Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been named among the top three inspirational women leaders who have demonstrated extraordinary leadership during Covid-19 pandemic in the Commonwealth, Bangladesh High Commission in London said in a statement today.

The online application process for admission to the first-year honours programmes of National University for the 2020-2021 academic sessions will begin from June 8 and will continue till June 22.

The third Dash-8 aircraft purchased from Canada reached Dhaka this afternoon.

India today expressed happiness about Bangladesh’s graduation from the status of Least Developed Countries (LDC) and promised to continue support to the country’s development efforts.

Seven citizens who had earlier been detained under the Digital Security Act and ICT Act today demanded a judicial probe into the alleged torture of writer Mushtaq Ahmed and cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore in custody and the trial of responsible law enforcement members.

The popular Joy Bangla Concert will return in 2022 after it was cancelled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, said Bangabandhu’s grandson Radwan Mujib Siddiq in a Facebook post yesterday.

Bangladesh has been elected member of the Council of International Seabed Authority for a four-year term from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2024.

The state of political rights and civil liberties in Bangladesh has witnessed a decline in the last five years and the country still falls in the status of “partly free”, according to a report by Freedom House.

Shared cultural heritage is the strength of friendship between Bangladesh and India, said Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar today after inaugurating the Indian Cultural Centre in the capital’s Gulshan.

The authorities of Chattogram Medical College (CMC) have imposed a ban on processions and rallies on the campus as the students locked in clashes twice within the span of a month.

Prof Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah, the vice-chancellor of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) was declared persona non grata on campus today after he held a press conference in Dhaka.

United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has placed Bangladesh in a list of countries that require external assistance in food to brave “severe localised food insecurity”.

Sixty-six writers of Bangladesh have issued a statement demanding justice for the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in jail custody and abolition of Digital Security Act (DSA).

The jail authorities did not find any negligence on their part in writer Mushtaq Ahmed's death in custody, Inspector General (IG) of Prisons Brig Gen Md Mominur Rahman Mamun said today.

Former Senior Secretary of Agriculture Ministry Md Moinuddin Abdullah has been appointed as chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

Police barred a procession brought out by the country’s eminent citizens -- demanding justice for writer Mushtaq Ahmed’s death in jail custody and abolition of Digital Security Act -- in front of InterContinental hotel in Dhaka’s Shahbagh area when it was moving towards the Prime Minister’s Office.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said Bangladesh wants to work with the United States on “security issue of the Indo-Pacific” but purchasing expensive defence equipment is not the country’s priority.

The priority of the government in this Covid-19 pandemic is to ensure food and shelter for people alongside ensuring vaccine, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina while approving the revised Annual Development Programme for 2020-21 fiscal during the National Economic Council meeting today.

Bangabandhu’s dynamism and farsightedness shaped the foreign policy visions of Bangladesh, said eminent speakers at a webinar as part of the celebration of Mujib Year.

According to the Election Commission’s final updated electoral roll, the number of voters in the country has now increased to 11.17 crore following the inclusion of some 19 lakh fresh voters last year.