The global economy has been on a roller-coaster ride since US President Donald Trump, returning to office for a second term, sought to rewrite the rules of global trade by imposing sweeping tariffs on imports into the United States (US)...
Muhammad Mahmood | 2026-02-23 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP) has won a landslide majority in the country's election held on February 12, 2026, following an uprising that ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina in 2024. In the interim period, a transitional government headed...
AHMEDABAD, Feb 21 (AFP): India skipper Suryakumar Yadav on Saturday backed struggling opener Abhishek Sharma to play his attacking game with enough firepower in the rest of the line-up as they face South Africa in the T20 World Cup.The two...
MILAN, Feb 11 (Reuters): A suspected act of sabotage damaged a small section of a railway route to the Olympic mountain venues of Bormio and Livigno in the early hours of Wednesday, Italian police said, following similar attacks near Bologna...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2026-02-22 12:00:00
Strong lobbying has begun for the top positions at the securities regulator after the newly elected government assumed office last week.Market experts insist that the right leadership is imperative for the capital market to recover from decades-old wounds inflicted by...
SEOUL, Feb 21 (AFP): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to lift living standards as he opened a landmark congress, state media said Friday, offering a glimpse of economic strains within the sanctions-hit nation.Supreme Leader Kim took centre stage...
LONDON, Feb 21 (BBC): The British government is considering introducing legislation to remove Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the line of royal succession.Defence Minister Luke Pollard told the BBC the move - which would prevent Andrew from ever becoming King - was...
VIENNA, Feb 21 (AFP): A major snowstorm hit Austria on Friday, leaving five people dead and causing power outages and transport chaos, officials said.One man, aged 53, was crushed to death when a snow plough fell down steps in a...
GAZA, Feb 21 (BBC): With Israeli settler violence surging in the occupied West Bank, al-Mughayyir, north-east of Ramallah, has found itself on the frontline. It faces regular incursions by the Israeli army and has seen farmland seized by settlers who...
BEIRUT, Feb 21 (BBC): At least 12 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on eastern Lebanon, Lebanese officials say, despite a ceasefire. Israel's military said it targeted sites belonging to Hezbollah, a Shia Muslim militia and political party,...
The seventh round of Bangladesh Championship League (BCL) football begins from today (Sunday) with three matches billed for the day at three separate venues, reports BSS. On the day, Little Friends Club take on Dhaka Rangers Football Club at Shaheed...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 21 (AFP): Former Brazil captain Neymar said he is thinking of retiring at the end of the year after being hampered by injuries but hopes to go to the World Cup first.The ex-Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain...
TASNIMUL ISLAM AND SIMIN SORIA | 2026-02-22 00:00:00
According to UNESCO (2023), 92 per cent of Bangladesh's Generation Alpha - born in 2010 and after - is the country's biggest and most technologically savvy group. Despite having enormous economic potential, children are taught using a mass-production, industrial-era educational...
MUHAMMAD R SHATTIQUE | 2026-02-22 00:00:00
For decades, Bangladesh has invested heavily in human capital. Public funds sustain millions of students through primary, secondary, and higher secondary education. Families allocate significant income to examinations and university preparation. Public universities are subsidised so that merit, rather than...
A group of Awami League activists have paid floral tributes at the Central Shaheed Minar on behalf of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, reports bdnews24.com.Around 11:30am on Saturday, during International Mother Language Day commemorations attended by people from all walks...
JAIPURHAT, Feb 21 (BSS): There is no precedent anywhere in the world of giving one's life for a language, said State Minister for Public Administration Md. Abdul Bari."The Language Movement is unique, as nowhere else in the world have people...
BRAHMANBARIA, Feb 21 (bdnews24.com): Rumeen Farhana has warned that the consequences will be dire if the BNP fails to control its grassroots activists, after she faced obstruction while attempting to pay tributes to Language Movement martyrs at a Shaheed Minar.Speaking...
CUMILLA, Feb 21 (BSS): Minister for Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Livestock Amin Ur Rashid has sought cooperation from all concerned to materialise the hopes and aspirations of the people."A democratic government has come to power through a fair election after...
LAKSHMIPUR , Feb 21 (UNB): Water Resources Minister Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anee on Saturday said there is no need for a separate oath for the 'Yes' vote, as it will automatically take effect once the Jatiya Sangsad is in session....
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday night said Ekushey had remained confined under a fascist regime, but this time it is free, creating an opportunity to build a just and discrimination-free democratic Bangladesh, reports UNB."Ekushey had long...
Leader of the Opposition and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman accompanied by Opposition Whip and Convener of National Citizen Party Nahid Islam and top leaders of the 11-party alliance places a wreath at the Central Shaheed Minar at the...
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman along with his cabinet colleagues and advisers pays tributes to language martyrs by placing a wreath at the Central Shaheed Minar in the city early Saturday marking Martyrs' Day and International Mother Language Day. — Focus...
CHATTOGRAM, Feb 21 (UNB): State Minister for Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Mir Mohammad Helal Uddin on Saturday expressed his firm commitment to develop the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) into a world-class ecotourism destination.He said the Chittagong Hill Tracts is an...
BAGERHAT, Feb 21 (UNB): Shipping Minister Shaikh Rabiul Alam on Saturday said radical changes will be brought to the management of Mongla port within the next 180 days. He made the remarks while talking to reporters after visiting the port...
(Clockwise from top left) Prime Minister Tarique Rahman unveiled commemorative postage stamps marking Shaheed Day and International Mother Language Day on Saturday, the Prime Minister along with his family members paid tributes to the Language Movement heroes by placing a...
CHATTOGRAM, Feb 20 (BSS): Finance and Planning Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury has called upon port and customs officials to take appropriate measures for delivery of the cargoes within four days from the port yards. The minister expressed resentment over...
The Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin has congratulated Tarique Rahman upon his appointment to the post of Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, reports UNB.The head of the Russian government expressed confidence that...
The government will begin providing honorariums to khatibs, imams and muezzins in some areas before the upcoming Eid as part of implementing an election pledge.The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman at the Prime...
Five people, including three women, have been killed in a collision between a gas tanker and an autorickshaw in Kushtia Sadar, reports bdnews24.com.The accident occurred around 2:30pm on Saturday on the town's Bypass Road, according to Abu Obayed, chief of...
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