Dhaka, Oct. 3 -- City Bank is set to receive $75 million in loans from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the New Development Bank (NDB). Of the total, AIIB will provide $50 million ... Read More
Dhaka, Oct. 2 -- The depression that formed in the Bay of Bengal has intensified into a deep depression, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) says. In a special weather bulletin issued on T... Read More
Dhaka, Oct. 2 -- Veteran Language Movement activist and researcher Ahmed Rafiq has died in Dhaka at the age of 96. He breathed his last at 10:12pm on Thursday at Dhaka's BIRDEM Hospital after doctors... Read More
Dhaka, Oct. 2 -- A deep depression over the Bay of Bengal is set to bring heavy to very heavy rainfall across Bangladesh, with risks of flash floods, landslides, and waterlogging in major cities. In ... Read More
Dhaka, Oct. 2 -- Poet and political thinker Farhad Mazhar has demanded that nurses be granted equal professional status to doctors, alongside the immediate formation of a "National Nurse Commission" t... Read More
Dhaka, Oct. 2 -- Clouds blanketed the sky and relentless rain battered the shore, but Cox's Bazar still heaves with Durga Puja crowds, where every hotel room was snapped up as holidaymakers defied the... Read More
Dhaka, Oct. 2 -- The devotees of Goddess Durga have bid her farewell with love and tears in their eyes amid the sounds of drums, conch shells and brass cymbals. The Dashami, or tenth day rituals for ... Read More
Dhaka, Oct. 2 -- Tarique Rahman will lead the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in the upcoming 13th parliamentary election slated for February 2026. The party's Acting Chairman's Foreign Affairs Ad... Read More
Dhaka, Oct. 2 -- Puja pavilions across Dhaka have burst into colour and rhythm, as Nabami ushers in a crescendo of devotion, music and sacred offerings. With evening Arti complete, a note of parting ... Read More
Dhaka, Oct. 2 -- The Flood Forecasting & Warning Centre (FFWC) of the Water Development Board has warned that the water levels of the Muhuri, Selonia and Feni rivers may rise due to heavy rainfall tri... Read More