $81 million from the Philippines' Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation in connection with the 2016 hacking and theft of Bangladesh's foreign res... Read More
Dhaka, Sept. 21 -- Bangladesh's private sector outstanding external debt fell 4.0 per cent year on year (Y-O-Y) to US$19.78 billion at the end of June, as subdued investment and slow credit demand wei... Read More
Dhaka, Sept. 21 -- Chittagong University has appointed marketing teacher Professor Hossain Shaid Shohrowardhy as its new proctor. The university's registrar office issued the official notification ap... Read More
Dhaka, Sept. 21 -- Jahangirnagar University (JU) authorities strongly condemned recent remarks made by Jamaat-e-Islami leader Amir Hamza regarding the university, describing them as "false, baseless a... Read More
Dhaka, Sept. 20 -- Bangladesh remains one of the least innovative nations in the world, having been placed in the lower tier of a recent global ranking. The country was ranked 106th out of 139 econom... Read More
Dhaka, Sept. 20 -- The world's largest biofactory for breeding mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria, a method researchers use to combat dengue, hopes to protect some 140 million people from the... Read More
Dhaka, Sept. 20 -- The government plans to construct a 10-storey building at Gulshan in Dhaka for the headquarters of BIMSTEC, the Bay of Bengal regional bloc, comprising seven countries, formed to bo... Read More
Dhaka, Sept. 20 -- Nearly US$11 billion worth of ADB-funded development projects in Bangladesh are up for reappraisal shortly as many of those are down-rated as "problematic" and "slow-going", officia... Read More
Dhaka, Sept. 20 -- Bangladesh's apparel exports to both the European Union (EU) and the United States have recorded impressive growth for over a decade now, consolidating the country's position as a k... Read More