Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has announced that factories which were shut down in recent years will be gradually reopened to restore employment and boost the economy. “We have already taken initiatives to restart industrial units that were closed over the past years,” he said while addressing a May Day workers’ rally in front of the BNP central office in Nayapaltan ...

The combined death toll from measles and related symptoms has reached 280 in one-and-a-half months with four new deaths due to measles symptoms reported in the 24 hours till Friday morning. No death from confirmed measles diagnosis was reported over the 24-hour period. Since the outbreak officially started on 15 March, 231 people have died from measles-like symptoms and 39 ...

The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has changed a lot since the Liberation War of 1971 and can no longer be equated with the old Islamic party, said the party’s Secretary General Mia Golam Parwar on Friday. Since the war, many debates have been raised over Jamaat’s position in the middle of the 1971 political storm, but the party leadership has revised the ...

Kolkata witnessed rival protests by the Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) late into Thursday night over allegations of tampering with voting machines kept in ‘strongrooms’ following the completion of polling in West Bengal. The Election Commission rejected the allegations, saying there had been no tampering with electronic voting machines (EVMs) or ballot boxes stored in secure facilities. ...

Bangladesh batter Shamim Hossain Patwary may not know the name of the shot that sent social media into a frenzy in Chattogram, but he certainly knows why he plays it. The left-hander went viral after pulling a short ball over the wicket-keeper’s head during his whirlwind unbeaten 31 off just 13 balls in the opening T20 International against New Zealand. ...

The Trump administration is arguing that the war in Iran has already ended because of the ceasefire that began in early April, an interpretation that would allow the White House to avoid the need to seek congressional approval. The statement furthers an argument laid out by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during testimony in the Senate earlier Thursday, when he said ...

Jamaat-e-Islami has announced DUCSU Vice President Shadik Kayem as its candidate for the next Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayoral elections. Jamaat’s Dhaka South unit announced Shadik Kayem’s name at the unit’s conference arranged at the Institution of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh, Kakrail Dhaka on Friday. Leaders and activists of the unit, as well as Shadik Kayem himself were present at ...

The historic May Day is being observed today in the country and elsewhere across the world in a befitting manner. The theme of the day for this year is ‘Healthy Workers, Productive Hands, A New Dawn Awaits (Sustho Sramik, Karmotho Hat, Ashbe Ebar Nobo Provat).’ The day has been being observed across the globe since 1890 commemorating the supreme sacrifices ...

New York Correspndent : Dr. Ubayed Muhit—an alumnus of the renowned Hunter College, which operates under the City University of New York (CUNY)—has earned the rare distinction of serving as the keynote speaker at the college’s annual “Purple Hawk” banquet. On the afternoon of Monday, April 27, Dr. Ubayed Muhit—a resident physician at Einstein Hospital in the Bronx and a ...

Managing Director for Asia and the Pacific of the European External Action Service (EEAS) Erik Kurzweil paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Humaiun Kobir. The meeting was held at the Prime Minister’s Office in Dhaka’s Tejgaon on Thursday (30 April). During the talks, the two sides discussed Bangladesh-EU bilateral relations, trade and investment, development cooperation, as ...