Border Guard Bangladesh and locals again foiled an alleged attempt by India’s Border Security Force to forcibly push 10 people into Bangladesh through the Mujibnagar border in Meherpur early yesterday.

Power outages continued to disrupt life and businesses in parts of the country yesterday despite the resumption of operations at two power plants that had shut down due to technical faults.

Opposition leader and Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman yesterday called for visible progress in the trials over enforced disappearances, killings, and other alleged atrocities committed during what he described as “the country’s fascist rule.”

Fund crisis forces cutback in slope stabilisation work, leaving thousands at risk

Rights body calls for accountability in both incidents

Prolonged outages disrupt studies, household life and shrimp farming

The centuries-old Shahjibazar market supports thousands of families across 15 villages with a low-cost rural trade

Hundreds surround an Al-Arafah Islami Bank outlet in Kalapara after finding deposits missing from their accounts

Ten people were reportedly brought to the zero line before resistance forced the BSF to take them back into India

Nearly 1km stretch sinks as locals allege construction flaws

He is doing exercise and receiving regular leg therapy

Maternity leave should not be used as a population-control mechanism, petitioner said earlier

Char areas inundated, road damaged forcing families to move as authorities prepare relief

Tarique Rahman says lower costs would help expand access to digital services across all sections of society

Sixteen teachers were expelled for failing to rejoin after study leave, while another was removed over misconduct and violation of government service rules

At least 20 people were injured yesterday after a dispute over seating at a World Cup screening escalated into a clash in Habiganj Sadar upazila.

The government may implement the Ninth Pay Scale in two phases, with the full increase in basic salaries likely to take effect from July and increased allowances to follow the next fiscal year, finance ministry officials have said.

Jamaat-e-Islami MP Mujibur Rahman yesterday called for replacing Bangladesh’s interest-based economic system with a zakat-based alternative, saying the country must “bury” the existing model and adopt the economic principles of Madinah.

Following the discussion on the proposed 2026-27 budget, parliament yesterday introduced two bills under the supplementary agenda -- the Bangladesh Medical University (Amendment) Bill and the Public Examinations (Offences) (Amendment) Bill.

An organised syndicate has been systematically felling and smuggling valuable trees from the Kalachhara forest area in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar, locals and environmental activists alleged.