OpenAI announced Friday that it will begin showing advertisements to users of the free version of ChatGPT in the coming weeks, part of the company’s effort to generate revenue from its over 800 million users. The ads will appear at the bottom of ChatGPT’s responses when relevant to the ongoing conversation and will be clearly labeled and separated from the ...

An initiative to impose limits on the shareholding of individuals, family members and various institutions in bank companies has faced strong opposition from bank owners. In the draft amendments, Bangladesh Bank has proposed that no individual, family member or institution—directly or indirectly—may hold more than 5 percent shares in multiple banks simultaneously. Considering recent negative experiences in the banking sector, ...

The Bangladesh Medical Education Fair-2026 has been held in Kathmandu to promote Bangladesh’s medical education among Nepali students. The Bangladesh Embassy in Kathmandu, in collaboration with the Bangladesh Private Medical College Association (BPMCA), organised the event, read a press release. Twenty private medical colleges from Bangladesh participated in the fair with the necessary information regarding medical education opportunities in Bangladesh ...

The Bangladesh national football team will open their final phase of preparation for the AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers with a training camp starting on 20 March, ahead of their decisive Group C fixture against Singapore later this month. The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) confirmed the schedule following a National Teams Committee meeting held on Saturday afternoon at the BFF Home. ...

Cricket Ireland (CI) has categorically stated that the International Cricket Council will not move their T20 World Cup games out of Sri Lanka. The CI assertion comes in the wake of reports from Bangladesh that the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has asked the ICC to swap their groups with Ireland’s. “We’ve received definitive assurances that we won’t move from the ...

A Dhaka court on Sunday set February 2 for pronouncing its judgment in a case against 18 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her nephew Radwan Mujib Siddiq and his sister Tulip Siddiq, over irregularities in the allocation of a 10-katha plot under the RAJUK New Town Project. Judge Robiul Alam of Dhaka Special Judge Court-4 fixed the date ...

Chhatra Dal, the student wing of the BNP, took position in front of Nirbachan Bhaban on Sunday for three-point demands, including the allegation of the commission’s biased decisions on postal voting. As per pre-announcement, a large number of supporters of the organisation started gathering near the Nirbachan Bhaban and later they sit-in there, chanting different slogans against the Election Commission. ...

British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke held a meeting with Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday evening. The meeting took place at 5:55pm on Saturday at the BNP Chairman’s Office in Gulshan, Dhaka. During the meeting, Sarah reaffirmed the UK’s long‑standing encouragement of free, fair, credible and peaceful elections in Bangladesh, the British High Commission in ...

Editors, journalists and media leaders from across the country on Saturday underscored the vital role of a free, independent, active and fearless media in sustaining democracy, warning that any attempt to silence media organisations ultimately threatens the rights of society as a whole. “The democratic aspiration that brings people into journalism can never be a crime,” said President of the ...

Interns at Sylhet Osmani Medical College and Hospital went on work abstention on Saturday morning protesting the attack on a female intern allegedly by the relatives of a patient early Saturday. Hospital sources said an altercation ensued between some interns and relatives of a patient over treatment at No 6 ward of the hospital around 1 am.. At one stage, ...