The government yesterday approved the largest pay hike for civil service since independence, doubling the basic salary of top officials and raising the lowest pay by a record 142 percent.

Borrowers whose outstanding loan balance is Tk 1,000 crore or more will now be able to repay their loans over 15 years, including a two-year grace period, instead of 10 years.

United Healthcare yesterday performed what it described as the first two robotic surgeries in the country’s history, marking a milestone in the use of advanced technology in Bangladesh’s health sector.

Runa Khan, founder and executive director of non-governmental organisation Friendship, has won the 2026 Ramon Magsaysay Award for her decades of work improving lives in remote, river-eroded and climate-vulnerable areas of Bangladesh.

More than half of Bangladesh’s private universities are now facing the tax authority’s wrath for failing to file their tax returns in the last fiscal year.

An official inquiry into the toxic gas leak that killed 10 workers at Ferdous Steel Ship Recycling yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda has found that a hazardous cutting operation was treated as routine work without basic safety oversight.

Illegal sand extraction from the Mahadeo river in Kalmakanda upazila and the Someshwari river in Durgapur upazila of Netrokona continues unabated despite a ban, court directives and repeated administrative drives.

Newspapers must uphold the truth without bowing to vested interests and practise objective, independent and ethical journalism, guests said yesterday at an event marking the first anniversary of Times of Bangladesh at Dhaka Club.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and Bidyanondo Foundation have jointly launched a “Food for Waste” programme, where people can exchange waste materials, including plastic, for daily essential items.

Traffic congestion on the Mymensingh-Tangail regional highway in Mymensingh’s Muktagachha upazila has been worsening for years, causing daily suffering to commuters.

The High Court yesterday upheld the death sentence of lone convict Hitu Sheikh in the case over the rape and murder of eight-year-old Asiya in Magura last year.

A coordinated referral mechanism is crucial to ensuring timely protection and support for journalists and human rights defenders facing threats across Bangladesh, speakers said at a seminar yesterday.

Miss World Bangladesh 2026 Samanzar Sayeed has been selected among the top 24 contestants globally in the “Beauty With a Purpose” segment of Miss World 2026.

Today is the 23rd death anniversary of Nurjahan Murshid, a women’s rights activist, renowned politician, and one of the organisers of the 1971 Liberation War, said a press release.

Local-level government offices across the country remain largely unprepared for e-governance, held back by weak infrastructure, regional disparities and services that still require manual steps, a Centre for Policy Dialogue study has found.

In 2006, the then undivided Dhaka City Corporation established a community centre in Segunbagicha, one of the capital’s most densely populated neighbourhoods.

A seminar, titled “Referral Pathway for Journalists and Human Rights Defenders in Bangladesh”, was held at a city hotel

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DPHE staff say executive engineer instructed them not to accept applications in his absence

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