1,228 reports translated from the Bengali original, most recent first. বাংলা সংস্করণ
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman could travel to New Delhi late next week or in early September for his first bilateral visit since taking office, Indian media reported, citing diplomatic sources.
The government will begin distributing retirement and welfare benefits to 123,000 teachers and employees on Saturday, with the prime minister inaugurating the programme.
Former Nepalese prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba returned after five months in Singapore, facing political and legal challenges over an ongoing money-laundering investigation.
Jamaat-e-Islami's women's wing has alleged that women were harassed and assaulted at a Quran gathering in Mirpur, Kushtia, and demanded the arrest of those involved. The claims are untested.
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman has given a grant to Rajshahi University student Md Nazmul Hasan to help him take up a full scholarship at Sweden's University of Skovde.
A student leader turned economics teacher, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir rose through grassroots politics to become BNP's long-serving secretary general — and is now the party's presidential candidate.
BNP standing committee member Abdul Moyeen Khan has submitted the party's presidential nomination paper for its candidate, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, ahead of the 20 August vote.
A 50-member US-Bangladesh Business Council delegation met Prime Minister Tarique Rahman at the Secretariat on Thursday morning.
Bangladesh Bank's total liquidity support to weak banks, funded by printing money, has crossed Tk85,000 crore (about $7 billion), with roughly Tk17,000 crore given in the past three months alone.
PRAN-RFL Group and Hamco Group have signed agreements with BJMC to restart three state-owned jute mills, with at least 11,629 jobs expected to be created.
The prosecution has sought the maximum punishment and confiscation of property for seven defendants in the crimes-against-humanity case over the July uprising, including former minister Obaidul Quader.
Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, a key architect of China's market reforms and WTO entry, has died in Beijing at 97, state media reported.
The government plans to bring 87,309 religious institutions and 256,074 religious leaders under a state stipend programme in 2026-27, with Tk1,100 crore allocated.
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi said the Supreme Court's decision in the coal-allocation case ended years of allegations against former prime minister Manmohan Singh and criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.
The government is bringing 86,709 religious institutions under a state stipend programme this fiscal year, covering 256,074 religious leaders and workers with a budget allocation of Tk1,100 crore.
Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and activists marched in Rangpur protesting Local Government Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir's remarks linking the region's development with voters' political choices.
Locals in Jessore's Chaugachha are demanding investigation and removal of candidates they allege were politically favoured in Family Card census recruitment.
The BNP has collected two nomination papers for the presidency, while senior party sources say secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been finalised as its candidate.
A phone conversation between Awami League leaders Obaidul Quader and Sheikh Fazle Shams Porosh was played at the International Crimes Tribunal during arguments in a crimes-against-humanity case.
Preparations for the presidential election are nearing completion, and BNP sources say party secretary general and local government minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam may be nominated as the ruling party's candidate.
Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir's Sylhet Agricultural University unit welcomed new students with Quran recitation, Islamic songs, flowers and gifts at a freshman reception and career-guidance event.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Zahir Uddin Swapan said a social-media claim that the ban on the Awami League would be lifted is false and part of a rumour.
Jamaat candidate Muhammad Nurul Amin has filed a leave-to-appeal petition against the High Court ruling that upheld the nomination of elected Chattogram-2 MP Sarwar Alamgir.
Former minister and Awami League presidium member Jahangir Kabir Nanak, living in hiding in India since the fall of the Awami League government on August 5, 2024, spoke to Anandabazar about his escape and…
Jamaat-e-Islami's women's wing has alleged that women were harassed and assaulted at a Quran gathering in Mirpur, Kushtia, and demanded the arrest of those involved. The claims are untested.
India's BJP demanded an apology from Rahul Gandhi over police action against students in Jharkhand, mirroring opposition criticism of police violence in Delhi.
Police visited a July memorial in Kushtia after a video circulated showing a man allegedly celebrating Sheikh Hasina and rejecting the July uprising.
Satkhira-1 MP Izzatullah and Satkhira-2 MP Abdul Khalek met the district council chairman to discuss development and water-management projects.
Activists vandalised the upazila nirbahi officer's office in Fulchhari, Gaibandha, demanding the cancellation of a hiring list for family-card work they said favoured Awami League people.
Police in Chougachha, Jashore, have detained three people, including two Awami League leaders, one of them a fugitive accused in a murder case.
There is a favourable investment climate in Bangladesh and the government is ready to give foreign investors all kinds of support, Prime Minister Tareque Rahman told a visiting AmCham delegation.
The third session of the 13th National Parliament will begin at 3pm on 27 August, convened by acting president Hafiz Uddin Ahmad.
Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina's remarks in New Delhi have again strained Bangladesh-India ties. The two capitals now need careful, forward-looking diplomacy to move beyond her shadow.
The government has ordered wider use of solar power in government offices, with the Cabinet Division, PMO, Planning Commission and Finance Division to run most of their electricity on solar.
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman says the time has come to rebuild a Bangladesh left fragile by “fascist” rule, aligning national development with the SDGs through a five-year strategic economic framework.
BNP's defeated candidate in Satkhira-1, Habibul Islam Habib, has alleged vote-rigging in the last national election and branded a local Jamaat leader a "Rajshahi University terrorist". Kolaroa Jamaat has rejected the claims as "entirely…
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman urged ensuring a diversity of energy sources while visiting the 1,200 MW Matarbari coal power plant in Cox's Bazar, stressing economic viability, environmental impact and the public's long-term interest.
Local Government Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told an event in Rangpur that the opposition had begun speaking in the same language as Sheikh Hasina, and urged the region to back the ruling BNP…
The Kushtia Sahitya Sangskritik Sangsad held a discussion meeting and dua mahfil in Kushtia, with speakers and young artists marking the occasion.
Colonel (retd) Oli Ahmad, nominated for president by the Jamaat-led 11-party alliance, pledged never to betray the nation, as NCP convener Nahid Islam criticised the BNP government's handling of reforms.
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman says 4.1 million mothers will receive family cards this fiscal year, including 10,000 to 12,000 families in Banshkhali, during a flood-rehabilitation event in Chattogram.
The ruling BNP has collected two nomination papers from the Election Commission for the presidential election, with the vote set for 20 August.
Former Narayanganj MP Shamim Osman has been seen in public for the first time in about two years, addressing an Awami League workers' meeting in New York and calling himself a failure.
As the 20 August presidential vote approaches, four senior BNP figures — Mirza Fakhrul, Khondkar Mosharraf, Abdul Moyeen Khan and Hafiz Uddin Ahmed — dominate the discussion, with the choice resting on PM Tareque…
The Jamaat-e-Islami-led 11-party alliance has nominated LDP chairman Colonel (retd) Oli Ahmad for the coming presidential election, announced after a meeting at the opposition leader's home.
At a flood-rehabilitation event in Banshkhali, Chattogram, Prime Minister Tareque Rahman handed keys to 100 new homes and outlined long-term plans for industry, health and family support.
The new committee of the Dhaka University unit of BNP’s Chhatra Dal could be announced any time along with the central committee, with several leaders in contention for the top posts.
A Dhaka court sent six Awami League and Chhatra League figures from Chougachha, Jashore, on a three-day remand in an anti-terrorism case over an alleged sabotage plot; the allegations are untested.
Dr Zubaida Rahman, wife of PM Tareque Rahman, told the Doctors Association of Bangladesh’s 37th-anniversary rally that the body would keep working for doctors’ welfare, better healthcare and the people.
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman makes his first Chattogram visit on Sunday, taking in Maheshkhali, Banshkhali, Fatikchhari and Hathazari before an evening BNP organisational meeting; seven venues are ready.
A Dhaka court has granted three days’ remand each for six members of the banned Awami League arrested during a secret meeting at a Gulshan shopping-mall food court; the allegations are untested.
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman has vowed to build a better, developed Bangladesh through everyone’s collective effort, at a ceremony handing jobs to families of July uprising martyrs and the injured.
Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed says India cannot both let ousted, convicted former PM Sheikh Hasina hold news conferences and seek friendship with Bangladesh, calling the two contradictory.
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman handed appointment letters to 10 members of families of those killed and seriously injured in the 2024 July uprising, at the Prime Minister’s Office in Tejgaon.
At a reception in Chougachha, Jashore, local MP Dr Mosleh Uddin Farid said the country won its freedom from autocracy through the blood of hundreds of students and citizens after a 15-year struggle.
Political awareness is natural but must not lead to neglect of professional duty, Prime Minister Tareque Rahman told a doctors' gathering, announcing plans to recruit 100,000 health workers.
Thailand's prime minister has pledged a new law restricting the public carrying of firearms after a 14-year-old killed eight people, including five teachers, at a Bangkok-area school before killing himself.
Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Dr Shafiqur Rahman has urged party leaders and workers not to sow disorder through provocative speech, and accused the BNP of forgetting its reform pledges in power.
At least 53 flats, villas, hotel apartments and offices have been traced in Dubai in the names of fugitive banned-Awami League leaders, sources say, as agencies probe alleged money laundering.
Jashore district Jamaat Amir and MP Professor Golam Rasul visited injured July-uprising activist Rashed Khan, hurt in a motorcycle accident, at the district’s 250-bed hospital.