Dhaka May 23, 2025, 11:23 pm
More than half of the world’s 7.1 million school age refugee children – about 3.7 million – do not go to school, UN Refugee Agency UNHCR said in a report on Friday.
Dhaka has improved as the least safe city in the latest edition of the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) Safe Cities Index (SCI).
Bangladesh Road Transport Owners Association has written to the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) seeking a hike in bus fares.
The Election Commission plans to begin registration of Bangladeshi expatriates in the second week of September to provide them with national identity cards.
A tigress, found dead in Sundarbans East Zone on August 20, was not killed by poachers, investigators have confirmed.
The Bangladesh Chhatra League expelled three of its leaders on Wednesday for their alleged involvement in vandalism and obstruction of government work.
Awoman suffering from dengue died at the Khulna Medical College Hospital on Wednesday morning, doctors said.
At least four children drowned in Sadar and Sreepur upazilas of Magura district on Monday.
Only 37 buying houses have been registered with the Department of Textile (DoT) within the official deadline that ended in July last,
A young man died of dengue at Rangpur Medical College Hospital in the district early Tuesday.
The 43rd death anniversary of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam is being observed today (Tuesday).
Local farmers are getting much higher prices for their raw jute in this harvesting season than last season, following the government's withdrawal of ban on uncut jute export from June, said insiders.
There is hardly any tangible benefit from declaring Maheshkhali as a 'digital island' by the government due to "irregularities and poor communication" with the mainland.
The funding for humanitarian response to the Rohingya living at multiple camps in Cox's Bazar is declining, giving Bangladesh serious cause for concern.
Power consumers under Dhaka Power Distribution Company Ltd (DPDC) on Sunday demanded the authorities concerned to suspend the installation of prepaid metres saying the system is ‘unfair’
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked the authorities concerned to be mindful so that the people who have gone abroad to attract good luck do not end up being cheated by middlemen.
Thousands of angry and frustrated Rohingya refugees have marked the second anniversary of their exodus from Myanmar into Bangladesh by demanding their citizenship and other rights in the country they fled from.
At least five people were killed and 25 others injured after a Gopalganj-bound bus fell off a bridge in Dhuldi area of Sadar upazila on Saturday.
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller on Saturday said they will continue to put pressure on Myanmar to create conditions on the ground for the “voluntary, safe, dignified and sustainable” return of all Rohingyas to Myanm
Some were also hitting the makeshift shanties of the refugees at Jadimura in Teknaf.
