Law and order tops voter priorities

Improving law and order has overtaken price control as the top public expectation from the next government, according to the latest round of the People’s Election Pulse Survey.
24 September 2025, 18:12 PM

‘Boat’, ‘water lily’ not on EC’s list

The Election Commission has reserved 115 symbols for registered parties and independent candidates in the upcoming 13th national parliamentary elections.
24 September 2025, 18:10 PM

Free, fair and festive polls in February

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus yesterday reaffirmed his government’s commitment to holding a free, fair, transparent, and festive general election in early February next year, ahead of Ramadan.
17 September 2025, 18:14 PM

BGB says it has stepped up border surveillance to curb illegal arms infiltration

Border Guard Bangladesh steps up operations to curb arms smuggling along frontiers
15 September 2025, 12:28 PM

Silencing dissent to counter fascism?

Jamaat spokesperson told the press that anyone opposing the charter would be "siding with fascism"!
15 September 2025, 08:59 AM

Bangladesh’s Globe Biotech secures US patent for Covid-19 vaccine Bangavax

Its trials on monkeys proved the vaccine to be completely safe and effective
14 September 2025, 15:39 PM

NBR seizes Hasina’s locker in Pubali Bank

The Central Intelligence Cell (CIC) of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) yesterday took control of a locker belonging to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
10 September 2025, 22:08 PM

Making sense of the numbers

What Ducsu vote counts reveal about Shibir’s dominance
10 September 2025, 17:10 PM

PSC working to cut BCS recruitment time to 1 year

The Bangladesh Public Service Commission is working to reduce the duration of recruitment process from three and a half years to one year, under the slogan “One BCS, One Year,” in an effort to establish a merit-based and discrimination-free institution.
9 September 2025, 21:05 PM
9 September 2025, 15:51 PM

Bangladesh can set a global example by ending authoritarian cycles: TI Chair

François Valérian emphasises the need for a system where power at last belongs to the people
5 September 2025, 15:17 PM

26 nations vow to give Ukraine postwar security guarantees, Macron says

International force would be part of guarantees, France says
5 September 2025, 08:55 AM

UN staff held in Yemen suspected of spying for Israel

UN staff arrested by Yemen’s Houthi rebels earlier this week are suspected of spying for Israel and the United States, a Houthi official told AFP yesterday on condition of anonymity.
4 September 2025, 18:00 PM

England moves to ban energy drink sales to under-16s

Under current rules, any drink with over 150mg of caffeine per litre requires a warning label saying it is not recommended for children
3 September 2025, 09:12 AM

Education adviser expresses hope to resolve university unrest

Authorities are in close contact with universities to resolve recent violence and academic disruptions
2 September 2025, 10:28 AM

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says

Eighty-six percent of those who voted among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars backed the resolution declaring Israel’s "policies and actions in Gaza" had met the legal definition set out in Article II of the 1948 UN convention on genocide
2 September 2025, 02:30 AM

Earthquake in Afghan village leaves no family untouched

The smell of death mingled with the sound of wailing women and scraping shovels as rescuers and residents desperately tried to find anyone still alive
2 September 2025, 02:13 AM

Ducsu polls stay on schedule

Students from different dormitories took out processions after the High Court postponed the elections to Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) yesterday and returned to their halls within an hour and a half after the chamber judge stayed the order.
1 September 2025, 18:56 PM
1 September 2025, 16:14 PM

Attack on Nur: Launch judicial probe within 48hrs

Leaders of 22 political parties, including BNP, yesterday demanded that the government form a judicial inquiry committee within 48 hours to investigate the recent attack on Gono Odhikar Parishad President Nurul Haque Nur and his party activists.
1 September 2025, 15:33 PM