Deputy Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad Barrister Kayser Kamal will leave Dhaka on Friday (11 September) night to attend the 69th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC), scheduled to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, from September 13 to 19. A five-member Bangladesh parliamentary delegation, le
It is possible to obtain, simply by paying money, information about whom people in Bangladesh speak to on their mobile phones, what messages they send and where they go. Such information has been openly traded for years through websites where buyers can register and place orders. On 6 September, a
The paddy fields across northern Bangladesh are once again coming alive as farmers work through muddy fields, transplanting Aman seedlings with hopes of recovering from the setbacks of previous seasons. From preparing land and levelling fields to pulling seedlings from nurseries and planting them i
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman said the government has taken several initiatives to prevent the trend of expansion of development projects’ tenure and cost by repeated correction. The government also has given importance on identifying the weaknesses of the project plans and their implementation pr
Three more children died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours until 8:00am on Wednesday, taking the country’s combined number of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 1002 this year. According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), the latest fatalities were classi
On the final working day of the DUCSU Dhaka University Central students’ Union that has completed a year of its term, DUCSU Vice President (VP) Sadik Kayem called for building a 'Insaaf' (just) oriented Bangladesh. The DUCSU VP said in a statement on Wednesday (9 September) that they have made
