They discuss $1.4 billion loan agreements and future cooperation programmes

Over 13,000 sanitation workers and 2,117 vehicles to be deployed across Dhaka South

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide Bangladesh with $1.4 billion in funding, including $1 billion in budget support, in response to the government’s call for support amid the economic situation over the Middle East war.

Their families do not know whether they are being kept in detention camps or traffickers’ hideouts in Libya or drowned in the Mediterranean during perilous journeys to Europe.

Bangladesh Bank has appointed Md Khurshid Alam, a former deputy governor, as chairman of Islami Bank PLC, hours after the previous chairman resigned.

The National Citizen Party is preparing a Tk 8,52,157 crore “shadow budget” for FY2026-27, prioritising education, healthcare, defence modernisation, employment generation and energy security.

The next budget should be smarter, not just larger in amount as before, said the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday.

The 127th birth anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam will be celebrated across the country today with due respect and renewed admiration for the poet, whose fearless voice stood against injustice, exploitation, and communalism.

A court in Meherpur yesterday sentenced a man to death over the rape of a 9-year-old girl last year.

Twenty-one candidates, who contested the 13th National Parliamentary Election, have yet to submit their election expenditure accounts to the Election Commission, prompting it to extend the deadline until June 14.

ICT Chief Prosecutor Md Aminul Islam yesterday said anyone found to have involvement in crimes against humanity, including journalists, will be brought to justice.

M Zubaidur Rahman, independent director and chairman of Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC, resigned yesterday, citing personal reasons, amid growing tensions surrounding the country’s largest private-sector lender.

Bangladesh and India need a new, future-oriented agenda that is aligned with their new capabilities, aspirations and new national development priorities for engagement, said outgoing Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma.

Scheduled banks have been asked to extend banking services from 10:00am to 10:00pm through branches and sub-branches located near designated cattle markets in the metropolitan areas of Dhaka, Chattogram, Khulna, Rajshahi and Rangpur.

Five people, including four members of the same family, were killed when an ambulance carrying a paralysed patient collided head-on with a BRTC bus in Faridpur’s Nagarkanda upazila yesterday, leaving an entire village in mourning.

The sale of sacrificial animals at various makeshift cattle markets across Dhaka began yesterday, with a good number of animals having arrived already.

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman yesterday said Bangladesh is steadily moving towards clean energy, a green economy and a self-reliant energy system.

Sixteen more patients died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, raising the death toll from measles and measles-like symptoms to 528.

In farewell message, outgoing Indian envoy says the region’s two largest economies must anchor closer regional integration

The discount will apply to single-journey tickets from tomorrow, DMTCL said