Bangladesh

The hotel hopes to compete with other five-star hotels in Dhaka and become popular with national and international guests again Prominent luxury hotel InterContinental Dhaka is renovating its old building and preparing to make a comeback....

Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman Iqbal Mahmood has called coaching centres ‘dens of corruption’ and called for their ‘permanent shutdown’. Mahmood’s remarks come soon after Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said coaching centres were ‘unlawful’. The ACC chief...

Hosts Bangladesh have won six gold medals in South Asian Archery Championship. The local archers also secured five silver medals and a bronze in the competition that ended at the Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan or BKSP...

The High Court has dismissed a writ petition challenging the government instructions on organising a singing competition of the national anthem at madrasas as well as schools across Bangladesh. The court says it is unacceptable that...

Bangladesh is not expecting much help from foreign donors as it forges ahead with plans to relocate 100,000 Rohingya refugees to an uninhabited island, an undertaking that does not yet have a timeline, a state minister...

The widow of US-Bangla Airlines pilot Abid Sultan has died about a week after she was hospitalised with a stroke she had suffered on hearing about her husband’s passing in a plane crash in Kathmandu. Doctors...

The British Council has hosted the Bangladesh-UK Alumni Network (BUKAN) Gala Night 2018 recently at Bangabandhu International Conference Center. The event was a follow-up to the month-long digital campaign by the British Council to reach out to UK alumni residing in Bangladesh...

The UN Committee for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) has commended endeavors and achievements of Bangladesh in the realization of human rights. The committee came up with the appreciation at the first review of the...

The US-Bangla Airlines authorities today temporarily suspended its Dhaka-Kathmandu-Dhaka flight operation two days after one of its aircrafts crashed in Kathmandu Tribhuvan International airport, leaving at least 51 dead. “We have decided to suspend our flight...

US-Bangla Airlines CEO Imran Asif says in a statement ‘wrong signals’ from the air traffic control tower at Tribhuvan International Airport might have led to the crash of its plane. About 49 people died in the...