Bangladesh

Several hundred jobseekers on Sunday staged demonstrations in Dhaka city’s Shahbagh intersection, demanding that the quota system in public service be reformed. According to UNB, the demonstrators were graduates from different colleges and Dhaka University, reports...

The recent drubbing of our national cricket team at the hands of Sri Lanka should be looked as an eye opener and instead of pressing the panic button it is important to bring the house to...

A Bangladeshi researcher won the 2018 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early-Career Women Scientists in the Developing World for her work in nonlinear partial differential equations, said a press release. Dr Hasibun Naher, associate professor of mathematics...

The meeting discussed various issues, including policy supports for the development of motorcycle industry and spare parts production for motorcycles. The Japanese Honda Motor Company is going to manufacture motorcycles in Bangladesh this year as the...

Hearing the news, Lucy became emotional and said the news seemed to her like a dream beyond imagination. The government has decided to confer Bangladeshi citizenship to 88-year-old British national Lucy Helen Frances Holt, who has...

Just after a day of governments decision to shut down the internet and slash internet speed for two and a half hours on SSC exam days to reduce question papers leaked, it turned back on the...

Art is the creative expression of artists’ minds and the statements of our times and conditions, with the power to shape our present and future. It is the universal language of mankind. In the process of...

Action will be taken against 10 members of Myanmar’s security forces in connection with the killing of captured Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, a government spokesman said on Sunday, adding it was not related to a...

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) today announced a 15-member squad for the first T20I against visiting Sri Lanka. The new T20I skipper Shakib Al Hasan is back after recovering from injury and opener Soumya Sarkar has...

Khaleda, her son, and aides were convicted of stealing 21 million takas ($253,000) in foreign donations received by an orphanage trust set up when she was last prime minister, from 2001 to 2006, lawyers said. Bangladesh...