Bangladesh

Jashore-Jhenaidah / Land acquisition delays stall highway upgrade

Omar Ali Shohag

11 hour(s) ago Bangladesh

19 govt doctors show-caused over private hospital ownership

Staff Correspondent

11 hour(s) ago Bangladesh

25 crore trees to be planted in five years

Staff Correspondent

11 hour(s) ago Bangladesh

Govt to merge authorities to boost FDI

Baharam Khan Asifur Rahman

11 hour(s) ago Bangladesh

8 Uprising ICT cases: Prosecution to charge several AL veterans

Shariful Islam Sirajul Islam Rubel

11 hour(s) ago Crime & Justice

Polls to local bodies: EC seeks info from LGD to finalise schedule

Ahmed Deepto

11 hour(s) ago Bangladesh

US to remove Syria from terror blacklist

AFP, Washington

11 hour(s) ago Bangladesh

Malaysia labour market: Old ghosts haunt new recruitment push

Porimol Palma

11 hour(s) ago Diplomacy

Waterlogging in Dhaka: Fresh rain lays bare gaps in drainage system

Helemul Alam Dipan Nandy

11 hour(s) ago Bangladesh

15TH AMENDMENT / Caretaker govt, referendums restored: SC

Staff Correspondent

11 hour(s) ago Bangladesh

Enforced disappearance: ‘Loophole in draft law could enable secret detention’

A coalition of United Nations human rights mandates has raised alarm over Bangladesh’s draft law on the criminalisation of enforced disappearances, saying it does not go far enough to prevent and prosecute the violation.

25 June 2026, 00:00 AM

Grocery stores, beauty parlours to pay VAT

The government plans to bring several business sectors, including grocery stores and beauty parlours, under Value-Added Tax coverage in the 2026-27 fiscal year.

25 June 2026, 00:00 AM

National health hotline going cold

Bangladesh’s national teleconsultation service, Shastho Batayan, is stumbling as the government’s contract with its private service provider expired nearly two months ago, and many phone calls are going unanswered.

25 June 2026, 00:00 AM

Red carpet rolled out for PM in Beijing

A red carpet was rolled out as Prime Minister Tarique Rahman reached Beijing yesterday by a bullet train after joining the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Dalian city.

25 June 2026, 00:00 AM

Banking sector a key hurdle to $1tn economy

The World Bank has warned that Bangladesh’s distressed banking sector remains the biggest obstacle to the government’s ambition of becoming a trillion-dollar economy by 2034.

25 June 2026, 00:00 AM

Rohingya children: Australia to provide $11.4m in financial aid

Australia has pledged $11.4 million (AUD 16 million) in multi-year funding to Unicef to sustain health, education, protection and other essential services for Rohingya children and host communities in Bangladesh.

25 June 2026, 00:00 AM

Bangladesh Visa Services In India Closed

Dhaka rejects Delhi’s explanation over Zahed’s airport harassment

Bangladesh has termed India’s explanation regarding the Delhi airport incident involving Prime Minister’s Adviser Zahed Ur Rahman unsatisfactory, describing it as “unfortunate and regrettable”.

25 June 2026, 00:00 AM

Chargesheet filed in 9 days

Police have submitted a chargesheet into the case over the murder and rape of a five-year-old in Mymensingh’s Dhobaura upazila within nine days of the incident.

25 June 2026, 00:00 AM

65-yr-old held over attempted rape of child

Police arrested a 65-year-old man yesterday for allegedly attempting to rape an 11-year-old girl at Telipara village in Kurigram’s Rajarhat upazila.

25 June 2026, 00:00 AM

law reform failure in Bangladesh judicial system

Ensure legal protection for the marginalised

Millions of people from marginalised communities in Bangladesh continue to face exclusion due to the absence of specific legislation prohibiting discrimination and untouchability, said rights groups at a seminar yesterday.

25 June 2026, 00:00 AM

Four mobile operators owe Tk 13,144cr

The country’s four mobile operators owe a total of Tk 13,144 crore in outstanding revenue, Post and Telecommunications Minister Faqir Mahbub Anam told parliament yesterday.

25 June 2026, 00:00 AM

External debt now $78.22b

Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury told parliament yesterday that Bangladesh’s total external debt stood at US$ 78.22 billion as of March this year.

25 June 2026, 00:00 AM

Govt’s ‘wrong decisions’ push economy to brink: Shafiqur

Leader of the Opposition and Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman yesterday alleged that some “wrong and shortsighted” decisions of the government have put the country’s economy at risk of collapse.

25 June 2026, 00:00 AM