The turnaround time for container laden ships at Chittagong Port’s jetties and outer anchorage has declined sharply, the lowest in four and a half years.

The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (Berc) has increased power and gas price at a time when the public gas companies are making large profits and per unit power generation cost ...

 Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor today paid homage to the National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam placing a wreath at poet's mausoleum here marking his 39th death anniversary.

Ruling Awami League-backed panel bagged the Bangladesh Bar Council elections in a landslide victory over BNP-Jamaat panel.

Gas and power tariffs might see a rise but fuel prices are likely to remain unchanged despite the fall in oil prices on the international market, according to officials at ...

The 39th death anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam will be observed today.

Saudi Arabia has so far issued 80,000 visas for the Bangladeshi pilgrims for performing the upcoming holly hajj.

Voting in the election to Bangladesh Bar Council, the licensing and regulatory body for lawyers, has started.

The cabinet today approved a proposal for ratification of "The Motor Vehicles Agreement for the Regulation of Passenger, Personal and Cargo Vehicular Traffic between Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal".

The Supreme Court Appellate Division scrapped a writ petition of admission seekers that challenged the High Court order favouring decision of Dhaka University authorities not to allow students to appear ...

Uncertainty looms over timely printing of primary school textbooks for the coming school year, as the World Bank had impose certain conditions to maintain the standard of the textbooks. The ...

President Abdul Hamid left here this morning for London for medical checkup.A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the President took-off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 10:15 am.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said her government would set up a trust fund like the education assistance trust fund so that none can shut down the community clinics with ...

Section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act-2006 goes against people's right to freedom of expression and free speech, say legal experts.

That humid August afternoon changed Bangladesh politics, perhaps forever. An Awami League rally was in progress at the Bangabandhu Avenue and it was around 5.15pm at the fag end of the ...

Eleven years ago, Farida Malek, full of energy and vigour, had walked around 10 kilometres with her party activists to join an Awami League rally on Bangabandhu Avenue on August ...

 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated six bridges in country's six divisions including Sheikh Russell Bridge in Kuakata of Patuakhali. She inaugurated those bridges through videoconferencing from her Gonobhaban residence ...

Bangladesh and India today agreed to jointly explore the market of the two neighbouring countries for accelerating their economic development and reducing dependence on others.

Human Rights Watch observed that the free speech in Bangladesh is under attack as never before in the country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today paid rich tributes to Suvra Mukherjee, the wife of Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, by placing a wreath at her coffin in New Delhi.