Dhaka

Due to the increased violence across the border that resulted in the deaths of two persons in Cox’s Bazar over night and the recent inflow of more than 116 military and paramilitary Burmese personnel, Bangladesh called...

Today, Dhaka and Riyadh held talks about improving connectivity, trade, and investment between the two friendly countries. During the Third South Summit of the G 77 and China, Saudi Arabia’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Waleed El...

To secure shared global prosperity, Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen has called for increased solidarity and unity among NAM member states. Masud cited the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s 1973 statement at the...

Today, the government of Bangladesh and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a $160 million loan deal to support the modernization, efficiency improvement, and expansion of Dhaka’s energy supply through the power distribution network. At a...

Tomorrow, December 1, will mark the beginning of commercial train services on the Dhaka-Cox’s Bazar route, according to the Bangladesh Railways office. The dream and much anticipated train will cruise the Dhaka-Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar line tomorrow, Friday,...

On Saturday, the groups of small dairy farmers inside Dhaka North City Corporation received dairy equipment from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). According to a news release from the FAO today,...

Four buses were set on fire by miscreants on Saturday night in the Motijheel, Gabtoli, Gulistan, and Jatrabari neighborhoods of the city. Ershad Hossain, the Fire Service and Civil Defense headquarters’ control room in-charge, stated that...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to open the Agargaon-Motijheel segment of the much-desired metro train on November 4. “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the Agargaon-Motijheel section of Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line 6 service...

The Turkish embassy in this country has dutifully commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic, expressing appreciation and honoring Ghazi Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the country’s founder. On Sunday, the embassy organized a gathering in a...

During the Climate Action Champions conference in Dhaka, which took place from September 26 to September 28, the US Embassy in collaboration with GenLab, a youth-led social enterprise, convened young climate activists to discuss ways to...