The month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair-2024 is set to begin on Thursday at Bangla Academy and Suhrawardy Udyan premises as prime minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate the country’s
Bangladesh’s expense on fuel for generating electricity increased by a third last year compared with the year before, but it hardly increased electricity output—only about three per cent. Part of
Main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday skipped the rising day programme hosted by Dhaka Metropolitan Police for citizens. DMP’s joint commissioner Biplob Kumar Sarker told New Age that they
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today stressed the need for establishing a world standard national biobank to innovate and discover medical and other branches of life sciences disciplines in Bangladesh. “Let
Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury was sworn in as the Speaker of the 12th Jatiya Sangsad after she was elected as the Speaker for the record fourth consecutive term in the country’s
Police released BNP Standing Committee Member Abdul Moyeen Khan hours after his detention from Uttara area of Dhaka on Tuesday. Moyeen Khan was released around 3:30 pm, Shamsuddin Didar, a
Bangladesh slides two steps to the 10th position from the bottom among the 180 countries covered in the Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index 2023, compared to 12th position in 2022.
The National Curriculum and Textbook Board, the state-owned publishing house looking after the printing and distribution scheme, on Tuesday said that it would give rational corrections to the textbooks soon.
Planning minister Major General (retired) Abdus Salam said on Tuesday that the Bangladesh government was considering to utilise Chinese experience for formulating the next national five-year plan. He made the
A total of 241 global leading people in different fields including over 125 Nobel laureates have sent an open letter to Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina for the third time