Bangladesh Railway (BR) today signed a contract with a Chinese joint-venture firm to procure 125 railway luggage vans to boost transportation of agro-based products
Bangladesh government working to ensure better future for children: PM Hasina
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said that her government is working relentlessly to provide a better future for children so that they can become the leaders of the country
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Don’t allow infiltrators into Awami League: PM Sheikh Hasina to party leaders
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked party leaders not to allow "infiltrators" into Bangladesh Awami League (AL), saying that the party's image will be tarnished due to their misdeeds
Assam court frees 25 Bangladeshis held for visa violations
A court in India's Assam state has ordered release of 25 Bangladeshi nationals who have been languishing in jail since May for breaching terms and conditions of their visas, an activist said
Air ticket crisis leaves Bangladeshis stranded as pandemic clips flights
Mahbub Alam, a Bangladeshi migrant worker in Bahrain from Noakhali’s Sonaimuri, has been stranded after returning home due to travel bans amid the coronavirus pandemic
Housebound for months, Bangladeshis are beginning to crowd tourism hotspots
Having been forced by the coronavirus pandemic to stay indoors for months, people have begun thronging the tourism hotspots in Cox’s Bazar, Sylhet and other districts
Khaleda seeks 6 more months out of prison
Family members of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia sought a six months' extension on the government order that released her for six months
Positivity rate rises again in Bangladesh
A total of 2,131 people tested positive for coronavirus yesterday whereas 11,689 samples were tested in 92 labs across the country
Bangladesh extends schools shutdown to Oct 3
Bangladesh has extended the shutdown of schools and other educational institutions until October 3 due to a continued surge in the number of coronavirus cases across the country
Post-COVID-19 recovery: Bangladesh seeks UK’s GSP extension until 2030
Bangladesh has sought a post-COVID-19 extension of UK's Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) facility to Bangladeshi products until 2030 to boost trade and greater support to low-carbon climate-resilient development strategies for a faster post-pandemic SDGs recovery
Australia provides 5 tonnes of PPE to Bangladesh Armed Forces
Australia has provided Bangladesh Armed Forces with five tonnes of personnel protection equipment (PPE) under a defence cooperation programme to help prevent the spread of coronavirus
Parents of primary school students worried about annual exams amid pandemic
Grade-four student Sakia Karim Raka has been housebound for around five and a half months. Her school in Dhaka’s Malibagh held online classes for some days in June, but could not continue
Waterlogging in Dhaka: Collective failure made it perennial
The desire expressed by the two Dhaka city mayors to take over the responsibility of drainage management from Dhaka Wasa in a bid to end the capital's perennial waterlogging problem has widely been regarded as a popular idea
We're setting up 100 Special Economic Zones: Bangladesh PM
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has announced that her government was setting up 100 Special Economic Zones (SEZ) "for further industrialization and generating more employments"
Working on education system changes during and after COVID-19: Bangladesh education minister
Bangladesh Education Minister Dipu Moni has said her ministry is working on the education system during and after the COVID-19 pandemic
Bangladesh greenlights third phase trial of Sinovac vaccine
Bangladesh has approved the late-stage trial of a vaccine candidate for the novel coronavirus, developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd
