The Bangladesh government needs to take good care of Japanese companies operating here to attract more foreign direct investment (FDI) from the island country as many business entities are waiting to bring in investment, said Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh ITO Naoki yesterday

Prime Minister SheikH Hasina has thanked her son and ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy for his efforts to build a “Digital Bangladesh” as promised by the Awami League when it returned to power in 2008

Even as economic activities in Bangladesh have taken a hit due to the coronavirus pandemic, the revenue brought to the exchequer through the sales of savings certificates has gladdened the officials no end

Bangladesh has seen coronavirus transmission and deaths from the COVID-19 rising almost at the same rate five months after the detection of the first patients, triggering calls from the experts to go for mass testing after re-imposing lockdown

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Friday that BNP leader Khaleda Zia and elder son Tareq Rahman wanted to kill her in the 2004 grenade attack in Dhaka

Bangladesh has reported 2,401 fresh cases of COVID-19 over a 24-hour period, taking the tally of infections to 290,360

A new container shipping service between Chattogram and China will be launched tomorrow that will directly link Bangladesh to Vietnam on the sea route for the first time

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said that there is a need to create special economic zones to attract domestic and foreign players in the country

The Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has filed a chargesheet against 9 militants of banned outfit Ansar-al-Islam including Syed Ziaul Haque, a sacked army officer, chief of Ansar al-Islam's military wing in a case related to the killing of a secular online activist and blogger Nazimuddin Samad

American journalist Lawrence Lifschultz has said the “connection” between Ziaur Rahman and the United States behind the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman should be investigated

Russia’s AEM-Technology has shipped the first key elements of Bangladesh’s Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant

The Bangladesh government has chalked out a mammoth Tk 19,280 crore project proposal to provide daily school meals to all 1.41 crore government primary school students in a bid to increase attendance and reduce dropouts

Forty-one people have died from COVID-19 in the country during the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS)

Tourist spots, hotels, motels and resorts in Bandarban will be opened on a limited scale for tourists from tomorrow, after a five-month closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic

The Bangladesh government received a record $1.98 billion in loans from donor countries and agencies in June amid the coronavirus pandemic