Bangladesh

The nation is celebrating the 48th Victory Day, marking the day when the country was liberated from the Pakistani occupation forces after a nine-month blood-stained liberation war. Forty-seven years back on 16 December in 1971, Bangladesh...

Bangladesh, in a bid to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 12 by 2030, is aiming to develop a 10-year sustainable consumption and production framework by 2020. The framework will help promote green growth and sustainable development and...

The World Bank (WB) has approved a US$ 250 million development policy operation to help Bangladesh strengthen its capacity to create more, better-paid and quality jobs in a rapidly changing environment. The Programmatic Jobs Development Policy...

Eastern Bank Limited has inaugurated EBL EDUPAY service at the Royal Institute of Smart Education campus in Sylhet. Parents will be able to pay tuition fees of Royal Educare Limited- Royal Institute of Smart Education and...

The Institute of Cost & Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) has awarded BRAC Bank Limited the First Position in the Private Commercial Bank Category at the “ICMAB Best Corporate Awards 2017”. This is an outstanding achievement...

Samsung Bangladesh has initiated a special customer service campaign to provide state-of-the art after-sales service to its customers and create awareness in different parts of the country. This first phase of this campaign will cover Khulna,...

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairman Kazi Reazul Hoque said the government is seriously considering the importance increasing facilities in different areas for the persons with disabilities. But the real challenge lies in the implementation. It...

Water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) sector actors in Bangladesh made an appeal to the political parties contesting at the 11th National Parliamentary Election to prioritize issues related to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) in their election...

The minimum wage for the apparel workers across the country announced by the government will be effective from this month, said an official release here today. “The government has raised the minimum monthly wage for 4.4...

Bangladesh today signed two financing agreements totaling $525 million with the World Bank to improve connectivity and climate resilience through building, maintaining, and improving roads and rural bridges that could benefit more than 100 million people....