The EC’s move came in a bid to ensure the voting rights of a larger number of youths in the 13th parliamentary election ...

A new survey has found that a significant portion of Bangladesh's low-income population is skipping meals due to rising food prices and indirect taxation, prompting renewed calls from stakeholders for ...

Agriculture Secretary Dr Mohammad Emdad Ullah Mian has issued a stern warning against bribery in promotions and transfers within institutions under the Ministry of Agriculture, saying any such act ...

Ashikur Rahman, principal economist at PRI, described Bangladesh’s growing fiscal stress as the “Achilles’ heel” of its macroeconomic management ...

The holy Ashura, commemorating the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussein (RA), the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) at the Battle of Karbala, will be observed in the country on 6July as the moon of the ...

Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed announced another meeting next week, aiming to finalise decisions to resolve the dispute ...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed two separate cases against Prashanta Kumar (PK) Halder, former managing director of NRB Global Bank, and Mohammad Mohsin, owner of Saad Musa Group and ...

The Right to Food Bangladesh network has called for increasing the allocation and effectiveness of the social security sector in the FY26 national budget to reduce economic inequality.  "In the budget ...

Nearly 700 workers of Thianis Apparels Ltd, a garment factory located inside the Chattogram Export Processing Zone (CEPZ), staged a daylong protest today (26 June), demanding payment of their ...

Unidentified individuals have vandalised a Shaheed Minar and the mural of Rafiqul Islam, a freedom fighter and one of the key figures behind the declaration of 21 February as International Mother ...

The BNP will adopt a zero-tolerance policy against corruption if it returns to power, the party's Joint Secretary General Shahiduddin Chowdhury Anee has said.

Calling for a national political and social consensus to acknowledge and compensate victims of state-backed torture, extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances, they demanded structural reform ...