At least 10 journalists were injured in an attack on members of the Bangladesh Crime Reporters Association (CRAB) in front of Dream Holiday Park in Madhabdi, Narsingdi, yesterday.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday urged voters not to “destroy the country” by casting ballots for those who collaborated with the Pakistan occupation forces in 1971.

Jamaat-e-Islami and National Citizen Party yesterday alleged widespread violations of the electoral code of conduct ahead of the 13th national election and referendum scheduled for February 12.

Mark Tully was among the last of a generation -- not just in terms of the sweeping change they witnessed, from radio to television to the internet and the flood of social media, but also in terms of the respect and trust that reporters once commanded.

Amid criticism over repeated incidents of moral policing on the Dhaka University campus, Ducsu leader Sarba Mitra Chakma yesterday announced his resignation.

Three days after the death of his wife and infant son, Chhatra League leader Jewel Hasan Saddam, who is currently at Jashore Central Jail, was granted bail yesterday.

The government decided to earmark around 850 acres of land in Chattogram’s Mirsarai for the development of a Defence Industrial Zone aiming to strengthen domestic military production capacity and tap into the growing global defence manufacturing market.

In the run-up to February 12 polls, Shakeel Anwar visits outlying constituencies to hear directly from voters about their hopes, demands and expectations.

Three former senior police officials, including ex-DMP commissioner Habibur Rahman, were sentenced to death yesterday for the killing of six people in Dhaka’s Chankharpul area during the July uprising.

When the lop-sided deal with Adani Power was signed, a newly inked deal with the controversial S Alam Group’s power plant was used as the pricing benchmark -- even though that contract’s pricing structure was itself unusually expensive and riddled with contractual anomalies.

The third Coastal Water Convention 2026 concluded in Khulna yesterday with a strong call to recognise safe water as a universal right and to adopt integrated, ecosystem-based approaches to address Bangladesh’s deepening water crisis.

Although Bangladesh has made measurable progress in several health outcomes, including immunisation and maternal healthcare, the country is lagging in many indicators for achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030, health experts and professionals said yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday asked the detectives to submit the probe report by March 5 in a case filed over vandalism and arson at the Prothom Alo office in Dhaka.

In a joint statement yesterday, 39 rights activists, legal experts and academics condemned what they described as the inhuman denial of parole to former Chhatra League leader Jewel Hossain Saddam, even after the death of his wife and child.

For one and a half years, Sheikh Jamal Hasan counted each day, waiting for justice for his only son, Sheikh Mahdi Hasan Junaid.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has called for the publication of a white paper at the end of the interim government’s tenure to inform the public about the extent to which the government, formed under the leadership of Prof Muhammad Yunus, has fulfilled its responsibilities in line with the internationally promoted concept of “three zero”.

The government has issued the July Mass Uprising (Protection and Liability Determination) Ordinance, 2026, granting legal protection and indemnity to students and people who took part in the movement that toppled the Sheikh Hasina regime in 2024.

An election procession began at Mohammadpur Beribadh, passed Mockbul Hossain College in Katasur, and ended in front of the Mohammadpur bus stand.

Recognising indigenous peoples and addressing long-standing governance, justice, and human rights issues are essential for sustainable peace, said speakers at a discussion yesterday.

A mother and her two children died after being run over by a train in the Bazar Gate area of Pubail railway station in Gazipur yesterday morning.