Teachers' associations at Dhaka and Chittagong universities yesterday rejected the proposed pay scale for public servants, saying it

The contractual appointment of the press minister at Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi, Enamul Huq Chowdhury, has been

The two new mayors of Dhaka city corporations yesterday said they urgently needed some 200 designated sites for effective waste collection to keep their priority pledge to make Dhaka a clean city.

Government fails to manage Malaysian company IRIS, which has put in jeopardy future of 30 lakh Bangladeshi expatriates in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Malaysia.

The World Bank is going to forge a new country partnership framework (CPF) with Bangladesh for the period of FY16-FY20 as part of

The government has to take immediate steps to conduct detailed engineering assessment of the existing buildings to minimise

To protect environmental pollution and encroachment of water bodies in Dhaka district, a taskforce will be formed within this month,

Bangladesh secured 99th position among 124 countries in the Human Capital Report 2015 of World Economic Forum (WEF), landing one

Bangladesh and India are keen to introduce another cross-border bus service, on the Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala route, for improving road

Bangladesh will import high quality potash fertiliser worth US$44 million from Canada.

A reporter of The Daily Star was denied entry to a programme organised yesterday to felicitate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for finalising the Land Boundary Agreement with India.

The details of the programmes and venues are being finalised for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's proposed visit to Bangladesh in

Dhaka and Beijing are expected to sign half a dozen deals during Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong's three-day visit to Bangladesh from Sunday.

The High Court places a three-month stay on the election of Bangladesh Bar Council, the ace body for lawyer regulation in the country.

Japan will provide 150 garbage trucks to improve waste management in Dhaka and Chittagong cities.

Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL) is set to lose a $25 million Japanese soft loan for a countrywide telecom backbone as it repeatedly failed to adhere to the donor's guidelines in awarding the project to the lowest bidder.

The government took up a Tk 468 crore project to strengthen Bangladesh Coast Guard to increase security in the coastal areas of the country and combat human trafficking.

The High Court yesterday issued a rule questioning the legality of the government's inaction to stop smuggling of drugs and production of counterfeit medicines.

Democracy in Bangladesh now stands on a solid foundation, having been practiced for the last two decades, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday.

Canadian envoy in Bangladesh lauded the government for holding recent city corporation elections in Dhaka and Chittagong observing that the elections brought back normalcy in public life, which was jeopardised by political violence.