Dhaka April 20, 2025, 10:06 am
Mentioning that the number of extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh is much lower than that in the USA, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Saturday said propaganda is being carried out against the country.
Elections to both the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) will now be held on February 1 instead of January 30.
The Election Commission is likely to change the date of elections to two Dhaka city corporations as it sat in an emergency meeting on Saturday afternoon.
Twenty-two shops were destroyed in a fire that broke out at Prodhan bazar in Charfesson upazila on early Saturday.
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said the government and the ruling party will not oppose if the Election Commission (EC) changes the date of elections to two Dhaka city corporations.
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Friday said new gas connections will not be provided to households.
Awami League MP of Bogura -1 constituency Abdul Mannan died at a hospital in the capital early Friday after suffering a cardiac arrest.
Govt likely to add more projects to the list
An appeal was filed with the Appellate Division on Thursday against a High Court Division order that turned down a writ petition seeking deferment of Dhaka city polls scheduled for January 30.
A court here on Thursday issued a warrant for the arrest of Prothom Alo editor Matiur Rahman and deputy editor Anisul Hoque in a case filed over the death of Dhaka Residential Model College student Nayeemul Abrar Rahat from e
A group of Dhaka University students went on hunger strike on Thursday afternoon demanding deferment of the polls to the two Dhaka city corporations slated for January 30.
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday.
The coastal district of Satkhira has seen a surge in the number of child marriage in recent months.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said there is a possibility that 4 crore people of 70 upazilas in the country’s 19 districts might be displaced due to climate change.
The wheels of international justice are finally turning as two international courts are now examining whether Myanmar committed genocide and who should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity, said Human Rights Watch.
Chief of Nepal Army General Purna Chandra Thapa met Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh General Aziz Ahmed at the Army headquarters here on Tuesday.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations’ highest court, is scheduled to deliver its decision on the provisional measures requested by Gambia in its genocide case against Myanmar later this month.
Good governance needs to be ensured in railway sector for curbing irregularities, corruption and black marketing of its tickets, said Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque.
Ambassador Rabab Fatima, Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative (PR) to the United Nations, has been unanimously elected President of the UNICEF Executive Board at elections held Tuesday at the UN Headquarters in New York.
The High Court (HC) on Tuesday turned down a writ petition seeking its directive to defer the elections to the two Dhaka city corporations.
