Bangladesh

The High Court has ruled that hospitals cannot refuse to hand over dead patients to their relatives over unpaid hospital bills and medical costs. The court has also ordered the formation of a fund to help...

Bangladesh is going to build a cantonment named after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on a shoal in the coastal district of Patuakhali on the bank of the Payra River. The government will fund around Tk 17...

The Bengal Foundation’s classical music festival has finally found a venue: Dhanmondi’s Abahani field. The five-day festival will start on Dec 26. Most of the Indian subcontinent artists and musicians invited to the event have agreed...

The GDP growth and per capita income for FY2017 are slightly higher than previous estimates. Bangladesh’s economic growth accelerated to 7.28 percent in the year to June 30, Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said at a...

Brac best among private universities in Bangladesh. Other top private universities are North South University, Independent University Bangladesh, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology and American International University Bangladesh Dhaka Tribune and Bangla Tribune have jointly...

Students are getting not only leaked questions of the ongoing Junior School Certificate or JSC examinations but also their answers via social media apps. Questions that were put on Facebook as ‘leaked ones’ for English paper-2...

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to jointly launch today with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi the Khulna-Kolkata train service and open two bridges on railway routes connecting Dhaka with Sylhet and Chittagong. Officials said...

Tech giant Google has inducted Bangladesh’s name in its merchant account, paving way for country’s android-based application developers to sell their products on Google Play, official app store for the android operating system. “Though we have...

News Hour: Counterterrorism police have arrested one person in connection with the murder of blogger and writer Avijit Roy. Md Abu Siddique Sohel, 34, was arrested in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area on Sunday night, said Dhaka Metropolitan...

News Hour: The school had no government approval. The Education Ministry has ordered the Dhaka district administration to shut down the Lakehead Grammar School for patronising militancy and involvement in ‘anti-liberation’ activities. In a letter signed...