Bangladesh

Bangladesh Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov will discuss the Rohingya refugees crisis and economic cooperation between the countries in the bilateral meeting in Moscow. Ali is currently on a working...

Mymensingh Municipality, a town with a 91.315sqk area and population of 4,71,858, has been upgraded as the country’s 12th City Corporation. A proposal to extend the boundaries of the Mymensingh Municipality, established in 1869, did not...

Bangladesh Under-15 Women’s Football Team have achieved the title of Jockey Club Girls’ International Youth Football tournament beating Hong Kong final by 6-0 goals. Midfielder Tohura Khatun scored a hat trick, helping the team to emerge...

To uplift the spirit of women empowerment, Le Méridien Dhaka arranged a daylong event titled ‘Le Méridien Dhaka Presents Colours of Women’ on March 31, 2018 in collaboration with ColoursFM 101.6. The theme of the event was ‘Women Empowering Women’, where 24 artists...

A Dhaka University student died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital after he was found ‘critically injured in unknown circumstances’ on the campus, police said. Shabagh Police Station Inspector Zafar Ali Biswas identified the deceased as Mohammad...

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....

The government plans to change the English spellings of five districts to make them sound similar to the Bangla alphabet. The proposed spellings are Chattagram (for Chittagong), Barishal (for Barisal), Kumilla (for Comilla), Jashore (for Jessore)...

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...

The news on the pre-qualification of Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV) by the World Health Organization (WHO) on January 3, 2018 and endowment by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance have dawned a unique beginning for the entire field...

A truck driver was killed and three others were injured in a head-on collision between two commercial trucks on the Mymensingh-Kishoreganj Highway. The crash took place at 7am on Friday on a stretch of a highway...