Dhaka July 11, 2025, 7:23 pm
The first unit (660 MW) of newly-constructed Payra coal-fired power plant went into operation on Sunday, utilising the recently-commissioned 400 kV Payra–Gopalganj power transmission.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday attended the opening ceremony of the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2020 and Zayed Sustainability Prize Ceremony here.
Three international flights were delayed while a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines was diverted to Kolkata
Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case was shifted to the Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judges Court on Monday for starting the trial.
A fire broke out at a poultry feed factory in Utholi area of Shibaloy upazila on Monday noon.
About 2.5 million cubic metres of soil has been extracted from the river channel since starting of the project involving a cost of over Tk 7.12 billion
Balloting was underway in the by-election to Chattogram-8 constituency which fell vacant after the death of Moinuddin Khan Badal.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday reached the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on a three-day official visit to attend the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2020.
A fire broke out at a slum at Gudaraghat in the city’s Uttar Badda area on Sunday.
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Sunday said Bangladesh and India want zero death along Bangladesh-India border but it is happening.
The Bridges Division spent around Tk1,910 crore in the first half of the current fiscal year, increasing progress by 5.5 percentage points in the last six months
Various cold-related diseases affected 4,190 people across the country in the last 24 hours till Sunday morning.
Renewable energy could employ more than 40 million people by 2050 under the International Renewable Energy Agency’s (IRENA) climate-safe energy path, according to a report published by the Abu Dhabi-based agency on the occasi
Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda on Saturday said members of parliament (MPs) neither can take part in electioneering nor act as election coordinators in the upcoming polls to Dhaka north and south city corporation s
Former Slovenian President Dr Danilo Türk on Saturday said the United Kingdom is very important for Bangladesh as far as its political relations with the European Union (EU) are concerned.
A wooden bridge over the Bhadra River, the lone means to cross the river, collapsed recently within a week of construction, causing extreme sufferings to 10,000 residents of Shovona and Kharnia unions in Dumuria upazila.
Three more devotees died due to old age complications and severe cold at the Ijtema venue in Tongi here on Friday night and early Saturday.
Bangladesh High Commission in Islamabad celebrated the symbolic launch of countdown of birth centenary celebration and Homecoming Day of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Friday with due solemnity.
Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka ranked third worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Saturday morning.
The national Vitamin ‘A’ plus campaign is underway across the country on Saturday, aiming to feed vitamin A plus capsules to 2.10 crore children aged between six to 59 months.
