Bangladesh

The cabinet at a special meeting today approved the proposed national budget for the fiscal year 2021-22. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the meeting held at the cabinet room of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. Finance...

UNHCR high officials today acknowledged that facilities in Bhashan Char for the Rohingyas are much better than that in Cox’s Bazar camps while they pledged to work on their mandate of assisting refugees wherever they are...

The government wants to bring social media like Facebook and YouTube under registration. This was stated by Liberation War Affairs Minister AQM Mozammel Haque after a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Law and Order held...

In the coastal district of Feni, local youths have been marching and striking to demand climate justice. Youthnet for Climate Justice, Feni District Branch held the program on Monday (May 31) afternoon in the char areas...

The first consignment of 1,00,620 doses of Covid-19 Pfizer vaccine arrived in Bangladesh last night under the global vaccine-sharing initiative COVAX. “A total of 1,00,620 shots of COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine under COVAX scheme reached Bangladesh at...

Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Besides, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Q Dongyu has lauded Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for successfully...

Foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said the government has decided to subsidize hotel cost for the Saudi Arabia-bound expatriate workers, who are required to stay in quarantine for seven days after landing in the...

Education Minister Dr. Dipu Moni today said that a decision has been taken to reopen the primary, secondary and higher secondary educational institutions on June 13 if the Covid-19 situation gets better. She disclosed this while...

American multinational technology company and Search engine giant Google has taken up a business identification number (BIN) in Bangladesh to gain value-added tax (VAT)-related services including VAT payment and VAT return submissions in Bangladesh. The project...

President of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Volkan Bozkir will arrive here today. The UNGA President will be received by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, according to a press release sent by...