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City corporation elections after Ramadan, says EC Masud

Bangladesh election commissioner Abdur Rahmanel Masud on Sunday said the elections to the city corporations will be held following the by-elections after Ramadan. ‘We hope the city corporation elections will

Bangladesh expresses deep concern over safety of its citizens in Middle East

Bangladesh on Saturday expressed deep concern over the welfare of its citizens in the Middle East in the wake of recent hostilities in the region including Iran. Bangladesh has already

PM Tarique works on holiday, urges faster manifesto action

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman attended office on Saturday, although it was a public holiday, and called on officials to gear up the implementation process of the government’s election manifesto. The

External loan-driven projects pose heightened challenges

Several multi-billion dollar projects initiated mostly with foreign loans in the past decade have yet to be completed despite raising costs and extending deadline on a number of occasions, posing

War doesn’t bring anything good, says Bangladesh FM

Amid the ongoing war between two SAARC countries — Afghanistan and Pakistan, Bangladesh has decided not to make any public comments but stressed that such war does not bring anything

BNP activist beaten to death over ‘enmity between two factions’

A Bangladesh Nationalist Party activist was beaten to death allegedly over enmity between two factions of the party at Sipaipara in Charghat upazila in Rajshahi district on Friday. The deceased

Divorce application hikes by 7% in Dhaka North

The number of applications for marriage breakdowns has risen by around 7% in 2025 compared to 2024 in the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) area, with women filing significantly more

ACC to launch graft probe into Yunus, ex-advisers

Hundreds of corruption allegations against the advisers of the recently departed interim government, led by Prof Muhammad Yunus, are being filed at the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) office. Within one month