Visiting USAID Administrator Alfonso Lenhardt yesterday assured of remaining deeply engaged with Bangladesh in various development fields and exploring further opportunities for cooperation in its post-2015 development journey.

The government has decided to appoint Ashud Ahmed, a director general in the foreign ministry, as the next ambassador of Bangladesh to Qatar, according to an official announcement yesterday.

Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim spoke at the two-day “Global Call to Action Summit 2015: Global Partnership

A number of ruling Awami League and BNP leaders yesterday urged the government to reconsider its decision of hiking gas and power

The two Dhaka city corporations are going to formulate new guidelines to streamline the use of billboards to restore beauty in the

Retail customers will have to spend on average 2.93 percent more on electricity and Tk 200 more on gas from this September.

Dhaka has sought cooperation of the Chinese government in setting up the first ever marine aquarium in Bangladesh.

China has agreed to construct two more friendship bridges in Bangladesh, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said

The High Court yesterday directed the government to determine the second channel of the river Buriganga in Kamrangirchar and

Outdoor Advertising Owners Association yesterday demanded that the city corporations remove 30 percent of unipoles now and the rest

Amid raging debate over the under-construction coal-based power plant in Rampal, the government is going to set up another 1,320-megawatt plant next to the current project.

Visiting UK Minister of State for International Development Desmond Swayne yesterday said extrajudicial killings cannot be tolerated in democracy and called for ensuring investigation into such crimes to bring the 'perpetrators' to justice.

Cleaners and sweepers of Barisal City Corporation yesterday piled up garbage in front of the assistant commissioner's (land) office after a

The High Court yesterday asked the government to explain in four weeks why victims of arson at Kalshi Bihari camp in Mirpur last year

Community support and funds raised at the local level are needed to sustain community clinics and make them more effective in

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the High Court order that maintained Dhaka University's decision to allow an admission seeker to sit

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has recognised icddr,b and nine other organisations in the OIC member countries as

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court verdict directing Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) to demolish its

Neither of the two Dhaka city Corporations has followed rules while giving approval to hundreds of billboards leading to today's dirty

Outgoing South Korean Ambassador Lee Yun Young on Sunday met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office (PMO).