Education officials favour holding remaining exams as students protest in Dhaka demanding postponement and the minister's resignation

Information adviser says the government will ensure due process

Says startups will drive employment and innovation

He succeeds Stefan Liller in leading the UNDP's work in the country

Carrier to operate four weekly flights on the route after an eight-year suspension

Students also seek postponement of remaining HSC examinations, a revised schedule and re-tests for flood-hit absentees

The technology helps deliver food and cash to inaccessible villages as medical camps treat hundreds of flood-affected residents

Hafiz Uddin Ahmad will meet the Emir of Qatar and return home on July 16

A faction rejects district administration's proposed election committee, demanding it be formed through a general meeting

Uncertainty over constitutional reforms deepened yesterday as opposition MPs walked out in protest at the formation of a special parliamentary committee, insisting that the reforms be carried out through a council outlined in the July charter.

Dhaka’s persistent waterlogging is driven by fragmented management, the lack of an integrated master plan, unchecked urbanisation, and the steady disappearance of wetlands and canals, according to experts.

The government has decided to add the Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV) to the country’s routine immunisation programme from August 1 with the aim of protecting children from the life-threatening bacterial infection

Nearly 29 percent of approved health worker posts in government hospitals across the country remain vacant, said Health Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Husain yesterday.

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman yesterday urged people to take responsibility for keeping their neighbourhoods, canals, and public spaces clean, saying that environmental protection cannot be left to the government alone.

A man was arrested on Sunday night for allegedly raping a five-year-old girl in Mymensingh’s Nandail municipality area.

Bangladesh has urged the international community to preserve and expand market access for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) by reversing protectionist trends and ensuring transparent, simplified, and development-friendly rules of origin.

Moniruddin Ahmed, former chairman and director of Pubali Bank PLC, passed away in a London hospital on July 12, said a press release.

Prasad Roy had big plans for this Aman season. Just last week, the farmer from Khalashi Bunia village in Khulna’s Batiaghata upazila prepared a 10-katha seedbed, hoping to raise enough saplings to plant across 17 bighas of paddy land.

A Jubo Dal leader was hacked to death in broad daylight in Bagharpara upazila of Jashore yesterday.

The government is considering a pilot project to launch play labs in primary schools to build children’s interest in science and mathematics, State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Bobby Hajjaj said yesterday.