The chief of the International Organisation for Migration, the United Nations migration agency, has asked the international community to remain focused on the Rohingya crisis to avert tragic outcomes for nearly one million persecuted people. Almost a million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh face a triple…

The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in a press statement yesterday announced that two landmark cases against multinational fashion brands brought under the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety have been officially closed. The tribunal hearing the cases, which were filed by the global unions…

Bangladesh has been listed among the top 32 countries dubbed to be the biggest and most powerful economies in 33 years’ time. In one of its reports by professional services giant PwC looks at which economies around the world will be the formidable forces in terms of long-term global growth projections…

Several hundred students of Dhaka University (DU) and Jahangirnagar University (JU) yesterday vowed to continue their protest programmes until their demands were met. They reiterated their demand for the release of students arrested for taking part in the quota reforms movement. DU students made the…

Echoing the statement issued by the Bangladesh Bank officials about the purity of gold stored in its vault, State Minister for Finance and Planning MA Mannan yesterday said the gold is “all right” and a “clerical mistake” has created the confusion. Mannan said those while answering…