Six months can define a government’s direction -- or expose its limits. For Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s newly installed BNP administration, the first 180 days are being framed as a decisive window ...

The National Consensus Commission has finalised the draft of the July Charter, based on a seven-point pledge framework, stipulating that once signed, political parties will not challenge the accord in ...

Law Minister Md Asaduzzaman says that if a precedent is not set in handling the brutal rape and murder of Ramisa Akter in Dhaka’s Pallabi, it will send a “bad message” to society. After taking the ...

The High Court has granted bail to former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque in four separate cases, which include charges of murder and verdict forgery. On Sunday, the bench of Justice Md Khairul Alam ...

Amid the ongoing global disruptions due to the Iran war in the Middle East, 5,000 metric tonnes of diesel are coming to Bangladesh from India through a pipeline. According to Bangladesh Petroleum ...

The government has appointed six BNP figures as administrators to oversee half a dozen city corporations, including the two in Dhaka. Several of these appointees were defeated in the Feb 12 ...

A group of leaders and activists of the Awami League, whose political activities are banned, have staged a procession outside the party's Noakhali office after breaking a lock at the main gate and ...

Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis chief Mamunul Haque, a candidate of the Jamaat-e-Islami-led 11-party alliance in Dhaka-13, faced some trouble after arriving at a polling centre to cast his vote. The ...

Saddam Hussain, general secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League’s Dhaka University unit, has been made president of the student organisation’s central committee. Sheikh Wali Asif Enan, organising ...

Russia and China plan to unveil a nearly 1-km-long (0.62 miles) cable car over the Amur river between the cities of ...

The new chief minister says arrangements will be made to expel illegal infiltrators from the country after holding talks with ...

With exchange rates now market-driven, the central bank continues buying dollars from commercial banks to steady the currency ...