India yesterday said it does not endorse anything said by deposed Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina and other Awami League leaders at a media event in New Delhi on August 5.

When Mohammed Shahabuddin resigned as president on July 24, the spotlight immediately shifted to who would succeed him at Bangabhaban.

The government said yesterday that former Bangladesh cricket captain Shakib Al Hasan has no prospect of returning t

The winding canals branching off the Sugandha river weave through the famed floating guava orchards of Jhalakathi and Pirojpur, creating one of southern Bangladesh’s most distinctive agricultural landscapes.

Dhaka division has emerged as the country’s dengue hotspot, recording 6,871 cases, including 4,404 infections in Dhaka city alone this year.

Prices of fish, poultry chicken and eggs have risen in the capital’s kitchen markets over the past week, while prices of vegetables declined.

Farmers producing vegetable saplings on floating seedbeds in Pirojpur’s Nazirpur upazila have been counting losses due to sharp drop in market demand amid prolonged rainfall.

Road repairs and heavy vehicle pressure leave thousands of travellers stranded for up to five hours

Veteran grassroots leader and convener of Bhobodoh Water Drainage Movement Committee died on Wednesday

The RTI Forum has called for competence, impartiality and commitment to public interest to be the top priorities in appointing the chief information commissioner and information commissioners.

The Government Music College in Dhaka held a memorial programme titled “Sur Sarathir Mohaproyan” yesterday to honour the life and legacy of classical music icon Pandit Amiya Ranjan Bandyopadhyay, who died in Kolkata on July 29 at the age of 99.

At least 416 people were killed and 629 others injured in 458 road accidents across Bangladesh in July, according to a report released yesterday by the Road Safety Foundation (RSF).

Hundreds of people gathered outside the July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum from morning as the former Gono Bhaban opened to the public for the first time yesterday.

Despite growing participation of plainland indigenous women in Bangladesh’s local governance -- particularly union parishads -- structural budgetary discrimination, political marginalisation and deeply entrenched patriarchal attitudes continue to prevent them from exercising meaningful leadership, speakers said at a roundtable yesterday.

Bangladesh will elect its 23rd president on August 20, with voting scheduled from 2:00pm to 5:00pm, after the Election Commission announced the poll schedule yesterday.

Allowing deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina to address a news conference in New Delhi on the anniversary of the July uprising was an attempt to insult the movement’s martyrs and undermine Bangladesh’s sovereignty, BNP and NCP leaders alleged yesterday.

The government yesterday appointed new secretaries to four ministries and divisions,  said a public administration ministry notification.

Bangladesh has been waiting for nearly two months for India to respond to its proposal for talks on the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty, which expires in December.

The government will not hold admission tests for class 1 from the 2027 academic year, the education ministry said yesterday.

Bangladesh is struggling to sustain exports, labour migration and major development cooperation with Russia as US-led financial sanctions imposed after the Russia-Ukraine war continue to disrupt payment settlements.