Bangladesh

Bangladesh Bank. File Photo: Collected
Banking

Govt can now temporarily take over banks under new ordinance

MD, officials will be accountable for bank fund fraud

Representational image. Photo: Mehedi Hasan/TBS
Stocks

Foreign experts to be brought in for reforming stock market; report submission within three months

BGMEA's Forum panel leader Mahmud Hasan Khan Babu spoke at a press conference at a hotel in the capital today (11 May)to present his panel's position ahead of the election. Photo: Collected
RMG

BGMEA election: Forum panel proposes ‘forced savings’ for factories to ensure timely worker payments

Photo: Mumit M/Saikat Bhadra
Environment

DoMF launches initiatives to prevent commercial fishing trawlers from dumping plastic waste into Bay of Bengal

Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus holds a high-level meeting on the country's capital market at the State Guest House Jamuna in Dhaka on 11 May 2025. Photo: PID
Stocks

CA Yunus orders to offload govt shares in state-owned cos, MNCs

Representational image. Photo: Collected
Economy

World Bank to provide $280m loan to improve Ctg water supply, sanitation

Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury speaks to reporters after visiting the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on 10 May 2025. Photo: Courtesy
Bangladesh

Move protests away from roads, urges home adviser

File Photo: Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba as they pray at the Grand Mosque, during the annual haj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on 12 July 2022. Photo: Reuters
Bangladesh

37,430 Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrims arrive in Saudi Arabia

Shahbag filled with thousands demanding ban on AL on 9 May. Photo: Md Foisal Ahmed/TBS
Politics

Demand to ban AL: Shahbagh blockade to continue, mass rally Saturday at 3pm, says Hasnat

Graphics: TBS
Panorama

Is the IMF loan programme still worth it for Bangladesh?

BNP standing committee member Dr. AZM Zahid Hossain spoke at the Press Club on 9 May. Photo: BSS
Politics

AL must face consequences of its misdeeds: BNP leader Dr Zahid

Graphics: TBS
Panorama

The voice of possibility: How Verbex.ai is giving AI a Bangladeshi accent

Protesters block Shahbagh intersection demanding ban on AL on 9 May. Photo: Sadiqe Al Ashfaqe/TBS
Politics

'Road closed until AL is banned': NCP-led Shahbagh blockade grows bigger, Sarjis urges BNP to join