The government is set to strengthen reproductive health and family planning services across the country with the introduction of a major new initiative titled “Climate Responsive Reproductive Health and Population Services Improvement and System Strengthening Project for Result.” The project, to be implemented by the Directorate General of Family Planning (DGFP), aims to build a climate-resilient, equitable, and high-quality service ...

Australia surged ahead of England to claim a 44-run lead by stumps on the second day of the day-night Ashes Test at Gabba in Brisbane on Friday, powered by aggressive knocks from opener Jake Weatherald and veteran Steve Smith. By the close, the hosts had surpassed England’s first-innings total of 334, reaching 378-6 in front of a lively, humid crowd. ...

Lionel Messi will aim to crown his MLS revolution by leading Inter Miami to their first domestic championship on Saturday in a blockbuster season finale against the surging Vancouver Whitecaps. Two years after reshaping the landscape of Major League Soccer following his arrival in Florida, Messi is on the brink of delivering the title that Miami have craved since the ...

An emergency flag meeting between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and India’s Border Security Force (BSF) was convened at Chatlapur ICP station in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila on Friday, following the shooting death of a Bangladeshi youth by BSF personnel along the Kulaura border. The meeting began at noon and was led by Lt Col ASM Zakaria, PBGM, commander of BGB’s Sreemangal ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has said that the uncompromising leadership and nine-year-long pro-democracy struggle of party chief Begum Khaleda Zia paved the way for the fall of autocracy on December 6 1990, a day he described as a turning point in country’s democratic history. In a post published Friday evening, December 5, on his verified Facebook page ahead of ...

The annual examinations in government primary schools across Bangladesh are set to resume on Sunday following a temporary disruption caused by ongoing teachers’ protests. The decision came after Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) issued sudden transfer orders for several teachers, raising concerns about potential disruption to students’ education. Md. Shamsuddin Masud, co-convener of Primary Teachers’ Demand Implementation Council, confirmed that ...

Jatiya Nagorik Party (NCP) on Friday urged the Election Commission to consider the illness of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia before announcing the schedule for the upcoming 13th national election, scheduled for next February. Speaking at a policy discussion organized by NCP at a Dhaka hotel on Friday evening, Nahid said, “The Election Commission (EC) will decide on the schedule. One ...

Commerce, Textile and Jute, and Civil Aviation and Tourism Adviser Sk. Bashir Uddin has emphasized that the government will avoid misguided or emotion-driven decisions in the textile sector, noting that such approaches had negatively impacted the jute industry in the past. Speaking on Thursday as the chief guest at a seminar at Jute Diversification Promotion Centre (JDPC) in Dhaka, marking ...

Dr Zubaida Rahman, wife of BNP’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman, visited her mother-in-law and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at Evercare Hospital on Friday before heading to her parental home in Dhanmondi. She spent more than two and a half hours at the hospital and left around 2:40 pm. Zubaida Rahman arrived in Dhaka at around 10:45 am on a Biman ...

A total of 310 Bangladeshi nationals who had been staying illegally in Libya returned home on Friday, Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. They arrived in Dhaka at 10 AM on a chartered flight, as part of a coordinated repatriation effort involving Bangladesh Embassy in Libya, the foreign ministry, Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment, Libyan authorities ...