The government has approved the procurement of vaccines worth Tk412.71 crore through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to support Bangladesh’s Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) during the 2025–26 fiscal year. The approval was granted by the Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) at a meeting chaired by Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury on Wednesday (10 June) at the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has crossed a significant political milestone, surpassing the tenure record set by India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, in terms of leading an elected government after the Constitution came into force. Having first taken office on 26 May, 2014, Modi has now completed 4,399 consecutive days as Prime Minister. The milestone places him ahead of Nehru’s ...

To mark the 45th death anniversary of Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman, the Ziaur Rahman Foundation (ZRF) has launched a month-long tree plantation campaign along with the “Future Scientists Hunt Science Fair 2026.” The initiatives were inaugurated on Wednesday morning at Curzon Hall premises of the University of Dhaka by Dr Zubaida Rahman, Vice President of ZRF and a noted cardiologist. ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has said that a total of 175 Bangladeshi peacekeepers have been martyred while serving under United Nations peacekeeping missions since 1988. Speaking as the chief guest at a programme marking the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers at Senakunja in Dhaka Cantonment on Wednesday morning (10 June), the Prime Minister paid tribute to peacekeepers who made ...

Gold prices fell sharply in Bangladesh on Wednesday after the Bangladesh Jewellers Association (BAJUS) reduced the price of 22-carat gold by Tk6,591 per bhori. Under the revised rates, one bhori (11.664 grammes) of 22-carat gold now costs Tk222,782, down from Tk229,373. BAJUS announced the latest adjustment through a statement on Wednesday morning with the new rates coming into effect from ...

Lionel Messi scored within minutes of making his return from an injury scare as Argentina beat Iceland 3-0 in their final World Cup warm-up in Auburn, Alabama on Tuesday. Messi started on the bench as the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner is eased back to fitness after exiting Inter Miami’s 6-4 win over Philadelphia with muscle fatigue on 24 May. He ...

The Bangladesh Bank has decided to begin the process of winding up five troubled non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs). As part of the move, administrators will be appointed after dissolving the institutions’ boards of directors. The central bank has said that individual depositors of these institutions will be able to recover up to Tk1 million each. The decision was taken at ...

Mahdi Amin, adviser to the Prime Minister , held a courtesy meeting and bilateral discussion with a high-level delegation led by Dutch Ambassador Joris van Bommel on Tuesday. Other members of the Dutch delegation included Dominique Kuhling, Amber Oortman, Cor Stouten, and Lubain Chowdhury Masum. The meeting featured detailed discussions on expanding the existing friendly relations between Bangladesh and the ...

Nigel Farage will be headlining at an American conservative summit brought to the UK by Liz Truss next month alongside hard-right speakers, despite his party previously suggesting he would be “steering clear”. The Reform UK leader has announced he will speak in July at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which claims it wants to “save Britain, save the west”. ...

The capital’s most senior British Asian police officer says he is “truly humbled” to have been awarded the Freedom of the City of London. City of London Police Commander Umer Khan was given the honour in recognition of more than three decades of “exemplary service” to policing and work in cohesion, the City of London Corporation said. Originally from Pakistan, ...