Dhaka May 22, 2026, 7:00 am
The Bangla calendar had been revised twice earlier. Astrophysicist Dr Meghnad Saha led the first revision in the 1950s and Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah in 1963
The purchase of another two product oil tankers with a capacity of 80,000 metric tonnes each is also on the cards.
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) today approved another two metro rail projects involving an overall estimated cost of Taka 93,800 crore in a bid to address the traffic congestion in the capita
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the Awami League government has transformed the country into ‘Digital Bangladesh’ by making information technology accessible to all, including the marginal people, through efficient, ser
No waiver would be given to the affluent people who can afford to pay the taxes
President Abdul Hamid on Saturday asked the authorities concerned to ensure the quality of development projects.
Output jumps to 17.11b pieces in FY '19 from 4.96b in FY 2009
Six hundred million litres of water will be supplied to Dhaka city every day through the two projects of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Dwasa)
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address a press conference today to brief the media about her recently-concluded official visits to India and the United States
US researchers William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza and Britain’s Peter Ratcliffe on Monday shared the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability, the Nobel Assembly said
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is always a great inspiration for her
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested Jubo League’s Dhaka South unit President Ismail Hossain Samrat and his associate Arman in Cumilla on early Sunday
British Labour MP Tulip Siddiq, a niece of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has earned a spot among the most influential politicians of London on The Progress 1000 list of the Evening Standard
Wholesale sellers were selling local onion at Tk 68 to 72 and Indian onion at Tk 62 to 65 on Wednesday, according to trading sources at Shyambazar, the big hub for wholesale onion
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated the commercial transmission of all local private television channels using the feed of country’s first communication satellite Bangabandhu-I (BS-I) as she addressed a function on
Dhaka sees record 45.2 mm rain in 2hrs
Bangladesh would continue to host the refugees but that their presence was taking a toll
285 metres out of nine kilometres of the road have been completed so far. There are three lanes on both sides of the median -- one for bicycles, one used as a streetcar parking facility, and one main lane for vehicular moveme
On the occasion, Milad and doa mahfils will be offered in Dhaka
oad, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday said the ongoing drives against corruption, drugs and criminalisation will continue until the menaces are uprooted
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