Former Awami League leader Prof Abu Sayeed has joined the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). He was a part of the committee that drafted the Constitution. Abu Sayeed was also the Awami League’s state minister for information for five years starting in 1996. After 1/11, the Awami League&rs
Director General of the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) Abu Noor Md. Shamsuzzaman on Wednesday said the results of the written examination for the recruitment of assistant teachers in government primary schools will be published shortly. He disclosed the matter in a press release saying the
EU lawmakers voted on Wednesday to challenge the European Union's contentious free trade agreement with South America in the bloc's top court, a move that could delay the deal by two years and potentially derail it. The European Union signed its largest-ever trade pact with Mercosur members Argent
Bangladesh’s interim chief adviser, Professor Muhammad Yunus, has said the country’s forthcoming 13th parliamentary election must set a democratic benchmark for the future, as authorities unveiled an extensive security and monitoring plan involving body cameras, CCTV surveillance, drone
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairman Tarique Rahman has been officially allotted the ‘Sheaf of Paddy’ symbol for the Bogura-6 (Sadar) constituency. The symbol was formally handed over by the district's Returning Officer and Bogura Deputy Commissioner, Md Toufiqul Rahman, on Wedn
A Dhaka court on Wednesday ordered the freezing of 21 bank accounts belonging to Md Mohibul Haque, former senior secretary of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism, and his wife Syeda Afroza Begum, former additional secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, over graft allegations. The court a
The Chief Advisor’s Office has decided to provide an additional Tk 10 million to cover the living expenses of the family of Sharif Osman bin Hadi. The decision to bear the expenses of Hadi’s widow and child came a day after the government allocated Tk 10 million to purchase a flat in D
Standard Chartered Bangladesh has agreed a new partnership with World Vision Bangladesh to launch two climate resilience initiatives designed to protect livelihoods, restore fragile ecosystems, and improve access to safe drinking water in some of Bangladesh’s most climate-vulnerable coastal r
A Supreme Court lawyer has filed a petition in the High Court seeking to declare all government and private schools closed for the entire month of Ramadan. Lawyer Ilias Ali Mandal lodged the petition on Tuesday. The petition says, in the list of holidays and the academic calendar for 2026, govern
That is the question in Cumilla-4 after the High Court upheld a decision that knocked a key rival out of the race, sharply narrowing the field and leaving NCP’s Hasnat Abdullah to face a much weaker challenge. On Wednesday, a High Court bench of Justice Razik Al Jalil and Justice Md Anwarul
Masud Khan, chairman of Unilever Consumer Care, has termed Bangladesh’s online tax return filing system confusing and difficult, contradicting repeated claims by National Board of Revenue (NBR) Chairman Abdur Rahman Khan that the system is user-friendly. Speaking at a discussion held on We
A man accused of fatally shooting former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday, three and a half years after the incident that stunned the nation. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, was arrested on the spot in July 2022 after fatally firing at Abe with a homemade gun w
