Deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina has fled the country following the July uprising, but her oppressive system remains in place, National Citizen Party (NCP) Member Secretary Akhtar Hossain said ...

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A man was injured after a group of unidentified men allegedly fired shots in a real estate office in Pallabi in the capital during an attempt to extort Tk5 crore. The incident occurred around 5:00pm ...

Rural women are not passive beneficiaries of development—they are economic actors. Yet national budgets continue to treat them as invisible, undermining both equity and sustainable development ...

The protest began at 5:15pm for around 40 minutes when demonstrators carrying banners occupied the expressway, halting all forms of vehicular movement ...

Speakers at the event presented their three-point demand to the government and pledged to make the upcoming “grand rally” in Dhaka on 30 August a success ...

President Donald Trump on Saturday imposed a 30% tariff on imports from Mexico and the European Union starting on 1 August after weeks of negotiations with the key trading allies failed to reach a ...

Several issues remain unresolved following the second round of trade talks between Bangladesh and the United States, despite progress on multiple fronts, Golam Mortoza, press minister at the Embassy ...

The Students Against Discrimination (SAD) has announced a torch procession in protest of the brutal killing of Old Dhaka trader Md Sohag.  The march is scheduled to take place in the capital's Shahbag ...

The government is taking steps to implement a Tk7,340 crore project to build flood control embankments along the Muhuri, Kohua, and Silonia rivers in Feni through the Bangladesh Army, said Disaster ...

More than 150 killings have occurred due to intra-party conflict and struggles for dominance, the Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir has claimed. "A political party has forgotten history and is once ...

Accusing the authorities of failing to arrest those allegedly forming violent mobs, BNP's acting chairman Tarique Rahman has called for crackdown on mob violence. "Why is the government allowing these ...