Five employees of the Supreme Court’s High Court Division have been dismissed for disciplinary violations, while the salary of a bench officer has been suspended for remaining absent from work without ...

The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) on Wednesday approved proposals to import 100,000 tonnes of non-basmati parboiled rice from Vietnam, 25,000 tonnes of sugar, 2 crore litres of ...

Authorities have cancelled the hall seats of two Dhaka University students at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall following allegations of homosexual activity. Hall Provost Md Akhteruzzaman ...

The government has suspended six high-ranking police officers for alleged negligence in professional duties, unauthorized absence from work and disobedience of government rules. The Home Ministry’s ...

Police recovered the bodies of an elderly couple and their domestic help with their throats slit from a flat of a four stoery building in Sylhet city’s Raynagar residential area on Wednesday. The ...

The government has ordered shopping malls, markets and shops across the country to close by 8pm from Wednesday as part of measures to conserve electricity. The Power Division’s Coordination-2 branch ...

Mango trading has gained momentum in Chapainawabganj as the season approaches its end, with large numbers of buyers and sellers gathering at major markets across the district. At Kansat, the ...

The United States has urged Bangladesh to make government procurement contract information publicly available as part of a series of recommendations to improve fiscal transparency. Washington has also ...

Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, whose market reforms helped drive the country’s extraordinary economic rise, died from illness on Wednesday at the age of 97, state media reported. An obituary ...

A bomb exploded on the Barisal Chief Judicial Magistrate Court premises on Wednesday morning, triggering panic among judges, lawyers and court officials. The explosion occurred around 10:30am inside ...

Around 2.4 million girls in Afghanistan have been denied access to secondary education since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, Unesco said Tuesday. The figure has risen by about 200,000 since ...

Five people, including a notorious drug trader, have been arrested in connection with a shooting incident in the capital’s Pallabi area over the sharing of Tk15 lakh earned from drug sales. The ...