News Desk : The district administration and city and district units of Awami League have chalked out elaborate programmes to observe the birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the National Children's Day to be held on Thursday ...বিস্তারিত

Special Correspondent : Academics and river activists at a discussion here today stressed on saving rivers for the next generations through ensuring water-flow round the year in those across the country. They viewed this at the discussion styled 'Rivers and Life' organised...বিস্তারিত

Staff Correspondent : : The cabinet today directed the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to reduce the VAT as much as possible among the existing 15 percent on the imports of essential commodities, including edible oil, sugar to keep those prices at a tolerable level. The cabinet al...বিস্তারিত

Staff Correspondent : :  The nation will observe a one-minute"blackout" on the night of March 25 marking the Genocide Day.      The "blackout" programme will be observed for one minute from 9 pm to9.01pm on the night of March 25 across the c...বিস্তারিত

Staff Correspondent : :  Romania has expressed keen interest to import skilled and unskilled workers, including cleaners, from Bangladesh. The proposal came while a meeting was held between Romanian delegation led by Bucharest city Mayor Robert-Sorin Negoita and Dhaka South C...বিস্তারিত

Special Correspondent :   President of Swiss Confederation Ignazio Cassis has said Switzerland aims at further broadening its engagement with Bangladesh to tackle global peace and security challenges marking the 50th  anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two nat...বিস্তারিত

News Desk : Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh LI Jiming today said Beijing is not taking a side of Russia on Ukraine issue, rather China wants a peaceful solution to the ongoing Ukraine crisis through dialogue.  He made the comment as Chinese embassy in Bangladesh ...বিস্তারিত

Special Correspondent :  Dhaka and Ankara have agreed that foreign ministries of the two countries would work together for a bilateral visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Bangladesh within this year.   This was revealed at a bilateral meeting between Bangla...বিস্তারিত

Special Correspondent : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today proposed the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to set up an International Seed Bank. "Establish an International Seed Bank, which may have the potential to support evading food crisis at any natural disasters ov...বিস্তারিত