The government is considering engaging with all stakeholders in Myanmar, including the military junta, to advance the safe, voluntary and sustainable repatriation of displaced Rohingyas, prime ...

THE unfolding war against Iran, driven, in the view of many observers, by the strategic calculations of US president Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has become a defining ...

The Bangladesh Bank has discontinued the CAMELS rating system for banks, replacing it with a forward-looking Composite Risk Rating (CRR) framework under its new Risk-Based Supervision (RBS) ...

Some slogans transcend the eras in which they were born, becoming timeless symbols of resistance, change and justice. One such rallying cry is Inquilab Zindabad, which means ‘Long Live Revolution.’ ...

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DHAKA has slumped even further in the 2025 Global Liveability Index, now ranked the third least liveable city. Of the 173 cities assessed, only Damascus and Tripoli, both devastated by protracted ...

BANGLADESH’S frontiers with both India, spanning a stretch of 4,097 kilometres, and Myanmar, spanning a stretch of 271 kilometres, have become causes for serious concern. Whilst India has pushed in ...

An internal audit has flagged mismanagement, irregularities and misuse of aid in several United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees-run Rohingya relief projects in Bangladesh. Planned and ...

A view of the eight-lane Purbachal Expressway at Purbachal in Dhaka. — Md Saurav Several significant infrastructure projects, including new metro rail and bus lines, ring roads, a subway, circular ...

The government has initiated the process of implementing the key recommendations of the Judicial Reform Commission, including amendments to the century-old Civil Procedure Code, in a bid to modernise ...

The country saw more road accidents and casualties in the immediate past year compared with 2023, a report of the Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh revealed on Saturday. At least 8,543 ...

Two suspected cattle lifters were killed in a lynch-mob attack at Imannagar village under Singair in Manikganj early Monday. The deceased were Majnu, 35, a resident of Dashani village, and Deen Islam, ...