Dissimilar statements by ministers on when the energy crisis of Bangladesh will be addressed are confusing businesses that have already been grappling with severe shortages of gas and electricity.

ON AUGUST 31, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague delivered a landmark judgment, ruling that India cannot unilaterally suspend the Indus Waters Treaty. The judgement has far reaching ...

President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir visited power, energy and mineral resources minister Iqbal Hassan Mahmood Tuku at Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital & Research Institute in Dhaka on Wednesday morning.

Bangladesh’s Runa Khan, founder and executive director of non-governmental organisation Friendship, has received the 2026 Ramon Magsaysay Award. The award, widely regarded as ‘Asia’s Nobel Prize’, ...

Thailand’s government has warned that ‘problematic’ tourists could face deportation as new rules on removing foreigners convicted of illegal activities came into effect on Friday. The changes come ...

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced Friday a shift in its policy on using the word ‘terrorism’ to describe the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States ahead of their 25th ...

THE strategic landscape surrounding Bangladesh has shifted with unprecedented swiftness. Following the signing of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan, Dhaka ...

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi on Tuesday said India would not comment on Bangladesh’s internal politics when asked whether prime minister Tarique Rahman would visit India amid ...

MECCA is more than a city in the Muslim imagination. Its religious and symbolic significance means that when Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement there on August ...

The United States has resumed issuing immigrant visas to nationals of 75 countries, including Bangladesh, after a federal court struck down a policy that had suspended such visas since January. The US ...

Bangladesh and China are set to launch a foreign minister-level strategic dialogue and a state minister-level diplomacy and defence dialogue as the two countries seek to deepen their strategic ...

Bangladesh Bank has introduced a one-time exit option for individual depositors of five crisis-hit Shariah-based banks, allowing them to withdraw their full principal at once by giving up any accrued ...