Dhaka, Sept. 22 -- DORP Youth Forum has called for the swift passage of the proposed amendments to the Tobacco Control Act by the Ministry of Health, free from the influence of tobacco companies, in o... Read More
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