Khalilur Rahman to take charge as UNGA president today
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Diplomacy
Cabinet approves tax waiver for solar equipment
8 September 2026
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Bangladesh
Govt websites built for officials, not citizens
8 September 2026
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Bangladesh
PSC staff recruitment viva marks to rise by up to 400%
8 September 2026
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Bangladesh
Spotlight / Depositors of five troubled banks getting money back
8 September 2026
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Bangladesh
Get serious about dengue
8 September 2026
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Bangladesh
ICT seeks to amend rules to confiscate assets of convicts
8 September 2026
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Bangladesh
Data gaps weaken policy planning
8 September 2026
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Bangladesh
Int'l Literacy Day / Half the children can’t read, comprehend
8 September 2026
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Bangladesh
Govt websites keep people in the dark
8 September 2026
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Bangladesh
Advisory council emergency meeting underway
The meeting started at 8:30pm at the state guest house Jamuna
10 May 2025
Will you still cheer when it is your sister?
In today's Bangladesh, a man who assaults a woman in public doesn't just walk away unpunished. He's often hailed as a "real hero"
10 May 2025
Shahbagh left out of DMP ban amid anti-AL protests
Public gatherings, processions, rallies banned near Secretariat and Jamuna
10 May 2025
Ex-MP Selina among 5 detained over attempts to destabilise public order: police
A team of DMP's Detective Branch detained Selina from a house in Gulshan area last night
10 May 2025
Gazipur college students block highway seeking justice for peer’s death
Highway police said that the students of Rover Scout School and College blocked the road in the area from around 10:45am
10 May 2025
Shahbagh blockade continues as protesters demand ban on Awami League
While regular traffic remained suspended, emergency vehicles such as ambulances were allowed to pass through the protest site
10 May 2025
Meghalaya imposes night curfew along 'unfenced border' with Bangladesh
Night curfew was imposed in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills, West Jaintia Hills, and East Khasi Hills districts from May 8
10 May 2025
Madhumati erosion escalates
Thousands of people living in Kashipur, Makrail, Ramchandrapur, and Naokhola villages along the bank of the Madhumati in Narail’s Lohagara upazila are having sleepless nights as the river’s erosion has turned severe recently.
10 May 2025
Rail link of Dhaka with Ctg, Sylhet restored after back-to-back derailments
The restoration came around 8:15am today after the recovery of the derailed coaches
10 May 2025
Offering hope, shelter and care to cancer patients
Seven-year-old Afiya Khatun’s life was upended three years ago when she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a form of blood cancer that weakens the immune system.
9 May 2025
‘Good mosquitoes’ may turn tide in dengue battle
An international team of researchers has developed a strain of Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, dubbed “good mosquitoes”.
9 May 2025
Rise in culex population: Mosquito menace grips Dhaka
Abdullah Abbas, a resident of Dilu Road, uses mosquito repellents daily in a desperate attempt to protect his family from the worsening mosquito situation in Dhaka.
9 May 2025
‘Inequality in education must be addressed’
The interim government should prioritise reducing inequality and ensuring quality education, said speakers at a programme yesterday.
9 May 2025
New political platform ‘UP Bangladesh’ launched
A new political platform, United Peoples Bangladesh (UP Bangladesh), was launched yesterday.
9 May 2025
NU first year admission test rescheduled
The admission test for the first-year honours courses of the National University (NU) for the academic session 2024-25 has been rescheduled due to unavoidable circumstances.
9 May 2025
Another arrested over Parvez killing
Another arrest has been made in connection with the killing of Jahidul Islam Parvez, a third-year student of Primeasia University, in the capital’s Banani area on April 19.
9 May 2025
‘Watching a circus in name of investment’
BNP standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury yesterday slammed the recent investment summit, describing it as a “circus” and arguing that no genuine investment would come to Bangladesh without political stability.
9 May 2025
Two sisters found dead in city flat
Police last night recovered the bodies of two women in their rented apartment in Mirpur’s West Shewrapara.
9 May 2025
Joynagar in Faridpur: ‘Tal-pakha’ artisans struggle to stay afloat
Seventy-year-old Shomiruddin Nagarchi’s back is bent with age, but his hands remain steady as he sits cross-legged on the mud veranda of his tin-roofed house in Joynagar village under Boalmari upazila of Faridpur.
9 May 2025
Kumar river: Bridge delay hampers life, livelihoods
The construction of an 81-metre bridge over the Kumar river in Ujangram area of Kushtia Sadar upazila remains incomplete even after nearly five years.
9 May 2025