President M Abdul Hamid today issued an order to start the second session of 2021 on April 1.

Bangladesh is set to wear a festive look ahead of a 10-day special programme -- marking 50 years of independence and the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman -- set to begin on March 17 at Parade Ground.

Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzak today said that the portrait of Bangabandhu made using green paddy fields will be a unique celebration of his birth centenary.

Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad today urged law enforcers to rigorously enforce the law in preventing fraudulence of middlemen while sending workers abroad for employment.

Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Monirul Islam, also chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit under Dhaka Metropolitan Police, has been made Additional Inspector General of Police (current charge) of the Special Branch.

A 16-year-old was hacked to death at Halishahar area of Chattogram city last night.

A Bangladeshi woman whose husband died dismantling an oil tanker in a local shipyard was given the green light this week to keep pursuing a claim for compensation from a UK company linked to the vessel in a test case for the shipbreaking industry.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate the two new Dash 8Q-400 aircrafts on Sunday. The state-of-the-art aircraft were added to the Biman Bangladesh Airlines' fleet recently.

United States, the richest and most powerful country has staggering levels of child poverty, which is one of its great moral stains; on Wednesday, it decided to scrub the stain with the final legislative approval of US President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, says a New York Times opinion piece written by columnist Nicholas Kristof.

The government is thinking of hiring influential US TV channel CNN International Commercial (CNNIC) to promote Bangladesh globally.

The government has chalked out a 10-day long programme at the National Parade Square to mark the birth centenary of Bangabandhu and the golden jubilee of independence, which will be attended by heads of states and governments of different countries.

A total of 8,54,253 people died due to different causes in 2020 and around 21.1 percent died of cardiac arrest, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).

The World Bank has approved $120 million to help Bangladesh improve food security.

Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan has sought US investment for the development of Bangladesh Railway, especially its infrastructure.

Bangladesh has urged Finland to explore investment opportunities in special economic zones and hi-tech parks here.

The Bangladesh High Commission in London has unveiled the first translations of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s March 7 speech in Irish, Scottish and Welsh languages in a special publication titled “A call for freedom in languages”.

Academics of Bangladesh and the US have suggested promoting women's education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), highlighting the rising demands of technology-based solutions to the problems the world faces today.

British-Bangladeshi Lucy Helen Francis Holt, living in Bangladesh for 60 years, has been honoured in Barishal.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina came down heavily on BNP leaders for their remarks that they did not get any message of independence from the historic March 7 speech.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was a “towering figure of the twentieth century” who shaped modern Bangladesh and continues to inspire the people to further develop their country, said Dean Thompson, acting assistant secretary of the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs of the US Department of State.