Malaysia to hire 10,000 Bangladeshis for free
Malaysia has agreed to resume recruitment of Bangladeshi workers, enlisting 338 recruiting and service agencies and agreeing in principle to recruit 10,000 workers free of...
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10 die as dengue toll reaches 331
Dengue claimed 10 more lives across Bangladesh in the 24 hours to 8:00am on Thursday, October 15, while 1,943 patients were hospitalised with the mosquito-borne...
30 students, teacher killed in Peshawar tragedy
At least 31 people, including 30 students and a female teacher, were killed when a school roof collapsed in the provincial capital’s Afridi Abad area...
CUET VC not resigned; student protests continue
Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) Vice-Chancellor Professor Sheikh Shariful Alam has said he will resume his duties after recovering from illness, dismissing reports...
Bangladesh’s Gen-Z inspired Indian youth Neha Bora
Neha Bora, National President of the All India Students’ Association (AISA), shouts from a police vehicle after being detained during a protest organised by the...
Recycling failure fuels toxic threat
Bangladesh is losing valuable resources worth an estimated $500 million a year from discarded electronics while unsafe recycling practices expose workers and nearby communities to...
Conspiracy at home and abroad
BNP Acting Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that conspiracies are under way, both at home and abroad, to destabilise the government. He...
Gianni Infantino named in new scandal
It never seems to end with Gianni Infantino. The FIFA president is at the center of a new controversy. According to information from The Times,...
Childhood lost to sex trafficking
Thousands of girls in Bangladesh are being lured into commercial sexual exploitation through false job offers, deceptive relationships and trafficking networks operating behind the façade...
Growth near 40yr low, inflation hits 10.9pc
Bangladesh’s economy is heading towards its weakest growth in nearly four decades, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projecting GDP expansion of just 3.2 per...
Talks underway with World Bank for additional $10b in assistance: Khosru
Bangladesh is holding discussions with the World Bank to secure an additional US$10 billion in financial assistance, but no final decision has been made yet,...
Dengue death toll rises to 316
Nine more people died of dengue and 1,954 others were hospitalised across Bangladesh in the 24 hours to Tuesday morning, raising the death toll this...