Meeting followed by briefing on provincial development strategy

The BNP will be interviewing candidates who submitted nomination papers for the reserved women’s seats in the parliament from today till tomorrow.

Several members of the parliament yesterday voiced concern over the deteriorating state of hospitals across the country, pointing to crumbling infrastructure, severe manpower shortages, and stalled development projects.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday heard testimony alleging that a Border Guard Bangladesh member was brutally murdered after being abducted in 2010, as proceedings continued in crimes against humanity cases involving multiple high-profile accused.

Former DGFI chief Lt Gen (retd) Sheikh Mamun Khaled is providing information about his links to the 2012 enforced disappearance of BNP leader Ilias Ali, ICT Chief Prosecutor Md Aminul Islam said yesterday.

A total of 4,041,924 cases remained pending in the lower courts as of December 31, 2025, Law Minister Md Asaduzzaman informed parliament yesterday.

Mobile courts have seized a total of 31,800 litres of illegally stockpiled diesel during drives in Netrakona and Pabna over the last two days, report our correspondents.

Malaysian Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri R Ramanan has refuted a report by Bloomberg that says Malaysia is planning to adopt a new foreign worker recruitment system developed by Bestinet Sdn Bhd, the company founded by labour tycoon Aminul Islam.

The government is preparing to raise bulk and retail electricity tariffs, citing an “unsustainable surge in subsidies” amid the ongoing fuel crunch triggered by the US-Israel war on Iran.

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman yesterday assured the country’s people not to be worried about the global crisis caused by the US-Israel war on Iran and urged them to be frugal and avoid extravagance in state functions and family spending.

Today is the historic Mujibnagar Day, the day Bangladesh’s first government took oath in 1971 amid the Liberation War.

A teenage girl was found dead in a pond near a brick kiln in the Municipal College area of Kotchandpur upazila in Jhenaidah yesterday.

The government has set a target of generating 10,000 megawatts of electricity from solar by 2030 as part of efforts to ensure the country’s energy security.

Two people were killed in lightning strikes in Chuadanga yesterday.

The Bangladesh Atomic Energy Regulatory Authority (BAERA) has granted the commissioning licence for the first unit of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant.

Police in Netrakona’s Madan upazila detained a man for allegedly severing the tendons of his wife during a domestic dispute yesterday.

The new BNP government with its two-thirds majority should push through with reforms needed to stabilise the economy, said the International Monetary Fund yesterday.

An eight-month-old infant was abandoned on a Dhaka-bound launch in Patuakhali’s Bauphal upazila on Wednesday night after a man identifying himself as the child’s father disappeared.

Established in 2016, Rajshahi Medical University (RMU) has yet to develop the capacity to offer postgraduate courses -- the core function of a medical university.

Measles infections are rising in Cumilla, with another child dying from measles-rubella complications yesterday morning.